001All right. I'd like to call the meeting for the Department of County Board of Education to order. All members are present. Open with pledge of allegiance. stands one nation under God, indivisible, and justice. First item on the agenda, approval of the minutes from the board of education meeting held on May the 20, 2025. Do we have any any questions or a motion? I need a motion. Mr. Paul made a motion. Do I have a second? This is second. Any questions or addictions to the minutes? Hearing none. All those in favor by saying I motion carries. Item number two is the approval of the agenda. Do I have a motion? So move. I have a second. Mr. Solom were seconded. Any uh additions or corrections for the agenda? Yes. Alison, we're putting water for us to
002ask for approval tonight. Alison, teacher part. You'll see her glass. So, we're excited. Is that Yes. Okay. We all know [Music] Okay. Any others? That's it. All those in favor say motion carries. Delegations. Superintendent report and special recognition. Short. Tonight we had 76 graduates at Cooks County High School on Sunday. wonderful graduation. I know all of you were most of you were there and also we gave out 138 standard of excellence awards and our schoolbased achievement days celebrations. They were it's very very nice. Roombate had a breakfast their achievement breakfast where the high school had an evening awards. They did the standard of excellence prior to their senior awards. Hillsboro had their yesterday with her fifth grade graduation as well as um Mar Elementary today will award a fifth grade graduation and Nebraska and Mar
003this morning outside. So appreciate everybody uh for their hard work to get organized. Thank you. Information reports and academic updates. Christy Hammonds stakeholder survey results. I have been told it doesn't go over five minutes. Well, I called Stephanie in to help me. So, we go over at Stephanie's fault. I talk fast. No. Well, um, while this is loading up, I just I'm going to take a minute. Um, this is my last meeting before this is Boston retires. Um, and so I just want to like thank her for her service to the county. Um, she was instrumental bringing a lot of programs here that are amazing programs. Uh, Nature's Mountain playgrounds, grow your own partnerships, which brings our kids back to this county to teach communities and schools. We all know how amazing that is. That
004was that was Lynn's baby, you know, Lyn brought that in. Um and and uh she has the hardest job in the county. I would not want her job. Um so she's left it all on the table for us and I really appreciate that. Um personally for me, Mrs. Bosik has been uh very encouraging with my professional growth and um she taught me how to use the website. So, um, she was the first to sort of dig in there and learn that system and she taught me how to use that. Really appreciate that. She's always willing to share her wisdom. Um, and most of all, when you can be anything in the world, Linda is kind and I appreciate that. So, um, I salute you as you set off on new adventures and thank you for
005your service. You'll you'll be that woman on the wall. We appreciate you. She played it about time we put a woman on the wall. I had one. Yes. I had to look way back clear, but I saw probably knew [Laughter] her. I had lived here then. Um add that you're one of man's biggest accomplishments for mine. We're so connected now because yes Lynn has really supported my professional growth and appreciate that. All right. Uh Stephanie and I are here to talk to you about uh the stakeholder survey that we put out in April. Um, we talked to you guys a little bit about that before, but now we want to bring the results back to you guys. Um, so you see what our stakeholders had to say. Uh, you should have a copy of that
006in front of you. Feel free to take it home and peruse it. We're going to try and hit the highlights, um, and kind of give you a background of why we did this and, uh, how we got to put out there while keeping it under five minutes. So, um, Stephanie can speak to this as, um, federal programs, but they require us to have some sort of a stakeholder survey for funding. And we were talking about how uh example title one pardon the federal one federal programs uh was asking us that we had to have surveys and what survey information we were receiving through the state was not very beneficial for us to move our programs. So we started this conversation, Lynn, Christy Tripo, Christy, Christy Hammonds, and myself, and she took off with it. Um,
007so especially in light of the special circumstance review, we wanted the temperature on what our stakeholders were feeling and what they wanted from us, what they want from you, um, what how they see our school system. So this is going to give us a really good picture of that. Um, and for communication purposes, which is a big role that I've taken on, it's important to get feedback from your stakeholders frequently, get that temperature, know what they're thinking. Um, and actually, I wanted to tell you guys that since we have designed this survey and implemented it, we've actually had another school system reach out to us that had was looking at our website, pop up, and look through the survey to ask us to be able to use this survey. So we think it's a very
008valuable survey. We think it's a very good format. So survey creation um we found this format as um we were doing research. It's something that is used by an Arkansas school system. We just stumbled upon it. Um, but what we really liked about the format was it asked the participants to select actionable concerns from a pre-populated list. So, you're not like putting it on a light scale. You're not putting in like a bunch of random other answers that we can't focus on. It really let us focus in on things that we can fix that are really actionable. We only put things on there that we felt like we had control over. This survey we looked at numerous times and we would go back to say is this something we can actually do something with and
009there were that helped us weed out unnecessary choices. Um so again Stephanie mentioned that the four of us sat down and we adapted it for our needs. Um and then we found a product that actually PH was using that we reached out to them to get feedback on. It's called Survey Planet. And I know Frosty, you've asked before about like a survey product that maybe we can use in the future that people can't take twice. And this has some features in the background that helps prevent that. Um, I'm not saying in no world can you take this twice, but you really have to work to do it. Um, so we feel really good about clean survey results here. Uh, it was free for us to use. And what we did was we distributed it through
