001e e e they can't hear you green they can red star green go got you you got it buddy so we're ready to go when you are good okay my bearings here okay got it everything good yeah all right we're going to go ahead and call our regular meeting of the Wayne County Board of Education to order it's six o'clock and if you'll stand we'll say the Pledge Randy you want to lead us I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the rep for it stands na indivisible and justice for all let the record show all board members are present in person this evening yes we are and I will begin with recognitions if we have any no recognitions okay and before we get to the presentations can we
002go ahead and do the addendum yes yeah items of public comment I receive public comment on the 2025 2026 school year calendar so you have the school calendars that were approved for voting this year and of course final approval is yours if you would want to tweak these calendars in any way you could um you see that calendar one uh was the most popular calendar and had received U the most approval within the district but we have to have two public hearings tonight is the first public hearing or next regular meeting will be the second public hearing on and on that evening after taking public comment we'll ask you to approve the uh approve the calendar and so calendar one is the one I'm going to be recommending to you and so the only purpose
003that we needed to serve tonight was to see if there was anybody here to speak towards the caliber anybody here for public comment on the calendar okay hearing we can move on there's no motion or anything that's needed there okay then perfect back to our regular um agenda with presentations update the board on matters pending at the West Virginia grievance board with lesie Tyree lesle here and was she we're actually going to join her online in the in the conf room but since it is a legal matter we'll need to do a brief EXA ex cutive session I need a motion motion ex section okay motion by janas second by Randy Randy all in favor I any opposed motion carries five to zero it is 602 and we will return short okay they gonna make
004you people wait Randy if you don't care mute your mic there thank you e e e turn your M if you want to be heard back to it okay we ready all right I need a motion to return okay Randy second second all in favor I any opposed Mission carries five to zero it is 628 all right I completes the legal update so we can move on to our good news well before we do that Nikki Stephie is going to give us our measuring success report okay okay I left it off the agenda so my fault I thought maybe she was just here to hang out with us we're bored right thank you I wish thought you were bored Nikki we go home to the kids I did miss some good weather today right okay
005you guys will turn to page five um last board meeting I was at with your update I was telling you all that um we were in the middle of our testing window for our state Benchmark assessment so just a reminder the state Benchmark assessment we take in the fall and in the winter and this is the assessment that is Created from cambian which also creates the general sum of assessment and it is the same test blueprint of the summ of assessment so these t test tests our students on all standards for their grade level so we expect scores in the fall to be really low because they haven't been exposed to all those standards yet um and then we track that growth in the winter so what you're going to see on page five this
006is all Ela data I left last year's Ela data on top so that top box with data is from last year just to have some comparison and then we can focus down here on the bottom you'll see that this bottom um has a lot more data and the reason why is because we are really focusing with our teachers and administrators on our special education population data looking at how our students with IEPs and 504s are performing in comparison to our overall so we'll just dive in here so what you're going to see for ELA of course we have each of our categories the red is our percentage of kids not meeting standard that yellow gold color is the percentage partially meeting standard green is meet standard blue is exceeds and then that next column is
007percent proficient so in terms of proficiency so what we're held accountable for with the state balance scorecard uh proficiency is any students needing or exceeding standard so that is the green and the blue columns combined and I've broke it out this way because we have that growth mindset so sometimes we may not have kids meeting proficiency but we can see those big jumps from the does not meet standard um to The partially meets and that's what we want to see is make sure our kids are growing and so you can see your fall to winter data so the gray is showing all so starting there at third grade all for ELA if you go over towards the right in the fall we were only at 6% proficiency which as I said we expect those numbers
008really low in the fall because they're being tested on their standard still be learning throughout the school year um and then this winter that jumped up to 28% so that growth was 22% and that growth column is just growth in proficiency so any students That Grew From does not meat to partially meat wouldn't be reflected in that column so that growth column is just growth and proficiency um and then if you want to compare that to how our third graders performed last year I know it's two different groups of kids but it's interesting because last year from fall to winter we went from 8 to 28% so we're right where we were last year with this group of kids then I'm down to fourth grade all in the fall they were at 21% proficient they've
