001Let's call this meeting to order. Miss Schultz present. Dr. Kirk here. Dr. Daniel here. Miss Grant here. And the chair is here. Before we do our moment of silence, I kind of want to thank somebody that always is there for us and probably never gets enough recognition. Susan Tombs. Oh, she's Yeah. [Applause] [Music] Anytime we have something, she makes sure we have snacks. That's the most important thing is that we ordered snacks. But, you know, I know that it's her job, but she does it well and she takes good care of us. Well, I think several things, I guess. Okay. Moment of silence. Okay. Miss Grant, you want to lead us in the flag salute? Sure. Stand. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which
002it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. This should get Popeyes, right? We should I will ice personally. card or is it bronze? I I just know that when there's Popeye's in there, I'm always Sunday. It's the best chicken. Okay. Item two. At this time, we'd like Miss Woodard to come to call for public comments or answer any questions regarding the tenative proposal of the budget. President Standridge, Dr. Cobb, and members of the board. Um, the FY26 budget is submitted for your approval as required under the Oklahoma School District Budget Act. The total appropriation for all governmental funds is $165.4 million. Thank you for the opportunity for me to highlight some of the noteworthy items in the FY26 general fund proposed budget prior to accepting comments and holding
003an open discussion. I feel like since I assumed this role in February 2022, I've sounded like a broken record. Um, the story's been the same. Schools have not yet to reach a new normal since the pandemic. While the general fund's fund balance begins to stabilize to the precoid levels, factors affecting the budget are anything but normal. Enrollment continues to be a challenge. Fluctuating enrollment affects state aid, which is a large portion of the general fund budget. The district saw a decline in enrollment for the 2025 school year. Despite the legislative increase of $25 million into the formula, the increase could not compensate for the loss of enrollment. The budget presented to you does have a $2.3 million decrease in state aid due to the drop of enrollment. State aid is projected, oh, sorry, increased first
004quarter enrollment could reverse some of that loss at the midterm adjustment in January 2026. The final revenue stream of ARP funding has expired. Lots of discussion is swirling about federal funding uncertainty and the possibility of abolishing the US Department of Education. All of the information we have received from federal and state sources advise schools to budget on flat allocations for this upcoming school year. On the good news front, interest rates remained elevated throughout FY25 as the Federal Reserve did not reduce interest rates as previously expected. Projections were exceeded with higher interest than projected interest rates and we aggressively invest. Rate cuts that were previously anticipated for spring of 2025 have been delayed. Projections now suggest possible reduct reductions late 2025 if inflation shows consistent decline as FY26 expenditures are slightly higher than FY25 estimated actuals.
005Most of the increase is in personnel costs which include step raises and negotiated changes to salary. Property insurance estimated increase and custodial contract increases are also included. Further increases to expenditures are anticipated as certified negotiations are not not yet finalized. Despite revenue challenges and fiscal uncertaint uncertainties, the district has maintained its Moody's AA credit rating, which Moody's report sites strong budget management and policy credibility to the sound credit rating. In this evolving financial environment, maintaining core operations with competitive salaries while planning carefully for the fiscal impact of future obligations and revenue shifts is our top priority. At this time, I'll take any questions, comments. I I do first of all, speaking of kudos, and I gave this to him privately, but I just want to tell you publicly as well, the way this was laid
006out. so plain. You went through every item to explain everything to us so we would understand where we are and despite what what is what's going on. I also want to give kudos. I know we still have the 7.9% estimated fund balance as a career. So, I want to give you kudos for that. But once again, uh and I don't know about you guys, it was just so welllaid out just just unbelievable. So, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Do a great job. Just to clarify here. So, we're at the we're at the hearing portion, not the voting portion. So, we don't need a motion. This is a hearing, right? Up for discussion now. Okay. Just wanted to make sure we're in the right spot. And I too wanted to say thank you
007for all the work that you do because I do not envy your position at all. And I know I've only been here a little over a year, but year over year, you take the time to meet with us, explain things, and then you lay them out in paper so eloquently that even me, a non- numbers, nonCPA can understand it. So, uh, Jacqueline, thank you for everything that you do. I don't think people I don't I know the general public doesn't appreciate what you do because I didn't as a mother um in the school district and amazing just an amazing job. Um your teams uh comes across to me amazing as well. So um great job there. Thank you and I have to thank uh Dr. Cobb, his leadership, and the group, he brings together every
008single year for us to um hash out what our priorities are and put the measuring stick with our strategic plan against it to make sure we're doing what's best for our students and and our staff every year. Yeah. So, I I do have a question that I would like to ask. Um, since the certified teacher negotiations are incomplete, is there a possibility we will have to come back and readjust the budget and reapprove that? Yes. So, per school district budget um act, I have to come back to you in the fall um with a budget update and that's just part of the law. So once we get our advorum net assess valuation um in in September and our state aid then I'll be coming back to you with updated revenue projections and then also increases
009to the budget to accommodate those negotiations. We have plenty of money right now to start the year and then we can make adjustments um in the fall. Good job. So could you give me uh I echo everything they say. I think I told you last year how I like how you you format it and you give us the expenditures and what you expect coming and well well put together. Um can you just give me your bottom line on where we are and in terms of our health? I heard a lot of you know funding cliff and and department of of education things are going up in price yet we're still bringing in more revenue that we expected from adalorium and taxes and things. So what is your kind of bottom line on the health of
010our budget and what we project and al allocate for next year? Are we okay? Are we So just like with all of our reoccurring money that was tied up in ARP um one year at a time we look to the future. Okay, how are we going to absorb $2.4 million worth of custodial? How are we going to absorb our software maintenance agreements that we just have to have as core operations? So, we look to planning in bond funds. We look to planning in our building fund, making sure that those other pocket of monies are healthy. Um, before we could always go out maybe three years as a pretty sound projection. Right now, we can't do that. So really in January we're looking to see okay what's the economic climate um what do we think our
011legislators going to do and then honestly we make adjustments from there and you we can't control the revenue we can control the expenditures too much volatility in the future to say this is what it's going to be three years from now we have to checkpoint every six months or so see where we are but right now we're financially Okay, we're financially very well. We've been sort of building up to this point over time. We knew that the funding cliff from CO was coming. We knew technology needed to be upgraded. You know, it it worked out for us to get the bond going so that we can bring in other revenue. And it's kind of a shock to see, you know, a steep decline in your fund balance from last year to going into FY26, but
012these are normal levels. These are normal precoid levels that we're used to seeing that we've expected that we would get here at some point. Um so we've arrived. Um so now it's an effort of maintaining that fund balance between that six hopefully 9% every single year um by the time we we end the end of the year. And we a couple technical questions. Sorry. Um, when you say flat allocations, that mean you don't uh project for an increase or decrease. You just Is that what you mean by flat allocations on the federal side? Yes. Okay. That everything we saw in FY25, that's what we're moving forward to in FY26. Usually, we have preliminary allocations at this point. I'm looking to Lacy. I'm like, um, as of Thursday of last week, we still do not have
