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Wayne County Board of Education Regular Meeting 6/3/25 at 6 p.m.

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2025-06-04
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Wayne County, WV
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4,812 words · about 27 min
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2026-07-02

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001start at 5:00. Is it on? Yep. Okay. 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. I don't know. Mark, you want to lead us this evening? I aliance 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're going to begin this evening with our recognitions. Young writers uh maybe in announcing the names that would probably be good. Let me get it for you. It's free. I bet we have to Not in too good already. Probably can be heard without it.

002Go ahead. Not really. I'll use says use my teacher voice and I can do that. I'm Tanya Bowen. I oversee curriculum and intervention for Wayne County Schools. And tonight we have se several um different groups of students to recognize for their performance in different events at the county level, the regional level, and even the state level. Oh, thank you. We're going to start with our young writers recognitions. The West Virginia Young Writers Contest has gone on since 1984 and it is led by the Central West Virginia Writing Project at Marshall University and they use leaders there to judge entries based on ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and conventions. In Wayne County, we choose our young writers winners by utilizing our retired English teachers who rank our entries. We take all of the entries,

003we put them in category by grade level. We take off all names and our um retired English teachers rank them based on the same criteria and that's how we choose our winners. It allows our process in Wayne County to be completely anonymous and nonbiased. So, with that said, we'd like to recognize our students who placed in first, second, and third place for Wayne County Schools for the 2025 Young Writers Contest. We're going to start with grades one and two. So, the way that the um categories are organized is they combine two grade levels at a time. So, for first and second grade, our third place winner is Keegan Dingus Dunlow Elementary. [Applause] Our second place winner is Huza Rashad Buffalo Elementary. And our first place winner for the first and second grade division is Elena

004Davis Wayne Elementary. [Applause] All right, moving on to grades three, four. In third place, we have Matteline Stacy Pritchard Elementary. [Applause] In second place, Coulter Stra Elementary. And in first place for the third and fourth grade division, Tagen Mabry Wayne Elementary. [Applause] Okay, we're going to move on to the fifth and sixth grade division. In third place, Riley Erdlets Buffalo Middle School. In second place, Audriana Daniels Lavalac Elementary. And in first place for the fifth and sixth grade division, Henry Smith, Wayne Middle School. All right, moving on to the seventh and eighth grade division. In third place, Mason Smith, Cerrito Kenova Middle School. In second place, David Creech, Benson Middle School. And in first place, Scout Maynard, Buffalo Middle School. All right, for the ninth and tth grade division, in second place, Eli Penson, Tulsa

005High [Applause] School. And in first place, Timothy Stevens, Spring Valley High School. And moving on to the 11th and 12th grade division, we only had one school submit entries this year. Um, in first place, we have Janna Foley, Tulsa High School. All right, we're going to move on to our Golden Horseshoe Award winners. Guys, come on. Scoot down here towards me. Board members, you want to come up? Parents, if you want a picture of our young students with our board members, this is a great chance to do that. Squeeze in here. Okay, we're good. [Music] Look at me. Good job. Good job. [Applause] All right, moving on to our golden horseshoe winners. This year, um, we had something really unusual happened. All four of the Wayne County golden horseshoe winners were from the same school.

006That's unusual. That doesn't often happen. All four of these students were from Wayne Middle School. They were Connor [Applause] Atkins, Case Gilkerson, Jackson [Applause] Sour, and Jesus Armo. [Applause] I got one. Do we want to get a picture? Come over here. Come on [Music] around. Congratulations. [Applause] All right, our next group to be recognized will be our students who placed first at the regional social studies fair. And then after that, we will recognize students who placed first at the West Virginia State Social Studies Fair. All right, beginning with the regional social studies fair winners. In first place in the region, Avery Blandon Wayne Elementary [Applause] School from Lavallet Elementary School. Henry Harris and Miranda Wilson for their project under the stars. Also competing in the individual category for sociology, Lavallet Elementary, Corbin Booth from Crumb

007PreK through 8. Carara Stevens [Applause] from Crumb PreK through 8 with a group project. Alona Hill, Riley Prince, Lily Parsley. All right, moving on to our next set of first place winners at the regional social studies fair for an individual project in the anthropology category from Crumb PreK through 8. Ashton Muny group project in the geography category. McKenley Bragg, Steeler Sammons, and Tanner [Applause] Ratner. In the individual category for psychology from Buffalo Middle, Amelia [Applause] Harris group project in the state and local category from Buffalo Middle, Grant Deerfield, Garrett Nelson, and Chase Roar. And in the world history category, the group, this next group came from Benson Middle School, Limar Lahul, Jana Olmadesh, Quinn Diamond, and TA Duncan. [Applause] Okay, parents, you like a picture. These again are our students who finished in first place

