001Look at that. Hey, that's power right there, isn't it? Thank you guys um for being here tonight. Um this is the April 8th, 2025 meeting of the Springdale School Board. Uh we're thankful that you guys are here and um unfortunately our uh student representative tonight had something come up last minute and can't make it. So Mr. Ramos's son Eli has volunteered to come up and lead us in the pledge. [Music] I pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [Music] I was going to ask him some questions and see what he thought about. I don't know about that. All right. So, um, brings us to approval of the agenda for tonight. Dr.
002Cleland, any changes to the agenda? No, sir. Okay. So, I'll entertain a motion. Make a motion that we approve the agenda as presented. Second. Have a motion by Mrs. Creek and a second by Mr. Ramos to approve the agenda as presented. All those in favor? I opposed. Brings us to the consent agenda. Have any changes to the consent agenda? Entertain a motion there. I'll move to approve the consent agenda. Second. So, have a motion by Mr. Bell and a second by Mrs. Cook to approve the consent agenda. All those in favor? I opposed. Motion passes. Brings us to presentation by Dr. Clayton. Okay. Well, thank you. Uh just as just kind of a word of introduction here, I was uh elected to be the AAEA secretary treasurer. That's the administrator association. So that's about all
003that needs to be said about that. So members of the A88 committee, I'm appreciative of that. Put the picture up there. Josh, sorry about that. Sorry had to suffer through that. But thank you for those who voted for me. Uh, next I'd like to invite Mr. Pete Jinx to the podium. [Applause] Hold not to stand on the podium. I'd power over all you guys. Mr. [Laughter] Jinx Mr. Jinx Before Mr. Jinx gets started, I'd also like to invite Miss Hutton to the podium. Absolutely. I'll pull an old Dr. Rollins. Everybody that remembers Dr. Rollins, we'll just we'll [Applause] just we're bringing we're bringing Miss Hutton to the podium to recognize her again because she's retired and to bring her uh up in front Pete so he understands just exactly the difficulty going to have. Absolutely.
004Follow her. So, Miss Hutton, would you like to announce your replacement? Everyone, the new principal for Elmdale Elementary in 2526 is Mr. Pete James. Well, everything goes full circle, huh? I uh I was a uh first grade student in kindergarten at Elmdale when I first started there, but uh Roy Reed was my principal back then and now full circle I'm coming back to Elmdale. So it's a delight and treat. Uh I've had a great experience this year being assistant. Uh I got to work with Miss Hutton who is just phenomenal. Uh as Dr. Cleveland said, it's just going to be hard to fill her shoes because she is an incredible educator and she will be missed. But, uh, the kids are wonderful there. I can't think of a better faculty and staff to work with.
005And, uh, it just goes to show an old dog can learn new tricks every once in a while. So, I thank you for the opportunity. I thank Dr. Cleveland for the opportunity. And, uh, uh, feel free to come by Elmdale and visit with us. We'd love to have you. And, uh, go Eagles. [Applause] Mr. Jake remains an institution in Springdale public schools. It sure does. We had some great candidates for the position. All three of them could have been principal and we know that and we fully expect all the other two who were not named to be principal soon and we left them as Yes. Sorry, I had to stow the stool. I probably could have used it though. I'm a little bit shorter. Um, so I just want to welcome everyone to the April
006board meeting. We have a lot to celebrate tonight, which is always my favorite when you see the boardroom full of students. Um, those are the best nights. And so, first, um, I would like to begin by inviting Miss Mariah Gills from Harbor High School to join me at the podium. So, Miss Geles is an art teacher at Harbor High School, and she recently um received a national award, and I'm going to let her tell you about it, but the National Art Education Association has awarded Miss Gills with the outstanding curriculum award um for this year. She was just honored at the national conference and was able to present a whole session um on her curriculum, ecological pedigogy in her art class. And I'll let her tell you just a little bit about that, but I
007want you to know that in Springdale, as we've said before, we are so blessed with amazing art teachers, K through 12. Um I cannot say that enough. Every time I get the opportunity, I want to let you know to be honored at the national level is a tremendous deal. And even to be asked to present at the national level, there are thousands of applications to present. And so, not only has she been selected as a presenter, but to receive this award is a really, really big deal. So, I'm going to let her tell you just a little bit about it. Oh, here she is receiving it. You can click to your stuff. Thank you so much. Um it was really a wonderful opportunity to present this research um at the national level and to receive
008this award. It was super cool. Um I started this landfill project uh it's called eco pedagogy in action at the Don Tyson School of Innovation last year and was supported by the amazing administrators there and um the uh teachers as well. And so it was a curriculum project that I took my students to the landfill and we experienced all of the things trash because I was starting to wonder like do they have the connection between like throwing it in the trash can to where it ends up in the future. And the best way to kind of experience that is to have a firsthand account. And so through this experience they were able to see exactly where their trash goes. So if you ever get the experience to go to the landfill I would 100% recommend
