001One of the board members resigned yet? One board members resigned yet? Okay. I'd like to call the Pon County Board of Education regular meeting for Tuesday, April 15th, 2025. Again clock to order. Four members are present. Mr. Gibson is absent. Open with the pledge of allegiance. To the flag of the United States of America and to theublic for it stands one nation andice. First off we'll have approval of the agenda. Have any questions of the agenda? Hearing none. All those in favor saying I. Motion carries. Miscellaneous. Approval of the levy order rate which was presented to the board of education on March 11, 2025 and approved by the state board of education and tax commissioner as submitted effective for the fical year beginning July the 1st, 2025 and ending July the 30th, 2026. So rates
002are as follows. Class one land $19.40. Class 2 3880, class 3 7760, and class 4 7760. Do I have a motion? I have a second. Mr. Holl second. Any questions? Hearing none. All those in favor by saying I motion carries to the boarding. She has sent them more than it's 12 hours now. And so if you ever gotten 12 hours now, July the 1st, 2025, right? So next year, all board members, right? Am I right on board? It's right. And it's not hard to do. You go to the fall or the or the spring. that and then one other um and I'm going to go to that I think it's done No. What do you have to get rooms at a different place in West? I want to do as much virtual as I can.
003The rest of this year except for Yes. Next year we will need more. Starting July can't take this take the average now for next year. You have to wait until July is always a good and then the final four to your term. If you're not me have to do And let's see what compensation rate we need to talk about that some point because the state is saying we need to be paid 260 per meeting but the county can pay us less. Yeah, we can change that little but we need to keep that in mind. I think that's all that really passed that well I'm concerning ones that didn't pass check on it but in regional counties boards that went down the tubes and the last review that's good twice they told the tables and never
004come back up I was watching that closely Yeah, that's all. Let the record show Mr. Gibson is here. Uh, Mr. Mr. Gibson, please help. Matter of the Lord I'm suff grass there school I go to the high school cut grass there and then go to work the same across the morning and three schools stay outside Okay, I've got a few things. I apologize if you missed the last meeting, but I had my wife had served here and everything was fine. So, I had a couple few things to bring up last, but uh I can just mention it now because I don't miss B. I don't know if anybody else can answer any of the questions that I've got. Uh the one one is uh the CTE aotments. How many people are getting that? We were
005told that there was three. There are three people getting the CTE allowance and two. There's two. How come we're having two? Should there be one? Two? What should there be? Two princip Well, only one now because we only have one principal. So there's only one CTE stipen now. It's not very correct. There's two, right? There was two principal sponsor that got CT. Nobody in the world was getting a CT. There is there are supplements for our directors but it has not been specified for CT. Yeah. Uh, the other thing I had was I saw we we went from 24 credits to graduate down to 22. Uh, is that something that we need to vote on or is that something that we did vote on? That's stage in Texas state. Okay. We changed that. Okay. Help.
006You may have to help me out here, Chrissy, but some of the teachers and the principles to high school back several years ago 24 and then whenever the state is 22, we changed it back to the state. They just take more, but they got to have at least 22, right? Okay. And anybody got any updates on the percent of transcripts that are completed for the underassman? I know the seniors were done, but how about underassman? That's what it's a work in progress. They're making good progress, but they they're continuing to work on it. Okay, that that leads into my next question is is uh the curriculum and everything, the classes and everything set for the high school because I'm getting some word from the middle schools that they can't complete their stuff because the high
007school part of it is not complete, right? um they're they're working on a program of study which outlines every course that they are going to offer at the high school and they're putting that book put together. You can't really do a schedule without that program of study because the students need to know what the classes are about and if they don't know that then they can't make good decisions about what they are interested in taking. So they're working on the program of study. The middle school I have asked them to be patient with the high school. um those folks up there are trying to run that school every day plus build things from the ground up that have not been in place. So they are they are working on it. It's a work in progress.
