00126 to Gorder. Mr. McNab is absent. All the other members are present. We'll open with the pledge of allegiance to the flag. 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. >> Item number three on the agenda is delegations. We don't have any. Number fourth, recognition of Pocahontas County High School girls basketball team, school improvement updates, and a year-end checkout process. No, it's just a real basketball team. >> That's right. [clears throat] So, I've asked Coach I do want to say um I'm I don't know a great deal about basketball, but I love seeing the girls play and I love seeing coach M coach. >> Thank you. >> Yes. Yeah. You had a
002good time. So I have some certificates but as I call their name you want to read off their there but I'll give you a little bit of board member you want to come stand here >> Savannah Sharp >> Savannah is not here. Savannah was a sophomore. She will be coming junior. Uh she was a starter this year. She had a really good season. So look forward to her being back again next year. >> Perfect. Haley Goldberry. >> Yes. Haley Goldsberry is a freshman and Haley got hurt early in the season. she uh tore her knee, her ACL, so she didn't get to participate this year in the season, but once again, look forward to her coming back as a sophomore for next year. >> Rea Barla, >> this guy, we all call her Ry. I
003do. Everybody else calls her a great also. Um Ry was about six man this year and probably what I'm going to say best about her is when she was a freshman uh we was playing Green Bar West they were rated in the top five in the state and went on to the state tournament and u went to the semifinals and up at home when we were playing them we had beaten them at their place the game was really close at home and we got in foul trouble trouble and Ry come in as a freshman and led the team for about the last four minutes of the game. We win end up winning. So, uh, to me that's Ry's biggest feat so far. >> Then we have Alexis Arvagast. >> Alexis is not here. Alexis was
004a starter this year also for us. She's a junior. She will be an upand cominging senior and we look for her to to do a lot of good things this year. Also, uh, one of the things Ry did or excuse me, Alexa did do is she made the all tournament team down at Summers County tournament. So, that's a big honor. >> Perfect. Lexi Bett, >> Lexi Berdett's not here, but Lexi is a sophomore being upcoming junior. Lexi tore her ACL also early in the season. I believe was the last game of scrimmage or the first game against Richwood, but her and Haley and >> maybe Monica >> Macy's not here. I think she's at the beach if I understand correctly and uh she's a sophomore and playing on our JB team. We're looking for her
005to come up and do a lot of things. >> Allison Taylor. >> I don't know Alison Taylor. [laughter] Now, Allison, uh, she's a junior. She'll be an up and cominging senior. Uh, Allison is a intricral part of our team. She broke a couple school records in rebounding this year. Uh, I believe she was the leading scorer. Our we had three ladies that was right 15 points a game, give or take, percentage point. But Allison did break two school records for rebounding and she probably will break the overall school record this year. >> Wow. >> Also was first team all state >> uh and she was first team PBC conference, PTOIC Valley Conference. So she's the second state of the discus and she recovered. She's a heck of an athlete. half a leap and we're going
006to put a lot of pressure on our office. Do it right now. >> Take our team to the next step. >> Nothing like public pressure. >> We'll forget. >> So, I think Nana Alderman. >> Nana Alderman is correct. That's this young lady right here. And Nana, you correct if I'm wrong. You're a sophomore, right? >> She's a sophomore. She played on our JV team. And uh look for her. She always participates. Good to come to practices. Uh good to do the workouts. So Dana work hard. Good shooter. >> Um Chloe Annette. >> Chloe Annette's not here. Chloe's a freshman. Be an up andcoming sophomore. Chloe's another one that tore her ACL right early in the season. Uh, we had three ladies that tore their ACL and finished their season off really early. So, all three
007of them girls are rehabbing and we look for them to be back sometime around hopefully the first of November. >> Julia Brown. >> Jules, come on up. >> Jules is a freshman and uh she had a good season on the JV. We moved Jules up to varsity and she got to spend a lot of time playing. Uh so we look forward to her to continue to improve and hopefully she'll get to participate in all our summer programs. We'll just enhance her skills. And I'll tell something on myself. Uh I didn't know how your list was going to be. So I made me another list and as you can see they're highlighted. I skipped over Jules's name the other night at the sports banquet and so I had to apologize. Made me look bad, but not
008going to miss her today. J's always got a smile on her face. She's a good kid. >> Jolene Workman. >> Jolene. Yes. She's not here neither. Jolene's really involved in rodeo. She stays busy from one thing to the other. She was on the JB team and we moved Jol her Jolene up there at near the end of the season onto the varsity. >> Callie Props was a senior. She'll be graduating this year and uh she was an intricral part of our team. Callie played point guard. Then we move her down to the post again. So I was a big part of our team. We'll miss her. >> Shayla Bennett is a senior and then both these girls. Shayla uh she signed to play soccer at Tony State and Callie signed to play basketball. Uh we
009have a couple young ladies that's going to college participate in the sport. Shayla is what I call our enforcer. Uh and she has since four years. So she done a great job also serve. >> And then is it Haven Brown? >> Haven Brown. Yes. Uh Hayden's not here. She is a freshman and play JV basketball and hopefully she'll continue to work this summer and improve on her skills. >> And then would you like to introduce Mr. Snder? Give him an opportunity to say something. >> Yes, this is what >> this is coach Snder and he gave me a job 20ome years ago and he retired and I took the head job. Then he came back and told me he's been with me two years now. So coach Schneider go four [clears throat] score [laughter] I
010don't I enjoy working for Tim. Tim's one of the best defensive coaches that I've ever seen. And uh I'm more of an offensive guy. Sometimes we and I say things to him sometimes in the car. We get in the RV if not all religious but sometimes he listens to sometimes I keep my mouth shut but I really I really enjoyed working with it's a great bunch of girls play hard with each other. There's no drama. There's always a little bit there's drama but there's not a whole lot of drama to play and got a lot of good experience coming up. It's pretty exciting going on past. It's been good for me. You know, my wife died about five years ago and for a couple years I was out and my daughter who played in college
011played for Pocahontas County played in college and my son played in Pocahontas County played in college on scholarships and they said I'd get involved in basketball. So I don't know how we did it but somehow I started driving and you coach K. That's how it started. I said I'm going to do your you need you need to relax going to games and back listen to the music listen to blueg grass going [laughter] but we come back in in the car and I drove back and forth just to relieve the stress and he asked me to come up and work with shooting. probably probably a pretty good shooter, know how to teach him and uh one thing of that to another and I think I'm crazy, but he went to the beach and had a really
012[laughter] at the beach and it come back into to, you know, semi chaos up here with everything going on. I'm not going to get into that, but please support the girls. Everybody support the girls. We need help. Two coaches to coach 28 girls and all the different skills that you have to teach. Please help us. We need another coach. And we always did with what, you know, what's going on now. I said, "No, please." Tim thought me not to say anything like that. >> It's okay. >> Okay. can somebody organizing >> just one there's a few girls that have that I just want to go ahead and recognize if you don't mind >> um Riley Kerr down this list Kiier Van Deander Charlie Halterland I always butcher this EA Smith that's a hard Aland. I
013think that's whoever said, that's that's the way it's pronounced now that you all corrected me. Thank you. Uh >> I was nervous, too. >> George, you want me to say your name again? >> Addison Ham played for us. She left mid mid part of the year, right around the first part of the year, but she was on the team for a while and Haven Brown. >> We got her. Okay. Then Haley Tiger. Those were the girls that uh started out the season with us. All of except she moved into But thank you all. I appreciate all your all support. Uh we know we can continue to do well. We we got a good team. We're going to have a really good team this year. We upped our schedule to where we're playing three AAA's and
014one quad A school. >> Uh to try to prepare when we go to Charleston. We're going back to Charleston. And we don't have to we, you know, the teams that aren't very good won't play us now. >> Yeah. So we we have to we have to go out. That's a lot of travel, but just the way it is. Anyhow, thank you all. Appreciate everybody. Appreciate the parents and look forward to working with you all for another season. So, thank you. >> We'll put one coach on this end and one right here beside you. Okay. >> Oh, okay. >> We're good. [laughter] >> All right. One, two, three. One, two, three. All right. And we will get certificates for the girls who were on the list that we just pulled the list from the state tournament.