008at the regional social studies fair. All right, everybody. Look at me. Hold on. Good job. Some of these young scholars who place first at regional also placed first in the state social studies fair from Lavallet Elementary. This group placed first at the state level in the political science division. Henry Harris and Miranda Wilson. This next group to place first at the West Virginia State Social Studies Fair is from Crumb PreK through 8 and they competed in the geography division. Those students are McKenley Bragg Stiller Sammons and Tanner Rackcliff. All right, we're going to have another opportunity for a picture here. [Music] Everybody ready? Good job, guys. All right, moving on to our next category. This year, Spring Valley did a an in-house um social or science fair and had students who were then invited to

009participate in the regional science fair at Marshall University. And we had one one student from that competition move on and compete at the state level. And that young man is Colton Davis from Spring Valley High School. Our next group are students who competed at the regional math field day competition. if they placed as individual competitors at the regional mountain build day competition. We wanted to recognize them. We're going to start with Braxton Purdue from Crito. Also placing at the regional math build day competition, Noah Rainey from Spring Valley High School. And our next gentleman who not only placed at the regional competition but then had the opportunity to move on to the state competition. So he was a competitor at the state math field day competition as well. Gavin M from Wayne High School. [Applause]

010All right. We're going to pause for a moment for a picture. Great job. All right, we have one more group to recognize. We have a um a local robotics team from Lapawat Elementary who were able to move beyond the state level and they represented Wayne County Schools at the robotics world competition this year. And those students are Levi Chatterton. [Applause] And we have evidence. Adriana Daniels, [Applause] Henry [Applause] Harris, and Miranda Wilson. [Applause] We're going to pause for a moment for pictures. Wait, what? [Music] [Applause] Thank you everybody for coming out tonight. We know it's the first week of June and everybody's ready to be done with school for the year, but we really appreciate your students and we know that they wouldn't uh have the type of success that they're having without support from

011home. So, we appreciate each and every one of you. We're going to go on with our regular board meeting at this time, but we don't want to hold you up. You feel free to stay. It's an open meeting, but if you want to sneak out, now's the time to do so. Thank you. Good job, everybody. How are you? She's on her way. She's like, Okay. You know, Have a great one. You're leaving. You're not going to stay for all. We are in such good hands that I don't mean to sit here and oversight you guys. I have complete faith in I voted for most of you twice. So, it should be all right. Not a good one, though. Not a good one. Just just one with the All right, guys. We'll see you, buddy. Joe's

012from crazy. I know that. Ready? We'll see you, buddy. Take care, friend. See you guys. See you. The office next door to ours. I see. yesterday. I don't know really as we've done well. Her sugar level been good. I told her, I said, "You're gonna work every day like this. I did quit today. Get the impression. Most of these people here see us, right? Oh gosh. supposed to be like I told him what church I said my sore is sore I didn't even know I had it fine I don't care if it's green I didn't know that it was attached I'll just compromise. There you go. All right, we're going to step back and pump the the settings are a little bit wonky with the Prometheium board making it everything green. So, but I printed

013the PowerPoint for you guys. So, we'll just go through that. Okay. You know, every year we have an adoption. This year's adoption was social studies. We used to be able to with adoptions with elementary with social studies and science. You used to be able to just tell the state that you were going to embed that in reading and you didn't have to always purchase an actual curriculum for elementary. But like everything else in life, you know, things get right? Lots more boxes to check off uh as we move along. So, we can no longer do that. We have to actually adopt an actual curriculum for social studies. We cannot embed those standards in reading. So, we are going to So, we do have a recommendation for elementary, middle, and high school. So, if you go

014to the second slide in your packet, your programmatic levels, um what we do is, and you guys I know are familiar with this, we pull representatives um from around the county and they vet the materials, they help narrow it down, and then with their when we get to maybe three or four final choices, we invite the companies in to present and answer questions to our teachers. Um, and so what the committees are recommending is for the elementary schools, they're recommending teacher created materials, exploring social studies, the West Virginia edition. What is really, really great about this, and I was so glad after I really started digging, I was really, really thrilled that this is what they chose. Even though this is a social studies um tool, it is based on the science of reading. So

