001Nothing on there. There's not There's nothing on there. She said she download it. I think she did. Got everything we need right here. Good afternoon. Like to welcome you to the Nicholas County Board of Education special meeting Monday, April 28th, 2025. At this time, please stand for a moment of silent reflection. Thank you. Please join the board with the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay. Action items. Discussion with possible action on appointment of Mr. John stats to fill the unexpired term board member uh Mr. James Steven uh Ferguson. So uh it's not really the unexpired term because Steve's term expires in three years and this he would uh
002if Mr. Sats would want to continue, he would have to run in the spring May election, right? So, this is um it would be to fill the until um June 30th of 2026. talk to him. Have I talked to Mr. Stats? Yes, he's uh he's willing to take it. Willing and able. Um it's a formality. We have to vote on it. He cannot he cannot take his oath until he fulfills um training the seven hours of training orientation. But I talked to the executive director today from Charleston and if we approve him tonight um they'll set that up just as soon as they can. Yeah, he can get it online. Can't hear it. I think he has to go to the office somewhere. So is there any other discussion on So, right now we're discussing
003um possible appointment of Mr. Stats. Any um while you're driving, any any questions or concerns or discussion? We're going down to Okay, Mr. Moose, anything? I'm fine. Very impressed. If there's no other discussion in, um, do we have a motion to approve Mr. Stats as the board member? That would take Mr. Ferguson's seat until June 30th, 2026. I make that motion. Mr. Barry makes Mr. Barry makes a motion. Do I have a second? Do I have a second? Mr. Mr. Moose seconds. All in favor? I I unanimous. So, I won't call him after a while. I'll just keep you on the phone while if we lose you, then we lose you. Um Just discussion with possible action on the approval of the contract with wilderness at the Smokies and that's for Mount Lookout Elementary. That
004was that an overnight trip? It was, wasn't it? Yes. Yes, it is. And and we didn't find anything in the policy. I found the policy, but it's old. Uh, and I knew at one time I just I haven't paid much attention to the trips. Um, you know, who was going where overnight and all evidently because anyway, the old policy said that grade school children could not go out of state overnight, but it was from 1990. I see 35 years. But told you I remembered. So anyway, uh later on we will we will approve those trips. I'm sure we need to approve that contract. So is there any other discussion on that approving that contract with Smoky's Resort? That's strictly between Mount Lookout and them basically just has to run through us. Okay. Hey, do we
005have a motion to accept that contract with Wilderness at Smokies? So move. Mr. Moose makes a motion. Seconded by Mr. Green seconds. All in favor? I unanimous. Um C discussion with possible action on the approval of the contract with the uh Panorama Education Incorporation. Dr. Lee or administrative support and what it does is it's a support for the multicare systems of support. So it will pull the data from a variety of sources including Weevas and it puts it all together into like a student profile where the administrators can use it to track um with all their tiered interventions be it behavior, academics, social emotion or whatever that would need to be. Um what they'll do is once we get the contract signed, they'll actually go back and import this year's data so that next fall
006when uh administrators start using it, it they'll have old data to be able to compare to look for trends. Um, I've had a stakeholders group review it and all of the administrators and county office people that reviewed it think it's really going to save them a lot of time because right now principles are tracking all of this by hand with Excel sheets and they spend an immense amount of time that's for discip disciplinary it's for everything you can track discipline you can track behavior academics all of it the first year is a little more expensive because you're actually paying them to build their database and download all the initial information. But after that for successive years without a federal fund. Any questions? If not, do we have a motion to accept the approval of the
007contract with Panorama Education? I make that motion. Mr. Barry makes a motion. Second app. I'll second. Mr. Moose seconds. All in favor? I I motion unanimous discussion with possible action on approval of contract with Swoop Construction. Uh and that's for the Nicholas County Sewage Project. See there. Has anybody read this? No, if you need a minute, you go ahead. That's fine. Okay. Well, so do we know when the project would start? After they get this back, then Mr. Ferguson was going to set up a meeting in contractor with the architect and us to establish a timeline. Time is of the essence. Says from the start it'll be 150 days. five months. They always allow themselves a little bit they do just in case time. also that they're not sure how much dirt they may have
008to take out and reclaim um after they take the concrete out because it's we're unable to determine how much of it is um bad. That will involve taking up pad the concrete pad of the school and put certain areas. It'll be very similar to what they did at Cherry River. You remember when we were up there where they cut sections out and they dug it out and they hauled it out. Yeah, they did did that too. He is also working on the Blade Creek site that they already have workers in the area. One of the reasons they bid on it cuz they already local. What was their result? A million and three or actually right under a mill like 925,000 not counting our architectural fees I think is it came to just right over a
009million. I think budget and the money that we put in our match and I think there's a good contingency is enumerated in this contract but even even if that does become an issue we should It's a much needed project. Have you reviewed this contract? Enough for me. You're good. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And do we have a motion to accept contract with Swoop Construction for the Nicholas? Mr. Green makes a motion seconded by second. Second by Mr. Barry. All in favor? I I motion unanimous. Consent items out of state travel request. Um, so these are the ones that we held over. Well, the first two, right? Yeah. Yeah, we voted on. Yeah, those were the elements. We them already, didn't we? No, we tabled them. No, we tabled them. Do you want to see the terrorist?
