001again, Mr. Sherlock. Yes. [Music] Good evening. It's time to call the June 3rd, 2025 War County Board of Education meeting to order. Our first order of business is our pledge of allegiance. And we have a really good-looking group of FFA members here this evening. We're going to ask them to lead us in the pledge. You can do it from right there. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Who was the first person that started? There's our leader. Okay. when you have a group, there's got to be one steps up and does it. So, thank you guys. Appreciate that. Okay. Um, at this time, I will entertain a motion to approve the agenda.
002So, move. Okay. Under agenda, um, we have, uh, under number seven, we have a name. Number eight, B, there's a name. Nine A and B, we have two names. And uh I think that's it. Did I miss anything? Zero comments on zero comments on the uh board meeting protocol on on that uh policy up for for acceptance tonight. Any questions about the agenda as presented? Hearing none, we have a motion to approve the agenda as presented. All in favor say I. I. Post say nay. Eyes have it. Motion carries. Okay, we're down to attendance report. Mr. [Music] Smith. Thank you, Mr. Mets. And thank you, Mr. Macau. And by the way, I'm sorry we had a PowerPoint available, but our internet's down right now, so you have it in your packet. Each of the board
003members should. So um first thing in regards to our annual attendance report um first thing uh the best way to summarize this is with the uh work car county primary center uh the attendance fluctuated to a low of 91.6 in May with the high point being in January where it was at 94.6 at the middle school. uh the low point was at 90% which was also in May 90.2 you are seeing a pattern here and then the height was at uh 93.3 um in regards to the high school uh the low point also was uh in May 88.8 uh with the high point being 92.5 in December. Um, in regard to the district, uh, 90.2 was the low point in May. See a pattern here, of course. And then, uh, the high point would be
004at 92.9. And I I figured that would be the quickest way to summarize all those graphs. And all that information, of course, is in your packet. Um, in regards to the uh district attendance by month, um, September was at 91.5, October was at 92%, November was at 92.9, December was at 92.5, January was at 92.7, February was at 92.1, March was at 92.3, April was at 92.2, and May was at 90.2. That was districtwide. Um, in regards to the year summary for each of the schools in district, uh, districtwide we were at 91.9 for the year. The high school was at 90.3. The middle school was at 92% and the primary center was at 93.4. in comparing our uh attendance from year to year beginning with 19 2019 2020 year. Um as you can tell
005by the charts there in 19 the 2019 2020 year it was at 92.1 2021 it was at 88 2122 it was at 88.1 223 year it was at 90.4 4 23 24 years at 91.7 and 2425 uh was at 91.9. So, we're our attendance increased by 2% from last year. And during this uh six-year span, our height of attendance was at 92.1 in 2019 2020. And our low point uh was during the 2122 year at 88.1. Anyone have any questions or concerns? I know I went through a lot of numbers and data there real quick. So, any questions for Mr. Smith? Yes, Mr. Sherlock. M um do you know how this compares to uh other school districts? To be honest with you, uh I think this is very comparable. Um 90% in a perfect world,
006Mr. Sherlock, what they'd like to have is 90% of the students be here 90% of the time. And there's been just very few counties that have reached that goal and we're trying to attack chronic absenteeism. But to answer your question, I think this is pretty much this is an acceptable attendance level. Let's put it that way. We're striving to do better, but generally uh 90% is a goal that we've always set throughout the school years what we've tried to do. Not just here, but in other counties as far as Mr. Mets, wasn't that when you were here as well? It was 90% roughly was your goal. Yeah, I think you know, Mr. Cheryl's question is valid there. I think that we're probably going to have to wait though to get till other people give their
007till they end up posting that on the state website and then because I doubt if it's it's posted yet. Correct. And but but if you're talking about the data from the last four or five years, yeah, we're consistent with the other counties. It's similar. Yes. Very comparable. Huh. Okay. Yeah. The and the reason that I ask that is if there is some other I remember previously uh I want to say in 17 or 18 uh we had like strive for 95 and the goal was to try to get uh 95%. Difficult goal right rarely I think we cross that threshold. Correct. Um, but the reason I ask about other districts is is anybody else reaching higher standards and if so, how are they doing it? That's the real root of the question. Well, to to