015>> Oh, yes. don't Item number five on the agenda is school improvement updates a year end of school checkout progress process. So, I thought for um just for information that Miss Hammonds and I would go over a few documents that we're working on right now, specifically the school schedule, talk a little bit about what that looks like and how we work with that. So over the last few years, one of the issues with the school schedule has been technical and that's in that state of emergency report. It was a technical issue that we were dealing with. So the school works with an Excel spreadsheet and puts courses in the Excel spreadsheet and then after they're in the Excel spreadsheet, they have to go into what we call weas and that's our information management system. So
016I want to say first of all that when it comes to weeas, I would consider myself an operation specialist with that process because I've led that process in other counties. Christy and I, Miss Herren and I are working very closely with that this year to make sure that we have a transition from what the school does on paper to what the school has to do in our we have a scheduling system. So, if you could just pull up um So, every school in the state of West Virginia uses this um information system to schedule regardless if you're elementary, if you're preschool, if you're middle school, if you're secondary school. And this is how we know if we're matching appropriate certifications with teaching certificates. This is how we know what the course codes are. And this
017is how we know what students are scheduling in it. So at the end of the year, we go to a a section of the schedule and we start updating the courses, the school course, school courses. And in school courses, every single course and every variation of that course has to be entered into the system. It's quite complicated. the state puts out puts out a scheduling book that has all the course information in it that we have to fill in. So for each course and you can see all the courses at the bottom there we have to put in a department number. We have to put in the course code ID. We have to put in the extensions the environment the specialized learning the reserve code and then the school use code. So rigger indicates if
018it's a general course or if it's an advanced course. Environment is on campus or virtual. And then we have a specialized learning code. There's a code that you can designate for all courses in reserve. And then there's a school use code and you can see that they have started using a school use code which is SC. What does that mean? >> That means that's a split block version. So it takes four terms to complete a split block. >> Then the credits that are awarded and I'm going to leave this up for a second Chrissy because I want to go to this. What is the pass grades? What is the grade point adjustment? What is the grade scale? What students can take it in what grade? What's the terms? All this has to be filled out.
019This particular interface, these course codes are what is used to build the students plans, their their PET plans, which tells what their career will be. That PEP plan has to be entered in at the end of 10th grade to indicate what students will do in the 11th and the 12th grade. Now, they do one at the end of eighth grade which says what their prescribed credits are so that they make sure they're meeting their prescribed credits. And prescribed credits, I went over that with the board. That's their English, their math, their science, their PE, their health. All of those things should be done in 9th and 10th grade. And then at the the end of 10th grade is when they begin be begin their official college or career readiness planning. Are they planning on going
020to instate alate? Do they want to go to a technical school? Do they want to enroll in one of the dual credit programs? So after these courses are built and I'm going to go up there to the top the course ID. Christy, can you just go over the course ID right there? and then go over the course name, the long and short names. In our state of emergency, we had I'm going to I'm going to be um generous and say we had 10 courses in our schedule during the state of emergency that did not have a West Virginia state approved course code and did not count towards graduation and did not have standards. So when Miss Klein from the West Virginia Department of Education came in, they had to write standards for those courses. Those
021courses had to be approved by the Pocahontas County Board of Education. Sammy, you remember this? And then after they were approved here, they went on to the West Virginia Department of Education and they approved them. The problem was what Miss Hill and I discovered this year when we started looking at student transcripts is that because they were a local course, local standards, local course, the students had taken those, they only counted for local graduation. So, some of the students that had a plan to go on to college had maybe an arts course that did not count for college entrance. That was some of our transcription problems. So, students were taking classes, parents were okay with them taking classes. And then when we started looking at their transcripts and we went through every single transcript in
022the high school 9 through 12, we had to immediately start juggling courses around getting students the courses they needed if they were going to college or if they didn't have everything they needed to graduate. Some students had a half credit of math, didn't have a half second half credit. They didn't have two maths that had the same course name because they were pulled out of one and put in another. So, we had a plethora of problems and it goes back to the scheduling system. And I'm showing you this because this is one of the things when I say we need a little bit of grace. This is one of the things that's brand new this year for block schedule. We are building it from scratch. Um, Miss Hammonds, this is her first year being the
023weas contact and she's very she's very excited about this opportunity. [laughter] Um, when I come in and I reorganize, I said, "Christy, I really need you to do this for me, and I will hold your hand, but you've got to do this for me." Um, prior to that, Miss Sunlap was our weave, our technology person, and she was over weave and making sure that the courses were in there and the helping the principles get them in there. And I want to give kudos where kudos is due. Miss Hammonds and Miss Hill have handp put in the entire course catalog. They have gone back and put in how many hours have heard? >> Uh probably 16 hours. So every single course in here is new because we're on a new block schedule. So that's why we
024haven't started putting it in weave because we had to build it from the ground up from scratch. Now I know there's a lot of stress, a lot of tension, but when I got here last year in August, our schedule wasn't in this system. That's why schedules hadn't been out. If you recall last year there was a spreadsheet that was published not the actual course schedules and we were adjusting schedules up until I don't know maybe the second or third week of school. So after courses are all put in then we go to let's go to scheduling grit. We go to we create what's called an instance and this is a schedule that we plan on using and we name it and then every teacher in the school is listed and this is our digital spreadsheet
025and they are added to this spreadsheet by period by block and once we have all the blocks put in and the students have all their schedule requests on paper and I believe they're working on that up there. Right now, we go in and enter them into each section of the course. So, block one is a section of the course. Block two full cuz there's a second block that's a full 90-minute block. That's a section of the course. We're doing a split block, second block, and that's a 45minute course that'll run all year. For example, band needs to run all year because band has different competitions at different times. So, it needs to be a full year course. So we have those in the split block. Then we put in our lunches, our A lunch, our
026B lunch, our third block, our first fourth block. That's first semester. That whole process has to be done again second semester. So now that we have, you want to go ahead and pull second semester up there. Now we have weeks. So we have third show them all at once. See everybody's four weeks there. That was a good example. That's every single mile that he is teaching. Yes. So see over there on the side. Go up there on the side. So we have William Brown turn one day of the week. William Brown turn two days of the week. William Brown turn three days of the week. William Brown turn four days of the week. So this is quite a lengthy process to build this. It takes a level of expertise. It takes a level of attention
