001Five board members are present. It is the practice of our board of education to begin our meetings with prayer and the pledge of allegiance. We invite you to bow your heads for prayer and stand to join us in the pledge if you choose. Please bow your head. Lord, we respectfully ask for your guidance and wisdom as we proceed with the business before us. Keep us mindful of our purpose of providing a quality education for the students attending Taylor County Schools. Amen. Please join me in honoring our country's flag and defend it. I allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Very good. Uh Dr. Stallings, any adjustments or addendums to the agenda? No, Miss Garvin, there
002are not. Thank you. Superintendent respectfully requests approval of the agenda as presented. Moved. Mrs. Gallow moves. Mr. Douty seconds. All those in favor? I. Motion passes. We do have a delegation this evening. They have graciously agreed to go after we recognize our students in the 1000 series. So, Skills USA competition winners. Have anybody here to talk about these two amazing Do you want to stand up and tell us what you did? That'd be awesome. We would love for you to use that microphone. Pretty please. Are you Isabella? Welcome, Isabella. I can introduce her a little bit. Isabella has a place with a gold certificate, correct? For for your for your welding sculpture. Would you explain to us what that is and what how it looks, etc.? Um, so Skills USA is basically where you compete
003with other people in a competition and I competed in the welding showcase and I made a bouquet of flowers and got first place with it. It was It was very hard. There was a lot to do, but there were some other really good there too, which I think everybody should have won, but it was good. First of all, let's congratulate you for that. Before you sit down, I thought I'd ask qu did you make your sculpture three-dimensional? Was it more two flat or It was It was threedimensional. Um, I I hand welded them all like I gathered stuff from my shop and just created flowers out of it, like spoons or um I just cut out metal and made flowers, washers, bolts. And dad is now shopping at Home Depot to replace all those things.
004What are you doing with that sculpture? I I want to keep it because it's the first thing I've actually ever made in welding and I won obviously. Very good. So, yeah. Well, we envy your skills and congratulations to you. Thank you. [Applause] Combining art and welding. Who knew? I believe uh Mr. Galla was not able to be with us this evening, so we'll move to the next. But we did want to recognize that Luke Gallow uh uh earned a silver medal for his accomplishments on power equipment technology. So again another category about which I know not too much other than keep me away from power equipment. So, but please let's just on his behalf congratulate him. And I believe that that that's incredible and a wonderful set of skills to have. And that moves us
005forward to the West Virginia World Language Showcase winners. Senor, you might want to pull the mic down a little bit closer to you. Yes. or maybe take the mic off of the stand if you would prefer. Can you hear me? Yeah, we can. Thank you. Okay, so the West Virginia World Language Showcase. This year we have the first state competition. In this competition, students did like a Spanish ski poetry um dancing, trivia, um um a speech in foric dance and modern dance in Spanish video. Grafton High School uh we took 49 students who were the biggest uh participation in Spanish and all the students place and everything. It was amazing um how Grafton plays. So I'm going to mention who is here and who plays because uh you know 45 students but they couldn't come
006because you know they are all around students. They have practice and uh also they were the event concert tonight so they couldn't come but we're going to start with um the Spanish kid Freeman's here and she got third place in the skits and [Applause] for the Spanish singing contest. That was really difficult. Like my student Kelly Boyer won by one point, but we have the third place here. Serenity. She did wonderful and she got third [Applause] place for the Spanish poetry. Um, I'm really very proud of Cass Cassie. Cassie, she's an Spanish one and I told her, "Please compete." And actually, she did it and she improved so much and she got first place in the level one in [Applause] poetry. Also, Pton Freeman, she got first place in the poetry in the level two
007because she's in a Spanish tree. So, she compete with the Spanish three, four, and five. And Casia, she compete in Spanish one. So, they both got first [Applause] place. Let's see. Oh, I forgot. Noah was in the skits, too. Noah is here. He was one of the crew. And thank you. Uh, for the floric dance, we got um second place. Uh we got first place and second place but for the second place we have Sophie Aston. She did a traditional dance from Venezuela. Horopo with seven more heroes. For the modern dance, we got like third place. And we have um Ash Alexander here. We have u Yeah. And we have Kathy. He did too. So that [Applause] was and for the Spanish video we got um first place with the most popular in level one
008because this was divided levels two. So we have uh Bailey here and I think it was but I really very proud of my students. You know how difficult is like to perform like in your language and they were doing it in the second language in Spanish, you know, do poetry as kids, singing, dancing, and they did a wonderful job. So, we really should be proud of them. Okay. So, now we're going to do the West Virginia seals of by literacy. This is like um you know when you do completes or it's like it's it's an award by the West Virginia Department of Education where the students take a test and then they have to reach a level to be proficient in the language. So from my I the test to the juniors and seniors they
009were 20 students and 18 of them passed the test like they got the West Virginia seal of bi literacy and the two that didn't they are juniors so they can take the test next year so but tonight we just have here two of my juniors who passed the Alexa and Sophie they did [Applause] So, also I want to thank you the the board and the because you guys actually pay for this test that you guys pay for the um the stamp test to get the seal and also for the national Spanish exam. So, that's very very nice that students don't have to pay. Thank you very much. Okay. So now we'll continue. I some also some of the students um reach a higher uh level of proficiency and they got the global seal but most