010all of our media outlets. We sent it Facebook. We sent text messages. We sent a call home. We sent it via email. Any way we could reach the parents, we said, "Please take this survey." And um so in April, we sent all of that out. Um and actually when we get results back, we've shared those with our administrator and we've shared those with the community. anything you have to so survey results when we hear back um we had 210 responses which is really good for us for a survey um if the survey was open to parents staff alumni community members and students parents accounted for the largest portion they got 48% came from our parents um and PCHS actually had the highest percent of affiliated responses at 26%. If you look at that, it really
011just sort of runs the spectrum. It was a very even number of responses, but PCHS had the most. All right, so this is the meat of the questions. So the first thing that we asked our stakeholders is what are the greatest challenges or issues our school system will face over the next five years in order to provide a quality education for all students. And then we asked them, we gave them a bunch of options to pick from and we said pick five. So when this comes back to us, we're looking at what are our top five issues. We're narrowing down. We're not trying to put many irons and many fires that we are never going to get fixed. We want to focus on this this year. Then maybe next year these are going to drop
012down and we're going to get new things. That's how it works. But we're getting five actionable things that we can focus on. And I'll let Stephanie kind of talk about the questions and the data there. Well, the five top choices were um the top percentage recruiting and retaining high-quality teachers and administrators, addressing the social, emotional, and mental health needs of all students, preparing students for workforce expectations, addressing a decline in student enrollment and associated staffing cuts, which tied in fifth place with address academic gaps. in student achievement. So, we are doing lots of things with this data. Um, we already took some of this data. Um, I was telling Stephanie, I I was sort of surprised to see that that people thought our number thing we needed to focus on was retaining and recruiting high
013quality teachers. I didn't see that coming personally. Um so when I saw that my first thought was um recognition, retention, things that we can do to to hold on to our staff and we started immediately working on those sorts of things. Um we're working on a new staff program so that we're giving them more information, more orientation, more established connection to our buildings. Um that toy soy package that you guys saw that teacher of the year and service personnel of the year that came from this that came from us thinking we gota we got to beef it up. These are our high quality teachers, our teacher of the year. These are our high quality service personnel. How do we beef it up? How do we recognize and hold on to them? But you all did
014amazing jobs this year. It was fun. Um Stephanie, did you have anything else to add to this? Um we also are looking at the data too to help us focus and plan for the future. So when I look at this information, for example, addressing the social, emotional, and mental health needs of our students, that tells me as a school employee, whatever we need to do, we need to continue to support our mental health needs, keep youth health in our school system, make sure we keep our counselors. Um, so as whether you're administrator or educator, to me that for example is telling us that this should be a focus of ours in the future. So when we're looking at each of these, we're like, okay, how can we ensure that this is going to improve or
015we continue to support it? So the next thing we ask is what are the most important skills and abilities students need to know to be able to be prepared for a successful future. Um this is helpful information that we'll share with our teachers and it sort of um it captures a community insight into what they want to see from our graduates. What do they want to see from our students out in the community? Um so I'll let Stephanie talk about the data there. They want to see our students demonstrate good character that is respect respectful, responsible and humble. Able to communicate writing and speaking effectively in various situations. Successful in foundational skills, reading, writing, and math. Able to problem solve. And tied again for fifth place, ability to personally take care of own finances. and
016able to manage time, set goals, and work as part of a team. So, you can see over here with this donut, I mean, we got a big variety of responses. And that's sort of like when you're sitting down to focus on things, that's sort of what's going through everybody's head is this huge donut, right? It's like, God, we need to give you this and this and this. But what we're doing is we're focusing on these these top five here. And I just realized there's a third one that ties fifth place. Demonstrate a knowledge of proper business practices such as interviewing properly, which they worked on this year in the high school, dressing appropriately, writing correctly, and adjusting to the use of appropriate workplace language. And actually that eighth grade lunch in this year, those kids
017wrote um resumes and they went through job interviews there. So um we're making Yeah. Um, this is one of my favorite questions and actually this is a Staffney Burns question. Um, this was created by her and the responses she really uh worked hard on. Um, this is how can our school system support you? So, this was a question only for parents and parents told us what they needed in this question. So, Stephanie, your top five. All right. answer this. Let me just say that when Christy says we, a lot of times it's she, okay, but she is very humble. So when she points out that this was mine, we know. So how we can support our our administrators, our students, our community. We need stronger communication from school to parents. to support checking students grades
018in Weas parent portal. Better access to afterchool programs, afterchool tutoring for students, training on how to support my student in math and also tied assistance interpreting grade level standards and expectations. So just a few things from this slide that we are already working on is we use this data to submit for a 21st century learning grant for after school programming. Um we ask for a lot of money. We hope that we get some money. We have a plan to scale down. We'll take what we get. If we get a day a week of tutoring that's a big difference. Um so that's the first use that we've we've had that form. we were able to submit it as actionable data for them. We had hands-on data for that. So, that was great. Um, and actually, I
