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Wayne County Board of Education Regular Meeting 6/24/2025

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2025-06-25
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Wayne County, WV
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4,996 words · about 28 min
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2026-07-02

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001might have a redneck in here. Yeah. Oh, yeah. All right. We're good. Good. Everybody ready? Turned on over. Six o'clock. All right. We're going to go ahead and call our regular meeting of the Wayne County Board of Education to order. It's 6 o'clock. And if you'll stand, we'll say the pledge. Robbie will give you the honor this evening to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Let the record show that all board members are present in person this evening and we'll begin with recognitions if we have any. We don't have any recognitions or presentations. Okay, great. Let's move on down to our good news section. Anyone have any good news to share? Uh, a couple

002things. Um, summer school started yesterday and uh so um we'll give you an update in early July what kind of numbers we're seeing. And I know at the high school site, Robbie's working out at the high school site. I think Robbie, you said there's about 60 total participating first day yesterday. Yeah. And then um the other piece of good news came uh yesterday. The school building authority approved uh our MIP grant partially. Uh we had requested a safe school entrance for four different school sites. Uh they approved one school site that was Vincent uh Vincent Middle School. And so we will receive approximately $150,000 from the state to do some re renovations at Vincent Middle School to do a more secure entrance. And uh there were several counties that had requested safe school entries and

003it they had asked us to prioritize and uh it appears that um you know they they spread it out among the counties which you know from the state level is a good way to handle that. So we we are grateful to receive that funding and we'll be starting that project uh this summer. Okay. And when I say starting the project this summer, we have to go through the architectural process of design and all that. So, I don't think we'll have any construction started this summer, but um we we'll get the uh get the planning going here um in July. Great. That's all I have. All right. Anyone else? Moving on to ourformational items. Special board meeting on Tuesday, July the 1st, beginning at 5:00 pm here in the board conference room. And sometimes we have

004to do meetings on July 1st. This is not one of those years because there's, you know, there's no primary this year. Um, but uh with the personnel and the way that the positions are coming down just to keep things moving, it's a good idea to go ahead and and do that meeting on July 1. Randy, you had mentioned that 5:00 might be an issue for you. Do you want us to schedule that later? Later would be good. I I don't know what will happen. I've got had a mediation schedule for months. This sounds odd to say a lawyer's unreasonable. The lawyers on the other side are terribly unreasonable. We're not Wayne County. It's always that way. Yeah. So, the mediation may be over in a couple hours or it may go long and I don't

005really know. Okay. Okay. So, we'll we'll schedule that meeting just at a regular time of six o'clock. Okay. Six is fine. Yeah. We'll work with you, buddy. Thanks. a regular board meeting on Tuesday, July the 8th, beginning at 6 here in the board conference room. Also a regular meeting on Tuesday, July 22nd, also at 6 o'clock here in the board conference room. Moving on to our construction project updates. So the uh roofing at Lavallet has been delivered. U we were expecting that the project was going to be started. Um I know that they are uh that's imminent. It's going to be any day now. With the heat where it is, it might be delayed, but that'll definitely be completed this summer. So, that's moving forward. Um, the Wayne High School athletic facility re-roofing project, we're

006getting ready to readvertise that project. As we discussed at the last meeting, the we only had a bid from one company the first time that we advertised and it was uh we the bid was over budget to the point that we need to rebid. So uh we're going to readvertise. It's going to be in the paper uh next week and we're going to do a pre-bid meeting on the 15th and a bid opening on July 22nd. So we're going to move forward with that project. I mentioned to you at the last meeting that um we were going to have humidity checks done on all of the units in the district. Uh all the new HVAC units that we installed last summer in four different schools because we were having some excess excessive humidity issues. All

