001Hello. How's the shoulder one? Okay. Have a motion to reconvene. Second. Randy made the motion. Dennis, you make the second. Okay. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. 5 to Z. It is 5 o'clock and we will continue our LSIC presentation here with Spring Valley High School. All right. appreciate y'all uh doing this every year. We uh I'm just going to go run down some just various things, but then I'm going to talk about and give you more information about some things I think are in their interest and and might be pertinent to for you to know out there in the community. So, uh student enrollment right now 932 students. We're down from about 950 last year. We I know enrollment countywide is is diminishing, but we haven't seen that big. It'll it'll it'll start
002to hit us more, I think, dramatically as as the years go by. But where did you say you're at? 9 9:32. 9:32. Okay. We were about 915 952 last year. The magic number for Tim George is 625. He doesn't want to go under 625. That's about all he cares about. Let's keep us in AAA. Um, our crap our chronic absenteeism rate is 33% and for the county it's 29%. So ours is a little higher than than the countywide and and we could probably point to fewer things what we think might be be anecdotal best but uh our our absenteeism rates of chronic absenteeism at 33%. Um the discipline overall I don't think we're we're at any we're any different than we have been maybe the last couple of years. Um I don't know what the
003other high schools I mean we're probably very similar but ISS OSS and and um um we whenever we have a discipline and we're considering ISS or OSS just to kind of give you guys an idea of what we do. It's not a u we don't rubber stamp those things. We really, especially with three of us in the office, but Will is over here quite a bit as well, then with his students, but we really confer and try to get it right. And we really look at each discipline, incident, incident of behavior individually and what it merits and is there a history of this behavior? And we want to we want to discipline the behavior and and get the behavior corrected, but we're not all about, well, they did this, it's not, I think, three days.
004We we I'll give you an example. We always say in sport nations, it's three days out. If you just stand up, walk out on the teacher, it's three days out of school. Now, when we get them in the office and we start talking to them and if there's some mitigating circumstance, you know, we'll call the teacher and say, "Hey, listen, here's what's going on at home. We're going to probably do this." And so uh it's how we operate. So um um I want to talk about a few things that are new to us. Some of them some of them are I want to say they're they're they're not Bay Club for example is not new to us but there's some new energy behind it and so we've had bigger involvement this year involvement and done
005a few things with it. But before you move on debate it let me ask something about the discipline. Um vaping. Yeah. Um, I think we went to a diversion program for vaping offenses instead of being just an automatic suspension. And I know we have the gentleman here that does the uh Yes. vaping class where kids can avoid being suspended if they attend the afterchool vaping class, that type of thing. How is all that going? Do you think it's working? I'll have to defer that. Uh, now I've had conversation with Mr. Jordan, the other gentleman. Yeah. Um I think we've had because we didn't get started with that till probably approximately November, December, right? Him coming to board. Um we've probably had eight or 10 kids that have gone through it. Um talking with Mr. Jordan,
006he feels like that it's been a success. As a matter of fact, I believe two students if I recall correct have asked if they got to stay in it to try to help them with their nicotine issue. Okay. And whenever we do have um especially repeat offenders with nicotine vapes. In talking to them, we ask them, "Do you feel like this is an addiction? Do you feel like this is something that trigger them?" And at any point, if they say yes or it's becoming one, then we're putting them in it. We actually just had a student come in today and ask for it because she knew somebody else that was in it. So, I think that it's going well. I know when the vaping first hit us, it I mean it it was crazy because
007we were having, you know, we were having an ambulance at a school at least once a week where kids were overreacting to to nicotine in most cases and in some cases maybe foreign substances in the in the devices, but I don't hear near as much about that now. So with our nicotine, we're not suspending students for nicotine. We're doing the diversion and then we're doing in school suspension or and then other interventions for the student by talking to the student. I will say though too we we put kids in that diversion type activity but then we also find evidence that they continue. So I think I think it's going to be it's certainly an addiction. I think a lot of these kids I think they want to quit it's an addiction and you know it's
008it's easy to regress back into that. And by success I'm not saying success as far as we're stopping these kids from vaping but it's educational. It's informing them about what we're putting into their bodies which is more than they did before going into it. So I think it just better equips them you know and it's you know the more stuff we read about it like popcorn lung I heard about it years ago and then now it's coming back up again. I would say there's more and more research that's showing there's just a lot more evidence out there and I mean if that doesn't get the attention of these kids but they they think they're going to live forever and uh it's it's certainly an issue. Thank you. Very well. Um I want to talk about
009the beta club. We've always had baby club here. The participation was I don't I don't it was not even on my radar. I kind of knew we had it and they did one thing out of the year but I don't know that we did much with it. But, uh, Cassie Snyder had really was convicted about resuscitating Beta Club for our school and so she took it over this year. She's our community and schools coordinator. She's fantastic and um so she took that over. She took us to state competition and we had um we had 38 that participated at State Charleston. We had 21 winners, had eight first place winners and uh they've taken on some community service projects and they've done a few things here at Christmas time. So, it wasn't just one of those