019just talked to Joanna Burke Kinderman yesterday about some ideas she might have for training students for math support. Um, and she had some really great ideas that she tossed out there. So, we'll work on implementing those. Next is what evidence do you use to evaluate the quality of education in our school system? So I always wonder like how are parents judging us? Like what do they want to see? What makes them think, okay, my kids are doing well? Um and and so they told us how they're judging us through positive relationships or connections between staff and students. And I already saw on social media where parents were posting how happy uh they were with the results of their student this year. Even on social media that reminds me of that first one. My child wants
020to go to school. School toome communication percentage of students meeting the college and career readiness standards. Progress reports and grades which was surprising as a teacher. That wasn't number one. What they value and what how they evaluate our school systems that most the highest percentage is positive relationships or connections between staff and students. I just think about some of that next train, you know, how building that relationship first before the student can learn. So the needs are met. Absolutely. And like I said, we this data goes to the school principles. You know, we're going to talk more about this, but we've already talked some about this in principal meetings. So, um this is a good opportunity. We'll bring up things like that. Um you know, let's start up here with MAS how we just meet
021basic needs. That's something right there. Years ago, I wrote if you don't have their heart, don't miss number eight. Oh, there you go. that real quick. Y absolutely. The next one was, "What evidence do you use to evaluate the quality of education in our school system?" So, um this is great data from you guys. You know, how are people evaluating um what we're doing here, the quality of it? And this will help us get you know it's helpful feedback for what direction funding is going to go for first uh provide for maintenance and improvements to existing facilities. Keep employee salaries competitive with area salaries. Provide improvements to campus safety and security. additional funding for instructional resources that support classroom instruction. And last, the top five, ensuring resources are provided to meet the mental health needs
022of students. And actually, I think that that question should have been I got it wrong at the top there, Stephanie. That actually should have been um what should be our financial priorities? Um because I as I read that, he thought it was pending. Yeah. So your top funding priority here is they want to provide maintenance and improvements for our facility, keep our salaries competitive. Um, so those are your top five for that. But like I said, you guys have this data in front of you. We just want to hit the highlights. I I'd like to mention that Mr. Gibson, you you may be one another one of Mrs. B's greatest achievements. putting you in putting you in that job you have now has really been benefic you you've really come a long way off the
023last one um this was Christiey's idea what could the school system do that would delight you and we wanted to keep positive. What information could they share with us? So, she has summarized the highlights from all the comments. We left this as just an essay question. It was your your chance to say what you're feeling, what's in your heart, what you think that we can do. Um, and we gave you guys those comments. You have all of those. Uh, it's book there and you can sort of look through it. Um, but what I did was I fed this I honestly used AI for this. I fed all of those comments into AI and I said, "Brunch them up and tell me the highlights." Um, so top we got communication. You guys know that we've worked
024hard on that this year. There's always work to do with communication, you know. Um, we'll work even harder next year. Um, but that's tough, you know. Um, parents want to know what's going on with their students and and we get that. Um, we saw a lot of issues with online grade access this year that we're in basically a pilot for that program. Hopefully that will get better. They did a lot of work at the end of the year. Um, but that's something we definitely got to work on next year. Um, staffing and support. Again, they want to make sure we keep those highly qualified teachers. What can we do to keep the best staff in the state with us? um they want to see us do better training for our special needs staff and they
025want us to improve um our substitutes. Again, that's part of what we're doing with our new employee program is where getting them a better solid foundation in that orientation. Um and then and you guys have seen our substitute campaigns. We're putting them out there. We're saying we need substitutes. We need them in the building. Um we've had some success. So, next year we're going to do a new fresh face campaign. It'll be fresh in people's minds. Hopefully, we'll get more good subs. Um, bullying is a problem that has been mentioned in there. Um, you know, that's something we can always look at making it better. Um, we tried some different programs. That's always something that we we need to look at. Um, requests for consistent discipline. Uh I think do you think we have a
026rubric that we're working on for the county? Right. We actually started that a couple years ago and we tweak it every year policy 73 and so the school so it's consistent around schools like this this one occurs. This is what we're going to do. And we did put the caveat in for this year elementary school look a little different. So we know our students the levels um academics and future readiness. They want to make sure that we're we're getting those kids not just ready for college, but for careers when they come out of school. Make sure they have foundational skills. Um scheduling and attendance. We had actually several folks put in there and I'm going to guess those were probably teachers that they want a 4-day work week. Um um you know, other counties are
027trying it out. Other counties are are modifying their schedules. Um, I certainly see where they would ask for that. Um, you know, uh, it could be successful in other counties, but that's something that was asked for. Um, consistency and fairness, facilities, and technology. Um, we all know how hard Dwayne and and Mrs. Boston have worked this year on trying to get those SBA grants. Um, trying to get as many upgrades as we can as possible. Um, technology. We've told you guys we're applying for a grant for better computers, but that's technology is is just like when you do the laundry. As soon as that laundry is done, there's more to do. Technology is the same way. As soon as you get that all set up and beautiful, when you turn around, there's new technology. Um,
