001and let's call this meeting to order. Dr. Daniel here, Miss Grant here, and the chair is here. Okay, let's have a moment of silence. Okay, let's have the for the flag salute. Ian, you want to come up and do the flag salute for us? And I understand you just had a birthday. And you shouldn't have told me about five minutes ago. Pay me back in September. You'll stand with me. I pledge allegiance 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. Thank you. Thank you. I'll never forget that first time Dr. Kirk said just caught me off guard and said, "Miss Standards, you want to do that?" Oh, it happened to me, too. She did that
002to me last meeting. Just saying. You know, Jamie Nolan for me. She said, "You want to do it?" Yeah. Okay. Item two, consent and agenda. Need a motion. Make a motion. Second. Okay. Any questions or discussion on any of those? Okay. Let's vote. Dr. Daniel, I. Miss Grant. I. And the chair votes I. Item three, vote to approve or not approve a revision to policy B17. Dr. Cobb, move to approve. Second. Okay. Any discussion? Yeah, this is um we talked about some position title changes and moving a couple of people around on the or chart. I sat down about a month ago with Miss Sandridge and Dr. perk and went over those and sent you an explanation of those uh in the board notes which we could log into as a symbol right now I
003could pull up. So if there are any questions everybody good with that? Okay, let's vote. Miss Grant I Dr. Daniel I and the chair votes I. Item four vote to approve or not approve of revision to policy J17 Dr. Broyals President Standards members of the board and Dr. Cobb, I'm coming to ask for you to approve policy um J17 as our cell phone and personal electronics to comply with Senate Bill 139. Move to approve. Second. Okay. Any discussion? Any questions? No, but we're uh So, how close is this to um the actual bill as far as enforcement? Do they leave that up to us how to implement? Um the the bill says that we have to have um no no electronics, cell phones or any electronics that connect to Wi-Fi from the beginning of when
004the first bell rings to the when the last bell rings. And it asked that we give consequences, but it did not tell us what those consequences were. Okay. All right. And um so they can have cell phones, keep them in their backpacks out of sight, out of sight, turned off, and then that's when you get infraction. And I heard no more cubbies for phones or anything like that. No. Okay. Um now, uh we have ordered for them to when the students walk their phones down, when they're in violation, have to walk their phones down, they can walk them down and lock them in, um a secure place in the main office. Okay. So, it's probably going to be chaos the first few weeks. I can imagine it'll be a lot. Are we sort of prepared
005for that? I think we are. And I I think we have to be prepared for it to be difficult. And I'm sorry to interrupt, Dr. Royals, but we went to a presentation from Broken Arrow High School at the KOSA conference and they have 6,000 students in their high school and they were averaging five and they have a policy similar to what we're adopting. They're averaging 5.6 violations per day out of 6,000 students. Okay. Are we prepared for the parent response? That that's more the children the the youth that aren't as that's more What do you mean by the parents response? and we're complying with the Senate bills, right? Well, just as far as their responses on either having to come and get their bill, uh, their child's phone if it's multiple times, just going through
006the once it's approved, once you guys approve it today, then Miss Boyer is going to start shooting it out. Yes. Okay. So, your camp your ad campaign for how to get the word out is going to be through text, through social media. When they come to school, you give them a piece of paper. All the things. It's going to be everything. All the things. Okay. All right. Did we apply for any of those grants that I went to those legislative conference and there were several on cell phone storage grants and stuff like that? There is. But in order to receive those grants, you have to agree to do um what they want for three years. Okay. Don't say I saw that. Three years. So at with the way it is right now, the way the