010things. I think previously was I was in beta club, you put it on your application and all that, but now we're really trying to get those kids in involved. So, um I think that's been an improvement for us this year. Uh 1998, and we're going to have a cord for that this year. So, 1998 was the year we opened up the doors here. So, we we called the our community service initiative 1998. and uh and I and I borrowed this off of Marshall, but uh 1998. So, so we went last year, we're deciding how much time, you know, how much community service. What are we going to what are we going to ask students to do? We don't require it because we would not want to impose on them to impose good, you know, good
011service and being good citizen, but we'll let them opt in if they want to. So, what's a good number? And you know, somebody would throw out 20 hours and next door they used 10 hours which to me just didn't seem enough. That seemed you know minimal. Some said 40 hours and some so we we ended up in 1998. You add up the minutes divide by 60 it's 33 and a3 hours and so we just kind of tied it to the history of the school. So, if you put in 33 and a3 hours of community service over four years, you get a chord and we designed the chord uh uh it's it's um it's black, orange, and green. So, the three schools, you know, we've intertwined those 1998. And so we've had we've got several students
012this year who are getting the 1998 for if we've got students who are going to do 1998 minutes every year for four years. We're going to recognize that with something a little different, maybe a little more. We don't know what yet. Um that would be I added it up how many hours that 20 something3 hours of community service. So if you can get these kids who go to Cabal Huntington, St. Aries who are uh doing those 30 doing those hours and every summer, they would qualify for something like that. But we're asking for not only for community service hours, but a diversity in hours. Don't just give us 33 hours in in Sunday school. Give us a variety of things. And we're we give them opportunities here at the school. So this summer, we'll put
013the word out. If your kids want some volunteer hours, we can come in and we'll be doing some beautifification. Um we've got our football team will be at um the uh the food bank this summer July 26th. They'll get community service hours for that. So it's good look for our football team, our school, but they'll also get something out of that. And and the more we've talked about it and the more they see that they get that little carrot of a accord, it's um it's meant something to them. So they they've been tracking your community service and it's especially if you're collegebound, it's good to keep track of that. So, something new for us this year, and you'll see those awards this uh at this graduation. Um, speech and debate. This is our second year
014into it. I hate to say that we have a team. We had a couple of people that participated. It's uh and I know Mr. Alexander, he's I think got the right approach. Now, from a countywide position, you need to get a a someone to coach or teach who is who is dynamic, who is motivated. uh they're engaging and and it is something I think I agree. I think it's something you can do from a distance learning type perspective. So if you can find that one good person in county, you can connect everybody through distance learning technology and um so and I and I to me I love I really want to and I'm motivated. I got a kid in and she's her kids wants to get it. So we're motivated. We wanted to I really
015from a county standpoint just it'd be great to see us get 20 kids in there countywide. So we're willing to do anything to make that work. So um uh we had some success with the two we had this year, but it's that that's a program that I think will only benefit our schools in the county to see it grow. um student government. Uh we're really trying to make that and it's it's been in a couple years in the making trying to move from that just being a check off and I was president this is a freshman class to to something where uh it's more um uh it it's they're an arm or an extension of the student body here. They're so they're a voice of the student body. So that's where we want to get.
016And they're actually doing some work, but they also represent their their classes and the student body. So instead of every class having officers, we have essentially the best way to put it, you have seniors who can serve in officer positions. So we have a senate with senators made up from the three classes and then the officers come out of the of the senior class. So we only have one, we have a student body, president, vice treasurer, historian and that. So we don't have five vice presidents, five presidents, all that. Um, I think I like that approach and and uh the the guy who came up with that I think was Ben Folks and I think that works for us a little better. So you got you got underassmen plus the the juniors who run for
017they run they run as a senator. they don't have the pressure of, hey, I want to run as a president, you know, so you get if you get motivated kids who want to get in there, they've got a good shot of getting in and uh we really tried to design the the application process and the campaigning process so it's a level playing field. You know, if you got deep pockets, you can't come in here with 20 color, you know, printed posters and put them up and then somebody who can't do that. We've limited everybody to five posters. Everybody has to deliver a speech which I think has been pretty fun. How are the speeches today? They're good. So the kids have to go up just like uh Napoleon Dynamite. They have to get stand up
018and give a speech and they Yesterday's were great. Today's I guess were great. So we're trying to trying to do something a little different with student government. Make it um yeah. Um, the one thing I wanted to to mention and then I'm going to turn over to Shane and then uh Will is our honors class. So, the thing that you might get a call on and uh is our honors classes. So, I'm going to take responsibility for this. Your ears perked up. I can tell. Yeah. So, so last when I came in here, uh, I brought the the old philosophy, if a kid wants an honors class, by golly, let's give it to them. They're motivated. They went in there. Let's give it to them. If they want to rise to the let's do it.