010of the most of them were seniors and I got still two juniors who did that global seal. So that's it's like a a national they can be recognized the national. Um so like I said my students took al the national Spanish exam. That was a Spanish two, three, four, and five. And some of them plays. So tonight we have like a silver medal. This is for one of my sophomore, Noah Smith. [Applause] Um, also I have two uh bronze medal. One for Payton Stevens. She really was surprised with this. She [Applause] never. And then I have Payton Freeman with the bronze. [Applause] And for the Spanish exam, we have some honorable mention. So we have Alexa, Sophie, [Applause] uh Rory, [Applause] Bailey and [Applause] Suri. You guys can see in the list like all the
011students and everything, but Congratulations. I'm very proud of you guys. If all the recognized students could join us up front, we'll grab a picture or two. Dr. Decker will help us with that as well. Senor Senor Skaggs, do you want to join them, please? Congratulations everyone. [Applause] Um, I just wanted to kind of address you all from the board. So, you know, it's it's one thing to be bilingual and know another language, but then to fully be immersed in the culture with uh music and poetry and dance and all of that um is is truly a talent and a gift and we're so proud of all of you. And I also want to just address um your teacher Senor Skaggs and Senor Rubio. Um what a testament um it is to them and what they
012have helped empower you all to do. Uh and thank you to the parents as well because I know it's a lot of dedication um from you all as well and encouraging and supporting because it's very difficult to learn another language. So, just want to congratulate everyone and and also we're very blessed uh to have the Spanish program here at Grafton High School and at our middle school. So, really really want to thank you guys and [Applause] congratulations. At this time, I think we'll be recognizing the Taylor County Golden Horseshoe winners. This garment there, it's back on. All right. So, I'm filling in for Mrs. Roberts tonight. She asked me to do this. She is home with a little ill child, so hopefully she feels better soon. But tonight we are going to recognize our golden
013horseshoe winners from the middle school. So we have three winners and as we call your name if you're here if you could come up and we have a certificate for you. So first we have Chase Roberts. Chase here. We can still give him a round of applause. What about Leica Carr? There [Applause] she and Wyatt Bidd. [Applause] Well, I'll just want to take a second to address the winners. I know for a fact one in this room can remember taking the golden horseshoe and how much work and dedication and studying it took to get through those days to prepare for that. So, I just want to say congratulations on your dedication and your effort and we are really proud that you um study this hard and that are able to represent Taylor County and such
014an honor and so just congratulations and keep up the hard work and we're really proud of you. [Applause] I believe next we have regional social studies winners. Hello. Like to recognize those students who have participated in the regional social studies fair. Um I think we have three or four of these come on up here if you went to Glennville State University a couple months ago. All right. All right. So we have four. Um, we sent about 10 teams or groups or individual projects that had gone through the social studies fair graft high school back in February. And these young ladies up here, they had qualified to go to the regional fair in their category. Some of them are partners, some of work by themselves or were partners with other groups. Um, I'm going to go
015ahead and recognize those who are here. We have uh Lucky Jones who had worked with uh three other partners in the sociology group uh making tracks private John Love it. All right. And who else we have here? Uh we have first psychology uh Payton Freeman, Theodore Robert Bundy, Prince Charming or your worst nightmare. So if you're familiar with that individual, that's Ted Bundy, more commonly known. And Then we have a political science group with Jaden Young and Alyssa Larry as well as Lily Crim. Uh title of their project was graduate tour private first class Johnny Edward Prac. Did I pronounce that right? All right. Thank you. All right. So, um, we sent about 10 to, um, regionals and we, uh, did send a few of those groups to Charleston, West Virginia in April to go
016ahead and present at the West Virginia State Social Studies Fair. And I'll tell you the results on that once I find it on this paper. Right. So, all right. So, state social studies fair, we have second place in economics group, Kevy Cypes and Sierra Persinger. Let's go thrifting. We have a first place geography group, Lily Lily Roy and Michael Nigamire for changing climate changing changing Africa. uh third place political science group, two ladies up here as well as Lily for their project graduate to war. And we have a third place psychology individual Payton Freeman for Theodore Robert Bundy. So um these students had worked um in class and they worked outside of class working on their projects. Um, want to recognize Britney Shimmy there who um had some of her students work on projects in
017her classes. I had students work on the projects in my classes as well. Um, Mrs. Bartlett, our librarian, working on projects, specifically veterans projects. So we did integrate uh some classwork into this and some other students had volunteered to um be part of the social stud social studies fair project and those eighth graders who got the golden horseshoe expect you to enter next year's social studies fair to be great opportunity to work on your social studies skills. All right, there you go. Couple of comments for you ladies. Ladies, wait just a second. Mr. Mr. Taylor, one of our board members like to speak to you. Yeah. A couple of comments. uh what you were doing is developing life skills and congratulations to you for being involved in psychology and social studies and so forth. Uh