009jumped up to 40% proficient fifth grade all 26% in the fall up to 41% proficient sixth grade 30 jumped up to 43% proficient seventh grade 27% to 33% and eighth grade 25 to 33% so we had growth across the board um also when you're looking at this Ela data you can see that even in our subgroup population of students with 504s and IEPs you can see growth across the board there which is really positive great do do we happen to know what those grade levels were at last year you had mentioned the third grade do you know the others by chance Yep they're right on top here so this is all last year was last year's so we're really we're running very close with how we were last year and we ended the year um
010I was happy with how we ended the year last year in terms of our growth and where we ended so this is promising and if you flip to the next page on page six same exact data but this is our math data so once again if you want those comparisons as Mr Alexander mentioned to see where we were last year that's on top and then on the bottom here you can see our third grade math data um went from two to 27% proficient in third grade fourth grade overall 10% to 33% fifth grade overall 7% to 26% sixth grade 6 to 15% seventh grade 10 to 19% and E grade two to 15% so really nice growth across the board um and then just a couple things to note I had told you that that
011growth column is only growth and proficiency so if you look we did have a couple places with um our fifth grade 504 students and our sixth grade IEP students you're seeing 0% growth if you look over to the far left and you see those numbers for the does not meet standard you can see there was a huge decrease um fifth graders with 504s there was 87% of those students did not meet standard in the fall and that decreased down to 47% wow so that's really positive there so I just want to keep that in mind same there with sixth grade IEP students you saw movement there from students in the does not meets there into that partially meets so although we not we didn't see that growth in overall proficiency there was still some huge
012games there with those groups and then on the next page page seven this is science data and just like the GSA we only assess our fifth and eighth grade students in science um but once again really positive here we've got last year's data on the top this year fifth graders in the fall 16% jumped to 35% proficient eth graders 19 to 27% proficient um and if you look at where we were last year in the winter we came in stronger in both fifth and eighth grade this year so that's positive any questions on the state Benchmark data no okay you want to move to page 10 believe our T data is next so for February currently right now we're at 25% of our students um being labeled as chronically absent that's a little lower than
013we've seen but of course with all the days miss that counts as 100% attendance so hopefully though we can maintain that as um then if you go to page 11 that's our staff chronically absent once again we saw a slight decline excuse me slight Decline and percent chronically absent but same situation is with the students where we've had the days out of the building it's actually helped our overall attendance and then if you go on to page 13 the last updates I have for you today is just our walkthough data which we were talking today in one of our data meetings with administer just about how many days we've missed due to the snow and all of that so once again I was pleasantly surprised that overall we still had 152 walkthroughs documented across all
014of our schools um despite the many days we were out and then what I think is really important to note here as I was looking at this data when you look look at think ratio um the walkthroughs labeled low it was 9% and when you look at participation ratio the walkthroughs that um were labeled low participation ratio was 2% those were our lowest percentages in that low category and that tells me that in February all this Miss instructional time our teachers have come in knowing that instructional time is more important now than ever and really push the rigor and um the think ratio and the participation ratio in their classroom I thought that was positive very good very good thank you thank you honey all right good news anyone well I just think we are
015to talk about Brian Stacy moving the um basketball game high school so those boys could have their senior night I thought that was very very kind of him and very thoughtful and then our basketball girls basketball team Wayne and Spring Valley and Spring Valley boys are really doing good yeah congratulations to the Crum Middle School County Champions basketball yep absolutely and the girls W Ms MSS right yeah that's all those big schools that was great they still be all good very good not good news Wayne's always had real good basketball team G getting there the Mings boy from Wayne High School broke a alltime scoring record at Wayne the Le will yeah out we didn't have a three point shot back then exactly right that's true Randy I thought about that all right anything else
016all right all good news moving on to our informational items special meeting on Tuesday March the 4th beginning at 4 at CK Elementary and we will um reconvene at CK middle at 5:15 those are our lsic meetings regular meeting on Tuesday March the 11th beginning at 6 here in the Board conference room special meeting on Tuesday March the 18th beginning at 4 at Kellogg and then we will also visit Vincent middle at 515 that day regular meeting on Tuesday March 25th beginning at 6 here in the conference room again okay moving on to construction project updates so the Wayne Elementary School major Improvement project the three room Edition is now under roof they've got the uh they've got the still set uh for the roof and they have the decking up so they are in