028so that's that's always going to be a battle for us. Um, administration and leadership. um calls for more visibility. Um central office, school administration, uh schools consolidation, that was actually mentioned several times in your comments. Again, that's something that we all know. It's always been kicked around, that will always be kicked around. Um but it was specifically mentioned several times. Uh they're looking for better engagement. They want opportunities to apply to volunteer to get into our schools. So maybe that's something that we we better put out there, you know, to um to get more people in the schools so people know how to they can volunteer, what the opportunities are. And then extracurriculars, um requests for more diverse extracurricular activities, arts, clubs, recognition beyond sports. Again, if we get what we asked for for this
02921st century grant, we're going to have some really good opportunities there. Um and I certainly hope that we do get that grant. any comments at all? No. So, data in action again, we're already using this. We've used it in our strategic planning, grant applications, um looking at that discipline rubric, employee recognition. Um and then we have some future uses that we can can use it for. This probably needs to be side by side with our county strategic plan because it will help us focus on our future plan, future programs, our future staffing. Um, and we're going to do some follow-up surveys next year. Um, especially with the feedback that we have here. Um and hopefully it will influence positively on the course offerings and schedule planning for hospitals. All right. So question you guys about
030this data any questions about the data itself? Yeah. But one thing that surprised me, and it was just one person, said to allow parents to come to school parties for the class, be allowed to go on trips with the kids. That was surprising. I think they're allowed I mean, they're not allowed to ride the bus, right? but they're allowed uh to show up. I have been involved with some trips where parents um arrive. So, I'm not sure what that person is referring to. I I will say, Dr. Holmes, I did see a couple of comments in there asking for more opportunities to volunteer. So, like I said, I don't know how well we're communicating that information. Are we saying, you know, are we doing multiple volunteer trainings? Probably not. is that falls in the building
031administrators hat, you know, but could we get people all the time? Yeah. Um, but but you might be on something. Maybe we need to offer it more than one time instead of just the beginning of the year. Offer it more throughout the year. Are their parents allowed to come to parties at Middle Elementary? I mean, I have witnessed that. Was there that we did? Yes. I I mean, I've seen parents at the school as far as um I don't I could point the policy to you. I don't believe there's anything prohibiting it. But again, are we communicating that? Because, you know, safe schools when we talk about that, we do have to think about people in and out of the building. So, have we given that impression that, you know, maybe we sort of lock
032down that building and you're not allowed to come in and I don't know. Again, it's something we probably need to better communicate. Um, something very empirical. Yeah. Yeah. But this data gets us started. This gets us talking. I would like to see us communicate to people that because there were several comments about consolidating Hills or but only one of those comments mentioned the fact that put them together and move them up on the hill because you can close down and save enough money to save the world. According to some out, but Marlington Elementary has no place to put them, right? Yeah. So, what are you going to consolidate them to? Yeah. And I think communicates that to people that that's got to be part of the consideration. Yeah. It would affect more than just that
033school. Yeah, it would absolutely be a domino effect. It's not this discussion that needs to happen schools all over the state. It's not a outlandish discussion to start. Yeah. And parents had that ability to just give us that feedback. You know, good or bad, whether we like it or we don't like it. That's what we want, right? Sometimes you got to take it on the chin. You know, a lot of this was communication. I had to take it on the chin a lot there. But trying, that's all we can do. We're trying to get better. you're doing my gra and this data is going to steer us in the right direction, right? It's going to get us started where we need to go. So, and one thing I just can't comment there just the one
034here, but a lot of them contradict theirelves. One person want this and you read five comments down someone exactly. Oh, that's right. That's why you guys have a hard job and that's a hard job. Can't thank everybody and can't make everybody happy, you know. Um, but By narrowing down those top five, we're getting that majority, right? Exactly. Yeah. So, that's what we're trying to do. All right, guys. I really appreciate you. Um Stephanie is up next with Christiey's help with my help. But Stephanie go to the next one where it says Stephanie Bon Christy summer program. Give me just one second this evening, sir. It's really short and sweet and to the point. Less than five minutes. What is it? Day less than five minutes. Daydreams. What's the name of the theme of it? Sunbeams
035and daydreams. U brain waves and sunray. I just want to share with you some of the summer opportunities that we have. Um, you can access these options through your Pass County Schools homepage. Um, I have two different links here. One is takes you straight to the homepage. If you can go ahead straight to the homepage and then I'll show you how to get to the summer programs. Just one sec. Yes, switch my share. And Christie has done an amazing job providing this on our website. That's why I'm saying Christie is here. It's partly her job, too. Okay. You guys can see that, right? All right. So, this the homepage. That's the homepage. And if you see over here the tabs on your right hand side, you see summer programming. So, you can also access it
