001We're not I don't think we're live yet. Oh, no, we are live. Okay. >> Okay. Okay. Right. Six o'clock. >> Okay. We're live. Let's call this meeting. >> Schultz >> here. >> Yeah. >> Dr. Daniel >> here. here >> and the chair is here. >> Okay, we're gonna have a moment of silence. Okay, she would like Do you want to do it? >> Sure. >> Let's do it together. >> Everyone stand. >> We're all doing it together. >> Yes. Salute. Pledge. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> You may be seated. was threatened. >> Okay, before we get started, I kind of just want to take a moment to um
002clarify some things. Um as people are watching and as you guys are there, we as a board would like to explain that this is the only time we get to talk and ask questions. So when we're asking questions and you can see difference of opinions, that's how it's supposed to be because we are talking. We can't do this before and after. So it doesn't necessarily mean we're always in disagreement. We are five different people with five different views and we all come from different backgrounds. So we are filling each other out as to how things are going to go and to come up with what's best for our students. So, just kind of wanted to clarify that. Take a minute to do that. And um as we're going back to school, I want to tell
003everyone that we're so happy you're here with us and have a great year. >> That's right. That's what it's all about. >> Okay. And before we do item two, guys, we are going to take up item five first and then we will return to regular or regular skin. Okay, >> I think we can now have a discussion about these policies and a vote to approve or not approve. Right. >> So, we don't need a motion first. on the agenda. >> It's on. >> President Standage, members of the board, and Dr. Cobb, I come before you asking for approval of policies I35, C15, and B13. >> Move to approve. Second. >> I have some I have a question. Just clarification about C15. Um, so we can deny military related transfers based upon uh capacity. And once
004we've reached the cap that the legislators have um set and that is for elementary is two students per 100 students in the building. For middle school is four students per 100 students. And for high school it is six students per. So if you was to average that out at Carlbert High School that would be 66 students. So once we had reached 66 in district transfer for military we could cap it in deny based on that. >> Are we close to that or do you foresee us being even close to that number? We are not close to that at the high school, but we are almost at our cap at the middle school elementary >> and just at Carl Albert Middle School or how are we fairing at Dell City and Midwest City? >> Um, so
005far all the transfers have been to Carl Albert Middle School, Carl Albert High School and Soldier Creek. >> Do we also look at the military students history? Like do we get all that information? Like can we deny them based on how they per in previous schools. >> Yes. Uh but this is for in district. So this is for our students. >> But yes, ma'am. And that's why it says in here that they would be approved, but based on their attendance and their behavior. Okay. >> It could be >> I saw that and I still wonder how they came up with that number. Um actually the um tinker liaison um he was he worked with a couple of superintendents within the um metro and that was kind of the consensus that they came up with. He
006brought it to Dr. C's attention. >> Yeah, we we spoke about it quite a few times. Can we get maybe a little little feedback on his mind? >> Thanks. But yeah, no, we we had several consultations um with um with Timmy, our leaison, and another liaison, and then some other superintendents that work around military bases. So, I would say that it was a pretty collaborative process to come up with both the policy and the caps. And just to be clear, this is intrad district transfers, not out of district in which is what we looked at last meeting. Okay. >> And the military um families, they are considered >> if they live within our boundaries. Um >> they live on base, they are there. Previously, uh, this came about, uh, Timmy, our Tinker leaison, he put
007this forth to the legislators because it came about that, um, key and essential employees that were in the general's cabinet. They have to live on base and so they were allowed to have transfers to go to where they wanted to go to school. Well, when the law changed and it says that now you have to go into a portal and it's first come, first serve, then um it kind of put a kink in that a little bit. So Tammy went to the legislators and and again like I said he consulted with several superintendents. They helped write the policy together and they went to the legislators and got this policy to exempt them from the portal. >> Okay. So I would like to make a motion to approve the C15, I35 and B13 with the addition
008of B3 on the verbage on voting where it says vote. I would like to add vote and electronic voting or voice second. Bear with us. We're trying to do something different to streamline. Mine says electronic >> say >> you have to do okay on it. broken. >> Okay. I'm glad we're doing this on a night when we have a short agenda. >> I mean, if we're I I like that we're trying this, but I'm glad that we're trying it on night. If we're not >> going to say we're going to have to use the or option, the end or pass. Look at that. >> Had to refresh. >> Every child can learn. >> No control. >> We're learning. >> We're hoping this will help us in the long run, guys. Okay. So, we're going to
009go back to >> Thank you, Dr. Consent agenda. >> Move to approve. >> Second. >> Okay. Any discussion? Okay. Item three, we have no or no recitions tonight. It said we want to appreciate all of you for working and getting the school year off. And that's huge. I think we certainly need to give kudos to our central office people, our principles, obviously, everybody. Just give a huge kudos to the start of the school year. That's huge. >> Okay. Item four. We have no public participation tonight. You're up. >> All right, we're loading. >> Can we go into presentation mode? >> All right. So, I'm gonna play this video. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Heat. Heat. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] say a lot about different events that this is one of my favorite days of the year.