017from the weather and they're starting to work on the brick on the project I'm keeping up with you um the Ser Canova alumni gy um there's uh we're still in the design phase there we have a asbest Triads going in to do an asbest review of that basement to see how we're going to handle the duct work for the HVAC there W and so that is underway um Buffalo K through 8 uh tonight on your agenda I'm going to recommend a construction manager to you for that construction management services for that project uh other than that we're still under the same status we're working on the traffic patterns there uh with the civil engineers and also on the design next meeting on that will be this Thursday uh just some internal meetings looking at the
018design of the building and then um the Wayne house School vag building is uh we've got the specs back from mckenley we asked for a scale Downs set of specs so we can try to get that project moving forward and we are currently reviewing those specs here and are uh preparing to go out to bid on that project again right that's all I have I do oh I do want to mention that Spring Valley High School at the soccer field I had mentioned before that we have a uh we have a serious drainage issue there I had a uh meeting yesterday with uh the CK volunteer fire department and the CK fire department I should say and the VA uh regarding what can be done there to help with those flooding issues well number one
019we've got to get our drainage pipe repaired um and uh so we're gonna we're gonna have to do some work there um so I'm imagine that we're going to be putting some specs together for that project make a um if we have to tear that that entire drain was when it was put in it runs it runs U it runs at a diagonal from back behind the fire department out to Spring Valley Drive it goes underneath the parking lot and it goes underneath the soccer field so if we have to tear that out it's going to be a major project um I'm hoping that when we get in there that it's a plastic drainage pipe and and if it is we'll be able to just repair it and then uh move on and we've talked
020to the VA the VA has talked to us about doing a a retention Pond and that will help those flooding issues that are occurring there um but we're going to draw up some specs to to begin that work and try to get that advertised here in the next week or two so I'll keep you posted as we move forward with that okay thank you you're welcome all right delegations do we have any delegations this evening none none superintendent reports um I could have put this under good news but um the state U they have some money and there's a letter that's in your manella folder from the Department of Education okay there's been some money um allocated for safe schools funds so the Department of Education put out a opportunity to apply for Grants we
021took advantage of that opportunity to uh apply for Grants and you can see on the um back page of that letter that we were one of the school systems that were approved we were approved for a $ 26,5 31 Grant good that will pay for the access controls that we talked about at Tulsa and Wayne High School and then um it's gonna also we're going to do some fencing down at CK middle school as well where the schools there in the neighborhood we're going to do some fencing to good to Define that property a little bit better have say school entrance no it's it's just access controls for ESS yeah so kind of like the bad swipe systems that type of thing okay it's expanding access controls for student use as well so that was
022good news that's helpful um also in your manella folder right behind that letter is the cfp annual update form so in the spring we have a chance to apply for a major Improvement project that's a million dollar Grant from the state so I should say up to a million dollars we can apply for and so um what we're going to be doing is we're going to be taking a look at what is in our comprehensive educational facilities plan and on page one and two you have the 23 items uh that were in our cfp now you remember when we updated this form we had marked a number of those as the either completed or in progress so our next step is to uh you know look at some of these items that have not been
023completed yet and um I'm I'd like to consider doing a major Improvement project for Tulsa high school and for Spring Valley High School uh if you know depending on the budget for each project to see if we can fit that under a million dollars the man traps yeah that'd be good that would be items number 18 and 19 okay safer for everybody y now if we can't fit those two within the budget then we might take a look at one of the other schools there uh the as far as the middle schools go for a man trap but I just wanted to give you an idea of what I was thinking and give you a chance to give me any feedback back off of that list if there's something you'd like to CK middle might
024be an option just because it would be the only middle school left that wouldn't have well we got vinent well vinon but CK is kind of more is really open yeah I mean you just yeah it's really open all separate buildings so I'm gonna get the Architects down and start taking a look at the the sites yeah to see what we can fit in with within that budget right okay now again as you know we've got major construction going on right now at Wayne Elementary and then at Buffalo as well so we're not going to have any additional funds that we can right do matching funds with this but um if we have an opportunity to submit and ask for the money I think we should yeah I'm sure least ask don't hurt to ask
025right first they can say is no that's right okay okay and then next up schol closing we're going to hit that a little bit later okay then what we're hitting calendar we now St we're missing page let's go ahead and let's go ahead and hit the uh school closings okay um so you should have wow I see you found it yeah you should have a list of the school closings for the year right we've had a few yeah so the district has been closed for a total of 11 days and then I also included in this report to you some of the individual school closures most impacted has been dunow and Genoa as well as Tulsa because of the water situation there and just to mention Genoa was without water again today oh great now