010No, I don't. I'm fine. I just didn't want to go against a policy if we had one in place. I mean evidently when um um what's the comp what's Neola when we went with Niola that went away. So I mean we voted on on the front page there. Number three. Uh didn't we approve number three before I was we I believe we did at the last board meeting. Kevin, Maddie, I know I remember somebody maybe. Are is there more than one person that would do that? There are two JC. Oh, okay. Okay, that might be it. Well, the most we can do is approve it twice. I mean, not going to hurt anything. It's not going to hurt anything. So, we'll leave it on there. and uh some of these like when it says four
011adults 17 students five adults 11 students uh five adults I don't know how many students want to do I know we said a limit of eight I think at least one adult for each for eight students well but it seems like an awful lot of what you have is there'll be There'll be parents that'll go when in my when we used to do it at the Panther Greek, there would be tons of parents that went ahead and they drove their kids and then you met at the park and they still um we don't pay for that. No. Okay. We do not. So, and believe me, if you're in a park, you don't want more than three or four kids. Yeah. had to be background checking volunteers. Yeah. Around the other kids also. Well, the kids
012that are on the bus is the ones we're responsible for, but the ones that go with their parents, that's up to them. We're responsible for all of them. Well, I know what you're saying, but Yes, I know what you're saying. You know, if if uh in the past there were there would be a kid that didn't didn't wasn't allowed to go on a trip and you know, you get to the trip and they'd show up and it's a public place so you you know, you can't do anything about it. These these people have to be approved. They would have they already been approved. That's cap or volunteers. The ones on this list. Yes. And most of these a lot of these are teachers. Yeah. Almost all of them are teachers. Almost all of how many
013teachers going to chaperon? It's a school trip. So the school will fund raise for that trip and the school would be responsible for paying for the subs. So, I mean, if you're feeling like maybe that's a lot of chat rooms going, the school's going to reimburse if they need a sub when those people are not they're going to pay for the sub and the and the people to go, right? If if one of these teachers needs a sub while they're on this trip, then it's not going to be a county expense. is going to be the school's expense with their fundraising money to pay for the sub that they needed to get both. Generally, there's not that many that don't go and the ones that don't go a lot of times stay home. You don't
014encourage that, but that's what happens. A whole lot. Yeah. 17 going to smokies. 17. You're right. Okay. Um now, Mr. Green, the other one on here uh is Zela and it's a trip to Crossroads Social House, uh gaming, laser tag, etc. in Wville, Virginia, May 16th. 22 students Not an overnight. Not an overnight. Five five chap 22 kids. Five chapons. Okay. If there's no discussion on that, do we have a motion to accept consent items out of state travel request 1, two, three, 4. Make a motion. Mr. Barry makes a motion. Do we have a second? Mr. Green seconds. All in favor? I motion unanimous. Personnel. Yes, we have a little bit a little bit of personnel tonight. Um we have it as presented reassignment agreements a resignation a service substitute and a professional substitute
015for next year or 429 believe um extracurricular and summer employment the uh head middle school coach. Yes. Which school was that in? Summersville Middle School. Are the other uh places where we had resignations uh now being advertised? They have been. Yes. And they're waiting on Okay. If there's no questions, do we have a motion to accept the personnel agenda as presented? So move. Mr. Moose makes a motion seconded by Mr. Barry seconds. All in favor? I I did lose you, Mr. Green. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Mrs. Whitel. All right. Next on the agenda is we have to conduct uh some student disciplinary hearings. So at this time we will need a motion to go in executive session. Make that Mr. Barry makes a motion seconded by I'll second. Mr. Moose second. All in favor?
016I I here at 423. How close are you?