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001Any questions, comments? Hear none. We have a motion to return to regular session. All in favor say I. I. Post say nay. Eyes have it. Motion pass. Okay. At this time, I'm going to make a motion uh to uphold the superintendent's recommendation of a um expulsion for student 14005746. And that expulsion will be for remainder of the 2425 school year. Any questions? Okay, we have a motion to approve the superintendent's recommendation of expulsion for student 14005746 remainder of the 2425 school year. All in favor say I. I oppose say nay. Eyes have it. Motion carries. Okay, guys. I need to go back to the first page because I skipped Mr. Smith and Mrs. Taylor. Okay, so uh first thing under information was an update on community survey for potential bond, Mr. McCall. So, I sent

002this was there were 290 responses to the community survey. So, this was way too big for me to print and give it to you, but I did put it in an Excel spreadsheet and I emailed you the whole thing, but I will briefly go through some of the the highlights here. So, we had 290 respondents, 18% of that identified as being a board employee, 37% as a parent, 16% as a student, and 47.2 to as um a War County resident with several different iterations of other that they put in there from graduate to former student to grandparents. Um under what issues or problems does the current high school have? These were wide and varied, but among the highlights um were um doors and windows, HBAC, structural is issues, just the sheer age of the current

003high school. Um moving on to like lack of baseball track facilities and things of that issue. Um likewise, the next question, if county could build a new high school, what amenities would you like to see? um a a new school from bigger classrooms, better equipped classrooms, um ranging down through um various upgrades to sports facilities. And and there were a lot of those, so I'm not going to go through and read all of those to you. Um the next question says, "The SBA provides funds for new school construction, does not does not cover sports fields or other non-academic areas. With this in mind, would you support a county bond to provide funds for these improvements? It was 78.6% yes, 21.4% no. So, dramatically in favor of supporting a bond from those respondents. The next question

004says, "The passage of a county bond would raise taxes. How willing are you to pay for higher tax rates to fund new school construction and update facilities? 35.2% were very willing, 15.9% moderately willing, 18.3% um neutral, 13.4% somewhat willing, and only 17.2% not willing. Would you support construction of the new track facility in our community? 57.9 strongly support 13.8 somewhat support 16.2 um were neutral and only 8.3 strongly opposed. So again very positive. How much of a tax increase would you be willing to accept to help fund the construction of the new school and update facilities? 29% said they would support a significant increase. 41.7 said a moderate increase. 11.7 or wait a minute, I've got my color blind. It's colors and I'm kind of color blind. So, I'm having difficulty with this one. Let

005me figure this out here. One second. So, 17.6 6 said no increase, 29% said a small increase, 41.7 said a moderate increase, and 11.7 said a significant increase. Then the last question, any other thoughts or comments that weren't addressed? Um those were wide and ranging, but the vast majority of the ones that left a comment said that um basically it was time to build a new school. The the old facility has got structural issues and they just want to see something good that the kids and their their parents can be proud of in a new school. Um, but again, there were a ton, nearly 300 responses to the survey. And that is in your email and an Excel spreadsheet. You can open it up. It's got a column for each question and then all of

006the answers to that question is in that column in the spreadsheet for you to look through at your convenience. Questions from Mr. Macau? What's our next step, John? So the next step would be um to bring before the board to approve me to advertise for pre-bond services um to to contract with somebody if if we're going to pursue a bond. They would guide us through that process, help advertise it, and holdformational hearings with the public to answer their qu questions and to put through um exactly how much the bond is going to be, how much um the tax increase would be, and exactly what we're going to be getting for the amount of money that we're asking the the county for. Okay. When would you like to start that? Um because that's the first step.

007If the board I could have that potentially no on that then within. Yeah. So I could bring that back by the 20th board meeting and and have what that advertisement wording would be and have the board to approve that and that would put the board officially that we've approved to go down this is that enough time or you need more than that. I think that would give me enough time. Let's do that then. And then what'll happen, he'll bring that to us and we will have those discussions and that'll we'll vote yes or no. And if we vote yes and he'll start down that road. If we vote no, um it'll not happen. Questions for Mr. Macau. John, you did a good job on that. Yeah, it was. It was wellreceived. I mean a lot

008of people nearly 300 folks. Yeah. One of the big things that wasn't addressed in any of the things you you was saying that I heard was where would we want to have it? And you know I we go by right by the the middle school. There's a a big lot there that we that's another question I have. Did we did we pay for a survey there? We did. It's surveyed. Yeah. And and there's another softball field there. But, you know, that would look like a convenient place or field on the other side. But that's needless to say, but that's one of the biggest questions I've had. Where will we put it? Yeah. I had that question within the last day and Luke was standing there, weren't you? Yes. And uh my answer was that we

009had not got to that point. We we haven't officially said we're going to do anything and once we vote to officially say we're going to do something then we'll get to that point because it it is a valid question and it's the question at the moment I don't have an answer for because uh that'll take some work that's it'll take some architectural and some it'll take some work to do that. Yeah. Mr. So if what I from understanding what you said that the there would be uh the bond people would look into what we would get for that additional money. So, so how does so the pre-bond services would cover a lot of things like um and I forgot to mention this if if we were to approve and the board wants to run a

010bond as soon as we could possibly do it would be um May 2026 with the midterm election because a bond would have to go on a general ballot for for the public to vote. Um, if we then pass that bond, the following September, we would have to request funding from the school building authority. And then the following December, the school building authority, if we if they approved our proposal, would then give us that funding. So, it's going to be it's not going to be a a timely, concise process. It's going to take a little bit of time. But yeah, the pre the the first step though is advertising for pre-bond services. It would be an architectural engineering firm that would look at the potential funding we could get from the school building authority and then

011what additional bond we would need to run to to do everything that we want to do with the facility. And then what we I remember when we built the middle school uh when we got to that point then we started uh we had I don't know four or five committees maybe more than that uh of people just open committees that people came in and and Mr. Smith probably remembers that. Um that came in and we sat down around tables and and uh you know people threw out their ideas what they thought and th those people took that and uh the architect stuff took that and they put it together for us uh from what they heard our people saying they wanted and uh it it's not going to be a short process. Yes. Not at

012all. Yeah. But that's okay too. Yeah. And and in this process, is there any steps where we look for other funds in addition to the bond of the small business for instance through our uh state legislature where we can ask them for uh any type of grants or funds uh before we ask the taxpayers for the increase? So I don't know of any other the legislature their mechanism for funding schools is the school building authority. They're not going to they're not going to allocate any additional state funds for for any any of that. So, and and the issue with the school building authority funds, it can only be used for things that that are in instructional. If we want to upgrade and a track facility or any other ancillary thing that doesn't directly correlate to