019I have to concede and tell you what has happened and it's it's affected our ability to truly have honors classes is these kids uh they request honors classes, but they're requesting for all the wrong reasons they're requesting them because they're buddies. They qualify for honors classes. They can really stretch and do the work. They're committed. They've got the work ethic. They may not be so much, but they want to be in class with their friend. Well, we've let everybody who Hey, if they requested it, we're gonna let them in. What's happened is it has diluted our honors classes. And so, if you go in, for example, in geometry this year, and this should give you the picture. If we have five sections, uh, three are honors, two are not, that is not, if you look
020at our data, that is not a good picture of the capacity our student body has in geometry math. And you could say the same thing for algebra 2. And so we have these inflated numbers. Nationally, there's grade inflation. And so what we want to get down to is is um if you've requested honors class and you show the capacity to to succeed in that and we can take you uh from here to here in an honors class, then we're going to get you in there. If you're someone who hasn't shown remediation free or um remediation free or or you um shame, I'm searching for the word you haven't been um you know not pass the test but you show that you are proficient the word proficient. So, if if you can't show that you're proficient
021on our PSATs or the SAT, here's what we didn't automatically throw you out, but we looked at that. We looked at your performance. We talked to this math teachers and they said, "This kid just really, if we're trying to move to where these honor classes really are honors level, then yeah, this they need to be in a regular math class, for example." So, uh, we've done that this year. And I think that the math team, Shane, the counselors, they've all done a good job of looking at everybody, looking at their PSAT. What you're going to hear is, "Hey, my and I've got one parent to do this to me. You know, very nice lady. I like her a lot. Got a great kid." But as soon as she told me, I knew where we were
022going with this conversation. And my immediate thought was, "Your daughter is not an honors math student." But she wants in there. I know because and I can tell you who her friends are. She wants to be in there because we're friends. We can't we got to move away from that. It's hurting it's hurting others and it's not helping them because you get if the if the um if the ability level in the classroom and this is supposed to be an honors you expect to walk into a general ed classroom who might have co-taught students in there students with IPS you expect to be the range like that and that's expected but if you go in an honors class the range shouldn't be that wide it should be a little more narrow and it should be
023on this end and so that's what we're trying to get at plus we were given kids things that honestly they did hadn't earned, they didn't deserve and and um you know there there's there was no uh they just got it because they asked for it. So we're not saying they'll be out of there for forever, but if they want in there, they got to earn it. They've got to come in there. They got to buckle down. That's the thing. We thought they would go in there and work hard, make the grades, they did. The effort just isn't and I don't think that's a Spring Valley problem. I think that is just education in general. So that any questions about that? Does that make sense? Um I had one parent come up and say, "Hey, I
024want to talk to my daughter. She requested um you know her junior math. She she they didn't let her have honors and she had a bad day when she tested." Well, I know this kid, bless her heart. Love her sweet kid. She didn't have a bad day. That's just what that's where she's at. Nobody no parent wants to hear that. Kids don't want to hear that. She said she was sick. What? And I said, "Well, I'll I'll take a look at it, but it is." And I explained to her what we're doing in in hers and everybody's best interest, we got to get everybody placed where they need to be, and if she's not where she needs to be in math, we got to get her put in a classroom where we can provide her
025instruction that will get her where she needs to be. So, that's what we're trying to do. So, this puts us in position to really go to honors teachers and say, "Okay, we really got to stretch these guys." And um so that's if you hear if you hear anything like in that in that realm, that's what's going on with that. That's really the um that's that's what we're dealing with. Um not everybody has their schedules yet, but they'll they'll be finding out here soon. Uh with that, I know uh Will has a handout. If you want to go ahead and hit the uh get them the handout and you have anything you want to mention on CT side. Yep. Pass it. Now, I'm going to give you guys a little highlight sheet every year. So, this
026is this year's version of Spring Valley CTE, the program highlights we have and everything. Just want to go definitely not going to go through and read this a couple minutes of your time though. Um, again, we just want to let everyone know we're on track to uh, you know, how we won the pinnacle award last year or this year, you know, for meeting as a county for meeting and exceeding the, uh, CT requirements, uh, you know, set by the state department. We are on track to do that again. Uh, we just got done with our knockout exams. End of the year. We had 79 students meet the workforce entry cut score, which um, that's awesome because five years ago that was only like 40ome kids. So, we kept on we keep on getting better and
027better every year. Last year it was 75 and uh this year we even got even more this year. Um put a little spotlight on our ProStarts, our culinary program. I think you guys probably saw them up at the teacher appreciation and service personnel uh dinner last night. They're going uh phenomenal. That was already a great program. We got a new instructor this year though and it's kind of just blowing it out of the water. He has uh taken them to competitions. Um they won Chili Fest. They won not Autumn Fest. They had a top five finish at the Western Hospitality Cup. Uh they've catered over 15 events. Uh I really just walk into that class. I highly urge if you guys want to come see how LCG programs to come visit that program. Just just