013those. So, we're just going by last year and saying assuming that's going to be consistent or constant. And if it happens to go up, then yay. We're not going to complain. Okay. And then then in this envir I'm sorry, in this environment, right, credit ratings mean a lot. You said that, but I just want to make sure we rates pinpoint that, right? So in this environment with inflation and things going up in price and you know maybe you're not able to meet your obligations, your credit rating goes down which impacts a lot of things like ability to borrow money, ability to go out for bid and bonds, the interest rate on our bonds. Yeah. And the interest rate on our bonds, our insurance. So it's a lot tied into that, right? So the fact that
014we're healthy even in this economy that we still have a good credit rating just like your home credit or your car credit, right? Get better interest rates, prices go down, right? So kudos to the team for at least for keeping us at a good a good credit rating and maybe maybe we'll have a ton of kids. Yes. Come from Epic that come from a role to bring up that lots of teachers come from Epic to bring the kiddos. Bring It's more than zero. That's right. So speaking of kids, speaking of kids, right? So there's a uh there's a level of attenium in terms of more students, right? There's a reality that it's declining across the country, right? We don't have as many kids pre-COVID, right? So, um, and I I would imagine this is across
015all districts and so so is the state actually cognizant of that fact that, you know, you have less students. So, in your formula, you don't have as much per student, so schools will need additional. Is there any kind of so talk around that? The enrollment across the state affects how much money you receive from state aid obviously. So as the enrollment pushes down and as property values start to they've been increasing and increasing. So as those start to kind of slow more and more districts will start being reliant on the state aid formula. So, we do have to be aware of not just what's happening in our own district, but across our state. Um, and that's Dr. Cobb can talk way more about enrollment um that I than I can, but we're always listening to
016our groups like KOSA and OSSBA is they're talking about chargeables and what the enrollment's like and the weighted ADM across the state because that's going to be what affects our state aid. But the more enrollment we have, the greater weighted ADM, the more we get to grab um of that state aid pool. Sure. Um that the state has. And I'll just add that, you know, one of the things that, you know, that we've faced in projecting revenue and expenditures going into the next school year and the next one and the next one for the last few years has been not only has our enrollment been up and down, so a little unpredictable, so has the states. And so when we think, all right, we're going to be flat or we're going to go up 200,
017down 200, and what that's going to do to the to our share of the formula. and then the denominator changes too. Um, sometimes we end up with more than we than we project. And when on the revenue side, we always project very conservatively that we're we're not going to get all the revenue that we, you know, might get. And I think every year I've been here, except for the first year when the state had a budget collapse and that was not our fault. But, um, every year I've been here, we've had our our our revenue collections have exceeded our projections. And every year I've been here, the flip side of that is we think about, you know, we budget for everything that we could possibly spend, but we don't spend it. For example, we're 14
018bus drivers short, but we've budgeted for all of those positions. And so at the end of the year, there's a little bit of a recapture of what we didn't spend. I would rather be recapturing zero there. Exactly. I'd rather have all of those positions filled. Sure. Um but then we do account for that. So year year on year we estimate revenue lower than it ends up turning out and we estimate expenditures higher than it ends up turning out. So when we estimate what 7.9% carryover at the end of next year, we know there's a higher chance than not that it'll that the ending fund balance will be a lot higher. Not a lot, but enough that I sweat less. It's a It's a great way. It sounds like you're insulating the district in a very
019meaningful way um year-over-year, which is good. Yep. We try to be careful. I I appreciate that. Coming from a high school senior whose school board approved, I think like 2 million more than what they had. That was tough. So, yeah, that's not a fun conversation that I never want to have with you guys. I appreciate that. Yeah. Goals. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Okay. Item three. Let's vote to approve or not approve the 2025 2026 budget for Midwest City Dell City Public Schools. Move to approve. Second. Any questions? Okay, let's vote. Dr. Kirk I. Miss Schultz. I. Miss Grant. I. Dr. Daniel I and the chair votes I. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Item four, vote to approve or not approve item A through AO on
020the consent agenda. I do want to pull item AC. Just to clarify a few things on AC, but the rest I'm good with. I move to approve all items except for AC where we pull those out for discussion. Second. Did you have any Dr. Kirk that one I pulled? Yeah, she she's looking at she's pulled them. Okay. It was just It's just the one. Just the one. Just the one is all I had. Did anybody else have anything else? I have to Okay. On we need to vote. Oh, we can vote on all the all the ones except AC on the ANC. Okay. Dr. Daniel I Dr. Kirk I Miss Schultz I Miss Grant I chair votes I. Let me go back and vote on that one after your discussion. The one you pulled. Yeah.
021Okay. On AC, the vote to renew NWEA MAP growth, reading, math, language usage, and the necessary professional development from NWA for 2025 and 2026. I just had a question on because I know we talked about this when we approved it as to our teachers getting the professional development and there were a few things that we were still waiting on them to provide. I just want to make sure we're getting everything that we were told we were going to get and things are running smoothly on that. Miss Brown can come up and answer some questions there or let her know that she might be asked. Yes, it is. I actually asked the um rep. I said, "I would like the Cadillac of professional development." And she gave me the Cadillac. And then I had to say,
022"I can't afford the Cadillac, but I would really like, I don't know, give me just a little bit lower." So, we worked it out. Um, and we actually won't be spending as much money on the assessment piece because Schwarz will go back to giving the star assessment. Uh, so we had a little bit of wiggle room to use that money for professional development. So, we will still have their basic PD plan where they come in and train teachers three times a year and principles three times a year. They have a beginning training just in case you need to learn how to give the assessment again. And then they have coaching options which I thought was superb because then they can go to our buildings and meet with our teachers. And I didn't want to do
023it's it's not cheap to do coaching days. Uh so I really couldn't afford to do as many as I would have liked to have done. But we're going to try three of those to see how it goes. Um, and then we added another three-hour training per teacher training session. Um, also I want to um let you know that we have what's called the TNL PD request form for my department. And at any time anybody, principles, instructional coaches, teachers can complete that form and they can get one-on-one training with us. Um, so I know we're just really in year two, right? And so we have to keep doing things and and adding the PD because that's a huge piece of making it successful. So did I hear you right? Are elementary schools not going to they're
024going to stay on Star? Correct. Which they love Star. They love it. They user friendly Star. Um, and it's been something we've used for a really long time. Um, but you know, you often see, I don't know if this is really the time to go on, but I will. Uh, that kids get um, assessment fatigue and they get really sick and tired of doing the same thing. So, this is another tool for us to use to get that same information that we need to help teachers make instructional decisions. Um, so we're going to meet make sure we keep training everybody and that's going to be a part of our plan until we don't need to do that. grade does it go up to that can use star? Star does go to 12. Yeah, it's K12.