013instruction, you cannot build it with school building authority funds. that necessitates um the county passing a bond. Can can any of these things be dual use? For instance, if we had an athletic facility that was also used to uh teach physical education or something like that. Yeah, that's how that's how this new gym here was built. So, a gym a gym would do that, but like a football field, a track, a baseball field, any the only probably dual thing would be gym because physical education is is taught there. I don't know that any of the other sports related things could claim the same. In New York Times, I I see the legislators uh take our local people. I've seen them, you know, they'll if if you're building a dressing room, they'll they'll help with some

014money for dressing room or for a concession stand, you know, that that type of stuff that that they'll help. But most of it will have to I mean we'll have to put it out of county funds. I mean we'll have to point being it doesn't hurt to ask ask them for their help as we go through the process. Absolutely. And then if the answer is if the answer is no, there's no way that any of this could be dual use or used any other funds then then that's the answer. But gyms, you'll get gyms and dressing rooms and stuff like that. But when we built the middle school, that that gym was built because it was used as a it was it's considered an instructional area. And same thing with this gym here because the

015old gym was turned into the the auditorium. So yeah, there will be some of that. But that's what those architects that's where it is. That's where they'll get us. Well, while we're on the SBA, uh should we see if that would be uh No, we haven't had much luck with them in the past. So, I have taken and Mr. Smith has been has taken multiple projects down there. Um we took a project for new windows and doors and upgraded restrooms at the high school to them and and it did not get funded. Okay. But this school is down their alley. I mean, this is what they're funding at this time. But wait, that has to be approved before or after the bond. Well, it's just so the school building authority takes proposals every September and

016votes on them every December. And we we've got to, you know, show that the will of the county is in support of it by passing the bond, which is going to be in May. And then if we pass that and we go and ask the school building authority for additional funds to help us meet that need, we're more likely to get funded if we passed the bond. Yeah, this is this is way every I mean Wood County uh you know passed their bond then took it to you know say we've got this money. Those are procedures you got to do before you go to. Yeah. sort of you know what car in front of the horse or the horse in front of the cart when I don't know I don't think it's necessarily a bad

017thing either really because it shows like you said you know you go the county is in support you know the whole county is for it so you know that's all I have okay so you're going to bring that back to us sir we'll see if we go down this road we'll have a vote and see how it turns out thank you John for your work on that uh okay we're up to Mr. Smith. The maintenance update. Okay, I will just a second. I'm sorry, Mr. Smith. I hate to do this to you. I was going to ask if you want to let Mrs. Taylor go. Let Mrs. Taylor go. Okay. I was gonna ask if I'd be all right. Let Mrs. Taylor go and then I Yeah. Okay. Thank you. All right. Good evening. Good

018evening. Um I'm Mrs. Taylor from the primary center and uh this is national um teacher appreciation week and I want to start by saying how wonderful our teachers are. Uh they have done a fab fabulous job this year. They've welcomed me. They've been very supportive and I I thank every one of them and they've just done a fabulous job and I'm going to show you some data from that fabulous job they are doing. Um, all right. Will it's not working now. I wonder if my computer went to sleep. Not really. Okay, thank you sir. We're start with math. So, at the beginning of the year, we had 18% of our students were on green. Green means grade level. 61% of our students were one grade level below. And 7% of our I'm sorry, 21% of

019our students were two or more grade levels below. And if you think about it, it's the beginning of the year. So, they're being tested on material that they've not yet been taught at the beginning of the year. Middle of the year, 42% of our students are on grade level. 51% of our students are one grade level below and 7% of our students are two or more grade levels below. So we have reduced our students two or more grade levels by 66%. Our yearly comparison um from 2021 till now you'll notice that we have um 42% of our students in green. That is our second highest that we've had in the last five years. And we have 7% of our students in red, which is the lowest in the last from the fi last five years

020of data. From the um numbers and operations, um we have 28% were in green at the beginning of the year, 58% were in yellow, and 14% were red. We have increased that to 56% on grade level, 37% one grade level below, and 7% two or more grade levels. um algebra and algebraic thinking. We have increased um from 23% in green to 50% in green, 59% yellow to 44% yellow, and 18% red to 6% red. Beginning of the year for measurement and data, we went from 28% to 50%. 51% in yellow to 40% yellow. And we went from 21% red to 10% red. In geometry, we at the beginning of the year had 23% in green, 56% in yellow, and 21% in red. We have increased to 41% green, 48% yellow, and 11% red. This is

021a breakdown of all of the grades from beginning of the year to middle of the year. You can see our kindergarten had a growth of 39% in math. First grade had a growth of 27%. Second grade had a 10% growth. Third grade a 29% growth and fourth grade a 15% growth from beginning of the year to middle of the year. This is our quadrant um comparison here. You can see third and kindergarten are high performance high growth. Uh second grade is also high performance high growth. And first and fourth grade are this close to being high performance high growth. At the beginning of the year, we had some u math goals. We have met two out of three of those math goals. At the middle of the year, not even at the end of the

022year, mid year. Um, one of our goals was 65% of our students will make typical growth. In mid year, we were at 20%. We will double the number of students at or above grade level. Our goal was 36%, middle of the year, we were already at 42%. And we will decrease the number of students, two or more grade levels by half or 50%. Our goal was 10% and we were already at 7% middle of the year. Reading goals, our reading um scores are wonderful. Uh beginning of the year, we were 31% on grade level. We've increased that to 56%. Beginning of the year, we had 52% one grade level below. We now have 33%. And we had 17% of our students two or more grade levels below. and we're at 11 as of mid year.