010Convocation is one of my favorite days of the year and this was absolutely my favorite convocation. Um just real high energy from people there and just I mean uh just when I was out in the lobby before it started, people hugging on each other like they hadn't seen each other in years which was pretty cool. Like it's been three months guys come on give it a rest. Um but it was fantastic and so many people went into worked just in overdrive making it happen. And so I want to give a real shout out to Candy Perkins, Susie Tombs, and Stacy Boyer especially for just >> they spent a lot of time on the floor blowing up balloons and getting things all all decorated for that. So >> shirts >> and the shirts and there's a
011whole >> she does those balloons. >> Yeah, there was a whole journey with the shirts that was a mess that we can write a book on later. Um let's see. Um SSM Health St. Anthony Hospital, Midwest, uh arrived at Country States in an ambulance with school supplies for the Comics last week. That was really fun. That was one of my favorite days. Um I'm in the process of visiting all of our sports uh service divisions in the district to kick off the school year this morning. We had a chance to meet out at transportation >> and um at child with child nutrition. Del City Chamber of Commerce hosted uh Steve Gillan, the Del City High School principal over the weekend for donuts with the principal. >> This first picture here, guys, it was so good
012to see a Vietnam veteran that just happened to come to see what was going on with Dell City. Mr. Gildlin was so patient with him, helped him, showed great respect to this veteran, walked to his It was just to watch. >> Our college and career coordinator officially kicked off our first round of student internship orientation events for the 2526 school year. Our school site communication reps came together for training to kick off the 2526 school year. And there they are office boxes of t-shirts. The Midell Reset program has officially launched. The reset team is hitting the ground running, preparing for the first day of school. Brianna Jennings, who is a teacher at Car High School, was one of 10 teachers nationwide, selected as a simple modern stock your school winner. Each winner will have their
013classroom wish cleared, receive a $1,000 school grant, and receive water bottles for students and tote bags for teachers. We are we were proud to provide transportations for participants of the Tinker and the Primes conference at the Reed Center last week. Midell Technology Center cosmetology instructor Arlethan Dulan was recognized as a finalist for the Carl Perkins Community Service Award for the 2025 Oklahoma Career Tech Summit. Just got this one today. Uh Christy Cooper has been selected as just one of 30 culture and climate ambassadors for 2526 school years by just >> the midell technology the midell tech team had the privilege of hearing from Naka a powerful keynote speaker and advocate for hope. I had a chance to listen to him too and he was fighting. He was dynamic. Uh last week, if you happen to
014catch it, and even if you didn't, I still did it. Uh I was featured on Channel 5's Superintendent Round Table. It's the third or fourth time I've done this, and I really enjoy it. I enjoy they cut a lot out. Um probably to make us look better, but um they they um really let us go on for quite a while, and I like hearing what my peers are willing to say. And I think this year I think this year's group was a little bit more vocal than last year's group. and I enjoyed that. >> That's pretty good. >> Was also featured on channel 25 last week or the week before. It's all kind of a blur. The middle city police department, we want to thank them for choosing to wrap their patrol vehicles with local
015school logos. Decision made and funded by their department to show school spirit. Y um also did an interview with Channel 5 about our diploma program for adults 21 to 30 years of age. Uh last count we have eight students um eight adult students that are signed up for that. >> And I also got to talk about the um free meal mandate I guess that Superintendent Walters announced over the summer uh with my colleague from Milwood, Sicilia, Dr. Sicily Robinson Woods and it was a really good conversation uh as well just uh we're already feeding all of our meals all of our kids breakfast and lunch for free but they also had some guidelines in there that really not enforceable so it didn't change anything we're doing right our board of education participated in a valuable
016training session a week ago this time with the Oklahoma State School Board Association I thought it was a really good good. It was really good and we will look for a time that we can do another one. We have had several new teacher trending events over the last couple of weeks. You can see some shots from that there. Uh Lacy and Drew and the rest of the TNL team did a fantastic job. Elementary counselors kicked off the school year with visits to Community Health Centers of Oklahoma, which is at the Old Highland Park building and the Medel Youth and Family Center. Here's another video. Um, what about three weeks ago now? We had our leadership retreat and really kind of set the stage for complication with [Music] good. [Music] Um, in the middle there, that's