008answer your question, Mr. Sherlock, um, Mr. Macau knows this, I have reached out to other counties and I'm not too proud. I've took some of their ideas and some of their approaches and to follow up on that, I've talked to Mr. from account and during these attendance director conferences. Um, that's interesting you asked that. We're going to try and do some more positive reinforcement kind of in in relates to PBIS and stuff so we can strive to reach some of those goals like you said a few years ago where we're trying to get here. Ideally, we'd like to have 95% of the kids here 95% of the time. That was our goal. And not that we've quit doing that, but we're going to try and make another push next year on an attendant incentive program
009to see if we can't even do better than what we are right now, Mr. Sherlock. So, we've got some trainings over the last couple years that maybe they can enhance what we're doing to answer your question. We're going to try some of those. Start next year fresh. Try some of those. So, to attack the chronic absentee part of this and so you don't have a certain group of people pulling all the attendance rate up for the others. Yes, that's our goal. Good. Thank you. Okay. Okay. Uh B is potential artwork for the War County High School gymnasium floor. That's Mr. Cheeseman, but I do not see Mr. Cheeseman. He could not be here this evening, but in his place, he asked that we present this letter to the board that I believe each of you
010have. Yes. He was unable to attend, Mr. Met. So, he asked if I would share some information with you this evening if possible. So, okay. Well, I'm probably going to kill this conversation. Okay. Okay. And that is that I'm going to ask Mr. Macau to because this really isn't potential artwork for the gymnasium floor. That's sort of a misnomer there. Okay. We're talking about a naming resolution uh for Coach Alto. So, it's really not potential artwork. It's a naming resolution. So, I'm going to ask Mr. Macauen to place that on our next agenda. A naming resolution to name the court. Not the gym, but the court. There's a difference there. uh under information. No, that's an action item. Item. Okay. And then we'll have those conversations and vote on it. And at that time, uh
011Mr. Cheeseman can be here and Mrs. Smith can be here and and speak to the board and we'll be able to ask questions and we'll be able to bring it to a vote. Okay. All right. If rest board members go to that, you know, I have I have something to add to that. If uh if we are going to uh name something after somebody, then I would also like to see a write up that would go with some sort of dedication or plaque because it would do no good to uh if we decided to name it after him to not have something to let people who this is the first time they've heard of his name or new students to realize why he deserves the honor of the Yeah. So, I'd like to see if
012that is an action item, some sort of write up that would be a plaque or whatever that would go in conjunction. Yeah. And that's why I mean, you know, we're we're truly not talking about potential artwork. It's not art. Oh, yeah. That's what I elaborated on, Mr. Matt. It's a name and resolution that takes action of the board, right? And that's why So, this will give you guys time to come up with what M. Sherlock said, plus come up with uh basically a resolution why we're going to do that and then we'll put that in front of the board at the next board meeting. So, I think that's the way to go about it. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Because really right now because it is something that we're going to bring before us. So, really we
013we it's not on the agenda. Okay. It's on the agenda as artwork, not as a naming resolution. So, I'm probably going to kill that conversation right now and we'll have it next board meeting. Oh yeah, that we weren't we weren't wanting it as an action item, Mr. Mets. It was just to discuss it this evening. No, it wasn't going to be an action item. Okay. Just information. Yeah. I there can I can we go back to to uh the attendance? I'd like to you can go wherever you wish. Since Jeff still stand the chronic absenteeism, is that included with the uh 90% and all the percentages there? Uh, no. Like the the numbers I just told you, Brent, is is the average among all the population of students. In other words, you could have 60%
014of the students being here 98% of the time and it would bring up the average of the rest. So that's what I say. A true depiction, we'd like to have 90% of our kids here or 95% of our kids here 95% of the time. But but really realistically, what happens there is a group of kids that bring up that average. like well at graduation or any of these honors you see all these kids come up you know so yeah you see it's uh you know something to be proud of you know with some of them and actually we have one student in the high school that had perfect attendance right and that I thought I don't know if the middle school had it I don't know but you know uh but that's what also with