023Our yearly um comparison from 2021 all the way to 2025, you can see that u by midy year we had more kids in green than we have in the last five years and we had less kids in red than we have in the last five years. This is impressive. Um, our funological awareness beginning of the year, 73% in green went to 88%. But look at that red. 1% of our students are two or more grade levels below in funologicalware awareness. In phonics, we've went from 41% in green to 69, 36% in yellow to 19, and 23% to 12 in red. high frequency words. We went from 56% to 74 in green, 33% to 21% in yellow, and 11% to five in red. Our reading vocabulary was 20 9% at our at grade level. Um went

024to 52%. We have 50% one grade level below in yellow, went to 34% and then 21% in red to 14%. comprehension literature 34% in green to 53% 43% in yellow to 36% and 22% in red to 11%. Our um comprehension of informal textformational text is went from 31% to 47 46% in yellow to 40 and 23% to 14%. Our yearly comparison, if you look at kindergarten, they've had a growth of 60%. First grade has had a growth of 27%. Second grade 23% and third and fourth grade have both had a 10% growth. Our performance graph, we have kindergarten and second grade and high performance, high growth. Third and fourth are once again really close to the line and uh first grade is also pretty close. Our goals for reading from the beginning of the year

025um 65% of our students will make typical growth on the I Ready Diagnostic. We're at 33% middle of the year. We will double the number of students um in green. Our goal was 62% mid year. we were at 55 and we will decrease the number of students who are in red by 50%. Um we are at our 11 and our goal was 8.5%. Um our a couple of our teachers have um really dove into what's called think SRSD which is a way to writing and um they actually uh led some PLC's with our teachers. they took time out of their schedule and taught our teachers how to teach writing. Then in April, we had a um a training with the actual think SRD people on our PL day in April. And this is an example

026of a fourth grade uh fourth graders writing here using the C-space um technique of how to write her story. Uh C is like character, S is setting. Um P is the problem. Um E is the ending. And uh this fabulous story. Uh she did a really really nice job on this. And I will send this to Mr. Allen. He can forward it on to you guys so you can um happy to do that. Take some time to to read through. This one I loved. Um this young man made all of his chapters. And you'll notice the last chapter is I will always come back. So, I feel like there's a sequel to this. Um, but he did a marvelous marvelous job of writing writing his story out using C-space. And this is relatively new to

027our teachers. They just started the training February and have already implemented it into the classroom. And here are some examples of our writing. The other end of the spectrum is some kindergarten writing. um kindergarten writing. Here you notice on the um top of the page we have a little uh looks like a little rocket that says tide and uh T stands for our topic and then important detail important detail. Important detail and then uh the E is the ending. And you'll notice these guys and girls are writing about Earth Day, which was just a week or two ago. And um they're talking about recycle and they're spelling phonetically. They're sounding out all their words. Um, this one says, "Humans take care of the earth all the time." Um, so everything on the earth can uh

028serve. And then the rest of it, I can't see it on my glasses on. Sorry about that. Um, and this this one on the right, I really really liked his um, humans. H O M I N. Humans. Humans can take care of the Earth right now. so that can stay clean. So the earth can stay clean. Kindergarten writing. I I just love it. I love it. These are fantastic fantastic examples. Um and he talks about uh that we can recycle uh trash if we can reuse glass and paper. Some events that we've had um this semester at the primary center We had ReadAcross America Week. We had several of our parents that came in, several of our volunteers. Um we saw a board member or two out and about. Yes, we had some community members

029also come in um to read to us and we had our middle school principal, our high school principal, and one of our board members come over to read. Um so we were excited to have them over. Mr. Macau, I don't have a picture of you in here reading. Oh, darn. I'd have broke your slideshow. I see Mr. Moore there. And then we have been recognizing our students who reached typical and stretch growth at midyear um with some certificates went around to all their classrooms and gave out their certificates and explained to the boys and girls why they were getting them if they reached typical growth or stretch growth in math or ELA. Uh we had an art and music night last Friday night. It was a packed house. We used the middle school gym and

030it I came in and I thought, "Okay, I can probably rearrange some people, have them move." No, I couldn't. It was packed. Were you there? Yeah. It was packed. But it was awesome. It was great. It was fantastic. Fantastic night. The kids did really, really well. And uh the art samples up in the hallway were just marvelous. We had a a whole black light display. Um we had some things hanging from the ceiling. Some um they had some fish that they had done hanging from the ceiling. They had uh these little medallions out. It was just wonderful. It was a wonderful night. Uh we also had Miss West Virginia came by to visit our third graders. She talked about uh dental hygiene. We also had a spring carnival and I was enjoying it so much

031I didn't take any pictures of the spring carnival and I asked around for pictures. Um but we did have have that going on as well and that was a very well attended event as well. So if there's any questions, the uh the graphs you're showing on the grades, IEP students included in that? Yes, sir. Yes, that is our entire student body. Yes. Yeah. Speaking of events though, speaking of the wetlands, they did a real good job with it, too. Yeah. Yes, they did. There's a lot of work that goes into that, I'm sure. Yes. This is my first time obviously and I I went out and and walked around and was just it was amazing. It was utterly amazing. Yeah. You said uh 26 different people that set up, right? I think there was Yeah.

032something like 20 20 some different stations. Mr. Mets was there. It was it's just Yeah. Yeah. It's a big undertaking and it was awesome. Uh we had a a a child that normally you would say, "What did you do in school today?" And the answer is What did you learn today? They were talking about bees and this child told me multiple things about bees. The there had to be a queen. They only hatched at this time. The the males had wings. The if the queen died, they all die. I mean, all these facts. And I thought we should take you outside every day. That's awesome. Yes, it was great. Thank you, Mrs. Taylor. We appreciate your time. I have a question for you. So with uh some some of these scores here, is there anything

033that uh you could change or that you would any other resources or things you would need to make more improvement or things we could do to make that better? This is the middle of the year data, so it's not the end of the year data, right? So this data is back from um we started the diagnostic in January, all the snow days, it continued on to February. Um, I think right now, um, you're seeing some, um, better data from, uh, the younger kids with they implemented a different math curriculum. It teaches math a little bit different pace. And so, um, I've heard great things about that and how the kids are reacting to that. So, I I feel confident that that will, um, help with with our math as we see the math scores are

034are wonderful, but they're I think they'll get better. Okay. So I the real question is is there anything that the administration or the board that can do that would get better results that you would like to see? Okay, we're already like going into the classroom. We do observations. We do e uh walkthroughs. Um every week we're into teachers classrooms. Um lesson plans are checked. So right now I want to see where the data falls out at the end of the year before I could definitely say this is a problem. Any other questions? Thank you. I'm going to ask you to stay. Okay. Just for a minute because Mr. Smith is going to talk about bleachers for primary center gym. Correct. And you might be add some of that what you've done to help with money

035and that type of stuff. Perfect. Y if you just couple minutes. I promise. Jeff, you want to start with that one? Yes. Yes, please. Okay. Okay. In that case we got all right Mr. Mets. I'll go ahead and discuss the bleacher. Mr. If you're all right with that. Um the figures we came up with and it's in your packet. um the figures to what we did as you see further down into the board agenda. We're going to propose to replace the bleachers at the high school. Well, the same gentleman that does that is the gentleman that put the bleachers in at the middle school. So, um they had inquired at the primary center about what about getting bleachers over at the primary center. As you said at that outing the other day, there's no bleachers.

