001e e e order please Al to the flag of the United States of America and to theic for which it stands one nation God indivisible with liy and justice for all item three recognize all state honores for chir B oops I'm in the wrong meeting I tend to do that okay let me get out of here sorry you're good back to that there it is now honies of the Children's Choir wrong choir sorry okay thank you before I introduce the girls I just wanted to um explain a little bit about their audition process because it's different than the middle school and the high school for the children's All State um we are told based on our enrollment how many can audition and so we can all wear with the middle school and the high school
002anybody who wants to audition can choose to audition so we can only audition seven kids based on our enrollment and this year we had four students make it which is wonderful and I looked at the list and the only schools that um that had one or two more than we did were 6A schools that feed into 6A high schools so I think that's a test to the talent that we have here at Bethany so I do want to introduce them to you I have three of my four here we had two fifth graders and two sixth graders so my fifth graders were Lyla Toller and ardan Schlagel stand up and wave ladies [Applause] take and sixth grader is Grace white and also Amy Wickersham who is at ballet put a lot of work in and
003I'm really really proud of it so that's great thank you for letting us take them you put a lot of work into it she does she she does a lot thank you we we continue to see uh just the talent uh at the very early ages and what you do all the way from uh first grade all the way up builds to that and then builds to what we see and and hear about all the time about all the success we have at the high school so uh I know the future is bright but congratulations and man just a have uh so many represented from uh a 4A school is again just a tribute and thank you guys so much for representing Bethany in the way that you do so we're very very proud of
004you guys let's give another big round [Applause] Applause I four a recognized teacher of the years for each school you want to start Elementary absolutely right Mrs Alan come on up here Mrs alen is our 2425 teacher of the year she has been at our elementary school for three years and even in her just short time here she has been such an asset to our team she has been intentional in developing relationships with the students and their parents um which is evident in any meeting anytime or interactions you can just tell that there is such a love there between her students and her families but then also her staff like the colleagues who she works with they see her dedication this year we actually adjusted programs to better support our student needs and she was
005willing to step in and um the amount of nominations she had is very evident of how her colleagues see her passion for our students and it's truly about this flexibility to support what's best for kids and so we are so honored to have her represent our school this year congratulations con hey for the middle school this is toer so up until this up until this point she's been famous in the elementary so we uh she was going to try something new and something challenging and when you want to do a challenge Middle School is where you want to go um so she was worried about that the whole summer and she would text back and forth with me and I'm like you're going to do great and she has come in and just shown us
006that you know what first grade sixth grade they're about the same they need the same types of things and so she is just she's been wonderful she meets with the kids she's looking at what their needs are what are your biggest what are you anxious about when you're moving into the middle school what can we help you with and she's taken those and she's already making plans for next year and just the way that she has come in and changed our sixth grade team and bringing all the new ideas and the positivity has been wonderful and so she's been a great asset to our congratulations to kind of it's a toer kind of that's right Miss MC well I have the pleasure of introducing Miss mccan uh she is our high school teacher of the
007year for 2425 um a couple things about miss mccan this is her fourth year here uh she does art uh and art is one of those Fine Art requirements that you have to have and so she has all the way kids that don't necessarily want to be in art and then she has the kids that are all the way up there in AP art and when I say her classroom is unique and special in the understatement she is an amazing teacher a better colleague and even a greater person in general I've got to know her really well over the last 2 years uh she comes in she meets in here every day with about 15 or so teachers meeting here they call themselves Lunch Bunch and they solve The World's problems and and M comes
008in and then she tells me like Hey listen here's something I think we can work on and I say golly mean that makes a lot of sense let's try it let's do it she's always willing to do something unique and cool what you don't know is the behind the scenes she also do her yearbook she also does our Marquee she also does all the signs and the TVs in the Commons area anything I ask her to do she does and without even a question and sometimes she ask me if she can do it and I appreciate her willingness to try something to help our school be the best it can be I I mean I say it to her not as much as I should but I say thank you for being who you are