015it emphasizes that phonics and phonetic awareness piece for K2. It embeds it into the social studies. It builds vocabulary, background knowledge, and even has strong tools to increase fluency. So it actually addresses those five pillars of literacy that are such a big part of the science of reading. So, um I think that our elementary committee did a great job because they chose a tool that would really work well to not just um approach and address our social studies standards. This tool should also help build literacy skills. And that's one of the things with science and social studies. Science and social studies are such powerful tools to support literacy and math. And they really you can do so much with the non-fiction reading and the writing and um so I was just really glad they were

016thinking about that about a tool that really utilizes what the brain research tells us about how children learn. The middle school tool for middle school we have to do two different programs. We do one for sixth and seventh grade but then in eighth grade our state standards um have teachers focus on West Virginia history. So you can imagine most of these big textbook companies, these national companies, um they typically don't have a West Virginia history book as part of their um repertoire. So typically the West Virginia history vendors are going to be some of these smaller kind of niche publishing companies. This year there were three that they could look at for eighth grade. So for sixth and seventh grade they went with or made the recommendation for H Hotton Methlin which and the name

017of the text is HMH social studies. For middle school they recommended a company called Gallipe and the text is titled West Virginia studies. So that's elementary and middle. Now high school is sort of a different beast. It always is with adoption because you don't just have just the mainstream content area. you have a lot of specialty divisions in there. And again, and I want to say just because he's here, not to pick on Robbie, but Robbie was actually one of my high school social studies committee members. And so, I mean, we can tell you it was a very long um we spent an entire day together and I think we didn't even break for lunch. I think we ate while we worked. And um they were here from 7:30 till well after 3:00 in the

018afternoon. It was it was intense, but they took their job very seriously, which is obviously what we want. So for high school, the way that it worked out is with the exception of psychology, they actually ended up recommending McGra Hill as the company for the majority of the contents. And then for psychology, um the only high school right now that offers psychology as an elective is Spring Valley and they added it two years ago. And when they added it, we purchased books for that course then. And the books that they um that they pulled or that we purchased were from a another company called Sgage. So for that, we can continue to use what we purchased year before last, which is great. Um but for the others the committee recommended McGraill. And then if you

019go to the final slide you can see the projected cost. Um so if you look at elementary um you've got the total for elementary in bold to the right. For middle you've got two line items because you have the H Hotton Mithland cost for sixth and seventh grade and then you have um the Gallup cost for West Virginia history. And then of course the high schools are all broken down, but the total for high school is right here in bold. And then you have your uh comprehensive total. So for a K12 adoption for one of your four main content areas, um it's actually not bad at all. It's a lot, but not nearly what I was afraid it would be. So, all right. You guys have any questions for us? Sounds good. Any questions? We

020won't actually, I think, have a true voting item until we submit the quotes and the POS for approval, which I think we will do after July 1. July. Gotcha. Do we submit this all at once or is this in stages or It's all at once. Now, if you'll remember with the Carnegie Learning Math, because so much of it had the digital components, all of these have an online book that students can access, but they also have the regular books. But if you remember, the Carnegie was consumables and an annual license that had to be renewed. The Carnegie will come back up for a year or two. They broke it down into five years for us. Last year, it was a little different and it was also K8. So, we will have to renew the second

021year of the Carnegie Math. The way that the state guidelines are written, we have to pay for that one year at a time because it's more than just a digital text. It's all those additional um licenses that have to be renewed each year. Gotcha. Whereas the digital text, that's just the online text for them to use and access on the computer. It's a fiveyear. It's just like the book. I got you. Does that all make sense? Yeah. So that will come up again, but all of these we're able to pay upfront and it's only for the next five years. Gotcha. Now, if you remember too, something else that will come up in July will be our universal screener, which is the Renaissance. It's also digital and has to be done annually to satisfy state department

022requirements. Gotcha. Any other questions? That's it. Thank you. All right. Thank you so much. Thanks. All right. Any uh good news to share? Anyone? Okay, no good news. Move on toformational items. Regular meeting on Tuesday, June the 10th, beginning at 6 in the board conference room. Last day for our students is June the 9th and last day for teachers, June the 10th. Regular meeting on Tuesday, June 24th at 6 PM in the conference room. Right. Construction project updates. I do want to mention we're going to have a couple board members out of town next week for the June 10th meeting. We looked at possibly moving that, but um we have a number of jobs that are coming down. So, it's real important that we keep that date to keep our uh hiring going along and