007of those checks uh occurred. Every one of those individual units has been touched for adjustments and we are monitoring that to make sure that it's had the desired effect. But the initial indication is is that we're we're in good shape. So I'll keep you updated as we move forward with that. Um the Serita Canova Elementary School MIP project uh we also advertised for that project. We uh bid that uh project out. We received one bid which exceeded the established budget for the project. So, uh, we entered into negotiations with the, uh, company that submitted the bid and, uh, we have later on we have an agenda item. We we'll talk about the, uh, revised price and, uh, whether that's acceptable to the board. So, we'll talk about that during that agenda item. Uh, Wayne Elementary

008School, MIP, work continues there. Uh, drywalling is still going on. The painters uh, started today. There's been some concrete poured for sidewalks um at the facility. The windows uh the uh the frames for the windows have been installed. So, it's moving along. No problems there. Spring Valley High School soccer field, that drainage was completed and so now we are working with asphalt contractors to get bids on repairing the lot where we had to tear up the lot to install the line. And so that'll be the next step for that project. And the field. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. And the field. We have a PO on the agenda this evening where we originally had to dig up the field to find the the problem with the uh with the uh sink hole in the middle of the

009field. That's that's being uh that dirt's being put back and the grass is being receded there. And then the uh final thing I'll mention to you and this is in your manila uh folder. I think it's at the end maybe the end of the folder. There's some drawings from McKenley. It's a staple together Wayne County Schools Buffalo School Renovation Edition. I think at the last meeting I told you we try to share some information about the design especially the traffic pattern. So, if you look on the first page, you're going to see the layout. Okay. The the uh building is uh at the top of the page. And then you have two uh drives that will uh you have two drives that will Randy, it's in your Manila folder. All the Manila. Yeah. This one

010right here. Oh, thanks. You want to look at this? No, I'll get it. You have two You have two separate drives there. The drive on the right will be for bus traffic. The drive on the left will be for parent traffic. And so uh it will keep parent traffic and bus traffic separated. And uh in order for us to to have this kind of traffic pattern, we have to do some additional property purchase there at the site. And that agenda is that item is on the agenda as well for your consideration this evening. Any questions about that design? Again, on the left, that's all parent traffic. Parents would come do a loop in that parking lot and then exit the same way that they came in. Middle school students would be dropped off at the

011gymnasium that's at the end of the building. elementary students would be dropped off uh closer to the middle of the building where the main entrance is. And at the bus drop off loop, it would work exactly the opposite. At the lower end of the new addition, which is cross-hatched there, the proposed addition on your paper, uh the elementary students would be dropped off where there's a multi-purpose room at that end of the building. And then the middle school students would be dropped off up at the main entry and then the buses would return on the same lane that they entered. So again, this is all in proposal and drawings now. So if you have any concerns later, you just let me know. Then if you go to the next page, you're going to see the

012building layout. It's all going to be on the roof. Yes. The portion that's all in white is the existing middle school. Okay. Anything that has lines through it is uh is an addition. uh the dark portion up at the top in the top middle slightly off to the left that's existing middle school that's going to be renovated. Okay. So the heavy renovation work goes into the the darkest area on your paper. That's where the existing cafeteria is and the sixth grade classrooms. Those sixth grade classrooms are going to be turned into an office area. There's uh we also have that special education room that we renovated there that will be continued to be used as a special education room. And then everything from the darkest part to the right that's new addition and there will

013be two floors. There'll be the floor that you see there and then if you u drop straight below this in the design that's the that represents the second floor. So the addition will be a two-story edition with a multi-purpose room. Again, as I said, would be closest to U Buffalo Creek Road there to your right. Going back uh to the area that's going to be renovated to the left is the cafeteria and then that cafeteria is going to be expanded. So, we'll increase the size of the cafeteria. the existing uh students now currently they exit the middle school and they walk underneath a canopy outside to get to the cafeteria and sixth grade area. That will all be enclosed. There will be restrooms included there. And then your portion that's all in white, that's the