025Okay. NWA is also K12. Well, I for some reason I thought STAR didn't go up to high school. Well, I feel like um and then we used it. It was 8th grade for a while and then they finally came on board for 12. Okay. Mhm. because it seems like the other one, not STAR, doesn't give the teachers enough time to retach when they don't make their 40%. That they just have to keep testing, testing, testing, and they don't have time to retest or retach retach in there. So, the companies will recommend a six-w weekek instructional cycle regardless really of what screening instrument you use, whatever company you use. Um, and we can set those screening windows to do, you know, to where we make sure we have that amount of time in between or otherwise
026your data won't be correct, like you're not testing when it's going to give you that normative data because this is comparing our students across the nation with other students. So, there are things that we can do internally to adjust those if we need to. As a matter of fact, um, Miss Gilkkey and I just had a conversation about uh, screening windows this morning. So I think that's something that's kind of ongoing. Elementary is very strict because of the strong readers act where NWA is something we're doing to make sure we provide that data point for our secondary teachers. So we have that autonomy to move that and sometimes people want to give the test at a certain time and then the next year they want to change it up. So it's it's flexible to be
027able to get that information in. So, and is it easy for the teachers to give you guys some input that what's happening, you know, from the grassroots? Um, I was looking at our PD survey and we send that PD survey out to everybody and I have about 34, it's about 9.7% of the 349 who completed the survey had said that they would like to have some NWA training. So, absolutely. Okay. Yep. And I feel like that PD request form is something where we can collect the data to know, oh, this is exactly where it's at. Also, um, as people get more comfortable, it become like STAR. We had the same kind of a growing pains with Star. So, I think as people just get used to it, it gets a little bit easier. But we're
028going to be dedicated to helping anybody at any time. Good shot. Okay. Great. Thank you. Thank you. Move to approve. Second. Okay. Let's vote. Dr. Daniel, I. Dr. Kirk, I. Miss Schultz, I. Miss Grant. I And the chair votes I. Okay. We have no item five, no recognitions. 6A, no public participation. So, we'll go to 6B, superintendent report. Dr. Cobb, you're on. All right. So, being June, this is going to be a little shorter than usual, but not as short as July. Um, so let's start with this. Uh, one of my favorite days that we had to drag into two days because of the weather forecast, but graduation I feel like went really well and we had three great ceremonies. Looking forward to it next year. Midell Technology Center the Friday before that had their
029certificate presentation at the Midwest City High School PAC. Another thing that I look forward to every year. I made a list of this. This is one of my favorite days of the year. There'll be like 30 different days on there, but those are those are two of mine. Uh we are offering free summer meals uh through our child nutrition program at Country Estates and Del City High School. So if you have someone who's age 1 through 18 or who thinks they can pull it off, then uh have them show up. Congratulations to our Kelly O'Hara Spotlight Award winners from Middell schools. Amaya Norton from Del City and Trey Robinson from Carl Albert High School. That's a big deal. Huge deal. Huge. Pretty awesome. Huge. The Del City Eagle Navy. Let me start over. for the
030Del City High School Eagle Navy teamed up with Del City American Legion and the BFW to pay tribute to veterans buried at Sunny Lane Cemetery by placing memorial flags at their grave sites. Congratulations to the Carl Albert High School boys track team for winning the class 5A state championship. Phenomenal. Y and the Carl Albert High School girls golf team was named 5A runner up. Excellent. Another one. and we uh did interviews last month and named new members for my student advisory board, five from each high school. Looking forward to them. Such a great group. A great group of kids. Congratulations to our all-state students in golf and tennis. Congratulations to Delity High School for receiving the Jo's Renaissance 2025 Platinum School of Distinction Award. I don't know how many years they've won this, but it's
031a bunch. It's Yeah, more than more than a couple. District staff took part in the I love you guys training a couple of weeks ago. We'll be using the standard response protocols in the fall and doing uh more training in that. Uh this was mostly district administration. Uh we had some people out at the PLC conference in Tulsa, but um this is going to be really really good. Got a lot of positive uh feedback there. Uh the trainers were uh fantastic, funny. They they had a really I mean it it was serious stuff we're talking about, but having um them inject humor where they could I I think made us get through those two days a lot better. Speaking of PLC's, apparently they were in on the set of the Blue Man Group when they
032took this photo, but we had a lot of staff attending the PLC conference in Tulsa. Love it. That's always great. Our 2020 25 um award winners. We named several people as award winners at our end of the year celebration a couple of weeks ago. Another one of my favorite days of the year. And um we were able to send off our retirees. We were able to um recognize our rookies of the year, community partners, and more. It's just it's always a great great sendoff into the summer for so many people. Midell Transportation partnered with the Miss Oklahoma and Miss Oklahoma teen competitors this week. hosted at Rose State College and we received an email this afternoon from somebody from Altus who um just had was very complimentary of our drivers and the professionalism of of
033everybody involved. So I thought that was nice and she started the email with uh you don't get a lot and you know in this climate you don't get a lot of positive feedback in schools. So, and you know, and I was just telling Miss Standerage, President Standage before the board meeting, um that um you know, when you get those nice emails or nice letters, you need to read them twice. Let it sink in. That's right. Post them on social media. Yeah, that too. We held our first session of our community youth mental health first aid training. This initiative was made possible by competitive $50,000 grant from the Oklahoma County Commissioner's Office. And those are ARPA funds. Is that correct? The leftover. Yes, there were our festivals. So, that was good. We're proud to participate in
034the Dell City Armed Forces Day and Shriner Parade. Uh you can see President Sanders and me there with Mackenzie Fields and Rebecca Mitchell from Park View. We're gearing up to launch our very own Midell podcast. Um we're still hashing out the name, but as soon as we get that ready, everyone needs to like and subscribe, as the kids say. When do I get to talk on it? Not you're not in the first episode because I'm the executive producer. We're excited to welcome our new team members during onboarding. We are having a great time with our match with Midell theme. We've even seen oh another district maybe kind of steal the idea and do a less awesome version of that. Universities do that old stuff. Anyway, I'm going to hit play on this as Stacy's cringing
035that I'm saying words. There's sound on here eventually. [Music] You know, it's our goal to make a big deal about people choosing to come to work here and then hopefully we can extend that into the time that they work here. and we do it with some success and it varies from time to time, but we always need to be focused on why people choose to be here and what they're going to do for our students. And any role, anybody who wears one of our lanyards and has a name badge, they're contributing to education to kids. And we need to honor it. Whether you're in an administrative role or certified role or support role, doesn't matter. And so we're we're really making a a strong effort to try to honor that and promote the people that
036we've hired and and show show them off. Uh this week at the uh KOSA summer conference, there are several people presenting and I'm on there. We're doing a presentation on media strategy. Stacy and I are and we have several other presentations at the KOSA conference. So, uh just trying to spotlight the things that we're doing here in Midell that we're proud of. We also have a vote. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. And you want me to go right into the legislative update? Yes. Go ahead. Yes. All right. Sounds good. Legislative update. So, there are 84 bills on the bill tracker that I was looking at this weekend. I didn't include them all here. Um the the budget overview is probably the biggest deal. Um I've seen the different advocacy groups that we belong to talk about
037how there's a 3% increase in education funding. Yeah. Yeah. Kind of there is if you add all of these things together. But $25 million additional into the formula is not a 3% increase in funding at all. Um but it's nice. It's a nice to have. And so one of the bills that passed extends the salary schedule out beyond I think the state salary schedule stops at 35. It extends it all the way out to 35. And we already go beyond that. So that's not going to have a fiscal impact for us. But we are still going to contribute or you know benefit from the 25 million that goes into the formula. we've already been paying over 25 years of experience for a long time. Um, looking down at the the two biggest items that were
038added to the budget, $66 million increase for the flex benefit allowance. It's health insurance. So, that's not money that any of our employees see in their paycheck. It's just that the cost of health insurance is going up. And then 64.8 million for the advalor reimbursement fund. And Jacqueline, if I explain this wrong, raise your hand and correct me. the advorum reimbursement fund. It reimbures districts for lost advalorum as the title would suggest. But what that means is if you're in a school district that has an area that includes a tiff, a a tax increment financing district, um like 29th Street was, like Sooner Road was at one point, the old Sooner Rose area, um which is still a tiff, um we get some adverarm reimbursement from the state for the loss of of revenue on