036So, it makes it hard. Everybody's just standing up. That's a perfect example where we get into those issues. And we're also concerned about safety issues and various things why we need to get bleachers for Christmas concerts, just anything that may occur during the school year. And um Mrs. Taylor had told me that they had raised money at the primary center to get bleachers that was uh earmarked through PTO. They'd been raising money over a period of time. And I came and had a gentleman from RH Huffman come in and give a quote on what they wanted uh with what they had to work with over there and they they established the schematics and all that information and got back with me. So I came back to u Mr. Macau and Mrs. Cummings and we discussed

037you know we were looking at doing bleachers here and we talked about how they'd worked so hard at the PTO to raise money. Was there anything that we could do to help with those process? So that those are the figures we're when what uh correct me if I'm wrong Mr. Macau but what like we'd like to propose is perhaps if the board with their approval if we could pay 30,000 and the PTO which they'd raised the funds to make up the difference which was $17,898 is what the difference was. That's what we uh wanted to come back with you to this evening and talk to you about that situation. And if you had any questions as Mr. Mets said, "I've been inquiring with Mrs. Taylor. She can even address it more if need be what

038the PTO has done uh has done to raise money for that, but they had had that money earmarked." So, she was pleasantly surprised when we came back and said, "And we'll see what we can do." The discussion in the board office was, you know, the board has paid for the middle school to get new bleachers. It's in the works for the high school to get new bleachers that the board is paying for. and it felt like it wasn't quite fair for the PTO to pick up the full cost of the bleachers. So, while they have raised money, um I I'm happy for the board to help with that project some. So, the full weight of that isn't on the PTO for the whole price. So, it's 47,000 and change. Y 47 uh 8. Yeah. 478.98,

039Mr. is what the whole whole total will be. Okay. Correct. And you guys have already raised about 17, Mr. Taylor. Yes, we I think the uh PTO account has around 30 33,000. That was before field trips. Um so after field trips um about 30, nope, 20 27,000 after field trips. And we didn't want to drain the PTO, of course, so we could avoid that. Mr. So, we would have had to raise more money. We didn't have the entire amount. I'm sorry, Mr. Stewart. Go ahead. Uh, refresh my mind a little bit because I haven't I've been in there some. Is there any bleachers at all in there? There are not. That's what I was thinking. Is there enough room to put bleachers in? Yes. You want Yeah, that's what I'm curious how what how they're

040going to the I don't I don't remember his name. What was his name? Dan Huffman with RH. It's the same gentle I'm sorry I'm loud enough I don't mean but anyway um it's the same gentleman that uh put the bleachers in at the middle school Mr. Mats and everybody those hard polymer bleachers that they run with the electric control. So he came in and looked and they're going to do the same type of thing just a smaller scale. So yes, and that way explain what you have to do now if something he he came in and measured and measured the gym and he looked at the HVAC because it is up on the wall and you can't have the bleachers under the HVAC because of people hitting their head on it. Uh so he measured

041the bleachers. He sent a schematic of what the bleachers would look like both from the front view and the side view. um they would be electric. So we would have a controller that would uh push them up against the wall. So they would be out of the way for our gym class. They'd be out of the way for like say pickle ball who uses our gym all the time or cheerleading or wrestling. Um so they would stay up against the wall until we need them and then they would come out. Um the two long walls or two in walls? The the long wall. So if you walk into the gym, not just one side. Correct. Yes. What's that device? Opposite the lou. Say it again. Opposite the lou the same will be the capacity. Uh

042there was a um hundred. It's like 160 benches, but you can fit more than one person on a bench because the benches were like I think 24 to 30 inches wide long. Um, so if you're thinking elementary kids, like you can fit two elementary kids on that bleacher. So I think we could fit most of our school body, maybe not our kindergarteners up on the bleachers, where right now we we have seating for maybe 12 kids. Maybe we have just a portable bleacher that has two rows on it. So anything that you use right now for the grade school has to be done in the middle school. Correct. Correct. Yes. or we have people standing around like we we attempted a Christmas concert in December and people were just standing. We had our chairs out

043but we only have chairs for 30 to 40 people and so all the audience was just kind of standing. So for this event we went over to the middle school and used their gym. Yes. Because there are no bleachers really. To answer your I'm sorry Mr. Mets you asked me that asked us that the net seats 146. That's for adult like my size. So you could prorrate that. I think he said to roughly two to two and a half of the little guys. So we thought that would be ample room for what we needed. I knew it was on there somewhere but I just What is the population of the elementary right now? 341 students. You're welcome. So you get kindergartens on the floor and the rest bleachers. Exactly. Yes. Um this isn't on tonight's

044agenda to be approved, right? Well, it it is the other is because it's over the $100,000 threshold that the board must approve, right? That's the reason the high school is on there as an itemized item. And and M and Mr. Mets, uh, the gentleman that does this as part of a co-op, so we don't have to put it out to bid. I just wanted to add that also. I will also say by tagging on to the high school order, we're going to save on freight. So that was one of the incentives also to go ahead and and ordering these now because we'll we'll be saving money. So you're not going to meet our not on an itemized expenditure, but since the high school was over $100,000, it has to have explicit board approval. And the

045reason why it's so expensive is to save in freight. You guys are sending an order for two versus correct. Okay, that makes sense. What are they looking at as time frame? Uh I think it was se September or October really um time frame. Yeah, that's what I said. Wow, that's great. So yes, and he said it would be quicker, but the gentleman told me he said was it 147 or 149 jobs, something like that. They're already like he's the main person throughout the Well, he's on he's on the state bid. He's going to get all the work. He's the main Yeah, he's the one everybody that that's what I So you said that you didn't have to reach out for any other bids. Okay. and and and some of you have been I'm sure you

046have the middle school events. It's exact same business, same gentleman, if you're happy at those bleachers, that's going to be comparable. While we're looking at the other schools, it would also have seating like handicap seating as ADA compatible. So, if you had, you know, wheelchair um parents that needed that, it would they would have that also. So, are we talking like maybe three roads or several? Um, I think it varied um depending on where we were at the HVAC. I should have brought I'll be honest. I should have brought the schematics, but I think it was more rows that it may have been for. Do you have it with you, Daniel? I was thinking it was four. That's fine. Mr. Mac, he can just send it to us. Yeah, I can send it. If you