015the chronic you know that's one thing they like to judge us on the state does. Do we have a what the we are with that or is that 90% for the whole school? Well, you mean what's our goal, Brent, or what are you asking me? They what they they expect us to 15% or below right for chronic absenteeism. And I'm I'm going to tell you I I told Mr. Macau today we discussed this. I didn't bring the information back today because I was not confident that the data was actually correct. But Mr. McCau knows we struggle with this all the time. We have made improvements, I think, in at least two of the three schools, but I don't know that to the 15% across the board. To answer your question, that's just one thing they
016they preach to us. Oh, yeah. Trust me, we're hearing it too. So, you probably hear it also. Okay. Yes. Thank you. Okay. Any other questions from Mr. Smith or Mr. McCllen? So, we'll put that on the next one. Okay. Thank you. Okay. We're down to recognitions and I see she just turned up here. So, uh, we are going to recognize tonight the retirement of Barb McCrae. Mr. Macau, I have her certificate here from the board. So, um, seems like last time Barb was here being recognized as service personnel of the year and this evening we have Barb back with us um, recognizing her retirement. And I also want to thank the retired teachers and retired service personnel organization for bringing some refreshments and and coming out to help us celebrate our retirements. And this year
017we only have one and that's Barb. So um I wish you all the best in your retirement, but I hope I see you coming back in seven every once in a while. And I will tell you that um the kids at the primary and the middle school um are very very sad to see Barb go. And I think they had a lot of fun with Barb during their last week of school this past week. So Barb, if you'd come up, we'll get a picture and try to get you in the paper. Yeah, I think I've seen you stand on your head once. Congratulations. [Applause] I like They've got cookies and they got allbody. Oops. And there is cookies and and uh refreshments there behind Mr. Moore if anybody would like any. You will not you
018will not interrupt us or offend us if you walk over and get something. Okay. Well, you guys will. You got to wait till we recognize you. Then then you go do it. Okay. As you walk out. Okay. So, next up is our War County High School FFA and it's the AGCM winners. And I'm sure somebody's going to tell me what that is. Mr. Mckllen. So, yeah. Um, come on up and you can talk about what that competition is and then introduce your winning team. Okay, so back in May, this team put together a media plan for the West Virginia FFA Association for the AD Communications Contest. They had to have it submitted what, midappril, midappril, they had to evaluate a budget, media tactics, the problem that was given to them, and build like a 20page
019media plan. They then went to West Virginia State University and competed in two writing exercises, a communication quiz, an editing quiz, a presentation, and answer questions. This team will be moving on to nationals in October to represent West [Music] [Applause] Virginia about on I don't know quite how to say it. The plan was on. So, National FFA has the give the gift the blue program where they take sponsorships to buy jackets for kids in need or lower soci economical status. Well, West Virginia is not fully involved in that. So, they had to come up with a plan to up West Virginia's involvement for social media, getting kids in jackets, finding sponsorships. Good deal. Good deal. And where is Nationals? Indianapolis. Indianapolis. Good city. It'll be fun. Um, I know you guys fund raise. Yes. But
020if you need a little money, don't be afraid to come back to the board and ask for a little money. We will certainly do that because the cost of nationals has definitely went up this year. Yes, absolutely. So, thank you. We're we're always Oh, you haven't introduced your team. So, I have Grayson March, Ruby Murray, Carly Phillips, and Kthers. All right. Board members, any [Applause] [Music] [Applause] questions? Questions, comments? No. Guys, we want to get pictures. Come on up. [Music] Okay, now we need parents and [Music] that I didn't We really are. Congratulations. What a good I should also add this is county's first win m contest. Good deal. Guys, cookies and drinks over here. Don't be shy. We'll go about our business and you won't interrupt us a bit. Maybe. Okay. Uh delegations. We
021have no delegations this evening. So we're going to move to agenda. Do I have a motion to approve the minutes of the May 20th 25 regular meeting? So moved. Any corrections, concerns, comments? Hearing none. We have a motion to approve the minutes of the May 2025 regular meeting. All in favor say I. I. Oppose say nay. Eyes have it. We're down to finance. See a motion approve the payment of invoices amount of $120,2560. So move. Any questions? Well, go ahead, Mr. Mac. Do we need to break that apart and first approve the amount of $120,27280 and then do a separate thing for your travel that then would total the 1220560. is the you've got to travel, right? You've got to travel. My the motion I asked for was the 120205 was the was the first
