001Good evening and welcome to the May 27 board of education. If you please stand to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you very much. Remember, you do have an agenda uh with some personnel items and some budget items. If you would take a minute to review that and when you're done, if you have a motion for approval. So move second. Thank you. Any comments, concerns, questions? All those in favor say I. I carries it. We are here tonight to uh celebrate some achievements of not only some athletes but some academic as well. Uh these are some wonderful accomplishments by these young students we have and uh us the board we like giving these
002out. Uh these are one of the highlights of our year and so thank you all for joining us. Thank you for being here and thank you for working so hard throughout the year. Uh, at this time I will turn it over to Mr. Bowen for our senior male and senior female athlet. I came in tonight not knowing I was going to do this and then I saw the names and I said I know these kids. So that's always a really good thing. Um, I I don't think did not show up. I haven't seen it. Okay. Well, then I'm just going I'm going to mention Dellayia Roden who I've known for several years and just an outstanding athlete in various sports and also just a really nice person to deal with. Sorry she didn't make it
003tonight. This guy I know real well. LJ Seal here if you'll come up please about three years now back in the day and it's been wonderful to see his progress as an athlete and it's what really makes it good is at the same time he's juggling Mr. Myers band obligations fantastic. Congratulations on that. So I have a certificate for you and uh then we've got the serious flight here. 1 2 3 [Music] What was your highlight of the year? [Music] our freshman year. All right. Um, so I've known this kid for I've known of him for a long time because I graduated from high school with his mother and so I've gotten to see him, you know, grow up from the Facebook post of when he was just a baby to now. Um, and he
004uh is a multis-port athlete called Connor. Come on, Mr. You got 25 chick awards. You get a nice certificate. You get that. So, which sports did you do this year exactly? Uh, baseball and basketball. Baseball and basketball. Baseball is like a year- round thing for you 12 months out of the year, rain or shine, snow, hail, matter, and basketball is anytime the gym's open. So, it's good to have this young man uh achieve these things. and uh be given this award. You can come closer. So, you can't say graduate. What's your highlight of the year? until the end of the year. Congratulations. Wow. I've also known this young lady for a while. This is the 2024 2025 chick outstanding female freshman athlete Abigail clubs. He's also multi-port, right? What? Volleyball, soccer, track should be up
005here. I can't be seen behind them. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. I asked you a question. What is the highlight from the year? Um, going states for track. Yes. Congratulations on that as well. Thank you. Nice job. Now, the board has allowed me a little bit of latitude uh since we are not going to be here for the student awards at the high school. Uh a couple academic things to hand out, Mr. Banks. All right, Abigail. So, I have a really easy job in that I only have to talk about one person, but I have four words to get to. So, I'm going to ask you some really hard questions. You ready? Okay. So, first award is for first place in the regional social studies fair. Would you mind? Would you tell us what your
006project is on? Uh, the Great Barrier Reef. The Great Barrier Reef. Yeah. And you also were at the state level. You were honorable mention in with the same project, right? Congratulations. It's awesome. And then we usually don't see this, but she participated in the science fair as well as a social studies fair. Often times students pick which one. Do you have a preference? Science or social studies? I like doing social. So now I have to ask you what was your science fair project about? Um, what was it called? Radishes. It was a long time. Yeah, it was a long time. The way light with light and radishes figure out um what color of light a radish grows best on earth. What's radish's favorite color? Find out. Oh, it was red. Red. And then the last
007one is the West Virginia young writers, third place, grades 9 through 10. And I have to ask you what you wrote about. Uh I wrote about the I wrote an ocean story. It was about a little fish who went on a journey through the ocean. It was better. Yes. Well, congratulations. All four awards. Okay. Even though I didn't get one. Your name's big enough. Congratulations. Thank you. You can sit down. Shake your hand. You're not getting called back up. [Music] My family was busy during prayer time and it was a lot of touch and go in our house to say the least. Well, I survived how I um but uh the youngest in our family, Nathan Close, one up, he was regional social place, second place. And what was the name of your project? It
008was like a Lego play. Lego play. Well, and that is what? Um, yeah. The Danish name for Lego. Yeah, the toy Legos. Yes. Legos. Did the judges ask you a lot of hard questions? Not that hard, but they were hard. Not that hard. Was there another one project? Yeah. Yeah. Good job. [Music] One more smile. Good job. Congratulations. And another one, our family also participated in the social studies fair. That was close. You got third place for the project of the trip down. It's cold. See how this was touched off the project. Once it was over, we put it away in the closet. We didn't burn it. We sell that. Anyway, did you have any more questions from the judge? No. No. Did they like your project? I think so. award. Did you have fun