047send it, send me a copy of it. I can send that's getting down in the weeds. We don't need to be there. Did the did the uh high school and middle school PTO's fund like 40% of their bleachers? No. No. You want to handle that, Mr. I don't I don't believe so. I think the the the primary center through just communicating with parents and the PTO identified that as a specific need and have been raising money for for that goal to to meet that need. And uh so I don't know that the I don't know that the high school has a PTO. And when when my kids got to middle school, they didn't want dad to come into school. So I don't know that the middle school PTO what's our threshold with that? What's the

048threshold that it does not take board action now? Less than $100,000. Okay. Seal sealed bid 50 and 100,000 to come directly to you guys. M I don't know where Mr. Sherlock was going with this, but I I personally I don't have any problem. where I was going with it is that it is uh it shows that the parents of of uh the primary school students are being proactive to improve it. Um and uh that should be taken into consideration with the board helping them with the rest of the project. Yeah. That they came up with roughly 40% of the project on their own without coming to the board first. So I I think that's admirable. Yeah. Great. And I don't have a problem the board or the county paying more than that. Okay. I don't

049know what the money picture is. You guys do, but I mean I think if we I mean they're going if if they don't spend their 17,000 on this, they're going to spend it on kids. Okay. So, you know, it's not like they raise money, they're going to go out. I mean, they're going to do something else good for their kids if we pick up a little bit more of this. So, okay. Don't be speaking for myself. Don't be afraid to pick up more of it. So the the threshold's 100,000 then. Wow. Well, you have to get three sealed bids if it's 50, but anything over 100 has to have the explicit approval of a board action item. Okay. They changed that then, haven't they? Well, and they probably they changed they changed the the three

050bids from 5,000 to 10,000 also. So they There has been some change in that recent and Mr. Stewart we just looked Mr. Stewart, we looked it up. It's five tiers, correct? I thought it was four or five. It's five. Yeah, that's about what you're going to get in there. So, Miss Macau, I don't think it's personally I don't think it's a problem if if we cut it down to where they pay 10 and we pay it out or whatever you guys the money, not me, because we know they're going to spend the money on the kids and Yeah. Who knows? It might pick up another project that you want to get done. Yeah. Okay. Thank you, Mrs. Taylor. You're welcome. You can leave now. Thank you. Well, you're welcome to stay. I was gonna say

051she may want to stay. Okay. Miss Smith, maintenance. Okay. Thank you, Mr. T. Give me just a second, guys. Sorry. Switching over. Okay, now just a moment here. Some good stuff, too. Sorry about this. 47,000 sounds cheaper. What's that? I said just get back with while he's looking up. 47,000. off the cheap for bleachers. Well, well, Mr. Stewart, if I showed you in the scale compared to what what we're looking at here in a little bit down for the other bleachers, you'll see it's comparable once we get into that further. It'll make more sense. I was just Yeah, I was just saying that that was, you know, economical, you know, I just I would imagine been more than that. What I would say actually I thought there was a chance wherever Miss Mrs. Taylor left,

052but yeah, that's what I told her. I wasn't for sure. I thought it might be a little more than that, Brent. Like you were saying, I wasn't sure until I got him over there. So, let me see here. They've got a copy in their packet, Mr. Smith. Yeah. Yeah. I was just going to show them the pictures is what I was hoping to do. Um William, if you don't mind, I'll go ahead and talk to them about the rest of the picture in just a minute if that's all right. Um okay. Um first thing, um I was going to discuss was the dirt works excavation began the process began the process of moving the crown on the football field out here and leveling the field. Um upon completion of the project, Mountain State floor team

053will place grass seed and straw over the area relating to the project. Um you all are probably I don't know if you've been down this way in the last week or two, but or you may have saw all the trucks going through town. Um Dirt Works Excavating started on this process. And by the way, them and Ellison's both have treated us very well on this project. It's a big project. Um I appreciate their cooperation on all this. But anyway, um Scott Murphy, who's with Dirt Works, Dirt Works Escavating, they came out and used a transit and they shot it and from the from one corner of the field, like closest to the high school to the far corner, like at the bus garage, there was 5T difference to just give you an idea. So they

054started off, he was trying to bring the dirt from clear up here, clear to the far end. Well, once he got into it, it became a bigger project. You know how that goes. So, and from one side of the field in one area, there was roughly a twoft difference. So, basically, I'll show you in here a little bit, he just basically had to rip up the whole playing field. Okay? And then he put that dirt back down. Well, we end up having Ellison's dozer service. They end up they brought in 95 loads of what you guys might refer to as top top soil, clean dirt, you might say, without rock and stuff in it. They're bringing that in and they're leveling it off. And like it's like I mentioned here, Friday will be the day

055that uh Mountain State floor team, they should have be done out there. He's going to come in and spread grass seed and the sideliners with uh Mr. Peterman, they're going to water the grass twice a day. So, we don't think it'll be an issue for football season. I think the biggest concern we had was it was becoming a safety issue. Like if you went down from about the 20 yardd line going this way, it like dropped off and there was a heavy drop off. I was afraid kids were going to get hurt at times. So, I thought it was becoming a safety issue. So, we were glad to see that u they were able to work with us and see what they could do about repairing the field. So, hopefully, you know, if I'm understanding

056right, Mr. Mets may be able to speak to this. Everybody that I have talked to said that field has not had any repairs in the last 50 years. They thought like 1975 might be the last time that field's been touched. Is that accurate in your world, Mr. be correct. So hopefully if we get it done right, we may not have to do that again in my lifetime. You know, I mean, hopefully it'll be good and the safety issues will be taken care of and uh and there'll be a crown on the field for drainage for water, but not the safety hazard that we currently have. So, and they're also going to level off, I don't know if you noticed down at the far end, like where the close to where the bus are at, there's

057a very sharp drop off. They're leveling that off, too, for safety reasons. said there's not issues with that as well. Um, while they were doing that, they also um they needed to run the wires for the speakers. You've heard us have speak issues communicating like at football games. One side worked, one didn't. While they were there, they dug the conduit up and they'll run that conduit back through there and rewire that. So hopefully that'll take care of that situation. If some of you have been to the football games, you probably You're saying they're upgrading the intercom? Yes. Yeah. because it was times you could it wasn't even there. Right. Right. So, that's one of the things we tried to fix too as well when we had that all dug up. So, I know you all

