001I'd like to call the county board investigation regularly to order. All members are present. Will we stand and open with the pledge of allegiance to the flag to the flag of the standivis? Item number one on the agenda, approval of the minutes from the board of education, April the 15th, 2025. And this was the reconvene levy meeting approximate. Approval of the minutes from the board of education meeting held on April 22nd, 2025. Approval of the minutes from the board of education meeting held on April 29th, 2025. Do I have a motion? Mr. McCle's made a motion. Do I have a second? Mr. McNab seconded. Any questions about the minutes from the last meetings? No. Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. Motion carried. Item number two is the approval of the agenda.
002Do we have any additions or to the agenda? I need to bring a motion in first. Do I have a motion? Mr. Cole's made a motion. I have a second. Second. Mr. N second. Okay. any additions or corrections to the agenda? Yes. If you'll look at number 14, which is approval of the following textbooks. So, we need to we have we have the high school math books on there instead of six. So where it says I am math one, I am math 2 and I am algebra 2 m three. We need to delete those. And the company that we are using for the math adoption is a magic learning LC and that will be for grades six and seven will retain as mentioned there great lines for eighth grade. What was the first name of
003that? Imagine imagine sign. Any any other ones? Okay. All those in favor sign by saying I. Motion carries. Delegations. We have tonight superintendent report and special recognition. Battle Battle of the Books and Skills USA would like to join me. I'm going to put you on the spot for nothing to you. Let me give you just on the high school projects, the electrical work and the gymnasium floor. Um, when I asked Mr. Gibson, I said, "What can you provide an update? We don't have a lot of information. What would you like to share about the bidding process? I thought it was a long call trying to get something done real slowly. Um we do have openings on the 8th which is Thursday this week. So I think there's contractors interested in it in the gym floor
004replacement upgrades. Actually going to try to meet tomorrow if I can look couple last minute things for the electrical upgrades. Things are progressing. It's like I say it takes a while. the clerk of the works. We did interview um an applicant on Monday. We only had one and we posted the clerk of the works two different times with the ads in the paper as instructed by the school building authority. We have reached out to our contact at the school building authority to see if we can wave a clerk of the works for this project due to you know we have Mr. and all the staff who has the construction bathroom as well as our maintenance staff that are also very qualified. So I have that actually lettered in your box to approve and then I
005will be sending it to the school building authority to see if they let us just they don't I've been contacted by Hoover D but he he would be interested if he that doesn't work out right we got to go find him running down So next I wanted to anything else Mr. Gibson that you would like to add? Um so next I wanted to share because I know Joseph mentioned the standard of excellence which is uh taking over the uh super scholars and I wanted to show you where the information can be thanked. Christy HS has done of course an amazing job. But if you go into menu on our website and to student resources, you will find the standard of excellence and the explanations for grades three through eight. And it the students can win
006or get an award for math, reading, language arts, science or all and individually or they can get a group recognition as well. The general requirements for your grades 9 through 12. And um this is what they receive down here. a digital badge to put on their emails, a locker magnet, a signed certificate, a recognition of a school ceremony, and recognition of local newspapers and radio and social media websites. So, I just wanted to let you know if anyone has any questions, you know, look at the website. Um, we do have that information available. sustainability because this year it's based course on last year's GSA the general assignment of assessment results. So we have decided to do recognize the students this spring and then each middle school and next fall then have the big celebration this
007weekend. And as I think I mentioned before in a meeting, the state has told us that we will be able to parents get those assessment results this year within like a couple days after the student has finished. So I very pleased other than the writing the English language might and I think Mrs. Spencer explained the process that we last time to change. I would like to thank Mr. Gibson. This Mr. I want to know if your bus stop going home. My bus stop. No, it has not yet. So, would you like to tell them that you have that? Well, okay. So, I renovated bus stop and got it fixed up. presented families out there that your children need a place to shelter while they're waiting on the bus. Get a hold of Mr. Gibson and
008we will take it there and set it up free of charge and for whoever may need it. That's it. It's not a big deal. I fixed the I also wanted to mention a ventric you know last the last board meeting we recognized that we are now the regional winners of the state. Actually the video crews will be joining us at Cranberry Visitors Center and the third dragon type there this coming Thursday. They will be doing a short video in order to show it at the end of the summit which is on May the 15th and they'll show all the regional winners just little snippets. So you will know your state winner. Yes, I will be attending that meeting. I think so too. I when I heard about it, I said, "This is us. We got