009it's amazing she's a good [Applause] one so I will say I know um you know there's some interviews and District teacher of the year process going on right now and I look forward to hearing those results but uh what a tough tough choice uh that we have um and you know we have uh just an amazing staff and obviously Bethany is a place that attracts the best of the best teachers and and we take pride in that so uh to be able to represent your buildings amongst uh those great teachers is a tribute as well um but man I I don't think uh they could have selected better people to do that for each building this year and thank you so much for being that representative and just for everything you do uh for your
010building to each day again thank you very much now you guys are welcome to stay and listen to the rest of the meeting but if you would rather not we understand that too so you guys are welcome to uh depart if you would like thank you so much for letting us honor you tonight you guys are missing out on the Cong absolutely I'm great is a student five 5 a discussion of possible board action to approved minutes of the regular meeting held on February 11 2025 minutes of a special meeting held on February 11th B is discussion possible action to approve the district's capacity of students in each grade at each School site as presented item C is discussion of possible action to approve the following contracts agreements for fisical year 25 a bledo huitt
011guls and certified public accountants P LL contract for financial audit for bet public schools for 24 25 school years B SWAT Inflatables contract C candid color photography for a prom D mou with Oklahoma Christian University from February 24 until December of 5D discussion of possible action to approve the following contracts and agreements for fiscal year 26 A Cox commercial internet services B United systems eate contract 5e discussion possible action to approve the following out of town out of state overnight trips a girls basketballi Oklahoma April but March 6th through 8th 2025 boys basketball M Oklahoma March 6 through 8th 2025 C Stephanie kpatrick okp conference Bartlesville Oklahoma April 15th through the 17th 2025 D school nurse conference in Austin Texas June 25th through the 29th e boys golf arore Oklahoma April 27th 2025 F boys
012golf Woodward Oklahoma April 20th through the 21st 2025 G boys golf Regional golf tournament April 29th through the 30th 2025 H boys golf state tournament armore Oklahoma May 11th to the 13th 2025 uh girls golf sulfur Roa April 25th through the 27th 2025 J girls golf Regional Tournament April 22nd to the 23rd 2025 and K boys golf Retreat sulfur okoma May 2nd through the 4th 2025 uh is that all sense let's see nope one more two more um 5f approved the additions to following activity funds one is cancer fun drive and multilingual program and last one is approve the financial funds reports these are all part of the consent agenda correct yes correct just just as a comment the the uh conference that uh Mr katrick will be attending I thought I found that to
013be intriguing look forward to hearing hearing how that goes and strategies that uh that that we can incorporate here at Beth I thought that was intriguing to see the excited about that yeah she's done a lot um you know she went last summer to Seattle um with Miss Tovar um you know we've grown a lot uh in our social media presence and she's done a lot with that and every time she goes to one of these things she comes back and she has more knowledge and adds something to it and so it is exciting and and she has done a really good job you know she didn't know anything about it and she come in and she's learned a lot and set up a lot of things so um we I we do think she
014went a couple weeks ago during the day um it's interesting the communications people kind of have a group and they meet monthly and it was local and she was able to go to that meeting and she came back and heard a lot of different things um just about Communications in general in crisis and you know when things are really good and and so she's learned a lot and she is bringing a lot back back and and I'm excited to hear what she'll bring back this time she always brings something back so um it's been really good I think it's been really good so absolutely she's learning a lot good and a lot of districts have that kind of as a sole position she does it in addition to other jobs as all of our people
015do do a lot but man they you wouldn't know it you know if there are any other questions I'll do the financial fund report so um we have an ending balance on activity fund of 57236 we're getting to the point in the year where we're paying out a lot of invoices so it's a little bit less than it has been um the activity accounts are well you'll see like um for cancer fund it's got a negative 3152 they're they're gearing up and they're going to have a lot more money coming in but they needed some things to get started up so that'll clear up um pretty quickly as they're in fact it may clear up as we get some deposits in already since I printed this report [Applause] um on our function summary report the
016big number on there is we have $290,000 left to encumber um we're going to start closing some stuff out we've already started closing some stuff out I'm hoping that between now and the next board meeting we get enough closed out we don't do an amended budget but um and we can carry through with this 290 but we'll just kind of see where it is um we won't have to go back to the excise board because we're not going to exceed our estimate of needs we just need to up our school budget here so um that's good looking good we've had a lot of Revenue come in that is good and then on the general fund tracking sheet Revenue um a really exciting report if you see on the 1300 earnings interest um a few months
