001I'm not getting the same. How are you? I know. [Music] You see your name? by I think [Music] someone stuff We were doing so much Sure, they bring you one So I kind of have an idea. Maybe I'll see that find some important photograph. starting to think I'm sure they probably have the same No, I didn't think anybody is policy. But she fill up the ones that showed up that night. It's more Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Call the meeting of County Board of Education for two to all members are present. First is to the flag. I pledge algiance to the United States of Americ school superintendent office that right now will you please swear Dr. Are we answer please repeat after me? I, Dr. Letha G. Williams, do solemnly swear I, Dr. Lethal G. Williams, who
002solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States of America that I will support the Constitution of the United States of America and the Constitution of the State of West Virginia and the Constitution of the State of West Virginia and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the Office of Superintendent of Pocahontas County Schools. And I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of the superintendent of Pocahontas County Schools to the best of my skill and judgment. The best of my skill and judgment. So help me God. welcome. Thank you, Dr. Williams. County. Welcome to the community. Thank you. Item number two on agenda on the agenda is approval of the minutes from the board of education meeting council of June 17, 2025. Do I have a motion? Mr. Mcomes
003made a motion. Do I have a second? Second. Miss Hollinssworth second it. Any additions or corrections to the minutes? Hearing none. All those in favor sign. Approval of the agenda. Do I have a motion? Second. Any additions to the agenda. Yes, we have had a service Lorie Wayne as cook at Green Elementary Middle Secretary. Did we add everything to the thing to the agenda? Yes. We can't do Oh, here it says employment right here. Yes. Yes. Yes, we've been school year 200 days. Any others? No. All those in favor? Delegations. superintend. I just wanted to give you an oversight of where we are in our accountability and then our performance from last year. So when the actual scorecard comes out this year, you know, so if we could pull up the first thing that she's
004pulling up back here is the CTE of accountability dashboard. And what we are looking at here is we're looking at Pocahontas County Schools. We're looking at your overall score for the county is 93 and we meant the accountability score for each of these other indicators. The little red line is where we should be and if we perform better than what the expectation was. So you can see that we are performing above in 68 in participation in our CTE programs in concentrations. Um, an area that we might need to look a little bit on, uh, look at a little bit is our completers. We're just above the red line where in all the other areas were well above the red line. Here, workbased learning, we're below the expectation was 32 and we have 17. And then
005per performance assessment, we're above and then we are below in our teacher endorsements. So, we do not have all of our teachers endorsed commitments. So, the next one we're going to look at is our accountability dashboard. And the accountability dashboard tells us about performance on the 12 indicators for our school system. So, if we look at the accountability dashboard, we have three areas of concern and that are on watch. We have uh county board operating procedures, special education and universal prek. And then over here we have we are on support for attendance. So the way the account accountability system works is you're either fully accredited, you're on watch, you're on support, and then you're on intensive support, which is intervention. It's a state of emergency thing. So we're on yellow on three, attendance. We've spoken
006about that. We have some attendance issues that we have to correct because we are on support for attendance at our school. And then the final thing I wanted us to look at is our bounce scorecard. It tells us how we're performing academically. Scroll it up. So on the bounce scorecard, we have what's called academic achievement, academic progress, larners, and student success. And student success is related to attendance and behavior in our school system. So if we look at our elementary schools, that many subgroups. It'll bring up each of the schools and the subgroups and tell you how they're performing. So if we look at academic achievement and that's how many students are achieving at proficiency levels in ELA and math for our subgroups white socioeconomically disadvantaged we are partially meet standards for academic progress which
007means those students are growing towards academic achievement. We have a blue for white and socioeconomically disadvantaged. If we go over here for ELA math and reading achievement for our students with disability, we are a does not meet standards. If we go over to the next section which is student success attendance, you can see there that we are also in the red in attendance and on behavior we exceed standards. So, we do not have a lot of behavioral referrals that are documented in level three and level four. Any questions? Oh, let's go to the high school map. So, so, so red's red is not good. Red's not good. Red is does not meet standard. Okay. Yellow is you partially meant standard. Blue is you meant the standard. And green is you exceeded the standard. are going
