001coach at War County Middle School effective April 3rd, 2025. All in favor say I. I. Post say nay. Eyes have it. Motion carries. Under employment, we're down to uh need a motion to employ Emily Harbarger as a substitute aid for 2425 school year effective upon completion of her required paperwork. So move. As noted in your packet, she has passed the AIDS test, went through the fingerprinting and background check and all as well. So, um, upon your approval tonight, we will get her contract sent out and add another substitute aid to the rosters. Any questions? Hear none. We have a motion to approve Emily Harbarger substitute aid for 2425 school year effect upon completion of her required paperwork. All in favor say I. I. I I post say nay. Eyes have it. Motion carries. We now
002need a motion to approve the employment of Shaunie Hill as high school special education teacher effective 2526 school year with completion of her required paperwork. M. So it's a familiar name that I'm happy to bring back to you. As you recall, Mrs. Burns um tendered a letter of resignation at the end of this year. So, we have posted that position and Shaunie is the successful candidate for that and um I'm very happy to bring her name back to you tonight. Any questions? Hear none. We have a motion to approve the employment of Shaunie Hill as high school special education teacher effective for 2526 school year with completion of required paperwork. All in favor say I. I. I post oppose say nay. Eyes have it. Motion carries and that's next year. Courtney staying with us all
003this year. Okay. Okay. Need a motion to approve the employment of Paul Miller as color guard instructor for work any high school effective for the 2526 school year with completion of the required paperwork. So move. So this was vacated um at the end of marching season this year and we've had it posted since the end of marching season. and this is the sole candidate that has bid on it in that time. But I'm I'm pretty sure that um Mrs. French knows this person and um because what he said he found out about the job through Mrs. French. So, um, as you recall, the board supported putting the color guard in with the band and and even supported them financially to give them some time to fund raise and to get the flags and the other
004materials that they need. So, I'm happy that we have a candidate for this position um to continue helping Mrs. French with the marching band color guard. Any questions here? None. We have a motion to employ Paul Miller as color guard instructor War County High School effective 2526 school year with the completion of his required paperwork. All in favor say I. I. I. Oppose say nay. Eyes have it. Motion carries. Okay, we're down to new business. I need a motion to approve the 2526 school calendar and that is calendar B. So move. So here is the tality of the staff voting. Okay, as you can see of the three calendars, calendar B is by far the clear winner with 71% of the vote. Um, calendar A got 12% and calendar C got 16%. Um, so I
005think there there's definitely a definitive winner with the staff with what they would like their work calendar to be for next year. Any questions? I couldn't really see it on here, but did did this one have the semester ending before? I believe all of them had the semester ending before Christmas break this go around. Yeah, I think that was the biggest one of the bigger things. So one second. This one had give me one second here. Last day of the first semester is 12:22 and then the 11th of August is the first day and maybe May 20 stu teachers would begin on the 11th which is a Monday and students will begin on the 14th which is a Thursday. Any other questions about the calendar, proposed calendar hear? None. We have a motion to approve
006the 2526 school calendar and that is calendar B. All in favor say I. I. I. Oppose say nay. Eyes have it. Motion carries. Can you a motion approve the 2526 continuing and probationary contracts? So move. Okay. Mr. Macauen, I believe. Did you hand I handed Everybody should have a hand out list. And just to remember that when our people come in uh they get that first year probationary contract. Second year they get a probationary contract and then third year when they complete their third year they go to that continuing contract and that's the last time that we'll see their name. Okay? From that point on they they continue with a contract. Okay? they won't come back to us. So, if I could, yes, the only the only exception to that, if somebody came to us
007from another county in which they already had a continuing contract in that county, they only have to have a probationary contract one year with us and we can give them a continuing contract and we had several that fell into that category. That's correct. Okay. Um, everybody, we are not leaving anybody. No, we are not Uh, everybody with a probationary contract is getting a a new contract being remployed. Okay. Because you can't just leave names off this and they don't have a hearing or anything. You just leave their name off. So, okay. Any questions from Mr. McCauen on service and professional uh contracts, both continuing probationary? Any questions? You need a minute to look at it or we good? Okay. Okay, we have a motion to approve the 2526 continuing and probationary contracts. All in favor