009this." So, and I wanted to let you know that we are continuing with our Tuesday talks with our residents. We do that every Tuesday 9:30. Today, we talked about evaluations and the deadlines coming up. We've also talked about next year's snow days. They have been working on that as they're emailing their plans for next year's snow packets or work. We talked about the standard of excellence. And I don't forget everything tomorrow. We will have our next principles meeting at the end of the month, but we do have those just to refresh and revisit and touch uh everybody to make sure there's um I know a lot of people think that board office, you know, we're, you know, school year's ending and we're winding down. No, you forget often what year we're in because we started
010working on 256 months ago. Uh so just to give you a little idea, the evaluations of course are going on. Those are due by June 1st. Our summer programs trim and firms and they're both here. They're busy working with the summer program purchase orders, balancing the food with the cooks, making sure we have what we need and also not ordering too much excess because we are getting close to the end of the year. preparing professional development for the next school year. Reflecting on this year, um payroll with shortest um period opened, special education, IEPs, the transitions to the next grade levels have to be completed, ordering of textbooks for next year, um creating a summer schedule for students for maintenance, summer programs, etc. And I did want to mention that Stephanie Burns, Christine Pripo, and
011Christine Hammonds also just recently submitted a 21st century after school print which will be for middle middle and after did you talk about that last the last board but I just wanted we did get that submitted um submission time was four o'clock made the button at 3:45 oh wait a minute we would like to recognize our works and firms And are you also talk or do you so first I wanted to share with you um a little background on Battle of the Books. Battle of the Books is not um it's pretty new. We have competed and work on Battle of the Books for probably the last six years within the trouble hindrance around CO and then we still try to continue it and it was within the count. Um, right before COVID, we tried to
012compete regionally and I think it was like three days three days after we shut down CO we were supposed to compete regionally and we haven't been able to do that. This year we did. Um, we had 26 participants and that was out elementary and middle school. We had three teams, one for each elementary school and two teams, one for each middle school. And they even worked on this a year. They get the list of books at the end of the previous school year and they read those above and beyond whatever else they're required to read for their grade levels. It is third through 8th grade. um and there are teams of five and you're able to take a an alternate so we were able to have a couple of alternates and I also want to
013commend these students because they didn't necessarily have any help doing this um county so complimentary to all of our students because they have never competed recently They also have never competed in that atmosphere. I think they could probably um share with you that it was very competitive and it's a level that we have never competed at. Um do you agree? Yeah. Yeah. Um, so I just we may actually be honoring some of them the May 20th because everyone is so busy and communication was kind of tough getting to all the students. So we're going to recognize some today and then hopefully maybe some more will come May 20th. And we have five teams, two teams of middle school, three teams at elementary. Uh, elementary had 12 teams they had to compete against and Greenar County
014had been competing with Battle of the Books for 34 years. Um, middle school has competed at Reburn County for 20 years. So, that kind of tells you the competition. And I will say that our elementary teams, they were very well prepared. Even though They didn't necessarily have a coach to support them. Um, but they were competing against team members from other schools that would answer a question after the first two words were asked within the question, like what um tree or what, you know, what mountain? And they had to know characters, they had to know the titles, they had to know the author, they had to know even title, author, character. And then the last round was very indepth questions like what color was the pencil pouch that so did. Yes. So they had to
015know six different six books. um six for elementary and six for middle. Here are a few of them. They're not easy, but that's I think three. Yeah, I wanted to mention that I did get a text message from the teacher from and just saying how wonderful our students were, how you know they were just very polite um very responsive. They they she really had wonderful things and this is a pure she did not excursions. Um and before I introduce them, I do want to encourage anyone that's interested in supporting the schools, uh please be a volunteer. We help. We have a great volunteer at Hillsboro Elementary, Susan Arbagast. She helps support their team. Um but we do not have volunteer coach at any other school. Um so what happens are that if the teacher is
016not on return either if the teacher is not there then they are on their own and that's truly what happened to our um I came back the day of battle the books and when I walked in and saw the program I was like oh my gosh we're in trouble about peace. But they did just amazing. Yeah, they did really well and it was devil's elimination and I believe all of our elementary teams won at least one game. Um, and our middle school team made it to the finals where they placed second and they were to leave with um and everyone in the viewer section were were amazed to how well they did. So, with that being said, and I don't think we have a lot of people here, um, but if I mention your name
017and you're here, Ad Beverage, Kay's car, Elena Sure, not AJ, Jersey Jack. That's one school. Uh, Emma, Mars, SWridge, Simon, Symphony, I kind She's here. Aubrey Fig. Good thing about Greenbank Elementary is not here. Sarah's not here. Isaac Isa Brown, you want to hand out the middle school? Sure. Mr. Anderson, I think it's on my desk. I'll run that question. Sorry. There's my ear. Carol wait here here and you have these green and mine. and Ailia Rogers. Make us look good. All right. Congratulations. We also have John is here to tell us about that. March competitions just stay alive. And today we have Marty Kur that done third as freshman house 13 our 17 all junior senior she was fresh we also had fourth place in a couple she did podium fourth place was related