023keep jobs posted. So, um I know that Messi and Randy will likely not be available or have to participate by phone. So, if any of the three of you run into any conflicts, be sure and let me know. I just want to make sure we have a quorum that evening. Um, moving on to the construction project updates. In your packet of information, I believe at the very top is the Wayne Elementary School general contractor update for the progress at Wayne Elementary. And that was submitted at the end of last week. And as you can see by looking at that report, things are moving forward there. In addition, we've been working on the drainage project at the Spring Valley High School soccer field. That project was also scheduled for completion yesterday. And uh now I was

024down there yesterday afternoon and they still had quite a bit to do. So it might have stretched into the day, but we we fully anticipate that they'll be wrapped up this week. So, we shouldn't see any more flooding issues back there by the uh Cerrito Fire Department. So, um we do have to move forward. The next step of that project is uh filling up the old line that is up on the football field and or I'm sorry, up on the soccer field and uh getting that hole filled up and getting grass planted for for this season. and then uh we'll do more extensive work after the season is over. Um in addition, the Cerita Canova alumni gym that major improvement project we've had our bid uh the um we had the contractor's meeting on site,

025the pre-bid meeting. The uh bid opening is scheduled for June the 10th. And so that's uh next week uh we'll be opening bids on there. So, you'll see see those on your agenda shortly uh for your approval. And then the Wayne High School roof bid opening. This this is at the athletic facilities at the football field. That bid opening is tomorrow. Uh so you should see that on next Tuesday's agenda. You've already approved the Lavallet roofing project. It's set to begin at the uh at the closure of school. Again, last day for students is Monday. Last day for teachers is Tuesday. So they'll be beginning work uh probably next week. And then our Buffalo K through8 project, we have received all the drawings on the project. Our construction admin administrator Scansa is going through those

026drawings and I anticipate that they're going to provide feedback to McKenley architects as soon as this week. Uh so things continue to move there. That's all the updates I have. I don't think we have any delegations this evening. Back to superintendent reports. Okay. Um I want to mention and there's no information in your packets about this, but um one of the laws that the legislature passed this past session is the requirement that we have some mapping done, some digital mapping of all the campuses. And uh so we we just received guidance from the state department of education yesterday on what the requirements are for that law and what the requirements are for the vendors. But I uh anticipate that sometime here in late June or July that you will see us recommend a contractor to

027complete the mapping projects for all of our school sites. We had originally like back in 2017 we had created maps of all the school sites and we provided those to the 911 office and uh so we have done this before but this is a more extensive project where um they'll be u more digitized and so that is something that we have to do. We'll apply for a grant from the state. It won't cover 100% of the cost, but it will cover some of the cost. In your packet of information, I had told you at the last board meeting that I would share research on school start times, and we had had u we had had a petition come in earlier this year from a group at one of the schools um asking us to consider

028uh delaying the start of school. and it's a topic that's going on in other counties and across the nation. And so, um, we were able to pull some research and there's two documents in here related to that research and research and trends on school start times. The first one um highlights the research and it highlights the fact that the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the American Medical Association recommend that middle and high schools start no earlier than 8:30 a.m. Um and it gives the reasoning why. Um, it also indicates that studies in indicate that later school start times improve academic performance and there's other benefits such as reduced tardiness, decreased dropout rates, and fewer disciplinary referrals. They also speak of the mental and physical health benefits related to

029it. Now, at the bottom of the page, I asked um I asked for some information on national and state trends. And you can see as of 2025, there were 20 states that had districts implement later start times for secondary schools. Uh California was the first state to ma mandate a statewide start time policy. Middle schools were no earlier than 8:00 a.m. High schoolers were no earlier than 8:30 a.m. And then Florida has passed legislation requires requiring high schools to begin no later than 8:30 a.m. by 2026. Then as you considered uh or continue on to the second page, you'll see some considerations that we would have to uh take into impact I'm sorry take into consideration that includes operational impacts impacts. That's going to be adjustment to the transportation schedule obviously extracurricular activity timing me

030it mentioned staff contracts. I don't think that would be an issue here, but the the transportation schedules and extracurricular activity timings certainly would be. And then um it stresses that you have to have community engagement if you're going to consider something like this. Uh there has to be a lot of stakeholder input, gradual phase, and effective communication. As we talked about before, if we were going to do anything with this, it would not be for next year. it would be for the year following. Now the second thing I did was I asked uh for research related to the case against later start time. So uh the first inquiry that you see there the first document that's just give me a summary of the research surrounding the issue and and that's what was generated. Um, specifically