039that property. But what that means is that anytime a municipality passes a tiff, the state as a whole pitches in to make the school district involved whole. Is that Am I doing it right? Yeah. I mean, I think I know this stuff, but again, I've got good people, so I don't want to mess it up. And so I I put I point that out. That's how that's how much is being reimbured to districts across the state because of TIFFs right now. So, the two biggest things that were added to the budget, the education budget this year, don't have anything to do with salaries, don't have anything to do, I mean, a little bit to do with operating expenses. Um, but really only about 25 million goes into the state aid formula. Um, so that's, you
040know, that's it's nice, but it's not um it's it's not that it's not when you see anybody saying this is a 3% increase to education funding, technically that's true, but what we're going to see through the funding formula is not a 3% increase. So, here are some other bills that have become law. Uh first off is um and this is one that we really haven't talked about during previous updates, but Senate Bill 7-Eleven modifies the ADAF report card. The biggest thing is that they're going to take the uh chronic absenteeism um calculation out of the report card. And I think that's great. I think that we all still need to come up with strategies um on improving absenteeism. I had a call last year from the executive director of OEQA asking me how we improved
041our absenteeism from the year before and my response was we did um and but but I was able to talk to some principles Miss Poe Miss Gilgi Dr. Broyals and there were some things that we did to improve it but it continues to be a huge problem nationally. Um, I don't like that our report cards are dinged for it when we're doing well with academic achievement or academic growth. So, I think it's good that that's going to be replaced with other measurements. There are also some bonus points that can be achieved in the report card and that's probably a good thing as well. The the last bullet point on there is the one that concerns me. The state board of education has to amend the state's ESSA plan. That's our that's our plan that we
042submit for federal funding. Um, in a by August 1st to the US Department of Education. That's basically 7 weeks from now. And we haven't heard of any work that they're doing on modifying the ESSA plan. Um we certainly I I don't know of anybody who's been asked uh and and been pulled into focus groups to talk about some of the changes that they're going to make. So, they're going to be very rapidly making amendments to the state ESSA plan and submitting that to the feds. And that concerns me a little bit. Um, I don't know what that'll look like. I don't know that it means anything nefarious. It just it's just concerns me. That's I mean that's a gigantic document and to modify something that huge and unwieldy in a short period of time uh
043could lead to mistakes and I don't want that to jeopardize our state's federal funding and certainly not ours. And uh can you describe what ESSA plan is? So ESSA is the Every Student Succeeds Act which replaced the No Child Left Behind Act which replaced the Elementary Secondary and Education Act. It's basically the the funding mechanism for the US Department of Education. Okay. And so every state has to submit a plan that includes their accountability um system. And I just read an article a couple of weeks ago on Colorado's new accountability plan that has some features I like as well. But um I just um our accountability system has been really not tweaked to any major degree in about seven or eight years. And so okay, I'm concerned. I mean I think that I think that
044what's put into law here is positive, but that timeline is really ambitious. So if they don't make the deadline, do they revert back to the previous? I'm not sure what would happen there. Okay, that's one of the things most of the most of the workshops I plan to attend this week at KOSA are related to just legal updates because this is one that again all we're going to be doing is submitting our data. They're going to they're going to put everything into a computer and calculate it for us, but I want to know what data they're calculating and and how we can put ourselves in the best position to put put a good foot forward on it. But um but getting this done by August 1st is is the concerns me. So on the,080 hours
045on the previous one it said we were going to go 1,086 an extra day. So, how are they going to I mean, does it just So, yeah, the bill the the there's a companion bill to the budget that I think is maybe mentioned on the next slide to or the next one, one of the slides anyway, it's on a slide, but the companion bill of the budget says that if they add $25 million to the funding formula, then we have to add a day or six hours of instructional time. we already exceed 1,086 hours and so that has that has allowed us in the past to bank time. In other words, if we have an inclement weather day, we don't have to make that time up and that's good. Um, this is going to give
046us one less banked day. And so, um, it's not going to make us change our our calendar necessarily, but it's not but it's not going to we're not going to be have we're not going to have as much latitude in there. Um, so that's one of the that's one of the concerns with that. Did I answer your question? I feel like I kind of went off track there. No, you did. I just, you know, saw the,080 and then on the other one I saw the,080 six. So yeah, right there. I was just wondering, you know, how we were going to to work that in and you answered by saying we've always been over,080. Yeah, we don't have to change our calendar to do this. Um, but it also is a signal to us that if
047they add another 25 million to the formula next year, which again is a is a drop in the the bucket of the funding formula, they're going to add another day and another or another six hours. And and who knows how many years in a row they're going to keep doing that. And that's pending, is it not? Yes, that one's still pending. That's still Yeah. And um I should mention that a lot of these laws were just allowed to become law without a signature. They were neither signed or vetoed. There was more of that that happened this year than I've ever seen before. So that was a little bit of a surprise to me. There were also more bills just overall, not just education bills in the legislature vetoed than ever and more vetos overridden. So
048it was just a strange session altogether. A lot a lot I think the final count was 47 veto overrides and they were just like flying through those on the last day. um so much that there were a couple of bills that I was really looking for that I was I was glad the legislature overrode the veto and but they were going through bills so fast I couldn't keep track of the subjects of all of them. So um other house bills 1086 modifies the impact of gifts and donations to the funding formula. Um basically gifts and donations would be a chargeable in the funding formula with this bill. So if somebody donates a $100,000 to Midell, that's going to be a chargeable and reduce our state aid the following year. So basically serious. Yeah, that's the
049effect of House Bill 1086. So basically, we would be punished for receiving gifts and donations. Um, House Bill 1412 clarifies OTP stipens and we passed our plan in April and this clarifies that those are stipens and not salary. House Bill 1601 allows teachers to use sick leave to attend, extend their maternity leave, which is something that we've always allowed if they have enough sick leave to do it. Um 1732 allow schools to broadcast activities. This is good because so if we have uh a team that's that's having a playoff run and OSSAA through their partners is um you know they have a broadcast and we have a broadcast as well. This doesn't keep us from having our broadcast too. That's good. And I think that's important. A lot of schools use um well, including us,
050we use students on those broadcasts. It's a kind of an internship for them. It's a learning opportunity for them. So, I think that I think that's really important. Um 2259. Um this allows completely open transfers for children of active duty military. Um not just to any district, but to any school of they choose regardless of capacity. And it remains to be seen how that'll impact us. Um, you know, we've had conversations for over a year with our um tinker leaison about this one, but I understand the motivation behind it. Um, we'll we'll see how that works out. 1277 requires uh due process steps for teacher certification revocation. And I think that's important. I think that, you know, um there are certainly situations where an individual should lose their teaching certificate, but I think that a
051process needs to be followed to make sure it's done fairly. Um onto Senate bills. Oh, yeah. Uh Senate Bill 139 is a cell and smartphone ban, and we're having a lot of communications with other districts just what are you guys doing? There's a whole lot of ideas floating out in the ether for how this is going to look. But the way the bill passed and became law, we have to have a cell smartphone, smartwatch ban in a in in effect for all of next year. Um, from bell to bell. Um, so we will be bringing that policy forward hopefully in July. Um, we will probably have quite a few policies we have to bring forward in July. Um, 652 modifies election dates. They did not move board meeting dates to November. Um, but they reduce
052the number of months in which a special election can be held. So that could be like a municipal election or a bond election or that kind of thing. So that doesn't that doesn't hurt us. I don't know that we need to have 10 months available to us the next time we want to run a bond. You know, if there are five or six months on the calendar that it's possible to have a bond election, that's good enough. And then 684 increases private school tax credits. And I've seen several new news stories about how the private school tax credits have been going and and all of that. I would just encourage you to read those on your own. Otherwise, I will editorialize way too much. You all know me well enough. And then there are bills
