001Good evening everyone. Welcome to Nicholas County Board of Education regular meeting Monday, November 3rd, 2025. And at this time, we'd like to call Thank you. Please join me for the pledge. I pledge 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 yours. All right. Um item number four, um discuss the list of the special minutes from the September 8th meeting which were approved. Under item five, recognitions. We have two special recognitions tonight. um really because it highlights the extraordinary work of both two amazing schools. They their staffs and the work of students that attend these two schools. Um we're here to highlight and and recognize the uh the achievement results from last year's general
002summit assessment. First, we want to recognize Mount Lookout Elementary. So, Miss Bill, would you come up? So, just a little background. Um, Mount Lookout did the amazing amazing job of statewide, we're talking all elementary schools in the state of West Virginia with the math GSA results, they ranked number 16 out of all elementary schools. Um, you want to introduce your staff yet with you? >> I have my fifth grade teacher, Miss Amanda Perry. My fourth grade teacher, Miss and my third grade teacher, Miss Stacy Dorsy. >> Come on up. Thank you guys for your work. Um, I've been in the school quite a bit and I've seen the amazing work you do today with for our kids and it's great. Appreciate it. >> A couple try to bring a couple. So, I got my >>
003and and I well and the reason I asked because it it starts in and we all love that. I mean, they got an amazing team. >> Yeah. >> Let's get a picture. Come on. Look at >> J. Thank you guys. >> Thank you. Good job. >> Next, we would like to highlight the amazing work again of the staff and the students at Mount Nebo Elementary um as it relates to the general summit of assessment results. an amazing an amazing accomplishment by this school. Um, statewide all elementary schools, Mount Nebo ranked number three in English language arts and number three in math achievement like And um I'll let you introduce the staff you have to you have to come up. >> Okay. I've got my first grade teacher Tammy Marks. My second grade teacher, Jessica Tucker.
004My third grade teacher, Mrs. John, my fourth grade teacher, Mer. >> Awesome. hard two >> two years in a row. >> It's amazing work, I'll tell you. >> Are we done? still a lot of times with the work that we do daily um we get caught up in the grind and we forget about what's really important with getting the day. these two schools really represent the hard work, the dedication of staff and students and really with that work um great results happen and that's evident. So I appreciate you guys coming tonight. I appreciate all the work you do for the schools and for the students that attend your schools. Um with that being said, please feel free to enjoy the rest of your evening and you can stay for the rest of the meeting. Moving
005on to item number six under presentations. We do have two two brief presentations for tonight. One, this Kim Majors with the L County Intervention Coalition is here to discuss the behavior surveys that were completed. >> It's really me. It's been >> I didn't think we didn't think you would let us on here again if it was still me. So, >> all right. Let me remember the steps that you told me. I can do this all myself. Look at me. I'm doing it. Here we are. >> Oh yeah. >> Um, so I'm here I am here to talk about my name is Glisten. Um, a lot of you folks have seen me and some of you have seen this very presentation before. So we have a shortened version um for you all if you haven't seen
006it just so you can get some of the um some of the news of what we have seen from the the surveys that we put out and um that you may have heard about. Um we surveyed in the past we had surveyed the 7th 11th and 12th graders um in 2020 22 and 24. Um we are now because of we're we're evolved and we've um introduced the nice collaborative we have a different survey that is going to be every single year for all of the grade levels so that we can even get further into the data. Um that has happened now. It's been super successful. Thank you to you so so much Mr. Cochran for your help in that. Um, because of that, most of our schools are at the 80% threshold. I'm going to
007bribe them a little bit to get it up a little bit more because I want to win and I want to have lots and lots of surveys to to to get that juicy data from. But before I get started, I wanted to say thank you for that. Um, because of that, we're going to talk a little bit about what we took from this data that we saw. This data is from 2024 and what we have taken from it already even since the principles meeting that we introduced this um at we've already started implementing programs to address some of the things that we're seeing. So we'll just get right into it. Um we have had um a lot of folks ask us what are we doing like why do we get this uh this information? Why
008do we ask these questions? Um is it anonymous? We have a lot of questions. So we thought we would kind of address it in that way. Um so why do we survey? Uh in prevention what we do is we look at risk and protective factors. Those are in four different sectors of the community right so that they're in the individual meaning the child themselves. They're within the family. Um some of those are not catching up. There we go. Um some of those are in the school and community which is what we're talking about now. We're focusing on that. And then some of them are in the greater society and how and what that impact has on on these kids. We look at those risk factors um specifically when it comes to school and community. So