027to detail. Once we have the student schedules in there, we'll have to level courses. We'll have to move some things around. That happens every year. last year when the high school schedule at Braxton County and the middle school schedule at Braxton County Middle, you get about an 80% match and then you have to go back and you have to start changing a few things around. So, we will have some time over the summer that we'll have to do some student adjust and student status. Um, see, do you have anything that I've missed that you would like to go into a greater detail? >> I mean, not particularly. Um, I will say Miss Hill was instrumental in building this. She's very knowledgeable. Um, building those courses, those are what gets plugged into this grid. And I
028can't stress how important it is to fill those correctly. If those don't get filled correctly, when you transcribe, things domino, they go bad. If you put the wrong terms, I say we put in it takes one term to finish, it takes two. When I transcribe, somebody gets a full credit, they should have got a half credit. It it can dominate really quickly. So, it has to be measured. You have to take your time and you have to check. Today, I I exported all of our classes to a spreadsheet. And I went with a fine to call over to make sure this says one credit. This says two terms. This says the right amount of points awarded. Just so we're looking at it in all the different ways to make sure everybody has their courses set
029up correctly so that we're awarding credits properly. now. Um, and I I think they followed a similar process last year. It took a very long time to get those courses in. Um, but thankfully Misty was was supporting me this year. We work together to get all of those in. And then of course, Miss Wagner built this spreadsheet. So, kudos to both of them. >> And Miss Wagner and Miss Bland and the teachers that are on the scheduling team. How many teachers are on our scheduling team? >> Would be one from each. six teachers and all the directors are on the scheduling team working on this. We have a weekly meeting on this and talk about this. Where are we? What have we gotten done? So, Miss Wagner and Miss Bland and the scheduling team's role
030is they go back to policy 2510. And I went over that at the board me meeting. Do you guys remember me going over that? It said what has to be offered? What's required for students to take? what's required for us to offer and what are the electives. That's the fundamental basis that we have to have in there before we expand and branch out on other things. So part of the spreadsheet, just the regular spreadsheet is making sure that we've met all the policy criteria. Part of the electronic is compliance with the West Virginia Department of Education. And Chrissy said something really pivotal to me before we came in here tonight. She said, "The state peaked in to our schedule. I called them with some questions and they peaked into their schedule and they feel like
031we're doing a good job." Yes. Um Luke Carpenter from that they do the schedule. They they are the experts. Um he peaked in and said, "You guys are on the right track. Things are looking good. I looked at your courses, asked some questions about terms and transcription." and he said, "Everything you have set up is set up properly to do the things that you want to do." Um, and he looked over the schedule and said, "You guys are on the right track." Um, if he had any suggestions, he would have made them. But, um, you know, he said, "This looks good what you have." And I'm not going to say it's perfect, but we have a great skeleton, great faces. One of the things that Christy and I dealt with that semester is that when
032the course Can you go back to a course? [clears throat] We had some courses that weren't quite set up correctly. And what was happening is that a student would get a D in the course but then would not be awarded the credit. Right? So, we all know that state policy policy 2510 and state law says you can't change a grade unless there's an error. So, it took us a little bit to figure out how to deal with that. We sent um Missy to uh Green East High School to work with a counselor over there and help us navigate through that and how we wanted to do it and utilize the process that the state had put in at the beginning of the year for when we have to change a credit or we have to
033change a grade. So, one of the reasons we're being so meticulous about it right now is that we don't want to get in that same boat again. We don't want to have a student get a grade, not get a credit, get a credit, not get a grade. So, we're really working diligently on that. For weighted classes, it's also important because they have to be weighted correctly because if they get a grade and they don't get the appropriate weights, it changes their GPA. So, we have to measure. There's so many things that are very meticulously measured that we're checking and we're making sure they're done correctly. And that's why we as a team, all of us, Dr. Colmes works on all the certifications to make sure they're aligned with our dual credits and what teachers should
034be teaching. Christy is doing the technical. We have Stephanie Burns is working on the curriculum. We have Phillip that is working on the special education. I think on our team we have Laurel, Dilly, Justin Dilly, Chris Sutton, Darene, um Darene, >> Darene, who else we have on that? >> Mine. >> Miss Rabine. We have a huge scheduling team. >> So, we are working diligently to get this done. And I just wanted you to see what that process looks like and give you an opportunity if you have any questions that Christy and I or Philip or Rhonda can address tonight. >> Yeah, I got a couple. So once we adapt to the new block scheduling and we get this platform in Weebas, will we have to go through the same labor production next year to do
035this again or? >> No. So once it's built, it's it's built in the steps. >> Once it's built, we'll roll it over and the only thing we'll have to do is change teacher positions. >> We Yes. We'll have to adjust it. And that's been part of the problem is we've been starting from scratch on so many years. So we're really we're really getting a a system in place so that hopefully December, January, February next year, we'll have our schedule knocked out and it won't even be it'll be a bad memory. >> Yeah. the situation that we've gone through >> and and all everybody's doing this now. This is the same for everybody. >> This was required about four four or five years ago. Chrissy >> where >> about five years ago we used to have
036something that we call green screen. It was a DOS scheduling system and the state rolled out this because we they did not have enough room for student records. And there's only one person at the West Virginia Department of Education and Sarah knows this that still can run green screen and they just happen to be over all the financial stuff. Right Sarah? So we got one person. So they're trying to they've rolled out a bid for to move finances over. So we may experience a tiny bobble. >> Get to be a pilot school. >> A tiny bobble in that. They've rolled out and bid out a $14 million platform to take over green screen for finances and that'll be occurring over the next two two years. Sarah and I went to the training this past a
037month ago >> and we said we because when you're a pilot county you get all the support like people comes to your county they train you they work with you they work out all the bugs with you so you don't you're not a lone ranger so Sarah and I volunteered to be a small county because there's 14 small counties and we said we need some help we'll do it and I think that um >> that was So I think that was very good questions. I think sometime it's going to be much later. >> They'll be doing away completely with the green screen. >> That's correct. >> I really liked it. >> I think Kim Harvey is is is the last standing >> icon of the green screen and I think she's close to retirement. She'll
038still hang around to make sure it's no swing in the new system. >> It's going to be put into this kind of system. >> Um, we haven't seen that interface yet, but they have assured us that there's a lot of things that because we have a second financial system that we utilize. What's that called? >> School funds online. Karen, >> school funds online. It's you're going it's going to change every everything. >> The new the new interface will pick up it hopefully. >> That's good. So just technical operation things is what we're working on. All right. Um questions. >> Thank you. >> Is this something we're doing? We need to vote on this or anything? >> No, it's just an information. >> It's just an information. >> Item number six is consent and agenda items.