036through here. So, click on summer programming. Christy has done an amazing job organizing and laying out all of the resources, not just from the school, but from all of the local entities within our county and outside of our county. So, the first section here kind of gives you um what's closely related to the school system. Um Energy Express offered at Marlington Elementary School. the Pakunis County schools pro summer program. We're going to be offering summer school at Greenbank Elementary for elementary children for half of the day. And then at Marlington Elementary, we're going to continue the summer service for the children who attend Energy Express if they would like to continue the rest of the day. We're going to provide those services, summer school services focusing on STEM, literacy, numeracy, movement. um at Marlington Elementary
037in the afternoon. Um Youth Health Services are going to be providing some individual and group therapy sessions for middle school and high school students um located at Marlington Elementary School. Uh Pocus County libraries also have a free summer reading program. You can contact your local library or I think register. Yes. On the pupus library.org org site and we are going to be providing PCHS credit recovery at the high school and they're going to be signing up computers to the students where they will take virtual classes wherever it maybe in their home or local excuse me the do it. Um, other uh programs offered this summer 4 camp next week offer house their uh summer theater program during the week. Parks and wreck have a plethora of activities that they're offering. Um, Poconus FRN also has
038assorted summer activities that are they're sponsored on Thursdays at three. I will say I was just having a drink that they were just the Energy Express and they're like, "What do we do?" You know, cousins coming and I said, "Okay, do you have access to Facebook or the internet?" and I led them to our web page. It's like what else? It's all right there for you. So, yeah, this is wonderful. Yes, as a parent, I would have loved to have had this because I've lost my flyer or you know, it's all in one place. It's all one place. Uh Greenbank Observatory, they started their summer programming this past Sunday. Pocus Memorial will have a youth fair, a youth health fair, uh June 27th. and she also listed other activities and opportunities at the bottom of
039the page. So, we sent one of these flyers home with every single student came through. Um, so they got it paper. So, if grandma doesn't have Facebook or phone or whatever, um, we're reaching those folks too. But, um, this is is our parking spot. And here we have our flyer for brain waves and sun rays. That is a flyer that was posted. Yeah, thank you Christie. That was posted. [Laughter] Um, and that gives just a brief overview. She also has added a QR code that if you have a smartphone, you can actually go to the application and fill it online. She thinks of everything. Uh, yes. Panos County Opera House Summer Theater Camp. So, she has all these flyers uploaded on the state or on our school website. Space track coaching for parents, which has
040been offered all year, but there's some special activities for the summer available. Youth help, youth football, 4 camp. Oh, that's a new one. The Friday fun summer series. I did not see that before. That's new. Youth health fair. Snorkel for the Greenbryer. That's a new one, too. She's adding them up here all the time. Basketball training camp. Paint your own planter. Steaming strings. The Green Bank Observatory pool opens tomorrow. Tomorrow. Alagany Echoes. That's a new flyer on there. She gave the information. And then also free opportunity to watch movie in a theater in Wilsp. We had a meeting with various agencies that are around the table and we talked to them about this. So they've shared that information with Christy. We had a a summer planning meeting where we we invited most of these people
041to please come and share their dates and information and we will help get that get it out there. And Christiey's done an amazing job. Thank you. We have great partners. Um we have, you know, FRN, parks and wreck. Um they were really engaged in giving that information to us and we will add information to this as we get it. So as we see flyers out there, um we will put them on here. If there is an ability to sign up for something like Alagany Echo, I've set it up to this is actually a link. If folks click on that, they'll go directly to how I sign up for that. Um, so if you hear folks out there saying, "Oh, these kids are driving me crazy this summer." Direct them to our summer program. We're going
042to put as much stuff on there as we can. Get our kids engaged in as many activities as we can. I did get the application. I was going to share it with Dr. Williams. She I think you should. Um, she said, just wanted to talk about what we are offering through the school system. Um, and just to reiterate and give you some details, we are offering summer school in two different locations for elementary students and that is at Greenbank Elementary and Morland Elementary. Uh, again, we are going at Morland Elementary, we're going to piggy back off of Energy Express and offer a program in the afternoon. Um, the program that we're going to be offering is going to be steam focused. um pulling in that science, probably not as much technology. Um but also bringing
043in the arts and the math. Um there's also books that it's going to be a focus, read aloud each day. Um and during those times we're gonna if we if anyone applies we both missions we have posted four interventionists that are that could provide small group or individual intervention for children who have not been cut scores on the state levels. that was we wanted to make sure that they have that extra boost during the summer. So they will just be pulled during that summer time for 20 to 30 minutes and then they'll join the rest of the group. And again depending on the child's needs it might be a individual or it might be a small group. Explain what cut scores again on cut scores are the scores that have been um determined by the
044state according to which assessment we're using. So the West Virginia general summons assessment is a test that all third through 8th grade take. And for third grade students there is a cut score. If they do not meet that test score, they're saying, "Oh, we need to make sure we provide them some intensive intervention, which we have been during the whole school year, but we need to continue that through the summer, and that is through math and through reading. So, we have these scores that are state numbers that we follow. We also do ready benchmark that also provides a cut score. So, we look at a couple pieces of data to determine what this child needs. Any questions about that? I guess this is part of the this is part of the third grade success, too.
