001We'll call our meeting order. Will stand and Mr. West will lead us in our prayer and then Miss Weer will lead us in the pledge. Father, we thank you for this day and all the many blessings that you've given us. We're together here tonight and we pray for your knowledge and wisdom that will help us make sound decisions for our school system. Pray for the students, teachers, and support staff. May we continue to have a safe school year. Pray for the sick in our community. Be thy will my daily restored to good health. Most of all, father the faith of Jesus Christ and the sacrifice he made on the cross. Guide guard and breakfast. Everything we do, it's in your holy name we pray. Amen. To the flag of the United States of America and
002to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Want to welcome everyone to our April board meeting. We're proud to have everyone. We do have uh Mr. Upton joining us by phone as well as Mr. Cheryl. Appreciate you fellas being able to join us as well. We'll move into item three. Approve the minutes of the March 13, 2025 regular session as received. Motion to approve. Motion by Mr. Williams. Second by Miss Weer. Any discussion? If not, all in favor? Any opposed? Motion passes. Item four, approve the agenda for the April 10th, 2025 regular session as you have in front of you. Motion by Mr. Hansen, second by Miss Weir. Any discussion? If not, all in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion passes. Item five is our public comment
003period. I don't believe anyone signed in. We will proceed. Item six, consider the textbook adoption for K through 12 science. You have uh in your packet a textbook adoption for science that our adoption committee has voted to approve the following for the following grades there. Kindergarten through 8 is SAS elevate and high school's a little bit different but again these have been recommended and approved by our textbook adoption committee. Make a motion to accept motion Mr. Mr. Maz second on Mr. Maz. Any discussion? If not, all in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion passes. Item seven, consider purchase of bigot. I don't know. Access control equipment, hardware, licenses for five additional doors piggy banking off the seir county schools bid contract. He have a copy of that big contract to Central Technologies. Is this for the
004K8 or is it's all three schools? All three schools. I think I think that it's two at Heritage Springs on K8 and one extra at High if that's right. Um the this goes with the cops grant that we did um I guess it was last fiscal year in 23 24. We have just now finished that grant up. Um you'll see that coming in as a revenue on my amendment in the coming down the pipe here. But um they are going to come in and do five doors that we weren't able to get in the original and this is a safe schools money. I make a motion. Motion by Mr. May seconded by Mr. Mill. Any discussion? If not, all in favor? Any opposed? Motion passes. Item eight, consider resolution providing a one-time bonus to public
005school teachers included in the Education Freedom Act of 2025. Um if you'll recall um what our state legislature passed uh few months ago now the voucher bill that's what the uh education freedom act really is known to everybody as but as a component of that voucher bill there was a program to provide a one-time bonus to teachers and it's for classroom teachers and and a few others. It's not everybody uh in our system, but that is uh the provisions of the uh the law that was passed with the voucher bill. We have to accept it. Uh we have to publicly accept the money with the resolution if we want to participate. Um the money that they would send, we are estimating currently right now is about 184,000. Um primarily pays all classroom teachers. Um, we
006think guidance counselors, we think uh RTI RTI and librarians. Um, we're supposed to have a meeting on April 15th to kind of give us the final on that, but verbally that's what we've been is deal with,000. No, sir. This is a one time bonus. We'll still have to uh we're about halfway there on that. A little better than half. and our next two budget cycles will this is separate this is separate um again this was just something that was kind of included there in that voucher bill uh TSBA has provided uh this resolution that you have in front of you in your packet um stating that we would accept the $2,000 uh for each teacher um and it specifically identifies the part of the Education Freedom Act with section 4 that deals with this bonus.