039Approval of the agenda. I have a question with that >> approval of the agenda. >> Yes, there is an item missing on the agenda. >> Okay. >> From last meeting, it was not tabled. It was said we would vote on it at this meeting. Um [clears throat] to give the superintendent a date to fill all jobs without the board's approval unless it's an administrator. We did not vote on that last meeting. We were to do it this meeting, but it's not on the agenda. >> We'll put it on the next agenda. B is approval of the agenda minutes from special for the special agenda for the interim board member April 7, 2026. Agenda minutes from April 7th, 2026. Agenda minutes from expulsion hearing April the 8th, 2026. Agenda minutes for expulsion hearing April the 21st,
0402026. Agenda meetings from April the 21st, 2026. Do I have a motion? >> Mr. Mr. McComes made a motion. Do I have a second? >> I'll second. >> This is McCoy. Second that. Any questions on any of the items besides the ones Miss McCoy had? >> We need to pull the except for my daughter's. >> How come there's so many that entered? >> That's what I was going to ask. >> Well, that's whenever we get down. She's not on this B. She's on the next one. I got to read here. Um, >> why is there so many on here to be approved at one time? That's my question. You want to answer that? >> Is it? What are we talking about? >> The agenda minutes. Well, we had a lot of meetings there in a
041row >> and Ollie finished them up and we got them reviewed. I just reviewed them and we put them on. >> Number C is payment of bills subject to additions, deletions, or other changes prior to the board meeting. A is payment of vendor listing 10,3914. B is extra duty pay for May 26, 2026 28,35131 budget transfers and supplements subject to additions, deletions, and other changes prior to the board meeting. >> Okay. I have something on um C B. >> C A and B. >> No, C. >> Oh, under number C, you got a B. Okay. Um >> we got to vote on it separate anyway. I tell speak up now. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Yes. >> Um for years in the school system, extra duty pays always got under my I don't know got
042under me. Rubbed me the wrong way because there was always so much money paid out and we always supposedly didn't have it. When I look over this today, I see that Terry Rackliffe is getting overtime for her substitute secretary. And she is a substitute. She should not be getting overtime. And she really shouldn't even be in that position, but she is. So, I'd like to question why does she get overtime? >> I have not approved overtime. Would you like to address it? sure that um there was some behind um the books were behind at the high school and she's working and getting them caught up. >> Can she not do it during regular time though? That's my question. >> She has not. They were very far behind. So, I really feel like Miss Radcliffe going
043up there and taking care of the books for us and getting us caught up is a gift. I mean, I'm being honest. It's a gift. We were so far behind. Now, I had not seen the overtime. I will watch it and make sure that I'm going to advance approval of it, but we do need to get our books caught up. Is that the reasoning? Anything else? Do we have a secretary there now? >> Sherry is the secretary. We hired a secretary from Randolph County that was a title one teacher. >> And she's being trained. So part of Sher what Sherry's doing is training the new person that's going to take No, >> not yet. She's cuz she's still under contract with Randolph. >> I thought she was coming and visiting. >> She has visited a
044time or two, but she, you know, just on uh she's taken a day or two to come visit. >> Okay. Okay. Is that >> Well, I mean, I guess it is what it is. I don't like it, but >> Well, I mean, how much you talking about? Like an exorbitant amount. >> $25026. I mean, I know that's not a lot, but it could be if it continues. >> We'll make sure that we >> pre-approve that moving forward. We'll we'll watch that. >> We do. >> Okay. You got you got to be excused on one of these. >> This one. Let me talk that on B. >> Yes. On B. Okay. We're going to vote on all of them but B under number C. All those in favor signify by saying I. And motion carries. Now
045we're going to vote on B, which is extra duty pay from 8 2026 28,35131. And let the record show that Mr. Mcome has recused himself. All those in favor signify by saying I. Uh I Okay. [laughter] I think he's left the building. I think I think he had the engines. >> Mr. Anderson, would you shut that door, please? >> Let's wait on him to get back here. Miss Sher's husband. >> He's not well. >> Not well. >> I just heard he wasn't well. >> He's back. >> We saw that. >> Okay. We seen that. You left the building. Okay. Number seven is personnel matters. Do I have a motion? >> Mr. Mcomes made the motion. Do I have a second? >> I second. >> Mr. Gibson seconded. Ollie, are you up? >> I'd like to
046move to make a motion we go into executive session. >> Mr. McCoy has made a motion to go in executive session on a personnel matter. Do I have a second? >> Second. Mr. McCome second it. We will. All those in favor signify by saying I. We will go in executive station on a personnel matter at 6:45. Do I have a motion to come out of executed? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. I. We're back in regular session at 708. Okay. Ollie. The amended personnel agenda for June the 2nd, 2026. Professional recommendations. Janette Wagner is head principal of Poconus County High School. Effective for the 2627 school year. Requested transfer of VAC to third grade at Hillsboro Elementary. Effective for the 2627 school year. Stephanie Bergie as graduation coach for Poconus County High
047School for the 2627 school year. Emily Dean um requested transfer as teacher of elementary technology and computer science for Marlington Elementary School effective for the 2627 school year. The positions that have not been filled as of this reading is the CTE dual credit criminal justice, the CTE dual credit health science, teacher of behavior support at Hillsboro, teacher of special education multicategorical at Hillsboro, teacher of extended year services at Marlington, teacher of extended year services at Greenbank, credit recovery facilitator for summer school, speech language pathologist for the extended year services, and then at the bottom we have the resignation of Lucy Writtenhouse as a substitute teacher for the Poconus County Schools effective for the 26 27th school year. Service recommendations. Laura Miller as cafeteria manager for the summer program at Greenbank Elementary Middle School effective July
0486th, 2026 through July 31st, 2026. Sher How as cafeteria manager for Energy Express at Marlington Elementary School effective June the 22nd through July 31st, 2026. Prep days being June the 18th opening and August the 3 for the closing. Mike Scandalis as halftime custodian for the summer program at Greenbank Elementary Middle School effective July 6th, 2026 through to July 31st, 2026. William Schaeer III is the full-time custodian for Energy Express and summer school at Marlington Elementary School effective for June 22nd, 2026 through July 31st, 2026. JD Chestnut as custodian three for seven extra days at Greenbank Elementary Middle School. Michael Sharp as custodian three, seven days at Hillsboro Elementary School. Sherry How is custodian three for seven days at Marlington Middle School. William Schaefer as custodian three for seven days at Poconus County High School and
049at Marlington Elementary School. Michael Sharp as custodian maintenance groundsman for Poconus County Schools effective July the 1st through August the 12th, 2026 as needed to be determined by the facilitated facilities director. Stephanie Ames is an itinerate custodian 3 for Poconus County schools as needed during the summer as directed by the director of maintenance. Charles McQuain is the bus operator for summer school for the Greenbank Elementary Middle School. postings that were not filled. The bus operator for the Marlington Elementary School summer program, a nurse for summer programs at Marlington Elementary, and of the following substitute aid for Pocahontas County Schools at a state basic service salary for the remainder of the 2526 school year and the 2627 school year as needed. Malia Burcher extracurricular recommendations. The resignation of Chris Sutton as head basketball coach boys at
050Greenbank Elementary Middle School effective for the 2627 school year. Chris Sutton is head basketball coach boys for the Pocahontas County High School for the 26 27 athletic season. And then postings that have not been filled are the head cheer coach for Poconus County High School for the 2627 school year and the dollar assistant coach girls Greenbank Elementary Middle School. >> Mr. President, can I ask you something? >> Yes, ma'am. >> I [clears throat] think that you need to vote on Mr. Sutton's resignation before you vote on Mr. Sutton's appointment. >> I think it's we have to do that. >> Yes, >> but we can't vote on all. >> Yeah, I just wanted to make sure. >> Yes, I see that. I put a chain. [laughter] >> Got a couple questions here before we much further.