017Timmy that we were talking about earlier, the Tinker Leon, and uh, that's and he is with two members of our special services team. And this is at Tinker Elementary's back to school bash. We had several fill the bus events with Del City and Middle City Chambers of Commerce over the last month and brought in a lot of school supplies that were donated by people in our community. Um, I got to go to u a conference out of state and um be on a panel to discuss the power of rebranding and education. I'm on stage there with the superintendents from Denver, Little Rock, and the lady uh to my left there is from Indiana, but I forget my school district. We had our Saturday summer sunrise enrollment event. um I think third year in a row
018that we've done that now really well and then in a couple or I guess a week from Wednesday I will be on a lunch panel to talk about how education shapes our shared f future and um I think that's going to be a really good panel. You see Dr. Robinson Woods from Milwood there again, Dr. P from OKC and um I know former representative Sher Baker there and I don't know the lady in the top middle but that ought to be interesting and if you want to sign up you get a box lunch too and our cell phone ban goes into effect this week and we've been trying to make sure people are aware of not just the law but our policy and the consequences that go along with it. And that is all I
019have. because you become quite the public figure. >> I It happens a lot around this time, this time of year. >> Um, >> between my my mom and my wife's in the Eltech, they they love seeing me on TV. >> Okay. And I'm gonna turn this over to Ruth Christie from President Stand members of Dr. >> We need to get the presentation back up. Please several projects here to go through tonight. I'll try to be try to be brief. This is the first one here. Uh this is the video boards. This is the video boards that we did at each one of the stadiums. They are all complete. Uh tested out and trained. I think they're going to do some more training upcoming, but uh they are sharp. They sound good. They really look good.
020This is a Barnes storm shelter, Barnes Elementary. We This picture is a little old. We've got all the walls done. The the roof uh steel structure is done. The metal decking is done and they're working on getting set up to pour concrete for the roof deck. This is Eerly and they are working on the foundations. They've had a lot of dirt work there to do at Eperly Heights for the storm shelter. And we are working on getting all our grave beans and everything done, footings and and get that ready for a slab in hopefully about two weeks. This is Tinker. We got all the walls done. That's all the concrete is poured inside those ICF panels there. They have erected the structural steel for the most part. putting the metal decking down and it and
021uh Barnes are basically going to be caught up together here pretty quick. We are doing metal stubs over at Barnes as well inside. This is the Midwest City Middle School kitchen cafeteria. We jumped into the cafeteria over the summer. It was a renovation job to go in and and put new ceilings, new lights, new new paint, new tile. Uh and then we got that all put back together. We're working on foundations and slabs and thing on the outside for the new kitchen and then the new uh classrooms and art art room and stuff there. >> Got a question about that. Now, will they be ready for schools.com Midway City Middle with the cafeteria? >> Okay. Yes. Yes. Yeah. That was one of the big things is that one as well as Dell City is to
022jump in and try to get the uh the existing cafeteria done. These are old pictures right here that they're all cleaned out and they're going to be putting tables and they're cleaning them up tonight. Putting tables in tomorrow. >> Yes, that is. Yes, the kitchen is on the bottom there on the right side and the purple. The yellow is the new cafeteria. On the left side of that yellow is the old kitchen. So, it's going to be critical for us to get into the old kitchen. There's a lot of work to be done in the old kitchen once we turn over the new kitchen. So, that was that was the thought behind getting into the cafeteria and get the renovation done. At some point in time, we'll be able to switch over, take, you know,
023three or four days and do a little touch-up work on the cafeteria and be ready to go. Okay, this is the Dell City uh kitchen cafeteria. Again, this is a this is picture is probably a week and a half or so old. Uh they've got it all ready to go. Uh same story here. We have the a new kitchen and everything wearing foundations over there. We had gotten into some to go a little deeper on the dirt uh foundations for concrete over there. So, we're busy getting foundations and everything ready there. And this is the new media center classroom there on the south side of the campus that we're working on dirt work right now for that. Uh this is the new over at Carl Middle School. This is the new bridge that goes between