014existing middle school. Depending on the budget will where the numbers come in on the bids will depend on what kind of work we can do in the white portion. Uh at the very bottom of your page, you will see that there's an addition of a band choir room because we take some of that space uh from what's currently the sixth grade and turn that into elementary space. We're going to build an additional room onto the middle school down there at the b the band choir room. So that will be an addition. So for the middle school, the significant items will be the addition of that band choir room, the upgrade of the uh cafeteria and then the installation of those bathrooms in that enclosed cap uh in that enclosed corridor. Will share the cafeteria? Yes,

015but it's going to be when I say share, it's going to be separated. There'll be that space will contain space for each uh set of grade levels. On the left hand side will be your 6 through eight space and then you see that wall with a door represented there. To the right of that door will be the uh elementary space and then they will have u there will be bathrooms on each side. The kitchen will all be shared by the same kitchen staff and there will be a serving line on both sides to the right and to the left allowing them to serve each space. Middle school come into the cafeteria. They'll come through the corridor uh through the and then straight through. And that's that's why those doors are there. So they're going to

016come through the elementary side. Yeah. Through those double doors. Any questions about those? Okay. Looks like a lot of work. Yeah. And the offices they will be right corridors are. Yeah. Be right here in this uh dark space. there. Yep. There'll be a safe school entry there and that's where everybody comes in or visitors. That's where visitors will come in. Those that sets of double doors that you see right there where the existing school ent the new school entrance will be if you were walking back to the canopy through the grass between the sixth grade building and the existing middle school building. That's that's that'll all be enclosed and that'll be the new entry for students. Oh, here where the where the entrance is now? Right here. Okay. So, we're early in the process. If

017you have any concerns, just make sure to reach out to me. And that's all I had for construction project updates. We have any delegations this evening. Back to the superintendent for reports. Okay, back to your Manila folder. First thing we're going to talk about is the status of the U immunization requirements. So, there's a document in there titled West Virginia Board of Education issue statement on vaccine compliance. And I think I sent you um an article I think I sent you an article. This is what we're looking for. It's got the state seal at the top. And basically what it says is during the June meeting of the West Virginia Board of Education, members voted unanimously to comply with state law requiring required requiring school immunizations. That is as it is written in West Virginia

018Virginia code 1634. So they've directed the state superintendent of schools to notify all school districts to follow the law that has been in effect since 1937. Um, as you know, this has went back and forth here over the past month or two. Uh, the state superintendent had sent out an email directing us to follow the vaccination requirements and within hours that email was rescended um because the governor was asking for his executive order to to be enforced. And uh so there's been some legal action I think from some individual counties regarding that, just one or two. And then um in response the state board of education has considered this and they are uh indicating that we indeed have to uh we can't accept those exemptions or that executive order and that we have to uh

019comply with the vaccination requirements. And so, uh, we received an email from the state superintendent of schools knowing letting us know that the vaccination requirements were in effect for next school year and anybody that doesn't have those vaccinations will not be able to attend. So, I just wanted to let you know the status of that. Of course, this is subject to change. Um, I just don't see how executive order overrides the statute, but that's me. Yeah. Um, see where that works. Do you So that's that's the latest. So if anything changes, I'll let you know. Next up is Senate Bill 712. Senate Bill 712. We discussed that at the last meeting because we had just received word the afternoon of the last meeting that there was legislation passed that could impact retirees ability to substitute

020teach. And it's a 60-day rule. And what it says is that uh once you retire, you cannot be employed with the district in any capacity, temporary, part-time, in any capacity for a 60-day period. Now, I I tell you another area where this is going to be an issue besides just substitute teaching is coaching. It would apply to coaching as well. And so, um, we had asked our own attorney, uh, for an opinion on this. She gave me that opinion. And then within 24 hours, the state also came out with the email that you have in front of you. And so, uh, basically what they're indicating is that this rule does not take effect. I think it was Jeb, was it July 9th is when it kicks in? July 11th. And so anyone who has retired