008better than than anticipated. So for our high school, if we look at them and we look per subgroup on academic achievement for ELA, our white subgroup partially met standard. They did not meet standard in math proficiency and that's on the sat school day. The graduation rate is meets standard. And then on the five-year graduation rate where partially meets standard for attendance at the high school, it's red in all subgroups. On track to graduate, and what on track to graduate means, the number of students by the end of 10th grade that have accumulated the appropriate amount of credits to graduate on time. We are meet standard. And then for postsecary education, that's looking at your AP courses, that's looking at your college completion courses and the pass rate of those and your CTE completers. We are
009partially meet standards there. If we look at our socioeconomic students or our special ed student, our socio uh economically disadvantaged were red in um all categories except for four-year graduation rate and on track to graduate for our high school. So that's kind of where all our schools are performing and that's where the county is performing at this time. This report will come out again at the beginning of August and I will update you if we make growth or progress from this which was last year to this year. When you say last year you meant because that's the 24 the year we just finished. Not the year just finished. The year before we just finished. Yes. Oh, so you don't have you don't have your numbers yet from this current year to make to make this
010next. That'll be the next one we get in. All right. Okay. [Music] Anything else? I think that's it. Sure. Thank you. Those testing body wants to be used a lot of other factors in there. What about attendance? Where's the attendance up there? We didn't get branded behavior. Wonder what good somebody would get some good some we got we've got room to improve we got to improve got to improve we've got some partial mastery I think that um possibly the scores could be better this year um but it wasn't all we did have yellows and we had some blues I want to start I want to start looking at things as not what's wrong in the again, you know, we we need to start looking at the good things, good side of things, too. There's a
011lot a lot of good happening. We need to talk about that. We also need to know what's wrong. I mean, you if the things is good, you don't always hear about things. We need to bring up to not hear about. There we go. Yes. Item number six, approval of the following consent financial requirement. Payment of vendor listing $74,84.38. Payment of local government purchasing card 89161.99 June 17 2025. Employee payroll 282,57838 extra duty pay for the month of June 24,94172. Bank reconciliations for the month of May 2000 adjustments. Do I have a Mr. Motion? Do I have a second? Mr. McN. Any questions? Hearing none. All those in favor by saying I motion carries. Under miscellaneous approval of level up course amendments between Blink State University Schools. So I have a motion made a motion. I
012have a second and that's number seven on the agenda. Anybody got any questions about number seven? We just added it to the list we already had. We have students signed up for it already. I mean they were enrolled in other contacts. Yeah, we have a number. How many students are you talking? [Music] Yeah. started at 8 and a couple of us and they will have the option to do this online too if they choose that's what we're talking about and a couple of we contacted it anyway instructor or is it there will be There is a teacher in the in the room with him when they're doing his work. Yeah. Any other questions? All those in favor sign I carries. Number eight, discussion, review, and possible action on job description for assistant principal at PCHS.
013Do I have a motion? I move a motion. I have a second. Mrs. F. Can I ask for executive session, please? Not on a position. You It's not a person. There's no I don't think there's anywhere in the Bible where I can say that it we're going to discuss it. It's a position a little bit about Okay. So, when I looked at the position that was posted for assistant principal, athletic director, it mainly had a job description that was an athletic director's job description. after reviewing it and then looking at the state of emergency where the high school is in that process and speaking with the principal. I really feel like that position needs to have a special ed uh supervision needs to be assistant principal supervisor of special education so we have a targeted
014focus on one of the schools needs from the state of emergency. Um and then maybe we look at posting the athletic director as a separate uh stipen position. Okay. If the board that makes a lot that makes a lot more sense and when we have approved that a month ago now I don't think we really questioned it. We just thought it would sound like a good idea, but since I thought about it, I don't think it was such a good idea cuz we How many applicants we have on it? You have any applicants? We had three applicants. I asked Miss Campbell to contact each of those and say we were going to re-evaluate the position and repost it and we encourage all of them to reapply. So, we had three applicants and two times round
015as much work as our needs to do up there and as much work as there is with an athletic director I don't think I question this boss several times it needs to be two step position I agree director is at least a half time position if you do correct it's true because you got to call the referees you got to set everything up It's a job. We can reost. Can this person be a citizen? Director could be a citizen. Can be a citizen. And the assistant principal will have to have the administrative degree. And I would like to post that with a specialization in special ed because that aligns with their needs at that school and helping them move forward on their um progress towards the state of emergency for them. So two separate positions.