028the energy in there. Just like a professional kitchen watching and students interact with each other and the student leadership and uh just how that program ran. Um I think that's about it. You guys can kind of read through the rest of it here too. We did have one mention we have a couple educator of the year. Uh Colonel Damron won the American Legion teacher of the year and uh we had our our sports medicine teacher Kevin Burton. He won the Western Athletic Trailers Association educator of the year. So uh super proud of all of our students and super proud of um of our teachers. Robotics kids also had another great year. just uh I could spend I could talk five hours about this, but how are we doing with our aviation maintenance program? Aviation maintenance
029is uh is doing awesome too. Uh we those students um are getting ready to take their FAA certification exam. Um it's just neat. If you've never been up there, too, I highly recommend you get up there just to see if there's any questions in the hanger just get hands-on. It's it's all hands-on, all real world. um they they have some simulated stuff they have to do on the computer, but pretty much everything else they're just out there in the hanger working. Um a lot of those guys also kind of intern up there over the summer, so they get to employ their skills, too. Um we're going to have What kind of enrollment numbers are we looking at for next year? Uh six six employers this year. We got 15 uh in the first class. I
030think next year is 12. 12 12 signed up for it. Okay. Is there no participation in Skills USA anymore? Um, no, we did not. Is there a reason? Um, no. I don't just It's a real busy time of year and um we just need to get back on the way and we made a priority. Uh again, we've participate in lots of other competitions, educators rising, uh schools USA kind of falls right there. We'll let Will off the hook here and just tell you I don't know that we have some teachers that are motivated, but we are had that conversation. That's what it bulls down and we're we're not making excuses. Yes, we're we're going to be in there. We're not making excuses. Will is great standing. He's going to take bullets for his staff, but
031we're going to take care of it. I didn't know we still had teachers that participated because I does it does take someone that's willing to put time in. Sure. We're gonna get back. We're gonna get Thank you. Thank you. I'm briefly just going to go over our data. Um you know, we received our PSAT89 data about four and a half, five weeks ago. Same thing with our PA PSAT data, which we took in early March. um our ninth grade class um we had 22% of our students who met both benchmarks on the PSAT89 which was 4% higher than the district average and 9% higher than the state average. Um so in the ELA we were uh 51% which was 5% higher than the state average and 2% higher than the district. And in math we
032were 23% proficient uh which is 9% higher than the state uh and 4% higher. So hopefully that these students continue to grow mathwise because that's always the big that's always the big push. Um, so seeing that 23% professional PSAT 89, if if they're like that with juniors, I'll be I'll be jumping for joy. Um, and then in our with our 10th grade, um, our, uh, meeting both benchmarks were 14%. Um, we were just just below the state average. Uh, state average was 16%. Um, and in ELA, we were 53%. Uh, state average is 49%. In math, we were 14%. and the state average was 16%. And then the SAT data, which is not uh not really out there yet, um we're just we were a little bit better than last year with our school scores.
033Um we were a little bit below in math u from the district average and the state average. And in ELA, we were again a little bit below, maybe a percent or two below of of where we were at with the uh district and the state average. I am hoping if I've added my numbers up correctly because what you get from the SAT is a little bit different from the state because the SAT it's a 530 on math and a 480 on ELA but for state it's 520 math and 470. So I'm hoping that um our percentages will jump two or 3%. And then oh the the the most important thing that I've that I'm that we're all proud of I think too not the most just because but just some information about our dual credit
034and our Mount West. So we had in our class of 2025 we had 92 students who uh had more dual credit classes. We had Mount West which is ASL and jump start 49 students. We had 53 students uh who uh who were involved in AP classes which includes AP chemistry u AP uh US uh US history and we also have some uh those are two classes that are taught here in AP language. Those are three classes that are taught here on campus and we have a couple other students who are taking some AP classes just you know online and stuff. Uh our class of 2026, we had 71 students who uh were you know enrolled in Marshall dual credit, 14 students who were enrolled through Mount West and then the class of 27 which the
035majority of those students like it's 35 students from Mount West. The majority of those are our ASL students and then 52 are through Marshall and majority of those are dual credit uh US history 230 classes. Then we also have uh 30 students in our class of 2020 which is our freshman primarily through Mount West our ASL classes. So we do have as you can tell a lot of students who are getting dual credits and AP classes. We're very you know very very pleased with that. Um I just a couple things and we'll conclude just adding on adding to what he said. You know when we get when our kids go to Marshall there are some classes that qualify because the their standards meet the standards of uh policy 2510. So those are true dual credit
036classes. But then and I'll use Alex Ren Camp as an example. Then you have some students who can go in at no cost to either the district or to the student. they can go in. And last summer, Alex took, I believe, three different higher level math classes. Those are the those are the th those are the um opportunities we're giving these kids through Marshall. Not only the dual credit, but the ability to take those kids who, you know, if you look at educational law, what law do you have that really drives how this is what you do with kids who are gifted and are on the higher end? And how you know, we always take care of these kids that are down. we try to move them up, but we really worked hard to try