026you know we had the measures that we had put in place there a couple weeks ago to get them back in school are still in place there so we were able to keep the school open but they were without water again the day the PSD said that they were hopeful that they would be with water again in the morning so uh Mr Clay will let me know he'll he'll update us on what's going on there but uh overall we've the district's been a close for 11 days so we have five non-traditional instructional days that we utilize and we've utilized all five of those okay and then we also because of our schedules our schedules allow for Bank time and so uh we go beyond the minimum number of minutes required in the day and so
027uh we're allowed by the Department of Education in an additional five days for Bank time but again we're at the 11th day so that takes us now to our osse days at the end of the year so uh we're looking at we'll move the last day for students back one day and there's a school calendar for this school year that is in your folder I see one girl back there look sad you look at the bottom of the page June 5th is H was labeled as a faculty Senate day that was students last day right hang on I'm still looking it it says 2024 2025 school year at the top okay yeah so June 5th was a faculty Senate day that faculty Senate day will shift to June 6 that's students last day that faculty
028Senate day is the student last day and then the teachers planning day will have to move to June 9th so basically what we're doing is we're taking that OS day and flopping it with that planning day okay and that'll be a a makeup day for students okay in addition to that I'm also looking at March the 12th see that as a professional learning day yep that counts as an instructional day even though students aren't in school so it doesn't impact the number we over or anything like that but we are looking at rescheduling that day as an instructor day with students present we have to do test training on March the 12th so we would do a 2hour early release on that day to allow the test training to occur but we could get in
029instruction on that day on March the 12th any concerns regarding that that's as of today right hopefully we won't have any more closing yeah and if we miss you know if we miss any more then those OS days you see there at the bot of the calendar those will be taken one by one okay that's what I thought good there's nothing else we can use is there nope you sure not going to take your spring break no spring breaks out of C we do not want that battle okay then I just the other pages I was going to show you is a u there's a budget form in here it looks like this you're just I'll let Jeb created this one actually Jeb you want to go over this oneu if you look at this
030one she start off general fund this year compared to last year right at the end of January we had like a 5.1 5.2 milon spread all that reles to property p com in we SP far capital projects fund that's all SBA funds money that should WR itself we [Music] Toda projects from fedal draw 71 you know this 71 is about $2.5 million positive that all relates to the es money that we drew down s fund is basically well it's it's closed so that's a that is a moving on down monthly financial report 837 million budgeted this year 43.5 million today have 34.8 million incumber at the end of Jan we had 5.3 avable balance that sounds like a big number but if you look at that Financial stat we got bu replacing money at 1.2
0311.2 is going out the door yeah Y and then I told him I said okay let's take off the reserve that's our concy and then we know we got a Cod the pi F well every time we spend money on these projects we have a portion we pay this that number go up we're going to have to cover this to 116,000 so you back all that out there it brings us down to 1.2 million and that number up there at the top that special Revenue that that number I said that really good you had that number back in and at 131 when he asked me how I thought we felt this this is where that's the number I got to so that number is a moving number it moves daily we can't suain this current
032Pace that we're going so the early projection would be a $3.7 million balance right now is that and is that just the revenue and expenditures from this year or does that count the carryover as well that count car okay so one of the previous meetings we looked it the carryover balance being at what was it .4 yeah that's that was the that's what the state our actual 2.8 St at that time unrestricted right unrestricted rep reported at 1.4 okay so um early projections and again these are early projections if there's unexpected expenses that type of thing that number will change but early projections would indicate at this point that we're on Pace to possibly be in the black this year okay what we want to hear yep that's good news any questions regarding those numbers
033let's hope they hold keep fingers crossed okay um next up Personnel season we got another paper no okay just a couple updates I'm GNA give you Todd I'd run out of room I didn't know the uh yes Personnel season is scheduled to begin next week okay we'll be delivering letters next week out to the schools and that'll be uh you know transfer and reduction in for and the reason that we have to do that Jeb made the comment we can't continue going at this pace what he's talking about is our our funding that we received for this year um is minus 160 students that we lost in enrollment so the funding's always a year delayed so our the number the money that we have coming in next year is minus That 160 student enrollment and