018math and we had teamworks as well go up here we bring her Jordan post a little bit. Thank you. You want to go ahead and do the National Honor Society? Well, it's the next item number five. Do you have anything else? Yes, sir. Item number five, information updates. Joseph Mater. Um, first the high school had a course there today where we got to walk around stations and talk to the teacher. Um, a lot of seniors, upcoming seniors I talked to a little unsettled by their schedule because some of them really need two classes next year. Um, so they really have to just fill their schedule with failing classes that they may not be completely happy about, but they're going to see demand and maybe could say happy. Um, and we realize there's a lot of
019um, push back on college courses. Um, there's a lot of like hearsay around the school about what our administration saying um, about how college courses affect. Um, right now we're being told that taking more college classes um, you receive less money, but that's not true at all. Um the only problem with taking more college classes is through WVU um you can take more college classes don't really major you're applying for you'll get less um around your senior year if I don't follow that but that kind of seems limiting to just WVU because that's not really um applicable to all universities in our state. Um so that was kind of like disappointing that there was push back on taking more college courses. Um, and we did produce online college courses um that just didn't seem to
020meet um some like majors like first aid that didn't um to our administration didn't seem like it fit um a major pathway in school. I don't see why not but that was just the case. Yeah. Where did you get into push back? Um, so I talked to Mr. today. That's actually mostly where that push back came from. Miss Grizz is pushing back. Not really. Like we're all free college courses. It's just um they're saying to be like very cautious about what you're taking because of the task like it's not true. So I mean is this something that maybe study your schedule and align with what you're looking at? and get the senior class report, right? That could be the case. But if we're following through plans, it really shouldn't be proved that you're taking classes
021that don't really follow what you're going into. Like why would you take an AA if you're going into say finance? It just doesn't make sense to unless it's like a fun class that you're taking. What's your advice on the solution? Um I just don't see why we can't offer more virtual classes per se. Um I know that they want to keep students in know about the classes which we have a huge variety. Um they all seem sound really great. Um the thing is offered students taking those classes. someone is the price that you pay for podcast is a fraction of what it is if you make a difference I don't think so no um it comes from income situation basically separated things you get more grant Um, I just don't see like where that's taking
022more classes. Um, there was a student, a senior last year, um, and she took so many college classes that she got to skip into her sophomore year, um, in the college and she got to jump right into her clinicals, which usually have to sit through kind of a rolling first year to get several several students have done. How about the dual credit classes? Do we still offer dual credit classes? Yes. So, and that's something that's going to continue. Yes. Um, another thing, the school did published a handbook this year. Um, and it kind of I don't if I wasn't special, but it's left a lot of confusion on say what are we referring to? Um also with class ranking right now it says that 18 core classes is how we're ranking them. Last year it
023was um GPA and it said that they referring to two years ago because it's more descriptive. Um I don't understand how you could be more descriptive than it's my GPA based for gradation purposes. Maybe you have to say val by GPA. So by GPA um but right now we have honors which is weighted by GPA 3.8 eight. Um, but then like the kind of seems inconsistent, you know, we're a we're in a procedure rebuild phase, you know, so you know, so I'm really hoping that Miss Griffith and on the same page with that because M This is kind of short assured me by next year there'll be a handbook. That's right. She said there'll be a handbook come out. No, it's not going to let you look right now, but you know it's what we
024got. Yeah. We're not having that handbook, but you know, it was started. It looks like you would go back to the following year instead of going two years back. the way out down here that happened to explain that they went to the previous bank to find the information about how that's why they proceduring class um calculated by GPA. Um I assume that took two years ago because it's specifically set by I just want to see like [Music] inconsistency support principles too. said that you [Music] I'm a little worried about this. If we're going to do it, we should do it for Abra all the same way for everybody. Her honors valictorian I don't think you can change the rules in the middle of the game. Absolutely. That's weird because um students wouldn't have been as
025upset about this if they knew school kind really hard. If you're receiving a validator scholarship from a school um and it does say your class ranking number one, why aren't you valuations like the we're going to have some students upset? Yeah, we're going to have some students upset because of how been changed in the middle of the game. Uh, Mrs. Baltic, at our next meeting, could you have the principal and students come in to the board and explain exactly how they're doing this and how they come up with this? Hey, have you heard Have you heard anything from the students, staff, and families about the calendar year's calendar? or is that any great thing about that? There's a lot of mixed feelings. Um a lot of people excited for the long summer this coming year.