037and get those those guys those same opportunities. Um, I'm I'll I'll couple things real quick and I'll end uh and I think everybody is aware of all this. One thing might be new to you, but obviously we've got the Bermuda grass which is absolutely beautiful on the football field, softball and baseball. There just always seems to be improvements going on there. I think everybody sees those. Uh, but I wanted to mention too in our auditorium and we've we've worked through that. We got the new curtain. We got the new sound system. And uh now we've got wireless mics for our for our kids, especially for our theater kids when they start to to and we have a we have a strong theater program. We just don't have a lot of kids who participate. Huntington High
038does a great job of that. Phenomenal. They have the teacher for that. We'd like to see that happen, but we've really now got as top-notch facilities and equipment for our kids as anybody has. So, we've got these we've got eight wireless mics and we're talking about adding more. The Supreme Court is going to be coming in September. So, we want to do that. Um, I will thank you all. Last year, I I know I talked about the calendar probably uh uh went too long on it, but we did end the we've got for next year the first semester ends. Um, the first semester coincides with March. So, it's really super helpful for us. if I had to on behalf of our community as they reached out they would love to see school in before June
039but that's I semester thing was primarily respons or important to us but um that's one thing we did get we get a lot of um but uh um there's one more thing seems like oh what can you all do for us uh we can skip that one oh wait a No, I'm not I'm not going to bring you anything that's urgent. Listen, I understand the state of, you know, where everybody's at. If I look around the building, if there was any one or two things that we could do, I'd love to be able to to paint professionally paint the entire building, the walls these colors, this reflective white, it's just bright and it's just affects. I mean, I think it is mood affecting for our kids and it does it it I think for a
040lot of our kids, they're proud of coming in a room like this in our auditorium when it's or where our gym where it's, you know, you can be proud of this and we just um that's something we would like to do down the road. Uh but certainly, you know, um uh just if it becomes available, we're interested. We'd like to see the the school painted. Um, uh, you know, I could probably name off a variety of things, but honestly, it's that's that's one that it's it's near and dear to us, I think. But any questions for us? Fire services class. Are we having any interest from students on that? So, we did I talked to Greg and I asked where we at on offering this and I we I think we've just got you. We'll
041do it. I think we've got interest. Yeah, we're ready to go. Where are we at in terms of instruction? You're ready to go? Okay. We're we're approved for next year. Yeah. Okay. So, we will we'll get with that those list of students and um I got that on my desk and if we want to do a firehouse visit, we'll do that before the end of the year and then get we need to identify space where it's going to go. Yeah. Oh, yeah. We've got we've got classrooms. Okay. Is it a is it How many sections a day would he have for instruction? I think I think he just starts with one section. So, one period a day. Yeah, that would be it. One block. It's a block. A block. So, a two period. Okay. Yeah.
042So, is it is it a is it a they have to be in that block all year long? No. Once semester. One semester. One semester. So, we can have two sections. One semester each. Okay. All right. We'll get those students and look at their schedule to see what we do. They're I know they're they're interested. Chief Connell said he was more than willing to come back out again and speak to you or the students that's interested. He just wanted to make sure that we will uh I'll tell you what we'll do. I've got those names. We might uh go ahead and pull those kids down for he's willing to come. We'll we'll let him talk and we'll tell them we we're committed now. Now you got to tell us are you committed and see see
043where where they're interested. Sometimes we get a lot of kids that say, "Yeah, I want to do it. I want to do it." And then when row meets the road, they'll sign up. He has a fire truck and everything now. And he wants to bring you here. So that would be pretty cool. Well, now's now's the time for us to do a firehouse visit to do that sort of thing. Got testing behind us and anything that'll keep get kids here that's beneficial, we want to do it. All right. Thank you all. Thank you. Thank you. All right. We've got some other items of business that we got to go through. I'm gonna talk to them about budget. So, you guys are welcome to stay, but don't don't feel obligated. All right. Okay. New business, separate
044action. Consider for approval the awarding Lavallet Elementary School roofing project to the lowest bidder, which is par roofing at a cost of $89,250. Motion. Motion by Randy. Second. Mark, is that you? Me? Yeah. Second. Yeah, Mark did. Questions, concerns, any discussion. Part's always been good to work with in the past. Yeah, it's a good good price. All right. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. Five to zero. Number two, consider for approval awarding Spring Valley High School soccer field drainage project to the lowest bidder uh Turman Morton Incorporated. So moved. Mark make the move. Make the motion. Second. Second. John and that cost is $60,400. Any questions or concerns? All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. five to zero. Uh, superintendent report. Yeah. So, um, we were invited, Wayne, Wayne County Schools was invited to,