009we can look at the different um sectors um individually and that's what we're doing. So from this survey, we're getting information um from them that's going to influence how we try to decrease these risk factors for these kids and increase the protective factors that we have. So, it's we need all of this information to be able to identify those things. So, some of the things that they're telling us, um just a little backstory, like I said, we've done this for the past um since 2020 um for 7th, 9th, and 12th graders. One of the cool things that we saw this past year in the fall of 2024 was the highest number of survey completions that we've had. We had more than 90% completion rate, which gave us a really, really great um way to to
010know that we're getting accurate information. If we get about 80%, we're good to go on accuracy, but a 90% is like like really really great and we're on our way to that this year as well, thanks to the cooperation of the schools. Um, so some of the things that we saw, this is just sort of an overview of the of the numbers that we got. This is specifically talking about 2024 and it's divvied up in grade levels. So this is any of the any substance use that they that they told us that they had used any within the past year. Okay. Um so about 4% of seventh graders, about 6.8% of 9th graders, and a little bit more a little bit higher 12% of 11th graders. That's pretty on par for national averages. And that's
011one of the things that we look like that we look at. How do we rate when it comes to looking at us compared to the big picture? So, one of the things that we look at too is how we've been doing, right? So, in 2022, I want you to these these graphs look very similar, but I'm going to show you how different they are because in 2022, we had we had to extend the graph to a 20% um bar here. And in 2024, we're down to a 10% bar here. So, that means the everything has come down. Everything, all of the use across the board has come has come way down in just two years. It amongst seventh graders, cigarette and vaping has come down at least 5%. Alcohol and marijuana has come down at
012least 3%. And this is habitual use. So this is in the past 30 days. That's where that um information comes from. And amongst 9th and 11th graders, it's about 4% of tobacco products and about 5% when it comes to alcohol and and marijuana. All those things have come down. So what have we been doing in those last two years that may have had some effect on it? Well, we've been given a lot of information. We have put a lot of information out there specifically based on the data that we've gotten but also based on what how it correlates to not only the national averages but also rural averages also appalachin and specific state as well. how that compares to in those ways and also giving the information to parents of how they can talk to
013their kids about these things and talking about community and how important that is all of those things. So, we're putting a lot of information out there through social media, through posts, through getting to every back to school event that we could possibly get to through all of those things, all of those um events. That's what that's how we're getting that out that out there. We're also, and I'm going to talk about this a little bit, um, a little bit lengthier because this is one of the things that has come directly from the 2024 information that we have been able to put into the schools in the last month. So, we're educating to empower our students. We're allowed to go in the school because of you guys and because of the um the the help of
014our principles and our counselors and their collaboration with us were able to go in for Red Ribbon Week, which was just last week. Um and that was something that was very cool. I was actually at Mount Lookout, which I wish they were still here because I have to say I have I have been in a lot of schools and I've heard a lot of teachers talk to a lot of students and at Mount Lookout I was so impressed with the way that adults interacted with with with the students and that's where I have spent most of my time. So, I'm sure it's the same in every one of the elementary schools, but the way that they were talking with their to their students, that's why their test scores are so are so amazing. Those folks
015are amazing. But we've done that. So, we've gone we've gone into Red Ribbon Week. We've done catch my breath, which is something I'm going to go into in just a second, too. Um, we've we've given the this data information time and time again to the teachers, to parents, that kind of thing. We've given trainings to to our um school-based education um professionals. We've we've supported those things. We've created youth coalitions and sent them to different trainings, given them opportunities to go to the capital and that kind of thing. Um given them more opportunities to sort of expand their horizons and see what's available to them. So, we're giving them a lot of education when it comes to that. Um before I move on to here, just some of the things that we're doing. We're doing