031for the second set of information, I ask for the uh points that you would make if you were arguing against later school start times. And they're they're listed here and some of the things we've already discussed. Item number one, there's logistical and operational challenges. And again, it goes back to that transportation. uh there's the possibility that if you're having to run separate schedules, there could be in increased transportation cost. Um which if that was the case when we started looking at this, I don't believe we would be able to do it. Um there's impact on extracurricular activities. That's less daylight for practices and games, especially during fall and winter. And students may miss more school to traveling to competitions. There's family and community disruption can conflict with parents work schedules and affect supervision of younger

032siblings. And then there's the coordination if you have different start times for different levels. And then it does go back to the uh studies and it does indicate that there have been signs of modest academic improvement in the studies. But um they indicate that some of the studies just show modest improvement instead of some of the significant improvement we saw from the first set of documents. And then they make the argument that benefits are offset if students simply just start staying up later. Right. Um, and then at the bottom you see the resistance to change. It goes back to that communication and having to have a long lead time if you're going to consider something. And again, the conclusion on this document just speaks to all the things that could be a could be a

033factor. So, I wanted to present this information to you, give you a chance to go over it, and at some point at a future meeting, we'll we'll uh have a discussion about whether we want to uh continue the continue the topic on another board meeting. Any questions regarding that information? Anyone? And then the last thing that I'll mention uh as part of those reports is there's a grievance decision. Uh the grievance board recently uh issued a decision in one of the grievance matters that was pending against the Wayne County Board of Education. That document is included at the uh at the back of your u folder and that that's an FYI and we were successful in that grievance, but I just wanted to share the decision with you. That's all I have. Okay, perfect. All

034right, no board directives or board reports this evening and no unfinished business. So, we can move on to our new business, consent action items. The superintendent recommends approval of the following action items. Additional items received prior to the time the meeting may be added. Discussion and/or separate action of items may be requested by members of the board and/or 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 put the next candidate in that position. Number one, consider for approval the recommended personnel matters on page one. Let's see where are we [Applause] here? It's immediately after the uh it's just one page. There you go. Okay, fingers are sticking. All right, there's a uh couple items that we

035need to fill in here. Um first up is a recommend recommendation on transfer for the position uh for the principal at Kellogg Elementary School. Uh the recommendation that um is being made this evening is that Kim Mills be transferred from principal at Dunlow Elementary to principal at Kellogg Elementary effective July 23rd. And then there's also a suspension on your agenda. And that suspension was a three-day suspension without pay from April 3rd 30th to May 2nd. That is employee Annie Smith. and we have to say that name publicly. All right. I' I'd like to pull the transfer the principal at Kellogg for separate consideration if we could. You have a motion to do that. I'll make a motion. Second. Second. All in favor? I I Any opposed? Motion carries five to zero. So we can back

036up to the remainder. Right. Personnel matters. I need a motion for that. Motion by John need a second. Mark, any questions or concerns on the other personnel matters? None heard. All in favor? I opposed. Motion carries five to zero. Go back to the transfer from for Kim Hills from principal DLO to Kellogg. Do I have a motion? Motion. Motion by Randy. Second. No second. Anyone? No second. Motion fails for lack of a second. All right. Since the recommendation failed, I'll bring a second recommendation to you. I recommend that Josh Sammons uh be transferred from assistant principal at Kellogg to principal at Kellogg Elementary effective July 23rd, 2025. Second by Johnny, second by Mark. Any questions or concerns? All in favor? Any opposed? Nay. Motion carries four to one. All right. I think we can consider

037number two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight, nine, 10, 11. Before we go on, Josh is with us. Josh, congratulations. All right. So 2 through 11 are minutes from previous meetings. It needs there's one set of minutes needs to be corrected. Okay. What set is that? Uh the minutes uh for the January 30 uh meeting. What page? Well, it's page two once you get in [Applause] So it's the legislative forum. It's We're listing the people are here. One person was should be added. I I distinctly recall that Mike Wolf was also present by telephone that meeting. He was page two um I want to pull number nine. There were some mistakes that were made in number nine. Those are the minutes for March 11th, 2025. Okay. And so, uh, we'll bring those back to

