001All right. Um, let's call our April 2025 Federal City School Board meeting to order. Our chairman, Mr. Clark, is out again tonight, so I'm going to be filling in for him once again. So, first thing on our agenda, oh, and we are meeting at Ralph Asin School. Um, this month we go to a different school each month, try to get out of the office and go to a different school. So, this month we are at Ralph Asin. So, the first thing is the approval of the agenda. And board members, you should have gotten a copy in your packets. If you take a second to look over the agenda, and I'd entertain a motion for approval if there are no changes, additions, or deletions, usually So move. Okay. Second. Second. All right. All in favor of
002approving the agenda, say I. I. All oppose say nay. Okay. The agenda has been approved. All right. If you would please stand for the pledge of allegiance. We have a flag right back in front of us. Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. And we had um the minutes from our last meeting, our March 3rd regular board meeting. Um they have been submitted um in your packets as well. If anyone has any questions or changes to those minutes, if not, I will entertain a motion for approval of the March 3rd regular meeting, regular board meeting minutes. Okay, we have a motion. We have a second. Second. Okay. All in favor
003say I. I. All oppose say nay. Okay. We have the approval of our March 3rd regular board meeting minutes. Also in your packets were the um dispersements for March. If you would, if you haven't already, take a second to look at those dispersements. We'll answer any questions you may have. So move. All right, we've got a motion to approve the March dispersements. Do I have a second? Second. All right, all in favor say I. I. All oppose say nay. All right, we have the approval of the March dispersements. Next, we have Miss Baker with our principal reports. Good evening. I'll start out with our current enrollment. So in preK we have 64, kindergarten 109, first grade 87, 2 second grade 68, third grade 78, fourth grade 91, fifth grade 71 for a total of 568.
004This last Friday, we had our second annual women's greeting um here at the school. So we had women from the community come out. So, we would like to thank everyone who took time to come out and greet the kids as they were getting off the buses and out of their cars. It's a it's a nice way to start out the day and we look forward to doing that again next year. Um, as we mentioned, we had our therapy dog, Henry is his name. He started full-time at Ralph Asins. So, if you come by and visit, you'll see him walking around the halls. Um, and he is his primary handler is Miss Britney Barnett and secondary handler is Miss Jennifer Walker. and we're just excited to have him here at Ralph Atkins. We begin our TECAP
005testing tomorrow at Ralph Asins and it will last through next week. Um we appreciate everyone who came out this morning for our little parade to cheer on our third through fifth graders. They've been working really hard and we know it's going to show off as they start tomorrow. So that's what I have for Alaskans. I have the report from Dr. West for the middle school. his enrollment numbers. Sixth grade has 66 students. Seventh grade 60, 8th grade 74 for for a total of 200. They started their TECAP testing today and they will test over the next three weeks. Progress reports will be going home tomorrow from um Fable Middle School students and there are a few important dates that are coming up in May. On May the 3rd, they will have eighth grade night in
006the um gym for the eighth graders. On May 13th, the fifth graders from Asens will actually go over during the day to visit the middle school. And then on May 19th, they will have their Tiger breakout day. And then from Mr. Parin for Fable High School, their enrollment, seniors 93, juniors 78, sophomores 70, freshman 62 for a total of 303. They had their prom on Saturday, April 5th, and I know I saw the pictures. Um, the students looked really good and they had that event at Evergreen at Gunter Hollow. Their EOC testing started today as well. Um, he said their first day went well. Their um, testing schedule can be found on the Facebook page and he also emailed that out to the parents and students on the week at a glance. They would like
007to say a special thank you to Miss Michelle Mitchell. She has had over 70 students fill out their FASA form, which is a 10% increase in the students from the previous year. They are already starting to work to get students um their schedules for the next school year. So, they've started that and they have their spring sports which are in full swing. Um I know they have their soccer senior night which is going to be Tuesday, April 29th at 5:30. And then the softball senior night will start at 4:30 PM on May the 1. So that's what the high school has come up. Thank you. Thank you very much. Always busy in April and May. All right. Um so in accordance with board policy 1.404, members of the public who are making comments and have
