001There go Mark. I hope he's all right. Did you not answer? No, that's all I can you hear me? Okay, I'm going to put you on speaker, so don't be yelling anything at me. Okay. All right, everybody ready? Are we streaming? Yeah, we're we're up and going. Excellent. We're going to go ahead and call our special meeting of the Wayne County Board of Education to order. It is six o'clock. And if you'll stand, we'll say the pledge. Mark, do you care to lead us? I pledge allegiance 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 except for Mr. Ashworth who's joining us by phone
002this evening. And we can begin with our new business uh 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. And in the event a nominee withdrawals, we reserve the right to put the next candidate in that position. So number one is consider for approval the recommended personnel matters on pages one through five. Need a motion. Mark second. Could could we pull the assistant principal at Wayne High School and vote on it separately? We can. Okay. You mean the principal at Wayne High School? I mean principal. Sorry.
003And that is on page two. Page two under the transfers. Yeah. Okay. You want to pull that for separate consideration? And I do want to make one other correction while we're here. Right below that item on the request for leave of absence, uh there's a leave of absence for Sarah Bumgardner. That leave of absence was on the agenda was listed May 5th to May 18th. That will actually be May 5th to May 25th. Okay. So, just a change in date and that's the May 18th to May 25th. And that Amber Porter, that long-term leave is unpaid. Yes. Okay. So, we need a motion for that second separate consideration. So, you're making that motion, Johnita? Yes. Make a motion. Well, I think you can pull it and then we record the vote. Okay. Separate. So, we
004don't have to separate. Yeah. Gotcha. Okay. Start over, Mark. So Mark made the motion for the personnel matters. I just need a second for that. Second, Randy. Okay. Any other questions or concerns on personnel matters other than the one that we pulled and we've made changes to the Sarah Bumgardner and again, yeah, we're we're approving as revised with that change in date. As revised. So that's personnel matters as revised. Any other questions or concerns? All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries 5 to zero. Now for the assistant principal to principal at Wayne High School. Motion. Anyone? I'll make a motion. Second. Second. Any questions or concerns? All right. All in favor? I I'd like to abstain. Okay. Is Dennis Dennis also? I'm sorry. I'd like to explain also. Okay. So, vote of three room
005with two abstensions. two abstensions. So motion passes. Joan is with us this evening. Joanie, congratulations. Thank you. All right. Okay, I could hear him. Okay. All right. Good luck. All right. Moving on. Consider for approval of the purchase requisition order in quotes in excess of $5,000. pages 6 through 10. Motion motion to approve. Motion by Johnita. Second. Second. Second by Randy. Questions or concerns? All in favor? I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries five to zero. Three. Consider for approval the voucher payments for April 2025, pages 11 through 20. Motion. Motion by Jonita, second by Dennis. Questions or concerns on those voucher payments? Anyone? Okay. Just I didn't know who it was, what? Oh, three bottom. Last one. Right. Is that gas? Feel like that's a fuel thing for the buses. Okay. Yeah. Anything else? None.
006All right. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries five to zero. Number four, consider for approval the minutes of the Wayne County Board of Education. In fact, four, five, six, six, seven, eight, and eight. Motion to approve. Second. A collective all of them. Yes. Okay. Motion by Jonita. Second by Mark. Any questions or concerns on any of those minutes? None heard. None heard. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries five to zero. We're going to have two here, aren't we? New business. Separate action items. Consider for approval out of state field trip requests. Tulsa High School, Fort Gay PreK, and Crown PreK band students traveling to Kings Island May 24th through May 25th. All paid by Tulsa High School band boosters. Tulsa High School ProStart students traveling to Kings Island on the 27th
007and 28th. Um, high school funds are paying for that. Uh, Crumb PreK8 8th grade math students traveling to Kings Island on May 28th. And Crumb PreK PreK8 8th grade students traveling to the Great Wolf Lodge in Cincinnati also on May 28th. Motion by Johnita. Second. Second. Second by Randy. Any questions or concerns on those trips? All right. None heard. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Five to zero. Fun stuff. Budget workshop. Budget and we're going to turn it over to you. So, from the last board meeting, I checked with Michelle earlier. I don't think we've had any comments so far, public comments. Did make some changes to the budget or Mr. Alexander's instruction. Yeah. Can you talk just a little bit louder? Try to. Okay. Somebody give him a mic. Are you hearing
008him, Mark? Am I talking about So, yes, I can. Okay. Well, I can't. Okay. Go ahead, Je. I'll tell you what, if you don't mind, just grab that chair right there and scoot up to the end of the table. That way, we can make sure the mic live stream. Join us, Jeb. Yeah, come on, J. You have any motions to make or pretty complaint changes? I better hear this, right? So page 10, we're looking at the uh fund 61 federal grants. There was some uh question about title one, title two, all these federal grants. These are all projected totals. We still don't have a number. We received an email from the state department yesterday. right here. Oh, okay. I thought we were looking at numbers. Title two and title four. Sure. They expect a Okay.