008say I. I. I. Post say nay. Eyes have it. Okay. Uh we are down to improve employee transfers for the school year 2526. Uh I have the list of names for the people that we're going to uh put on transfer list. Okay. And um I'm going to read the names to you before we take a motion. And then if you want to pull one of these names off and have a discussion, we'll do that. Okay? If not, we'll do it under one motion. Make sense? Okay. We have a transfer for Norah Kelly, Matthew Hayes, Aaron Hill, Sandra Purdue, and Jackie Bunch. And what that means is they have a job 100% but they are probably going to move somewhere else. Not all the time but some this gives us the right to move them. Is
009there any names that you want me to pull off of that? Okay. So I need a motion to approve uh employee transfers for the school year 2526. Those names are Norah Kelly, Matthew Hayes, Aaron Hill, Sandra Purdue, and Jackie Bunch. Do I have a motion? So moved. Any discussion? Mr. Macau, if you would go through and tell us what's going on here. So, fortunately, um, we do not have any riffs. We're not reducing anybody this year. Um, but as you probably recall call, Barb, the Cook custodian at the middle primary, is retiring. and I'm going to bring back before the board and request that since that position is vacant at a at a later board meeting I will um this agenda had a lot on it so I didn't want to I thought I'd spread
010it out a little bit for the board to abolish that position so the primary center would then be one cook down lunch and breakfast numbers at the high school are down a good bit so Nora is the least senior cook at the high school so I'm asking you to transfer her to the primary middle as Cook to fill in that um need from Barb's retirement. Uh next on the list is Matthew Hayes. I should probably jump down to Jackie Bunch because Jackie Bunch is going to explain why two of the others are on the list. So the special education numbers at the middle school are increasing next year. This year, Jackie is a special education teacher that is split between the middle school and the high school. The middle school needs her all day next
011year, so she's getting a letter of transfer keeping her at the middle school um all day. Um to make up for that, the high school has some currently employed teachers that aren't teaching special ed, but are fully certified in special ed. um those being Aaron Hill and uh Matthew Hayes. So, we're asking them to pick up a a couple periods of consultation to fill in for the time that Jackie will not be here next year. So, that is why they are getting a transfer letter. And then finally, Sandra Purdue is currently an aid in first grade. Um, first grade numbers are going to be very low next year as you might I think there's 47 of them right now if I remember Jeff Jeff's attendance um narrative this evening and so she's the least senior
012aid in first grade. We're going to have to come back and authorize AIDS to be in third grade next year. So transferring her to third grade will will be fiscally responsible thing to do because then I'll only have to authorize less aids in third grade when we bring them back. And that is all of the transfers that um I'm asking you to consider tonight. Very good. Any questions? We hired Shaunie as special ed at the high school. So this is just a a partial. Is that No. So Shaunie's job was um Courtney Burns's job that's working for us now. She tendered a letter a while back and doesn't want to return next year. Okay. So she's another full-time high school special ed teacher who's who Shaunie was the successful bidder for. Right. But the one
013that we're wanting somebody to fill in, it was just a partial. Yeah. That was Jackie Bunch who was here for four periods in the afternoon. She she spent half the day at the middle school and then half the day at the high school. So whoever transfers there will do the four hours. Is that how you want to do? So I think like Mr. Hill and Mr. Hayes will pick up a couple periods each. Okay. Of of special ed consultation. They have agreed to do that. They have. And I should also say that in the letters, if you read them, if if the person wanted to protest their transfer, they had option to be at the last board meeting and request a hearing before you, but nobody nobody contested and requested a hearing. Any other questions