007Um there are there have been some questions obviously we uh we passed a resolution um a few months ago opposing uh the voucher bill as a whole uh but we would have to accept uh this section of it. And uh so if the board is inclined uh to participate and accept this money uh to go towards the teachers um this is the way that we would move forward. Just giving us money for the teachers. Just giving us the money for the teachers. I make a motion to do that. Got a motion by Mr. Mr. Ash and seconded by M. We going to do this just a little bit different. So that we'll have something. Question. Yes, sir. By us accepting this, does it mean we have to do anything else? There's no strings attached to
008this because it sounds like something where they try to sweeten the pot and get you to do something, then they come back and they tell you, "Oh, by the way, right, that's that's where the language comes in." If you if you were to read the education the voucher bill, um the section dealing with the bonus is this section four, the education freedom act. leaving some teachers out. Well, no, not teachers, but it leaves staff, administration, and we'll talk about that in just a moment. We've got a we've got a maybe a potential remedy there as well. Uh with item 10 on our agenda, excuse me, item nine on our agenda. Uh but this is just for the teachers statement fund this. Um, again, TSBA's helped us draft this uh to specifically address I think your
009concern there, Mr. Maz. We have a motion on the for Mr. Ashlock, seconded by Miss Weir. Any discussion? It's a little bit different. We will ask if you don't mind one time. One time. Yes, sir. One time. uh we will ask you to sign this and miss weird to sign it as well. That way we'll have a record of resolution uh that we can we'll have to send it into the state. Any further discussion? If not, I'll call a roll. Mr. Ash, Miss We Mr. Webs. Hi. Mr. Henson. Hi. Mr. May. Hi. Mr. Mel. Hi. Mr. Lyn, I vote I Mr. Upton and Mr. Sher. Motion passes. That brings us to item nine. Consider bonus for employees excluded from the Education Freedom Act of 2025. Um, so as we said there just a moment ago
010with resolution that we just passed. There are several members excluded um by the state law that was passed with the voucher bill. Uh and in our opinion, these folks are are very valuable to our system. We couldn't do it without. It would include your aids, include admin staff, it would include teachers or excuse me, it would include bus drivers. um also include cooks, all the folks uh that help uh make our school system work day in day out that are excluded um from the Education Freedom Act. Your principles and your assistant principles are excluded from all of your certified support staff and all of your support staff up here that are non-certified than all the ones that you just mentioned. So, if we were to pass this, that would mean everybody in our system would
011get the same bonus, $2,000. Um, you have a little handout there in your packet that Ashley provided um that uh helps us kind of get our minds around um the funds required. Uh and ultimately out of our budget um $221,000 almost $222,000 would be required for us uh to be able to do this. Uh we've been able to do bonuses uh in the past. Uh we were able to do one last year. It was a $1,000 bonus to all employees and that total was about 199,000. So, um, where are we at on the budget? That's a lot. Yeah, we we feel pretty good about it. Ashley's got she's been through it. Um, we'll talk about that in just a moment. Part of that will be considered in item 10 as well on our budget amendment.
012Um, but Ashley, you probably address that. We need to talk about the other one before you go on this one. We'll do whatever you want to do. But yes, I I do feel okay about where we are or I would have not even brought it out to the table. I do think that you are going to be able to have a surplus in your fund balance. So I think when you when you do that, you don't you know if you're able to extend it on for the staff and I'm okay with that as far as the way the numbers look. So again, it just like we talked about with the bonus uh and item eight, this is a onetime bonus. And if it was not one time, I wouldn't suggest that alongside the 2500 that
013you'll be coming with in July. So you've got some onetime revenues that have come in that are going to be able it's kind of like a onetime thing against a onetime thing. So it kind of just washes out. Not something obviously we could do every year. Um, but again, I think the state legislator legislature, excuse me, excluded a lot of valuable folks in our system bonus. All right. I'll ask you to read this. This will help with the administration. read as as the motion. Yes. And we'll include it in the minutes. Okay. I'll make a motion to consider a bonus for employees excluded from that from the education freedom act of 2025 and read that two to approve a onetime bonus 2000 active full-time employees excluded from the education freedom act of 2025 to complete
014the 2024 25 school year prorated based on the FTE for the current school year. That's their full-time equivalent. So if they're part-time, they would only get part-time full-time. So if they're serving a normal schedule that's like Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday every week and they're here all the calendar year, then they would be prorated based on their days worked if that makes sense. So we have a motion by Mr. Ashlock, seconded by Mr. Mel. This guy again similar nature to Item N item eight there one time and prorated what we have Mr. Ashlock read helps to administrate that any further discussion if not I'll call the role Mr. Ashlock Mr. Mill M Mr. West. Hi, Mr. Henson. Hi, Mr. May. Hi, Mr. L. Hi, I vote. I Mr. Upton and Mr. Cheryl. Motion passes. Brings us to
015item 10. Consider the 2024 2025 general purpose school budget amendment. Unfortunately, Ashley's killed a bunch of trees with this budget amendment, but uh it had to be done. So, this budget amendment um it's it's a little bit easier if you look from page three to the front. So, let's start on the third page. Um by the way, in my 18 years, this is the worst one I've ever done. And I hope it's 18 more. And I'm retired and watch this happen. So the increase in revenue that you're going to see is and I had to estimate these and the bonuses because our commission meets on May 5th. They do not meet again till June June the 23rd. So there's no it's really difficult for us to do an amendment that late. Almost everything's done paid