016Um I can either post it um give me permission to divide those, post those, write those or I can u prepare the positions and change description and read it back to you next board meeting for approve. and then post it and it's whatever you would like to be. What do you think, Principal Campbell? What's your opinion here? I mean, I agree with everything you said. I would like for Dr. Williams to be able to read the scripture and get it just because of time. That's why I said we can go ahead and post it. Are you saying that the special ed would be required or preferred or how did that um I'm probably going to put preferred. Um, well, some people have background without necessarily certification, but we're just limiting the pool a lot and
017it's been I mean, we've had good applicants. It's just that athletic director from the work that needs to be done. Sure. after after I get it written, we'll we'll collaborate on it. See if it meets your needs and then we get it posted and you guys would allow her to go ahead and post it. We got I go ahead and have to create that two different position. You don't have to. All you got to do on the discussion he's already got authority to her But this is administrator. So we have still have to go two weeks to the board meeting because this is actually an administrator and we put that in there last time administrator. So it would have to be we have to vote on it from Okay. All those in favor sign. Uh
018so you all understand what just happened. Well, we need you to understand. I didn't say what's happening, but I don't know that you don't need a motion to change. No, we don't need a motion to change it because it says on your possible action. So, we're good with that. And we want her to be able to post as soon as possible. There is item number nine is discussion discussion and possible action on anou for services with the dear client. Do I have a motion motion for seconded? Any discussion on what is it's just extending her contract to the 1 of January. Right. I'm afraid of me. Miss Klein, are you going to be able to take care of your other position and this too? To to address address that, Superintendent Williams. Uh is it okay,
019President Grimes? Yes. Uh yes, they the state department has me assigned as you see thatou uh two days a month as the official West Virginia Department of Education mentor to Dr. Williams and then an additional via Pocahontas County Board of Education 25 days between July 1 and and January 1 or December 31st uh to provide support as I have been. And the same is true for Boone County. So I am no longer the itinerate or interim superintendent in Boone County. I'm now a support liaison just like I was to Pocahontas County. So my role has shifted in the last couple of days. I was that itinerant over there for two and a half weeks. But uh I I believe that I will be able to do both unless Superintendent Williams sees otherwise. think she will
020be ask well I think it's great I love this client this is something we absolutely think need well I mean you know talking about money here I want to be think about this and I'm okay with she's super helpful she's supportive She I mean she doesn't just say she's not just our cheerleader like she does. She helps us find policy to what we're doing. I mean she she a blessing. She has resources. She checks. We have questions. So she is invaluable. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Motion carried. Number 10. discussion review or action letter head for official business of public county schools. Do I have a motion? Post made motion. I have a second. So in your packets you have um letter part of your part of the state of emergency
021and work in this plan with the board of education office is that we do not have official letterhead when we are doing official business. So, I wanted to design something that brands the school district that is uh very official, very clean. Um, so I have a few examples there for you to choose from. I think I have four in here. The differences are the first one has the um tech schools um description, our address, the board members on the left hand side and then our logo on the right hand side and has a thin line. The next one, this one has a more profound line and has the logo in the information switch. Then we have uh I think this is something. Then we have one with a thinner line. So we have various lines,
022various uh placement of our logo. Any of these is fine with me. We just need to have and I can change anything on to you soon. This is yours. This is yours. My decision. Tell us which one. I like this. This is one. Okay. That's this one. Yes. Okay. That will be the that will be our official letterhead. So what this means is that any contract sent anything that is an official representation of the board of education will only be on this letter head. If it's not on this letter head then it is not been officially approved to be put on letter. Um when I do this will be part of it. We have letters to parents. will be part of it. Um, and then we will work on the glad for each school to
023reflect a similar design to ours so that parents know they're sitting uh uh kids communication. You all want to see the letter that we trust you. It's important decision. See it. All right. All those in favor sign by saying I number 11 discussion review and action of agenda form. Do I have a motion? For a second. Okay. So that is item 11 in your brackets. And looking at our agenda, I thought that I wanted to have a couple of different sections and uh align it with the schoolboard format new box uh board box. So call the meeting to order. I would like to add school improvement updates as number five. And throughout the year, I would like to have our schools present out more to the board about academics at their school, how they're using
024data at their school, and how they're progressing. Um, we have to have one official LSIC meeting each year. But we actually give three benchmarks. We have one at the beginning of the year, one at the middle of the year, and then we have our assessment at the end of the year. That is a great time to have each of our schools report out about the work they're doing and how they are progressing student achievements and how they're moving that accountability mark on our dashboard and that gives us the things to celebrate. Great. Right. Great. And then um I did want to talk about the personnel agenda. Um, I would like to see us consistently have all the vacancies that are posted on there and we will drive them out if we don't have anybody apply.