018again, life skills for you to develop. Thank you for your participation. Congratulations, Miss Garvin. And and everyone, I I at one time was asked to be a judge at the state level. I did that with enthusiasm. But I tell you what, these prizes, these places that you see tonight is an an indication of hard work and skill because the competition continues to be more difficult and more difficult. And at the state level, you were uh confronted with a lot of heavily researched projects and so congratulations to them. I continued to be odded. Every week we have remarkable students across a wide range coming here to remind us what we're here to support. And I am so thrilled and proud and cannot wait for the future that these students will create for us. So, thank you
019to all of the students, to all of the support that those students get from teachers, from parents, from extended family, from friends pushing each other to do better. You are wonderful and you are the reason we are here. Thank you. And now, go run in the rain. Thank you so much. We'd love to see a picture. We'd like to see a picture of her work as well. Would you sometime? Yeah. And send us a picture. It' be great. I know. Put that picture. She should very excited to see it. Sorry, we've been waiting. What was that? I like it. Go ahead. At this point, excuse me. things out. Yes, I'm pretty good at it. I have 41 years of experience at that. At this point, we do um have a delegation. Uh the spokesperson is
020Miss Bethany Knight. Miss Knight, I will remind you that as a delegation, you can speak to us. Unfortunately, we are not in a position to speak back. So, for better or for worse, that is what it is right now. Um you are being live streamed and you do have a fivem minute time limit. Thank you. Thank you. Um, Mrs. Knots passed out to the board members what I'm going to be reading along with some other letters from staff members that could not be here today. Um, I'm known to speak really fast, so I'm going to try to slow myself down. Um, I am speaking on behalf of the Anna Jarvis faculty and staff to formally request the reinstatement of the dean of students position at Anna Jarvis Elementary School for the 2526 school year. As
021we continue to prioritize both academic success and student well-being, the need for dedicated behavior and administrative support has become increasingly evident. Anna Jarvis serves 480 students. To date, our administrative team has entered 263 incident behavior related incidents into Weeus. Each of these incidents require extensive time and attention, including investigation, interviewing students, reviewing video footage, speaking with parents, facilitating in-person conferences, and ensuring accurate categorization of documentation according to state policy. Let that sink in a second. 480 students, 263 incidents. A further breakdown shows students accumulated 35 incidents for a total of 49 days of OSS and 40 incidents accumulating 23 days of ISS with the bulk of the incidents being reported as level three infractions. Many of those instances are frequently occurring in the lower grade levels. Beyond data entry, administrators must also review student behavior
022histories to determine appropriate consequences, collaborate with staff, and maintain transparency and consistency. These responsibilities, while vital, are significantly impacting the time available for instruction, instructional leadership, teacher support, and proactive engagement with the students. A deed of students would provide targeted leadership and behavior management, conducting most of the groundwork while navigating through what could be handled at classroom level versus at the administrative level. The position would also foster a stronger student relationship and early intervention and behavioral patterns, leading to a safer, more positive school environment for all. Additionally, Anna Jarvis has a high number of special education students compared with other elementary schools in our district. This directly impacts our administrative workload due to significant numbers of IEP meetings, SAT interventions, creating sped schedules, and coordinating of services requiring to meet individual needs and stay comp
023stay compliant with legal and educational standards. These cumulative responsibilities leave our administrative administration with limited capacity for focus on instructional leadership and proactive school improvement. Despite serving a high needs, high enrollment population, Anna Jarvis lacks equitable support services and personnel such as nurses, counselors, and community and school positions. Even if even if we were to equitably divide support staff in the county, it would still not cover the need for a deed of students. The addition of Adena students would provide critical behavior and logistical support to help ensure consistency and discipline, allow earlier interventions, and support teachers in maintaining effective classroom environments. I know that some saw Mrs. Williams, our former dean of students position as trivial due to the lack of information regarding her role, but her departure left an immense hole at at Anna
024Jarvis. A dean of student in an elementary school with a focus on PBIS or positive behavioral intervention and supports plays a crucial role in promoting positive behavior ensuring a safe learning environment and supporting both students and staff. Here is a detailed breakdown of key components of this position. PBS leadership and implementation. Lead PBS framework. Serve as the primary leader in implementing and sustaining PBIS pract practices schoolwide. Tiered support systems. Tier one support universal strategies for all students such as behavior expectations, reward systems. Tier two and three, coordinate interventions for students needing additional behavioral supports. Data monitoring, analyzing discipline data to track trends and guide decision-making. Use tools like Zooi PB PBIS team coordination chair or co-chair the PBS committee facilitate regular team meetings to evaluate programs effectiveness another inter or another component would be student