008Everything takes so much time and they they're new so they're just building things from the ground up. I mean do they have they do they have a priority list that they're they do. We do gives us the priority list. Um, I just printed her recent one that she updated yesterday, this morning. So, yes, they have a list that they're working on and it's got dates when things are have to be due by and things. Um, I feel certain that they will have a schedule and everything soon, but it just it just takes time. And they're working with um the education system solutions group. They're working with them to develop this program and study. Casey's done a great job, but it's just it's not finished yet. But they are working on it. The end is end
009of the year's coming quick. Yeah, we know. She told me I was at high school, last week or before last week before. Was that the day? Yeah. I seen you. Uh she said that the schedules would be ready by May 15th. list of items working. Yeah. Just just so just so everything ends coming quick when they check things off like she strikes through them and puts done beside of them like we Yes, there is a list. Okay. Now next which miss can in here I don't know who's in charge but my opinion we need to be posting for a principal at the Pokemon County High School. I don't know why that has not been posted. I don't know what the hold up is. I figured after we voted with the high school that following week
010we would have a posted and we have nothing yet. [Music] Well, this is an open meeting and if I could get you all to go along with me. I We need to post the job for principal at Poconos County High School. I agree. I made a motion to post. We can't agenda. We can't We can't vote on Mr. Gibson. We can We can recommend it. Well, we can't vote because it's not on the agenda. Mr. President, I'll make next week's agenda, please. You can't make a motion to do that, but I I can take care of Okay. Did Miss Fost say she was working the last I I don't remember that Sherry? She could have uh but Barkley, will you put that on the agenda for the next meeting that we that we would like
011to see that posting for principal Poconus County High School come out? I mean, some of these other schools are getting they're going to lose some people and the can might bump up. I'm hoping it does. I think up there I think we need a fresh set of eyes, fresh face, and let's start over. Uh, and we talked a minute ago about Dr. affairs. Now, if I'm in agreement if he's willing to help us through some of this stuff, that's I I would I would love him to come over and help us and try to guide. I don't think he's going to fine. Mr. Fris's health is not the best ever for what I hear. I think he'd be very valuable to us lead us to us through some of this stuff. Uh something else I
012don't know if you all know anything about is what do we lack for the construction at Poco at the high school on electrical and the gym floor. They had a pre meeting the 10th and so that process is underway. When is it? Yeah, man. See, Miss B told me that instruction was going to start the day after graduation. That's the not the day after graduation day after school. That was a pretty big meeting. There were I don't know maybe 12 companies out there for the previous meeting. It was a good turnout. We were tickling. Some were for just the gym and some was for just electric. Some were contractors that would do both, but everything's going to be under one general contractor. I have talked I mean we got an email about wanting to know
013anybody about the uh yeah the works. I've contacted two people. I don't know if they they both seemed interested and I told them to get a hold of Dwayne and Miss Bos or somebody here. I don't know if they have it or not, but I have approached two people that I know of that I know we had one present, but I don't I mean that's the bids end on April 29th at 1:30 p.m. All right. And last that I thing I have is um I volunteered to be on a citizen advisory board for down in Denmark down to prison and I went down there to a meeting and uh they do offer a lot of things that we can use and they I stopped by here after that meeting talked to Miss Bolstick about it.
014Did she take that to the press? Did she? Okay. because they they are willing to to send people out to do some work. It's not every day all day and all that, but I gave the the gest of it. So that is available if we know of anybody that works out of the the prison for a day in crew. Yeah. Yeah. Same way they they used to do it years ago. We do everything. I mean things like cane and stuff like that. They don't. Yeah. But weedy and mowing they we mow all day long. They said all you need to do is fly the tools and lunch and they would they would do whatever they said to take. They're wanting to get more and more into the the community. Uh they've got there's like I
015said we they've got all kinds of jobs. Not guard jobs. They only had like one guard job open but they've got all kinds of different maintenance men uh teachers. They got all kinds of stuff open down there. So if anybody's interested Yeah. Please contact me and I'll give you the info. wrong, but if it hasn't changed, they cannot be in the schools when kids are in the schools. True. I thought Miss B cuz I didn't know if we had if there was some rules regulation, but I let her know. So, yeah. innocent. Hey, I'm sure they enjoy that. You got anything else? That's all I've got. Thank you. We have received six applications for superintendent school. Uh how do we want to handle this? It's up to us. Do we interview all six of them?
016You want to interview three of them? You want to hear four? It's up to this board to make a decision on how we want to interview. We put it on the next board agenda as an executive session. If that would be on the 22nd got to interview then we should set up the interview. I think we should interview them all but this is a state concert state process. They all deserve to be heard. Uh that's something we'll have to discuss at the 22nd meeting. Uh is that fine with everybody to go over the go over the applications of the six I think I've got to my phone but I can't print I don't have a printer and they send them to you you print we take care of it if you send them uh they
017send it under my personal count school. Uh that's the one Jim Brown sent them to me. So let's put that to go over the applications. I would like to give a shout out to Mr. Brown for all the work that he does and updates and all that. I don't know how the man does he is on it all the time. I mean, he's and there's only two of them in that office. Yes, he's on top of everything. I mean, it's Anything else? Anybody have anything else? The next board of education meeting will be held on Tuesday, April the 22nd, 2025, beginning at 6:00 conference room in Buckeye, West Virginia. Do I have a motion? Do I have a second?