014here? None. We have a motion to approve the employee transfers for school year 2526. And those people are Norah Kelly, Matthew Hayes, Aaron Hill, Sandra Purdue, and Jackie Bunch. All in favor say I. I. Post say nay. Eyes have it. Motion carries. Okay. Need a motion approved Ward County Schools policy D-16 internal controls policy. Um, do I have a motion? So move. M. So we've had this up for comment and it's not very exciting reading. So, there are no comments on here from anybody, but as you recall, um, Mrs. Cummings spoke to this when when they have done our reviews with federal programs and then the audit. Um, we're doing all of these things, but they recommended that we put it in county policy just to en ensure that we're going to continue to do
015them. Um, so it's pretty cut and dry just talking about um internal controls and and how we will continue to do things. Any questions here? None. We have a motion to approve War County Schools policy D-16 internal control policy. All in favor say I. I. Post say nay. Eyes have it. Motion carries. Okay, we're down to course adoptions or textbook adoptions. Um, I'm going to go by num by the numbers. Okay. And, um, when we get to six, there's several books or several pieces of material there. If there's any of those that you want to pull out and talk about separately, uh, we're more than happy to do that. So, when we get there, when we make that motion, we'll pull them out. Okay. But first one is approve the prek prek course adoption. So
016I need a motion to approve prek teaching strategies the creative curriculum for prek. Do I have a motion? So move Mr. Macau. So that is the curriculum that we have been using for prek. I think it's one you can use. Um this and like some of the math that we deferred adoption that's later on in the agenda. We've just got to get it on record that the board has approved those curriculum. So that's why preK is on there for you tonight. This year was the social studies year to adopt and you'll see most of these were social studies, but the prek and and the math um we just have to get it on record that the board has approved the curricula. The the creative curriculum is what we have and for many years used with
017prek. Any questions hearing? None. We have a motion to approve prek course adoption, teaching strategies, the creative curriculum for prek. All in favor say I. I. I. Oppose say nay. Eyes have it. Okay. So, we're down to number six. So, if it's okay with the board, uh, I'm going to make a motion to approve the social studies course adoptions A through D. But before we do that, if there's any of these that you have questions about, we'll pull that out and have a discussion separate. When you say through D, are you entailing the last geography? Uh, yeah, that's under D, Mr. Lo. Do you want to include it? Yes. Okay. Yeah, that's um because we put that Yeah. A has one, B has one, C has what? One, two, three, four. D has one, two,
018three, four, five, six uh textbooks. More than happy pull any out. Okay. Okay. If if you let me know before we I put out for a motion. Okay. So, I need a motion to approve social studies course adoptions. And I'm going to read these one time. Okay. When you say motion, I'm not going to read them again. Okay. So, we need a motion to approve K uh grades K through two, social studies weekly and company studies weekly. Grades 3 through four, teacher centered materials exploring social studies. Grade 5 through eight. Grade five, teacher creative materials exploring social studies. Grade six, Senate Learning, American Stories. Grade seven, Sen synergy learning, world history, great civilizations. And grade eight, West Virginia studies, Claremont Press, West Virginia, our beautiful home. Under D, grades 9 through 12, we have world
019studies, imagine learning, world history, beginning to the reformation. Uh, US history, car synergy. Learning, US history, America through the lens, contemporary studies, Senate Gy learning, US history, American through the lens, 1877 to present. Civics, Senate Gy learning, American government, economics, Savage, economics, West Virginia, and Ger geography, uh, global geography, uh, HMW. Do I have a motion? So moved. It's HMH, I believe. Hmhj, actually. I think, isn't it? I think it's just HMH. HMH. Hm. Is right here. I wrote it down. So, okay. H. Let me make sure. One second. I'll get Yeah, it is HM global geography. And the email that Carla sent has got it spelled out. They did not get that to her in time for it to go out on the final agenda Friday. So, we had to add that. So, it
020is HM. Okay. So, we have a motion to approve these. Any questions? Anything you want to add to it, Mr. Well, I think um normally this was kind of a rough adoption because normally the state department has got the correlations done between the standards and the textbook and for whatever reason that did not get completed. So our people had to do that. That's a lot of work. and that uh a lot of the bigotion. Yeah, we have actually I think two people said okay, right Sher I have Bren I think they they were like the same time. Who did you give it to? I must have been louder. Okay. And some of the big vendors that typically were there for whatever reason didn't get their product on the approved list. social studies teachers had to