016two things right now. specifically, like I said, um that comes from the 2024 data. One of them is catch my breath. Um and you're going to see why we do this. You're going to see how that correlates. We started that um with that was the goal for this school year for us to deliver Catch My Breath, which is a vaping education program, um to all of the fifth graders because of the information that we're getting from our seventh graders in this survey. And we'll go into that in a second. Um, the other thing that we're doing that is a bigger part of it is connecting with the community. We realize that the school is the natural hub of the community. That's where our children are in prevention. That's where we're spending the most of their
017time, right? Especially during the school year, but we also want to make sure that we're not just forgetting them when the school year's over, that we're really really reaching out to them with the arms of the community as well. So, we're empowering the rest of the community and trying to educate them and let them have opportunities to connect with our youth and to connect with each other and and we're involving our treatment and recovery um side of our nick as well by offering all of these sober events that all of these families are welcome to. It really creates those nice b those nice like bonds between all of the folks in our community and gives more educational opportunity to our kids too. These kids are like having the time of their lives. One of the
018other things that we do is we try to really celebrate the wins that our community members are having, especially our folks in recovery. Um, because they can teach us so much. And I I I want to say if you have not had the privilege and honor of working with the our recovery community here in Nicholas County, try volunteer for an event. Um, go to a sober event. It is a gift. It is a gift and a true blessing to be able to work with these individuals because nobody cares about Nicholas County, but they they do. um in in the way that they do. So these events um they they grow and the this is the one of the mental health events that we had to celebrate mental health awareness to make sure that messages are
019positive all around Nicholas County and we're involving all of the sectors of our community. Right. So this is a mural that we that was done um through the Nick that involved our law enforcement and our business sector and our health sector and our government sector. Um this is uh some pictures from Save a Life Day which is where we distribute um the lock zone in lots of different areas over the county. We involve our kids in that. We talk to them about it. I love this picture because it really really signifies what it means to be a community and to be a really recovery friendly community and a a community that is really focused on prevention and helping our kiddos, too. All right. So we've done all that and we saw the results from that.
020We saw that those numbers came down dramatically, right? So much so that we haveded the the graph this year. So but there's still work to do. So one of the things that we look at too is the age of onset. Now this is the age where children start to use substances for the first time. Can they try it for the first time? We know in prevention one rule that we is like age the the age of onset is what we try to delay as much as we possibly can. That is our goal in prevention to delay the time that they that they that they try it because we know that the longer it takes for them to try it for the first time, the fewer problems they're going to have with that particular substance. So,
021one of the things that we saw this um this past year, our seventh graders are giving us an average age of onset of 10 years old. 10 years old. Now, that's all substances, okay? But they're telling us that the average age that they're trying something for the first time is 10 years old. Because we have more information that we correlated with that and we compared it to, we think we know what substance they're talking about and you probably do too. So here's the next thing that we kind of looked at when we saw that age of onset. This is where students are using substances. And this is one of the questions that I get a lot of why are you wanting to know that? Why didn't you know that? Well, this is one of the
022reasons why. So if you look here, the majority of students are using substances at home, but there's about 20% that are using substances at school. This is when our students using substances. So on the weekends, that's the biggest thing. So on the weekends at home, that's when they're mostly doing it. But then you see this during school, it's almost 20%, too. We think that that is one specific substance. Who can tell me what they think that is? It's vaping. We know it's vaping. Yeah, it's vaping. We think it's vaping, too. And we think that the those seventh graders who are telling us that they're trying something at the age of 10 years old, we think it's vaping. So those because of all of those questions together, it narrows it down what we need to do
023to address that situation. So that's that brings me back to catch my breath. catch my breath is there there are there are curriculums for younger children too. But because we had this information, we had the seventh graders telling us that they were that they were um starting at 10 years old, we looked closely at those seventh graders again and we were like, why why are they trying them so early? What's going on there? So, this is uh a question that that says um do you think that it's harmful to vape or smoke cigarettes or use use um uh smokeless tobacco? So, you can see that our our 9th and 11th graders are pretty much up there, but it's almost 30% of seventh graders who think that there's nothing wrong with vaping or smoking cigarettes or