016by then. So we went ahead and and guessed it based on last year's numbers. um summer learning camp, summer learning transportation. Um the the bonus paid parental leave. Um the summer learning camp is split out in state and federal. When I did talk to the fiscal consultant, they did think that there was still some federal dollars. So we broke it out just like it was last year. And then the cops grant. So um that that expenditure was one year approved last year, but the revenue is not going to hit till this year just because we didn't get the project done until this year. And it's reimbursement basis. So you have to then ask for the money. Um, so that in total on those revenues is 587497. So you've got new revenues of that to go
017against that's included in this 8.81. Then you're going to have um the CTE building as you all know when we bid that we were short on ISM money. So um I probably have this 100,000 inside the budget but it's in wild categories. So, my a budget amendment would have been two more pages if id have tried to pull 3,000 from here and 2,000 from there, whatever. So, I've just took it from undesated fund balance because it it's a commitment to that building with construction and I think we're okay with that. Um, and then the decrease in expenditures that you'll see, which is on the bottom of the second page, um, the state has required us to start doing travel where if it's in county, it's out of 355 and If it's out of county, it's
018out of 524. It's just uh the way they like to audit it, the way they like to see it reported. So, I've had to change my entire budget and the way that we pay things on that. They also aren't funding the CEO supplement anymore out of career ladder. They're funding it out of other state funds. So, they wanted me to move that as well. And then you'll see some other things thrown in there like insurance uh where we've done some moving around on different insurance increases and decreases. Retirement, our hybrid teachers are something that are are a little difficult to budget for because their retirement is broken out in three codes and you have a mixture of who they are. So, um I have to I'm going to have to mess with those until well,
019we'll still be messing with hybrid and legacy in 20 years from now probably. So, anyway, um all of those decreases, the fund balance and that increase in revenue goes against all these increases in expenditures and those all includes your bonus, your summer learning camp, your transport transportation part, and then um your paid rental. So, Any questions? Any specific on a general motion by Mr. Second by Mr. May any discussion would like some questions. If no discussion I'll call the roll. Mr. Ashock. Mr. Ms. Hi. Miss. Hi. Mr. Wes. Hi. Mr. Hson, hi. Mr. Milton, hi. Mr. Lamb, hi. I vote I Mr. Upton and Mr. Cheryl. Motion passes. That brings us to our principal report. First, I have positive engagement. We are continuing our attendance incentives for seventh grade. They the third nine weeks again.
020So, they're doing really good. We are very proud of all of our students as many of them had great progress and improvements toward attendance. I had spoken with Mr. Up Church just month or two ago and he said that we had improved education. Our teachers received 10 ready security training on April the 2nd at our teachers meeting. Students will begin to testing the week of April the 14th and finish around April 24. We have set schoolwide achievement goals and growth goals of attaining a three or higher for this year. We're having a motivational pep rally to inspire students to do their best on the test. We're going to do that tomorrow. Sports AO is getting underway in their upcoming tournaments. I think we're in Sparta this Saturday. Um, school improvements. Our auditorium received a new
021stage built by Mr. Michael Miller and his crew. We had some unsafe stairs. They were torn out and new steps were added. Our PTO will be sponsoring an end of the year splash into summer. This will include mini water inflatables. And then also the PTO purchased a new Wildcat screen for the entrance of our building. the end of the road. And then our community engagement, our front porch got a facelift over spring break with help from the Klay County Sheriff's Department. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Any questions? Mr. Max, teachers are finishing up the final reviews over their subject content with their students getting ready for TTF. Uh we will be having a teacup pep rally tomorrow to fire our students up for next week. Our girls softball and boys baseball teams are still doing
022well and some and both are playing tonight. Uh on Thursday, April 24th, we will have our first STEM night. TTU is also donating a planetarium for the night and sending someone to actually help conduct the tours and show the students and parents the constellations in there. And I think they're also purchase the school planetarium. So, we're pretty excited about that and we have field days coming up as soon as Thanks, Sarah. Any questions for Mr. You do have a copy in your packet of coach D's principal report there. He is attending a cheerleading banquet. Could not be here tonight. Mr. Well, TCAP and EOCC test as some principles have mentioned start Monday and they're going to go probably through about 10 days. So, pray for everybody that we get through it and do well. All
023the spring sports are in full swing. Um, all the teachers and the teacher assistants and all staff everywhere have really been working hard to get ready for those tests. We had our TCAT signing day for our students today. Miss Misty and uh Mr. Robbie and several of our people went over there. We had how many students, Miss Misty, that did that. At least 20. I was thinking around between 15 and 20. Perfect. Perfect. And we want to congratulate Whit Kascowski, our second Klay County High School student that's got a perfect 36 ACT score. That is unheard of. We're really proud of that. and all of our we've got so many children that have done so well. We're really proud. 36 right here. Pardon? Correct. Yes, sir. Mr. Whit Kaslecowski. Yes. Any questions for Miss Monroe?
024Is there any other business that needs to be considered before the board at this time? Motion to adjourn. Second. All in favor? I