022number. That was my first number. That's my mistake. I trans my B went awire and I transposed. Men, not a problem because I could have just done the other just as easy. Okay. So, yes, the motion that we have on the floor is for $120,2560. Mr. McC. Yes. Sorry, I transposed those. So, we will have a separate action for board member travel after that. So, we have two runs of expenditures. So, the basket is a little bit light this evening. The next one will be um overflowing as we try to get the year's fiscal year's books closed out. But the first run of expenditures on 529 2025 totals $50,0007 $50,78949. Noteworthy in this is the board of risk quarterly insurance payments. Then secondly, also on 529 2025 in the amount of $69,483.31 noteworthy in this,
023we had $16,490 worth of soil. If you haven't looked at the football field, we did some major addition there to level that up. Um, from the far corner to this closest corner, there was about five feet difference in elevation from one end of the field to the other. So, we put a lot of dirt in there and grass is growing. Um, so that is where that soil went. Um, then also we have in the amount of $9,47428 counseling services from Copelan. Okay. Less Mr. Mets's travel of 6720, we come to the total of $120,2560. Any questions for Mr. account on the invoices hear none. We have a motion to approve the payment of invoices of $120,2560. All in favor say I. I. I. Oppose say nay. Eyes have it. And at this time I need
024to recuse myself for personal conflict. I'd like to make a motion to pay Mr. Mets's travel pay in the amount of $67.20. Any discussion? All in favor? Any opposed? All right. And although we will not take a motion on this, the total vendor checks that were approved tonight was $120,272.80. Okay, we're down to budget supplements. We have no budget supplements. So, at budget transfers, I will entertain a motion to approve budget transfers at the amount of $261,842. Mr. Macau. Okay. As you recall at the last board meeting, we had discussion about bleacher projects and the paving project over the summer for the gravel parking lot at the primary center. Um, we are doing a budget transfer to a lot for those expenditures. Any questions for Mr. Macau? Hear none. We have a motion to approve
025the budget transfers in the amount of $261,842. All in favor say I. I. I. Oppose say nay. Eyes have it. Motion carries. Down to routine business personnel. First on the list are some resignations or leave absences. Number one, need a motion to approve the resignation of Christa Good as yearbook advisor for county middle school effective at the end of the 2425 school year. So moved, Mr. Mac, nothing to add. Her letter was in your packet. Any questions here? None. We have a motion to approve the resignation of Christa Good as yearbook advisor for War County middle school effective at the end of the 2425 school year. All in favor say I. I. Oppose say nay. Eyes have it. Need a motion to approve the resignation of Ryan Dodson as head golf coach for county middle
026school effective April the 2nd, 2025. So move. Mr. Macau. Okay. Their letter was in your packet and um basically a work schedule change. Any questions here? None. We have a motion to approve the resignation of Brian Dodson, head golf coach, work middle school effective April 2nd, 2025. All in favor say I. I. Post say nay. I do have a question there where it says I we both are going to so they typed one letter his his spouse was also the assistant coach so they they just sent one email both resigning from their positions because their work schedules have changed. That's the next one we're going to vote and it's on it's the next it's the next item. Yes, sir. Okay. Did I get a No, you're good, Mark. Did I get a vote on that?
027Did we have a vote? Let's redo. No, I I don't think I think we started to. Okay, we're going to do the vote. Okay. Have a motion approve the resignation for Ryan Dodson, head golf coach, Work County Middle School, effective April 2nd, 2025. All in favor say I. I. Oppose say nay. Eyes have it. Motion carries. That way it's clean in Sherry's notes there. Huh. Okay. Now number three. We need a motion to accept the resignation of Elizabeth Dodson, assistant golf coach, Work County Middle School, effective April 2nd, 2025. Mr. Macau. So, yeah, they they sent one email with two resignations on it and that this is the second of those. They both were resigning from the um golf coach and assistant coach. Any questions here? None. I have a motion to accept the resignation
028of Elizabeth Dodson as assistant golf coach War County Middle School effective April 2nd, 2025. All in favor say I. I oppose say nay. Eyes have it. Motion carries. Okay. Number four. Need a motion to accept the resignation of Trenton Hardbarger, assistant football coach, War Kenny High School, effective May 22nd, 2025. So move. Mr. account. His letter was in your packet, but basically the same as the last, his work schedule is making it hard for him to um be free to coach. So, appreciate the work that all of these coaches that have attended ladders have done for us. Any questions here? None. We have a motion to accept the resignation of Trenton Hardbar, assistant football coach, War County High School, effective May 22nd, 2025. All in favor say I. I. Post say nay. I have it.