009doing it? Yeah. Okay. That's That's [Music] so They don't pick on you. I still have my eighth grade social science fair project. Do you remember what it was on? It was on braille. It was two boards of plywood with braille letters and contact. Did you get first place? No. [Laughter] None of the things that you all achieved tonight happen just with no effort and just come with ease. Each of them take a lot of work. Each of them take a lot of your time. Each of them take dedication. um they don't come easy. And so anytime you can take a moment that uh relish in these appreciation, these achievements that you have, um use them a little bit as just fuel to push yourself forward. Don't stop. Don't stop where you are at. Always set
010another goal after this and keep pushing yourself forward. Um the more you do that, the more you will feel empowered and a success in what you have done for yourself, what you can achieve going forward. So thank you again for spending some time with us tonight. Thanks for coming in and uh spending a few minutes just to uh let us celebrate what you all have done. Uh you're welcome to stay the rest of the meeting if you wish to. You're we have a couple things, but if not, you're welcome to go and have a free evening and enjoy your summer. LJ, enjoy your graduation. Take care. [Music] Gentlemen, no sound. You guys or is it just one person talking about our communication students? I I'll kick this one off if you don't mind. Um so
011we've been working on a communication proposal for the board for for months now. Um met with principles a couple times to talk about what communication we'd like to see from school to home and we have settled on Dojo as prek through 5 tool and uh for schooly from 6 through 12. That was a pretty easy decision. Um and once that decision gets approved hopefully next time next at our next meeting um that will be how we communicate. Now we are already doing that. But what we're trying to eliminate and I know that uh we're going to get into this in a few minutes is we don't want our staff to have to use their own private cell phones to communicate to parents students. Nor do we want social media apps to be used to communicate
012back and forth to parents. And we want to be transparent with our communication which is uh this app which we're uh recommending for use for extracurricular activities is very transparent. We want communication not just to go to individual students. We want that to go to groups of students and have parents included as well. Um, a big part of this is designed to protect our students and to protect our staff so that we're all on the same page using the same communication tool and that everybody's communication again is transparent. So, Mr. Meyers came to and Mr. Bringer came to a a principal meeting recently as well as a committee. I think it was our strategic planning committee and presented this and I had asked them to come tonight and present the same thing to the board
013so that you can get a feel for what we're recommending and this is called the band app. Thank you Mr. Myers for and Mr. Brineer for being here on your birthday today. Okay, so um the mand came uh it's fairly new within the past three years. Um this came to me from multiple bands around the state who have adopted this. Before the band app for my band, I was using uh Remind 101. Um with Remind is a text message service. A lot of coaches, a lot of uh aspects uh bands and extra players use them. Um but I was having a lot of issues with Remind. So I was looking for a new platform and this came to me from a few band director friends of mine. So the band app is a secure app.
014Um, it is educationally run and what it is is it's pretty much just uh a lot of my band parents have called it Facebook for education. Um, looks identical. It's pretty much identical. It's very easy to use. And these are all of my groups here on the screen. You can see uh we did the Goosebumps musical this past year. So, I created a band for them. Uh, my honor society is right here. This is my choir. And this right here is our band. So there it is. Go. When you first uh click on your band or whichever program you're working on, that's your homepage and your forum. So uh we just did a parade this past weekend. So we had the pictures and the videos posted uh with this. Actually, Mr. Linton is our new
015drum major for next year. That's right. Leon Linton is our new drum major. So, I posted that when that happened. And any anything that I put on there for our news, any announcements, it goes on to that first page. Next page over is our albums. So, I allow my parents, my students, myself to post any pictures of our events, any videos of the events. They're allowed to put it on there. Um, one aspect about the band app is the admin or actually Chad um has the ability not to allow posting. So, he can do inerson posters. He can just let the coach post. You don't have to allow parents or students to chat back and forth and post. So, you can see on the album post and this makes a lot easier for me because
016I don't have to go out and find pictures when it comes to yearbook time. I can just download all the pictures sent into the yearbook teacher and we have all the pictures. So, it just makes it a lot easier for me. Uh events. This is my calendar. Calendar works just like any other calendar except it is it does talk to Google calendar and you're able to export it and import other calendars. Uh with Chad working it uh with athletics, he will uh be the admin of all sports and he can import and export all of his calendars to each other. So he can export all the baseball counter from his master. He can import football from his master to the coach. To the coach. Yes. Yes. And again that could come down to now uh
017with this um within my band program. Uh I have master of the calendar. Um I do not give access to calendar. So uh Mr. Linton is uh this Mr. Linton is a member of our band. So our band app he cannot create things in our calendar. He can add things in the posts. He can He's allowed to uh add pictures, but he can't change calendar. Can he RSVP to an event? Yes, you can if you wish. I I I have that turned off, but that is an option. When you go to create an event, you can put an RSAP on. Coaches will want that. Okay. But that is an option. Next, you can add files and attachments. So, like if in football, um this right here is the program for the last competition we did.