024wing B and D and it's going to tie those together. We wanted to get this summer, one of the big things was get this structure installed so we weren't lifting heavy steel over the building during the course of the year. So, we've got this in place. They're working on getting all the all the covering and everything for the the flooring and the roof and everything on it now. and it will link those two wings together. So they have use of the elevator. Now one of the wings there they did not have could not get to the elevator without you know. So this is the new cams uh classroom edition. It's a twotory edition. And this again, this is about a week and a half old. And we've already poured uh foundations and working on plumbing
025rough in in the slab and getting ready to uh pour slab probably in a couple of weeks. Let's see. This is the Carl Albert High School storm shelter. This is a new twostory classroom storm shelter. It's pre-cast. If you look on the on the picture on the left, you'll see the pre-cast structure is complete. The structural steel structure on the right side, uh they're working on get on getting those things all finished up and getting ready to pour uh concrete on the second floor deck and also on the second floor of the pre-cast structure. So, this this project is moving very well. See, this is the city storm shelter classroom. Fine arts I call it. But, uh, we're putting a building in between the performing arts center and also the existing gym there on the
026right side. Again, this picture is about a week or so old. We've finished up pouring all the concrete peers. They're working on concrete grade beams, footings right now. Uh, trying to get ready for pre-cast hopefully on September the 8th. Pre-cast is all ready to go and ready for erection right now. Go through these. >> So, um each month we're gonna we're going to bring you guys an update on the bond projects just so you can see pictures. Hopefully, we can get pictures that are are closer to the board meeting. Um but I wanted to remind you seven projects that were still in design. Um, and so we anticipate these projects um will be coming to you right after the first of the year, the majority of them, and asking for approval to move into construction.
027So construction for all of these will be first or second quarter of 2026 start date and they will all be finishing up or wrapping up the summer 27. So I didn't want to lose sight of those and we'll we'll talk more about those as we go and we'll construction pictures to show you. >> Excellent. >> It's excellent. It's a great feeling to have. >> Thank you guys. On to item six. Vote to approve or approved,86 hours of instruction. President Standards, members of the board, and Dr. I come to you asking that you approve um us transferring over to 1086 based on the new policy that was or law that was passed by the legislators house bill 1087. >> Move to approve. >> Second discussion. It's like surprise, right? Like >> what are they gonna >>
028see if I'm last? >> It's become that. >> Thank you. Thank you. Item seven, vote to approve or not approve the updating vending contract for Barnes. >> President Standridge, Dr. Cobb, members of the board, uh June 9th, you approve Blue Sky Vending to contract with Barnes to provide their vending contract. They called Barnes and said, uh, never mind. So, we're asking that you approve and go back to Coca-Cola, who they've used in the past. >> Move to approve. Second. discussion. >> Keep looking. >> I'll take my Okay, now >> do I stay? >> You got it. See, you got it. >> Thank you. >> I know it's totally random, but >> you're so funny. Okay. Item eight, vote to approve or not approve the 2526 student handbook. >> Um, good evening, President Sandridge, members of
029the board, and Dr. Cobb. We would like to present for your review the 2025 2026 student expectations, policies, procedures, and safety guidelines. This is a current student expectations handbook with updated policies included. Move >> to approve. Second discussion. That looks good. >> Item nine, vote to approve or not approve new policy J48. President Standards, members of the board, and Dr. Cobb, I come before you requesting your approval of the new policy that addresses the district's fulfillment of the requirements for the Oklahoma statute 70 section 111-16.3. It falls under House Bill 2047. >> Move to approve. >> Second. >> Discussion. >> So, this is a new House bill that we're enacting. Yes, it is um the Emerson Kate Cole act and it just allows um districts to use the Epipen without permission. But once that it's