017ago uh 6 months ago in fact we put um about $3.5 million in a CD earning a 4.8% interest rate which we hadn't been doing um and so we are showing right now with all that interest the CD just matured um we have interest earnings of 167,000 there's a little bit more from just the general from our other accounts but in comparison last year at this time we had $887,000 in interest earnings so uh we're way up we've done really well um with our with that and we've reup the CD for a similar rate so um can I pause you there real quick yeah I want to give her a little bit more credit there because the options that we originally received were at a much lower rate and she is a Savvy negotiator and
018uh just ask the right questions to get a little bit better situation much better situation I would say so uh that that you're seeing is a tribute to to her and how she manages her CD is held where it's at uh First Bethany First Bethany yeah good partner yeah they are so um then uh our collections are just coming in um I really wish motor vehicle and gr production would get there and finish out but they will by the by the time the end of the year comes um we don't have any new federal funding that's come in um other than some trial nutrition funding we're working on those claims the state department is difficult as ever um with Federal programs so um to give you an update on that we have submitted an amended
019budget for our Consolidated app for title one and some of our neglected funds and we amended our budget to pay for things that they sent me an allowable list and the things are on the allowable list and they sent it back and told me they weren't allowable so we're negotiating their list that says it's allowable and they're telling me it's not allowable right now so but we have it in writing so that's always good and what what are you checking at which one is this um so it's our federal funds so on the tracking sheet it's going to be um the 4210 disadvantaged students 518 yeah so the 4210 511 518 the 4271 and the 4442 on the this list are all one application one giant application together and when you have to make an
020amendment for one you pull all you know the amendment is for the entire application even though you're working on one of those projects and so right now we're working on an amendment to the budget to 518 and they had an allowables list and they told me they sent it to me I have it an email from the person that does the reviewing we submitted our application they've sent it back and said it was the things we put on there were unallowable and I've sent it back back again and emailed them and said here's your list and you say these things are allowable so that's like 511 518 yeah so of the five on 511 we've only collected 35,000 and we we wanted 210 and we will we'll get the full 210 before the year's out
021but we're stalled oh yeah we'll get it it'll be a painful process but we will get it Department of Education yeah it it's um we will definitely 100% get it it will just it's just a painful process to get it okay they make it pretty it's a painful process it's a difficult they'll send it back several times but just an update on why you're not seeing some collections coming in we're kind of in a holding pattern on it but as the end of the year approaches they get a little bit more pep in their step so um next I have I'll bring it to you um every month until we finish out when I ran the report our projected carryover has gone up since the last time um just because we posted some of the
022interest earnings Revenue so we're up to about a $4.5 million carryover and in our plan we're going to try to hit 4 million we have a very strategic plan and 4 million is my number um we're going to you're going to see some purchase orders come across for some hbac units that we did an RFP for um there's going to be a purchase order come across um for the parking one of the parking lots and um some technology type things and then um depending on how we finish out we did a retention stien last year in July for the staff and we'll probably do one of those and that should get us to about that $4 million Mark we have some some desks we have a lot of desks that haven't been replaced Mr juwel
023told me since 1997 so we're my goal is the 4 million mark that'll put us in a really good spot so um vintage and the parking lot is the west side of the dist yeah over there where we got ask anyway yeah so um that is kind of an update on that and where we're at we do have a plan for for everything and so far it's going to plan yes any questions from yeah quick question on the before we approve the consented end on five F uh I understand item one cancer Drive bunk cakes but why do we have a fundraiser for for the weda what do what just curious about that what's that all about it's not a fundraiser for weda it's a donation we it says it says a fundraiser request but