009it. I've been twice now and it is like it blows my mind every time. So then we came back to the classroom and did some um drawing in our journals and reflection and then we started making art about our experience as well. And we also went on a nature walk to kind of juxtaposed like oo that's a lot of trash and also okay this is what nature can be like um without man corrupting it. And uh yeah they made some really amazing artworks and here are some examples of the artworks that we made in our classroom. um they had lots of choice over what they would make and they just really let their voices shine on the topic of um their experiences. So it was just wonderful and I'm so thankful that I work in
010a district that is supportive of the arts and you know allowed this kind of experience to flourish and for them to take this you know for the rest of their lives as well. So thank you. Congratulations. Thank you. All right. Next on the agenda is another um art highlight quickly. Uh last Thursday, so it' be April 3rd at Southwest Junior High, uh the secondary school, so that's grades 6 through 12 had their second annual um art show. And so, um, as you know, at the new Southwest Junior High, it's the perfect site because it's all wide open community space when you first walk into the building. And so, artworks from our middle schools, junior highs, and high schools were all exhibited and displayed for parents, students, community members. Um, there were food trucks there. There
011were other vendors there. Parents were invited by each of the schools to come and see their students art on display. Um, and so I have just a couple of highlights from that evening there for you as well. Um, and just so you know, mind officially blown, the ballet issues was that was drawn by a sixth grader, I believe, at J Kelly Middle School. I hope I said the correct school, sixth grade. Um, and so the talent that was on display was actually just mindblowing. I'm pretty sure those pancakes were made out of toilet paper. How, I do not know. Um but um it was just like I said, it was a night to celebrate multiple mediums of art. It was so wonderful to see parents and students and family members all together um enjoying that
012space. Um and just to see what Southwest can actually produce with that brand new beautiful facility open space community event wise. Um I do want to thank Holly Hamlin. She is the art teacher at Southwest Junior High who agreed to be the point person to kind of help coordinate this whole event and the art teachers across the district all worked together as a great team. Um, and we also had some different community sponsors and things of that nature to make it a great night. So, that is all for me. Does anyone have any questions? All right. On to the next item. We actually have somebody in front. Yes, sir. Right. Good evening, U board. Dr. Cleveland Leanne. It's good to see everybody tonight. We uh had the pleasure of doing a couple um celebrations tonight.
013And one is very dear to my heart. She's a personal friend, great professional. Um she's extremely humble in what she does. She goes above and beyond in everything she does. Um she's a mentor. She's a friend and a motivator. And she is the second parent to many. And so it's my honor to bring her up front. And it is your 6A coach of the year, Heather Hunucker. about this. Um I heard um Kim Caldwell say the Tennessee coach that coaching is not is not always about proving people wrong but about proving the people right that believed in you the most. So Mr. Jinx is he did he leave? I wanted to thank him because he's the one that hired me at Springdale and took a chance on me when I was very young. I want
014to thank our school board for hiring me back then. And um also I've got these amazing players that believed in everything that we did. I've got a staff. I've got a principal. Um, Springdale is a great place to work, but I was honored to prove people right that have believed in me since I've been very young in this business. Um, and the other honor is to prove to prove people right that Springdale is a great place to play athletics and a great place to go to school. It's a great place to live. It's a great place to be educated. It is my honor when I step on the court to represent Springdale High School. I love Springdale High School, but I love these players and our parents even more. And we have great families um
015that had a belief the whole time that we could do this. This is not a coach of the year award. It's a player and a family of the year award. It's a school district award. Thank you for our gym. Thank you for our facilities. Thank you for believing enough in us enough to do that for this district. Over and over again, I get wow. Thank you. It's my honor to be your head coach at Springdale High School. Thank you. Surprises tonight. Full of surprises. All right. They said the next slide's us. All right. Um goodness. Um what a historic year. really historic and um these kids love to be historic. They love it. Um I'm all about it too. Walter Woody keeps the records for years and years and years. We've got the very first
016book of five on five up in our trophy case. We found it. Um and uh Coach Early's dad was one of the coaches in the very first games against us. It was so cool. Um we had it up at the state tournament. So we're all about history. Um, for the first time ever, we can say that we're conference champions. That's never been [Applause] done. We um we had the best conference start in school history. We went 8-0. Um, we beat Northside to start our very first game in conference in the new arena. We had not beaten Northside in 28 years at Springdale. And that was a way to kick off the arena like no other. You know, we were all celebrating. Um kids went crazy in the locker room. It was a lot of fun.