030used, they do have to um by law contact um families a guardian. You still motion passes. >> It's probably good to probably still good to roll that one out even though it's on the screen. >> Great. Cadence is kind of silent. I gota get used to >> I gotta say I'm enjoying. >> Okay. Item 10, vote to approve or not approve Blackman to provide emergency remediation. >> President Standage, members of the board, Dr. Cobb, um asking for back in May, we approved a contract with Latin disaster response services from the district. Um and under that contract, we're asking for some emergency mediation services at the band building high school. >> Move to approve. Second. >> And I do have a question. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Okay. Because we're now doing the mode remediation for the
031bathroom. >> Will that impact the kiddos? Will they be okay? >> Yes, ma'am. That's why we're doing it so that they have a clean, healthy environment. The chemical they use is is nonhazardous. It's an antimicro antimicrobial. They go in and clean clean all the equipment, wipe everything down, clean the carpets, clean the duct work. Black memorial does a really good job. I'd like to say this is the only school they've had to do this at, but it's not. Uh, >> it's been a rough summer. >> The band starts a week. That's why you >> No, we kept them out of that building until all the work was done. >> Okay, good. Thank you. >> Been a lot of rain. >> It's been a rough summer. >> So, do we know how the water got in
032caused that? How? >> It wasn't water in the building. It was just high humidity and and high temperatures and there's no windows in that building. So, it was dark and warm and moist, which is a great place to grow mold. >> PL. >> We're taking some other steps to humidification in that building install that building. >> Thank you. >> Any more discussion? Let's vote. I think it moved on to the next. >> It did. >> Okay. >> Item 11, vote to approve or not approve in provide emergency belt replacement on a passenger elevator at Middle School. >> So, this is again this is a contract we have with K elevator company. Um we had a belt at the Del Middle School, the sixth grade building, the elevator that serves that building um that broke and
033so in order to have that reparium for city and I think city if you're in a wheelchair getting downstairs >> but that's a project been in the works for quite some while quite some time. >> Um but yes, the one at Midwest City, I actually had to enter volleyball practice one day because they were still working. I don't know if they've been completed yet, but they're >> a wheelchair lift is what >> more discussion vote. passes >> and it's really be exciting to be able to tell you that that's already been taken care of. >> Yes, >> those are the kind of questions I like. >> I was like I forgot to ask in advance. So item 12 to approve or not approve a change order number one to the agreement sports. >> So this
034is for the installation of our indoor scoreboards at our fieldous. Um we had a little bit of a change to the schedule which has extended the timeline on that some and so we need to uh we had to increase the cost u to cover some equipment cost associated with that installation. Del city is completed. Um Midwest city is in progress as we speak in Carl but will be done early next move to approve. Second. >> Thank you very much. >> Motion passes. Item 13. Vote to approve or not approve additional costs associated with resurfacing the floors in the autoision and auto service program. Good evening, President Stan, Dr. Cobb, members of the board. I'm here to ask approval for the increased cost. Um, basically there was a moisture test which was included in the original
035um or bid that came back. So there is additional cost second Okay, we're not good at it. Motion passes unanimously. Item 14, vote to approve or not approve the 2526 calendar. >> Yes. Based off the new legislation passed, House Bill 1087, we are requesting your approval of the Midell Technology Center. to approve >> and I do have a question and represent that I I read whereas in order to accommodate that you might have to adjust the bill schedule correct >> and I wonder how that might impact our kiddos in the high schools >> we're going to as least as possible we are going to be strategic the primary hours we have to focus on are our framework hours for example the majority of our um programs are 960 hours we have to reflect the 176
036six days, not 175. Now, um we'll be strategic. We may take five minutes away at break time. We may have to start two or three minutes early. Hopefully, we won't have two days of tornadoes and um additional snow. Last year, we got real close. We track those days on a spreadsheet for federal financial aid and our um instructional framework hours. We may have to add a few minutes here and there. Um we're going to try not to um lengthen today. We may students that are on track may be fine. those they can't miss over so many hours to meet their framework hours so it will not impact the bus schedule of the drivers. >> Fingers crossed. >> We do have a little bit of wiggle room with our K12 students and transportation time. >> Right.