034uh so we ended up when it was all said and done even though we had made some substantial Cuts last year we were scheduled to be down to about um we were scheduled to be down to about 30 over formula we're actually 50 over formula on the professional side and then um and again that's not from any new positions it's just because we're not allowed as many positions because that loss of been no kids and then on the service side we're over about 70 so we're about aund we're about 120 over total uh and so we have to address that during Personnel season so there's again this year there's going to be some significant movement um we know that we're going to have to add some positions based on one enrollment Shi on special education
035needs we've already projected that we're going to have to add eight positions for next year um and then as we're looking at it now we think that we're going to end up with a with a net reduction about 32 professional positions 32 is what we're what we're showing right now and then on the service side um we're going to have to add 16 third grade ecats I was thinking but even with adding those even with adding those 16 third grade ecats we think when all said and done we're going to be about even maybe one or two positions Less on the service side so we're looking at a at a reduction there of about 18 positions okay it's going to be difficult but um it's uh we we' we've got to we've got to adjust
036it's a difficult time now if if we can you know as we go through that process of reducing those positions I want to remind you that like on the professional side we've never had anybody that's wanted to return the next year that didn't have a job waiting on them right um and sometimes it was a different job but you know they had they had a job there and then on the service side um there was only once uh that we had uh employees that weren't back at the beginning of the year just because of retirements and people moving away and just attrition natural attrition we've been able to absorb everybody back into the system so um as we move into uh as we move into to uh Personnel season if if we can reduce those
037number of positions that's going to put us in good shape budget wise about people that have retired are there any of those positions that we can yeah change yeah so when I say when I say that there's going to you know be a net reduction of 32 positions some of those positions will be retirements right so it won't be 32 actual exactly that will be the time that you can yeah they'll be gone yep gotcha it's the toughest time of the year so um the I want you to keep the last week of March if we have to do any personal hearings we'll do those during the last week of March if they're limited we'll do them on the before the regular board meeting that on that Tuesday the last week of March last week
038of March for hearings right yeah gotta if we need any more and then we'll use that Thursday to to schedule some more okay and then your final approval of the list will occur on April the 8th is what we have that scheduled to take place we had do that THS 2 yeah do that probably in the evening yeah there's possibility I may have yeah we'll do it in the evening and we can work around your schedules as we get close usually we don't have too many no last year a few couple couple yeah okay that's all I have all righty all right no board directives or board reports no unfinished business so we can move on to our new business consent action items superintendent recommends the approval of the following action items additional items received
039prior to the time of the meeting may be added discussion and or separate action of the audience may be requested by members of the board and or the superintendent items are subject to change any blanks we filled in prior to the meeting in the event of nominee withdrawals we reserve the right to put the next candidate in that position number one consider for approval the recommended Personnel matters are on page one and two there's change on page one a revision yeah the uh yeah the until the return of job the employee for that job is Amy Waller so we're removing Rachel step's name and placing in Amy Waller has revised I make a motion to approve as revised second motion by johnita second Mark any other questions or concerns on Personnel matters was this one
040just was that just um Step take she was on the substitute list and decided she didn't want to take the job okay so she just didn't want it so the next one picked it up and I these volunteer coaches uh the paid volunteer now they have they have to be drug tested don't they no they are not drug tested they have to be certified coaches though yeah so they have to take the the coaching test to be certified through the ssac but there's no drug testing for okay all right the only drug testing we have is for bus drivers right I didn't think so but I was just checking so okay all right any other questions or concerns on Personnel all in favor I any opposed motion carries five to zero new no number two
041consider for approval vouer payments for January 2025 on pages three through nine motion motion Randy second I second Dennis questions or concerns on our voucher payments for January 2025 Pages 3 through n no one no one all right all in favor I any opposed motion carries 5 to zero new business separate action items uh number one consider for approval of the treasury report for January 2025 on page 12 motion motion Jita second second by Dennis questions or concerns Pages 13 through 28 if anybody has any now we were still on page 12 oh I'm sorry I am one of B well we skipped that one let's back up just a second here consider for approval of the treasure report for January 2025 on page 12 johanita made the motion right Dennis made the second sorry