051Let's see. Um the new one that we signed up for. Emily Dean, teacher of elementary technology and computer science at Marlington Elementary School. Is that a new position? >> That's one of the positions that we added back when we were talking about staffing. That's one of the positions that were that was approved for a planning teacher. Remember we talked about procedures and routines and you guys approved that position. >> So that's >> Is she the lady that works at middle school right now? >> Yes. >> So that's [clears throat] that's a new thing that we're bringing back then. Right. >> Okay. I don't recogn recognize the Stephanie. It's not it's not Burns. Is it Stephanie Burns? Graduation. Okay. All right. So, that's a that's um Did we I don't see any Did we have Didn't
052we need a social studies and an English ELA teacher at the high school? Are >> those I think we're abolished. >> We abolished them positions. We abolished them and they were brought back as these two CTE positions. We abolished him because we had no no teachers in positions for two years to apply for anything else. >> Well, yeah. I'd like to um I want to I want to pull Mrs. Wagner out of the head principal um vote and vote on her separately, please. >> Okay, we can do that, Mr. Gibson. >> And I'll tell you why in a bit. >> Okay. Uh we are going to pull uh Janette Wagner and we've uh got to pull Chris Sutton as head of Pog County High School. We've got to pull them too. and vote on everybody
053else and then we'll vote on them two separate. Okay. We're voting on Chris Sutton's resignation from Hills basketball for Greenbank kids basketball coach at Greenbank Elementary to start with. So, we're voting on everybody but the head principal position at Popus County High School and Chris Sutton as head basketball coach at Ponis County High School. We're pulling them two. All those in favor signify saying I. >> Motion carries. Now, uh Mr. Gibson about Janette Wag head head principal Pan High School. >> Well, I understand it was only one applicant for that position and I'd like to in in total transparency, I'd like to post that job longer and try and get more applicants um to be, you know, just to have a deeper field. Um so I'd like them. Okay, so we need a motion, right?
054>> Yeah. I I want to make a motion to repost the principal job at PCHS for an additional time period to see if we can get more applicants, please. Okay, Mr. Gibson has made a motion. Do I have a second? >> I second. >> Mrs. McCoy seconded. All those in favor sign by saying I. >> I. >> So repost and bring us a >> absolutely. Yes, sir. >> And the only one I can bring it back. And one other thing that I had on my notes here is we've been talking about coaches. >> Vote for Chris. >> We got to vote for Chris. Okay. >> We got to vote on him first, Mr. Gibson. Okay. Now, we're voting on Chris Sutton as head basketball coach boys for Pocahontas County High School for the 2026 27
055athletic season. All those in favor signify saying I. >> I. We have to vote on a resignation before we can employ you. >> Okay. Mr. Gibson, did you have something else? >> Yeah, we um we accepted this head soccer coach position back in uh the young men's soccer coach position back in like January or something. And I haven't seen it come across our coaching agenda. >> I thought I thought we approved that when it's still posted. It's >> still posted. >> Yeah. Yes. >> So, what I'll do in the morning is go through the pros and hirings and then we need to extend the post >> for the for the for the men's for the for the young men's soccer team at the hospital. I thought that I thought the young man that was on
056that's on his honeymoon was going to apply. >> Huh? Is he not? He couldn't. I >> think he couldn't apply. >> Sweet. >> That's who that's who you talked about. >> Yeah, we didn't. >> This is okay. >> We didn't have an applicant. We had an applicant that had difficulty. Is that >> Yeah, >> correct. >> Okay. I I heard I heard through the community that there was going to be one apply. So he couldn't get on the platform to apply. Is that what it is? Okay. Cuz I'd heard that a certain individual was going to apply for the And I don't know whether they did or not. We're both in the same boat, but I you know, usually I'll hear something. Does that answer your question, Mr. Gibson? >> Yeah, I think so. I
057mean, I just I just hadn't seen so anything about soccer at all and you know, I've been to my radar and I'm looking for it. So, thank you very much, Miss Gold. >> Any other questions on personnel? All those in favor sign of saying I we done that a business. None. [laughter] New business. Approval of fundraiser is A. B is discussion and action superintendent's annual evaluation. C discussion action proposed workstation for board members. D is discussion action June 12th three-hour early for students only. And E is discussion of action proposed policy revisions PO 4432 personal leave. On the next page, >> F is discussion action proposed policy revision for PO 4432.02 voluntary personal leave donation program. >> I have a question. >> I got to have a motion first. >> Mr. McCome made the motion.