037See, I was thinking that might be a concern. Thank you, Neil. >> That gives you enough time to come from the city bus area. >> I got that question from my son. >> We just got so >> but he's close. Correct. He's a little bit closer than the rest of Midwest City. >> That's what I thought. >> He's walking across the street. >> I'm like, >> he should not be late. >> His whole point is trying to drive over there. >> Yeah, he was. >> So, we may use break time to compensate for some of those minutes. >> He's not a speed demon. >> No excuse for him. >> Nuts. Item 15 to approve or not approve the career and technology education programs that are high schools. >> Yes, we are requesting your approval of
038the high school middle school and K12 CTE programs. And as you also see that there are an increase of programs. There are 2.5 business and marketing technology. So those are in addition. So those were ads. >> Go ahead. >> Move to approve. Second >> question. >> Now I know basically these courses. What do we have? A one of the high schools, right? >> And Carl Albert >> and then families at all of the high schools. The market's at two of the high schools. >> Marketing is Midwest City. >> Yeah. Okay. >> The two and a half um marketing program or business programs are not marketing their business. will be at Midwest City. >> And all the middle schools have the the office >> have the STEM the middle school have STEM and family and the
039one um business will be at Del City Middle, the new one. >> Thank you, ma'am. >> Are they pretty full or do we get a lot of participation? >> I haven't um I haven't seen the enrollment, but they did talk about capacities today. So, I am sometimes with Carl Albert I kind of we push capacities, don't we? Sometimes. So, we exceptions. Can we add one more? But um I'm assuming they will be max. I will have those enrollment numbers. They're due into September. >> Thanks, ma'am. Thank you. >> Approaching magic. Max is good. >> Max is real good. unanimously. Okay, President Sandridge, members of the board, Dr. Cobb, I'm requesting your approval of our student handbook. >> Move to approve. >> Second. >> And I must say I've read that entire book. I have too.
040I have it here. >> I read that audio book and I fell asleep with it on my chest. >> It's always a great read. >> Thank you. >> It is a great read. >> Thank you so much. >> Very talented writer. >> Thank you. to approve all actions recommended in the human resources report. President Stand, members of the board, and Dr. Cobb. The first item I have to bring are just our normal monthly on boarding. I always lose my words. I get up here and I practice it and I get up here and I go, I don't know what I'm doing. Been doing it for four years, but I don't know what I'm doing. But um all of our onboard >> well I do care that is true >> and I actually we have worked
041today to gather a lot of data for you all to be able to answer your questions uh the number of people we've onboarded this this summer or processed in some level or another for example maybe someone moving from one site to another so 186 processes I believe including new employes Um, and I have all of my things gathered up and then walked away and realized all of my data the it was a two sheet document. So Heather went to see if she could find it real quick because it's lots of wonderful information that our HR team has been working on. They've when you look at it um we also had information about people moving from adjunct to certified. You know we had talked about that. >> Yes. >> Um in FY23, uh, we had two
042support employees who became adjuncts and then one support employee who ultimately became a certified teacher. So, they're working towards that. It doesn't happen overnight. In FY24, we had adjuncts, five of them who were support employees and hired as adjuncts. So, they're coming with some type of experience. They're not just coming randomly. and then one TA who turn transitioned into a certified position. And then this past year we had four support employees hired on as adjuncts and then one is now certified. And those are just people who were rookie teachers or C teacher positions of the year. Were you did you find it? I already told them my mistake. She's >> You're a rock star. >> Um 186. We were right. Filled. We still have five vacant positions for the certified positions that we're still working
043on. And then we had one person back out today. So, we're back to back to that. But that's okay. I can give you any any data you want or we can make it a record and in this board meeting as quickly as we can. Then we get a move to approve. >> Move to approve. >> Second. >> Okay. I just want to ask at each of those sites, >> how are we looking >> in terms of teachers and classrooms and ads? >> So again, we have five vacancies across the district in certified positions. We still have 43 vacancies in support positions. Now, most of those are child nutrition and transportation. And it's not that Devon and Clint haven't filled the positions. What we do on those is wait for the background checks and the drug