042got ahead of myself oh okay any other questions all in favor any opposed motion carries 5 to zero now we can move to number two consider for approval budget supplement ENT transfers for January 2025 Pages 13 through 28 motion motion johanita second second by Randy questions or concerns 13 through 28 no one all in favor I any opposed motion carries 5 to zero number three consider for authorization this authorizing the superintendent to negotiate the transfer of the property at Fort Gay High School to the town of Fort Gay motion second motion by Randy second by Jita questions or concerns on that property transfer when we do the negotiations I'll come back with a transfer agreement that the attorneys have approved to you for your final approval okay no questions concerns all in favor I any
043opposed motion carries 5 to zero number four consider for consider actions to dispose of surus property in West Morland including entering into negotiations with Playmates preschool and child care development or a possible auction of the property motion to approve motion by jonita second second Randy and I did that mentioned yesterday that we did have another uh group that reached out to us regarding the U property um it was the West Morland neighborhood association um I believe I have that correct Historical Society Historical Society yeah thank youh it's actually Vin Westland Community Historical Society thank you and I have roer for each one of you say that one more for us Vincent West Morland communi historical society that group is taking care of all the trophies and stuff that's the same group okay if if I
044may I'll pass these out to you I brought each one of you an explanation of our group and a brief idea of what we're trying to accomplish well good we've been working on it for a year now thank you we formed a 5013c we've had a couple fundraisers we already have a nice little Bank well thank you to take care of it's great perect thank you you're awesome thank you I think you might already yes thank you you you're welcome thank you what uh what we're planning what we're thinking of doing now that this is a possibility for that property is part partnering partnering with the venson youth sports because of the gym we really wouldn't need the gym the museum would just be using the classrooms that are attached there to make our Museum
045and we also have a donor that has wants to remain anonymous that he will help with our maintenance fees utility fees and whatever to get us started they had contacted us yesterday and asked me to um gather some cost on utilities and insurance Etc and uh we're about three qus of the way down the road on that thank you and uh should be able to have it to you gosh maybe by the end of the week or latest by early next week as far as the uh those costs go and so um that that's new information that's come since we posted the the the Youth Sports would be able to I they love go in on this with us because that's the only gy that all of Vin and new sports has to use is
046and that has to be shared by every one of the teams for practices it's only IND facility that's there so if we get this then we'd be able to work out something for to use that and us to use the classroom that's the museum we've already met with s good I'm sorry Kim's last name just miss I just heard right yes okay my bad that's all right we talked about uh making the vinon history and the Museum Part of the West Virginia history class at venson middle school and by that being that close they able to walk the kids down to the to the museum and make that part of the West Virginia history class and and let these kids know that there's quite a bit of history that they have no idea about West
047nice so if I could make a suggestion what I would suggest is that perhaps you authorize me to negotiate with all parties interested in the property bring back the offers to you sure uh regarding the properties and then the board can go through the we have we have three three groups now the Coffield Family Services um the uh Playmates and then uh the vinon West Morland Community historical society as well so we'll do the leg work on on all three to see uh deal their ideas for the property what they would like to see happen and then I'll bring that back to you for a disccussion sure okay thank you so we're negotiating for proposals right yeah everybody okay with that any questions concerns all right all in favor I any opposed motion carries 5
048to zero uh before we move to this next item I'm going to recuse myself from this discussion I have immediate family members that that are employed by two of the three companies that you'll be discussing so I'm going to turn this over to Janita and let her handle this item I will return when you're done so we placed out an advertisement for construction management services for the Buffalo K through 8 project and we had three bids three proposals that were received uh one was from neighbor goall construction uh the other was from WB Fon and Suns um now what was that WB fwen f o SS o n oh and the third was from as scansa and so uh we was that scans skanska SK NSK okay then boy those are different name Incorporated okay
049and so we went through and interviewed process and after going through the inter interview process we would recommend scansa as the U as the corporation or the in incorporation to do the R Construction Management Services for the for the district for this project okay I just have a question now sure does it have to it doesn't have to be low bid it's just the one that's qualified right and well what you're actually doing this evening you're you're authorizing me to negotiating contract for those and I'll have to bring that contract back to you for your approval okay okay so the way that it works and this was new to me I know when I took the position the way that it works with the uh with these interviews for architect Services you don't talk price