021up until up until this point and up until July 1st uh is not impacted by the 60-day rule. If anybody has a retirement date that's lifted listed after July 1st and they there's an explanation in here. They automatically roll it to the first of the month. So if anybody retires on July 2nd or after that's going to be rolled and it's actually going to reflect as August 1. So this rule would impact anybody that retires on July 2nd or after. There would be a 60-day uh wait uh before they could enter into uh enter into a temporary contract, substitute contract with the board of education. That would be like well like a principal that retires July 3rd then it would be couldn't sub anything for 60 days can't work for us for 60 days they

022retired before July 1 this doesn't affect them correct this year just this year just this year okay gotcha so people have to really plan their retirements in the future if they want to sub any right immediately the only exception as and it's in bold in the first paragraph. It does not apply to TDC. That's the defined contribution plan employees. Okay, there's not very many of those people. So, this applies to most. So, that's the update on it. Any any questions regarding it? Okay. Um, next is um we were we received a letter as did every other county school system from the legislature uh indicating that they were going to conduct an audit. This is actually in your separate attachments that came to you with the agenda. Keeping you active. So, on page one of the

023separate attachments, this is the West Virginia legislator uh legislature letter and uh there's a number of things that they're asking for here. And really, it's a uh personnel audit. They're looking for the number and title of positions that are vacant each fiscal year. How many are filled by traditional pathways? How many are filled by alternative pathways? and the ones that are filled with retired hi hires each fiscal year. And then they want us to provide a projected vacancy data for fiscal year 2026. Um there's other information that they're asking for as well related to the prek program and uh the uh the prek program and then Jeb was it textbook adoption? Textbook adoption physical textbooks. Yeah. So again all 55 school districts receive this. We have until I think it's the third week of July

024to respond and uh our folks are putting together our response now. So when we get that data collected, we'll share it with you as as well. Yeah. Um the the four pieces of information that they asked for, it's information regarding the number of prek special needs students, classroom capacities, teachers, service per professionals, and paraprofessionals. And then financial expenditures related to procure procuring textbooks and digital devices for each county. That's listed one through four there at the top of the letter. Like you were with the legislature. What do you think the purpose of that is? I'm sorry. You were in the legislature. What do you think the purpose this this letter is? Like every other study that they do to see what direction we need to look forward in the future. You think you're trying to

025avoid uh changing the school aid formula, saying we already have money? I can't speak for that. I don't know. Sounds that way, doesn't it? Well, you know, one of the things that we've talked to the state about is like the the textbook adoption process. um you know, just the fact that we're mandated every I guess it's every four to five years to replace textbooks and for a county our size and I think we're about the 12th largest in the state that those purchases can be up to a million dollars. And so when you when you look at statewide the millions of dollars that are spent and um when they started coming out with digital resources, the thought was well this is going to get cheaper because you don't have all that paper, you don't have

026all that copying, you don't have all that shipping, everything that goes along with it. It's not one bit cheaper. uh the digital resources probably up the cost by and large cost as much as as the textbooks did and so um I do think it's something worthwhile that they look at to see you know what is reasonable so if you have a set of history books do we need to replace those every four years right when when you're teaching US history why do we need to replace US history books every four years. Um, so it it is worth them looking at. So it it'll be interesting. I think if I remember correctly, they did a uh I think there was legislation that actually passed this year that allowed the uh legislature to conduct these kind of

027audits on the Department of Education. Now, I don't I don't know if that meant that they couldn't do this before and now now that that passed, they can. Probably. So, to be honest with you, because in all honesty, the Department of Ed likes to operate as the fourth branch of government. It's in the Constitution. So, anyway, all 55 counties got that. So um uh we'll provide you the materials when we respond. Uh next up on our list is school start time discussion and I included in your manila folder. We we had provided this to you at a previous meeting but I had incl. Yeah I had included some research and trends on school start times and then there was a document that was the case against school start times. just trying to get both sides