045uh, the Clay Center last night for, you might have heard it on the statewide news today. Um, the Huntington Banks um, hosted Ron Clark. Ron Clark was a gentleman that is a past teacher of the year in the nation and they actually made a movie about him at one point. And, um, anyway, he has the Ron Clark Academy. some of the things that we heard down during Crumb's LSIC meeting um comes from from that academy and so Huntington Bank had contacted us and uh wanted to invite uh educators up to the event to hear Ron Clark speak. So we had 15 educators, the majority of which were middle school. We did have um I think one or two elementary and one high school person that went to that event uh yesterday evening. And uh during
046that event, it Huntington Banks announced that they had secured funding for those participants to attend the Ron Clark Academy this summer. Oh wow. Uh for two days for two days. So it's professional development and they're they're paying all expenses. That's exciting. I sent Brad Smith an email today to thank him uh because the Wingto-Wing Foundation, which is uh Brad and his wife's um foundation uh that that they uh that they benefit the community through, they were responsible for us being in that room and for the donations that it's going to support the professional development. So, we certainly appreciate them. We certainly appreciate Huntington Bank and the teachers were, you know, absolutely surprised and thrilled that they're going to get have an opportunity to do that. But, uh, if you see WSAZ or West Virginia Metro
047News, there's several articles out about it today. Uh, the second thing that occurred is that, uh, today Marshall was uh, doing a press release. We actually released it today as well. Uh Wayne County Schools is now a part of Marshall's direct admission program for students who opt in. So what that means is no application fees. The records are automatically sent and as long as they meet the minimum qualifications of GPA, they are automatically enrolled at Marshall. That's and um uh Wayne County and Putnham County were being added and uh that information is being released by Marshall today. So that's uh we had talked about that last year that that was coming, right? But it's it's here. It's here. So we'll be wonderful. Yeah. The students that are graduating this year will have an opportunity to
048participate in that program. Good. And then um we approved the roof bid for Lavallet Elementary this evening. We're getting ready to put out another roofing bid. Uh this I'm hopeful that it'll be a smaller job than what we have here. Uh, but we're going to be uh working on the uh at Wayne High School on some of the athletic buildings. I'm want to say it's the locker room wait room area. Um I'm not sure exact I'm not exactly sure which building it is, but um it's it's in dire need of replacement. So that's our next bid to go out. And so that should be out hopefully here. We'll have it in the newspaper probably next week. So that's another item that you'll be seeing here before the close of the uh fiscal year. And then
049our next item, budget workshop, a pre preliminary review of the 2026 budget. So as you're aware, May is always budgeting season. I'm going to provide you, if you'll pass that down to Randy. Here's your copy. I just want to look at some numbers and I emailed these to Johnny today so she would have those available for her. one down there. Yes, thank you. But I'm having a hard time seeing them. Okay. But it's okay. Okay. So, I just want to take a look. First of all, we've received our final computations. So, you remember a few months ago, we went over the preliminary computations and that's the, you know, preliminary estimates of the money that we're going to receive. The state has finaliz finalized those numbers. So this first document uh goes through the different steps
050in the school funding formula and it provides a comparison between this year's final allocation and last year's final allocation. The column on your far right shows the variance uh between this year and last year. And as always, if the numbers in parenthesis, that means we're receiving less money in that particular area. Um, and if it's not in parentheses, that means that that the allowance for that particular step has increased. So, just looking at this, some of the highlights. Step one, our professional educators were going to receive $318,000 less than we did last year. Our service personnel is actually increasing by $286,000. Now, you could say, why is that? How how can professional educators drop? Our enrollment drop and but our service per person personnel aotment go up. That's because of the added ECATs for third
051grade. So we received additional funding for those positions that are to be added for third grade. Um our allowance for fixed charges, that's our benefits, etc. is down uh close to $10,000. Our overall transportation allowance is down $328,000. Oh yeah, our bus replacement is actually up $43,000. So that's a positive. Allowance for professional student support personnel, that's our counselors, nurses, etc. is down $47,000. We're receiving about $1.5 million. Allowance for other current expenses, that's utilities, etc. We receive about 3.7 million for that. That's down 111,000 from what we received last year. Our allowance for professional substitutes is increasing by $12,000 to $617,000. Our allowance for ser service substitutes is increasing by approximately $17,000 to $241,000. Faculty senate funds which are assigned to the schools, that's dropping by $12,600. Wow. Our step 7A is our improvement
052of our instructional programs. We receive about 1.5 million in that particular step. That's a decrease of about $4,000. Our allowance for our teacher and leader induction that that is what drives our master teacher program. That's the funds that we use for that program. That is increasing by $26,000. So that's a positive. Yeah. So, in step eight, you'll see that our total basic state aid, when all is said and done, everything is factored in, we're down about $446,000 from from uh our allocations last year. Now, our estimated local share, step nine. So, that's the tax collections that come in. And so the state uh they calculate a total basic state aid. They subtract what you collect locally through through tax through property taxes. And then that leads to step 10, which is your basic state aid.