050oh okay during during the interview process it's after the fact okay so at this point um they this particular group they're doing quite a bit of SBA work in the uh state now construction Management Services this is what they do and so U we think that they're the best option for this project moving forward but we need to negotiate a contract and you know agree upon a price okay so the way that could end up working we could authorize you to do that you try to get a contract and if there's no agreement to it then we would go to another another proposal can I ask where where are they based scansa has they have field offices in West Virginia they're based in dorham North Carolina okay and that WB fwom was based out of
051Kentucky I think Ashland and then neighbor go all right so we okay yeah I'm fine with that so we are consider authorizing the superintendent to negotiate a contract for construction Management Services with scansa Incorporated correct I'll make a motion second motion by Randy second by Mark Ross uh all in favor I any oppos motion passes for to nothing you can return Miss Hall like she's not by the door she's doing it she's doing it right she really went away yeah out in the parking lot we try to do things according to oil i' had chair it was nebor and scans and he's negotiating with scansa Incorporated yeah all right now you're up nothing thank you very much Missy Hall has returned all right we'll move on to number six thank you for doing that consider
052for out of um consider for approval out of state field trip requests East Lyn Elementary traveling to Newport Aquarium April 4th and that's funded by the special needs department and a school fundraiser CK Elementary traveling to also to Newport uh May 16th funded by the CK Elementary 2 grade CK Elementary traveling to Kings Island on May 22nd and that's funded by the CK fifth grade motion to approve motion by johnita second second second by Mark questions or concerns on those field trips no all in favor all any opposed motion carries 5 to zero discussion items and items of concern so um I put on here possible legislation recommend recommendations to local legislators legislators as a followup to the recent meeting with legislators um if you go to your separate attachments the one that came with
053your agenda okay St want us do our homework this time didn't L read um the first one up is on page 4 Y and it is a u it is a policy that is currently under review I Believe by the legislature um and what it states is that if a district Falls below the enrollment of 1,400 that they will still be funded at the level of 1400 students so I think that there's a proposal in the legislature right now regarding that regarding that number um and so um the thought was we had had the uh discussion about Community Schools and uh about these smaller schools and how to avoid consolidations so the thought was is if you can you know if you can establish a a minimum low number for a for a district perhaps
054you could do so for a school too and give districts the ability to identify community school and then have their minimum enrollment number set at 150 even though their actual enrollment might fall below that right the district would still be funded at that 150 level to uh to uh ensure financial support for that school remaining open and so that was just an idea uh based upon our last conversations I know that there is some legislation regarding small schools up right now I haven't had a chance to to review that legislation and exactly what it says um but um I was thinking about offering this up to the legisl legislators that were in attendance in case there's any compromise or anything that goes on there right so any any thoughts regarding that one I think it's
055a good idea I like that I like that idea but I'd like to go a step further and see if we could uh include the county size I mean being as large as we are um counties that are over a certain square miles or Square you know square mile area should have the opportunity for more than just one Community School most of our population of course is in the northern end of to the county but we have several schools down south so if we could figure out a way to incorporate that and give more than just one school the opportunity to be designated as a community school maybe two or three depending on how large your county is so I don't know I was thinking you know average County size if I'm guessing would probably
056be between three and 400 square miles ours is over 500 and we've got a lot of I'd have to look it up to make sure but I that's what I'm guessing anyway if we could figure out a way to let's say if we if you're given two schools if you're over 300 or 400 square miles then two Community Schools to go along with that 150 I think student Bas Wayne count is like the fourth largest area wise in the state we're up there I think we're in the top 10 for sure I think it'd be 500 something square miles right yeah I don't I don't know the square miles and I may missp on which county but I'm thinking like is it Pocahontas County a huge County with very very few people 12 people 12
057people a thousand square miles and I can see how they definitely would need more right but that's what I mean I I I agree with this if we could get you know if you could get a community school designation at 150 whereas let's say Genoa for example is 50 students but we're funded for 150 in that school it's going to put the staff that we need into that school we're not going to have to cut staff you know right to keep staff there so if we could have but that would take care of one of our small schools we have Genoa we have dunow we have East um PR is even small so you know if you're the former legislator you think any of these have a chance I think it's possible but I will
058say we need to expedite it and get it up there as quickly as possible we have have you seen any of the legislation I've looked at some of it yes um the small school legislation what have you looked at that I have not not I'm not really studied it a lot am I under way but it's my understanding