028of the picture. And so, um, the question is, do we want to look at this at all? And if we were going to look at it, what we would do is we would we would set up surveys, uh, for our parents, for our staff, uh, to let them communicate and give us an idea of what what they think about the idea and whether they think it would be something worth pursuing here. Consider the parents. Why? I mean, really, why is this ever going to have later times, okay, for these high school kids? Well, who's going to see if they go to bed early and get their rest? I mean, I can't I can't I don't I don't get the concept of it for some reason. Yeah. I don't think the workability would almost you'd have

029to have different hours for different students and that's totally unworkable for all kind of reasons. Yeah. Maybe there's a kind of medium somewhere. There's a difference between the high school and the middle and the elementary right now because of bus schedules. Yeah, there's there's a difference among schools, but they're fairly consistent. You know, everybody's starting between 7:30 and 8:00. And would that cause more money for different buses? It could. It very well could. I mean, overflowing with money, right? Yeah. I I think personally I think that a later short time would make more hardships on parents at work. I do think they're trying to get you got to consider the parents. You know, they make plans. They you got to school ends and begins. You know, they make plans, too. And like you said, that

030pick them up, take them to school, they have to go to work. But there's, you know, parents need to be considered and this is a way to go about it. Do a survey and make sure that it's necessary and make sure the parents have an input. Seems like a lot of work for nothing. Has there been any call for it, Mr. Alexander? Other than just a few small sales. Um, no. Yeah. The only thing I've heard about is the petition that we received. Who brought this up? It was uh some parents at uh a a parent at Fort Gay had spearheaded a drive to do a petition and I provided that petition information to you a month or two ago. So that that's where it came. It's been you know I've been seeing articles pop

031up from across the nation about different places looking at it and uh some of the research that I gave you or summary of the research that I gave you talks about different places that have tried it. So there there is um some science behind uh trying it but again there's a lot of factors and you know the document the case against later school start times one of the things that it talks about is uh the transportation and then the need for older siblings to provide child care for younger siblings. And so that's, you know, going to be impacted by what time they're getting out of school, what time they're going home, that type of thing. I can tell you simply if it would cost us to have to run more bus routes or separate buses

032and duplicate bus runs, there's no way we could do it in a count in a county this size with as many buses as we already have on the road just to cover our existing areas. There's no way we could double up on those runs. We just couldn't afford to do that. So 540 some square miles in the county. That's a big county. I think one of the board members is kind of maybe in favor of spearheading it too. She's had a meeting and all that. Linda Childers member. Oh, in another county trying to I don't know. Yeah. Um you know when the group turned the petition in to me I promised that you know we would have a discussion about it. So, I I wanted to check that box and make sure that we did

033have a discussion about it. So, you know, we can continue collecting information through surveys. We can take a wait and see approach. See if any other counties try this. Let them That sounds good. Let them be the let them be the time resources and wait and see and money or is that something we can do just part of the process? Hey, like I always thought when my kids wanted to do something maybe. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see. There's really nothing. Okay. All right. We'll just we'll put it on hold for now. Okay. All right. Um, next up is the elementary discipline bill. And again, speaking about legislative changes, um, that and there there's no handout for this one. Disappointing. No handout. A tree or two were saved. I know you guys have sat in

034presentations and heard from some of the school attorneys about the about this change in the legislation, but one of the things that it indicates is that if a student is removed from the class, multiple settings, and there's multiple steps followed, and uh the behavior still continues to be an issue. um says the legislature finds that isolating students or placing them in alternative learning centers or licensed behavioral health agencies may be the best setting for chronically disruptive students. The county board shall create more alternative learning centers, expand its capacity for alternative placements, or partner with a licensed behavioral health agency subject to funding to correct these students behavior so they can return to a regular classroom without engaging in further disruptive behavior. Now, is this an unfunded liability or is there going to be funding? It