053So you'll see that the amount that has been collected through local taxes, we said that the projections were down a little bit next year. They're down about 122,000 according to the state. And so there's $7.7 million that's subtracted off the total basic state aid. So we're going to receive about $40 million in total basic state aid. Now you take that $40 million and then the next few items there. You take that $40 million that teacher leader induction is restricted for those specific activities. The faculty senate dollars are restricted for those particular activities. So, our unrestricted state aid is approximately $39.5 million. I won't go over the numbers uh the rest of the numbers there on the bottom of the page. We've looked at those previously. Those all have to deal with enrollment. Yeah. And u
054so we've looked at those numbers previously, but they're there for your review. Okay. Okay, if we'll go to page two. At your next board meeting on the 13th, we plan to present you the uh full budget uh that for your review. And um as we look at that full budget, you'll have about a two-eek review period before it's due to be approved. And we're going to need to approve that on May the 27th. Now, you remember that we were going to have a regular meeting on May the 27th, but we have a graduation that night. So, we'll just have to we'll have to do a special meeting that evening just for budget approval. We'll do that early, Randy, if that works for you. We'll probably try it at probably about 4 o'clock, maybe 4 or
0554:30. Okay. Okay. May 27th. Okay. 27th. Yes. That's the graduation. Yeah. Yeah. Which will be here in Huntington at the arena. 4:00. Then the graduation. Yeah. Yeah. So, we'll we'll wrap up the budget and then head up for the uh head up for the graduation. Okay. Because it's it's got to be approved by the end of May. Okie do. All right. So, looking at this page, uh the second page in your packet. So, what we're looking at is the budget numbers for 2026 budget. So, this is the numbers that are going to be in the packet that you receive. Um, Jeb has worked up here a comparison between our 2025 numbers and uh, so you can compare those to our 2026 numbers. And then in the right again, you see the increase or decrease. So,
056you know, we've just been through riff and transfer season. So, we are seeing a reduction in positions. And again, these numbers are preliminary. We'll finalize them for you on May 13th. Um, we had the reduction in positions during riff and transfer season. So, that's going to shrink our uh professional uh salary budget about $594,000. It's going to shrink our service salary budget about $465,000. Now, I won't read every one of these to you. The board member salaries are going to be changing come July 1st. So I've told Jeb that's a number we need to review to make sure that it's accurate for the current salary structure for board members. The big item that you see increasing there is the health and dental optical insurance that's caused by that 14% increase in PEIA. So, our budget
057for that has to raise about $975,000. Okay. So, you'll see that the total salaries and benefits are scheduled to be about $66 million. We're going to look at, you know, we just said we've got 30, we've got $40 million worth of state aid coming in. Our salaries and benefits are at 66 million. Now, we have our levy and our excess levy that's going to help make up that difference, but it just tells you the, you know, the percentage that we're looking at. So we we'll look at total revenues here in a second. Okay. Going down the list are contracted professional services. That is our um prek program. Uh that's any programs that you know we have with Mount West or other outside entities uh that we're providing. But a big chunk of that is the
058the prek program. You have your contacted repair, contracted repair non-technical. So those are when we're having to bring in um outside groups to uh do uh repairs on facilities. Rental of land buildings and equipment. That's the parking lots that we rent for Lavlet. The central office um includes graduation rental, that type of thing. You see your insurance breakdown between vehicle, property, fidelity bonds, and flood by quite a bit. It was the way that they were um the way that they were joined together last year. They're being broken out into more separate items instead of um chunked into one specific category. There were some bus insurance that was included in that number last year. You get down, you see our utilities, approximately $328,000 in water, 150,000 in disposal services, 270,000 5,000 in natural gas, which will
059be slightly less than last year's budget approximately 1.5 in electricity and hopefully as these u we have more schools come online with the solar panels hopefully we'll see a decrease in that or we'll have to see a decrease in that amount telephone services is approximately 96,000 data communication services approximately 150,000 textbooks and rebinding this I think I think that we're going to come in lower on that number than what's needed there. Um, we have the social studies textbook adoption that you'll be receiving information on, I think at the first meeting in June. Um, and then we have a prek uh textbook adoption that we have to go through this year. So, I think that that number is going to be approximately $300,000 less than what we have budgeted there. That's good. See fuel costs that
060are budgeted. See the parts cost. Those are parts for the U transportation department. That's $630,000. that vehicle that's for, you know, the next vehicle that we buy, we replace in the fleet. Your bus replacement that comes directly from the step formula that we were looking at a little bit ago. Those transfers are projections on what we'll need to transfer out of our regular fund to cover. For example, the food service program. The food service program exceeds revenues. So, we have to use local monies to help with that. And that's not atypical at all. So, you'll see that our total expenditures, the third line from the bottom, are expected to be up about $252,000 next year. Yeah. And if you look at our total expenditures and revenues, we won't have as much in reserves as we
061did this year. So, we'll be looking at approximately $81 million in in uh as the budget, which is a decrease from 1.1 million from this year. and show that our contender contend. Correct. Legislature put this security requirements on us and not being funded. And they're looking at he said that the legislature heard him talk about they're looking at money that we're supposed to have in reserve like for contingency and they think that money's floating right out there for us to use but the the required 4% it's not there. I mean they're going to bankrupt some counties maybe us. Yeah. I think I think what they get concerned about is that in some places those contingencies greatly exceed that 4%. All right. And they want you they don't want they want you to have enough but