058may have a lot of questions with that. So, I didn't know if you would or not, but I was hoping I could answer any you might have. So, but like I said, I'd like to applaud Durk Works and uh Ellison's Dozer Service. They've done an excellent job, haven't they, Mr. Mac, working with us hand in hand. They've been running truckloads of dirt out of there non-stop for the last day and a half. So to get everything leveled up. So he want to have any questions till I go on to something. Are they pretty sure that that will be solid and by uh football season? Yes. I I the gentleman, as I like to tell John, that's the grass specialist. Okay. He says if we keep them off the field and we've been conferring with uh

059Coach Hickman, we don't think it'll be an issue. They'll practice here and down there and they'll keep everybody off the field. Other only people be should be going on the field will be people watering the field and things like that. There should not be anybody on there deterrent. So that gives us a few months to get the grass to grow and everything out there. So you know if you were up in the bleachers, you didn't notice that drop off that bad. But if you were down on field level and the play the play went to the end by you totally you see a helmet of the kid. Yeah. Okay. You couldn't see. And it wasn't because they were too far to see. They were down. They were down outside. They met a few times as

060touchdowns was called down there. I don't know if the rest could be. Well, well, Mr. Med said that. Coincidentally, I tend to stand down there close to that concessions down there. And I was like, I'd be picking up thinking that's something's not right here because like Mr. Med said, you they just disappear like they were in quicksand or something down through there. So, hopefully we'll get that safety issue resolved. But, uh, and if we can't, that's fine, William. If we can't get the um Let's see. Where did it go? It disappeared on me, William. It's okay. It's all right. I I'll get I'll get with you later later date on the picture. You drive down there and look. Yeah. Yeah. But I I'll give you some They're on Facebook some of the pictures, the progress

061they're making. I've seen some. Okay. Okay. Um the next thing um that's in your packet. Uh and by the way, you have any other questions before I move on? Sorry, I got sidetracked there. Um, last week, Brown Outfall did an on-site business to establish the parameters to potentially advertise a bid upon uh BOE approval to pave the primary center student drop off gravel parking lot, remove, reinstall parking blocks, and stripe the area accordingly. This would be a proposed summer project. So, uh, Brown is somebody that has came and done projects like the striping out here. They were one of the successful biders in one of our projects like two years ago. Um, but they just came out and helped me establish the parameters for that. Um, to get that bid and advertise in the paper

062and with your all's approval, I'd like to try and at least get that out there and get bid started um advertised at least for a week or so and possibly come back to you potentially on the meeting on the 20th with with a name of someone that may be wanting to do that. And as like Mr. Macau said, um, this this I don't know until I get that, but just to be safe, I wanted to be transparent and talk to you about that. That my guess is it's going to go over the $50,000 pre threshold. I don't know if it'll reach the $100,000. I'm not sure until I see the bids actually come in because what we're going to do is uh level off all that gravel over as it says here, pave that. They'll

063take all those parking blocks out out of there, restripe it, and they'll maximize the parking spots over there. So, and I don't know if how many of you have ever been in that drop off area over there, but it's getting gradually worse and rougher each year to take care of. So, uh Mr. Macau and I discussed that and thought we'd come to the board and uh talk to you guys about the potential of doing that and see if you would be all right with us u procuring bids and coming back with you, you know, to possibly get that done. So, anyone have this in our 10-y year plan. So, Right. Yeah. Yeah. Um, that's what's going through my mind is like for middle school basketball games or anything over there. There's not really any parking

06410. And I I'm not sure is there parking over there available and they can come through on the middle school side to get to the gym because you know that's that is kind of dangerous over there because you know there's very little parking on that side. That's one of the things I hear. Why come we don't have any parking? Oh you mean like for the middle school? Yeah those front doors at middle school are open. So yeah they can potentially use that same lot that he's talking about. Well, that's what I was asking. You know, people ask them, they can park over there and, you know, I wouldn't have. I I think that the the front door is routinely open for folks that want to go through the front door. Yeah. I always park at

065the front of the middle school. I Because I know the others going to, but they could park in that lot and walk right up the trail, right? Right around the playground and into the back of the gym, right? But that front door to middle school is open. Always open. Yeah. And my guess is with it being a gravel lot, they probably don't think about doing that. But that's thinking outside the box, Brent, because Yeah. We could make it public knowledge that you could park there. That would open up more parking for cars. So, we'd have more time place to put buses, other things that there's not enough room. That's a good idea. I don't see why we couldn't do that, Brent. Once we got that paid and everything, I think more likely people would use

066that. You wouldn't have any opposition to that, would you? No. Okay. That's good thinking, Brent. Um, any other questions concerning that? But all right. Um, and when I whenever this is sent out to the board members on Thursday, as of today's date, the new two-way radios are in a shipping depot and should be delivered any day now, discount communication will install the radios and base stations immediately upon arrival. It should be a 1 to two day process. Well, coincidentally, I sent we sent this out on Thursday. Yesterday, Allan Allen Holder, who's with Discount uh Communications, said that unless there's something a snafu between now and then, they're to be delivered to him Thursday, and he will start the process Thursday. And by Friday evening, he should have everything squared away with our new radio system.

067So, that's good news. Trust me, for everybody in transportation at the schools, they will be happy, won't they, John, once we have that up and running. So, um, anyone have any questions concerning that or go? All right. Thanks. Okay. Thank you. Okay. We are down to um finance. Okay. So, we'll entertain a motion to pay the payment of invoice in the amount of $11,570.74. So, move. Mr. Mac, Mrs. Cummings and all of the finance ladies are at the ASBO conference today. So, but I do have the big basket of expenditures and we have two runs of expenditures for your consideration and approval tonight. The first on 423 2022 totals $26,44529. That is primarily utility bills. And then the second run of expenditures was ran on 4292025 totaling $75,12545. We have instructional supplies. We have the

068window that was installed at the front office of the middle school. We have Murray sheet metal for an exhaust fan for the welding shop. And we have summer learning kits um in additional instructional supplies. These two runs total $11,570.74. Any questions? The window at the middle school is definitely an upgrade. It is indeed. Yeah, it was. Really good stuff. It is. Um, it is. They sell a wide variety of things, but instructional materials and I think things that we're going to use for summer school, but they're a vendor. They have books and trinkets and school supplies type of things. I can tell you, Mark, because my wife uses it. When she was teaching, it was probably our third biggest bill a month. Okay. It was Really good stuff. They just sell all types of school

069supplies. She's watching. I'll be in trouble when I air it out. Okay. That's what I was thinking about the pickle ball. We have a motion to approve the payment of invoices in the amount of $11,570.74. All in favor say I. I. Post say nay. Eyes have it. A motion approve budget supplements amount of $47,327. Mau. Three supplements for your consideration this evening. The first in the amount of $600 is a federal specialed ed grant for new teacher training. The next in the amount of $42,567 is a federal special ed grant for vocational assessments. And then finally, the middle school applied for and received a $4,160 grant um to put a greenhouse at the middle school. And these grants total $47,327. Any questions here? None. We have a motion approved budget. I'm sorry. Go ahead. Yeah.