025And with the new uh changes or notifications about fingerprints and background checks, if we don't have that back on someone, we will say pending the return of their background check. So, I also have a copy of what that agenda would look like. Then we would divide that up into professional recommendations, service recommendations and extracurricular recommendations. And then if there's any other recommendations, so we would have four parts to the personnel agenda and it would be um like under professional recommendations, we would have resignations, employment. So we would know who resigned and employment and then keep track of their job numbers and how many times that we are posting something. Um, it just makes it easier to manage for Riff and Transfer season and easier to keep up with how many times we have a dog
026that's vacant. Yes, everybody's informed. I didn't notice minutes on the agenda. I thought that was a that was Oh, on this agenda. Okay. I forgot to put on there. So I will add that there's also approval of the agenda. You go ahead that. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. You go ahead. You might want to add a name to the agenda. That's a cool idea. You know I listen to and I was listening to one the other day and they were talking about personnel management and they their company started doing exit retirement interviews. to their long-term employees that been there for and that guy said this company found a lot of information how to retain employees from those eggs and interviews and maybe kind of cool yeah I thought I had one thought but I didn't know if
027I had missed them so so with the personality agenda. As long as you have the position listed and you have the uh position code, you can walk in personnel items right up to the beginning of the meeting and add those in there. And that allows us a little bit more freedom when somebody gets an interview late that we can have it before the and get them on a net and approved so that they're hired especially when we are facing retention problems with our staff. That's right. All those favor say number 12. Discussion and actions regarding SBO monitoring from Sherry for $250 a day not to exceed 39.6 days. Do I have a motion? Motion. Do I have a second? I've been up since 3:00 this morning. Any questions on number 12? I was curious why
02839.6 because when you're um providing services there is a $10,000 threshold. So we have to stay under that or it requires us to rebid up that position. So we are uh making sure that we are following policy 8200 and staying within those guidelines. Yeah. All those in favor signify by saying I discussion or review of the addition of girls volleyball for the 2526 school year. Do I have a motion? Made a motion. Do I have a second? McN. Any discussion? Again, that's me. I wanted to pro provide you some information on that. Okay. So, um I have spoken to the principal of the high school and talked about the position. Some key indicators that I wanted to have information to provide to the board tonight is um do we have uniforms? Do we have funding?
029Do we have a place for the girls to participate? How are we transporting them? And do we have a community league or a middle school team that is feeding into those programs? Um, I think those are all things that to consider when you're considering this volleyball position. It may be, and the board obviously can make this decision, is it that you want to um allow them to start fundraising and recruiting for a position to start next year and get a plan together to propose to the board and table having a volleyball team this year. um so that all of those questions can be answered and we can look at the policy what we did when we introduced a new school or do they want to approve it? They won't have a place to practice because
030the gym flooring is not um finished at this point in time and we would really have to think about transportation and how that occurs. It's my understanding from talking to the other directors that uh sometimes we have a bus shortage in uh for athletic positions. So there's a whole bunch of things you have to take into consideration when you are thinking about this position. The main thing being capacity and sustainability. You don't want to have it for one year. You want to build it up and have a program that is successful and lasts for many years and has the background been done to do that. anybody check to find out if we add [Music] nice and even with girls and boys. Correct. Did anybody check to see if we add one here or do we
031have to add one? No. If you you cannot have um more boy sports than more boy opportunity, girl opportunity. We can have more girl opportunity. It's it's a little different. It's a tiny bit different. Um because there's some this Yes. We would not be in trouble if we added a girl saying a decision about the girls volleyball to force us to start but in four it could it could lay the framework though. That's why I was telling you that that it is not a sport at either of your middle schools. So if you started at the high school, it could lay the framework to start that sport at the middle schools. So that's something you have to take in cons consideration because you do want to have a feeder program into this program. So you
032have to think about to be successful. So you have to think about all those things. Now there is an option that's there's a recly they could start participating directly to build some capacity and over this year as they start to build that capacity and directly in the community if they really are supporting this they support that and then that kind of funnels into this that's definitely good thinking pros let's look at this in pros too I want to think about the good guys about this too volleyball is good it's another opportunity for youth to get exercise. I mean, are you guys volleyball people? Is that why you're here? Can you talk to us about this? Don't say let's hear your role. What do you What do you want? So, the way I look at it
033with the title, I think is football players, you can have up to 30 and 40 on the field. With cheerleading, only 13 of those girls can compete at at competition level. They can have, I think, up to 20 on the on the field at the games and stuff. And you look at what kind of kids, our girls don't have a lot of choices at the high school when it comes down to I have a lot of girls that's gonna want to come out and play for volleyball due to the factor of well they've been either turned off in the team like with cheer that's the only other option. They're not cheerleaders. There's they're just they don't have that option when it comes to cheer or basketball. Basketball there's so many girls that they have triyouts
034every year, you know. I mean when it comes to that and I did want to share with you Dr. Alen you had asked about some preliminary stuff that they have done and they brought that and I just looked at the list at signup um they do have uh documentation of the folks that attended that meeting who's interested what they're willing to do. Um, they also had I looked up the list and a lot of times people will say, "Well, how many cheerleaders are we going to lose to volleyball? How many soccer players are we going to use lose to volleyball?" Actually, the folks that signed up, it might be one kid from each of those sports that were currently interested when they did the interest meeting in the summer. When we had interest, I mean,
035every one of the parents was 100% okay with paying for their for the uniforms. Baseball, they pay for their uniforms so they can get their names on the back. They get them. Yeah. For a junior and a senior, it kind of sucks because you you're only going to get to do it like two years. But our freshman and sophomores, they get it. They keep it throughout season throughout every all their years of play. And it's at theirs and same football they give their jerseys to their players at the end of their senior year. So I mean we just in return they pay for theirs and they get to keep it and only way only way they'd ever get new is if they don't fit their uniform or something happens medically they have to have it
036cut off them. In that case that would be on us to pay for. Football is listed as a girl and boys love sport. Yes. But how many girls do you know go out for football every year? I know there's a one. Yeah, one however many years went out for football. You didn't do that. We did we did reach out to the SSAC about the title N and Dr. Williams is correct on that. We do not have to have another board because I had the same question like we got to find another board for void. No, how much is it going to cost the board? something. Yeah. All these sports up there, girls softball, boys baseball, they all started out saying we're going to take care of it and two or three years down the road,
037we started taking care of it because So I have coached or part of Mustang High School since 2017 and I've only been paid one year. That is not why I'm here. No coaches here because of perfectly fine with volunteering my time for all of it. I don't expect question that keeps bothering me is what happened to the volleyball that we had several years ago. Honestly, I don't know. That was right after I mean the thing is I think it came down to the coach just that's what's going to happen. Yeah, I was going to say I think Ruth just quit and then after that there they didn't have it. they overhauled around it for a while and then she when she left. So, well, and that's what I brought up from the start was sustainability.