017Um we um had the most conference wins in school history. We were um 14 and two. Um and um we won the Little Rock uh tournament championship. We won um the Carl Junction championship. Um, and we ca became runner up in our own tournament, the Redd Dog Invitational, um, to a team that was in the final four, the 5A, Mountain Home. Really, really good team that we lost to. We were 25 and five. That's the most wins in school history. That's tied for the least losses in school history. Um, it's just a lot of really cool stuff that we're going to get to celebrate soon again at at the banquet for our kids. U, we had five allconerence selections. If you were all conference girls, please stand up or wave your hands. Some of you
018are standing. Come on. Aa Charlene, stand up. Did you stand up? Stand up. Carolinda, we had um three players that will all conference honorable mention. Wave. Stand up. Callie, where are you? Ally. Ally. All right. Um, Lety, did you stand up? Wave at least. All right. Um, we had the 6A West Player of the Year, Miss Charlene [Applause] Hudson. I'm not sure if the school board knows this, but Charlene and Carolinda, Carolinda's her sister that got all conference. They do free basketball trainings on Saturdays with their family for the students um in our district at J Kelly and they do that on their own time. They volunteer. They do not charge anything. It's totally free for our community and that is a really cool way to give back and uh I'm so proud that they
019do that for our community. Their family does that also. Their mom is here. Thank you for what you do. Um and their dad and it's just a really cool thing. Um the defensive player of the year, she definitely deserved it. She's um also a junior. Family is really special to me, Miss Kaia [Applause] McCoy. Ka, if I was the point guard nowadays, Ka would scare me, too. Um I would hate to dribble. Matter of fact, I don't dribble it against her. Um we had two uh recognitions for Miss Charlene Hudson. um she was on the all state um tournament team, but most recently they did a statewide uh Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette. I mean, not excuse me, not Northwest, the Democrat Gazette. They did a um all preps team and she was on the first
020team, which means she was ranked the top five players in the whole state of Arkansas, regardless of classification. Um, and you know, I could put more individual awards like Adriana was named all conference, Kiara was named all conference. Um, Ka all conference, Charlene, I mean, excuse me, all tournament. Like, we had all these really cool awards for these players and um, but I just wish you could see them in the halls and I wish you could see them work. You know, they stay in the gym hours. They're over there all the time working. They're great. There's not been a detention with our kids. They're not tardy. They're not truent. They're They just do the right thing. They're We had 21 of our 30 players with a 3.6 or higher. 21 of 30. Um they just
021do right. And um I've always believed that if you do right, great things happen. And um really proud of them. I can't say enough about them. Thank you for honoring us and taking time for this. Um, it it sure means a lot to us. Thank you. Super proud to introduce this next group um, boys basketball team at Springdale High. They had a great great season. They fought hard and thing I'm most proud of is they represented themselves well and they represented Springdale High well. And so super proud. So, I'm going to introduce these guys. Great list of honors. You'll see 6A West Conference champions. Overall record at 29 and four, undefeated conference season. Uh, they were the King Cotton Classic tournament champions. I think they're the only the fourth team maybe in the state of
022Arkansas that's won that tournament. So, very prestigious tournament. Um, 6A West player of the year. I'll have him stand up. Isaiah Cely. 6A West newcomer of the year, Malik Sosa. 6A West defensive player of the year, Jackson Connley. We got three all state selections, Isaiah Jackson and Sai Bates. Sai is actually he's on a college tour this evening so he's he was gone from school today. All conference selections Isaiah Connley Sosa and DJ [Applause] Hudson. Just real quick I'm going introduce the rest of these guys and I'll hit these coaches last but holding plant. Where's Holden at over here? Z got here on the end, Javon Phillips, Titus, Dante Jones, Kenyan Thomas. Right here we got Alex [Applause] Connley. I want to say none of this could be done if it wasn't for great coaches.