026Um and a lot of I've heard a lot of things people are saying they wouldn't be as um so I don't see how you could constantly say stay consistent if people but yeah there's still a lot of mixed feel. Thank you very much. National Honor Society and National Technical Honor Society special education exit training prek curriculum adoption of special education strive conference. So I had thought that um I attended the National Honor Society induction and the national technical honors society. There was a lot of people there. I don't know if any of you all were able to attend, but it was very very good. Um the students who had speaking parts did an exceptional job. So I have asked them and their um the staff to come and present. And so I'm going to go
027over the stuff that I had real quick and then the prek teachers that they would come and speak about the prek curriculum that we are asking to be adopted tonight. So, the first thing I have is a special ed exit training. We had a training last week and the um high school teachers will be using the exit forms for students with disabilities that the West Virginia Department of Ed puts out. We haven't used it in the past. We had our own in the county, but we are moving toward using all of the department's forms. Now, um the special ed drive conference, we took a team up there last week. They were green and Stephanie B. It was Chloe Tes. We applied for a grant while we were there for $7,000 and we have to train
028to the department for that grant as to how we plan to provide this training to the rest of our staff. Um, I'm gonna let Darling go and talk about preK and then we'll go to National. All right. We attended the curriculum canvas with 70 and this year six years ago when we adopted the preschool curriculum, we had two two options because those were the ones that were aligned with West Virginia standards. In past six years, quite a few companies have aligned their curriculum to the West Virginia standard. So, we had six or seven different ones to look at. So, we narrowed it down and we settled on Solace three cheers um preschool curriculum. And the our favorite piece of this curriculum is the assessment piece in preschool because children learn through play and they can't
029stand take a test because they don't have right yet. Um a lot of their assessment has to be through observation. And so this curriculum has a form for each week for each child that looks at the standards that you are hitting that week with what you are the types of play that you are setting up with them, the types of lessons that you so it'll be a much more consistent, constant, and accurate observational assessment that will all be doing the same thing. Um, I personally find observational assessment on my own. Very hard to keep track of to take the time to write down. This is a checklist. How are they doing rents? How are they doing on sharing? How are they doing on holding their pencil? You know, the the specific things. And by the
030end of the year, you will have hit all the standards in West Virginia for preschool. It also has the has nine themes. So, it'll be one per month of school. Um, and they're they're very nice themes compared to what our current ones are. Currently, we have a ball study. It's good to study balls for six to eight weeks. But these studies are much better. Marvelous Bean, everyday helpers, which talks about community helpers and and um people that they adults that they've meet in their lives. Um, it has one farm to table. Where does our food come from? Animals. They love animals. Let's tie that into their math and into their science and life cycles. And there's an earth, moon, and sky one, which those of us in green banking, which we're going to do this
031year, but it's sure to tie in even nicer to our great. Um, and then that theme tracks throughout the day from morning meetings and greeting songs to specific activities you have in the learning centers, play centers throughout the day. um even transition songs that tied to the theme. Um small groups related to literacy, small groups related to math. And math was another thing that we really liked about this one because it has very intentional lessons of getting math in every day, whereas our current one is less direct. And so we feel like we could be better at math. And so we feel like this one will help us do that. uh vocabulary science, social studies, health, social emotion, that's the mascot that is used in your social emotional um lessons throughout the day and in
032the end of the day with a reflection on the different things that they learned throughout the day and it is connected to the West Virginia West Virginia standards and it also has a strong um family engagement piece. So there'll be a digital newsletter that has links to news stories that can be read aloud, videos tied to vocabulary that we're talking about. Um, so feels it feels more comprehensive than what we're currently using and we're very good. Yeah. Thank you, darling. We'll move to National Honor Society and National Technology. Excellent. Yes. Can I share screen? We're gonna do a little screen here. So, you may not see the camera for just a second. Wow. Once she shares it with you, share the screen and then check your email. That's what I was just gonna open up
033my um Okay. Yeah. pop up. Is it not clicking? Then you might have to go to Did your granny access. Okay. No. Well, just do that. Try to look on it. Okay. Share screen. Thank you. There it is. Beautiful. Thank you very much. Sorry. Well, there you go. That book, too. Okay. My name is um Cindy Solac and this is Brianna Morgan and we are co-advisors for National Honor Society. We want to thank you very much for allowing us to tell you a little bit about National Honor Society. We have made some changes this year since we've taken over. I am sure after every selection process the last couple years, at least one of your board members have gotten a phone call about a parent complaining. Have did any of you get a phone call