045Correct. Correct. So, this is good. Yes. Yes. Any questions? That's great. Sorry, didn't wasn't five minutes, but four minutes 59 seconds. Don't worry, I'm making your DL. Thank you very much, Dwayne. It's been a transation and safety update. You have three minutes. Shoot. I've got a hand out. I can stand it down with you. very hard. Thank you. Sorry. Once I get into the office, I'll see you at 10:00 tomorrow. I want more I'm out more things I see things needed. maint as quick as we can and I'm curious to see what all comes in take care about the year. Okay. So, transportation one thing is someone piggy back on what they were talking about school position for bus drivers. We have position bank so [Music] far. So anyway, we get some drivers trying to
046get the buses tomorrow bus summer inspections Justin go through those do every year one new bus so far from this year's order international diesel engine has it right now it really well it's nice bus and we replaced on this bus with most miles Next bus we should get uh probably hopefully by the end of this month be ready for next school year and bring back and it's all handicap accessible bus accessible bus down country. Uh right now we got 19 troops on the books for camps and green back observatory. We do service for them to take student places. Uh we just got those organized and we'll try to assign those tomorrow taking research test working on that. We have a small vendor up there too that take off from there. We do have a substitute
047driver class going on right now. We got six in couple of those interests and work and then as we hired So any fil. Okay. So move on. Okay. Moving on. We received last year. It's now process installation process that's going on. They've already installed first elementary school. Hillsboro Green Bank is in process right now. They'll do the housing over the summer. Cherry, you mentioned Lyn and I started grants. Cherry plays parks and strengths too. She knows and has access to those cameras. What's that? Those cameras. Do they are they going to the principal's office to view? Are they coming here too or Yeah, I haven't got yet. So, they'll have access to it too. Okay. Access to Yeah, 91 access they'll have in case of emergency that I think are working with that too. They
048they have access they're setting up their server part but we they have access to record keeping recording for so long and they wipe out or how they how's it set up? That's one good question on how long that recording last but everything can be recorded. It last a year. What's that? It last year come every year to change out the hard drive. Um I believe they give those to principles to store but I couldn't say 100% about that for a week or two but I couldn't answer more about that. Anyway, like say camera system they said they just put everybody that's all the process access controls from the same company products ASAP that'll take place over the summer and then also companies will be doing so we should have a reset for keys for all
049of our gosp fiber cylinder everything. So taken care of right now in a county building. So for the county for our emergency folks 911 I should be able to get police officers access high school now works and we'll see how well that works out because I know it can be timeconuming email did receive place through last meeting. I think it's the last one and we general the architect as a general contractor looked cost efficiency. They did a value engineering approach to it and try to reduce their overall but they did look at some changes that should work out and hopefully save us from 63,000 bucks. So use a different cracker than originally did for Jan and they also procedures with the breaker box like 1969 197. So anyway, everything work over here on the other
050side of the wall. Makes a difference in cost. The main good shape the wires in good shape. They're worried about trying to put in underground conduits. So better things boxes. They said they pretty much construction to them. Anyway, that's where wraps that one. Um, we also put in for an MIP for the middle school replacement and that I can't remember the board to be on that one. That's early 16th. Okay. So, it is coming up pretty soon. I inadvertently called one of our roofing companies and coming to me roof by chance yesterday guy referred my call to call you but now I'm talking to you this might be coming down I'm thinking I was I went to Louis Hills start thinking that's where there had to be had to be hills the hills that were
051part of that school had a new roof how many years ago I think you remember it was right before somebody just look at looks I remember if I don't remember correctly we would look like a lot of bank things all over. Oh yeah, we got a new auditorium at the hospital. I'm using the term new loosely built around 2000 years old. You can stand now look through your go sometimes they won't be asking why you turn the blind because you see it so busy through summer and fall. Yes. Repost that I guess Thursday. So I had somebody ask about that today. I said it starts August 1st Friday. Yeah. August 1 Friday. Yeah. What you have yours is August 4th. Huh? Be in our gym. I will say they're still planning on tearing the floor
052out right. Girls are starting to practice. They're doing they're starting their summer stuff. Uh Friday, Thursday, I think. I thought yesterday. between you don't do you don't do summer training the school involved in that flex because the coaches can do whatever days any days they might do two days and then not do nothing for two weeks. That's all right. Mr. 3 minutes must be done. You got another 30 seconds. 30 seconds. Thank you, Dwayne. We appreciate it, buddy. All right. Item number six is approval of the false consent financial requirement and the vendor listing 303,39576 payment of global government purchasing car 32,95348 May 225 employee payroll 29361251 extra duty pay for the month of May 17,69625 grant of work and budget adjustments do I have a motion Mr. wants to make a motion. Do I