024how we have to how we have to approve that and put in the book for the auditor it's being called a fundraiser request but what they're saying is we're collecting donations so they did a project and we're getting donations back from we for whatever testing they did and we need a paper saying that that account is going to receive donations and so that's what we're requesting is that that account can receive donations it's very strange but we're not we're not taking donations to pay for the week no no no no no no this is so we can take donations million yeah no it's so we can take I don't know no it's a great question so we can so they can receive donations for their multilingual account yeah thanks a good question yeah mhm I
025have a question on 5D okay um these are just our standard uh every year uh contracts that we do just renewals were there any like large changes to them or coxy United systems yeah so that this a portion of the eay budget we get is will help offset kind of our yearly fees to United systems so that we just have to kind of reup that and competitively B that each year but they came about by far the lowest on that and then Cox is the The District internet and that also is covered by E rate and the oakl Universal Services fund we we really we don't have to pay a dime for internet really except for at our Athletic Facility out there so but yeah just renewing those every year so and Mr Forester am
026I correct in remembering that we are kind of uh using Cox for everything but in the past we may not have used CS for everything but that is allowing us to get a better some regulations have changed and we can at at one point we had to call that a non-instructional facility out there so I think we can call that since we do teach classes out there I think we were able to word that cor you know differently and correctly that we can cover that internet out there so that hopefully that cost will go away as well but now we're all on the same network we can um get together with Cox and and have a more secure network and have a a wide area network so we we can get that all the systems
027we have out there covered under the normal stuff we have up here so hopefully that be better in the long run so thank you um motion to approve consent agenda agenda uh items 5 a through 5G second roll call V jagers yes wallad yes Yates yes P yes next oops some I got okay there we go six approve the encumbrances for the general fund nonp perel number 634 through 671 5347 20 C change orders for general fund 7,563 43 and for the general fund pedals number 70,000 through 7,673 13,720 97399 um so I'll take any questions that you have on the Inc 643 is that is that an expansion of our our program that we currently have in place we're finding that to be successful I guess yes and uh Miss Chavez this is your
028we oh she's not here I'll expain for uh she's at parent teacher conferences okay so it's a weapons detection system just like we have in the other areas of the building this is for the exit Office of the elementary so that is where there's two two parts of this one part is our upper elementary kids fourth and fifth grade enter through that door um but also what happens during the day is we have parent visitors and we have students who show up late Middle School in particular uh they go through that door and so um we wanted to have a uh something to SC scam parents or any visitors that we have come through and also those middle school students who come in after the bell rings and so this really kind of completes that
029part of it um um one thing that Miss Chavez had a great plan for is how to integrate this because we do have elementary kids going to flow through it we're we're actually going to have them go through it without it being on at first um just to get them used to just going between it but we'll turn it on at 8:00 for our visitors and for our middle schoolers and then I mean even just after a couple weeks we'll then turn it on and and let kids just get used to it so so fourth and fifth graders will be used to it before they get to Middle School um but the main purpose of it is for our visitors and our middle school students after uh the bells rung so uh we feel good
030but it's the exact same system that we currently use is the outer door or the inner door uh so it'll be actually between the in the exit office you've got the outer door and then the inner door and it'll be in between there right in the middle so they'll as they walk through that exit office they'll walk through it okay when they get to the window before they go through it or um so it'll be part part of kind of the process so they'll go and I'm not sure if they're going to position it more to the left or more to the right but I would say probably more to the right uh so that they you know check in do all the they get their badge and things like that and then float yeah
031so closer to the closer to the inner door yeah their inner door so you know there's two doors mhm is it on the other side of the second door so uh so you got kind of a square in that it'll be it'll be fairly in the middle but maybe more to the inner door yeah it'll be just the other side of you have to just the other side of window somebody the door opens and then you just go through that so they would have to go through it before they open unlock that door yeah I see yeah yeah and they actually they've got a plan too if they have a purse or something like that that's causing it to go off rather than having to have somebody go through that door and open it to
032then check it we've got that new window that is one way open bulletproof all those things so they would actually put that through it's now in and then we can check it and then once it's secure let them go through so got I think we we think we have a pretty good system for that pretty secure system but we'll have to experiment with it and make sure yeah Mr jel I see 650 we've got Olympia prep back again Y is that right yeah 20 is it 24 average we're GNA have this year I hope so goly we we kind of modified it a little bit this year um talking with teachers they felt like it was U I don't know invasive during the school day because we did it during advisory period or or we