034this year? No. No. Did you hear from a parent at all? Okay. So, we may have succeeded. So, Miss Morgan and I sat down and thought about some of the things that needed to be changed to prevent some upset parents or even upset students. And in doing so, we also worked with the current chapter that we inherited and we had a very wonderful year. So, this is two parts. We want to explain the process and then we want to tell you about what we've done this year. Okay. So um one of the first concerns that we wanted to take care of was the clarification of the selection process. We found that when our students applied, they didn't quite understand how to exemplify themselves on the application. And um so we went ahead and we talked
035to them about that. And in doing so, we eliminated the whole don't sign up for National Honor Society because if there's a teacher that doesn't like you, you're not going to get in. Or if they don't like your parents, you're not going to get in. I'm not in the popular cloud crowd. So, we spent time working with the students and explaining that there was a selection process and how it worked. Okay? And that just so you know, National Honor Society is an organization founded to honor students who excelled in the areas they have four pillars they need to work with. Leadership, scholarship, service, and character. Um, and so we had a whole PowerPoint that we presented to them once they were given the selection saying you have a GPA of 3305. That 05 does make
036a big difference. Um, and now you can go ahead and apply for National Honor Society. And we also made sure they understood it was an honor. It was not a right. Just because they had that 3.305, 305 they still had to meet the other pillars. Um so then we explained in different steps what they needed to do and these steps are very important. Um once they filled out the application we sent a survey to the teachers saying that certain students build things out and would you rate them? Now, in the past, teachers can rate on how they felt. Okay, we eliminated that. We gave them a list of things that we wanted them to rate the students on. We set a zero to four score and we gave them a rubric to use on how
037to rate the students for each test for each category. Um, and then if they actually gave a two or below, we wanted to know why. so that there was no bias, there was no personal, they didn't like that student, so they were just going to go ahead and and give them zeros across the board. So, we held them accountable. One of the other things is we um talked about what is called the faculty council members. They are selected by the current administration. The students do not know who these members are. Um and then what we will do is once we get the application, we redapt everything that is in the application. Um so that when it goes to your faculty council, they have no idea what student they're looking at. So that's why it's important
038when we met with the students to explain that if you have leadership skills, don't be shy. Put it all out there. If you work for your church, put it out there. If you go and snow, shovel snow for your elderly neighbors, we want to know. That's not a little thing. That shows that you have character, you have integrity. So then what our um advisor see is we also here's the other thing. We also gave them a rubric. So for each category, we said, okay, let's say leadership. If you if this person has at least three leadership um skills on their application, then they get a five. Why that score is important is in the end we have to have 20 or above before you can even be um selected to join the National Honor Society.
039The highest you can score is 25. So there's not a lot of wiggle room in there. Okay. Um so for every category we went ahead and um gave them gave the teachers the counselor or the adviserss a rubric. Um and then in the end this is what it looked like. And each applicant had a number again no names. So our advisors do not know who they're scoring. They might figure it out if it's the president of senior class. Okay. But um and then they score. We had a rubric on the essay everything. And this student unfortunately did not make it. Um, what Miss Morgan and I did in all of these rubrics is we contacted other schools in the state of West Virginia to get their ideas on how they were successful in with their
040National Honor Society and their process. So, um, that's what we did. We also made them understand that decisions were final. We can't her and I cannot do anything. we have nothing to do with this but cross papers and and put them to the advisory council. Then um we did give the students who did not make it an opportunity to come meet with us and we would go through the rubrics with them and explain what areas that they can improve on and we hope that they would come back the next year if they were juniors. Um, and let's see. We also explain what's required in them. And then Miss Morvin's going to explain the fun stuff. All right. So, when we inherited this group that you see in these pictures in the fall of 2024, we
041also inherited a zero bank account. Yeah. We were we were very very low on money. So, to be 100% honest with you, we didn't even have money to pay our dues for this chapel. So, we myself, Mrs. Solac, and the members that were currently in the um in the chapter went around to local businesses and got donations, either gift certificates or items that we were going to put in raffle baskets or monetary donations. And we were successful enough to get enough gift certificates and other don or yeah, other donations to create those five um baskets that you see there in the front. And we sold raffle tickets for those. And we actually raised enough money to buy matching shirts for the entire chapter. We we raised um we were able to pay our dues and