018Oh, Erin, I'm sorry. I downloaded it. Okay. But this was a calendar for the uh for the last competition we did. Uh and I put that on there so everybody could see who was going first, where we were in the lineup. Um but as with football, they can put plays in there. um basketball. They can put plays into this to see uh I add music. So as soon as they hear the show music in under files, uh you can add any file you need. Get out of this. Sorry. Aaron's staring at me really hard right now. I'm so sorry. And the next one is our members. So uh you can see all of your members at one spot. Uh with me I am the uh admin and then I have created co-admin. Uh so my
019co-admin are my uh officers and my bandworers. Um they have different rankings in uh in with regular members. So my uh my co-admin can make posts where regular managers cannot. Um and you can switch out your co-admin throughout the years with joining. It's by QR code. You can send them text messages. You can send them emails. I do QR code um in my band handbook that I gave to all the eighth graders this morning. Uh there's a QR code. They just scan it and if they join band and they already join into our band app, uh we can do the same thing. Chad and I have talked about that. Do the same thing right through our coach. So the coach was giving it out to the players and they join the app. There is a
020chat feature which is right here. And you can give access to your students to chat back and forth. Um parents to chat back and forth or you can turn that off. You can turn off certain people from chatting. Um you can use it as just a message board. There's a lot of different options here. Um the great thing about the chat is you cannot delete it. It's not deletable. Um so a student if they put something on there, they can't delete it. They can't pull it back and I can see. So every chat is you're able to see as the admin. But you can take it off as the admin. So if somebody says something inappropriate, I can. But usually if something goes on in the chat inappropriately um I just delete that person. But
021you can like you can basically hide a host. Yes, I can hide things for other people. Now these here uh all these chats are here not everybody can see. You're looking at the admin page. I can see everything. So and most of these are just uh messages to me. Um trying to find one here. So, how is this different than Facebook? It's run educationally and secure. It's invite only. It's invite only. Yes. Um, this right here, uh, this was a, uh, group chat that I created for an honor band with the students and the parents. So whenever I sent a message out to uh while we're at the other band, the parents also saw everything not put out. Um and all the students got to see, hey, we're meeting here this time once your band
022lets out. We're meeting here. Let's go to dinner. And the parents would see the same thing. The coach's admin conversation, uh will they be able to have desktop access? There is a mobile form. Uh, this works mobile and desktop. And I did bring the the iPad to show you mobile phone. I have I'm on I'm on another team that has it and actually uh we have an athletic team already that has the coaches signed up for it and had sent it out to the students and they've already started rostering on that. Um, so follow question is that is there going to be one school page that all the sports then go to that we talk about Chad will have football, basketball, soccer, and they'll he'll have the admin over top of all that. That is
023a Chad question. It'll be a situation the principal Yeah. will be in charge of it and every program in our school will use it and we'll communicate through it. So I guess more of my question is with all the more features I assume are turned on if you have the paid version of it versus the free version. There is no paid version. There is no paid version. Okay. So thank you. That's new news to me. The events that you put on there, they are able to be put on by the desktop and by mobile. Yes. And whenever a coach sets up a group, a team that coaches the admin is Chad the Chad and principal admin now too. the the way it should work or the way Chad and I talked about is Chad creates
024the page and then each like Chad will create the football page. Okay. So he is the admin. So under uh members you'll have the little green crown and so he is the admin and then you add your coaches your assistant coaches and they become co-admin so you can switch those out with every for everything and but he create he if he creates it he is the admin and um nothing will get past his perview. Okay. So his home his home page, right, will have all of his sports right here. Okay. And then with like um Coach Eddie, if this was football right here, Coach Eddie would have access to this football, but not basketball. And but Chad could have coach Eddie be able to import or Chad actually import the schedule. Correct. Yeah. From the
025calendar. Correct. Right. But the plan is need to call the coaches and say, "Hey, how do you want to set this up?" And collaboratively, you know, build this thing. What do you want? You know, talk to our parents and then we'll set it up, you know, it'll be a process. Okay. And then they can go in and create the QR code for get your team and all that stuff. Um, I like that it's user friendly. uh you know I've seen Snapchat and group me and hey yah and all that and did some talking before Mr. about this and he sat down. Uh it's super user friendly. Uh it's a great tool to communicate obviously not just with the coaches but parents. You can have a calendar. You can add calendar Google calendar to it. We
026talked about you can when he puts something on the calendar, it automatically comes to mind. So you can link your home calendar to it which is a huge feature for me. It is. It's very nice. But it's it's also a tool like we're working on right now. You know, I'm putting the summer calendar in the wait room and flex practices and all that. And then I want to type or I've got a typed t give it to the coaches. You just put it in here and you're done. Yeah. And you can and if you change it, it updates like correctly. And that's that's another tool. you know, now we kind of text, hey, never got done a group text officials, coaches, you know, it's canled. Um, you know, uh, email, we send in the weekly
027confirmation this came in immediately. You can update on the calendar and then it'll go to the app on the phone and you can see who saw it, saw the message. Yeah. Which is a huge messages and you can see who saw it, how many read it. Um so nobody can say oh I didn't see that right there. Um and another aspect is uh at our last meeting uh Miss Painter uh was talking about we can add bus drivers to this. So when bus when uh when coaches are away and they send the bus driver a message they can deliver about uh phone numbers. We have to do it. That was Cam's idea by the way. So I'm going to give her that a selfish idea. text at 9:30. Any other questions? Okay. I just had