007Senate bill reads, we have to do it for one year and then we can come back and re-evaluate. Mhm. I think this is a good a good plan um that relieves angst from okay well how do I get a hold of my kid after school or activities at least they'll have them they just can't access them during the bell times and well and parents need to understand that every teacher has a phone on their desk and we have intercoms in they can get their kids if they need them. Let's go back 20 years. Well, that's what I was going to say is just go back to when you always had a nickel in your pocket for a cell phone call if you needed to. I mean, ask most teachers. They will tell you that they
008are a big disruption. Give me your 10 cents. I used to be 10, then it went to 20 quarter. Anyway, sorry. Show them my age. Okay, let's vote. Dr. Daniel I, Miss Grant, I. And the chair votes I. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Item five, vote to approve or not approve the purchase of district insurance. President Standage, Dr. Cobb, members of the board, um I am requesting to approve our insuranceances, lots of insuranceances for this next year. Um we've seen a very steep increase in uh premiums over the last few years. This one was surprisingly little. um with a increase to the general fund of only 54,000 and actually a decrease to tech centers by uh about 16,000. Move to approve. Second. Okay, let's Oh, this is great. I know that decreases in
009insurance. That's only 54,000. Wow. Okay. Okay. Let's vote. Dr. Daniel, I. Miss Grant I. And the chair votes I. Item six, vote to approve or not approve the purchase of 3700 iPads for students grades 9 through 12. Yes, ma'am. President Sanders, members of the board, Dr. Cobb, uh just asking for approval, purchase our ADP and white glove services from Secure Tech Solutions. Um we bought our cases from this company and so our iPads will ship to them. They'll put the iPads into the case, get it all ship, shape, ready to go and then send it to us. the ADP component. Um it's just a one-year commitment right now. Normally when we go through Apple for the AD for the U protection plan we're locked into four years and then what we found even at the
010littles our percentage of breakage we didn't need to cover four years of breakage. So what we're what we've done with this company is worked out a one-year agreement and then based on our breakage this year will scale down to that percentage for next year. Um they're just a little bit easier to work with and not uh filing in. Um, half of this, like I said, is that white glove service putting the iPad into the case and sending it to us ready to go. Okay. Move to approve. Second. So, that's good. I didn't think about it when you said, you know, they assemble them, but that's 3,700. It's a lot. It's a lot. And I've got six techs who are they're assembling carts and all the things right now. Chargers, chargers, and all that for middle
011school. So, yes, sir. So, you need a factory Sunday night. Yes. Okay. Let's vote. Miss Grant I. Dr. Daniel. I. Chair votes I. Thank you'all. Thank you. Thank you. Item seven, vote to approve or not approve the purchase of a new Mac truck for child nutrition. Uh, President Sandridge, Dr. Cobb, members of the board. Um, I am asking your approval for us to purchase a new Mac truck for our warehouse deliveries. Mac truck. Move to approve. Second. Any discussion? So, we use these trucks to go from warehouse to the schools. We have a warehouse where we Yep. So, we keep pretty much um all of our commodities. So, all of our USDA foods get delivered straight to our warehouse. It's very nice because we're able to get one shipment or two shipments a year instead
012of spread out. Um but our prime vendors and um our smaller vendors, so like our milk, they deliver straight to the schools. And then we also have our warehouse who delivers um throughout the week. Oh, very nice. Where is our warehouse? It's right behind the tech center. Ah, okay. Right over there. So, if you go to the back of the tech center, there's a little road that goes back there to the warehouse. Very nice. Let me know. Let me know and I'll take you back there. Look around. Bring a coat if you're going to go in the freezer. I'm going to wait for the Mac truck cuz I want It's a challenge. It's a challenge to go in the freezer and see how long you can make it. And I want to see the Mac
013truck. Hold on. You know, if Jeremy Okay. Okay. Let's vote. Miss Grant I. Dr. Daniel. I. Chair votes I. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Item eight, vote to approve or not approve the revision of the transportation department vending vendor list. President stand um Dr. Cobb, members of the board. Uh this is just to approve um some vendors for our transportation department to u increase our capacity there for tires and other fleet services for the for the buses. Move to approve. Second. Any discussion? Okay, Miss Grant. I, Dr. Daniels, I. And the chair votes I. Item nine, vote to approve or not approve non-renewal of synergistics. So, um, previously this year, back actually back in December, uh, there was an adjustment made to the synergistics contract. um that was supposed to reflect uh some savings