053that have passed both houses and have not become law and have not been vetoed. So, they're still awaiting action. And a few of these include 1087, which increases the number of required school days from 180 to 181. And that's as of last night. I looked at it last night and it hadn't become law yet. Uh 1466 entitles districts to hearing prior to a reduction of accreditation status. Um I think 10 or 11 months ago, I was on the phone with a a fellow superintendent who um was was called and and told you need to appear before state board meeting so that um because we're reducing your accreditation. This was on a Tuesday and the state board meeting being on a Thursday. And the superintendent was pretty alarmed. and one lawyer called another lawyer and that
054item was removed from the agenda and there was never any follow-up with that. So basically if um if the state board of education is going to look at a district's accreditation, we should have the opportunity to present our case as well. Exactly. And I think that's completely fair. Exactly. And then House Bill 1727 expands Oklahoma Promise to include teachers with at least 10 years experience in Oklahoma. I was asked earlier to look up if this also applies to administrators and I did not get to that today. I don't think it does. I'm not sure. Anyway, but it has not been signed into law. No, there's I'm not sure what the holdup is on that, but that's not been signed into law. So, that's all I have. There are lots more and I thought of a
055few others. Yeah. walking down the hall, but it's, you know, it's dozens of bills that pass every year regarding education and some of them aren't noteworthy enough to maybe bring up in here, but but there will be some policies changes. Senate Bill 745 where they allow adults up to 30 to graduate virtually from schools. I'm sorry. Now, what? Senate Bill 745. Yeah. And so we would we would be required to educate students up to age 30. Um we would get credit for them in our ADM, but we would not be putting them. We don't need 28 29 year olds running around our high schools. No. No. So is virtual. So yes, okay. Okay. Academic accolades. Dr. Brules, President Standage, members of the board, and Dr. Cobb, we do not have an accolade today. Um, Miss
056Dunn is unable to be with us for health reasons and so we will not be having um, Townsen speak today. But I do have Miss Bryant here so that she can go over the reset program. We received some questions from some of the board members of what that was because it was mentioned at the last at the emergency uh, the special board meeting. So, she's going to come up and just give you a brief overview of that. Like 90 seconds. Miss I have a timer going. Shouldn't have told me that. I know. I got my questions queued up. Questions don't count towards my 90 seconds. That's right. That's right. That's right. Right. Okay. Okay. So, I have that to hopefully help. Um Okay. So, uh, over the last few years and especially postcoid, we had
057a lot of teachers and administrators reaching out about students that just have those tier 2 behaviors that we're seeing a growth in. It's not that maybe they need to be tested for special education or need very extensive wraparound services. It's those tier 2 kiddos that um you know maybe have a great couple of days and then a transition in the school day happens and then they're disregulated and it's really hard for for them to get back to that. And so a team of us work together uh especially Tresa from the um special services side and myself from the mental health side work together to kind of create a model and a proposal and we're really excited to put this into play next school year. It's an elementary program. Initially, it was going to be focused
058in K through three, but we were able to expand it to K through 5. And so, it's a very short-term placement where we focus in a safe environment to help in a sense give kids a moment to reset. So, they get a break from their homesite. We come over. Week one is really about 80% focused on um social emotional, mental health supports, behavior supports, and just giving them that one very small environment and then 20% academics. And as they go throughout those five weeks, it shifts to where it's 80% academics and then 20% of that so that the transition back to their home site is not as drastic. And um the curriculum, you can kind of see the seven-week overview is there. uh those week two through six where the kids are with us in
059this program. Um that is curriculum uh trust TBRI curriculum trustbased relational intervention. Our mental health specialists actually went through an extensive training just this last week for that. And so those are kind of the topics. I didn't get to 90 but it's fine. That was a minute and 56 seconds. So can you uh explain what a tier 2 kiddo is? Tier 2 behaviors so I can put this in context. For sure. So, you know, just like I think in the academic world, we've used the MTSS system of tiering academics, right? You you get a tier one, everybody gets the exact same academics, and then maybe a kiddo that needs a little bit more, you have a little bit more specialized academics, and then tier three is a little bit more. Behaviors and mental health, we're
060kind of trying to structure it the same way where in mental health, we created a tiered system. What does every kid get? What do we need to offer to a tier 2? So, behaviors is kind of the same way. behaviors we're seeing just normal everyday behaviors or kind of those tier one behaviors. Tier two might be that kiddo that's on the bubble. It's not that they maybe need to be in a specialized behavioral program. Maybe they just again just need a little bit more. They're on that bubble where we can kind of pull them back over to be able to be successful every day in the academic classroom. Um so that's kind of what that tier two tier three is really maybe a kiddo that needs extensive wraparound services or maybe a partial hospitalization um
061program like a bridges or positive changes or something. So it's not those are more tier three. This is more of a tier 2 kiddo where they just need a moment to reset and then hopefully be successful. So these kiddos be identified by the teacher cuz there's no testing I'm assuming. There is not. No. Um we we have kiddos that might be over there that might be on an IEP might not be. We just Tresen and I and Leslie and Dr. Broyals um met with a handful of principles last week to get their feedback on ideas. We have a criteria that they will apply this the principles will submit an application once they've gotten the parents on board because there will be a family engagement aspect of this program and um and we'll make sure we
062meet the needs of the parents on that. But um so there's kind of an application that the principles will submit. They'll have to have done some interventions to show like what are some interventions the classroom teacher has tried, we've tried at the school, maybe the school counselor has tried and we just haven't been fully successful. So we have that background knowledge so that when they get to the program, our mental health specialist, our teachers um can look at what's been done, maybe what worked, what didn't work, so that they can try something different and try something new to help them transition. Is a pull out program with parental permission? Yes. Correct. Mhm. So, it's not going to be parent initiated to where we say parents, you need to apply for it. We're principles. Got you.
063No, I think this is excellent because you can probably save a lot of kids who would uh probably would have been put into a special ed program where they could be kind of reeled in and and kind of helped in this this this fashion. So, our hope to apply this across the board, right, for incarceration. That's the goal is to get four for that. You know, we're seeing so many littles that because social meetings haven't been socialized. It's great to do the tier 2, but can we get to them before they get the tier two? So, we I held her so long that last meeting cuz I just thought this program was amazing. So, great. It was just like I held her for like an hour. Well, and we and we want to also empower
064our teachers. Our teachers do such an amazing job with tier one inter like interventions within the classrooms of behavior check-ins and things like that. And so with this, we also want to focus on um equipping them with kind of readymade things so that a teacher is not having to go create something. We're going to have a shared drive where if a teacher says, "I'm really struggling with this kid." Principal can say, "Hey, let's try X, Y, and Z intervention. Have you tried these here? Here they are. Let's try them before we apply." Um, but you know, and then when the teacher comes back and like, I've tried everything, then we we come and and figure out if this is a good option, a good intervention option. And we currently hire just one mental health reset
065individual that is on the board agenda, a recommendation tonight, which we're very excited about. And a pair of Yes, it Yes. And the two teachers, we have three teachers that will be over there. two of them um with our uh release of bridges that was over at the LSC. That's where the program will be housed, which we're excited about. The two teachers that were already there will stay in the program. They are so excited about this. Tresa and I have met with them um extensively about the plan. And then um we're we've recommended a teacher, a third teacher, which we're really excited about. There they will be transported. Yes. Um we're working we met with Clint last week for kind of a phase one. It'll be similar to how Bridges is where they get transported.