028one if I can ask question like let's say that years down the road, many many years down the road, Mr. Renegger is not the athletic director anymore. How hard is it to many many many years down the road um how hard is it? Yeah. How hard is it to uh would you have to start all over again or were you are you Honestly, I don't know the answer to that. Um I'm I'm not sure if we can transfer. Well, why couldn't it why couldn't he could just add another admin? You can add another full admin. You can add I do know you can add another full admin, but I'm not sure if I can just fully transfer me, you know, transfer over to another director and be like I'm link by your well link by
029your I haven't signed in with my email from my account but like if I make Justin a uh a admin on his sign into his account mine well that'll be easy for you guys to test just give him access to yours and yeah I can't keep except for you can't lose them well I guess you could Those are some of the first questions I was getting out of out of the gate were, are we going to have one master account for all sports? And that was my hope that we're going to end up doing that. So, that's great to hear. And we already have multiple coaches on board with this. Uh just, you know, get getting feelers out there. Hey guys, we're leaning towards this. It's a good thing because I'm telling you, just dealing
030with most the issues this school year has been by communication and just that's the bottom line to it. And I think the coaches are on board with that. You know, the best thing that ends up happen is everybody turn their notifications on. If you have no notifications on, people aren't going to see this. That's the worst thing. That's why it just takes engaged parents, engaged students to be aware of that. This is where the information is going to be. So, if they have the app, so if somebody puts in tonight's game was cancelled, they get a ding or whatever. They will unless they turn off their notifications. I assume I assume it's the same thing as other apps. Yes, you can you can decline your notifications turn off and you won't hear it. You won't
031see it until you I have mine muted like it doesn't make a sound but it still pops up. I mean I still have it so it sends a notification like I just got one. So um but the RSVP feature is what I was referring to. coaches ask to their athletes to are you riding the bus are you going to make an RSVP to there RSVP even practice and then you don't have to keep your attendance sheet for practice even you already have you have 12 practice I was attended here um along with this another thing uh that we were talking with um with notifications before the band app I was answering the same question five six times at one Uh, now I have to say one thing. Do you have a band? And and that's
032not my kid. That's my parents. You know, Coach Bill came up to me like, "Hey, do you deal with the band?" Yeah. Done. So, and communication wise, this has fixed 99% of our communication issues within our band. So, it's an asset. I'd like to just mention one other thing. So we obviously you can see how this is going to create consistency with how we communicate to parents and students. Um the expectation just to be clear is that everybody will use it. Not that you know you can choose to use it. It's that you will use it and that we provide the right training for our coaches and extracurricular coaches too to to be able to use this. I want to talk a minute about what I meant by protect because unfortunately in this area in
033recent years we've had situations where students and adults are communicating in an inappropriate manner and adults are getting fired and students are being put in very difficult situations because we don't have because they don't have a way an expectation on how to communicate and I think it's up to us. I think it's our mission to be mean be uh in prevention mode because we are aware that these things happen. So what are we going to do? This is one way that we can help prevent that by um requiring our coaches to use it but also giving them the support that they need to be able to use it. And by being super user friendly, I think a coach can jump on here and really learn it very quickly. Um and then Mr. Brener, Mr. den
034hopefully, you know, if there's a coach who's just like, you know what, I'm not using I'm going to still text that and we address that and say, "Sorry, this is how we do this." So, that's just a couple additional messages I wanted to share because I do think it's our uh our you know, we have to be more preventive pretty we have to be preventative here because we're aware of things that happen in uh in recent times. So that question the question the answer to your question is yes uh you can take attendance you have checkin and checkouts um it's right here uh so if you have something like if you're going to go be on a bus and the kids can check in they go to the first post that says the attendance whatever
035this is and they get to check in uh they just push a button and check in and that goes to your account that they've checked in that's right here under like my admin post. It's my attendance. You also have to-do list. So, if I have to put something in, hey, make sure you do this before you go. You can put that on there and post your to-do list. If you would just pick anything for me and I'm curious on how that would respond on a creator. That's what mine looks like. calendar in depth for the band concert. It was the 9th and I put time and it goes to my group calendar. I can tell which calendar to go to. Go to all calendars. Can you click on the little three dots? I'm trying to
036figure if we could put a um just curious on how you add a tennis for that. Somebody saying so we have practice coming up for Friday for basketball and I understand what you're saying. Okay. Okay. So, I'm future. I got you. Attendance right there. Title. Tight. My kids are going to get really confused when I post this. Come through as a thing. Here. Yeah. Turn it around. Turn it off. Okay. So, uh, with this select all 72, I got really confused. You're fine. I'm going to get a bunch of messages. You don't need You don't need to click. Well, you have to attach that. I'll keep going. Um, response options. Present only, present, absent. uh present blade less than present only attendance manager which I'm the creator show attendance programs start date. So, whatever date
037uh let's say tomorrow right there say what time should do 900 p.m. You should do 7 a.m. I think you should do I think you should do 5 a.m. That would upset. Let's go al deadline would be that you know whatever uh five minutes after so they still sign in and your time zone show attendance progress attach. All right. So there's my attendance here. And then we post your events if you would. It's not on the calendar though. It takes uh it should be instant. It's on my post but on the calendar. So that'll be have to be added an event as well. So if I add an event, this isn't something I've done before. Add an event. Those words are small. I'm sorry. Title. All right. Uh start and location invite all repeat reminder.