042we had some money left over that I'm going to discuss what we're going to do with uh toward the end here. Oh, I'm going the wrong way. Sorry. Going the wrong way. Um and then we partnered with the women's club. The Marlington women's club and hosted the veterans lunch. They helped serve the veterans their dinner and then they helped clean up the mess as well. We also hosted a schoolwide school drive at the high school and we were able to collect and donate six large um boxes of food for the Pocahontas FRN. And I'm going to interrupt you for a second. One of the things that I want this was Caleb's design. We asked the students to take ownership. They're the ones who come up with all the service projects. what we do with the
043money going back into the community. Miss Morgan and I just literally make sure it gets done. We're the cheerleaders. Um, and their decisions have been absolutely awesome. We reached out and said, "Hey, who can make the flyer for the food drive?" Caleb said, "Got it." Um, and that's exactly how this chapter has been all year. We need certificates. Got it. Very great. Big and awesome. Yeah. Um, and then toward Christmas time, we adopted a Christmas tree angel from the Pocahontas F FRN. And here's the angel. So, you can see that there were some 12 to 18 month clothes and winter clothes and a baby gate. And the angel's um favorite color was purple. So, this group of kids here got together um and Mrs. Holic and myself even donated a little bit to help them
044out. And you can see all of the goodies that were collected, bought, and brought in uh by these National Honor Society members. and donated to this angel. And then we use some of the funds that they raised in the raffle basket to buy supplies of um diapers and a large gift certificate to IGA for the family for meals. Okay. So, as a chapter, we have also completed and this um fundraiser here is with our new members that we have inducted within the last month. We have completed a crispy cream donut fundraiser in union with the freshman class. We were very successful with that and we um raised a pretty good chunk of money. Um and in the coming weeks we will be making a $350 donation back to the community to the Pocahontas County Humane
045Society with those um extra um funds that we have raised throughout the year. We will also be going to Greenbank Elementary and Marlington Elementary Schools with um some of these students that still need some service project hours um for the students to go in and read to those students and even help out with whatever the teachers need. All right, so here's a picture from the last induction and these are our current members as well as the new members that we, like I said, inducted within the last month. Um our members here, uh there's 28 of them. We have 22 seniors this year. So all get their nice gold stos for graduation and which unfortunately leaves us with six members next year taking a huge cut there. Um but we did change the bylaws and we're
046going to this chapter decided that um we can do an induction in November instead of April. So if we do get oncoming seniors we'll be able to enjoy them for their senior year. No. So, and then Will's Yes. And before I let these members that have joined us this evening introduce themselves, I want to take just a minute to recognize that Will Oanian did get a $3,000 scholarship from National Honor Society from like the national national or the national chapter of National Honor Society. So, that he has $3,000 to go into his um freshman year of college. All right. And we do have some members that have joined us this evening and I'd like them to take just a second to recognize themselves and if they're a senior tell you where they plan to attend
047college. Go ahead. My name is Elanor. This fall I will be attending Vermont State University to major in national security intelligence and minor in political science. Why don't you stand up so they see? Smith. I plan to attend West Liberty University and I'm going to major in biology doing their prevet. Right. My name is Lauren and I'm going to major inology. I'm a junior be in pediatrics one as a nurse practitioner. I'm Alison Bro. I'm a junior and I'm playing to become an LP6. I plan to go into the business business administration and finance pathway and political engagement and um my selected community after college. Good evening everyone. I'm Taylor Ruter. Um, I'll be attending WU this fall, study accounting and minor in uh, real estate. Okay. Well, thank you very much for your time.
048Technical. Also a member of National Tech Society. Gibson and thank you guys. Thank you all. Couple of these students have AP exams tomorrow. Are we okay if we leave? No, my exam was today. Thanks. [Music] Well, actually, I don't think we'll talk soon. Thank you, Mr. Wait. [Music] Stay alive. Back. How long? She didn't put you up on the shoulder sleeping drive. We got stop that wiggle. Yeah. Mr. Lady. Um let's join. So they said about three or five years ago and went to a prince and another and she brought it back. How do you get on the team? Like the best. Wow. She said something number six on the agenda is approval of the following consent financial requirements. Payment of vendor listing 24,947. Payment of government purchasing card 41,779.95 April 17 2025 employee direct
049payroll 296,626 extra duty pay for the month of April 2025 17,92493 grand awards and budget adjustments do I have a motion call make a motion do I have a second Mrs. Hollinssworth second that any questions on number six hearing none. All those in favor sign motion carries under miscellaneous number seven approve the 2024 audit financial statement audit statement and discussion presented at the previous meeting. Do I have a motion? Mr. Holmes made a motion. Do I have a second? Mr. We may have second at number seven. Anybody have any questions on number seven? All those in favor come see I. Number eight, approval for Kim Chinberry and Britney Place to take approximately 26 students from Greenbank Elementary Middle School to the Greenbar Valley Aquatic Center in Fairley, West Virginia on May the 27th for a
