001Get the corn out of it. All right, we're good to go. Yeah. Okay, I need a motion to return from executive session. Make a motion. I need a second. Second. Dennis made the motion. Johnita made the second. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries five to zero. It is 7:35. Uh we continue our superintendent evaluation. Each year our board comes together and uh we have an evaluation form that we fill out for our superintendent. Um the board would like to express our appreciation for superintendent Alexander and the professional leadership he continues to provide for our school system. uh his steady presence, his open communication and student centered approach have had a positive impact across our schools and in our communities. In most in his most recent evaluation, uh Mr. Alexander met or exceeded expectations in
002all key areas. One area the board remains committed to strengthening is the delivery of our special education services and we appreciate the superintendent's efforts in this area and we will continue to support growth in this important work for our students and our staff. And the board would like to thank you Mr. Alexander for your dedication and for the progress being made under your leadership and we look forward to working with you in the future for the success of every student here in Wayne County. Thank you. I appreciate it and I appreciate the confidence and um again it's it's impossible for a school system to be successful unless you have a board that is student focused and focused on the right things on on the improvement of the district and uh this board has shown time
003and again uh that you do have uh your focus in the right place. So that makes my job considerably easier. So I appreciate that. And then this the staff that works with me uh from our teacher leadership group to our administrators here at central office to the administrators out in the schools to the service personnel. Um everybody uh almost without exception is is here for for the right reasons and wants to do the best job that they can for the citizens of Wayne County. and uh I'm just lucky to be here so I appreciate it. We appreciate you as well. So all right so that is I think that's all we have on that. Yeah, we can move on to number two. Um this is part of the addendum that you had in your packet
004to authorize the superintendent to initiate negotiations uh with the property owner for the potential purchase of the appraised property. Motion to approve. Motion by Johnita. Second. Second. Second by Randy. Any other questions or concerns? All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries 5 to zero. Number three, consider for approval granting the treasurer Jeff Brider the authority to make budget adjustments until 12 p.m. on Monday, June 30th, 2025. Motion. Motion. Second. Randy I think had the first Mark beat you to the second. Mark beat. Yep. It was kind of a tie there. We'll split it. It doesn't matter. Okay. So Randy will give Randy the motion. Mark was the second. Yeah. And you you all usually approve budget adjustments through your board agenda, but Jeb has to turn those into the state prior to the close of
005the year. So for this brief period of time, he needs the authority to just go ahead and then we'll we'll report any changes to you in the at a future meeting. Absolutely. Any other questions or concerns on that item? If none, all in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. Five zero. Number four, consider for approval the workers compensation insurance within Kova for the period beginning July 1st at an annual cost of $363,449. That's a decrease of approximately $6,000 from last year's premium. We'll take it. Yeah. decrease of 6,000. Yeah, Dennis made that motion. Second by Jonita. Any other questions, concerns on our workers comp insurance premiums? All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries 5 to zero. Number five, consider for approval the contract between Wayne County Board of Education and Capital County Library Board to maintain
006the Western Count's Regional Library System in the fiscal year 2526 at a cost of $30,000. And this is a levy fund money motion. Motion by Randy. Second. Second. Johnita. And again, this is um an agreement that we do with the Cabal County Library Board. um they serve as the fiscal agent for the for the Wayne County uh libraries and um the uh or for the western county's regional library system which includes the libraries in Wayne County. But this is part of our levy. We put this on the ballot that a portion of this money is going to go for this purpose. Right. So that's that's all spelled out and again this is a a renewal of that agreement. All right. All in favor? I. Any oppose? Motion carries 5 to zero. Number six, consider for
007approval theou between Wayne County Board and Mountain State Educational Services for school bus driver training at a rate based on invoices of actual costs plus a 15% administrative fee for the 2526 school year. And that is in our packet if you need to look at it. Motion by Dennis. Second. Second by Jonita. Any questions or concerns on that item? This is an on all these agreements are ongoing. All of them are consistent with last year's prices. And we've even got some of our drivers doing the training. Yeah. Great. All right. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries 5 to zero. Number seven, uh, consider for approval of theou between Wayne County Board and Mountain State for communication specialist at a cost of $32,32460 for the 2526 school year and that's on 29 through 32. Motion
008to approve. Motion by Johnita. Second. Second. Randy, questions or concern concerns on thatou? All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries five to zero. Number eight, consider for approval theou between Wayne County Board and Mountain State for computer technician at salary of $45,672 plus fringe and a 7% administrative fee for a total of $79,76 for each technician for the 2526 school year. Motion. Motion. Yes. Second. Second. Any questions or concerns on that for the computer text? That's that is an ongoing agreement as well. Page 33 through35. If you need to look at it, [Music] you should have a page. Well, it's somewhere here. What is it? It's on this. on this thing that we got. Look in your Look at your folder. Yeah, I think it was Yeah, I forgot. Okay, there's your Okay, you