008given the board advanced notice, um it is their time to speak. But I don't think we had anybody that wanted to speak. No one requested. Okay. For the policy. All right. Supervisors, anyone have a report tonight? Report. Well, we appreciate your attendance. You're all everyone's always welcome to provide a report, but I appreciate your attendance and interest in the meeting. So, thank y'all for being here. Um, they've been busy as well. Got lots of things going on. Um, of course, Claudia was very she kind of was the lead on getting the therapy dog in and uh we're very pleased with that. And Miss Jean has been working extra put a lot of effort into uh helping us shore up different positions and uh putting our casting our nets far and wide uh to recruit the
009best talent we can for open positions. I can share that we have two of our pair professionals that are enrolled in UT plays and um we'll be supporting them this next year and they will be earning they have a four-year degree they'll be earning their sped degree within a year. So that's very UT place has been a great uh program that we've worked with. So we've got two that'll be earning that special ed and they're with us they've been with us this year they'll be with us next year as pair of professionals in the supporting sped students. So, we're we're happy to have have that because it's hard to find sped teachers. It is for I mean, everyone in this room's aware of how difficult it is and how high demand uh special education licenses
010are. Uh but for the people watching at home, um that's one of the most high need, high demand positions uh to fill. It's really a good thing when we can have a couple of people going through to help assist our size, make sure we're on top of providing our best services to the students with special needs. It's really good thing. I appreciate your efforts. So, that'll take care of supervisor's reports. All right, Miss Williams, if you go over our March 2025 financial reports. Okay. Um, these were emailed earlier to you and these are year-to- date revenues and expenditures through the month of March and there are just for your review and I will entertain any questions you may have. Okay. Anyone have any questions for Miss Williams? All right. Thank you, mayor. All right. Committee
011reports, facilities, and transportation. Yes, ma'am. Uh, I've got quite a lot to bring up this evening, so I'll try to work through everything as quickly as possible and do this efficiently. Uh, the first thing I'd like to mention is our Ralph Asins, the entry capital project uh that opened for bids last well a little over a week ago and they uh the bids came in a little higher than we were anticipating but still within budgetable range. Um, so to to make everything as easy as possible, the construction bids uh over a million dollars. The paving bid was we're thinking we're going to save up the difference and more because the paving uh our projection on paving is going to be way less than what was budgeted for that project. So, all things are going to
012wash and um I would like uh permission for us to go ahead and get everybody on board. Uh so, I'd like for the board to vote to approve uh me beginning the signing contracts and beginning the capital project for the uh the changing and uh upgrading of the entrance to Ralph Basket School. Okay. So, move. All right. We got a motion. We got a second. Second. All right. All in favor of approval approval of the Rapasin Capital project say I. All oppose say nay. All right. So approved. That's great. Um, the next item I'd like to mention, um, I've been speaking with Jeff Deon about the property across from the middle school that, um, joins our the property that the parcel that we purchased. Um, he's willing to sell us that property for $240,000. Um,
013that is a very reasonable um, sum and a manageable request for us. I think it would be in our interest to acquire that property. I do want to make the board aware that um asking our attorney or about title search, there does seem to be an old restriction placed on that property where the use needs to be professional office use. Um that being said, in consultation with the attorney, they said that um it should not be an issue. Um considering that the city and the county, we can get a letter from them saying it's good. And the last heir, um we can request them to modify or amend that or to drop that. Um but regardless, um it'd be a good property for us to have. So, um, if we can't use it for the
014primary ideas that we do have, we have plenty of professional people who need office space to be able to utilize it. So, what I would like is for the board to entertain um a vote that we would p I want to judge your interest in purchasing this property with the restriction that we would be able to um have that restriction modified. That would be my request. I think that's reasonable. So, All right, we have a motion. Second. Second. Okay. All in favor of approval of the purchase of the Deon property say I. All oppose say nay. All right. It has been approved. Go ahead with the purchase. Okay. Thank you so much. I appreciate y'all's consideration of those. You can tell it's been really busy in facilities and transportation. We've also um Last week we