025behavior management behavior interventions behavior coaching and discipline oversight not to assign but administer discipline such as ISS or detention align with school policy and PBIS philosophy Restorative, not punitive. Staff support and professional development. Teacher coaching, supporting staff in classroom management strategies, modeling PBS aligned behavior enforcement, training for new staff, providing professional development sessions on PBS, trauma-informed practices, deescalation techniques, etc. Collaboration. Work closely with classroom teachers, school counselors, social workers, and paraprofessionals. The Taylor County Board of Ed will provide pro or SRO to each schools for the 2526 school year, but their allowable use in each building is highly limited and none of those tasks listed above fit into their required job descriptions. Our goal is to ensure every child receives a highquality education and a safe, structured, and supportive learning environment. A dean of students
026position is not a luxury. It's a necessity to meet the demands placed on our staff and serve our students equitably. I respectfully urge the board of education to consider the approval of this role for Anna Jarvis in the upcoming school year. Thank you for your continued support and for all you do to serve our students. Thank you. Thank you. Could we have this issue placed on a future agenda for discussion, please? All right. think that that's more than reasonable. Thank you. When it is placed on the agenda, can you let the presenter know so that if they would like to return to cure the discussion that they could be here? Sure. Or listen in on Sure. Teams, I believe. Thank you very much for your time this evening. Um, it's 6:34, so if you're going
027to the high school band concert, I'll let you go. And I believe that that brings us to the superintendent's updates. Thank you, Mr. Gallow. Excuse I did it again and I'm so sorry. I apologize, Miss Gallo. And I apologize, Miss Garvin. Thank you, Mr. Garvin. I'll start again and I'll be brief. As you can see, it's a one-page uh list. this I knew we had an awful lot of a of students to be recognized and so I tried to keep it per your request before to keep it into one page with with bulleted issues. Quick update. I want to give you the the total that I was provided as a result of Thursday's uh Grafton High School uh awards and scholarship assembly which was extremely successful uh during which we had uh in excess of
028$514,433 awarded to our students. That does not include the additional uh eligibility for beyond that scholarships where they can be repetitive and repeated and requested subsequently that ranged to approximately $2 million. Um we have a fine group of students that are graduating this year. uh no surprise but um uh uh they were most impressive and all the awards that would it took three hours to recognize all the accomplishments that day. The next item I have is just an update the envelope project for Flemington Elementary School. We did as per the schedule have the bid opening and that uh was successful as well. and that uh Tuesday uh the 6th of May we had visitation from some representatives from the school building authority who wanted to visit the site. They also took a few moments to
029come and go to visit the Anna Jarvis construction site as well. And lastly of that area the concession stand. I have not received any if any additional updates since my la our last meeting. Uh moving on to number three, future location transportation maintenance departments fuel tank purchases has been started. Uh once they are uh that's been finalized and we do have uh the next step in the process where Mr. Mr. Martin will be assisting with that to making additional recommendations. also mentioned previously where uh the once we are near a full evacuation of the other site uh we can then have uh prepare for the sale of that location once we bring up that would include bringing the tanks that are in the ground above ground and disposed with um the two departments as I
030mentioned in passing there are currently working on a process to uh eventually achieve occupancy. Speaking of new Anaj Jarvis construction, we are making progress every day. God willing, the weather will continue to cooperate. Uh it looks like a muddy mess. Well, one would think, and indeed on certain days, Mr. Taylor, that is very accurate. But I can assure you we receive photographs of progress each day, including the occasional photograph of the rain gauge that is purposely placed there. Uh this week looks like a wet one weatherwise and so we can anticipate that that's going to continue to challenge the construction company. They have not been daunted. They continue to take make progress and assure me that they're it's going to happen. Um we have uh since the expansion the as that site grows and we're
031now moving north which took up more of the uh the the oval parking spaces nearest the flag pole that is no longer available and staff have started to utilize the property that was made available as a result of theou with the Catholic dascese uh and they are doing that they did a practice run was with no issue and has continued to be uh very workable process. Uh we have obtained I think I mentioned once before we've also obtained for future use uh probably in the fall when we start needing to move eventually we'll continue to grow construction site. will start needing some overflow for staging of parents for pickup and the church of the good shepherd has entered into the what we'll call the third of our memorand of understandings that we've engaged. We have
032both uh that one the Catholic dascese as well as the uh Preston Taylor community down where the former Chris Lip motor lodge is existed. Uh so that'll be all in process once we need that. And lastly, camp tolls uh property. We per my last information I shared with you, we originally learned after we checked all the the tax maps, etc., we learned that in fact there were nine pieces of property that make up the total of camp tolls and we are currently uh we have a survey company conducting that for us and we'll have more of that information once that's completed. And most importantly, in addition to all that information, I want to give you the dates and reminders. Please know that Sunday the 18th is the Honor Graduate Banquet sponsored by our local Rotary