023So, I want to shout out to Coach Cely right [Applause] here. And we got Coach Cotton sitting next to him. [Music] Great group of guys. Really proud of them. Great season and looking forward to getting to work and see what happens next season. I didn't know I was supposed to introduce our players. I'm sorry. Miss Tisher brought me back. Okay, this is I really like y'all to stand up. People can't see you over here. Stand up. Adriana Hernandez. Adriana is a senior and she will be continuing her academic and athletic career at Connor State. She just committed. This is our manager, Tiffany Boass. This young lady's been with us from George all the way up. And this is Leticia Ramirez. She's going to do big things. She's a senior. This is Tori Miller. She's a
024junior. We've got the sisters. This is Charlene Hudson, the youngest sister. Stand up. Yes, she's a junior. Can't tell she's a character, can you? The oldest sister, her senior, Carolinda is going to graduate from SOI with her associates degree in hand out the door. Okay. This is K. Marie Richardson. We call her K. Kim Rios. She is a senior. Uh this is our volunteer Aaliyah Nava [Applause] Robinson. In the back we have our junior uh Miss Alexa. Wave your hand. We have a senior or Kia, even though they said it wrong. Right. Kaia on the thing. Kia Dixon. Um she has a college tour and will most likely get an offer tomorrow to continue her athletic and um academic career. This is Miss Kiara Owens, senior. She will continue her athletic and academic career as
025well. She's going to Seart County Community College. It's a division one community college, one of the best in the country for women's basketball. So, she's going to be signing on the 16th. And uh this is junior Kaia McCoy. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Thank you, girls. Um this is senior Madden Brooks. Stand up, Madden. Madden. Um I just noticed the other day she's one of the top five in GPA graduates. going to happen at Springdale High School. Um and um she's going to continue at the University of Ozarks with athletics and um academics. And this is Caroline McVey. If you'll stand up, Caroline I've known forever as well. And she's going to graduate with her associates degree from SOI in hand as she walks out the doors. So um Oh, sorry. Okay. I'm This is Stand
026up, Destiny. I call her This is Destiny Januna. She goes by Januni. Um she's a junior and um she will be back with us next year. And the only sophomore that got to play varsity, we had a lot of sophomores. Only sophomore on varsity was Miss Ally Vaughn. Be back with us next year. Okay, now I'm done. [Applause] Well, thank you, Dr. Cleveland and board for an opportunity to uh to speak a little bit about our girls and boys basketball team. I do want to congratulate Springdale High School on a great season. Um I want to congratulate Coach Fimple and also Mr. Jones for doing a great job of hosting the tournament. I know Mr. Jones, you know, helped Harbor out whenever needed. And so I want to just publicly thank him, uh, for again
027just being a great supporter of athletics throughout our district. Um, you know, I could speak a lot about our girls and boys basketball teams. Um, they were a fun group to watch. Uh, I'd like to introduce Coach Jenkins first. And as she comes to the podium, let me just say a few things that I observed about her team. Coach Jenkins is one that speaks about one team, unity. And uh when you watch this very young group of young ladies play, you could see the enthusiasm. You can see that they are bought into the vision. And so again, I want to congratulate these young ladies on an outstanding season. I know that anytime you don't win the state championship, it feels like a little bit of a disappointment, but again, we're young and we're just excited
028about the future. So, I want to turn it over to her and just again congratulate our girls on an outstanding season. Thank you for having us. Um, we really appreciate the opportunity to be here. Um, being in second is not where we want to be standing. So, it's it's hard to, you know, have that good feeling about about that finish when we know we we wanted to finish better. We had some great accomplishments this year as you can see. Um, 25 and six, I think, is the best record in Harbor history. um for the girls program. So, that's very exciting. A conference record, a chance to compete for the conference championship. Um we've won two in the past seven years, so we're right there on the cusp every year of of having a very competitive
029program every year. JV had a great year at 16 and five. So, really proud of the body of work that our kids did this year. We had four um allconerence selections that are here here with me tonight. Um Madison McKinley Campbell, Brooke Owens, and Jasmine MacArthur. You guys want to stand up real quick? All four of those players um averaged in double figures this year and did a great job for us. We had two on the all defensive team this year and that is Jasmine MacArthur and Madison Campbell. Stand back up. They're they're just dogs on defense and do a great job for us and made our team go as far as pressure went this year. And then we had say that's our twins Madison McKinnon and Campbell. Um, and th those two that are,
030you know, they're they're sophomores. So, um, you know, this is the second year in a row that Mckenley Campbell has been all state selection, so she has an opportunity to continue that. So, we're very proud of our youth in our program. We only had two seniors this year, which was Jasmine MacArthur and um, Brooklyn Owens. Brooklyn is going to continue her um, academic and athletic career with a athletic scholarship at Drury University. and Jasmine MacArthur will be signing um with Fort Scott Community College on uh this next Wednesday to continue her academic and athletic as well. Um we had a big year. We did a lot of fun things um from our book studies to uh you know just team time Christmas parties uh you know when we get a 5-second count we get sometimes