066Um we're we're kind of looking at logistics of how that works. Um Bridges would used to transport from their homes. Um principles kind of had a take or they'd like to see the kiddo in the morning and touch base with them before they go over. So So we're kind of looking because they're only going to be gone for 5 weeks. So there's a lot of engagement with that. We want to kind of figure that plan out. And what's the capacity? How many? So our goal in each of those three classrooms is to keep the class sizes very small. Um so our goal would be anywhere from 8 to 12 students within each classroom as each cycle and the kids there's not a repeatable so a kid can't do group one and then just immediately go
067to group two. If this intervention doesn't work then we'll look at other options. But um so throughout the school year, we're hoping we could serve, you know, anywhere from 90 to 120 students um and then eventually hopefully grow this again into secondary. Excellent. Good job. It good. It would be great to, you know, one year from now to revisit this and see how how well this working. I hope we're excited. So good job. Thank you guys. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Item seven, vote to approve or not approve the graduation dates and times. Dr. Royals. Okay. She's a little taller than me. President Sandridge, members of the board, and Dr. Cobb, I ask for your approval for the graduation date and time for the class of 2026 to be on May 21st, 2026. Uh Dell
068City High School 10:00 a.m. Carl Albert High School 2 p.m. and Midwest City High School 5:00 p.m. Now this is the last day of teacher contract. So we understand that there might be some teachers that are trying to figure out how they are going to be doing teacher checkout. So we will work with our administrators and ask them if they can hand out the checkout list um a couple of days early. But also there is a 4-hour difference between Dell City and Carl Albert. So they can go back to the sites, do some of the checkouts there, and then head over to graduation. It should not affect Midwest City High School at all because their graduation is at 5:00. Just be those two. Okay. So I ask for your the weather. It'll be May. It'll
069be in May. So it won't be outside. We know that. No. Move to approve. Second. Okay. Any questions? Okay. Let's vote. Miss Schultz I. Dr. Mr. Daniel I. Miss Grant I. Dr. Kirk I. And the chair votes I. Thank you. Okay. Item eight. Vote to approve or not approve the quotes on yearbooks for 2025 to 2026. Miss Woodard. Yes. I am asking your approval for our site recommendations uh to do their yearbooks. Move to approve. Second. Any questions? I just had a question as far as the price difference between Carl Albert and then Dell City and Midwest City. What I mean, how much thicker is this book? What is the difference? And it's just it's what they choose. So the yearbook um sponsor, they are the ones that dictate what type of book that they
070want. So Carl Albert's is just jazzier. Okay. Than the other two. Maybe we need the other two. Well not really to look at it because I mean that's and the cost I mean but just looking at it as far as the jazzier it is, the more it cost and uh Carl Albert tends to sell way more yearbooks. Okay. And that's what I wondered if that's more of where the cost difference was coming from as far as No, it's the actual book. But then at the same time they're selling more stuff. People are actually paying more for it. It's it's it's a composite of everything. Your color pages, your number of pages, all of that factors into your book, your type of paper, all those variables and and your design. So there's customizations. Yeah. And they
071get that you should work on that now so they know what they want and then they submit that and they go from there. Yep. And what parents are willing to pay? So they make sure and make their money back basically. Okay. Okay. Any other questions? Let's vote. Dr. Kirk I. Miss Schultz I. Dr. Daniel I. Miss Grant. I. And the chair votes I. Okay. Item nine. Vote to approve or not approve the vending contracts for 2025 to 2026. And I'm asking your approval for vending contracts. This is also sitebased. they get to choose which vendor they go with um depending on commission and what what they offer. Um all of our vending machines that are offered to our students are smart snack um compliant. Move to approve. Second. Second. Now was some of us going
072to a Coke? Did I read something? Coke. So Coke was with the child nutrition department. So Coke, you have to be very very very large. You have to sell all kinds of Coke products and usually be a sole source vendor for Coke to even offer you a contract. So they'll give you pricing, but they won't actually give you an actual contract. Crazy. Thank you, ma'am. Welcome. Okay, let's vote. Miss Grant. I, Miss Schultz, I, Dr. Kirk, I, Dr. Daniel, I, and the chair votes I. Item 10, vote to approve or not approve the purchase of PLC embedded coaching and professional development for 2025 to 2026. Yes, President Sandridge, members of the board, Dr. Cobb, I'm requesting your approval to continue to support the embedded PLC coaching process at Del City High School and Midwest City
073Elementary and to provide ongoing support for our secondary administrators through a two-day workshop. Mot. Any questions? It amazes me with with I think it's learning by doing and that concept's been around forever starting with Dewey talking about engagement and we're still doing that. Absolutely. I thought about this this morning. I I was thinking if you were to ask me some questions, it's a process and they don't deny that and it's something that we're always having to work on because collaboration is key. 19th 20th century do we introduce that? Usually not the process, it's the people working on us. That's right. That's true. That's really really engineers too. And that's hands on. Absolutely. We can vote. Okay. Let's vote. Miss Schultz, I. Miss Grant, I. Dr. Kirk, I. Dr. Daniel, I. And the chair votes I.
074Thank you very much. Okay. Item 11. Vote to approve or not approve US Foods as the prime vendor for Midale. My apologies. I didn't realize that Miss Man wasn't here. And then Jacqueline chimed in and said, "Hey, there." But but we want to feed our kids, right? So, we need to get this taken care of. Don't ask me hard questions. Just Just read it to So, um, well, it is for You want me to read each of the increments for you, Dr. Kirk? I can do that. Groceries, $400,000 increments. And these increments just allow us to order up until those amounts throughout the year with us being a full C district. That's helpful because we still have to order the food, but it just comes out. Um fresh produce in $100,000 increments. Non food in
075$160,000 increments such as napkins, things along those lines. Kitchen small wares, $5,000 increments. Food commodities $200,000 increments. Bread $50,000 increments. Beverages at $30,000 increments. And we're talking about increments, right? Okay. In in the chunks of in the chunks. And when you use all that, you have to come back, right? Yes. Yeah. And we're currently using US foods today. This is just a We're currently using US foods today and we're just This is not This is not a habit. We normally are paying very close attention to each other, but here we are. Um, yes, in increments. And once that's spent, much like we do our substitutes, we come with $500,000 increments. And when we hit that limit or we're getting close, we add on what we think we'll need to get for the rest of the
076year. Who's speaking up? Right. Okay. So, she can order up to $400,000 in the groceries part, right? Yeah. And then is there a maximum or does that just come with your budget? Yes. Thank you, ma'am. Okay. Okay. Good. Any any more questions? Okay, let's vote. Dr. Daniel, I did move. I thought I did. You didn't hear me. Move to approve. Second. Okay, let's vote. Dr. Daniel I. Miss Grant I. Miss Schultz I. Dr. Kirk I. And the chair votes I. Thank you for jumping in. Pam, make sure you let Miss Mans know. What a great job I did. All about nutrition. Okay. Item 12. Vote to approve or not approve vendors bids on milk, bread, ice cream, uh, chemicals, and laundry. So again, just the various increments for Highland Foods. I think this is approving
077the vendor themselves. Is that correct, Jacqueline? No. Well, why don't you come on up here and help me hold this podium up? Well, it says juice and dairy. The following vendor. So, you are Devon is on my It's a good thing I've already evaluated her. Sorry. Okay. In our uh purchasing policy, we have a limit on how much you can do a blanket PO and that's $5,000. So, if anybody plans to do blanket POS in excess of $5,000, we ask your approval that um we can do those in excess of that $5,000. So, that's what these are. Um, these companies are bid, but their purchase orders will be more than $5,000 a piece in blanket for those various items. So, we might buy hot dog buns one day. We might buy hamburger buns one day.
078So, okay. Move to go ahead. Yeah. Move to approve. Second. US food is a prime vendor. There are more than one prime vendors. Okay. So, we're going to we're going to buy food for kids. Yes, we are. We already know we're going to buy a lot. We're going to buy a lot of food. So, we want to make sure you have enough allocation to make those purchases. So, yes. The budget you just approved handles uh all the money we're going to spend on food. That's right. Excellent. All right. All right. So, I'm good now. Good. Okay. Let's vote. Dr. Kirk, I. Miss Grant. Hi, Dr. Daniel. Hi, Miss Schultz. I and the chair votes I. Okay. Item 13, vote to approve or not approve Coca-Cola as child nutritions department be beverage vendor. So this is
079the Coca-Cola vendor that they won't give us a contract, but they will give us um cost on items. So we don't spend any more than $25,000, which is the bid threshold with them. So, this is just approval to do purchase orders in excess uh of $5,000 a piece as as the orders are requested. Move to approve. Second. Okay, any questions? Nope. Let's vote. Miss Schultz, I. Dr. Kirk, I. Miss Grant, I. Dr. Daniels, I. And the chair votes I. Okay, I'm gonna go text Devon and find out. Okay. Item 14, vote to approve or not approve an agreement with Source One Management Services for custodial services at MDTC. Miss Foster. Good evening, President Standidge, board members, and Dr. Cobb. We were requesting your approval of Source One Management. They are our custodial and cleaning company.