033organization. And following that, on Wednesday the 21st is the senior sermon. Then that's at 7 p.m. On Monday the 26th, don't forget the Memorial Day parade. I wanted to give you a heads up there. As you remember, they had asked permission to utilize the Grafton High School campus as a sta as the staging for that parade. And I've been informed as recently as last evening at the Memorial Day parade committee meeting that at 8:30 they will be closing Riverside Drive and Yates Avenue, which in my mind is one street. Depends on which end you entered, what you call it. I believe the whole thing is Yates Avenue officially, but some people just reference that. So from Route 50 to Route 119 that will be closed at 8:30. Um likewise at 9:30 the main street or
034the main route of the parade starting at the intersection of Yates and 119 is the where the uh Exxon station and across the street just at the bridge across the street where the uh fire department now occupies that property. from that point all the way around through Main Street, through town, over the bridge, uh, which I believe it goes to Front Street up on the east end where Elizabeth Cather Towers is located and then down Front Street all the way to the bridge that crosses back to what we call Gumps Grocery Store and on through Walnut Street to the to the cemetery. All of that will be closing at 9:30. So if in fact you have that same that favorite spot, please make sure that you are there before you can't get through roadwise. Uh
035that will be an extremely different experience for many many people because we reversing the committee has reversed the direction of the parade and that is the result of the difficulty with obtaining a closure of the CSX railroad um during the parade hours. They have tried but it was they were unsuccessful. Um I'm sure it'll be positive. God willing the rain will happen this week and stop so it could be a dry but I can't predict. Anyway, there you have that information and I appreciate your time. Also, please note that with intentionality, we have attached uh some monthly school updates, which is often something that provides to us. And I'm excited to tell you that both the schools, West Taylor Elementary School and the uh Taylor County Middle School were kind enough to give us information
036that focuses on academics. um something we should be looking at with the student achievement and performance as well as all the other things that we recognize both creative arts and and athletics. Um with that I'm going to stop and thank you for your time. Mrs. Oh, I didn't almost forgot one. I'm so sorry. Don't forget that on Tuesday you are needed as a board to be a part of the the Grafton High School commencement ceremony as we were last year. I apologize there. I beg your pardon, Mr. Want us there. I believe last year we as long as we were there by 6:30 we will be fine. And I believe as we would did last year we will assemble at the Mary Battle Studio. Uh I apologize Mrs. Gallow and Mrs. knots for overlooking that
037tonight because we have two of our board members who will be celebrating graduates as well and congratulations to that. Thank you, Miss Gallow and board members. Mrs. Not, she just wanted me to let you know that she was um headed to her son's Yep. perform no worries. Thank you very much. Okay. Um board member updates. I just have um there is a packet in front of you about our self appraisal. Um I sent out the link most of us have responded and as soon as I have five answers I will get that um forwarded to Dr. Stallings and to the state and then we can schedule a meeting to chat about that. Anybody else? Committee meeting reports. All right, let's move into the 2000 series. Superintendent respectfully requests approval of the minutes for the regular
038meeting on April 29th, 2025 and the special meeting on May 6, 2025. Mr. Taylor moves. I'll second. All those in favor? I motion passes. We have number of policies and codes. Um, two in the first reading, three in the second reading. Nope, more than three in the second reading. On the cell phone use uh 2277 uh at the appropriate time, I'd like to move that that include the words uh or in backpacks. Are you referencing the location for storing them during the day? Yes. All right. Thank you. And your wording would be or in backpacks. Correct. Thank you. Anybody else have do we want to have a bigger discussion about that um at the next on its second reading or does anybody else have any questions or concerns about any of these things in their
039first or second reading? Okay, as that would be does seem to be a very prominent topic with our legislator. All right. Um, if we can plan on expanding that discussion at the next meeting. Would you like that 8,000 series or just where it sits? Um, either would be appropriate. I was like, we could probably just do it where it sits. Okay. All right. Um, moving on. Got anou. Superintendent respectfully requests approval of 2299 in the 2000 series. Superintendent respectfully requests approval of items 3187 through 3197 in the 3000 series. Mrs. Gallow moves. Mr. Taylor seconds. Questions, comments, concerns. Yeah, I did have a a question um just really on the timing of 3190. I know it's a capital improvement, but I know we have a lot of other um outstanding needs as well. I just
040kind of wanted to voice my concern with um not that I'm not in support of that, but Is this the appropriate time? And I mean, it's the one capital improvement that the middle school had asked for. They had they didn't really ask for any other major improvement project. And Dr. Sings agreed to prioritizing that since that was their only real real request. I think you should recall we've just finished doing their upper the what would be the original parking areas and I believe that the intent was that uh having done the lockers and the gymnasium and the bleachers and the uh all those improvements and uh the replacement of all the uh cafeteria tables and all everything seems to be coming into uh pristine appearance And they were just uh they saw that as well
041I can give you the justification as to why they asked for that is that they had to close that several times when it snowed because it couldn't be plowed which then caused parent pickup to have to be changed in the wintertime back on the main drag because it's it was gravel. So that was another rationale for why they wanted that done so then that could be cleared and parent pickup could continue there. Okay. Valid rale. Yeah. that was their rationale for asking for that request. Okay, that has definitely improved all of the concerns that were raised last year or uh when we were compromising the entrances the line as you remember Spring Hill Road was blocking, right? That that price also includes the the lining of that and also a culvert um that is DOH