031we get cookie cakes and we celebrate. These girls are just very had very great chemistry this year and very proud of the body of work that they did. So, we're really proud that they're all here tonight with us and we we we didn't have them all come tonight. We've got some different things going on, you know, with um the spring sports and all that kind of thing, but the ones that came, we're very proud. And besides the two that are graduating, everybody will be back next year, and we're excited to continue the tra tradition of success at Harbor. So, thank you for having us. One piece that I forgot to mention, you know, and coach Jenkins is a little bit too humble, you know, to win 600 games in 25 years speaks that, you know,
032seasons like we just experienced aren't just, you know, accident. This is a coach that knows how to get our kids prepared, has a, you know, tradition of winning. And so, congratulations, coach, on just such a rich career. We're proud of you. Next up, I'd like to introduce uh Coach Deffenbball. And uh our boys basketball team was a lot of fun to watch. Um you know, I I think of myself when I was a youth playing basketball, and there's no way that I would want to compete against these young men. Um they just work hard, they perform hard, and again, they represent our school well. And uh you know, over the past few years, Harbor's put up some incredible numbers. And so we want to celebrate the Harbor boys basketball team. And uh let me introduce
033Tommy Defenbar, our head coach, Wildcats. Let's go. All right. My name is Tommy Deab. It's a privilege really is to be here tonight with you guys. Thank you so much for having us. Um I'd like to first thank the uh board members, Dr. Cleveland for all you guys do for Springdale athletics. It's awesome. We appreciate everything. Our team had another really good year. Uh we finished 20 and 11 overall. Uh we were second in 6A West Conference uh backto back semi-finals last year and this year. Uh we had four players uh all conference this season which is really good for us. Uh Bari Washington, Marley, uh Hayden Wood, and Courtland Moldrew. We had two all sters. My two seniors were really good. ranked in the top three in our league. Hayden Wood was All State.
034Courtland Moldrew uh finished as the all-time leading scorer in the 6A West Conference. He outscored Malik Monk who plays for Sacramento. Yeah, I couldn't be more proud of these guys for all they do for us every single day. U they come to work. Uh they work hard. my coaches, uh, Nathan Podorf right here behind me. Uh, Zie couldn't make it tonight. My managers, I got the two best managers. I don't know what Springdale managers are like or the or the Wildcat girls manager, but I tell you what, I've got two good ones right back there. Give a little wave. Give Leslie and Riley, they get water. They get our our back, our dirty clothes at times. Uh they keep the score every practice. I couldn't thank you guys more. We're going to lose Riley this
035year. She is a senior and she's going to be heading off to Oklahoma State. So, we're going to miss her. We're we're already just auditioning to take to find someone to take her place cuz she's hard to replace. Uh last year, uh we were 28 and three. We were conference champs, the most wins in the school history, and these guys make me a lot better coach. I can tell you that. Uh Courtland will be attending the University of Washington. Hayden Wood will be attending Jacksonville University on full ride basketball scholarships. Thank you guys again for all your support and we're looking forward to next year. Go Cats. I think we got a lot of pictures to take. [Music] Just curious. Yeah, I got the guys. [Music] Thank you very much. Nice to meet you. Thanks
036for being here. You too. All right. All sitting here alone. You just got cooler in here. [Music] On the right side. Yeah. We'll all see when you leave. Those of you that are standing up on one side of the floor are welcome to come sit down on the other side of the floor if you like. The seat's over here. You guys want to come have a seat over here that if you're standing, you can certainly welcome to. I guess the president has to speak. [Music] Mr. Yeah, you do. Thought he really wanted to sit there. Okay. Well, I I'd like to invite uh Miss Sarah Kennedy and Miss Karen Johnson to uh the podium to talk about our aspiring administrator academy one. There they [Music] are. Perfect. All right. Good evening, school board members and
037Dr. Cleveland. I'm Sarah Kennedy. I'm the assistant principal at Young. Thank you for allowing us to speak tonight about the Springdale aspiring administrator academy. So, we began this work last year um as a group of current assistant principles and our central office administration team and we had the intention of building future administrators. So our goal was to share the ins and outs of the assistant principal role. So we created a mission and vision to help guide our work. Okay. So our vision was to grow the capacity of aspiring principles to lead with confidence and competence. And our mission was to develop aspiring administrators by providing transparent and relevant learning experiences, equipping them with applicable tools, fostering connections, and empowering them to be problem solvers. And we also developed an application process to help select amazing