009fooled me for a while, too. So, that was a motion by Dennis and a second by Randy. Any questions or concerns? None heard. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries 5 to zero. Number nine, consider for approval theou between Wayne County and Mountain State um for and Leslie Tyrie for legal services at an annual cost of $48,000 for the 2526 school year. Motion motion by Randy. Second by Chanita. And that's on pages 36 through 38. You needed to look at it. Again, that's a shared service. There's other counties that help pay her salary to that. She usually stays on top of them pretty good. All right. No other questions or concerns? All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries five to zero. 10. Consider for approval theou between Wayne County Board and Mountain State uh
010for Medicaid services at a cost of $17,000 for the 2526 school year. And that's pages 39 through 41. Motion by Jita. Second. I'll second. Dennis and this is billing. Yeah, they work with we have a secretarial position here at the um district office that works on Medicaid billing and then there's a regional person at Mountain State that works with a number of counties to get um our billing submitted and uh the revenue for that program is usually over a half a million dollars annually and so it uh those those possessions pay for themselves. Sure. Any other questions or concerns? All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. Five to zero. Number 11. Consider for approval theou between Wayne County Board and Mountain State for nursing services by hiring five at will LPNs for the 2526 school
011year at a cost of 288 uh plus fringe and 7% indirect cost for a total of 54,864 each LPM for 2526 school year. Motion by Johnita second. Second, Randy. We do have some of these positions filled here internally through our own bidding process, but we can never get all of them filled and Mountain State has a regional reach and so we fill some of the positions through them. Great. All right. Any other questions or concerns on that particular position? All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries 5 to zero. Number 12, consider for approval theou between Wayne County Board and Mountain State to facilitate the region 2 math field day in school year 2026 at a cost of $4,000. All the regional schools pay to participate in that and it pays for the event. Gotcha. Jonita
012made the motion. I need a second. Second, Dennis. Any other questions or concerns on the regional field day item? unheard. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries five to zero. I'm going to pull item number 13. Item number 13 is consider for approval the bid for contractor services for the CK Elementary major improvement project. Um, we've been negotiating the price with the uh contractor that bid on the project, but we have not received an answer from the school building authority about uh whether all the items proposed in the negotiation are acceptable to the school building authority. And since they maintain uh the lion share of the funding for this project, I would advise that we wait until we hear back from them. Um, so I'll bring this back to you on July 8th. Yeah.
013Right. Perfect. All right. Moving on to 14. Then consider theou between the Wayne County Board of Education and Marore Senior Foster Grandparent Program of United Way Central West Virginia. Pages 50 and 51. This is an ongoing agreement uh this uh this uh Americanore Senior Fosters Grandparent Program that provides the uh foster grandparents at Pritchard. I believe we have one at East Lynn as well. There's there's multiple sites that have the program motion by John second. I'll second. Any other questions or concerns on that particular heard? All in favor? I opposed. Motion carries five to zero. And 15. Consider for approval the real estate agreement for sale of the old Fort Gate gym to the town of Fort Gate. pages 52 through 56. So moved. Motion by Mark. Second. Second by Randy. So the agreement is
014the town of Fort Gay is going to purchase the old Fort Gay gym for $1 and uh that property will will be theirs um to uh to operate uh from this point forward. Sounds great. All right. Any other questions, concerns? All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. Five to zero. Potential items for a future agenda. We've been holding off to see um the budget numbers for the end of the year. Um if we get a chance and I'm going to get with Jeb when I get back from vacation about where our numbers stood at the end of the year. If we get some chance, I want to get a little bit of painting done this summer with some contractors. So, I might quickly uh bid uh some painting projects out looking at Wayne Middle School,
015the interior hallways, and um uh Spring Valley High School, the interior hallways as well. Uh we did Wayne Elementary School at back at Christmas time. Those two schools need attention, right? And uh so those are the things that are on my radar now. like to see the middle school catch up. Thank you all. Thank you, ladies. Bye. Yes, ma'am. Sure. I still have that paint down there. They never did paint my ceiling near my Okay, we can get you taken care of. Is that a complaint? Paint for like two or three years. You deserve it. You want the cafe painted? Just the area is the kitchen area. Yeah. All the work's done. Sorry. When you work in there, you're it's going to Yeah. Me up because some of the things chipping and the health department
016will write you up from time to time. You didn't get me this time. Got you. Thanks for staying on top of that. Anything else? That's it. That's who you beat me. Motion by Janita. Second Dennis. I'll do it. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries. 5-0. It is 7:51. And that is all. Thank you all. Me too. We got a lot done.