024dipping. They think it's fine. They think it's not harmful. So, Catch My Breath is an evidence-based education program that is for a whole bunch of different grades. We wanted to get in to prevent that. So, we wanted to get into the fifth graders who were about to go into middle school, right? Where it all gets different for those little babies. Um, so we've got those. So, this year we made it a goal. It's already scheduled. We've already started. I think we have three schools already done that they've gone through the education. And I can tell you because I taught um I taught Summersville Elementary fifth graders myself. They truly did not understand how harmful vaping was. So catch my breath is very cool because it not only it's not like the like the the scare
025tactics of old that we realize don't work at all. It's not scary. It is these companies are tricking you into trying this by telling you it's candy and there's nothing wrong with it. They're tricking your older brothers. They're tricking your parents into thinking that there's nothing wrong with it. And by the end of the class, it's four sessions. And by the end of the class, all of these children were so gung-ho, like they were so educated, they knew that it was bad for them. They knew exactly the words. They knew exactly what to say if somebody offered it to them, and they knew what to say to their older siblings and to their parents to help them, to help educate them, too. So, this is a really well-rounded program. And because of that evidence that
026we got from the data, we were able to to implement this this year and because we're doing it this year, we're going to see hopefully we're going to see some change in the next couple of years, right? Because these are going to be in the middle school next year and they're going to be surveyed. So, we're going to keep a really close eye on those sixth graders next year. So, I already feel like this is a win because I saw it on their faces and I saw the excitement from them. So, that is a huge win to me. um they catch my breath and again that goes to helping us out letting us go into the schools and get that done. Um the other place where we know that we need some work and it
027comes directly from the the data um and has come for the last four years I think it's been going on that we've put this in school. Um, one of the things that is really striking from the data across the board and across the years is the rate of students who are reporting thoughts of suicide and also students who are attempting suicide in Nicholas County. If you look at these compared to the rest of the country, Nicholas County students in particular are about double the rate of the rest of the country for this age group. There's a reason for that and we have to find it. It's going to take more data which we're working on right now um of figuring out exactly what questions we need to ask, what we need to address, where we
028need to look to figure out what those problems are. But one of the things that we knew we need something right now as a like we need to to do some first aid, right? We need to apply a tourniquet here. And one of those things was um implementing a training called signs of suicide in the schools. And that has been done. I just taught it all day today at Richwood High School. Um but we've completed Richwood Middle School already um this year. Richwood High School is now completed. And then we've scheduled our middle our middle school and high school here in Summersville as well um to get them done. So they're I think scheduled for next week and the week after. This this class is specifically um directed to students so that they can help
029watch out for each other. So it teaches them how to recognize what may be a mental health crisis within themselves or within their friends and then what to do with that information. And this is something that I tell them in that class. That's not a natural thing. That's not like walking. You don't learn that naturally. that doesn't come as natural knowledge to you. It's a learned skill. You have to be taught that. Um unfortunately, we have to be taught that, right? So, that's why we do it every year. Sometimes they complain that it's the same thing over and over again, but we know that we get better at anything we practice. And that's what I tell them. This is we have to do it every single year to make sure that it's fresh in our
030brain, that we know we want to do in an emergency situation because that is an emergency situation. So, that's one of the things that we're doing um to help with that and we're going to continue that. We're going to continue the the way that we look at this suicide issue because we can tell from that data that's astounding, that's scary and it's something that we need to address. One of the things that we're doing is we're looking for funding um and we're creating avenues. We're creating avenues of funding. We're manifesting funding for to make sure that we can do the same thing that we do with our kids, that we can educate all of our grown-ups who are working with children. So, what we would like to do is to be able to offer you