038And I think they're doing a lot of work and have done a lot of work and they have been at I mean, as long as I've been at the high school, this ask has come. Yeah. But it's just been three years. But I do think that the fundraising part ahead of time I'm worried about, you know, the space. I mean, we're down to 267 kids. Yeah. I mean, as of right now, it's going to be like one of the private schools, you know, I forget several years ago, I looked one up, one of them had 97 kids, and I think all of them at five play the sport. Yeah. Well, and the the positive side is there's students on this list that do not participate in any of our sports. It would bring more kids
039into things like where's our money person at bus. Yeah. Okay. All right. How are how are you going to get the game? How are you game slides? Our parents are all willing to transport all private transportation. Won't ask for any transport. No. No. does it, baseball does it, soccer does it. I mean, problem. I'm sorry. In the long run, it's not worth it to any sport besides football to take a bus. You don't have enough kids even feel a boss. So, in my eyes, I'm sorry. It comes down to little league and any other sport. Your parents drug you to them, why can't they drag you to a high school sport or buy the rounds? You know, we do that with softball. Do we have to have permission slips? What covers? I know that education
040matter. I know that any other time you have to have every parent that's planning on transporting a child has to have the insurance insurance and all that and then they have a list of who is allowed to ride with you. I'm sure you all take care of all about the transportation that all it takes is one disgrace to file a lawsuit on equal access and we've grown the bus for every we have so you're doing it for football you know well we have had that problem even on a softball level and baseball level but I mean for the most part when you say I'm sorry okay unless you can show us a reason for taking a Plus, for only 16 kids, we've not had I mean, I've not had that problem since 2017 with anybody
041saying anything. I mean, I've had parents that's like, "Oh, well, I can't." Well, okay, then we've had other parents and me being one of them, I'm also a parent myself. Last year, I I had to take my time everywhere because I was packing kids to softball games. I There's plenty of parents that's willing to, hey, you're kicking around with me. Don't worry about even going if you can't make it, it's fine. I mean, you knew you going to get this. I just throw it in here. Now, how are we floor? They started taking it out yesterday. You probably heard of it was going yesterday when they're going to get the delivery around the first part of September. Have it done by October, mid October. That's the plan. We'll play basketball games. Yeah. I mean, I
042knew this was coming. That's why my first board meeting about that knew it yesterday. The theme on the table is um do you want to approve the volleyball team and you could post for a dollar coach? Say you approve the you approve the volleyball sports fees or a dollar a dollar coach and then I can post dollars or you would like to table that getting to work on building more capacity that those are the two decisions about that were work out stuff about the and then it'll be the responsibility of the principal and the responsibility of the coaches to work out the training schedule and where they will practice that's their responsibility. So I have talked to people about that and we can um the middle Green Bay Middle School principal she would say that
043we can use her gym because they have it in there and we have talked to the wellness center and they're okay with us using it there. So with practice so because my way of looking at it we have girls that's in Green Bay we have girls that's in Marlington. It's not fair to come down here every day to our Green Bay kids. I want a 50/50 and my plan is just to apply for the head coach and her head coach. that that will be if if it is approved tonight, those management responsibilities will fall on the shoulders of the principal to manage that. That is something that she will have to take care of with the coaches and the athletic director once we get that posted and hired. Hey days and I was so excited
044but I found that scene when the funds went in the No, not yet because I didn't know what to do with that. I have they're not the same. No, no, they're not because let's table this. Thank you. Let's table that. Well, yeah, we next meeting next meeting, guys. You got to we talk about the volleyball, but about we'll talk about that other stuff. We Yeah. Yeah. Well, we can go ahead and vote on this. We want to do that. you're studying. What are you studying? Well, I mean, I just think there's too much right now and I I am trying my hardest to say yes and look at all the positive things, but I I just think there's too many gray areas right now, ladies. We we don't have a jam. We we we we
045planned on having no home games. We don't even have an athletic director. Well, wrestle this thing down. our post after I talked to other schools that was willing to let us just do all games this year. So because of this reason with gender that was our plans and we have talked we me and chassity have talked and see if Tigers Valley would do what they did for sectionals for the boys this year and us host games there and do 50/50 with them on money if that's what they would like to do just so we can have what cons could be considered a home game. me because like you said the girls that play volleyball 90% of them do nothing else. Well that's what's coming up but also my worries that we table it until next