080We've had them for two years. They're doing a good job. If we ever have any issues, we call management and they take care of it. Good job. Move to approve. Second. Okay. Any questions? Let's vote. Dr. Daniel, I. Miss Schultz, I. Miss Grant, I. Dr. Kirk, I. And the chair votes I. Item 15, vote to approve or not approve to continue construction consultation with CTM Consulting. Mr. Wool, President Standage, members of this board, and Dr. Cobb. Uh, this is our contract with CTM Consulting, which is our bond consultant. Um, we just want to continue that contract for another year. Um, Mr. Horn, who is part of C, who is basically CTM, has been instrumental in saving us money as we administer our bond and administer our bond projects. So, we just like to continue that
081contract for another year. Yeah. Move to approve. Apparently, the heavens as well. That's great. I love it. Shining down. I like the dark. Yeah. Now, okay. So, this is what year two of Mr. Horn. Yes. Horn. Okay. And he's paying dividends for Oh, yeah. His consulting. Okay. How much is he paid? This is the contract. This is the contract right here. He's saving us more than this. I a lot more. Well, that's what last year. Yeah. You had said he was he had saved us more than what that was. I feel like he saved that in the first month, but yeah. Um I would agree. Yeah. Excellent. I always say, you know, you could build your own log cabin or you can hire a contractor to get it done for you. Right. Right. Yeah. So,
082money well spent. I could not build my own log cabin just to probably could probably take you 20, 30 years. Yeah. Okay. Any other questions? Let's vote. We need a second. Second. You second. Okay. I already did. They already did. I didn't hear you say it. Yeah, you guys did it. All right. Go ahead, J. Okay. Dr. Kirk. I, Miss Grant, I, Miss Schultz, I, Dr. Daniel, I, and the chair votes I. Item 16, vote to approve or not approve whole truck centers for two new school buses. Mr. Wolf. So, these are the 14 passenger buses. We have one of these now. Um, this would add two more to our fleet. The nice thing about the 14 passenger buses is you do not have to have a CDL to operate them. You have to have
083training. you have to be certified, but you do not have to have a CDL, which makes it a little easier for us to find drivers for them and and and get drivers for them. Um, it gives us a little more flexibility in our fleet. Uh, and there are times when 14 passenger bus is plenty for what we need. And this is our special ed department. Yes. So, it's primary that will be its primary function. Um, but like I said, it just gives us flexibility. We'll give us three of them then. Excellent. Move to approve. Second. Any discussion? Okay, let's vote. Miss Grant I. Dr. Daniel I. Dr. Kirk I. Miss Schultz I. And the chair votes I. Okay. 17. Vote to approve or not approve to include bond fund 37 as a funding source for
084districtwide fire and security alarm monitoring. So the last board meeting the board approved this contract. Uh however I failed to put bond funds on there as a source for funding. So we're just adding that as a funding source. Move to approve. Second. Okay. Any discussion? Let's vote. Dr. Daniel, I. Miss Schultz, I. Dr. Kirk, I. Miss Grant, I. And the chair votes I. Okay. 18. Vote to approve or not approve Happy Playgrounds to relocate and reinstall equipment at Barnes Elementary. So, this is actually going to be out of bond 36 funds. Uh, we have some some bond funds left over or left in that um in that bond that were allocated towards playgrounds. And specifically, what we want to do is we want to change the impact area, the material that's being used for that
085to make our playgrounds more accessible. Right now, it's very difficult to get a student who's in a wheelchair. We have ADA accessible equipment, but you can't get to it. So, we're going to start fixing that. We actually have a list. This will be the first couple. and what I'm hoping is a growing list of playgrounds that we're going to be addressing. Okay. Move to approve. Second. Any discussion? So, you're moving them so that there be more accessible. We're going to take the playground equipment out. We're going to pull all the mulch out and we're going to put put turf down. Okay. And then reinstall the equipment um back in its original location. Um but it's just it gives us a better impact surface that's less maintenance and just the main thing is more accessible. More
086accessible. All right. Great. I want our kids to be able to get to our playgrounds. It it has like the railroad tie border around the mulch still, right? Yeah. So, it's like you got to step over it with a wheelchair with Yeah. Or my daughter jumped out of the swing and landed at the base and broke her arm. So, you know, it's a pretty good jump. She went over that. Yeah. It's a pretty good jump though. It is. Well, you've seen Heidi, so yeah, it's good to material is a lot less maintenance and like I said, it just we have ramps that go up to it and then you're in mulch and then you can't get to the equipment. Yeah. Okay. We're going to fix that. Great. Thank you for that. Okay, let's vote. Miss
087Schultz, I. Dr. Kirk, I. Miss Grant, I. Dr. Daniel, I. And the chair votes I. Okay. Item 19, vote to approve or not approve. Happy We just did that. No, this is at Townson School. I'm sorry. Happy Playgrounds to relocate and reinstall equipment at Townson Elementary. Move to approve. Second. Any questions? Okay, let's This one's a little bit different. Towns and of course is being rebuilt. We're removing it. This is just going to be provide them a temporary playground while that construction is going on because we're going to be taking their playground away. Okay, that works. Okay, let's vote. Miss Schultz I, Miss Grant, I. Dr. Daniel, I. Dr. Kirk, I. And the chair votes I. Okay. Item 20. Vote to approve or not approve Integrity Flooring LLC for installation of flooring at the DCHS
088media center. So, this is part of our project uh for the library at Dell City High School. Uh it started with the new roof that we're doing and that that should be starting this week. U but part of that too is demol demolishing everything inside that library because of the leaks and the water damage that's taken place over the years. We need to replace the carpet and the flooring as well. So, this is just part of that project. That's what I was going to ask. Honestly, not as bad as I thought it was going to be. Um, but we did when we had everything pulled out, it was done by a remediation company, not just a demolition company. That way they could take care of anything they found and make sure that it was properly
089clean. So when we build it back, we have a good healthy environment for our kids and I just want to say I'm so glad that we're redoing that library. I'm pretty excited about walking through there. It was I'm looking forward to having books in our library. That would be that would be kind of neat. So we'll fix that. I'm so glad that we're getting that taken care of. Did you say books in a library or books novel concept? Yeah. Don't tell us. Never mind. I'll being facious. Yeah. But anyway, good. I'm looking forward to this project. There's Yeah, I mean Okay, let's vote. Dr. Daniel I Miss Schultz I. Dr. Kirk I. Miss Grant I. And the chair votes I. Thank you so much, M. Let take the next. Okay. Vote to approve or not
090approve to revise the total project cost with Raptor Technologies. President Andrew Ford, Dr. Cobb, last month you guys approved Raptor and the smart pass. Um, in the invoice or the quote that she did for the smart pass was only for secondary. So, there was a misunderstanding between me and her and I need to add elementary to it. So, it's going to add $12,000 to it. Excellent. That's it. Move to approve. Second. Any questions? Okay, let's vote. Dr. Kirk, I. Miss Grant, I. Miss Schultz, I. Dr. Daniel, I. And the chair votes I. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. 22A. Vote to approve or not approve all recommended actions in the HR report. President Sandridge, members of the board, and Dr. Cobb. The first item I bring is our normal certified non-certified child nutrition transportation hirings and
091um recommendations. Move to approve. Second. Any questions? Okay, let's vote. Dr. Daniel I. Miss Grant I. Dr. Kirk I. Miss Schultz I. The chair votes I. 22B vote to approve or not approve updated service rate sheet for conservative care. So, this is actually something you approved either May 30th or or in June, but we've added a couple of things with we're going to go with conservative care for our pre-employment drug testing, post accident drug testing, things reasonable suspicion, things along those lines. But, um, we were able to add the on-site drug screen collection, which they will come out and take care of when we do our random drug testing for transportation drivers. And then also the HEP B vaccination series is pretty expensive, but Lori Schultz found out that if we can get someone to
092make the prescription for her, she can purchase it at a much lower rate and administer them herself. And so we're going to proceed with that. So we're asking you to add those two items to the agreement. Move to approve. Second. Any questions? Okay, let's vote. Dr. Kirk, I. Dr. Daniel, I. Miss Schultz I, Miss Grant, I and the chair votes I. Okay. 22C, vote to approve or not approve the new salary schedules for athletic directors, senior high principles, high school secretaries. This item is to actually move our senior high school principal, head principles, our athletic directors, and the secretary to each of those people to a 235 contract. So they'll be working the same days as this building. It will allow them to go ahead and do all the things that need to be done