053have a second? Mr. Paul second it. Any questions or anything on the hearing? None. All those in favor sign. Motion carries. Item number seven, approval for the superintendent to post to fill positions prior to board approval effecting June 4th, 2025 to October 21st, 2025. I have a motion. Mr. Mcomes made the motion. Do I have a second? Second. Any discussion? So that was for the vice vice principal and the athletic region. No, it's for anybody certified this complete and that's why the next meeting in October we have to have those okay moving so of the people it's hired we can get them hired and do the next ones because if we don't have our money in place October the 1st we don't get our fun plus the gangs We are gay people in their place.
054Absolutely agree. We do this again. Yeah, absolutely. I got some questions about that. Now we're changing over superintendent. I know we're changing. Okay. The new one's going to be in here and not be advised of what's going on. We're She's going to be learning certain things. We got our vice principal and athletic director High School. meeting two weeks from now. I know Mr. Grimes I think you should pretend. Yeah, but you know she can find this out and it doesn't nothing really top secret. We we got minutes here. She's probably zooming right now. I hope. You know how my my question where where did the October date come? Where's what is this certified state? That's a lot of room from June the 4th October is the deadline for the certified list. That's still a lot
055of room from June. Like there's vacancy here. So teacher A takes it which leaves another vacancy and then teacher B takes that one which leaves another safer to put this on. Well, that's my opinion, but you know, opinions are like anything else. I think we ought to wait till July the 1st before we do this. We got plenty of time to certify people then because then Yeah. Yeah. We got a superintendent coming in at that point and you know, she might have some other ideas of who she would like to she would like to do. That's that's just my opinion. I mean, you know, opinions like everything else. So, one of the suggestions I would make though is as we're looking Mr. Gibson and I've been following through this study. If you do that, that
056prevents us. Agreed. No, you're still bring it in front of us to prove it. You can you can bring it back. You can you can harm as of and bring it to the board. Regulations change that we can't have draft. That's I mean that's one position that I see point to me that if you approve it the way it is now and that would get superend as soon as we get all that information into champ. So I think procedure is fine. I think our procedure is fine. I would advise delay the process. Well, I remember one time and his false members say we approved this but not for administration. That was at the last I I was sitting over there at that point and I said we're going to princize that. I remember when I
057said at the high school that time because we did we did but that's not on the agenda thinking too this is you're talking about it I know there's occasions where you have maybe somebody position they just got down to college weeks ago I know I'm Absolutely. So that does happen to at the hospital where people you call back took another job. So that's something well look at this Williams is going to be most of the staff being in place. I have a day for the 24th of this month. I believe it myself. I understand what you're saying, but I understand that just I understand kids getting out and they're flying 10 different places. We do this every year. Yes. It does as long as I can remember because you have people transfer and the school's
058getting ready to start and you want your teachers in the classroom. was not certified. Which counties did it when Mr. was leaving. It said again for that reason is because we need our stacks and all that. But we still next year. So the shut will begin. Well, shut for lack of a better word. All those in favor sign by saying I. All those opposed. 32. So is Pat. So this is what is voting on the ability to pre-ost positions, right? We're voting for the superintendent to post and fill position. Approval. I vote for yes. You can only vote once. Three to two. And the reason I voted no is because they can't go and we've got a board meeting coming up in two weeks. And I know that Miss Gibson or Mrs. uh Williams in
059two weeks, but I'd like to see what her opinion is on some of the staff. She may have some ideas that we thought. Number eight, approval for director of financial treasury to make budget adjust adjustments prior to approval effective June 3rd, 2025 through June 30, 2005 25. I have a motion made a motion. I have a second. Any questions on this? It's basically same. No, she's got to do this because everything physically and not make any budget adjustments. So I would be patient. All those in favor sign by saying I. Motion carries. Number nine. Approval for director of finance treasury to pay invoice prior to board approval when effective June 3rd, 2025 through July 15, 2025. Do I have a motion? Second. Make a motion. Have a second. This we're seconded. Any questions on this