015had a meeting with the FEMA project um for a pre pre-bid meeting and we had a great deal of interest. Um the multi-purpose room was full of people. So at least three very capable interested biders. Um more than that likely, but uh I feel good about the prospect that we'll be able to get a good bid with this project as we come closer to our bid date. I believe it's May 6th off the top of my head, but um that was encouraging. I want to let y'all know where we are with that. Uh we do have on the finance end an approval uh for an invoice for the architectural services. Um this is the second large um approval that we will ask for. And then uh this does go in I believe in your packets
016as you read it uh you'll be able to determine uh we'll write a check for the total amount and then the reimbursements will come in so that the bottom amount is what we will effectively pay on that which when you read it is pretty exciting. So want to make everyone aware of that and that that'll end my facilities and transportation report. All right. All right. Next, we have finance committee. And we have a a lot of things to approve tonight from the finance committee. Yes. I figure you want to ask for the actual approval. Okay. You want me to? Okay. So per um Eric's discussion on invoice number one the JVHM um I would ask your approval to proceed in paying this invoice. Okay. I move to approve um the JBHM invoice number one for
017their architectural services through construction for the FEL city FEL city schools gymnasium safe room DR-4514-004-R get a second mouthful it's a big project all right we have a motion and a second all in favor of approval of invoice number one for JBHM say I. All oppose say nay. All right, we have been approved. All right, next um for the finance committee um you should have in your packets um the teacher and principal salary scale for fiscal year 2025 and 2026. Take a second to look at that. We'll entertain any questions or comments you may have about that. This is a 5% increase from last year. Just raise the scale 5%. I make a motion to approve the teachers and principal salary scale for fiscal year 2526. Okay, we have a motion. Second. Second. Okay. All
018right. We have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. All oppose say nay. All right. Approval of teacher and salary scale for fiscal year 202526 has been approved. Next on the agenda for approval is the systemwide salary scale for FY2526. Anybody has any questions or comments on the scale. I'm sorry. Go ahead. I don't have any question. Oh. All right. We have a motion and a second. Second. All right. All in favor say I. I. All oppose say nay. All right. We have approval of the systemwide salary scale for FY 2526. Next on the agenda is the support staff salary scale for fiscal year 2526. Any questions or comments on that one? If not, I'll entertain a motion for approval. Make a motion. Okay. We have a motion. Second. Second. All right.
019All in favor say I. I. All right. All oppose say nay. All right. We have approval of the support staff salary scale for FY2526. Next we have the approval of the wrath baskin supplements for fiscal year 2526 and I think there was just one for that one. Take a quick look at that. You have any questions? You enterain a motion for approval. Make a motion. All right. Got a motion. Second. Second. All right. All in favor say I. I. All oppose say nay. All right. We have the approval of the RFAS and supplements for fiscal year 2526. Next we have the approval for the Febable Middle School supplements fiscal year 2526. There are no questions. I'll entertain a motion for approval. Make a motion. All right, we have a motion. Second. And a second. All
020right. All in favor say I. All oppose say nay. All right. We have approval of the FMS supplements for fiscal year 2526. All right. Now we have approval for the federal high school supplements for fiscal year 2526. There are no questions or comments. I'll entertain a motion for approval. Make a motion. All right. Second. All right. We have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. I. All oppose say nay. All right. We have approval of the FHS supplements for fiscal year 2526. All right. Next, we have approval of the general purpose budget for fiscal year 2026. You guys want to take a second to look at that? have any questions or comments about the FY26 budget? Make a motion. All right, I have a motion. Second. All right, we have a motion