029Motion carries. Need a motion to accept the resignation of Vicky Kenir as first grade teacher. I'm sorry, as first grade reading interventionist, War County Primary Center effected June 30th, 2025. So move. M. her letter was in your packet, but I'd like to thank her for the work that she's done in her retirement for us for many, many years, working as a first grade interventionist and um thank her for all the time that she has put in and the help that she has given. Yeah, it's hard to make up for all that uh experience that she has. Yeah. Any questions, comments? Hear none. And we have a motion to accept the resignation of Vicky Kenir as first grade reading interventionist War County Primary Center effected June 30th, 2025. All in favor say I. I post say
030nay. Eyes have it. Number six have need a motion to accept the resignation of Andrea EAL, school psychologist districtwide effective June 30th, 2025. So move. So, her letter was in your packet. She has taken a job in New Mexico and I wish her well in her endeavors. Um, it says in her letter, "We'll be working with students in the Navajo Nation in New Mexico." So, that sounds kind of exciting. So, wish her wish her well in her new gig. Any questions? Hear none. We have a motion to accept the resignation of Andrea EAL as school psychologist districtwide effective June 30th, 2025. All in favor say I. I oppose say nay. I have it. Motion carries. And I'm assuming all those go back out, right? Yes, sir. Okay. Okay. We're down to employment. Okay. I need
031a motion to accept um to accept the employment of Rebecca Miller, summer program teacher, K5 grade as needed effective June 4th, 2025. So, Commission Mcken. So, yeah, their applications and the policy 5000 documents were in your packet. I think um we've got some new faces for summer school teachers. I think um the ones that had done it have done it for the past several years and not speaking for all of them but I know one of them personally and they may need a little break after having taught summer school the past four years. So some new names. Um but all of that all of these candidates information was in your packet. Um two of them are ours and then the other two we have recently hired as substitute teachers and already under contract for that.
032Any questions hearing? None. We have a motion to accept to accept the employment of Rebecca Miller, summer program teacher, K5 grade as needed, effective June 4th, 2025. All in favor say I. I. I. Post say nay. Eyes have it. Need a motion to employ Susan Ellison, summer program teacher, K5 grades as needed, effective June 4th, 2025. So move and I'm just going to move down these unless there's something that you want to say about somebody if I get there you speak right in sir. Any questions on Susan Ellison hear? None. We have a motion to accept the employment of Susan Ellison a summer program teacher K5 grade as needed effective June 4th 2025. All in favor say I. I. I oppose say nay. Eyes have it. Need a motion to accept the employment of Ellie
033Campbell, summer school program teacher, K5 grades as needed, effective June 4th, 2025. So move. Any questions? Hear none. We have a motion accept employment of Ellie Campbell, summer program teacher for grades K through five as needed, effective June 4th, 2025. All in favor say I. I. I. Post say nay. Eyes have it. A motion to accept employment of Casey Sims, summer program teacher K5 as needed effective June 4th, 2025. So move. Any questions? Hear none. We have a motion to accept the employment of Casey Sims, summer program teacher, K5 grade as needed, effective June 4th, 2025. All in favor say I. I. I. Post say nay. Eyes have it. Okay, this one's a little different. Need a motion to accept the employment of Pamela Parsons, supervisory A2, pay grade C, third grade, Work County Primary
034Center, effective for the 2526 school year with completion of her required paperwork. So move. So as you recall, you authorized a new third grade aid position. So we did that. We posted it and Pam Parsons was the successful bidder on that position. Any questions here? None. We have a motion to accept the employment of Pamela Parsons, supervisory A2, paygrade C, third grade war county primary center effective for 2526 school year with completion of required paperwork. All in favor say I. I post saying nay. Eyes have it. A motion to accept employment of Janette Roberts, assistant cheerleading coach, War County middle school, effective for 2526 school year with the completion of required paperwork. So move. So the sole applicant for that position, happy to get it filled, but her application is in your packet. Any questions?