031all um the ability to train all of the staff um before school starts um in youth mental health first aid, which is an incredibly wonderful, super comprehensive one-day training that is it really gives adults the skills to be able to watch out for those signs. It's just like CPR, but you're going to use it a whole lot more often because you're going to use it every single day to take good care of these kids. Um, so we're working on making sure that we are good on our end of that and I will be knocking on your email Scott later to get that scheduled. Um, and again, so just kind of in conclusion, like I love this quote from Mr. Rogers. We live in this world where we need to share responsibility and it's easy to
032say it's not my child, it's not my community, it's not my world, it's not my problem. And then there are those who see the need and respond and I consider those people my heroes. I consider those people my heroes. Those people are in this room. I know I've worked with several of you guys so much. Um and I see that um that there is the care there. The heart is here. The desire to help these children and to help this community thrive is here. Um adolescents do better and shy away from risky behaviors when they have connection with grown-ups and connection with their community. So we are charging everyone. We're challenging everyone to be a true community caretaker. Okay? So, start spreading that. Hashtag it community caretaker. Um, and I see a whole lot in
033this room. Um, there are a lot of community caretakers. And so, we just need to make sure that we're we're doing that. And again, I thank the board. I thank you, Scott. I think all of our principles, all of our our uh board of ed um employees for really allowing us to do this work through the health department and through the the coalition. and it will continue to do it for as long as you want. Do you guys have any questions about anything? How far over 10 minutes did I get? >> Oh, yeah. >> I appreciate your work. You know, it it really hits home with me because basis of my journey in education has been really centered around the importance of building relationships with students and the impact that has. So, I love it.
034It's good work. >> It's great. It's fulfilling. And I have to say, I have to tell on Mr. Cochran too because I was also at Panther Creek Elementary when he came to to give his coin awards, his citizen citizenship awards. And I also got to hear the way you speak to children and the connections that you're making. And he walks the walk, guys. He's not just like like watching you do that was was really really like that really helped me like be like, okay, we're all really strong in this. Like this is a true community and and it's it's going really great. >> Appreciate it. >> Sure thing. >> Thank you. >> Any questions for anybody else? All right, that's all I have. Thank you guys so much for your time. I really appreciate it.
035>> Thank you. >> Next on the agenda of presentations, I ask Dr. Lee to share just an overview of the uh general summit of assessments from the 2425 school year. Um I believe she may have a little fold so they can take it with them and study. I do believe in homework. Okay, that'd be great. That just to help keep me on track. Um, as you dig into your folder, you'll see on the first page a list of school averages. And this is the average percent proficient based on spring GSA testing. So you'll see here it's broken down by school. You see the total population group, which means that's all the students that took the assessment. The subgroup is total. So that's including everyone. You'll see specific subgroups in just a little bit. Okay. You
036see an overall mathematics proficiency. So that's all the grades that were tested for mathematics. English is in the yellow and science is in the red. And I know Mr. Moose, he goes straight to the science. And first question he's going to ask those three asterisks. What does that mean? And that means in the science category, there were less than 20 students that were tested. And anytime we have a snail size of 20 kids or less, it's masked for privacy. So if you remember, science is only tested at grade 5, 8, and 11. This would mean that at Birch River, there were less than 20 students who completed the science. So therefore, they do not publicly release their data. They're just trying to protect that. Okay. Once again, you have this folder. You can take it
037with you to study. You have all of the schools in the county See if I can click and go to the next one. Maybe. There we go. On your next page, you'll see it's broken down further. You'll see in the blue and the color coding is the same as the first page. You'll see mathematics and you'll see that it's broken down by grades. Once again, you'll notice there are some grades that have asterisks, which just means that cell size, they have less than 20 kids at that grade level be able to complete the assessment. Okay, same thing. You see grades six, seven, and eight for middle schools. And over here, we're looking at grade 11 for the high school. Yellow is ELA. And once again, we have science. And remember, grade 5, 8, and 11
038are the testing grades of science. Now on that test though it's important to remember the test might be given in grade five but it assesses content from grade three, four and five in science. Grades six, seven, and eight are all assessed in grade eight. So it's not just that grade level teacher that's accountable. It's the grades leading up to that. Any questions on those? you have it to take with you, study as you see fit. The next page also gives us a little glimmer of hope just like listen was saying. I kind of wonder if uh the one's not related to the other, but when you look at our overall proficiency from way back when over time, you see this big dip. If you remember back in 2020 and 2021, that's the first year that