014that were not realized based on um some estimations of of the contract when it was put in place. After further review, I'm actually recommending that we terminate the contract. Uh I just don't feel like we're seeing the savings there and there have been some other concerns and I think it's in the best interest of the of the district to not renew that contract. Okay. And what did uh move to approve? Second. What did Synergistic do for us? It's an energy management company and they've been looking at how the district uses energy and try to find savings for our energy. Okay. So that's our for a while they came and presented. Yeah. And they told us how much they were, you know, in each. They probably gave us a good baseline. So now we can maintain
015it ourselves now that got into the group. The district has an outstanding energy management team. It's been on board long before I got here. They do a phenomenal job over there. Long before I got here. Yeah. Um, honestly, Middell I've worked for and with other districts and I will say Middell does a better job than anybody else I've ever worked with or seen. Okay. You guys do a phenomenal job in the house. Yeah. And we're going to continue to make improvements as we part of the bond is installing everything from LED lights to HVAC systems and that's just going to get better. So, prior to the pandemic or toward the end um we brought in this synergistic synergistic company and they helped us reduce our energy savings by a lot. So they did a lot
016of the leg work. So now I guess we're at a steady state. So I can see us not need I I feel like the main benefit has been some consultation on ways that we could make improvements. I I I think that, you know, we can use a number of methodologies to, you know, dispute how much that savings has been, but it's um at this point I feel like we know what we're going to know to make the improvements that we need to make. And at the same time, um, you know, there's a there's a certain amount of energy savings I'm willing to realize, um, but to but only to a point where we're also interfering with the comfort of, uh, teachers and students in the classroom. And so that always has to be in balance.
017Y, is there any negative effect of us as far as with the contract like a cancellation of contract that we have to pay or So I've had our attorney look at that. Um, and we feel like we're in a good position as far as that goes. And I do remember the meeting that happened last year. I mean, of course, I was on that side, but they were saying that Mandel has always maintained a good one. So, they brought a little to the table. Yeah. The way that they were talking is that the team that we already have, so early on, they had several recommendations that got us to a baseline. And I think, like you said, right now, I think we can maintain that ourselves. We don't need to have them on forever. Right. Even
018with the school performance review done in 2021, one of the findings was that if you look at dis uh energy usage uh per square foot um we were in like the bottom cortile of energy uses per square foot of districts nationwide considering the age of our bu buildings. That's pretty remarkable. Um and even at that number of window units we have as well. Yeah. And there and even at that there were recommendations for how to you know find some marginal gains. I think we have found some marginal gains, but I don't know that we have gains to be found that are commensurate with the size of the contract. Right. Yep. Let's vote. Dr. Daniel, I. Miss Grant. I And the chair votes I. Item 10, vote to approve or not approve Thompson General Contracting to
019replace the ceiling and walls at DCH Media Media Center. So, um, this is part of that package of work that we're doing at Del City High School in the media center. Uh, it included the roof that we are that that work is starting this week. Um, and new windows there. Uh, we had to go in and remove all the carpet and all the sheetrock. The the water intrusion over the years caused us some problems. And so, in order to make sure that we had a clean, safe, and healthy environment in there, we just took everything out. We've taken it down to the bare studs. And now we got to put it all back. So, move to when we're done. Second. Okay. And how much longer are we going to make it till when school starts?