038There's your RSVP. Did you click that? Yes, there we go. Okay. RCP dead date time allow maybe RSVP options there different options for RSVP but I do not have you're fine. You're answering my question there. So what it is is you import your calendar in. If you want the RSVP, you're going to have to edit your practice time and your game for your attendees to be able to show that they are coming or not coming. Yes. Well, you can have the RSVP at the time of the event, right? Yes. Except for counter imports. Counter reports go back in and do you can still add your RCP though. That's just what Yes. You might try refreshing the page under your calendar. I don't think you created yet. No, I didn't create the event. Oh, I see.
039I just created the attendance on the main main page. It seems like there would be a way to click it as right now. Four people already see it. So, wait for chat. Chat's going to start blowing up the chat. That's what's he doing. That that that would be handy though for like u like your trip in June like get back on the bus by this time and everybody can have their travel buddy. Yes. If you were going out if you were going to a fundraiser like who is attending the event, who is not attending. Oh yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Just tracking digital tracking and things. Mhm. So I guess I have a a question. I can see maybe Um some parents chatting about this. Um so like baseball for instance, 30 some odd games that they
040played this spring. Uh a sports specific app that I'm fairly certain they use would be Game Changer. Game changer gives them the ability to live stream games. So, if you can't go, there's a parent there that is, you know, or a coach or somebody that's live streaming the game, people can watch um and sort of keep up with it wherever they are. Um, so if this replaces that, I I don't think it has that capability. have a live option. So then people are going to be questioning well why can't we do this or can we do this right as well as maybe it's not a communication amongst the players but even game changer keeps track of the kids stats it's how it's probably how they use to track their games and and all that so
041I guess that's kind of the question I have is if there's a sports specific technology that we're using Would they not be allowed to use that? I don't think so. We're just talking about live streaming live streaming the game or or you know keeping statistics tracking game and esport specific. They may exchange lines with other team in today's world that that may be the line whenever they go to Kaiser whenever they go to Frankfurt that's what even teams are using this I use it with seveny olds. is an impressive application that has gone down for baseball, softball, mainly there sports I know that have um so I don't know that answer completely whether or not they are doing that now but I think it's we actually a lot of schools are going to use huddle
042where you can live stream right and we need to do a better job selling that and making our parents and everyone more aware of it because it's a fantastic tool that they can use um and for example they can not only all of our games you can live stream but other schools so then in that app you can actually post a link can you not to the huddle this game is going live at this time it's it's a great way to there's another way to communicate hey we have that feature yeah this this does not have the live feature um so like when I again when I do honor bands I live stream our kids playing the honor bands But I live stream on our Facebook page. So I put that post and that link
043on the band app and so people can see it from that Facebook page. Okay. I think Mr. Bur's question is are we going to restrict that use of other apps? It certainly doesn't seem like that would be a need to restrict that. I mean I guess as long as I mean do they use that for communications? I mean does it have that feature in there as well? Probably. Yes. So, I mean that's the that's my question. Can you stream with it without the communication part of it? I'm not real familiar with the person. You can. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, and they could use it simply amongst the adults, amongst the parents, and leave the kids out of it. You know, I don't I don't communicate with the seven to 10 year olds on the team
044because they don't have cell phones unless their parents invite them in to to use that. We you know, you could have a policy or but I don't know how to police that specifically. I would say that back to the conversation, coaches need to communicate through our one source app. have any type of it's the same as keeping a book in sports like you're going to have the book at the baseball game instead of the book you would use game changer as the as your tool but this is still your communication your event conversation I I would not go through them either so I think we're talking about I think we're kind of narrowing down to what what we want to train our coaches on be to do so that we're consistent, you know, cuz soon
045as one coach goes one way and then the next season, it's different, then parents are going to be, what about this coach did that? So, I think, yeah, that's an important part of this. Get some feedback for this year, too. Honestly, get some feedback how this year goes, what the coaches are liking about it. We may find that band may not be work. No, it's not band may not be for sports. Band may not be for best for extra characters. I don't know but at least start going down this road starting a conversation where we have to go. Thank you. Thank you very much. Board members have a question. Hey Chad, you know how keeps adding time on to your tenure? That's why I was in Charleston this weekend. I'm just saying that it just
046keeps going. Thank you guys. Thank you. Have a good night. Happy birthday. Item six, budget hearing. Proposed budget for 2526. Uh the budget made available public inspection by notice of public hearing published by legal advertisement messenger. I don't see anyone anxious to speak about the budget. No, there was no comments. No comments. Board members, you wish to speak anything further about hearing. Hearing closed reports and communications. I do not want to take any of Mr. Rolling Thunder. So, I'm going to leave you I'm going to leave the whole state tracking up to you forever. Well, I'm going to need some help on Berkeley Springs. I'll get Berkeley when we get there, but I'll welcome either way. Um, beyond that, graduation went off. Great. Thank you very much to everybody for your muk boots that you