058Do I have a second? >> I second. >> Mr. Gibson second it. Thought I was gonna have to do that myself. St. Okay. uh questions. >> Okay. Nonc I want to know why why we have to have that. >> Well, and um the reason I asked for that is because Mr. Gibson um Miss Hammonds and Mr. uh Anderson and Mr. McKenna, Darren McKenna, we have all gone and visited all the schools for summer maintenance and for needs from our principles. Those are some expensive items and what I thought would be um the best way to approach that because we're going to be spending probably a significant amount of money to invite the newly elected board members and the board members that are going out to prioritize that. put a budget on them so that they
059can you guys can work together on what you want us to do over the summer so we can start that process because we have a lot of work to do and we need to I don't want to start spending money when we have a new majority coming in without having a collaborative opportunity to work together. >> We we used to do this all the time. the old members going out and the new ones coming in. Always sat down and had a workstation and discussed what our views was, what direction we wanted to go, and what the new one's views coming in, why we could do certain things and why we couldn't. You know, it's just a and to update everybody what's happening. >> And to be honest, Mr. Gibson had a long talk with me
060and he said, "I need to get working." And I said, "Mr. Gibson, I got it on the agenda, but we have to be we have to be amicable that we're getting um a new majority on the board and work together. >> So, that's what that is. And I do have a proposed date that I would like to set up. [clears throat] >> What's that date? >> I was just thinking the next board meeting um June 16th, instead of coming in at 6:00, just come in two hours early and have the work session and then have the regular meeting. >> So, you come in at four o'clock. >> Come in. Would that work for you ladies? >> Well, the I got something on the 16th the meeting on the 16th. The six Can I have the
061floor for just a minute? >> Yes, sir. >> Thank you. The It was brought to my attention that we last weekend, a week ago, we scheduled the LSIC five LSIC meetings on the 16th. Right. >> On the 15th in the middle of the day. Well, I'm hearing a good bit of SL from the community members and some of our vital business partners that we scheduled it. We ski we scheduled five local school improvement council meetings during the middle of the day when our locals when our majority of our people are working and they can't we've we've alienated our partners. I hear what you're saying, but I spoke with all the principles about that and they were all amicable and wanted to do that. >> Reached him at 1:00. Well, I mean, so the school students
062could get our >> and that's so all the staff could participate because they're not working. >> Well, >> are you wanting me to reschedule that? >> Well, it's just not I don't think it's smart policy. We we we our community folks that want to come, they can't some of them can't come because they're have work commitments for that day. You know, like our local school improvement council presidents, you know, it's a pretty big deal to leave them out. Um I don't know the solution now that we're less than two weeks away from today. But it's a thing. >> Well, we're getting off subject because uh we got to this June 16th is the one we're talking about right now, which is >> That's right. You're correct. >> Before the before the board meeting, then we
063can discuss that at matters of the board. But uh what do you ladies think? Would you let her know? >> I can call Connie. >> You can call Connie. Okay. >> We We used to do this all the time and I don't know how they got away from it, but it's really informative when you do because I've been both. I've been a going out member and I've been a coming in member and and it's why you how you make decisions sometimes, you know, based on what you know. Okay. Any other business that we need to discuss? >> So, we're coming in June the 16th at 4 >> at four o'clock >> maybe. What you want to check with? >> We'll check with Connie and let us know. >> Okay. >> Yeah. Yeah. Because you're gonna
064be the three of you is going to be involved in only, you know, well, all us now. But >> how soon can you let us know ASAP? >> Well, she's not going to be back. >> Oh, she's out of town. >> She's out of town. >> Just just let the the superintendent know and then she can for us in an email. >> Okay. >> Will that work? >> Yes, it will work. >> Okay. Okay. We need to pull out uh B which is discussion action on the superintendent's annual annual evaluation. We have to pull that out because we got to go in executive session to do that. >> Okay. Uh we ready to vote on all the rest of them. >> Would you like an overview on those two policies? >> Yes, please. Um I
065have worked with the um sick leave bank committee um which consists of a representative from each school, the WV uh the uh service and professional personnel union representative and our payroll clerk. And we had these policies on the agenda two two weeks ago and I pulled them off because we needed to distinguish the difference. We were getting quite a few questions on them. So I asked them to prepare a presentation for us on the difference in the two. Um nurse Jenny prepared a presentation and I had hoped that one of them would come and present tonight. However, the task has fallen to me. So we have a pro proposed revisions and the reason that we are revising these policies, Missy Irvin, our payroll clerk, came to me um probably Sarah about 6 months ago and
066said there was a conflict in what we were doing and what our policy was and our policy had been updated in 2020 and what we were doing was from 40 years ago. So we had to revise the policy. So this is an explanation. We have to provide in the policy an explanation on how to resign from the personal leave bank. A better explanation and description of what catastrophic medical emergency means. And the committee came up with these guidelines. a medical or physical condition that incapacitates an employee and requires the employee to be absent from work at least a minimum 5 days or greater. And what that means is that they're absent maybe they've used all of their days and now if they don't join one of these banks or get um approved leave from this
067bank, they're going to lose pay. So it would re result in a substantial loss of income and we believe they believe as the committee and I support this belief that 5 days loss of pay is a substantial loss of pay um would create a financial hardship if you lost 5 days of pay. The condition could be that they are having to be the caregiver for a family member that is experiencing an illness or a disability. the addition of the word voluntary to the title of the personal leave donation program to better describe that this is not a requirement that employees have to do. This is a choice that they make to join this. So the personal leave bank membership is voluntary and this is a a policy to become a member. Each employee must contribute
068at least one day when joining before the last day of the first month of school. At the beginning of the school year, if the leave bank has more than 100 days remaining, the current current members will not be charged days at that time. New members joining are always charged days. If the bank drops below 100, all members will be charged a day. So, you give a day when you join. then we have 100 days. Nobody that's already in the bank has to give a day. But if you're new and you want to join the bank, you have to give a day once. >> Donate a day salary. >> Do you donate a day? Like I donate one of my days that's given to me for leave. And if you get sick and you have no
069days and you met that previous criteria, then you can get paid using my days. >> Okay. Okay. So um once a member once a member employees remain a member until submitting a form and a request to payroll to be removed from the personal leave bank. Contributions are permanent and you cannot be refunded. You give a day that day is gone forever. You can never get that day back. You've contributed. So then the personal leave bank only members of the personal leave bank with less than 5 days accumulated personal leave who is absent from work due to a catastrophic medical emergency which incapacitates an employee or an immediate family member for whom the employee provides care. Catastrophic means a medical or physical condition that incapacitates an employee that is likely to require a prolonged absence from
070work greater than 5 days and will result in a substantial loss of income because the employee has exhausted all personal leave. So you can't use legally somebody else's leave until you have no lease. She can't say, "Oh, I want to save my vacation. I want to use your leave and save my leave." No leave. You have to be zero days. The member may request days in writing from the personal leave bank. All days must be exhausted before you can get be can be given um from the personal leave bank. The maximum number of days a member of a personal leave bank can draw in a year is 40. The maximum number per life of that employee is 100. So one year you can get 40. Your entire career could be 30 years, 40 years, you