020The roof will be done before school starts. The media center probably will not be, but I've already been in conversation with uh with Mr. G and with the librarian, the media specialist over there um and they're aware of that and they're they're okay with it. Okay. Um because they know that the end result is absolutely going to be worth it. Okay. Great. Absolutely. Okay. Let's vote. Miss Grant I. Dr. Daniel I and the chair votes I vote to approve or not approve Hardesty team to replace the water service line at Pleasant Hill. So as you may be aware we lost a day of education of instruction last year at Pleasant Hill because we had a water line break um and we didn't have water to the building. Uh we did some temporary repairs on that
021water line, but we do need to replace it. I do not want us to be in that same position this coming school year. I think it's important that our kids are in school and we need to have water while they're there. So that's what this is for. Move to approve. Second. Okay, let's vote. Or does anybody have any comments on it? Okay, let's vote. Miss Grant I. Dr. Daniel, I. Chair votes I. Item 12, vote to approve or not approve Standard Roofing Company to repair the metal roof assembly at Dell City High School. So this is just when we were up looking at the roof over the media center, we also identified some um areas of concern over the commons area and so this is not a re-roof. This is just repair of the existing
022structure. We want to try and maintain that and keep it from deteriorating worse. Because it had leaks too. Move to approve. Second. Any questions? Discussion. Dr. Daniel. I. Miss Grant. I. Chair votes I. Thank you. Thank you. Item 13, vote to approve or not approve Durant construction to redo the concrete floors at the Midell Technology Automotive Service. Good morning. Good morning, President Sandridge, Dr. Cobb, members of the board. We're here to ask your approval of Duranti Construction to redo the Midell Technology Automotive Collision and Automotive Service Floors in the total amount of 396,953 and47. There's just a lot of grit and grime over the years and we just there's cracks and we've just got to get it done. Yeah. Move to approve. Second. It's probably what 40s 50s or not 40s but close to. Yeah.
023Long time. At least that area is a little newer than the littleer. How long does that take? Is it going to Well, um we're going to start with collision repair. It'll take about 10 days. So, we're fingers crossed we're going to have collision repair done before school starts. Okay. And then we'll do auto service um over Christmas break. Oh, okay. Great. Okay. Miss Grant I. Dr. Daniel, I. Chair votes I. Item 14, vote to approve or not approve all actions in the human resource report. Yeah, this is the uh just the standard human resources report. It's smaller because we're at a special meeting as opposed to a regular meeting, but we wanted to go ahead and push through what we have and then come back on July 14th with our regular meeting and hopefully assemble
024up and running and have and have the next batch of personnel moves. It's summer. There's always a lot rolling around. Move to approve. Second. Okay. Any questions, discussion? Miss Grant, I. Dr. Daniel, I chair votes I. Item 15, vote to approve or not approve the recommendation of the head principal at Tinker Elementary. All right. I am very thrilled to recommend Dr. Stephanie Cavner as the next principal of Tinker Elementary School. Stephanie or Dr. Cavner has joins us today with over 20 years experience in education. She began her career as a TA and later taught kindergarten, second grade, third grade, and special education. In 2016, she moved into school leadership. And in 2019, she came to Midell, where she has served as assistant principal and head principal at several schools, including Highland Park, Soldier Creek, Midwest
025City Elementary, and most recently, Tinker. Dr. Cavner earned her bachelor's degree in elementary education from the University of Central Oklahoma, followed by a master's and doctorate in educational leadership from Southern Nazarin University, where I may or may not have been one of her professors. She is deeply grateful to Mrs. Susanna Bennett Asph for the strong foundation she built at Tinker Elementary and is committed to honoring and expanding that legacy. She also appreciates the support and encouragement she has received from her fellow fellow assistant principles and head principles, too many to name. Dr. Cavner expresses heartfelt thanks to her husband Neil, their children, Alyssa and Mason, and her extended family for their unwavering support throughout her journey. As principal, Dr. Cabinet is dedicated to fostering a school culture where students feel safe and valued, teachers feel
026supported, families feel welcomed and involved, and unity among all is a core priority. She looks forward to leading with heart, collaboration, and commitment to excellence at Tinker Elementary. Move to approve. Second. Any questions? Nope. No. Okay, let's vote. Dr. Daniel, I. Miss Grant I. Chair votes I. Welcome aboard. Dr. Cavner is here. Item 16, motion to adjourn. Adjourn. Make a motion that we adjourn. Second, Miss Grant. I, Dr. Daniel, I. Chair votes I. 20 minutes. All right. Leadership. Gina, that's leadership.