047put on and making that happen. [Music] Um, we're just busy at all. The school's got I guess middle school's trying to do a carnival and bunch of little events to close out the year. Playables down there at the high school for a day, too. Yeah, had some playables down there. They would It was cold and I didn't think the seniors would actually use a water slide, but tag on it they did. So, guess they had fun. Um just a a remarkable weekend as far as I was concerned. Went uh down there to help. I ended up being charged for a little while down there cuz Melinda was so busy finishing up graduation and all that. And I knew the paperwork route. So, and Helmick and I got that started just uh we took three kids,
048which is more than Papa often does. And uh um just the kids did a great job. Um Jocelyn Smith uh a sophomore um was all state as a a shot uh throwing the shot and u missed it by one place in the discus and u the neat thing about that is uh she's in single age. She's the uh top girl shot putter in in the state right now by by virtue of her her finished 31 ft or so. Just a really nice girl to meet. I I saw when we were up there at at Pawpaw, I was one of the last ones out the building. And here's a girl throwing. And I just I watched the disc and it was just smooth as silk and I said, "Oh, great throw." And immediately she oh somebody
049knows what he's well I know how I know what it looks like I can't coach it but just she's got a wonderful future I think and great support from her parents and the Tanaways um Shayla was three events and had two uh state championships and a runner up. Um she's immensely talented. I've known her since she was I think eighth grade and just to see the growth in her her personality and so much easier to deal with and everything. Just a sweet kid. Um Mar Marsh I think Marshall is seriously looking at her already and they should. uh she seems to be a really good scholar and of course she plays three sports up there and uh I you know Donnie uh Tanaway is uh one of one of these kids I referred to as
050a son I never had but I've known him since uh sophomore year and just to see the growth in him uh these kids have come from tough backgrounds um and Donnie learned that talent isn't just up, you know, he learned to work and we had a great senior year um runner up in cross country and um once again runner up in the mile. went 426. And if I'm not mistaken, other than uh one, I think that's probably the fastest anybody, including Lenny, I think I think I I think Donny's time was a little bit faster than than Lenny's school record back in the day before Chapman got it. Um 426, he improved by 6 seconds. He just lost to a kid who was better. you know, the kid ran 419 was the was also the
051same kid who beat him in cross country. And then we came back in the 800 and uh if there is such a thing in John Roland's vocabulary, and it basically isn't, he ran a perfect race. Uh they took all out like banshees. And if anybody knows, when when you're running a half mile and you go through the first quarter and you're in in the mid50s, it was fast. and I was a little bit scared. Um, but he hung on. He went down the backstretch. We wanted to go at 250. He made a move and and passed his former nemesis and he's got one to go. Comes off the curve and I'm standing right there. And I said, "Now," I said, "You've got him." And he passed and he just didn't look back and it's very
052emotional to see him win. And then we find out he set a state record, 155.53. Nobody's gone that fast. I mean, other classes have, but um just breathtaking. When he passed um the boy who was the favorite in the last 100 yards, there was a contingent of people up in the stands. I guess they'd just become Paul fans on the way. We didn't know who they were anyway. Yeah. You know, all over the place. Maybe they just didn't like Richie. But, uh just great support down there. And uh if people didn't know where Paul was before this weekend, they certainly learned that they were from Morgan County. Uh Paul to best of our knowledge had never had a state championship in any sport and they had three and two runners up. And the girls team
053with three whole girls all excelling out of 28 teams finished eighth out of 28. Wow. Great. Which is pretty and beat some pretty good programs. um great trip back and then uh on Sunday they had us come into town. They had a had us in a parade and just a wonderful uh turnout of people just supporting the whole thing. It was it was amazing. I mean I' I've been fortunate to be part of a lot of things, but I I have to say this is as satisfying a thing as I've ever done in sports. And on my way out I met Mr. Spencer who was out near the community center because there's a nice hill out there in case anyone ever wants to take a look at it. We were running it. He came out
054and asked me about it and we struck up a conversation and cross country and on my way out the on Sunday I just stopped and talked to him. He knew everything. He knew everything. He followed Donnie the whole way. He uh he probably knew more about Donnie than I did. So just just a fantastic experience for me and more importantly for for the the school and the community. Wonderful. So uh after graduation there Friday, I was quick little side note cleaning up my sound equipment and Donnie was out back and I was loading my equipment in and I said make us proud and he goes I will. Yeah. No, they they went got in at the motel at 1:30. He slept middle. Yeah. And uh he was up at 6:30 because we had breakfast at
0557:00. Those well-known pancakes that I require him to and just it all came together. It was a very happy ending. So Donnie has uh in case anybody doesn't know full scholarship to Fairmont State. Um he's done well academically at Paul Paul. Um we just keep our fingers crossed. But I Donnie has greatness in him if he continues to pursue it the way he is. Very proud of it. Obviously good for Morgan County Schools. Yes. Great. Aaron Berkeley Springs do uh Berkeley Springs did okay. Uh the shuttle hurdle team came in ninth. Uh they were hoping to be eighth. Uh but they had a lot of a lot of PRs down there on a lot of different events. Uh kids were running much faster than they qualified for uh in a host of races. Um Katie