021and a second. All in favor say I. I. All oppose say nay. Okay, we have approval of the general purpose budget for fiscal year 26. Next in your packets, we have approval of the cafeteria budget for fiscal year 2026. There are no questions or concerns. I'll entertain a motion for approval. Make a motion. All right. I have a motion. Second and a second. All in favor say I. I. All oppose say nay. All right. We have approval of the cafeteria budget for fiscal year 2026. All right, I think this may be our last one. All right, the last for the finance committee is approval for the capital budget. I'm sorry, capital projects budget for fiscal year 2026. If there are no questions or concerns, I will entertain a motion for approval. Make a motion. We
022have a motion. [Applause] Got a second. All in favor say I. I. All oppose say nay. All right. We have approval of the capital projects budget for fiscal year 2026. All right. Next we have our insurance and policy committee. I just leaned over. I was like, do I do it somewhere else? Just have a few tonight. And I make a motion that we approve policy 5.32, the sick leave on the first reading. Okay, we have a motion. Second and a second. All in favor say I. I. All oppose say nay. All right, we have approval of of policy 5.302 302 sickly sick leave on the first reading. The next one is I make a motion for policy for approval of policy 5.701 substitute teachers on the first reading. Second. Okay, we have a motion and
023a second. All in favor say I. I. All oppose say nay. All right. Policy 5.701 substitute teachers has been approved on first reading. And the last one asking for approval of I350 repeating high school courses on the first reading. Thank you. All right, we have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. I. All oppose say nay. Okay, we have approval of I 350 repeating high school courses on the first reading. All right, Mr. Jones. Okay. Um, next up on the agenda, we have the approval of a resolution affirming the intent to participate in section four of the Education Freedom Act of 2025, which provides a onetime $2,000 bonus to teachers. Um, this is the copy of this resolution is a draft um copy that was put together uh with a lot of
024consideration from a lot of different sources. And I believe uh the draft is appropriate for our purposes specifically to affirm the intent to participate in section 4. All right. I move we approve the resolution affirming intent to participate in section four of the Education Freedom Act providing onetime $2,000 bonus to teachers. Can I get a second? Second. All right. All in favor say I. I all oppose say nay. Okay, we have approval of the resolution. All right. Um to end my report, I'd just like to tell all the little tigers and big tigers who are about to go through testing, uh I wish them all well. I know they're going to make us proud. We got a lot of wonderful young people across the system and I just want them to know we're completely behind
025them and uh looking forward to seeing the great results that they have at the end of testing. So we got pretty weather for it. I think it's going to be a good year for it. So that's all I have. All right. All right. We have um on the agenda approval of a resolution to make um May the 1st teacher appreciation day. And I'll just read a little bit of the resolution. Um it says, "Whereas the teachers of Favville City Schools have dedicated themselves to nurturing and education educating the youth of our community with commitment, care, and professionalism. These educators have worked tirelessly to create an environment conducive to learning and personal growth, ensuring that each student receives the attention and support necessary to succeed. Um it goes on to say um their dedication extends beyond
026the classroom through involvement in extracurricular activities, personal mentorship and community engagement, enriching the lives of their students and the vitality of our community as a whole. Therefore, be it resolved that the FEL board of education expresses its heartfelt appreciation and gratitude to the teachers of FEL City Schools for the unwavering dedication and outstanding contributions to education. So, I move that we approve to make May 1st teacher appreciation day. Second. Second. All right. All in favor of approving May 1st as teacher appreciation day, say I. I. All right. All oppose say nay. All right, we have approved May 1st as teacher appreciation day and we definitely appreciate everything that they do for our system and our kids. All right, so the last thing on our agenda is um each year we need to schedule a work
027session for our director's evaluation. Our next regular scheduled board meeting is on May 5th at Beville Middle School at 5:00 PM. Um, I propose that we have the evaluation meeting right before that meeting at 4:30 if that works with everybody's schedules. 4:30 on May 5th. Is that fine? Does anybody have a scheduling conflict? You don't know. We'll go ahead and schedule um May 5th at 4:30 um for the director's evaluation and then immediately after at 5:00 p.m. we'll roll right into our regular scheduled schoolboard meeting. Okay. Does anybody else have anything? Any questions, comments, anything? All right. If anyone doesn't have anything, we'll appreciate you being here with us and um taking the time with us tonight. And this meeting shall stand a journey.