050reward trip. Transportation will be provided by bus. Do I have a motion? made a motion. I have a second. This is pollins for second. Any questions on the trip? Hearing none. All those in favor. Item number nine, approval of memoranduming of outstanding between County Board of Education and the Southern Educational Service Corporation to provide bus operated training examination services for July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2026. Have a motion. Motion have second. Any questions on number nine? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. Car. Number 10. Approval for of the contract between the developmental advantage and the county board of education to provide additional services for the 2425 and 25 school 26 school year. Motion. Second. Well, they're coming slow. Yeah. Question number 10. What is that exactly? What is that? That
051is actually with our um special education in order to provide services and some assessments. This is something we can't take. I can't do that. a a special certification um for to do the last weekend. All those in favor signify by saying I motion carries number 11 approval high school course of standards for the following course of philosophical and writing and young adult literature. Do I have a motion? Motion have a second. Second. Any questions on that? has potential against a lot of things probably. Any other questions? All those in favor by saying I motion car number 12 approval policy 5410 promotions acceleration placement and retentions. Okay. May you have a second? Second. And that is number 12. Now, is this that new retention policy that's in this one? Yes. Where we put it out for
052the 30-day public comment you see in tag 12. We only had two comments from the public. See, so are all of our principles and everybody on the same page you the same? Okay. Is the same policy for the whole county? Yes. Okay. All those in favor. Approval of additional fundraiser at Green Bank Elementary Middle School for Cashious Care. Cautious Tasha. Tasha's care a Tasha's [Music] puzzle. Mr. Gold makes a second. Miss sounds cool. Caution. Caution is expensive. It's a It's a big deal for them, you know, the fundraiser. She has a special diet. She has veterinarian. She has care. All those in favor? I number 14. And this is one we had to change in Mrs. Boston. So, I may have to ask you this again. approval of the following textbooks for the sixth and
053seventh grade. And it's what is it? Learning LLC. Correct. And that's just for grade six and seven. Okay. That is to retain or rec seventh grade world geography hope and Hudson Educational Company always. I have a motion going. Oh, free cash, three cheers. company LLC. Don't forget to There you go. I have a motion made it. Everybody understands all in saying I motion. Approval of the 2025 20 26 Poconus County Board of Education meeting schedules. motion. And this second is this the same one we've had this year starting every two meetings a month. All those in favor signify by saying I number 16 notes once instruction. All right. Record show Mr. Gibson voted against number 15. And this passes 41. Number 16. Action. appointment of a superintendent of Pro County Schools to begin a term
054on July the 1st, 2025 for no less than one year or no more than four years. Do I have a motion? I'd like to make a motion that we uh make a motion first. Mr. M makes a motion. Do I have a second? And Mr. McCome second. Any discussion? I recommend we we hire uh Dr. Williams. Would you like to add anything? Second. Okay. Okay. The motion has been made and second that we hire Dr. Williams as superintendent of Pope Hunus County Schools beginning on July the 1st, 2025. All those in favor signify by saying I. Motion carries 50. Mrs. Mrs. Gibson, will you come forward? or Mrs. Williamson. Did you hear it? Thank you so much. Thank you. We can do it. Stand there. [Music] the radio. [Music] She wants all of her husband
055in it, too. Yeah. Mr. Williams, come on up here. We can take a picture. Thank you very much. Do you want because he's interested in deer hunting? He's so excited about coming here. Come to my backyard. against and we do want to play locally and um culture. Um my grandmother's from here, my dad has a sister here. Oh, that's good. Your grandf [Laughter] for lunch. Well, All right. Okay. Uh 17 is approval of service and and uh professional personnel. Do we want to go into the executive station on personnel matter before we go into the We better let's do that. Let's go into executive station to go into executive on a person. Do I have a motion? Move a motion and commission. Second all by saying I back in regular session. And now we're going
056to go to number 17 which is approval of service. and professional personnel. Do I have a motion? Mr. made a motion. Do I have a second? Men, Mrs. B. High School unpaid medical leave. Melinda Ruth County High School effective April 30th, 2025 through the end of the school year. Bank Elementary Middle School request to transfer Tiffany Wayne as ECAT special education classroom bus aid effective for the 2526 school year. Employment at um Hillsboro Elementary School is and this is from a referred recall list Paulina Schoolcraft as an ECAT special education bus aid effective for the 2526 school year. Resignation for Martin Middle School of Melissa Robinson as teacher of multi- subjects effective June 30th 2025. Hey, she took an extreme job. Correct. She was a nice woman. She'll be here for the rest of the
057school year. Marson Elementary. And this is a employment from the preferred recall list is Ashley Diller as ECAT special education classroom aid for the 2526 school year. Another uh employment from referred recall list is Carrie Curry as ECAT special education classroom bus affected for the 2526 school year. Requested transfer is Don Brewster from CAT special education classroom aid kindergarten to an ECAT special education classroom a for the 26 school year and employment of Adam Herman as head custodian at Warson Elementary connected banks 2025 for 38 days for the remainder of the 2425 school year and 261 days each year thereafter. Miss actually teach. She is social studies. She took She actually I've been in her classroom and she's very energetic. She has a camera. You've been watching her chicks and ducks are super duper. Yes.