035is. No. Well, we do receive funding for alternative education programs, but that funding is not increasing. And uh that funding is I think it's just short of $100,000. And that's what we operate our secondary alternative education program with. But we are, you know, we have a working group that is working uh with this legislation to uh devise what our classroom inter and we a lot of this we're already doing as far as the classroom interventions go and and uh the ability for behavioral health people to work with students, that type of thing. What we're not doing is if it gets to the point where the where the behavior we're struggling to correct the behavior and it gets to the point where the student is uh removed from the regular school setting, we don't have an

036alternative setting for an elementary student. So, we're looking at how we can set up the uh set up a program that is going best going to address that need. uh both to get the student back in the classroom as quickly as possible and both and financially for the district as well because as Dennis pointed out there's no increased funding with this. So that is uh one of the things that we're working with over the summer. I just wanted to give you a heads up that that was one of the challenges with with the the enactment of this legislation. So we'll keep you posted as we move forward. That's all I have. No board directives or board reports from anyone? No unfinished business. Go ahead. I was approached by a few of the custodians and their

037their request is they think they need more work days at the beginning of the school year rather than the request was maybe if it's not contractual or not a big deal to maybe take one of them at the end of the school year and place it at the beginning of the school year workday paid day so that they have time to get school open properly. I thought most makes sense to me. Most custodians I thought they had their days before school. There are 23. They do. They just wanted an extra one. I wanted to move it from the end to the beginning. I thought it was at the beginning. There a number of them are at the beginning. Uh I think about five years ago they shifted and we set the dates. We can we

038can adjust those however we want. You might want to canvas some of those. Yeah, about about five years ago, there were complaints the opposite way that they didn't have enough time at the end of the year that, you know, once the teachers cleared out and the students cleared out it. Yeah. To get it presentable for the summer. So trash wasn't laying around, you know, all summer and uh so uh it was shifted a little bit towards the back end and this is it's come up a few times. Might make it. They want to shift it back. Yeah. Yeah. Might make it at least do a survey. Yeah. But would it have to be all custodians the same shift? I mean the same days. Yeah. You know. Yeah. Just for payroll purposes. They need to have

039a consistent calendar. So I'll have my cart when they do their training. I'll have him him have a discussion with them. Okay. That'll work about the pros and cons of that. New business. Consent action items. The superintendent recommends approval of the following action items. Additional items received prior to the time of the meeting may be added. Discussion and/or separate action of items may be requested by members of the board andor the superintendent. Items are subject to change. Any blanks will be filled in prior to the meeting. In the event a nominee withdraws, we reserve the right to pull or I'm sorry, to put the next candidate in that position. Number one, consider for approval the recommended personnel matters on pages one and two. I'll make a motion to approve by Johnita. And a couple things

040on those personnel matters. So on page one uh we have the transfers and so the recommendations on the transfers on page one the blanks the assistant principal positions at Wayne High School uh the first position the recommendation will be Robert Thompson uh will be transferring from teacher at Wayne High School to assistant principal at Wayne High School. The second recommendation is Thomas Harmon would be transferring from uh teacher at Wayne High School to assistant principal at Wayne High. Congratulations, Rob. Oh, we got to prove it. Hang on. Hold on till we approve it. There's kind of jump in the gun. Hey, don't you worry. Don't you worry. Okay. And then the other thing I want to point out at the bottom of at the bottom of page one uh there's a number of um uh

041termination of substitute service personnel contracts uh for non-compliance with policy 4120.04. Uh this is the policy that sets the number of days that they have to sub each year to maintain their spot on the sub list. And if they do not sub that certain number of days, then uh they are removed from the sublist so that they don't accumulate that seniority. Oh yeah. We used to have these guys that worked at Owens and places like that that get on the sub list, never see them, work one day and then they have all this seniority and they beat out everybody else that needed a job. Yeah. And so, uh, the every one of these folks is eligible to apply and and reenter the substitute list. We'll be glad to have them back. Yeah. But since they