038candidates like we have right here. And then we created monthly sessions to dive deeper into being an assistant principal. So now Karen Johnson's going to share more about the incredible work that our participants did this year. Good evening board and Dr. Cleveland. Um I think I can say for the talk for the entire A3 planning committee when I say we learned just as much from this experience as our participants. So all all the A3 committee they're all standing around or sitting over here. Um, we were able to grow and learn together as we planned and led the sessions. Um, I cannot express enough how amazing our first cohort. They are amazing. They asked great questions. They really helped us dive deep and reflect on what is the assistant principal role. And they also took time
039away from their family and their busy schedules to experience some of what it is like to be in our role. for example, they came to some of our sporting events, some of the activities that we hel held during the school day. So again, thank you to Dr. Cleveland, Dr. Smith, Miss Frink, Miss Tisher, and the board for allowing us to host this academy. Um, at this time, I'm excited to invite two of the participants to share with you their experience, their perspective of the experience. So, first you're going to hear from Jose Luna, who has been a school psychology specialist since 2022 for the Springdale public schools. So, he's going to make his way here. Thank you, board. Dr. Cleveland, thank you for having us. um you know like she mentioned um AP's coming together
040with district admin to to create something new to give us the experiences and just the knowledge and so but also it's their week so happy AP week to all the um all the administrators that help with this. So um but um this is not my first time saying up here. I don't know if y'all remember my first time up here was uh I just um been awarded the school psychology rookie of the year and uh y'all had asked you know what what brought you to Springdale and I don't remember what I said but I can confidently say now that it's it's really the the family aspect the Springdale family um some of my colleagues surprised me today you know they're here randomly just you know after inquiring like how's that going what are you learning
041and them being able to be here and just you know it's so welcoming. Um but regarding the academy, I can say that um in the work that I do as a school psychology specialist, like I work closely with APS. I, you know, go throughout the district supporting and advocating for our staff and our students. Um but this provided such a unique perspective of, you know, what they have going on dayto-day um with their, you know, roles and duties and responsibilities. Um and then just being able to now take that knowledge and those experiences um and view what I do through that perspective and through that lens and continue the work of advocating for students. Um so you know one of the things that that um that stuck out was the the you know complex change
042matrix and just being able to view you know certain things um through that perspective like how are we supporting our staff? Do are we providing them the resources that they need? Um and then do they have the time? time that you know is the value and mission there behind there. So that was amazing. I got to go to a basketball game with Miss Barker and and work that experience and enjoy watching the Springdale team play. Um so it was all good and so again just um great experience, great knowledge, great you know the APS that were able to present the people that came in to to provide even further context u Mr. Darnell came and provided some insights and u Miss Ingram came and provided insight about you know the special education department and just
043um and ESL and just everybody coming together and provided some great experiences um that I get to now um go about my day with with that perspective and that lens of you know what they do in day in day in day out. So thank you thank you Mr. Luna. He was a valuable um participant and provided a lot of insight. Um next up we have Miss Heather Miller. She is an instructional facilitator at George Elementary and she has been there for the past 5 years. Um good evening. Um, I was fortunate enough to be given the opportunity this school year to be part of the Aspiring Administrators Academy. Um, through this experience, I was able to gain valuable knowledge and insight from district leaders, collaborate with colleagues from across the district, network with district leaders
044and administrators, shadow administrators um, in other buildings, and learn from district experts. These learning opportunities included advice, real world, realworld experiences, and information that will help me succeed as I hopefully one day move into an administrator's position. Due to this invaluable experience, I feel more prepared and confident in my abilities to follow school law, individualize educational opportunities for students, and build meaningful relationships and connections with students, families, and staff, which was a huge part of our mission for this academy. Um, I'm very grateful to Springdale Public Schools for investing in me and my educational leadership growth. Thank you. Good evening board. I always feel like I try to be a part of the curriculum and instruction team and tonight's finally my opportunity. Um Dr. Smith is unable to be with us tonight. Um and so
045she asked me to present the um graduates, we'll say, of the aspiring administrator academy with their certificates. Um I do know that she is so proud of this project, not just for the individuals that completed the project, but also for the leaders who um conceptualized this and carried it out. Um so she wanted me to convey that with you. It has also been fun this year to see um different participants in different places across the district. Um Jose mentioned he went to a Springdale High School game. It was fun to see elementary people in the student section at a high school basketball game. Um and then on the flip side to see secondary people in the elementary car rider line, new experiences for for lots of people. So um I will recognize all of the