044tests to come in. So, some of those are filled. They just aren't quite processed yet, but we're working our way through them as quickly as we can. And the positions are pretty evenly spread. They're doing a really great job. I've really got to give kudos to the administrative teams and leaders at our sites. They're working really hard to fill the position. That's always good to hear, especially we know we know where we are with the teachers. We know >> that's always good to hear. >> I feel like being low is >> better. Like I feel like >> our certified positions are better and our support positions are still struggling a little more but again we have that time that turnaround time. >> Thank you. >> You're doing great. >> And thank you support teams. I
045know it takes a lot to on board, but I do want to say seeing on social media the post about I chose here our little >> matched. I absolutely love seeing those and I try to welcome everyone. So, if I've missed you, I apologize. Um, but yeah, it's great to see that. Let's vote unanimously. >> President Stand, members of the board, this is a long awaited and I do apologize. I think this was almost a year ago that Shelley brought up and asked us to to look into this. We've reached did a lot of research between Dr. Broles and myself to try to make sure this is as accurate as it can possible possibly be, but provide us the leeway that sometimes we need. And so this is the proposed language that um our attorney
046has put together for us that we believe covers everything that needs to be covered with this policy. It essentially takes away the existing J31 and it replaces it with all of the extra information that that's recommended we include. So I don't know if this is one of those that you want to have time to process it or if you've had time to look over it and you want to vote on it. Is that correct? this we need to have a policy in place that is >> before the student right >> before students start to um not get dinged on our accreditation. >> So if we have questions we could always do a revision later but >> okay >> this this has been vetted through three different law firms. >> Move to approve >> second. >>
047This is much better version than what it was before. Like it >> definitely cleaned up. Looks like it's been updated. >> It looks good. >> I like it. >> It's not a gentle touch. >> My nail is my big fingers. >> It really doesn't mere Maybe I need one of those. You want a stylus at the end of the pen? >> Circle arrow >> right here. >> Top right corner. top right corner >> right here. >> That works. Thank you. >> Now we are going to vote to approve vote to approve or not approve agreement with MDA. President Sandridge, members of the board, I am excited to announce the proposal of a negotiated agreement. This is for our certified staff. There were people who voted. A few chose not to. They got in and looked
048at it, chose not to. 517 yeses, 12 nos with an approval rating of 97.7%. >> That's good. Move to >> approve. Second. passes unanimously. Vote to approve or not approve 26 compensation for employee groups not represented by a negotiated agreement. >> Yes, ma'am. These are groups as it says they're not covered by the negotiated agreement, but we typically do exactly what we do with the certified staff, which was the $600. >> Move to approve. >> Second. >> I have a question about the 600. Is that u what does that mean by 600? Each step size. >> So each step will have $600 added to it. So if the the teaching step right now is 4150 445, we'll add the six to it and start out with the 451. So they just add $600 to each
049step, but in addition, each person gets to move up a step. So if you were at a step one this year, you'll be a step last year, you'll be step two this year. >> So that was so >> I know if it was a scale and you add the scale because we don't have steps. We have scales slide along the scale. Sure. to approve or not approve certified teachers outside. >> These are pretty self-explan Oh, bless you. Pretty self-explanatory. These are people who hold some type of credential. It could be an emergency certification, but they do have something in place or they've been working on something, but this year they will be teaching an area outside of what they currently hold. >> Second, so are these folks uh filling a need or is it a
050desire for them to branch out or is it a need that draws an energy? >> So, mix probably a combination of both. It might be something, for example, one person wanted to try their hand at high school rather than middle school. So, they're going to change areas that they're teaching because they're changing schools. >> So, things along those lines. >> Or or in some cases, it's a need. So, you know, maybe we have a lot of kiddos who are enrolled in yearbook and they we need another yearbook teacher. So, they're going to teach a class of a section for that class. Do we have is it a large group to meet the need and the experience? >> Everyone that's on this list is someone who we're requesting to allow them to teach outside of an