039students were assessed postcoid, it was kind of ugly. Um, but if you see our lines are starting to come back up and we're almost back to where we were at the height of precoid. We're moving right along. Um, at the bottom, >> there's no election tomorrow, guys. Your kids got to go. >> Okay, everybody listening at home can hear that now, right? Um, proficiency rate by grade and subject. You're looking once again, the color coding is the same. Blue is mathematics. Yellow is reading or English language arts. Science is the red. And that's overall for Nicholas County as a whole. All of our grades together. We're working on it. Now, I mentioned earlier it's a total subgroup of that first sheet. This is where we can look down or look at the data broken down
040by subgroups. In federal programs world, we spend a lot of time looking at subgroups and how we can help individual uh groups of children. So if you look at the first one, we have math proficiency and this is the number or proficiency rate for our kiddos that would fall into that category. So out of our students that are considered economically disadvantaged, we have 29% proficiency for that group of kids in mathematics. Okay, looking at our foster care students, we're only having 6%. That's mine. Get back on it. Right. And then moving to homeless, we have 29% of kids who are experiencing homeless proficient with math. Of our military connected, we have 30% special education, 12%. And then of course, total we've got 34%. And then you have the same breakdowns for reading proficiency and science
041proficiency. Does that mean the other 66% are higher and these are subgroups? These are subgroups, >> but it doesn't include the other. >> Correct. It only considers the kids. Now, you may have some kids who represent more than one subgroup. For example, if they are in foster care, they could also be economically disadvantaged. So, sometimes there's some overlap. And those are ones I really try to really get our schools to look at because there are some students who may be being represented in multiple categories and they really need to focus on those kids a lot of needs. >> So incidentally with two schools that were here tonight to be recognized their subgroups were not low they were high. >> Um they do a very good job focusing on their subgroups. You can ask either of
042those principles which of your kids are in XYZ subgroup and both of those principles could guarantee maybe you all 95% of those kids just right off the bat. They know who represents what subgroup and what level of risk they're at. They know their data. And the last piece of data that I'll share with you is balanced scorecard. And if you think back to way back when, you got a great big booklet and we talked about how that balance scorecard was for accountability and how it was rating or ranking our schools. Now, the only thing that's different between the balance scorecard and our raw test data that you've looked at, that test data is about percent proficiency. When we start talking balanced scorecard, we're talking about percent of available points that you could have earned. And
043that comes from kids moving from one level to another. Used to be you had that bubble kid that if you could get them over 50, you were okay. Well, now we have different groups of kids and everybody's a bubble kid because everybody should be moving to a new level. So, this is all about the percent of kids or the percent of points you earn based on that. Um, if you'll notice the score or the key is across the top. You've got red as does not meet standards, yellow partially meets, blue meets, and green exceeds. They rank all of our county overall. We're here at the top and you'll see um these gradient bars, of course, they grow as you get closer to moving to the next one. So, for example, in math, we are closer
044to moving to blue than we are in ELA. we earned a greater amount of the points. Then you can dig down. If you're on the website and you actually click here, all schools or school details, you can go into the details for each school. And that's the graph at the bottom. And what this little check mark means is they met adequate progress. Way back when, you know, they set a trajectory line. Your school is here. By 2030, you need to be here. They've since adjusted it and thrown it out a little longer. I think it's now 20 33 or 35. So, your lines changed a little bit, but are you making adequate progress? And you'll see we're really um having a lot of schools with success in making that adequate progress. And you'll see our
045schools that were here tonight are in the blues and greens. They still have the check mark. So, they have not quit. They've not slacked off because they're doing well. They're still making adequate progress for meeting their goals at the beginning. >> The only problem is it's hard to meet your goals when you're doing that well. It's hard to increase all the time, >> right? But they are doing it. >> They're certainly doing it. >> Any questions on that? Our focus really is we working with our administrators to really focus on those individual student um their individual growth data. You know, looking at the stay night scores to really try to move that pendulum that scale. If you think that, you know, meet standards and exceed standards are here does not meet partially on this side.