046p participants, ask them to come up along with their mentor um and they will be presented with a certificate. Um once they are done, they're going to go outside and take a group picture and um they also are not done for tonight. When they leave here, they're going to participate in mock interviews tonight. So, um, the first group of participants with their mentor Betsy Barker, I have Tyler [Applause] Wilder and Heather Van Orton. No, I can handle stuff with their mentor Cassie Marquette. We have Bethany [Applause] Seahar, Natalie Gregory, and Mandy [Applause] Graham with their mentor Dory Little. We have Jessica [Applause] Ghana, Daniel Codddle, and Noimie [Applause] Strowinski with their mentor Jodie Johnson. We have Shannon [Applause] Langston, Heather [Applause] Miller, and Danell Lago Marcino. I think we have a long chance. Okay, I'll
047slow down. I think Katie's a little slow on the tree. Doesn't look good. Okay. I'm used to graduation where they're reading them so fast. Yeah. um with their mentor Karen Johnson. We have Lily [Music] Dickard, Naomi [Applause] Guzman and Lana Basinger. [Applause] And with their mentor Ashley Kirby, we have Rebecca [Applause] Bramwell, Shannon Carlton, and Katie [Applause] Day with their mentor Lindsay Henrik. We have Debbie Coffer. and Stephanie [Applause] Phillips with their mentor Brandin Peterson. We have Jose Luna and Jessica Martinez. with their mentor Sarah Kennedy. We have Jodie Northcut and Cindy Lions. with their mentor Stephanie Henzy. We have Emma [Applause] Clay, Kristen Panky and Allison Ashworth. [Applause] And with their mentor Katie Wilson, who someone's going to have to sub in to take pictures, we have Michael Tapy, Crystal Elwin, and Christy Shroger.
048Congratulations to all the aspiring administrators. [Music] How are you? [Music] Thank you, Mr. Emerson, members of the board, Dr. Cleveland. Um, some people say, I hear a lot of people say, "Oh, I got to go to work tomorrow." But I get to say, "I get to go to work and work with all of these guys, man. and it's like amazing every day. It is awesome. Um, I wrote some stuff tonight and I really don't like to read, but I'm going to read some of this because it's important to say it all. It's my privilege tonight to stand before you and recognize the outstanding accomplishments of our Springdale band and choir programs. Across the district, we have over 4,700 students participating in band and choir. That's 4,700 students who are not just learning music, but building
049discipline, teamwork, creativity, and leadership. And most importantly, that's 4,700 opportunities for students to earn college scholarships using their voices and instruments to help fund their dreams, no matter what their career uh choice, the path that they choose. This year, we celebrate an extraordinary number of all region and all state musicians. A testament to the dedication of our students and relentless commitment of our directors. In addition, our programs were represented with excellence at the American Coral Directors Association, an honor that places Springdale among the finest music programs in the nation. These recognitions are not just accolades, they are evidence of the remarkable talent and perseverance within our school. But beyond the awards and achievements, research consistently supports what we already know. Students who participate in band and choir perform better academically. Studies show that the music
050students score higher on standardized test, achieve higher GPA, and are more likely to graduate from college. The discipline required to master an instrument or perfect their vocal performance translates to success in the in the classroom. These students learn problem solving, time management, and collaboration, all essential skills for any career path they choose. Tonight, I want to take a moment to recognize the heart of this success, our dedicated band and choir directors. These educators go far beyond the classroom, investing countless hours before and after school, on weekends, and during the summer, ensuring that our students have every opportunity to thrive. Their impact extends beyond the class, beyond music. They are mentors, role models, and advocates, helping shape the lives of thousands of students in Springdale. To our directors, your work, your hard work is seen, your
051passion is appreciated, and your influence is immeasurable. Because of you, our students are not only excelling in music, but also in life. To our school board and district leadership, thank you for our continuing to support the arts in Springdale. Every investment in our music program is an investment in student success. And tonight, I want to just take you through just a a brief snapshot of what these guys do each and every day. 745 all region students uh qualifiers this year and 106 allstate qualifiers and America and 11 American Coal Director Association qualifiers. Um I made a little graphic here to see just the improvement they made over last year. There's a plus 45 on all region qualifiers and plus 11 on all state qualifiers. That's pretty darn amazing. Absolutely. Um, also we've developed quite a
052partnership with the Smeing Foundation who um, last year gave a generous contribution of $24,000 to fund adjunct tutors which allows a student to have kind of a private tutor lesson one-on-one or in a group. And that's something that we're very appreciative of. We've also applied for that again this year and applied for double funding of that so we can impact even more kids. So, just know that we're keeping our fingers crossed with this meeting foundation incorporated. Okay. First up, um, Harbor High School, 87 high school, all region students and 28 allstate students. Mr. Ford, do you want to add anything to that? Oh, that's what I have. All right. Way to go. Springdale High School, uh, 51 high school, all region students and six allstaters. Mr. All right. Absolutely. uh Don Tyson School of Innovation.