046year is we've got the hopes of all these girls up. We've been doing this for months. I mean they're asking about this. They're wanting this so badly and if we table it till next year, we're going to lose half of these girls because they're going to say till next year two weeks, right? But I'm saying if we if we say for till the next meeting if we say okay, we're not doing this and develop and then next year with the possibility then we're going to lose half these girls because they're going to say, "Well, you said it was going to happen this year and it didn't happen so it's not going to happen this year and we're not even going to worry about it." That's my worry. I don't know who but as a board
047we were clueless until it showed up on last. No one had ever approached the board to approve when Dr. Williams and I have talked about that actually because there is should be a process in place and whether or not like I don't think anybody knew what that process was because they started they came we said you could have an interest meeting you know and then it was put to the agenda but we didn't have any guidance from the central off from the superintendent to say you I have to present this to the board first and then do these things. You know what I mean? So that's more of a process. As Dr. Williams said, you kind of did this backwards, but do it backwards. We're trying to get the ducks in the row to say
048here's our here's the presentation. Can we do this? So if you want to pop in the bottom up and we've put it on the list for the the added it to the things that their ID because you have to do individual fundraisers, right? So those things that list hasn't been approved yet, but we haven't added all those things. So we We approve this. What t us to do to do we have to reapprove it next year? August. Don't this money have to be run through the the high school sports? As of right now with that money, it's I mean it was just as simple as it was on a Saturday and then I left on Monday. I have it locked at my house. I'll bring it I'm taking it to the school as soon as
049the kid gets there. But I also have multiple businesses in this county that is willing. It's just as simple as sign the check. I have checks that's willing to go to the school. It's just if it's approved, great. Then they'll go to a school. If it's not approved, Ter that's not fundraising. That's No, that's just donations and everything that has been given to us. Excuse me. Do it for one year. Say you can do it for one year. Uh yeah, you can add that to the you make that motion that we want to discuss and review. So we can add that to the agenda and say we can vote on for on a one year basis. All the way games, all parent funding, all everything for one year. For one year. That's what we're going
050to vote. Yes. Try make a motion. Do I have a second? A second. Mrs. Hollms. Second. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. It said the normal agenda just for the 2526 school. We approved it for one year to see how it got and it's up for you to get with Mrs. Campbell and get everything set up. Please make sure you have a go to the yach 2016. Yep. I've been approved multiple every year besides 22 and 23 that I didn't coach due to something else I would suggest which Dr. W brought up. Please try to get please try to get a recly. Please try to get the the middle school if you're going to do this right I mean I'm very competitive do something okay number 14 approval of the mutual authorization
051of contract between Julie Dunlap and county board of education effective July the 1st 2025 do I have a motion m made a motion do I have a second m second it committ a while to figure out who that was. Sorry about that. Wonder who that is. Wasn't the same. Don't say that very loud. All those in favor signify saying I motion carries. Approval of mutual altercation of contract between alteration of contract between school board. school county board of education effective July the 1st 2025. I have a motion to get a second. So, so this is from Mrs. Stephanie B. Any discussion uh for Stephanie? Miss Barns. Yes, she will she is not going to be in direct a director's position. She is going to be in a coordinator's position. Okay. And she will be under
052directly under me as the superintendent. So my certification will be Yes. She will not she coordinate. That's a coordinator. We're extending her days and broadening her field. She um was a 220 contract. She's going to be at 261 and she's going to be over federal programs title one title four step 70 elementary curriculum and secondary textbook. Okay. Um we just didn't have that consistency and that thread pervasiveness for systemic change throughout district and she's going to be over that for us. Okay. All those in favor saying I motion chair. Approval of contract Lisa Park and the Pocon County Board of Education for Speech Pathology Services virtually or in person for July 1st, 2025 to June 30th, 2025. Make a motion. I have a second and all those in favor. about saying that. Okay. On number
05317 is a approval of service and professional personnel. 17. Okay. So, approval of service and professional um Greenbank Elementary Middle School request transfer Sarah Brown from teacher kindergarten to teach us Um, okay. Green Elementary Middle retirement Renee D. Gill as kindergarten aid at Greenbank Elementary Middle School due to retirement effective June 30th, 2025. employment Lorie Wayne as cook three at Greenbank Elementary and Middle School for the 2526 school year for 200 days and shall be 200 days each year thereafter. Marlon Elementary School. Tracy Monk as custodian for at Marlington Elementary July 1, 2025 for the 2526 school year for 261 days and shall be 261 days each year thereafter. Employment of Olivia Kesling as ECAT special education classroom bus a for Marlington Elementary School effective for the 2526 school year for 200 days and shall