035Okay, we have a motion to accept the employment of Janette Roberts, assistant cheerleading coach, War County middle school, effective for 2526 school year with completion of the required paperwork. All in favor say I. I. I. Post say nay. I have it. Okay. Under number seven, um I'm going to make a motion that we table number seven. And once we get it under motion, then I will explain to you why I'm saying that. And of course, if you disagree with my motion, then you can vote no. We'll go back to the original uh motion. So, I'm making a motion that we table uh the employment of Christ Chad Williams, head varsity boys basketball coach, work any high school effective for the 2526 school year with completion of required paperwork. Any questions? I guess I made that
036motion, didn't I? Yeah. Okay. Um, this was this name just came this evening. Okay. And at most time we see uh all the back work the background paperwork for people the name that comes to us and and I just had a chance to look at and I don't think anybody else has had a chance to look at it and I had some questions not negative in any way but I had some questions about whether the person was a certified teacher had SSAC certifications who they were okay so uh that's why I asked for postponement uh for or to table it, not postpone it, to table it till the next board meeting, give Mr. Macauan a chance to send that information to us so we can make a uh a judged um decision on this young
037man. The name that will come back to us next time will be this young man's because we just tabled it. It's not like we put that back out for bid or anything, but I just like to have a little bit more information before I I put my vote there. Questions? Okay. So, we have a motion to table the employment of Christopher Chad Williams, head varsity boys basketball coach, work any high school, effective for 256 school year with completion of the required paperwork. All in favor say I. I. Post say nay. Eyes have it. So, you'll Yep. Okay. I will bring that back. Yeah. and then and if you will let us have his information that'll be great. Okay. Uh we're down to um uh number eight. Okay. Uh I'm going to take them separately because
038they are different. Okay. I need a motion to approve the employment of Emily Harbarger as aid for 2526 school year. So move. Mr. county. I think we need if folks didn't return their letter in time, we brought the full list of these folks back to you at the last board meeting. Everybody that returned their letter with intent to return as a substitute, whether it be service or professional, and these folks, for whatever reason, didn't get their letter to us until recently, but we're they do want to work. So, I'm bringing their names back to you at this time. And these are people that were on the list. These are not new hires. These are not new hires. These are folks that just didn't get their letter of intent to come back next year and sub
039to us by last board meeting when we brought all the rest of the names to you. Okay. Better late than never. Yeah. So, I have a motion to any questions about Emily Harbarger. Hear none. I have a motion to approve the employment of Emily Harbarger's aid for 2526 school year. All in favor say I. I. Post say nay. Eyes have it. Motion carries. Okay. Need a motion to approve the employment of Ivon Shears as secretary for 2526 school year. So moved. Same deal. Right. Same deal. Yes, sir. Okay. Any questions on you, Mrs. Shears? Hear none. We have a motion to approve Yvon Shears as secretary for 2526 school year as substitute. All in favor say I. I. Post say nay. I have it. Motion carries. Okay. Need a of Ronnie Neoth as a professional
040substitute for 2526 school year. So move. Any questions? Hear none. We have a motion approve the employment of Ronnie Neoth as professional substitute for 2526 school year. All in favor say I. I. I. Post say nay. Eyes have it. The motion to approve the employment of Helen Hill as professional substitute for the 2526 school year. So move. Any questions? Hear none. We have a motion to approve the employment of Helen Hill as a professional substitute for 2526 school year. All in favor say I. I. I. Post say nay. Eyes have it. Motion carries. Okay, we're down to number 10. Emergency basis only substitutes for rehire. Need a motion to approve Eric Gee. I'm not sure how to pronounce that. Uh as Cook and general maintenance substitute uh on emergency basis for 25 26 year. I
041move anything we need. Well, all of these are full-time employees in some other area, but they do have the the certification to be a substitute here. So, they're already our full-time employees, but sometimes um they are certified to sub in other areas. And as it says, we use them as a last resort in an emergency situation only. I have a question. What the position they're teaching in though? What happens there? that that comes up. So with this one, it is a bus driver that I think works maintenance on certain days and they would be available to sub on certain other days because they're they're driving bus. Yeah. The others there would be like an evening custodian that could come and sub as a cook in the day or something similar to that. Any other questions