093in the summer months and have someone there to help them. So we actually allowed people the option this time if they weren't quite ready because some still have littles. They want to stay home. So if they weren't quite ready to move to a 235, they've committed for 2526 to stay on their regular schedule and then if and when those positions are vacated, we will post them as 235 to get that taken care of. Thank you for doing that. Vote to approve. Second. Yeah. I'm sure some of some of them are doing it already. They are doing it. That's This is just an acceptance of reality. Exactly. Right. You got one back there that works all the time. Mhm. She was asking me earlier if she Well, is there anything I can do to help with
094that? And I was like, you can just take over. So, she's amazing. She is. Okay. Let's vote. Miss Grant. I. Dr. Daniel. I. Miss Schwarz. Schultz I miss you so much. That is a new one by the way. Thank you. That's new. We were just talking about sports. Just vote. I did. I just call me Shirley next time, too. Okay. Answer to that, too. Don't call me Shirley. What about Karen? Okay. Dr. Kirk and the chair votes. Those are fighting words. My my hair is not short enough for Karen. Dr. Cobb, you've lost control. Okay. Item 22, vote to approve or not approve recommendations for mental health specialists. Yes. This is the exciting part. So, our first recommendation is the mental health specialist for our reset program that Megan just explained to you, which we
095are very excited about adding. Our recommendation to you is Abigail Puland. Abigail is a graduate of Christian Heritage Academy as well as Oklahoma Baptist University where she received her bachelor's degree in psychology and master's degree in marriage and family therapy. She is also a licensed marriage and family therapist. Abigail began her career providing agency and school-based therapy services to individuals, families, and children at Catholic Charities in OKC. She later expanded her craft by providing community mental health services to children and families from hard places at Hope Community Services. Abigail has a passion for equipping and empowering people to heal and grow while feeling safe and whole in their own bodies and lives, walking in their own footsteps. When Abigail isn't working, you can find her coaching CrossFit, doing jiujitsu, backpacking, or camping in a national
096park, and spending lots of time with her husband, dog, and 24 chickens. All right. Our recommendation is Abigail Puland. Move to approve. Second. Second. Any questions? Questions? And we have to vote. Okay, let's vote. I Dr. Kirk I, Miss Grant, I Dr. Daniel, hi. And the chair votes I. And Abigail is here this evening. Congratulations. One more chickens or the eggs. That's the chicken. Okay. Item 22E. Vote to approve or not approve the recommendation for non-certified career advisor at MIDI MDTC. Our recommendation for the non-certified career adviser at the Mideltech Center is Lauren Mroy. Lauren Mroy Walls has an extensive history of working in student services, assessment, marketing, and education, including seven years providing a combination of recruitment and ad advising services in the career tech system. Lauren has most recently served as academic adviser
097for Oklahoma State University in Oklahoma City for the past 5 years, specializing in areas of public safety, allied health, and education. A certified instructor in early childhood education, Lauren brings with her a passion to work with students of all ages and greatly enjoys finding solutions to better the student experience and help students reach their educational goals in today's evolving workforce. Our recommendation is Lauren Mroy. Move to approve. Second. Second. Any questions? Okay, let's vote. Dr. Daniel I. Miss Schultz I. Miss Grant I. Dr. Kirk I. The chair votes I. I did not see Lauren come in, so I don't think she's here. Okay. 22F. Vote to approve or not approve the recommendation for an intern at Midwest City Middle School. Our recommendation for the intern at Midwest City Middle School is Heath Tahada. Heath attended
098the University of Central Oklahoma, earning two undergraduate degrees in public relations and history education. He is also a graduate of Southern Nazarene University where he earned his mers in education in educational leadership in 2024. He started his career in education at German Middle School in 2012 before moving to Putnham City West High School where he has spent the last 11 years. During his tenure, he has taught US history, government, AP psychology, and Native American studies and served as the department chair for the last six years. He has also served as a head coach in wrestling, soccer, and tennis, and as an assistant coach for football, softball, and volleyball during his time at West. He and his wife Ashley have been married for 17 years, and have three sons, Corbin, Arlo, and Baxter. Heath enjoys being
099a chauffeur, taking his sons to and from soccer games and practices. He is excited to return to the Middell school system and have the opportunity to work with the staff, students, and community in this new role. Keith Tahada. Move to approve. Second. Any questions? Miss Grant I. Dr. Kirk. I. Dr. Daniel. I. Miss Schultz. I. And the chair votes I. And Heath is here with us today. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Okay. Vote to approve or not approve the re recommendation for an assistant principal at Dell City Elementary. Our recommendation for the elementary assistant principal at Dell City Elementary is Charlotte Samuels. Charlotte is a dedicated educator with over 26 years of experience in Oklahoma's public school system. A proud graduate of Medel High School, she earned a bachelor of science in elementary education from southwestern Oklahoma
100State University and a master of education in guidance and counseling as well as certification in education administration from the University of Central Oklahoma. She has nine and a half years of teaching experience and 17 years as a school counselor, including 15 years at Midell schools, including Tinker Elementary, Delrest Middle School, Steed Elementary, and Pleasant Hill Elementary. She has also spent time in Oklahoma City public schools and Mloud public schools. Charlotte is married to Rodrik Samuels, assistant principal at Dell City Middle School. They have three beautiful children, Rodrik II, Mason, and Landon. All products of Middell schools. Move to approve. Second. Second. Any questions? Okay, let's vote. Dr. Daniel, I. Miss Grant, I. Miss Schultz, I. Dr. Kirk, I sound an I. And the chair votes I. Good job. [Applause] Okay. 22H. Vote to approve or
101not approve the recommendation for an assistant principal at Park View Elementary. Okay. Our recommendation for elementary assistant principal at Parkview Elementary is Pette Honeyut. Pette is the instructional coach and title one coordinator at Dell City Middle School. She brings five years of educ ed of experience in midell and a background in corporate sales and marketing to her work in education. Pette holds a bachelor's in biology and chemistry from NCCU and a master's in educational leadership from UCO. She's certified in elementary and K12 leadership. Proudly connected to Middell through her family's long history with Midwest City High School and Carl Albert. She now lives in Mustang, Oklahoma with her husband RL and their three children, adult son Bryce and the littles Rain and Trip. She's passionate about student achievement in school culture. Pette Honeyut. Move to
102approve. Second. Any questions? Miss Schultz. I. Dr. Daniel I. Dr. Kirk. I. Miss Grant I and the chair votes I and she is here. [Applause] I must say that I've asked for many biographies over the years and Pette is the first one who has sent me a full biography and then a shortened one in case I need to speak and I was here for it. I was like I love this. Very nice. Okay. Item 23, executive session. Move to approve. Second. Okay, let's vote. Dr. Kirk I. Miss Schultz I. Doc Miss Grant I. Dr. Daniel I. And the chair votes I. Dr. Cob the new legislation had to be important for the district. Have you seen that? I have. I have. I can I can give you my thoughts on that. What time is it?
1039:26 9 9:25. Now, do we have to do Yes. Yes, you do. You have to separate. Okay. Separate them. Did Did Leslie get you some time? Okay. So I just have I have to read the whole thing on this, right? Okay. Let the record reflect. Joe, are we on? It says on air. We're good. Okay. Let the record reflect that the board return to open session at 9:25 PE. Those in attendance in executive session were Dr. Kirk, Dr. Daniel, Miss Schultz, Miss Grant, Dr. Cobb, Dr. Broyle, Miss Lesley P, Miss Amber Reed, and Gina Standridge and the representatives of student A and B. During the executive session, we discussed the following retention recommendations with a review of confidential education records of students whereby disclosure of any additional information could potentially violate FURPA. The executive session
104was requested by the parent or student in accordance with 25os section 307 B5 and B7. No other matters were discussed. No votes were taken during the executive session. Item 24. In regards to student A, I need a motion to accept, modify, accept, reject, or modify the administration's recommendation regarding the student's educational record. I make a motion to modify the administration's recommendation to reassess the educational records of student B or I'm sorry, student A at the appropriate time. Second. Any discussion? Okay, let's vote. Dr. Daniel, I. Miss Schultz, I. Miss Grant, I. Dr. Kirk, I. And the chair votes I. In regards to student B, I need a motion to accept, reject, or modify the administration's recommendation regarding the students educational record. President Sandridge, I make a motion to modify the administration's recommendation to reassess the
105educational records of student B at the appropriate time. Second, Dr. Kirk, I. Miss Grant, I. Miss Schultz, I. Dr. Daniel, I. And the chair votes I. Item 25, new no new business. Item 26. Move to adjourn. Second. Miss Grant. I. Dr. Kirk. I. Dr. Daniel. I. Miss Schultz. I. And the chair votes I. Good job. The way you did it.