060one? Second. All those in favor say by saying [Music] I need to approval for a multiple altercation of contract between county board of education and an employee. Motion second. second chance. Look at number 10. I thought she was going to be here. No, no, no. I just thought she was going to sign up. Get her lift. All those in favor should say I cares. Number 11, approval of amending county board of education and community care of West Virginia effective for the 202526 school year. Make a motion. I have a second. seconds it questions. All those in favor sign by saying I approval of service and professional personnel. Do I have a motion motion? I have a second chest elementary school up to seven days for the school preparation scheduled to be determined by principal and
061custodian Martin Middle School amended nation Melissa Roberts as teacher multi subject July 2nd 2045 employment of Sher custodian Lana Middle School for up to seven days for summer help. The school preparation scheduled to be determined by principal. Employment Tina Tracy SK5 teacher of summer school effective June 9th through July 30th 2025 at $25 per hour pending adequate staffing and student enrollment. Paid holidays are not part contract. Employment of Tina Tracy is extended year teacher at Mar Elementary Park for elementary students $25 an hour for 7 days Monday through Thursday not to exceed 35 hours per week. Employment of Vicky Rael as custodian 3 for the 25 energy express and summer school programs. assignment is farmers and elementary school at a daily rate and pay effective for 7we program due to 16 through July 30th should
062be from 8 to 4 minutes a custodian from elementary school days helpless prep for a second year at Marston elementary school for elementary students of $17 an hour for seven weeks Monday through Thursday. Not exceeding $35 35 hours. I'm sorry. Employed really came in as a for summer school in Orington Elementary for elementary students an hour for seven weeks Monday through Friday. Um the abolishment don't want you to abolish unless you allow us to create abolishment of assistant principal of county high school and abolishment of the athletic county high school because I'm asking you to create assistant principal director at the high school elected for the 2526 school year 1420 days and request transfer of Janette Wagner as teacher of English language arts. at County High School effective during 25 on the sixth school year
063200 days uh until shall be 200 days thereafter and Allison we're going to hold on that one until we get a little and then employment is a substitute custodian for county schools at state known salary 526 Andrew Conover and I do believe that Mr. Gibson has reached out for a rep on this job. Yes. Any questions? All those in favor without saying I number four matters to the board. Mr. I can't I can't express my gratitude and appreciation enough for our staff. You know, I have been to all nearly every one of these this past three weeks has been like a flurry of activity in our schools. We have had trips and awards banquetss and achievement dinners and graduations and achievement references and I mean and it has been astounding and to see our staff
064generate such fine children this and and and they're be and behave and they're making straight A's and it's phenomenal. It really is and they have done a extraordinary job and I'm so proud to be even in this same honor for me. I'll say that and Mr. Boss appreciate you and you got a month left and I want you to finish strong expecting good work from you. I do appreciate you reaching out to Miss Williams, you know that's pretty cool. Okay. Um Jerry, you know, we expect you to work right until your last minute here. You know, people last. Okay. Expect and you been exceptional. We appreciate you so much. And that's all I had to say. Especially if Go on first. I was couple things. Um, one graduation of a a lonely ceremony. Yeah. I
065was very impressed with the people were there because lots of times you have parents, grandparents, whatever who when they're a child has walked across and they start to talk to them and carry on. It was none of that. No. And everybody was very respectful of all the kids and I everything went on you know I would say if there was any problem it was some of the kids didn't know to tell their tasks and some of the kids couldn't get their party but but it made a long proposal. That was very good. And I was glad to see in in the survey results that communication is still up there and even though we've been working on it, obviously we need to keep working on it. But I was concerned about the bullying. too many people
066mentioned and I I don't know where they came from what school whe doesn't make that's something that needs to uh pro officers have we heard anything about any state funding Sherry about any pro officers in the schools came to me state department safety he was here a couple weeks ago he was going to reach out to their grant writer see write a grant for the last I spoke with her she was going to see if it was just a oneyear salary dra spread it out. It seems like I'm trying to tell me forget the summer's going to keep that. Yeah. You know, I ran into stupid at the here this past weekend. We were just talking. He said, you know, he said they put security officers at our courthouse. Yes. But don't even think about
067put Yes. He said, "That's wrong." He said, "It's violence." Is he right? I think they were very satisf They've been good. They come to a lot of things. They come they come to nearly every function ever there. All I know schools they come to this Green Bay it's we have a great school. I'm like or Dr. Holl I thought graduation was great. I really did. It it went smoothly. It went pretty fast. A lot of times you sat there and you wait. It wasn't like that. You know, from once they start to they finished. It was in a timely manner. I just thought it was a great thing. Our next board of education meeting will be held on Tuesday, June 17, 2025, beginning at 6:00 p.m. in the board of education conference room in Buckeye.
068And we are in German.