042approved. We have we're working on a permit with the do to make sure the flow from the the top of the hill goes down a culvert and not into anywhere else. So that includes that that also includes the lining and it includes the paving just so you know the whole scope of the project. Yeah. No, thank you for the clarification just because totally understand. There have been other I appreciate you being frugal things that we have discussed and other things that I've had constituents reach out to me about and I just just want to advocate for again our funds and just make sure that you know we're being fair and assessing things um you know for all of our facilities just as far as timing. So, and again, not that I wasn't in support, just
043more clarification. Thank you. Any additional questions in the series? We have a motion on the floor. All those in favor? I motion passes. 4,000 series financial budget supplements and vouchers payable. How we doing, Mr. Dolan? Things going well. Um, inside your packet, you should have received a um some budget supplements that um for a few items. Um, some of these were to um add in some budget adjustments uh for additional revenue that we've collected through the year. Uh we had to make an adjustment to our PE PEIA revenue. That's not very uncommon. that happens um when the state goes through the budget and they make that adjustment. Uh so that's in there and a few entries for the capital improvement projects um that we just discussed. And then we did receive um two grants um
044one for national board reimbursement and one for revenue for the alternative ed program that we receive every year. Other than that, that's all the budget and supplements. And then you received a packet for a uh for all the bills that we've paid. Um with the meetings being back to back this week, the department was trying to get everything up to the last minute. So this week and next week, you'll receive another packet for all the checks and bills that have to be paid and approved. Any additional questions for finance? Superintendent respectfully requests approval of the items in the 4,000 series. Mr. Dowy moves. Mr. Taylor second. All those in favor? I. Motion passes. Uh 5,000 series student matters, personnel matters, legal matters. You have some employment, some extracurricular or extra duty, professional sub, summer employment,
045position creation, resignation, transfers, and additional summer employment. Superintendent respectfully requests approval of items 5542 through 5559 in the 5000 series. Mr. Taylor moves. I will second questions. Mrs. Gallow second. We have questions. Um, yes, I have questions on um the creation of the weapons detection uh for 5449 and 50 5550. Just really just for clarification, what um what type of training will they get? Will they get training from the vendor of the equipment or will that be our administrative staff who I just I'm just curious since this has a lot of legal probably things that we want to consider. I just wanted to check. Right. that your question is a good one. The professional development with regard to the how it works, how to operate them would be appropriate to bring in the representatives of
046the company. Uh the administrators would have had that training and that was very helpful. But your point is well taken and that would be a part of the implementation or the initiation of the process with these individuals. Okay. And then there's going to be the two locations, right? So because the um you mean two different campuses? Yeah, because the vacancy notice it just had Grafton High School, but it's going to be both. Right. Right. We items 49 or 5549 and 5550 are Gotcha. They're identical just location. Okay. And then um I'm sorry. I have a question about that because are we creating six of these at each? Okay. Total 12. For a total of 12. Yes, ma'am. Okay. So then it's yeah on your agenda it says six at high school we just copied two
047pages of the same exact job description. So then it's paper $1620* 12 that' be correct. I did that math before I came but I don't know off the top of my head. And then other questions here. Will all of these, let me rephrase that. How do these contracts pay out? Like I know like sometimes a coach or whatever won't get paid until the end of the season. Given that this is a everyday Mr. Dolan is ready to answer that very question. Does that get broken up and prorated over their paychecks? Does it get I believe during the discussion they were going to provide us with a almost like a time sheet for when that was done and that would be paid out. just like just like our every two like our two time sheet schedule
048that we have for all employees. So if they did that job you know four or five times in that two week period then they get paid for those hours at that time. I think to clarify the frequency remember is going to random so that there and so that would depend on uh yeah my question was oh slightly broader we're creating 12 16 different positions here total in this um nurses and counselors and honor society and detection monitoring and what have you. So, because some of them are like here's the time frame that it happens like a coach has a season boom boom. These are all year. These are maybe extended year um but they're not necessarily every single day. How does that work for them? But if it's a time sheet situation where we did
049it on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, here's my time sheet. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. it gets added to my check then that's and that's it they'll be addressed as per the pay period that's happening at the time and it'll just be incorporated into that that is correct okay for this I want to think I think you're also asking so some of them are stipen so how we do a not an hourly rate you do a stipen by like a semester and a semester like the coaches you're referring to that's usually till the at the end of that season is how is what okay um I think that's Yeah. So, I think they're all listed as stipened, right? I'd have to go back. Yeah, the nursing I know for sure the nursing. So, the we the weapons detection is