071can only use 100 personal leave bank. Any member who requests days must release a and provide copies of medical information to the personal leave committee. All days must have a doctor's excuse turned into the board office with the absence slip so that the payroll department can keep track of days used. When a member is granted personal leave bank days, they count towards work days and do not affect retirement. You are using your days that you donated to become a member of the bank. So, we changed the beginning of this because people were getting confused between the personal lead bank and the donated lead bank. So, we put voluntary in front of this to kind of flush those two policies out. So you may request the use of voluntary donated leave to replace a request uh
072[clears throat] by placing a request to the leave committee. The committee will then decide if the request is warranted and will submit that request to the superintendent and in code the superintendent may consult or make the decision if it is a catastrophic medical emergency for you to ask other people for their leave. So you use all your leave, you use your 40 days from the personal leave bank, you still need more days. So now people in the community, school community that has days can volunteer to give you a day so you don't lose a day's pay. That's what we're talking about right now. A donor may transfer an unlimited number of days to a spouse or the donor employee. All decisions to transfer must be voluntary. Donated leave may not be used to qualify for
073or add to services for any retirement system. So, you don't get to count somebody else's days for services or retirement. Employees requesting leave are responsible for asking other employees to donate days. Employees who choose to donate leave must submit the required paperwork themselves. Donate leave will only be applied once the donor completes the paperwork has been received. So if you say I'm donating leave and then you don't submit the paperwork to that person that they don't get paid until you submit the paperwork. Forms may be attained from the payroll department at the [clears throat] central office. And we have planned at the opening of school to go over this with everyone so that everyone understands the leave policy and what those leave policies indicate and how you participate in the leave policy. >> Now, does
074this policy have to be out on comment for 30 days? >> We will be putting this policy out on comment for 30 days. >> Any questions? We got to pull out uh the superintendent's evaluation B and we can vote on everything else. Then we got to go into executive session to evaluate the superintendent. >> We're pulling it. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. I. >> Motion carries. Now we got to go in executive session. I think we do to do an evaluation. >> You want to approve all the others? >> Well, we want to finish the agenda. So, >> we can do it. We can uh however you want to do. We just voted on everything. >> You just voted on everything? >> Mhm. >> Except from my evaluation. >> Except
075for your evaluation. We pulled it. We voted on everything else. >> Okay. I didn't understand that. I'm sorry. >> Okay. Uh well, we got to come back and read the evaluation in public once we do it. >> So, do I have a motion to go in executive session? So, move. >> Mr. McComes made the motion. Do I have a second? >> Second. Second, >> Mrs. McCoy. Second. All those in favor sign. We're going to executive station at 7:35. Wake up. Mr. Mcome second it all those in favor signify by saying I come out at 7:49 we're in regular session okay goals of the superintendent we asked for goals to established at the beginning of the year the first goal was during the 2526 school year operation capacity will improve systems wide to address all non-compliance
076indicators from the spatial circumstances review for special education and we said that Dr. Williams exceeds our expectations. The item number two on here, the second goal was all Poconos County schools will meet annual growth targets for ELA and math as measured by the end of the year assessments. We also whenever we looked at it and you went over all the paperwork with us, you exceed the them expectations. Number three, during the 2526 school year, outdated policies and job descriptions will be updated to align with West Virginia code and the West Virginia Board of Education policies and you've done that. So, we've got you exceed expectations on that. >> Okay. The superintendent updates and general I don't think we have the vote on that, do we? >> No. Uh, okay. Uh, superintendent updates. A general or
077general updates. Dr. Williams. Well, we need to decide about this LSLC. We need to decide if I'm cancelling that. Do you want me to cancel them, reschedule them? I mean, they've been scheduled with the schools, the schools on all the principles. It was a collaborative effort that we all worked on together. >> Well, my well, I explained my concern over it, but I think we've mishandled the LSIC all school year round. I mean, we used to we used to go to the school and listen to the teachers. We don't do that anymore. And uh I think you mishandled that all together. And I really think you know scheduling in the middle of the day is not a good move. But we're less than two weeks out. I don't know how you change it now. >>
078Okay. But we've also told the way we used to and I thought it was a good thing to go in and sit down with the teachers and talk to them >> that we couldn't do that because we violating open meetings. That's correct. Sunshine law. Sunshine Mall. >> You have an indicator on your balance scorecard that you were not doing that appropriately. We did not have the appropriate agendas to submit and we were told to do it differently. >> Cuz I thought that was a >> we did it for years and then all of a sudden they said you can't do that anymore. And up with illegal all. Thanks, Tim. Tim, y'all can't do this. >> Thanks, Tim. >> But we did it anyway. >> So, proceed. >> Okay. >> So, we're still going to have
079it. >> Yes. >> Can you give me the dates again? >> It's It's uh >> between June 15th. >> June the 15th. And that'll be a special meeting that'll go out. >> Listen carefully. >> And they start at 9:30 at the high school. The high school's first at 9:30. Greenbank Elementary Middle School is at 10:30. We take a break. Christy, help me with the >> That'll also be at the high school where we go to Green. >> Green Bank will be at the high school. And then we split it and came up come over here for the the schools on this end of the county. And we started off with >> That's what I thought too. And those will all be up. And Marlington Middle School here. >> No, Marlington Middle School's going to host
080that. So we'll be that will be hosted at Marlington Middle School. Correct, Christie? >> This is the high school. Green Bank. We got to go to Green Bank. Are they coming to the high school? >> They're coming to the high school. >> Yes. >> Okay. 9:30 and then Green Bank will be at 10:30. And then next year they agreed to switch it around. We'll go to Greenbank. The high school will go there. So >> if if you remember correctly, we used to have these at 1:00 in the afternoon so the school so the students couldn't >> used to be at 3:00. Yeah. During the school year. Okay. Uh you got anything else? >> I do not. >> Matters of the board, Mr. McCoy. >> Okay. Well, I've been out in the community this week and
081I have found out all kinds of stuff and lord. >> I'm not going to share it all tonight. I will later because the public needs aware of it. But I am going to ask if we could consider getting another full-time nurse in the schools for next school year because we only have four and you always have one school without a nurse. And I think if we did away with uh maybe they don't even go in the schools anymore in community care. >> If we did away with that that would take care of the nurses. >> Hey community care it's free. >> Yeah. But they use the nurse >> they have an office there. >> They use the nurse's office. They they trash theming. I mean it it I'm just saying they used to not clean
082up after themselves. And I just think we need a nurse in every school because our nurses are run ragged. And if you have one in each school, they're familiar with those children even though they will switch and go to different schools so they learn the needs of all the schools. I just feel there's a need for another nurse. Any thoughts on that? Is that absurd or I agree? I I thought we had community care at the high school >> and they had their own office up there. >> It's not their own office. It's the nurse's office. >> I thought they was in Annex >> building any when I was there was in the back of the main office. >> Yeah, >> that's correct. Okay. >> And community care saves a lot of money because teachers