056did well in disc shot. Uh believe she was top 15 in both. Do not ask me which exact number wasn't with that one up. Um did not place they placed the top eight. Um here Abigail was 13th in 300 meter hurdles. Um A did not make finals for the 100 meter hurdles. David Ambrose and I believe that's all pall pole. Thank you. I knew I got something. Kayla Hageny did get the school record for pole balls. Actually, she already had it from the regional meet at 9 foot1 and she pushed that to 96. Yes, 96. She was trying to get She got 96. Uh she got 96 and as she went over it, the pole landed on the crossbar. And so we were waiting for it to slide off and it slid off and crossbar
057stayed. It was great. Um, so she got third. Nice. I guess that one that one of the first two bits out and I just appreciated Berkeley Springs girls um doing so well with with the Paul girls. You know, there's no rivalry there. They were sitting together and just having a great time. It was really neat to see. I I really appreciate Shay being here. It was a I just like to add a couple things to what Mr. Roland said. Um, and I was trying to remember this, John. I bet you could help me. But it seems to me like several years ago, Paul came to the board and requested a track program. I don't know when that was. I was 14. Yeah. Yeah. And so those decisions that a board makes may not seem like
058a big deal at the time, but look, in 2025, what how we helped kids in a school and program and families. So those decisions can really pay dividends. Absolutely. The other thing is um they don't have a track in Paulo and I think that's very uh big deal because to run a 300 hurdle race and not have a track to practice on. I don't know how you do that. I really don't run win it. Mhm. To win it all day. Win it decisively. It was not easy. Well, we use the circle and then we have to add a little bit on because it's not a true 400, but we've got it down to a size on distance. But, you know, it's a very hard surface and everything, but on the other hand, if you go
059back at one point, Hedgesville won two state championships and they didn't have a track that go into Martinsburg and practice sometimes. Now, they got a beautiful one down there. So, who knows? And, uh, keep in mind football is, I think, the third smallest school in the entire state. Um and finally they put uh this has been in recent years put a long jump pit at Pawpaw and we had a state champion long jumper. So um again decisions that we make here and um that really impact kids in the long run. So, um, it it felt like if you've ever seen in the movie Hooers, you know, it's basketball obviously, but small school that nobody's ever heard of that practices in a gym with that, you know, the old backboards and small gym and then they
060go get to the big stage and they win it. And that's what it felt like to me to hear and I actually watched some of the video of uh the 300 hurdles and Donniey's race. So, just really exciting and I thank you Mr. Roland for being there. Thank you to the coaches Miss Casey Camp who is the principal/coach and among others who helped them get to where they uh achieve the greatest uh reward for all their hard work. Who's yours was exactly what I had been thinking as well. And finally, and you mentioned it, but graduations I thought were just excellent. From the speeches to the organization to the sun coming out at 5:30 High School after it rained all day long. Um I I don't think they could have gone any better. So kudos
061to both principles and the students and and families for making those really memorable occasions. Kudos to speech. It was enjoyable. is an enjoyable speech across all the students too and Mr. No public comment moving on consent agenda. Superintendent recommends approval of finent actions as presented minutes of the May 13th payment bill budget adjustment followers committee minutes a motion to approve as presented. So move a motion and a second. Any comments or concerns? All those in say I carry personnel super recommends approval of following personnel actions as presented. All right. Thanks Mr. bureaucracy. Well, I'll tell you I'll tell you one thing. The boy who was favored to finish second. It's a remarkable athlete because he jumped 66 in the high jump. It's amazing. So, back here to the uh personnel agenda here. So, under professional
062personnel, uh we're bringing on a technology coach coach. We're really excited for this one. Uh she comes to us from Wyoming County. So, pull someone from down that way. It's always a plus. Um we have transfer service personnel from an ECAT elementary ECAT at Vidmire going to elementary ECAT at War Springs Intermediate School. We have um we're bringing on a bus operator for 1406. He was currently southern with us and then you're asking to reclassify from director of transportation county to director of transportation maintenance beginning tomorrow with that under extracurricular there. We're asking to add back the athletic director which is a supplemental piece which if we skip down there to letter G that is also attached on that. So on the back of those you can see the changes that we're asking for in
063a light gray. Um under uh over on the agenda um we got resignation from a fifth grade teacher at Pleasant View. We're bringing on a second grade teacher at Whidmire, bringing on a multi-at social education with autism teacher at Winrongs Intermediate School. We have a substitute bus operator resignation under service. uh there for service. Uh we have a custodian 3 truck driver going to a center of special education autism mentor me and then we have a kindergarten elementary ecat uh going from fall going to cook two of one springs intermediate school. Um just to kind of give you an update on that where we're at wise was service personnel we're looking pretty good to have a lot of this done fairly soon. So, I'm pretty excited about that with the domino starting to stop. So,
064that's good. Um, and then under restructure there, we're asking from a clerk 2 uh from 225 days of transportation to we're asking for a school bus supervisor 225 days of transportation. under extracurricular um the intermediate team we have a designation for intermediate team leader Pleasant View and under employment we're bringing our team leader there uh for special education at War Springs Middle School and then under D we're asking for that letter for letter A to be compensated for uh science and reading letter B is for science of reading and then uh participating in instructional materials committee uh is under letter [Applause] Just one additional point I'd like to make under on the agenda under service personnel B number three. Um that's just to correct something that should have been done last year. Miss Painter has