046We really want to we want to sway that this way. We want more kids over in that blue and blue and green. the more we can get into those next categories, you know, the more percentage points. >> Yeah. And you'll even gain points even if you're moving a student from does not meet to partial meet. You still get part of a point for that. >> It's about everybody, not just if you >> questions for Dr. Lee. >> Thank you. and moving on to my updates. Um, I do have a few. I did have a construction update listed there, but I did have a couple. First, I would just like to thank um I'd like to thank Mrs. Williams with the Richwood Chamber of Commerce for inviting me over last Tuesday. I chamber of commerce banquet
047last Tuesday. It was it was a great event. It was a good evening. Tremendous facility over there. did a lot of work and the food was amazing and and the awards awards were it was it was good. It was good evening. So just wanted to extend that thanks to her for the invitation. Um hey Chris office and get that award and that sure people might read that in but I did want to share with you that last Thursday I traveled to Morgantown. Last Thursday the evening I traveled to Morgantown. Um, you guys are probably aware of Terterodon Corporation who did a lot of the pre-work with with the Richwood Academic Complex as well as they did a lot with the Summersville Academic Complex also. But Terodon was awarded um um was recognized for for the
048work that they did um as far as inspection and let me I don't want to miss anything. it was their inspection work and something else as it relates to the Richwood Academic Complex. So, the the uh American Building Construction which takes up all of West Virginia and Eastern western Maryland was represented at the at the banquet that night. Um there it is. I want to share that with the board. They presented uh they presented terodon with with the award you guys said right before there um consulting testing and inspection from the Richmondville academic complex facility. Um so it was it was again it was a nice evening and um they will be submitting their project to the work they did at the summersville academic complex as well once it's closer to being completed. Um but
049again that was that was put on by the associated builders and contractors. So that was that was a good evening. Also there was about 200 200 people there as far as contractor span. They gave out close to 30 awards of recogn. Um, tomorrow morning I'll be traveling to Charleston for the interview process as it relates to the school building needs project submission and selection. Um, we have about 15minute window and we'll get to present our project which is the HBAC replacement at Panther Creek Elementary. Um, then back and when we get back in December they will make those award announcements. It is pretty uh competitive as it always is. There's about $170 million u being requested from the school building authority. They have about 43.5 million to to award in December. Um next Wednesday, November
05012th, I will be again traveling to Charleston that morning. that will be um an opportunity for me to to do an update in front of the West Virginia State Board of Education. Um and then I again I will update them on the progress we've made as it relates to to the indicators that they identified in their report. So I will do that next Thursday or next Wednesday, November 12th. Um we did have a construction meeting today. Uh just a few things that you guys you guys have all seen the Richmond academic complex. I mean it's coming along beautifully. Phase three phase three is near completion. Um I was over there Thursday or Friday. Um the uh the main thing when I was in phase three is the flooring the flooring is almost complete. The ceiling
051path is almost complete. So it's coming together to be almost a complete slower. Um, we do have the fire marshall scheduled over there for November 17th for occupancy. So, if that inspection goes well, then we should be able to move forward with our plan to transition sooner than we thought. So, that's going to give us some time. Um, one key key aspect of that is we do have two classrooms there. If we can get occupancy granted by fire marshall, our middle and high school will be able to utilize two more classrooms once we get that occupancy notice. Um it's amazing facility. Those those exterior lights, light exterior lighting did did wonders for that facility, you know, early before daylight and after after dark. Um the Glade Creek project again continues to go smoothly with with