054be 200 days each year thereafter. Pocahontas County High School. Allison Star as teacher of art at Pocahontas County High School effective for the 2526 school year for 200 days and shall be 200 days each year thereafter. Employment of Andrew Canover s custodial 3 at Pocahontas County High School effective July 1, 2025 for the 2526 school year in 220 days and shall be 220 days each year thereafter. request transfer of Darlene Arvagast from teacher of special education multicategorical autism to teacher of CTE business management at Pocahontas County High School for the 2526 school year and 200 days for 200 days and shall be 200 days each year thereafter county do we want to do the next section yes read it Pocahontas County Schools. Creation of a position director of personnel technology. Pocahontas County Schools. Creation of
055a position director of personnel technology and student services. Employment of Andrew Taylor as school bus operator for the active run effective for the 25th school year at daily rate of pay for actual days work prior to the school calendar plus year plus $60 per day based on 180 days of operation for days that activity runs are required. Employment substitute teachers for Pocahontas County schools at state minimum professional salary for the 206 school year. Sherry Radcliffe, Diane Nelson, Greg Mor Morgan. Employment substitute aid for postcon schools at state minimum service salary for the 2526 school year. Sherry Radcliffe and Rene Renee D. Gil, employment substitute bus driver for Pocahontas County Schools at the state minimum service salary for the 2526 school year. Scott Kelly, employment substitute cook for Pocahontas County Schools for the state minimum service
056salary for the 2526 school year. Sherry Radcliffe, employment substitute custo custodian for Pocahontas County Schools at the state minimum service salary for the 256 school year. Sherry Bradley a minute Mark Walton employment substitute secretary accountant for Pocahontas County schools at estate service minimum service salary for the 2526 school year Sherry Bradley any question I got a bunch of questions we What's going on with the great so we need to post her office job? Okay. Um the custodian you'd like the custodian sir? Okay. Um the personnel and technology director Bren that is a position that we are creating because of the realignment of Mrs. Shifflet by Mus Burns. Okay. So it's an additional director's position at the county office. It will be a director of personnel. They will take technology off of Miss Shifflet's plate as
057well. Um, and this will allow our special education director to focus in special ed, which is an area of concern in the university. So, okay. So, so this is a real Okay, that's part of a moment for those mutual agreements that you approved earlier. Okay. So, our it is Miss Hams, what's do you think about the IT program? Uh, I mean, you guys know I feel um that we talked about obviously from my standpoint, I would love to lead that department. I understand why Dr. Williams has made the decision she's made. Um, you know, that's my feeling. You know, I'm a team player, so where I need to land, I will land. Um, but I've talked to you guys in the past about how my dream is to leave that department. So, of course, I'm
058a bit heartbroken that that's not in my cards. So, this is this directorship. You're not eligible for No, sir. She's our person will be over all of the front end and her skills will definitely be utilized. We're looking at making um our other TSS over the backend management which is the next but in order to be a director you need an administrative degree. And that's not to say that sometime in the future that Miss Hammonds will not have a director her administrative certificate and will not be able or eligible to lead a director's position. It's just that we all directors need to have an administrative degree especially when personnel is going to be. Can't we start? No. Okay. All right. Okay. So anyway, can we can we not do with have M be going to
059be more and you feel that would not be appropriate? She is already classified as a TSS which is 261 days which is the exact date. Could we make her coordinator farms? That's why I like to pull the technology and so if we table this position, we'll we really need to go back and look at the other new mutual agreements because they're all contingent upon each other. I can table this position for the technology of it and Great station. How is it now, Miss Sh? How is it? What's What's going on right now? What's I've been doing? Yes, ma'am. I've been doing child nutrition, attendance, technology, passing away, the secondary school, etc. I mean okay so what we want you is to make another director with the IT and personnel I it person and the reason
060for that is I miss Burns will be directly under me because she doesn't have an administrative certificate. So personnel, I'm going to have somebody that works personnel and also does technology. Technology is a broad because I have a big technology director. There's tech and then there's the net. So somebody needs to work on the front-end management which means that they work with leas they work with integration of technology they work with training teachers and staff and then somebody works with the backend which is the wiring that we have which is the types of cameras that we have. It's the installation it's the hardware fixing. So they're kind of it's it's a multiacetition but with our needing support for attendance we need to adap focus in more so that she is focused in on moving us