058That's where any other questions like to move to take Adam. Okay. And deal with that secondly. Okay. We're going to vote all up on all of them but Adam Hartman at this house. All of them but Adam Hartman. All those in favor signify by saying I. I motion carries. Now at this time we are going to vote on Adam Ferman as head co elementary school effective May the 7th 2025 for 38 days for the remainder of the 2024 25 school year and shall be 261 days each thereafter. Adam Harmon all those in favor signify by saying I. All those opposed same motion does not carry turn down. Uh matters of the board Mr. Gibson. Yeah. You know several things here again I want to reiterate to our staff students keep going. We don't the school
059calendar is still kicking up dirt. That's what I get calls calendar is a is the calendar then deal today from state and snow day plans. But it ends up I tell you I don't know how people that come in June they should um I would encourage they did but they people just want I would encourage all of the citizens of POS to write supports to SRS but I need to I mean that's a big deal for us and Um and you know finally and even this is my last topic and and u the federal funding that that rumor that we don't know about what's going on in the clinic and even m and the reason I bring it up is because our treasur could she's afraid to submit her final budget documents because this I
060think that's what the national say yes. He's concerned. Oh, are we even is anybody have we even talked about discussion about plan B if funding does not come in? Is there anything that we what's what's is there anybody thinking about that? So the federal funds generally we get that pays for our salaries which is the title one, title two, title three, the title funds, ESDA couple years ago was chapter one and it was title one. Some counties started out when things started to be discussed about federal funds being cut and some counties went ahead and started the living transfer season and cutting all of their fed funded employees. Then they pulled those back. And I spoke with Michelle BL, our state superintendent. She has been in contact with the federal government with her contacts in
061Washington DC and we are being alert. We do not we are not getting any uh feedback that says that we will not get that funding. Now here that funding changes a little. It depends on your poverty levels. It depends on the where the state has. So we all know there's a little bugation each year on what um concern is the SRS. Yes. So there's no concern right now for any kind of funding cuts right now. Not even. All right. We would have had to federal. Okay, that's all I ask. teach and stuff. We have testing school teaching. next year. Teachers are not teachers. teachers who would rather play issue that they brought up. Oh, all I hear is education. If anyone ever teacher, you can't shut. Um, one of the things that Frosty and I
062learned on Saturday is we need to revisit all of our supplements, whatever you want to call, stipens, bonuses, they're all illegal unless they're part of a contract because that's we were going to provide to you all May 20th will be good. Yeah, I uric coaches but also directors, the treasurer, the accountants, the coordinators for different like technology and federal programs. All of those it's the two pages back and front. like say we went to the conference there and the only other thing uh like to mention is and we've discussed it about the policies uh they said that was one of the main things that you need to go over your policies and one example that the gentleman used was I don't know what county it was they went back and the only one there was
063a only one that could tie the horse up to the hitch in that post out front was a teacher So we need to go back and make sure that we're up up to date on all of those and the ones that we don't have we need to get. So we use orthodox for our policies and our contact there is Sam Kaval and he works still diligently to make sure our policies are up to date. Now with that said, they send us a list and say policy and those are the ones that's why you've been seeing quite a we were behind and we've been trying to catch up so that we are in the correct state code policy following this. So that's like today we did the retention updating. So we are trying we did a
064lot of counties for that. Yeah. said a lot of counties are getting it that a lot of the problems come through that normally about all the legislation was passed a whole bunch of problems to policies because they have been following the only other thing that I don't know if you all can answer can answer them or not are u the curriculum at high school we are we getting close on it So they actually they were hoping that they'd have it ready last week to put on this board agenda. Um but we didn't. So we'll bring it to you on the 20th. It is now going up to students and families with a new draft watermark on it. Uh until you [Music] all can also speak to that please. It's a lengthy document. I think it's
065very help explain more classes are done class for everybody. How many pages did you say? 44 pages. It's got you know required areas and I think everybody get the only thing was not here the transcript with the underassman and all that disclosure the Mr. Speaker, they don't have any of the uh freshman and junior class, but the other three classes. Yes, they're working on a weekly update and that's why I was going in with me and she lists, you know, accomplish one whole section. Can we get a wait room for this school calendar? Cuz I ain't getting a pile of kickback on that. I heard we could we could call Charleston and have a more time. We had a week to vote on that. So, we went ahead and passed them. One thing we didn't
066understand on the survey is people could go in and vote as many times as they wanted to. Yeah. I had I had one staff member that told me they voted 100 times. Yeah. And that's what running it up so much for the one. You had one set they would tell you. Yes. I could just keep both. So whichever calendar they wanted, four or five people got together and run. Can we get a waiver from the state on that because I am getting a lot of feedback from the well not only green back area. I'm getting area now too. It was green. No, it's I think it's the uh you know it's hurting a lot of people. Are there any way to get away? And I will suggest that you go to the state website and
067look at the numbers. We do have access that we can see next year's calendars from the other counties and you can see that a lot of them are very well I'm just here. Okay. The other thing is you know uh Sherry sent us a copy of the budget which was very deep balance and it's supposed to but how much carryover did we have? That would be a discrete question. Yeah. So uh can we have her prepared for the next board meeting to let us know how much carryover we got? We should have between three and four minutes and carry over. But we're always here, you know, we're broke. We don't have any money. I've never heard traders do not tell us that. Well, you also have like Dr. said, there's certain percentage that the state
068requires us. We have an emergency situation. I mean, we have older buildings. that we have things that happened to them. We need to have respons I didn't go to that train. Okay. One of the better ones. This great train is always the best. I don't have to take anything down for July. Then we're going to have how many hours? 13 hours. 12. Okay. Our next board of education meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 20, 2025, beginning at 6 PM at the board of education conference room. Do I have a motion to adjurnn? Mr. McNe made the motion and Miss Hollinssworth seconded. All those in favor signify by saying I. You are hereby jar.