050not it's it's listed as an hour at how much they're going to make an hour. So, that's where Jonathan's saying they would write down the time period of because because this isn't going to be necessarily divided evenly among the school year. it's going to say you might do it four times in a month, you might do it two times the in a short month. They're just going to write their hours and then they'll get paid their hours. Whereas the two positions that are nursing and like the his the Hispanic position, the counseling support facilitator, the nursing, all those those are stipens. So they what's how payroll typically does stipens is half and half. I I see where on the job description you're asking about the statement because it says stapen instead of just instead of
051pay rate of pay. Yeah, it's a statement, but it's it's an hourly on the weapons on the job on the job description. It says it says maximum 1620, right? But the word before that word before that says that's just the typical Yeah. But it's it's it's Yeah. So when you you start to see that again and again to which that can be clarified on the posting that's just a type of what when they looked they when they pulled an old one and they created the job description they just didn't change that instead of pay rate. But that one's an hourly as it's described in the description. It's an hourly rate. Could that be broken up into maybe quarterly rather than That's a Mr. Dolan question. I don't have rather than annually or by semester. The
052the actual stipened ones that might only that way they wouldn't have to wait quite so long to get at least a little something. So like the like the National Hispanic Honor Society is that what you're well like the counselor or the counselor who are obviously working we have done we have done that in the past where it like you do the first semester and we pay half and then so could could we potentially look at that like the first Yeah fourth quarterly six week I I don't necessarily six weeks or nine weeks Yeah. And just it just feels like a lot. It's a matter of adjusting the form that I send out. Is that something? So wonderful. So I Okay. So I also have um I'm assuming for the nurse support facilitator the funding source
053is blank. Is that from the levy as well? Okay. I'll fix that as well. And then again, none of these have gone live. These are all just only your eyes only. So, okay. Excuse me. Um, for for both of those, the counselor and the support, this is for all schools. Yeah. Yes. That's a lot of again, it's a lot of students. Well, it's just the extra support for the the current positions that they hold. So, this is to help alleviate some of the duties that the school nurses and the school counselors are already doing. So, to help get some catch-up work done before school starts is what that is doing. I will say that like so when we're looking at funding, we are already over nursing funding what we're doing, but we still hear them
054that they still need some extra help. So, this was a way to give them an additional person to help some of that get caught up in certain times when we're doing vaccinations and those types of reporting. So, they can kind of get some of that done on the front end through this person. So, it's still going to be ultimately that that individual school nurse's responsibility to ensure that, but this person's going to help fill some of that need to give a little bit extra support through that time period. And again, I'm just asking for clarification and just to help me understand um other counties do they have more than one of these um individuals or is this not from my knowledge so in my where I've come from before we have one of these we
055had one person at the at the county level that kind of was in not the same exact title but did similar things okay I'm just again asking because I I can understand that that's a lot And especially with the immunizations, there's a time frame. They have to get those in. That's a state, you know, requirement. And um Yes. That's why that's why we brought this as an extracurricular that could be done some over the summer time to help Yes. get some of that work started before school even would have before. And then with our counselor with those records and the summer enrollment, I mean, both of those positions and and I know we heard earlier um just about the volume of you know work um I just want to make sure that we're adequately um
056supplying with resources that definitely are needed and uh is very important you know our service personnel are and professional personnel are important to us so we just want to make sure I'm good. All right. Any additional questions for the 5000 series. There's a motion on the floor. All those in favor? I. Motion passes. That brings us to the 8000 series. Board member discussion and comments and it is 704. So, we'll go ahead with this discussion if you'd like, Mr. Taylor. Well, I'm not entirely certain. And I wouldn't just assume discuss this when we were all here, but what I really want to get is a flavor of this board's uh support for such a program. Uh you know, I I know we need to find a location. I know that there will be some expenditure
057that that is going to have to be made to build such a facility. uh you know uh but an indoor swimming pool is something we owe our I've said numerous occasions before we owe our swim team something like this. uh you know we've we've had a successful swim team that has to go out of town to practice and go to meets and uh you know I'd like to have some uh encouragement from the rest of the board to pursue other avenues of funding uh in addition to us and other participation. I have been in contact with at least one uh city council member who is encouraging and thinks that uh the city council might in some way participate. Uh I'd like to approach the county commission. I'd like to approach Lear Mine. uh there are