033call Brick and Mortar um and so they felt like it was taking time out of that period for remediation and so we decided to do it now it's Wednesday's after school and Saturday mornings so kids sign up and then we have 2our sessions on Wednesday sometimes they go to three just depends on how long they're talking um there are specific things they're targeting so kids can sign up if I only need science I can sign up for next Saturday it's specifically science and Olympia prep provides the person they actually meeting here most of the time on Wednesdays and uh Saturdays they're providing an inperson in person right here in the library and so we're hoping to see a a bigger growth it's always hard because Act is it's grade by grade you know so next
034year it's a it's a sophomores next year you got to get the data it's always a year behind so we're trying to see if this is a better way to increase our test scores where kids have to have a little buying it's after school they got to want to be there and Saturdays are the big ones we've seen 15 16 kids come on Saturday morning from 9: to 11: even sometimes 12 and they sit right in here and they work on LCT prep ni I make a motion to approve the encumbrances as presented second roll call Vote jagers Yes W yes Yates yes yes item seven discussion of res revisions to board policies through FF AF very good so this is another another list uh just to kind of review not to approve today uh
035just draw your attention to some um en n-p is called threat inquiry form and the thing I'd just like to point out in this is just the forms that come with these policies were really uh enjoying seeing those because a lot of our processes don't have standard forms and so a lot of times you get into situations and you're trying to search for forms so this will be very clear for anybody down the road these are the forms we use you'll see like on that one in particular I use because it asks great questions what happened here how did you do this and so it'll be very clear moving forward for anybody going through a process of investigative process or just something that needs to be filled out um and you'll see that throughout a
036lot of the things that we we have um another one is um Fe and just to let you know that follows our current transfer policies so there are some Nuance things that we had in our old policies that we are carrying over so that looks very much the same as our current transfer policies which are very important for us obviously and then FFA um it's called Health students um one thing that I would just let you know is again we're not looking to change any policies and this one did have an optional item as it dealt with lice and uh this is viewed very differently at different places you go there are some places who even if a student has lice they keep keep them in school and they just tell the parents on the
037way out the door hey need to get this taken care of I would tell you that's not our current policy um and so we've matched this policy to our current policy which is if a student has lies that parents notified they have to take them get treated they have to get checked when they come back um the one difference of this policy from our old policy is it also uh used the language of nits but nits are a very interesting thing it's like the little EG right so but but just because student has nits doesn't mean there's live eggs and nurses we had a long conversation about they can determine um how long those have been there are they high up on the hair uh fall or low which makes a difference um and so
038that is not in there it does not say specifically knits and our current policy does but they feel like that's not important because they can tell if there's bugs there and then what we're going to do is they'll still come and check anyways and I will tell you from the feedback we get from parents they prefer this policy over the kids get to stay if they have Li um policy so um that's historically what we have found um and that's the only difference there um I don't want to steal uh Mrs Williams thunder in her report but I will tell you um as administrators have worked through this uh most of these policies in this particular section and maybe some more that we'll have next time uh our nurses had a lot of say uh
039going into that and we we had to talk through a lot of situations and things that they um work with and deal with and so um we appreciate their time in this particular month as well so take any questions if you guys have them but again it's just just for review uh in this case there there was one question I had I think it was just about um I think it was fep pins um yeah I can't remember maybe that's FFA okay was looking I just want to make sure like do we have those pins or do the St have to ring those pins I guess that was the only question I had no it's it that was a big conversation um so with epip pins you have a couple different options one option is