021work pretty hard on this. Yeah, that would be we used to have that. Yeah, that's that's why nobody wanted to serve on textbook committees because it was days and days and days when state once state started doing it was real easy because they just they had it for you. Um I know that Mr. Moore's a big history buff. Sir, so he might get one of these and read it. Tell us. Yes, I actually picked up a book this weekend. It was the agriculture report, the federal agriculture report of 1892. There you go. I added it to my collection. Okay. Any other questions, comments about the textbooks? Uh we really rely upon our professionals to pick out the ones that work the best. Okay. So, we have a motion to approve uh uh social studies course
022adoptions. And I'm not going to read those again. Uh all in favor say I. I. I. Post say nay. Eyes have it. Okay. Need to approve math course adoptions. Uh AB. Yeah, there's two of those. Uh transition math McGraw Hill and then applied statistics almost said satistics. Uh supplied applied statistics. Uh understanding basic statistics. I say that whenever the hardest class I ever had in college was statistics and I called it statistics and I said it so many times that's what comes out my mouth now. Okay. It was statistics. Um do I have a motion? So move anything we need. So these we deferred when we did the math adoption because um there there either wasn't a textbook available or we weren't teaching the class. So now we're bringing that back to you um to
023approve. Any questions from Mr. McCau? Okay. So we have a motion to approve math course adoptions, transition math, and applied statistics. All in favor say I. I. I. Oppose say nay. Eyes have it. Okay. Need a motion to approve out of uh guys. Let me make sure I didn't turn two pages. Somebody will keep me right. Y. Okay. Need a motion to approve out of county student transfers. What we have is one student from Rome to work effective for the 2526 school year. Do I have a motion? Mr. M. Nothing to add their application was in your packet. Very good. Okay. So, we have a motion to approve out of county student enrollment one student from Ran to Wart effective for 2526 school year. All in favor say I. I. Post say nay. Eyes have
024it. Okay. No chaperones and volunteers this evening. See, we are down to board concerns. We'll start with Mr. Moore. None, sir. Mr. Stewart. Mr. Low. I'm good, too. So, might I say just a couple things? Absolutely. M. I checked the survey before the board meeting started and we were up to 278 submissions of the survey. very good. Quite a few. Um, after speaking with Mr. Mets, I believe we'll leave that up and running through the end of this month and then bring a summary of that information to you at our next board meeting. Yeah. And I saw in the county paper, it was on the front page of the county paper. So, that gives people if they want to do it by hand, uh, gives them a chance to bring it into us. Yeah. Um,
025I know that prom was this past weekend. We're getting really close to the end of the school year. So, uh, Mr. Mac, if you could have absolutely our principal send us email to us end of the year things. Absolutely. And I will say um, prom was beautiful and um, but and the venue was just fantastic. Literally a castle, but it was off the beaten path a little bit. Yes. But it was gorgeous. Yeah. I've been up there one time. I haven't been in it, but we drove up there one time just to see the castle in in Marriott. But, uh, yeah, it looked like it was. I saw some pictures and videos. Okay. So, our next regular meeting is May the 6th, 20 uh, 2025 here at cafeteria at 6:00. With that, I will entertain
026a motion to adjurnn. So, move. We are adjourned. Don't go anywhere. Okay. Okay. So, at this time I will entertain a motion uh to reconvene the regular meeting of March 18th, 2025. So, move. Any questions, comments? Okay. We have a motion to reconvene the regular meeting of March 18th, 2025. All in favor say I. I. I. Say nay. Eyes have it. Okay. I will entertain a motion to enter the levy rates uh both current expense levy and our excess levy. Do I have a motion? So move. Mr. County, anything. So at that meeting, um, Mrs. Cummings presented those to you. You will find in the photocopied packet here that we have those have been approved by the state. They have sent a letter back and so now we are bringing those back to you for
027you to approve. Any questions? They didn't change, did they? No. No. Okay. Hear no questions. We have a motion to enter the levy rates both the current expense levy and the excess levy. All in favor say I. I. I. Oppose say nay. Eyes have it. Motion carries. At this time I will entertain anjournment of the recessed April 15 2020 I'm sorry of the March 18th 2025 regular meeting. We are adjourned. That's the best way to do that work then people don't want to