070Um for the grant for the greenhouse. Uh how is that going to be put into uh use with the curriculum? the science teachers um were the authors of the grant and plan to use it with the students and potentially I think they could work with food service if they grow something that the the cafeteria could use. They could end up selling it and potentially to the cafeteria for the school lunch program. So yeah, they um it was sought out and written by the science teachers at the middle school. Okay. I have a motion, right? Yeah. Yes. Okay. Okay. We have a motion to approve budget supplements amount of $47,327. All in favor say I. I. Say nay. Eyes have it. Motion passes. Need a motion approve budget transfers in amount of $19,447.37. So move. We

071have four transfers for your consideration tonight. The first in the amount of $7,795.95. This is a transfer of step seven for approved student travel and software. Second, in the amount of $4,15845. This is transferring alted funding to cover Mountaineer Challenge Academy tuition. We did have a student from us to graduate from that that will be participating in graduation. So, um we have we owe them that. The next in the amount of $492.97 is a transfer from title 4 um for contracted services from supply line item. And then last in the amount of $7,000, this is a transfer rural low income for school-based probation officer contracted services. These total $19,447.37. Any questions? Hear none. We have a motion approve budget transfers in the amount of $19,447.37. All in favor say I. I. Oppose say nay. Eyes

072have it. Motion passes. Okay. and a motion approve uh bleachers for work county high school gymnasium up to $149,134. So move. So I think the reason it says up to um so I'll put an advert out there. If somebody out there is pining away and would like to take off of our hands the old high school gym bleachers, we could potentially save some money on the freight cost of those being hauled away. So, if you're out there and you're pining away for a set of ble gently used bleachers, um please reach out to Mr. Smith gently. Well, that was going to be my question. What are we doing with the old ones? So now I know I guess they're taking them. Surely somebody'd want them. Yeah, they'll save us about $12,000. They they wouldn't be

073proper to use at like the ball field or anything like that. The last time we did the middle school, we sent it to the fairground. Bill and a couple of them helped me and they got those sent down there. I've reached out to Elizabeth Adams and some others might want those. I'm not ruling those out, but how do I would ideally probably absolutely underneath like John said the barn or maybe somewhere else. Yeah, that's for both sides. For both sides. Yeah, we um I might suggest that we put that on like our web page or something, you know, or just, you know, people won't know about unless we put it out there. That Yeah, good idea. Yeah. Any other questions? Because it' be nice to give them away to somebody and let them Yeah. And

074the company, Mr. Husman even helped with his staff. They like like Phil had somebody come here. So as we were taking the old ones out, the gentleman even volunteer his help and time and equipment to help them load them up. You know what I'm saying? So the gentleman's real helpful that Okay, we have a motion approve bleachers work county high school gymnasium up to $149,134. All in favor say I. I post say nay. Eyes have it. Motion passes. Okay, we're down to personnel matters. We have no resignations. leave absences. So, we're down to employment. Need a motion to approve the employment of Rebecca Miller, special education teacher itinerant, predominantly at War County Primary Center, effective for 2526 school year with completion of required paperwork. So moved. Questions, Mr. Macron. So, as you recall, she has

075been doing her student teaching and has been in a clinical teacher of record position. Um, but she is graduating. So that's coming to an end and I'm very pleased to bring her name to you. She is this successful bidder in the classroom that she has just spent the last semester doing her student teaching and has done an excellent job. So happy to bring her name to you tonight. Yeah, she's going to be good addition to our staff. Any questions hearing? None. They have a motion to approve the employment of Rebecca Miller, special education teacher itinerant predominantly at War County Primary Center effective for 2526 school year with completion of required paperwork. All in favor say I. I. I oppose say nay. Eyes have it. Motion passes. The motion approve the employment of Matthew Walker, head

076boys basketball coach for county middle school effective for 2526 school year with completion of his required paperwork. Mr. Macau. So happy to get that position filled and happy that Mr. Walker wants to do it. So any questions hear? None. We have a motion to approve the employment of Matthew Walker as head boys basketball coach War County middle school effective for 2526 school year with completion of his required paperwork. All in favor say I. I. Oppose say nay. Eyes have it. Motion carries. Okay, we're down to number three. Need a motion to approve the employment of Kayla Kimes, cheerlead and coach War County middle school, effective for 2526 school year with completion of her required paperwork. So move. Go ahead. Kayla has coached for us before. Glad she's interested in picking up this position. So happy

077to bring her name to you tonight. Any questions here? None. We have a motion to approve the employment of Kayla Kines as cheerleading coach for War County middle school effective for the 25 26th school year with completion of her required paperwork. All in favor say I. I. I. Oppose say nay. Eyes have it. Motion carries. Okay. Need a motion to approve the employment of Lori Enoch as assistant varsity chair coach War County High School pending certification and effective and effective upon completion of her required paperwork. So move. So again application was in your packet happy to get the position filled. Questions hear? None. We have a motion approve the employment of Lori Enoch as assistant varsity chair coach War County High School pending completion and effective upon completion of required paperwork. All in favor say

078I. I. Post say nay. Eyes have it. Motion carries. The motion approve the employment of Kylie Stevens Drake Kylie I'm sorry. Steven Drake, assistant volleyball coach, War County High School, effective for the 2526 school year with completion of her required paperwork. So move. So this is another one that um well I think that back when everybody asked for an extra assistant, volleyball didn't right away. So, this one has been out there a little bit of time and but again post it have an applicant and um work county girl happy to bring her name to you tonight. Any questions here? None. We have a motion to approve the employment of Kylie Stevens Drake as assistant volleyball coach War County High School effective for 2526 school year with completion of required paperwork. All in favor say I.