051area that they currently hold some type of credentials for. >> Looks like about 30 35 >> certified people moving around. >> They hold some some of them are actually emergency certified. They've been working on emergency certified and something has changed. So, we're going to continue to allow them to meet the criteria for the emergency certification, but they're going to be teaching outside of that. >> I see one on here that I know teaches English, teaches high school English, and we're adding a section of psychology. So, it be adjunct in that one section. >> Yes, that's a great fully certified teacher. >> Psychology teacher. Is there a a measurement that we're checking like halfway through to see how they're doing in this especially if it's like this even if they're going stepping into an area just
052area period that they're not it's not their norm to make sure that the students are still benefit >> so they would have their curriculum that they would be expected to follow I would assume in most cases have that curriculum so psychology textbook curriculum that they're supposed to follow and I believe our principles take people who are quality study teachers to begin with and then they can just take on that additional curriculum um and then work with each other assuming they have mentors in the sites as well. So they're already strong teachers they're just going to be teaching something different >> or in addition to what they're currently teaching. >> I was just checking on the aspect of having >> it's just because I played basketball I need to coach. So, it was that type of
053>> that's where the question is coming from to make sure that the students aren't going to be >> um >> not set it a successful state, you know, in order to accommodate the teacher that's either just want to say, hey, I want to experience this or try this and see if it works. And the students aren't benefiting from that. >> And that's always our goal is for the benefit of the students. And then we have to look at well but if we don't do this our option is what >> right and and then long-term subs longterm is >> how you view it because the long term might be a week for some of them and then they're like >> true very true. >> Um so just to have that quality person who we know is
054going to be there every day and pay attention to the curriculum and work with their teammates and seek that outside assistance if needed. To me, that's more >> that's the key is that seeking the outside >> assistance. >> Absolutely. >> It's not bringing me up to vote because I am the problem. >> I think it was the problem. I did good. >> I don't mind being trustwified instructors for 256. >> Yes, ma'am. So, these are our truly non-certified adjunct instructors. They are people that may be working toward a degree or um very close or whatever the case may be that they are not certified and they do not have a degree where we can apply for them to be emergency certified just yet. >> Second to approve or not approve. >> This is just seeking
055your approval on being able to pay the various people in the district who have hourly type of positions or they're doing tasks outside of their regular job what they will be paid. >> Move to approve. Second passes unanimously >> H. Okay, we don't want to leave them out. >> Vote to approve or not approve an administrative intern at Carl Albert Middle School. >> Yes, I'm very excited about this recommendation. Um, I practiced with this name because it is a very unique name, King Monsa Maurice Hudson Shabbaz. >> Okay, let's hope. King Shabbaz for short has been in the education sector for over a decade, blending his background in teaching with experience in behavioral health to support the academic and emotional growth of students. He holds a bachelor's in English from Langston University, a master's in
056human relations from the University of Oklahoma, and a master's in educational leadership from East Central University. He is also a proud member of Kappa Alpha SAI fraternity where he actively engages in community service and mentorship. Over the years, he has coached girls basketball and led STEP teams. Both passions that allow him to connect with youth in meaningful ways. His most tremendous pride and joy, though, is his 12-year-old daughter, Sarah, who just entered seventh grade. Being her father inspires his work daily. He is genuinely excited to join Middell schools, begin his administrative journey at Carl Albert Middle School, and he looks forward to growing with the community. With your approval, >> move to approve. >> Second here. >> He is. >> Did you? >> Let's vote. >> We're not going to let you meet him until
057you vote. >> I voted twice. >> You voted twice. And we're gonna ask him how I did it. I got his name right. >> Well, we voted for you twice. So, >> so you're in. >> Can be recognized. >> Come aboard. >> Welcome. There's room for all. >> There's room for all. >> The divine nine. >> Item 18. >> I move we go into executive session. >> Second. >> Oh, they withdrew. So there will be no executive session. >> Item no business. Item 21. >> Move to adjourn. >> Second. >> Good job. >> We can literally >> But it's on there. >> Andy and Andy and Pam. Can I see the two of you for just >> seven o'clock? Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? I hear seven.