083can pop over there in the planning period as opposed to taking a day off >> to go to the doctor. kids go over there. You should never >> I don't My comment was about uh we need more nurses. I don't know about accenting communities in >> I'm not done yet. >> I know community care. >> That's something to think about. I would like to know how many schools community care is actually in during the day. They're in four, >> but we got them in every other school. You got a nurse at Hillsburg. >> Full time nurse. That's where >> nurse at Hillsburg. >> Jenny's high school. >> She transferred to Hillsburg. >> He has been up there for years. >> Okay. Well, >> oh, I just they say that the nurses just see the students,
084not all of them. That's what I just >> Okay. >> I don't know. Okay. Can we can we just think about that for next school year? I won't be here. So, >> no, >> I just like that considered. And the other thing I have is seems we're getting nowhere on these um law cases, so to speak, that we have, and I would like to recommend that we get new council for next year because the one we have isn't doing us much good. Never has. something like that. Okay. >> Is there anything we need to do about that or just let it go or what? >> We have him on a retainer for a year at a time. Is that correct? >> Yeah, you renew it every year. >> We renew it every year. >> Come
085due >> July. July 1st. >> Say we don't renew it. >> And >> that might be a pricing issue. It might be a pricing issue. Can you check it and see? >> We will check it. Um, >> do you feel like he's helping you any? >> Mr. Long does he does a lot of things for us. Yes, he he does a good job. There's some There's some things that he can't help us with and we get outside counsel for that, but there's a lot of things that he helps us with. >> Okay. Didn't think that was >> There's a lot of things. um maybe non-personnel things. For example, I just talked to him today and we needed a letter uh a legal statement for our USDA grant which is a million dollars and he's been
086working on getting that for us. He looks over contracts for us. I send him the >> catastrophic information the high school wants to start a boosters. I send him what they had developed to look over and make sure it was legally compliant. I mean, >> okay. I just wasn't aware of that. I know um from what I've seen, I didn't think he represented us well and helped us. But >> he does a lot I know from the other two superintendents I've worked with, he does a lot of behind the scenes answering, okay, >> dayto-day questions. >> Okay, can scratch that. >> And one thing about Jason, he's easy to get a hold of. He's easy to get a hold of, always >> and uh if we have a question as a board members, we can
087call him >> and he'll answer our questions because I've done that in the past when something comes up. >> Absolutely. >> Local Pocahontas County and he does take care of Pocahontas for >> he's Tom Long's son that used to be superintendent of schools here. >> I mean, we had a problem when we were putting our uh uh community league basketball, we had a little bit of Dave Mccclure was helping us with that, which was also a Pocahontas County boy, and he came here and helped us regularly. And then we ran into some issues with the state with the transferring of those funds >> and Sarah's still working on that, but uh Mr. Law did advocate for us on that. So, there's a lot of things he does for us that the board doesn't know that
088I don't bring to you and there are personnel issues that he does not get involved in. >> Um, but he is a easily accessible. >> He's worth keeping. >> Okay. >> Absolutely. >> He's a mid I would like them to be to consider a full-time nurse. Well, so all schools have a nurse, >> right? >> And that's it. >> All right. You got anything from that, Mr. Gibson? >> Um, yeah. I got several things here that again, we don't have the extension serviceou um on our agenda tonight. Um, >> may I say something about that, Mr. >> You could. Yes, please. When you said something about it last time, it was we that was just like a week ago and Mrs. Hamilton said it would be on the 16th agenda. >> so it's it'll be
089on the >> Okay. So it's okay. All right. I know that's a there's a timeline on that. It's kind of important. Um but the 16th will be done. Um glad to see we have a counselor put forward a grad coach. That's really good. The scheduling issues. Thanks for your presentation on that. That's very helpful. I didn't realize most people don't probably know people understand the depth that that was to put that together. And I I I appreciate that. Um the principal search, I'm glad to see that's, you know, we had somebody apply. Um and I really like Miss Wagner. Um, what about the assistant principal of athletics? Was that's not on the that wasn't on the agenda tonight. Where where's that at? Is it still out on still out posting right now? Okay. Uh, you
090know, we had I got here's one from the community. Um, apparently the business and this is from the community. This is from the beet gallery, but somebody the business class the high school had applied for a grant and once we cancelled the grant the business class the grant gets sent back. Does he get reapplied? You know, it just seems like that was bad business to cancel the business class when they were actually doing business at the time. But so what what's up with that grant we re received on that >> miss Hamilton? >> Since the class was cancelled >> we've received counseling we will have to return. >> Okay all right that's fine and that that makes sense because we all know you have to use that very carefully but that's going it's going to
091be true. Okay, so here's one from the the uh community. The our beloved girls basketball team was going to go to Concord for for a a spring summer shootout and they were denied access. Was that Can you speak to that? Is there anything you know anything about that? >> Miss Bland and I talked about it and because of the dates when that was scheduled, it was scheduled earlier than it usually is. it was outside the the parameters of when they could go and principal lamb looked at that with me. >> So it's just not >> it just they move the day to that event is my understanding if you really the the person that most to most speak on that will be principal bland. >> Um so I can ask her and get back to
092you on that. There's >> some kind of legal issue then there right? >> Yes. >> All right. Well that's good. That's um the public is glad to know about that. Um my question about the men's soccer coach um there has been some answering to that. Um you know and here's what I ded on your valuation on the policy revision policy revision on policy number 2371. we we we we keep not circling back and correcting these brush fires that we need to put out. I'd like to see us be more proactive and revisiting those those um things like like for instance 2371 the hope scholarship policy. I want that fixed. Um here's another one. our very public but private personnel issue. You know, that's another one I'd like to see circled back around and something done
093about because we're racking up some serious money on that. You know, we've hired Mrs. Karen's legal counsel. We've hired we've been paying a stay-at-home salary. I mean, there comes a point we have to look at the threat the financial threshold on that and say, "Hey, we need some answers here." Okay. Um, I want to see that something done with that, you know, and that brings me down to the athletic vice principal. I'd like to see that done away with until we have a new board seated on that one because that's an act of grievance. I don't know how we can I don't know how we can hire somebody for that while there's a legal exercise on the table on it. Does that make sense? Am I saying that right? That's why I say it anyway.
094So, I don't like that. Um, you know, and this is I want to say this in closing. I am so sad about things. I was really glad to see the girls basketball team in here and we should be we should be talking about all kinds of accolades and we're busting over things, you know, and I'd like you to I can't figure out what the denominator is on that, but I surely look forward to today when we don't have these fights and um I I I want to work real hard and smooth things over move forward and that's that's all I have sir. >> Thank you. Uh >> pro officer. We're going to repost that. >> I believe it was reposted. >> was it reposted? Ollie, we reposted both of them, right? Okay. Yeah, those have
095been reposted. When did those come down? >> Okay. I just wondered if we had reposted. I don't have anything else. I just want to make sure we get them done. Our next board meeting will be June 16, 2026 at the Poconus County Board of Educ June 15th. >> June Well, it's on your 16th. >> It was It was um >> We got a meeting the 15th and the 16th. Yes. >> Yes, sir. >> Huh? >> Yes. >> Okay. Our next board meeting will be June the 15th at 9:30 at Pocahontas County High School. [laughter] >> The 15th is when we're at the high school. That's what I said. >> The 16th is a board meeting. >> Well, yeah, but we got a board. That's a board meeting. >> Okay. >> Together, it's a board meeting.
096>> It's a board meeting. >> So, the 16th is a board meeting. >> The 15th is board meeting when we'll go through all the LSIC's. And then the 16th is a board meeting when you do the business >> here. Okay. It'll be two meetings. >> Okay. Let me get this straight. Our next board meeting will be June the 15th at Pocahontas County High School starting at 9:30 in the morning. >> Yeah. >> We are here by