079I post say nay. I have it. Motion carries. The motion approve the employment of Justice Aguo Math Teacher War County High School effective for 2526 school year uh upon completion of required paperwork. Mr. Mac. So, I do have some updated information. Mr. Macau, did you pick up the information on the student? Yes. Okay. I have all of that. Okay. Okay. So, last time we spoke about this position, I was collecting information from the applicant and sending it to um Kendra Bun, the immigration lawyer that BS and Rice recommended, and she has reviewed that material, found him eligible for sponsorship for an H-1B visa. And the breakdown of of that potential cost is on the estimate before you. Um, I think we've had that position posted all year. He is the sole certified applicant that we

080have had. And I I will tell you that to hire a certified teacher is going to do good things for our kids. They have struggled this year, first semester with West Virginia Virtual School, with having a a teacher that was not teaching live every day. We realized it was an issue and we switched over to proximity learning which does provide live instruction for the students, but it it's very expensive, more expensive than what hiring a teacher would be. And then in addition to that, we've had to put a substitute and hire them in there to proctor the the virtual class. So, um, this does have some cost involved with it, but it's going to be less expensive than what the proximity learning and West Virginia virtual school that we have we have used this year

081and have a certified um, live teacher every day. Questions for Mr. Mac? Um, do we know what country this person is a citizen of? Yeah, it was on his It was It should be in his packet. It was on his application. I'm don't want to say anything wrong. Well, let me see. I believe it is is um in Nairobi. That's correct because that that was his pre that was his previous Nairobi Kenya that was his previous teaching employment in his application. Yeah, that's where his college degree. questions. Okay, we have a motion to approve Justice Aguo math teacher War County High School effective for 2526 school year upon completion of his required paperwork. All in favor say I. I. I. Post say nay. No eyes have it. Motion carries. Um Sher, you we don't have

082a lot of split votes, but on that one, you actually in the minutes have to Okay, so you're good with what the vote was? Fantastic. Okay. Uh we're down to new business. a motion uh to place policy J-09 open enrollment policy out on a 10day public comment. So move Macau. So the state has has changed their policy. So we need to again bring this back and just noteworthy in there is they have flip-flopped back and forth um once they fill this out. Do they have to do it every year? the the time before this recent they didn't but now they've changed it back that they do have to fill it out every year again and just some various incundary other um changes that the state has made and with that we are updating we are

083updating our form to to go along with that. So not a whole lot of changes but just bringing this in compliance with what the new state policy is. Questions for Mr. Macau hear? None. We have a motion to put policy J-09 open enrollment out on a 10-day public comment. All in favor say I. I oppose say nay. I have it. Motion carries. Okay. Need a motion to abolish the custodian 3 War County middle school 230 to 10:30 200 day employment contract. So move. M. Macau. So, this this is um the contract of the custodian that just retired at the middle school. And after conversation between Mrs. Hickman and Mr. Smith. Um, since that is vacated, we are asking the board to abolish that 200-day contract and to authorize a 240-day contract to give the middle

084school to summer custodians um to do the stripping and waxing and all that summertime stuff where before, you know, we always had to come back and post an extra summer custodian job and and do that. This would give the middle school two full-time summer folks to get that work done. Questions? Hear? None. We have a motion to abolish the custodian 3 War County Middle School custodian 2:30 to 10:30 p.m. 200 day employment contract. All in favor say I. I. Post say nay. Eyes have it. Okay. Now need a motion to authorize custodian 3 or county middle school 230 to 10:30 240day employment contract. So move. So this is the other end. This is the other end of that. Okay. Any questions? I won't make Mr. McCall go through it again. Any questions here? None. We

085have a motion to authorize custodian 3 class Cart County Middle School. uh custodian 2:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. 240day employment contract. All in favor say I. I. I. Oppose say nay. Eyes have it. Motion carries. Okay. Need a motion to authorize a summer position general maintenance/groundkeeper as needed. Mr. Macau. So we are only asking you to authorize one of those. I think we've had a lot of concrete work last time and did more, but we we're not having as much of that. So 1. Then the rest of these are just plain vanilla summer contracts that we bring back for you to authorize every year. So next we have a bus operator. We have um a cook and then we have up to four teachers um grades K through five for the primary center energy energy

086express school. So all of these are the typical summer positions that we ask bring to you and ask you to authorize. Okay. Any questions on the general maintenance groundskeeper hear? None. We have a motion to authorize the summit position general maintenance groundkeeper as needed. All in favor say I. I. I. Oppose say nay. Eyes have it. Motion carries. Need a motion to authorize summer position bus operator energy express and other extended school year programs as needed. Okay. Mr. Macau has Mr. Macau has explained that. Any questions on that? Hear none. We have a motion to authorize summer position bus operator injury express and other extended school year program as needed. All in favor say I. I oppose say nay. Eyes have it. Motion carries. Okay. Number six, authorize summer need a motion to authorize summer

087position cook three for summer food service program one position as needed. So moved. Any questions? Hear none. We have a motion to authorize summer position cook three for summer food service program. One position as needed. All in favor say I. I. Post say nay. Eyes have it. And number seven, authorize need a motion to authorize summer program teachers up to four teachers as needed. And that's for K5. Do I have a motion? So move. Any questions? Hearing none, we have a motion to authorize summer program teachers up to four teachers as needed K5 for the K5 grades. All in favor say I. I. Oppose say nay. Eyes have it. Motion carries. Okay, it looks like we do not have any out of county enrollments. We do have two volunteer shaper runs for 2425 year but

088suits the board. We'll take them both as one motionlessness. You would like to pull somebody out. Okay, I have a need a motion to approve volunteer chef runs for 2425 year and that is Allison Nicolay County Middle School and Paul Miller War County High School. Do I have a motion? So move. Okay. Any questions on these people? Anything? No. Okay. We have a motion. Approve volunteer chaperons 2425 school year. We have Allison Nicolay County Middle School and Paul Miller War County High School. All in favor say I. I. Post say nay. Eyes have it. Motion carries. Uh we're down to board concerns. Miss Stewart, I have one. The question throwed at me. I didn't know the answer, so I said I'd put it up on this. Is there a no cell phone policy for next

089year? And if yes, uh how are they going to handle it for the kids? So, um yes, there will be. I think that that did pass legislation. I think that the state board of education policy is up on comment right now. So when that goes into effect and the state board passes that policy, it then directs every county board of education to come up with their own policy to meet the criteria of that requirement. And from reading that it there's going to be two options. basically we don't allow them on school property or if we do allow them on school property, we're going to have to come up with some storage option of where they put their phone when they come into the building. Um there there are is a provision in there for exceptions

090if it is a medical need of the student. I know in the county we do have some students that have continual glucose monitors that their cell phone tracks their and sounds an alarm with that. Um, but basically we're going to have to figure out do do we want to allow it here on school? And if we decide to do that, we're going to have