042didn't meet the required number of days, um, we go through the process of removing them so that seniority doesn't accumulate without them working the appropriate number of days. Yeah. All right. So, that was motion by Jonita and second by Dennis. Any other questions or concerns on our personnel matters? Okay, none heard. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. Five to zero. Congratulations. Congratulations, Robin. You can come up and shake hands with us now. Officially, I know you do a great job. Yes. Got the confidence. Appreciate it, guys. All right. Number two and three are the minutes of the Wayne County Board of Education uh for number 20 and 25 it looks like. So want to take them all together? Yeah, we can consider those together if that's all right with everyone. Motion to approve. Motion

043by John Eaggan. Second. Mark, any questions, concerns, or corrections on those minutes? None. All right. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. 5 Z. Number four, consider for approval the purchase requisition order and quotes in excess of $5,000. Pages 17 through 24. Motion by Randy. Second, Johnita. Questions, concerns? Uh, page 17, that's with Damron Enterprises. Damarind is the uh contractor that um first dug up the sink to discover what the issue is. So we've I went ahead and and move forward with the PO because we have to get that filled back in and the grass seated. 70 75% of this is eligible for reimbursement from FEMA. Good. Um the project lead the way PO is you know about that program. Page 19, this extreme aerrow hive renewal unit. This WBDE net contract, this is upgrade

044of technologies for replacement of technologies for Wi-Fi. And again, this comes through a state grant. So 24,610 for that. And then uh our food service program has received several grants from the state department of education uh for breakfast carts. And the hope there is that u with the offerings that they'll be able to provide on those carts that they'll be able to uh increase numbers for breakfast at these specific school sites. But that is uh 100% grant funded and uh has to be used for that specific item. I believe that's all of your remaining poss. They've been doing that in some of the middle schools anyway, haven't they? Yeah. Yeah, we have some schools that do that. And then on page 24 is the generation genius. This is our uh supplementary elementary science program. So

045during the science adoption, the board had approved this and we have an annual cost with that. And this this is digital licenses for all the elementary schools. So that's part of our textbook cost. All right. Any other questions, concerns? Heard. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. 5 to zero. New business. Separate action item. consider for approval the annual assessment and evaluation of the superintendent's performance for 2324 school year. So we will need to do that in executive session. Motion for executive session. Do you need that? I'll second. Yeah, let's uh while you're in executive session, there's a couple items that we'll need to be in executive session on. That's number one, my evaluation. And so you'll be in executive session on on it and I will not be on there. But we also need

046to do an executive session on item number 13. That's the approval of bid for contracting services for the Serita Canova Elementary Major Improvement Project. Hang on. Let me Okay, let me circle that. 13. What else? 15. Got it. I consider for approval the real estate agreement for sale of the old Fort Gay gym to the town of Fort Gay. And then we also had the addendum item. Yeah. Which is the uh purchase of the property for the uh Buffalo Needs Project. Got aren't we approving your 2425 school year? Yes. Yes. That needs to be changed. Good call. Did we get the C CK MIP project? Is that on here? Which one? Yeah. Was that 13? Yeah, that was 13. Okay. Now I got to find my So 135 and addendum item, which I believe we're

047going to have is new business item number two. Yeah. Okay. That was the one. There we go. So, executive session will be specifically for superintendent deval. The negotiation for the new property for the Buffalo project, the CK elegate agreement. Okay. I can't go yet. It's okay. So, Randy made that motion. I'll need a second. Second, Johnina. Yeah. What are you looking for? Is that it right there on the bottom? She's got a question. No, she didn't. Oh, I've got a surprise. Aren't you ready? Hang on. I'll make me a copy. I got mine if you want to look at it. It's just got the one thing on it. Yeah, I'll make a copy. Okay. I I think Okay, I got to take all my stuff with you. All right. Okay, Randy. You made the motion.

048Second. All in favor for the executive session. I Any opposed? Motion carries. 5 to zero. It is 6:45. We will return turn shortly. Okay. Go ahead and mute your mics.

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