040that you you have students who have uh allergies and they have an epip pin they check it in with the nurses they have a form for that they fill it out now if there's an emergenc situation we would administer an EpiPen or they could administer it themselves so that's that's one scenario and that's that's typical another scenario is that our nurses can can get a prescription for epip pin just to have on hand the issue that so so you have the option to do that but if you do that you have to have a waiver for every single student before you administer that EpiPen which means every year you're going to be getting 1,700 something waivers to be able to administer that in an emergency situation on the one hand the nurses said of course
041if we have a situation we want to be able to administer that epip PIN but what we know is by the time we ensure that we have that waiver and then administer that EpiPen with our response time in Bethany the ambulance is already going to be there and they can administer that if they need to so every year trying to turn around forms making sure you have all these waiver forms we came to a place and it's an optional either way we felt like rather than have a policy that says you have to have a waiver and we maybe you know make a mistake and then in the moment because we know in the moment you're gonna you're probably going to do do that and then if they have a reaction or something to that
042now you're in a bad spot so rather than do that um we opted not to do that and if if that's needed we would just call an ambulance and get them here you know in a quick amount of time and they would they could administer if they want to so so that that was an optional item um certainly if you have a different opinion of that and and cuz we even went back and forth at first they were like I mean if if there a situation we want to be able to administer it it does require also that you get a prescription which is a whole another process and keep it current uh and keep it current and that you keep those on file and those last about two years and so you would be
043doing that so yeah when we looked at all of that at first we were saying yeah we want to do that when we looked and then we considered the response time we get it just didn't make sense to go through all that to and most kids who have allergies like that they know it and they already have this on file so you would be talking about once every maybe 5 to 10 years that you even have the situation you're doing a lot of things for maybe the one time that comes up so yeah good question that was a big topic do we have to do anything on that no just I was just making sure everybody had their question if no move on to staff reports it's gonna ask Miss Miss Chavez about dressing up
044as a stink bug yeah that I can speak to her a little bit I told her I never I never dressed up as a stinkbug so I was impressed uh her and miss kishman both I think dressed up as stink bus and were part of the uh part of the so it was good that's f I just noted on the the activities report obviously all of our Arts programs doing extremely well really well baseball's off to a great start basketball's finishing strong yep it's a good day to be a Bronco baseball was up one to nothing when I left out there to come here so it's yeah a lot of good stuff going on and a lot of stuff going on lot but they're doing well I mean we got to go watch Orchestra and
045they were amazing and Van we Dr bells and I both were there and we thought they sounded amazing too and we we wanted to question the judge that gave him a two but we thought maybe we shouldn't so we have a state champion in powerlifting we have a state champ powerlifter yes awesome I mean it really is incredible when you just look at it at all and I mean just so blessed and just uh it's really really unique I would say sometimes it's hard to see from the inside but if you look at it from the outside we've had state champ volleyball state runnerup uh cheer team football team semi finals um both basketball teams in state tournament uh our girls track team won their first track meet I think the other day or yesterday
046I guess coach right long time I mean and there's Orchestra sweep Stakes Winner so it just I mean the list goes on and on and just it's sometimes you take it for granted I guess you know and it's it's easy too I I suppose but it takes a lot of effort from a lot of people you know um to make that happen so it's it's impressive yeah and that's that sign that's uh on 39th heading west I know we had a little space and we just filled it up do we just add another thing to it don't I've got a sign sitting in the shop ready to go all right yeah with it has the volleyball championship on it oh cool and the water tower I know I know we need to get the water
047tower out there too they might need to build a higher water tower but good stuff Esports inaugural season right things are going well there yep so I'll tell you to to to the E Esports um I know that's like an Oklahoma kind of award um but that student competed um in a national competition uh and got second place in the nation and that's so so the Oklahoma award's impressive but to be honest he's like and it was a close match actually uh we'll say one or two in the nation in that he got second but he he was right there so very impr do we need an executive unless you guys do not not too much on there this time no have to vote to not go into executive session oh um I make a