065been doing both maintenance and transportation this year. So that was u to make sure that that's corrected in our list of position titles. I move we accept the personnel as presented. Second. Any other concerns or questions? Thank you very much. All in favor say I. I n car on to finance and budget adopt proposed budget for the 25 to 26 pending approval by the state board of education. I move. [Music] Any comments? No, nothing other than nothing's changed on the budget since we presented it um when I guess it was just a week ago, two weeks ago. Um no comments, nothing different. Just appreciate you all considering it and listening to our needs and supporting us in that way. I think it's a budget that reflects a balance of our instruction needs and some maintenance
066that we need to get done. Have a motion on the floor. Any other comments for closed discussion? Discussion closed. All those in favor saying I nudget is passed. We're going to spend some money next. That's the only reason she comes. She comes. Can I Can I say thank you for having the shuttle to the graduation. Next year we're going to have them go back. I know. We need a return trip. And those buses are so uncomfortable. Oh my gosh. It's awful. You couldn't get your knees in. I forget. Well, you're a little bit bigger than No, I swear my bus when I was a kid, my bus had more leg room. I mean, seriously, more leg room. Like this much. Very small aisles, very short. Yes. Taller seats. My kids ask me, "How do six
067people fit across the highway?" I don't want to sit next to my brother 2T away. Yeah. But anyway, thank you for the thank Barb. Approve the purchase of the one gasoline 2026 air conditioner Bluebird 77 passenger school bus for $145,420 from Bluebird Bus Sales funding source. Step four, state bus replacement allocation. Entertain a motion. I'll second. Any comments or concerns? Comments. All those in say I thank you for coming to request six figures. Wanted to add something. So this is our first area. This is our very plan to use that for summer summer programs, right? So, we think that's that'll be a nice feature for kids who are in summer school and those buses are now available and purchased an additional one. That's new in itself. I think No, we're about 2 years out. That's
068great. Well, um, another county ordered 10 and then they backed out. Um, so yeah. So the guy called me cuz we were having a little ripple about the tariffs and buses and some situations and so anyhow um he was like I'm I'm going to make you happy today like we'll see similar conversation was a big news headline on they laid off a number of workers at the electric bus What state that was it? Oh, they're just all over. Yeah, it's Ohio, Pennsylvania. They're going to be all over the place. I mean, it's uh it's just um I mean, I think maybe out in places that have large cities, uh they can accommodate that. But um in our neck of the woods um I just you know I mean the state bought 44 of them and
069they can't get them built. This is South Charleston, West Virginia. Mhm. Yeah. And they can't get them built and then they can't make promises on the counties that signed up for free buses and several counties didn't. So they were just saying they're going to do a lottery, give you one. Um I was like, can you give it [Music] just excited about the air condition? I think it's I think it's time it's time for a change. Um, you know, it's I'm I'm excited for it. We're uh we're going to put these buses on the summer runs and then we're going to uh sign them out to the buses that travel the most amount miles. So the students uh we have a couple of drivers that take a lot of trips and we have our Rumsy bus
070that's up and down the road all the time. So try to um give a little bit of comfort uh where we can. How much does air conditioning add to the price over the ones that didn't have it? Um well last year the buses are going up. So a normal price for a bus with everything that we usually get which is not we don't really do a lot of options um is about $140,000. So we're only talking about a $5,500 up which is not that bad though. Item C, approve continuation of the enrollment and community elevated program to provide all students with free breakfast and lunch effective through June 30th, 2027. I'll make that motion. A second. Any comments? Thanks. Just that we continue to meet the requirements for that program have for how many years?
07110, 15 years. And uh good program for our kids. Encourage recommending continue. Yeah, I think in the long run I don't know that it saves us money but the hassle of trying to collect and you know all that participation's up also which is what we want discussion all those in favor say I n [Music] I guess I guess I have to myself that's I'll check those for it's for the selection committee. I'm not it's free. I don't think I don't think she's rec. It's fine. She's trying to get out of it. Yeah, I didn't tell you by Lorie Murphy to the 257 audit selection committee. May I have a motion for that? I'll second. Any concerns or comments? All those appear saying I I take care of you. Come on back. There you go. Jeez.
072Second reading and adoption. I move that we dispense with the reading of the motion motion and that we go to the that's why you have any objection to that none being heard. Consider the policies as read a second time on to the approval of those listed policies. Entertain a motion. So move a second. Second. Any comments or concerns on any of them? No discussion. All those in favor saying I. I n. Allies are adopted. Counter events for I will not be here June 3rd nor June 11th. this whole fun. Maybe I'll live stream live [Music] stream. Um, we are doing two meetings in July and August. Is that accurate? We continue with those. Okay. Oh, executive session portion code 6-9A-418-4-6 to discuss the present evaluation. I have a motion. So move second. Second. Any concerns,
073comments? We will not be coming back in for a vote other than to adjourn. So you may close us down back.