061from support to compliance. Okay. So Miss Don is that is that your covered up? You have been since you coming through the board office is my personal feeling and you can't do everything that's more and this alignment allows me to focus on that and I focus CP and that counsel we have four. Yeah, this is an addition because Yeah. So, here's what we're looking at. Mrs. Triptoe and Mrs. Dunlap had multiple uh accountability tasks. We are um in a state of emergency over the high school. Part of that is special ed, but when we look at special ed across the county, special ed is not where it needs to be. We had a monitoring. We have not received those reports back. So, we need to be able to focus in on special ed and make
062sure we have a cohesive plan to move our county forward. In order to do that for the vacant director's position, we need to take we need to narrow that focus so that all those life things that naturally fit together are in one position. Then looking at our attendance which is another accountability indicator that we are on support which means the next one is intensive support just like with our special ed we pulled that out to narrow the focus of Mrs. Dun left. So in pulling those out had to align his position somewhere else. part of the superintendent's job is was personnel director. But if I'm going to take on all the provisions and help Mrs. Burns supervise, then the technology which is a huge compliance thing which has also contributed to the state of emergency
063right at the high school needs to be a position and this and a personnel director and that's what's in your line. Now, we cannot create too many positions at the board office just because of the way this the system works. And to be a director, you really need to have your administrative certificate. I I don't have a problem with that. I I just Okay. So, can we pay for this? Can we pay for one? [Music] Yeah, we're adding one director's job and we do have the amount of funds for this position. We are not in any way be over budget. We are going to be fine with this position. I understand it is not because the whole realignment has to go out of this realignment. So if we don't realign and post this position and
064we don't realign in Mrs. Dunlap's position and we don't realign Miss Burn's position and shift things around. This part of our uh the work that Miss Klein has been working on is that um in the list of duties there's not clear indication and that was part of the school's complaints is that nobody knew who to talk to at the central office and who's in charge of what. This realignment clearly designates who's in charge and who you contact and will allow us to better support our schools and better support our students in achievements. So, we have to have these clear bonds even in technology. Even though Miss Hammonds is not going to be the director of technology, she is going to be the front-end manager of technology. There'll be somebody the back-end manager of technology. So
065that's clarified cuz I don't think that that I think that we didn't have that lined out as well as we could have. All right, let's vote on this. We've discussed it enough. So with your heart, Sam, this is Miss Shifflet and you guys are all along and good with this. Yes, you we do need all those in saying I. Motion carries session discuss the student matter. Mr. McNab has made a motion. Do I have a second? Second call. Second. That's all those in favor signify. Executive s no decision will be made. This Okay. Back on Christie. Yes, sir. Okay. We're coming at executive station. Do I have a motion to come out of executive station? ML made a motion. Do I have a second? I'll second it by saying I motion carries out of executive
066session at 7:27. Okay, we're down to matters of the boards. Happy second what Morgan had to say and um this realignment is interesting to say the least but it is spelled out and I think much better everybody body knows and doesn't step on other people's toes or whatever. And I'm pleased that Christie will be able to continue doing the wonderful work she's in already. M I just want to reiterate what everybody else said and I say I appreciate M Williams coming over and glad to have you here anyway possible that I can I can be please don't hesitate to ask them uh because we're here to make this work for everybody. U the only other thing is uh John I like to put a shout out to Jonathan Taylor. He took a student down to
067uh I don't know if y'all saw it down to the national sixth in the nation in roofing and that's that shows that our CGE program is working and and I talked to Jonathan today and he's excited about he's excited about next year. So it's good good thing. I think that's all I got sir. Thank you Mr. Gibson. Even though we're not in school, we're still busy. This is a busy time. I want to thank Mrs. Le for taking I want to thank the board too Morgan with your broken glasses. She said, "I appreciate you, Morgan." And I appreciate Sue and everybody's inut. We're good. I'm good. Thank you. Welcome. It's nice to have you with your husband in our community. Hopefully you will bring your kids over to visit once in a while that way
068county too. Absolutely. We need all the residents we can get, don't we? Especially if they got children. Oh, my son has four. He said, "I want to move." There you go. You know, got four more we can add to the list. So, the money just keeps going up. [Laughter] Anything else? We are here by journal next board education meeting will be held on Tuesday July 15th 2025 beginning at 6 p.m. at the board of education conference in Buckey. Now we're