048motion to not go into executive session second roll call Jaggers yes wone yes Yates yes P yes item 10 discussions where information jump right out from under there we go 10 discussion of possible board action on the hiring of Personnel in addendum a the 2425 school year is it appropriate for me to make a motion yeah okay I make a motion to approve the hiring of personnel ined end of May for the 2425 school year second Ro call chers yes walstead yes Yates yes P yes informational all right got some big dates coming up spring break uh March 17th through 2 we're excited to uh allow everyone to uh go off and have a nice break before we finish strong here and then SWAT week March 31st through April April 4th and I know the
049students are already getting busy and planning and making signs and uh doing all the things so we're excited to see how much they're able to raise for uh good families and good causes so member comments superintendent report all right so uh would like to again congratulate our three teachers of the year uh from the building um great representation not just for each building but but also Al if you look at them um they're a great representation of Oklahoma Educators um across our state and uh represent some of the finest um also again would like to congratulate both our boys and girls basketball teams on making it to state in the final year that the games will be played at the big house and I think that just makes it a little bit uh more special
050this the first time we've had boys and girls make it in the same year and what better year to do it uh is this uh final final games at the big house so I know everyone's really excited uh about that opportunity and looking forward to seeing play tomorrow um I'd like to thank uh all the dignitaries that who attended our blue rib Blue Ribbon Ceremony this past week as we celebrate our students at the high school um I know they're very busy uh with their schedules and so I just appreciate them taking the time I appreciate Mr juel reaching out to those people to allow them to uh come and celebrate with us also want to point out that uh uh the work that our e program has done with weda testing that is wrapping
051up here um it is a lot that goes into it this kind kind of their uh final testing to see if they exit out U but it's quite the process um and just to highlight the El program Mr Hall Miss Espinosa Miss Lopez Miss Chamberlain uh and led by Miss Graham uh worked many hours testing those students and uh and preparing them for those tests as well but but the test itself is a lot to give so we appreciate their work recently um last week we celebrated maintenance appreciation day and I would like to publicly thank our uh maintenance staff and operations crew uh for everything they do each day I've said this many times but they have a very proactive approach to uh preventing problems um and it's just been really really great to
052see the Improvement of our facilities and the maintaining of our facilities rather than waiting for major things to happen and it usually is more expensive that way um and the other thing I would say is there have been some incidents where we have you know pipes burst or things like that and they are somebody is there on the spot so so I appreciate them always being on call but uh things are running really really well in our facilities and operations and I appreciate Mr M and his leadership but but the whole team does a great job around him as well yeah and as you all are aware it's legislative season um and I I would say um for the uh representative Senators that represent us um they do a great job of listening and uh
053taking phone calls and uh constant communication and really have uh seemed to be aligned with public education and so can't say enough about um the work that they're doing um and again just it's nice to feel heard and to really be able to talk details about some of these bills that are out there make some changes um to those bills as they might benefit Bethany public schools and public education so um appreciate them and look forward to seeing uh how some of these bills continue to flow through and and hopefully uh continue to have positive impact on what we do in public education and uh then just want to say thank you to all of our teachers I know uh middle school high school already had parent teacher conferences um and Elementary is currently having
054parent teacher conferences tonight and Thursday um appreciate our parents who take the time to sign up and come I know it was a little bit tricky with uh you know some snow days uh but our secondary staff made it still possible with uh being able to do that virtually and appreciate that took a lot of scrambling and work the last minute uh but again want to thank our our parents for taking the time to come up have conversations with us we want it that way and we're glad that they still want to come and and engage and sometimes those are uh really really important conversations especially at the end of the year because we've got you know some decisions to make as we go through uh and sometimes just to to celebrate the year their
055kids having but um one thing I would say about Bethany that is very nice is that we have a lot of parents uh show up and show that they care and want to want to know how their kids doing so we appreciate that and then as we go into spring break uh just want to wish everyone a safe and restful week and uh come back ready to finish strong and then uh added this last minute but congratulations to one of our high school students Lauren coun on being nominated as the a daily Oklahoma student of the week so get out there and vote uh let's help her to get that um very deserving as we have a lot of students are deserving but I hope uh she does well just an honor for her to
056be nominated as well that's my report we are adjourned very thank you all