052the goal of having it under roof and enclosed by wintertime. Um they've completed all the windows on the I believe west side and are now working windows on the east side. um almost completely under roof except for the front canopies. Um they did tell us today that the uh the water line has been installed up to the vault and has been tested up to the vault. Now they'll work on getting the line from the vault to the to the facility. Um same with the uh sprinker line. It's it's uh it's ongoing and has been has been installed throughout the facility. All the RTUs have been set. Sticks out to me. The sanitary line is has been installed under the roadway. Um well, not all the way into the building, but under the roadway. Um gas
053line same has been installed to the control valves and that's waiting testing on that. So, it's moving along. It's moving along. Um, that's all I have under my updates for this evening and I will keep you apprised on any updates that we have from the school building authority tomorrow. Again, those selections will be made in December in Charleston. Um, no delegations tonight. Under new business, there were three um, excuse me, scholarship that were approved. Those are listed there for you with the effective dates. Under consent agenda, the payment of the current invoices which were approved by the WBD finance office is listed there with the check numbers. Uh we had one purchase order that was approved. We had one contract that was approved. That is Sun Roofing. That contract I do have an update collected.
054I forgot about that. That contract contract has been approved. We're waiting on um Z&M. I was in contact with them Friday. We're waiting on two more documents that Sutter Roofing has to submit to ZML. Once they submit those two projects, we'll have a pre-construction meeting at the um uh Memphis County Career Technical Center to get that project started. The two out of state trip requests that were approved, those are listed there for you. Um item five is the approval of the following parent volunteers for the 2526 school year. has all been through the proper vetting process. Under personnel, we had one professional resignation request. The second part of that page is the employment of eight professional individuals with their positional and effective dates there. The next page we move into service personnel lists one service.
055We had one request for leave of absence from a current service employee. Um we had one resignation request from a current uh service employee with the effective date of 9:14. Um, we had three approved transfers for service personnel and we had 12 employment of service personnel with their effective dates and WBD approved dates and positions that they will be moving into. Um, we get two requests for resignations for extracurricular contracts with those effective dates. We have five extra partner employment contract that were approved again with the individual's name, position, and um effective dates. And we have two volunteer extracurricular um individuals that were approved. And just for everyone's knowledge, I think we're aware, but the next meeting on December 1st, remember that's a time change that uh was on the uh scheduled meetings that will
056be bumped up to 4:00 and that's all I have. plans for if Marshall okay building I know I'm going to be asked I know you're going to be asked if they're going to be asked the transition >> we're looking at the beginning of second semester so it's one two two extra classroom for Richmond High School but then they're pretty >> when we get occupancy when we get fired for occupancy we'll be able to utilize that. >> So you still that transition for Cherry River second semester that'll give us time to get furniture in the classroom classroom set up. >> Yep. And we're going to give them a couple days to move and all that, right? I mean uh you mean the staff? The staff? >> Yeah, we'll take care. Hopefully our goal is to get
057everything during during that Christmas break time. Well, there's a rumor there's a rumor out there that said the board's not going to give them time to they're just going to expect to move and start teaching the next day. We'll work with >> and I said we'll work with the staff. >> I said to that person we'll work with the staff. Yeah, we'll work with the staff. >> Okay. Uh anything else? >> All right. Do we have a motion to agenda or adjourn? Excuse me. Mr. Green makes motion to adjurnn. Second by second, Mr. Se all in favor. I at 551 copy. is a deadly.