042on Mr. hear none. We'll have a motion approve the employment under emergency basis for G Cook General Maintenance. All in favor say I. I. I. Post say nay. Eyes have it. Motion carries. A motion to approve the employment of Josh Moss as teacher for the 2526 school year under emergency basis. All in favor say I'm sorry. Need a motion. So moved. Yeah. I didn't ahead of myself. Same deal, right, Mr. Same deal for all of these? Yes. Any questions here? None. We have a motion prove Josh Moss as a teacher for 2526 school year under an emergency basis. All in favor say I. I. I. Post say nay. Eyes have it. Okay. A motion to approve the employment of Phil Harbarger as general maintenance mechanic/ass assistant mechanic and custodian on an emergency basis for 2526
043school year. So move same deal. Same deal. Any questions here? None. We have a motion to approve the employment of Phil Harbarger as general maintenance mechanic assistant mechanic and custodian on emergency basis for 2526 year. All in favor say I. I. Post say nay. Eyes have it. Motion carries. Okay. Now I need a motion to approve the employment of Robert Hickman as general maintenance on for the 2526 school year under emergency basis. So moved. Same deal as before. Any questions? Hearing none. We have a motion approve the employment of Robert Hickman as general maintenance for 2526 school year under emergency basis. All in favor say I. I. Post say nay. Eyes have it. Motion carries. Okay, we're down to band camp instructors. Um, if it suits the board, um, we have A through H. If
044it suits the board, I'm going to take it as one motion. That's there's somebody you wish for me to pull out. I'll give you a second to look at them. Okay. Need a motion to approve band camp instructors for $350 each. And that is from July 1 to July 25, 2025. We have Christina Lowe, Maline Lynch, Corora Stubbins, Christopher Golf, Kaylee Wine, James Machznney, Connor Macauen, Joseph Lustley, Lustley. And that's it. Do I have a motion? We'll provide their meals, too, right? Yeah. I think I think Let's get it under a motion. Oh, I'm sorry. Motion. Motion. Okay. questions. You said July one. You meant to say July 21. 21. Yes. I'm sorry. Go ahead. We'll provide them food. Okay. Yeah. I think parents and some volunteers help provide meals for the kids. I just
045wanted Well, I just wanted them to get fed to the instructors. Any other questions? Hear none. We have a motion to approve band camp instructors for $350 each July 21 through 25, 2025. And we have Christina Low, Meline Lynch, Corbins, Christopher G, Kaylee Wine, James Machn, Connor McAuen, and Joseph Lutley. All in favor say I. I. I. Post say nay. Eyes have it. Motion carries. Okay, we're into new business. Okay, need a motion approve the policy J-09 open enrollment policy and there was six comments on it. Do I have a motion? So move. Okay. So that was in your packet but since the internet is down sir and this policy comes from West Virginia code 18-5-6. 16 and I I have that I ran that off for everybody while Mr. Macau is handing that out.
046Uh and I I talked to Mr. Macau about this so it's it's I'm not uh giving Yeah, I'm not I'm not surprising them. Okay, but uh dealing with the comments, okay, and they were about our employees. Okay. And and I will tell you that I agree with the comments. Okay. I I think one of the things that we can do for employees is if they if they're coming they live somewhere else and they have children is that we can take their children into our system. Okay, which we can. The way the policyy's written right now, it says that we may okay give them preference. And what I would like to see, I would like to see that to be changed till uh to says that we shall or we will okay give our employees children
047preference. Now we're only talking about when they when they live out of the county. Okay. And also one and talking with Mr. Macau and he has absolute valid point. Okay. I'm talking about if we have room for them. Okay. If there's room, the first people that should get those slots, okay, are our employees children. I tell you, if we don't take our employees children, we will lose those employees because, well, I don't want to say there's a chance that we will lose those employees because they're not going to be able to take their kids to school somewhere else and then be here at War County. they're going to look for jobs in the county where where they can put their kids. Okay. So, talking to Mr. Macauan uh that he that he feels and I
048agree that we need to if we're going to say that we shall give preference to employees children. Now, these are just people that are out of the county. We're not talking about people live in our county. we're talking about or teachers that come in from somewhere else that if we're going to say shall that within the policy we need to make sure that it's understood that's if we have room correct. Okay. And so it needs to it needs to be that we're not going to start new classrooms or whatever. Okay. But if we have room our employees children get first dibs at those those classrooms. Okay. Um, so that that's what I'm saying. Okay. So, open up for for comments, discussion on that. So, uh, may get priority doesn't or shall get priority doesn't mean
049the same thing as shall be accepted. Is that correct? That's correct. So, uh, priority over whom? Any other student from out of