038you for approval at a later date. Okay. So, we'll pull on number two. Nine. Nine. Yeah. Pull number nine for corrections. Next page. Okay. That's it. the forum that was on January. That was number two. Yeah. Got it. Okay. So, out of all the minutes, we're pulling number nine. And on number two, we're adding Mike Wolf to the list of attendees as participating by phone in the legislative forum. Any other questions or concerns on the minutes? All right. All in favor? I any opposed? Motion carries five to zero. Did we have a motion? Yeah, I think we need to go back. I didn't record a motion or a second. Let's go back. So, the minutes I need a motion for approving the minutes 2 through 11. Thank you, Dennis. Second. Second. All right. Now, let's

039vote. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries five to zero. I get lost in all number nine. We pulled that for Yeah, number two and number nine. Right. All right. Two. Yeah. Two was two. Two was revised and approved with a revision. Approvening it as revised, right? Nine were pulling and revised. Okay. Number nine. Correct. Okay. So, they're all approved but number. We'll come back to that. Number 12, consider for approval the purchase requisition order and quotes in excess of $5,000 pages 30 through 32. Motion. Motion by Randy. Second, questions or concerns on those requisitions? 32 summer programs. All right. None heard. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. 5 to zero. New business. Uh separate action. We have none. Moving down to potential items for a future agenda. Yeah, there's Can I do one

040thing just point of order? I'd like I've thought about it some more. I still agree with my first where I made the motion for one person, but I'd like to change to yes on the second person on the principal. Gotcha. We're going back to the Yeah. I don't know if you can do that on point of order. We've done it before. Okay. We'll go back. So the second name brought to us was Mr. Sammons. So Mr. Trout would like to change the vote from Okay. Yes. So we are back to a 50 vote on Mr. Sam's moving to that position. Yes. All right. on the potential items for future agendas in your packet. Um we have to get the my evaluation completed by the end of June. And so you have the document uh for

041the evaluation. Yes, you do. And two of you are going to be going at the next meeting. So we'll have this on the agenda for June the uh I think it's the 24th. Okay. Uh for for this to be completed. So Missy, I know you'll run that process. So, right, I'll turn it over to you if you want to talk about how you want to get that done. We can. Um, I think in the past we've just collected our thoughts individually and then just sent them to me as you finish them. Um, so if you would do that again, I think that would be the easiest way to get it completed for everyone. If you have any questions or problems with filling anything out, feel free to let me know. Um, be glad to help.

042So, um, it's pretty straightforward. And did you think of anything else? Any other different goals? Right. We'll set new goals in August. Yeah. In August. So, and I want to mention we I did put um there's a document in here on letterhead that says superintendent goals 2024 2025 school year. And this is the data from the measurement tools that are um indicated on the evaluation instrument that shows the progress towards the goals. Um included with that is a and again this information isn't for public release yet, but it's the 2025 annual desk audit uh for Wayne County Schools, which was one of the goals that was mentioned. You're going to see some handwritten numbers on the page. those numbers were written in by the special education department. If the numbers are highlighted, that means those

043numbers were positive, moved in a positive direction for this year. If they're not highlighted, that means the numbers moved in a negative direction for the year. But again, that relates to one of the goals that are on the evaluation form. So with the information that you have in the packet with you, if you want to look at any of those measurement tools, you'll have all that information there. And then the um there's nothing in your packet but the board self appraisal uh you guys have to complete your self- appraisal as well. That's not due to August but we normally do it at the end of the year. I have emailed that out to you. And how how many have we've had three completed who's in? You haven't done it yet. Mark, you haven't done it

044yet. Okay. So I've s three have been returned. So Dennis, yours works. Huh? You wanted to make sure yours worked. Yours worked. I want to make sure it worked. I submitted mine. That highlight. So when when all five when all five are back, we'll schedule it on the agenda whether it's June or July and then let you guys go over. Okay. When you sent that out, was it recently? Cuz my It was at the end of last week. Yeah. My email's not been um picking up everything for some reason. Or maybe it was yesterday. Yeah, I'll check it this out there. I'll let you know again if you need to. And then the uh the other item I'll mentioned is it's that time of year where we order school buses. So um I will have

045a bus purchase letter of intent for you on the upcoming agenda for the uh ordering of the school buses. That's all I have. That's it. Made the motion. Jonita made the second today. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries 5 to zero. It is 6:57. That is all. Thank you. 657 p.m. Thank you for those that joined online.

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