058others in the community that might want to be supportive if they knew the school board was fully behind such a a a program. So, you know, that's that's some of my thoughts. I mean, I don't think any of us and I'm going to back up. I don't object to a swimming pool. Um I think I think we have some facilities that need a little more immediate attention. Um I love the idea of getting the county commission involved because then then it's not our pool, it's Taylor County's pool. And I think that would be um a boon for not only the children in this community but for the entire community. Um I guess how do we figure out how much that's going to cost without putting out the money to figure out how much that's going
059to cost? Um and that's a good question. And then where do we rank that in the rest of the capital improvement and and not capital improvement just the the smaller day-to-day things uh you know do we have we have sheds and concession stands and equipment lockers and um an a chunk of the high school in the CLA B that needs a significant amount of attention and I know we talked a little bit about this at the budget meeting and I wasn't there for that discussion. Um, but where does this rank in those? Because this this is not a $100,000 project. This is a a million to two and a half. Um, so we we is a guess. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to catch you up. Um, I I would love to be able to
060give our swim kids a place to swim year round. I don't know exactly how to do that. Well, I' I'd like to in addition to that, uh hire a swimming coach to uh or PE coach, whatever, to to teach swimming lessons to our kids uh in all of our grades at some point as part of their physical education. Uh you know, I think that's that would be a functional use of of such a pool. Not only that, it needs to be available to the community as well on nights that that school functions aren't using it or the swim team or whatever. But, uh, you know, again, I want a flavor of the support of this board for such an activity. And, you know, I don't think we should say, "Oh, we're going to put $3
061million into it and build it next year." No, I I'm I'm thinking longer long term and I'm thinking but if you don't start somewhere sometime, you'll never get something done. No, I'm fine. He was looking for the board. I'm not I'm just Oh, I thought you had started to say something. Sorry. Um I I kind of feel along the same as uh Miss Garvin that I do feel this is a need for our students. Um I know I've brought it up before and I keep bringing it up, but Claire B really needs the attention that it's it's needed. Um and we have other areas and facilities like uh Mrs. Garvin had mentioned as well as um you know things at our middle school uh facilities and and buildings and structures and and things like that
062that that are already there that we need to be taken care of um as those things arise. I I I need more data because I did try to do a little bit of research. I think there's only what two schools that I'm aware of in the state that have a pool. I think it's Willing Park and I forget what the other one was. Um but again, I don't know. I need maybe Canal County, but I'm not 100% sure. There's no there's a county up in the northern panhandle that's been Brook County and southern southern portion of the state I believe has one. Okay. They've been in the process of building one for the last five years. Again, what? Excuse me. I said one of the counties in the northern panhandle have been in the process
063of building one for the last five years. Right. So, they they had the funds, but they've run into run into issues. So, they're still in the planning phase. So, that's that's my only concern because I know this adds an another layer of um liability and legal um that I would want to research before um jumping in. Um, I feel like I want to know a little bit more about it as far as research goes. Um, you know, I would want our legal um, friends to weigh in on that, what, you know, if we were exploring this option, what that meant. um as well. I do think that this is a hu this would be a huge project and we would I don't I don't think this is something that we could solely be the majority
064um responsibility of. I think that partnering maybe or collaborative, but I don't think that I don't know. I could be wrong. I have to defer to probably Mr. Dolan on that as far as financially that we would have that big of a responsibility there with that. In fact, Miss Skello, if I might interject, Mr. Dolan has been uh investigating some of that and made some contacts with uh a local facility to just ask them questions about operations and budgets and those kind of things. And he might be able to share that. I think he's prepared to talk with you. Maybe not an official report, but what he's learned so far. Mr. Dolan, just in speaking with the manager of that facility, um he he allowed me to stop by and take a look at the
065budget uh that he's given for the year. And that facility loses money on that on the swimming part. If they didn't have the other parts that were attached to it, then they would not be able to support that. They spend they spend a little over $450,000 a year just on lifeguards. So this facility you would have to have if you're wanting to have it open, you know, 12 hours a day, you know, 8 in the morning till 8 at night, something like that, then, you know, it would there would have to be something to generate the funds to, you know, to have that facility being, you know, staffed. Uh because you have to have somebody there to obviously be a lifeguard. You have to somebody that manages, you know, manages the equipment that goes along
066with that. So, there's another added added cost. Uh, then you'll have to have support staff that'll, you know, work the front desk, so-called, uh, you know, to make sure there's not people, you know, coming in and out of their own free will. So, uh, but like I said, those are some some of the things that we have to think about. Um, you talk about legally, uh, it would definitely be increase to our insurance um because of the liability of it. And again, depending on where it's located, if it's freestanding or if it's attached to a school, uh there would have to be, you know, uh it would have there have to be more safeguards put in place just for the fact that it's being, you know, at the side of the school because because of
067that risk. So, but like I said, there's a lot of things uh there's a lot of things that have to be um considered. uh he brought uh brought to light like um the health department they have they have a set of rules that you have to you follow before you can you know open the facility.