062not too much. Not too much. But most people don't have right excess. So Randy to address your concern about the contingency if you go to the third page. Again, we're going to have a we're going to have a look here at at fiscal year 25, fiscal year 26, a comparison of the two years. Now, that fiscal year [Music] 25, as you'll see, that estimated beginning balance was at 5 million. That's not what we started the year out at. You remember, you know, we were doing this budget last May and Jeb's pro projection on where we were going to end up the year was approximately 5 million, but it came in lower than that. We were at approximately 2.7 million. Okay. So, that number that number was off. That wasn't reality. we weren't starting with 5
063million and then it's projected right now that we're going to end up with approximately a $3.7 million carryover which if that holds means we're in the we've been in the black for a million dollars this year and if that holds Randy then that contingency amount that's projected should go up okay so at the top of this page going back. This is the revenue that we're going to see. Um, our estimates on our regular levy are 8.4 million. Our excess levy is going to bring in 10.9 million. Our state aid unrestricted again. We go back to that 39.5 million number. We'll receive 2.6 million for the state retirement system. another 7.3 million for the unfunded retirement. The state PIA allocation that comes in will be approximately 7.6 million. So the total revenue is projected to be
064that 81 million uh73. Now you'll see that that's as we talked about before that's a decrease u from the previous year of what was projected. But you got to remember that five million really wasn't five million. That was just a projection. It was 2.7. So if you factor that in, if if his projections hold for the 3.7 million finish, we're going to have more revenue in the coming year than we did this year. And we were able to uh if it if the projections hold, we were able to finish in the black this year with less revenue than than what will be coming in next year. And then again, you see those expenditures at the bottom, the 66 million uh for fiscal year 26 is what's currently projected in the budget. other expenditures that that's
065for just salaries and benefits. Those other expenditures, all those other items that we just talked about, uh from contracted professional services down to uh down to transfers, all those add up to 12.3 million transfers to special revenue. Again, that's what we were talking about with food service, that type of thing are reserved for contingencies. That's where the balance budget, I'm sorry, balances. The budget balances at $81 million. So you take that $66 million in benefits and look at the total budget of $81 million. That's approximately that's 82% of the budget. That's a that's a pretty good number. Yeah. So, we've talked about it before, but as we go through our financial trainings with the State Department, you know, your your salaries and benefits are supposed to be between 80 and 90%. And they need to
066be on that lower end of that. And so, uh, what we're looking at now is approximately 82%. You'll see that when you get your budget handed to you on the 13th. It's pretty good. It's closed. It's been in a while. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean it's possible because you you know the reduction of positions that that we've had to do over the last two years. So if enrollment if enrollment would stabilize, we would we would be in pretty solid shape. What gets us is, you know, as you know, next fall when we start looking at riff and transfer season, you're chasing, you know, if we have if we have a a three-digit drop in student enrollment, you you're you're just chasing it constantly. So instead of instead of 20 27 28 cuts that we made
067this year, you lose three threedigit numbers in enrollment and that 27 cuts turns into 10 cuts and then you're back to you're back to trying to reduce. Jim says pretty interesting enrollment up there at the meeting apparently with scholarships and micro schools and all these others. 20% of the school population in the state isn't that we're down 20%. One of what we used to have. I did not know that. Yeah, I would I would have never thought it was that significant. Statewide oven. Maybe it's not bad with us, but that's that's really taken a dent. Yeah, absolutely. Public education. Yeah, absolutely. Now, the uh all these numbers that we just went over, these are these are um you know, our fund 11 numbers. So, you know, the the title budget hasn't been released yet. Um
068of course, you know, all those things are earmarked. We can't use them for these type of expenses. Um but that's separate. Um, our excess levy also collects uh funds for uh our capital improvements and our permanent improvement uh or funds 41 and 51. So, I want to mention as we go into next year, as far as projects go, um we're looking at just projected that to finish up the Wayne Elementary School project. Um we're looking at we'll probably have about $146,000 in cost to finish that up next year. Um the Wonderd Dome project, we're we're looking at about $100,000 in cost there uh to finish that up. Um the big ticket item next year will be we will we will be going on the Buffalo project. So we're projecting about 1.6 million will be needed
069for the Buffalo project next year. So that that is going to uh that's going to be uh our our key projects going forward. So we have a lot of things we'd like to do and I know as we travel to the LSIC's there's things that come up. I'd love to love to paint this building and things like that, but we we have to work with the project budget we have and uh it's going to be tight getting through those numbers, right? So, any questions regarding any of those? So, at the 13th meeting, you'll receive the the booklet, the full booklet, and then u we'll have a budget workshop at the 13th meeting as well in case you have any questions. And then we'll come back and we have to put these out for public review
070as well. And then we'll come back on the 27th for for final approval. And of course the state has to approve it as well. All right. That's all I have. All right. Motion to beat everybody. Second. Dennis. Yeah. All in favor? I any. Motion carries 5 to Z. It is 601. Thank you to those who joined us online. You're welcome. IR.