009As well as title three, they expect to have a 20% reduction from the FY25 levels. Are you Did you say page 10? Because we just page 30. 10 was a listing of what? Gotcha. 10 was listing what they are. Okay. So those that I just made too th Okay. Put on there that these are just truly estimates. Gotcha. We don't we don't know. They don't know what the what these are going to be. Yeah. So he he added the line above where it says other grants included. He added the line that says the following grants are estimates that were prepared by the various program administrators at the West Virginia Department of Education and are subject to change. Okay. We haven't received those budget numbers. So, I just wanted to be clear that these could change.
010They could change. They will change. There's no doubt. Yeah. Minus 20% could be. Could be. on uh page 36 regular instruction prek. It went from a,600,000 down to 1,394,228. We lowered that. That's about a third of the way down on the page. It says regular instruction prek and there's a number of 1.6 million. What did you say? What' you say? 131,394,228. So about a little over 200,000 $2572. So if you flip over to page 47, You're not telling us any good news there, J. Well, that's safe. We took we took what what I just reduced that number by. I took that and added uh an enter fund transfer to the permanent improvement fund of $25,000772. Okay. 205772. We're going to contribute to the permanent to the PI fund. How far down on the page is
011that? It is the second uh it's the second item on the page. The one that says enter fund to capital projects. Inter fund of per permanent improvement 205772. Am I looking at the wrong thing? Yeah, I'm not. Is it page? You guys don't you guys don't have it. You have you you guys have the original book. I have the old book. Uh okay. Gotcha. Okay. I have added these. You've added that there's a six. So it's not there. I understand what you're saying. So it's a brand new entry. So Oh, is it a is it above the inner fund to capital projects? Will it be you guys still have the original? Yeah, it's it's above the inner fund of special revenue. Okay. So, in between those other two Oh, okay. And then on Tuesday, we'll
012have the new Gotcha. new printed out for you with the So, enter fund a permanent improvement to add. And how much was the amount again? 200 205772. I did get that right. And that's the same amount that I lowered the prek number by. Okay. We thought we needed to estimate a little bit higher number for the Buffalo Needs project. Got. So, if you turn over to page 56, this is this is your permanent improvement fund. And this go we're coming right back to the 205772. We've added that. That is now going into the permanent improvement fund for the addition renovations to the Buffalo PreK8. Okay. So that's at the bottom of the list, correct? Yeah. The 136. Well, this is an addition that again that you guys don't have. Gotcha. So the way these columns
013are set up now, there's a level one, level two, proposed FTE, and beginning budget. So is that falling under level two? Level two. And how much is that? Coup. How much? 205772. Okay. Now that that changed some of the other pages, you know, all it changed was uh enter fund transfers out. and it re that's all changed. Revenue stayed the same. Um some of the we reduce some of the budget expenditures. It's just an adjustment a reclass between one and the other but total total revenue and total expenditures is remain the same. Thanks. So on Tuesday evening, we have a public hearing for the budget and that's on your agenda that you've been provided tonight and then you will vote to approve the budget for the proposed budget for next year. Okay? and we will
014have you a um we'll have you a final copy and then at that point Jeb submits to the state and then the state um checks everything to make sure that everything is uh acceptable to them. If there's any problems, anything they want to see adjusted, then they will uh they'll respond to us, let us know. But if there's any changes after you've approved it, we will certainly let you know as we move forward. Got you. Any questions for Jim? Okay. Thank you, J. Perfect. Potential items for a future agenda. Anyone? the we had um earlier in the year we had um a petition that was turned into the and I think I provided you a copy of it or at least a copy of the first page. We had a petition turned in about considering
015start times and I'm not Yeah, I'm not talking about anything for next year, but um at some point um I'm just going to list under superintendent reports uh talking about start time and just look at some of the research on what's being recommended on start times and things like that just so we can have a small discussion. I know some some of the u some other local boards are having that conversation and again it would not be anything that would have impact next school year. It would be long-term planning but uh I'm going to present you some research and things like that regarding what the recommendations are for school start times from like the American Pediatrics Association, that type of thing. Great. Be interesting. Yeah. about the later start time. Would they stay later? Yeah.
016Mhm. The day would be longer. The day would be longer. Okay. Duh. Well, really, it' be the same. Not longer, but longer in the afternoon, right? Which has negative which has negative effects itself because you got you got things going on in the evening. So, there's a give and take to it. But we'll just we'll just look at what some of the research says and then see if we want to collect any input or anything. Got you. Okay, that's all I had. Anybody else? Anyone else? Motion to adjurnn. Motion by John Eden. Second. Second by Mark. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. 5 to zero. It's 618. And I do have a request. Oh yes. I want this. I want a bowl of oil or something. I fix this table. Put in a work
017order. Thank you for those that joined online. book myself. We got to amend the budget.