053Mr. Key today is um we had a split assessment where they assess in March and then also they assess in uh April and he's actually in the assessment right now running that assessment. But I want to say this since Don Tyson is, you know, um a K through 12 school, they actually have junior high region there as well. So they have 46 junior hall region students, 49 high school all region students, and 17 allstators, which is just outstanding. And there's a little bit of the work there with the jazz band, the all-state students as well. And then we get to central central junior high school, which is a kind of a unique story. We had a teacher that went on maternity leave this year and we got to experience Jan Boseman again. So Jan Boseman
054came back in and and we also we'll get to her part in a minute, but they had 53 um junior high all region uh students make it out of all that and she was a big part of that as well. So all absolutely Southwest Junior High School, we got anybody here from Southwest? Okay, so no one's here, but they had 44 all region students. You can see they had orchestra students, jazz band students, and all region students, which is really wonderful. Lakeside Junior High. Do we have anybody from Lakeside? Okay. Well, I will tell Oh, that's right. Their assessment as well right now. So, um, I will say something. I'm super proud of Lakeside. They were selected as the triple E honor band at the Arkansas All State Conference. And that's a really high prestigious
055honor. It got snowed out. They didn't get to perform, but they still got to perform in other ways. So, it's really a great high honor. And they had 20 28 all region players this year. And then last but not least, but George Junior High School band. Do we have anybody from George here? Kennedy. No. So, um assessment as well. Okay. So, then um 28 all region players there as well. And we are super proud of that team that's at George and just really taking that. I think they had sevenish last year. They went from seven to 28, which is just outstanding work. And then here is some work that I'm just going to brag on Mr. Stevens and Mr. Ford here just for a moment. Um I I' I've done marching band. Okay. The wet
056feet. Who's done marching band before? Raise your hand. Wet feet. Just hot. I mean like crazy hot all the time. And for these guys to consistently get first divisions in marching band year after year after year after year for 20, 30 years, it's just pretty amazing feat. Congratulations. Just to let you know what this is, it's marching band assessment. The one is the highest you can get. The five is the lowest you can get. So you can see all of our bands are performing in the one and two division right there. And the composite score is what you want to look at on that column. And then site reading as well is just a piece that's put in front of them. They've never seen it before. And they get graded one. They get what 10
057minutes to look at it. And then they get graded one to five on how well they played that piece, which is a testament to teaching because if you can't play the piece, then you weren't taught how to play it to begin with. Does that make sense? So that's a really good testament to their teaching abilities. And then we move on to choir, which is uh district choir students, 11 national ACDA honor choir members. Uh Mr. Pan or anybody want to talk about that just for a minute? Um 5,000 applications down to 400 kids nationally. It's a huge honor. like Dallas is saying with some of the best clinicians in the world. So yeah, a huge experience for us, massive honor for those students. And then on top of that, we have Harbor High School choir
058with 98 all region students and 35 all state. Mr. Pelter, you want to say anything with that? Awesome. Nast first chair and it actually went up to 36 by the time we 36 all stayers. We're not going to bump that number up. State champions as far as the so we're pleased with that five years. Absolutely. And then next we have Springdale High School with 36 high school all region players and seven allsters. Miss Peters, you want to say anything? Um, well, we almost doubled our all state numbers from last year last year of four and this year seven. So hopefully we just keep moving those numbers up. Absolutely. And then Don Tyson School of Innovation uh Cindy's not here is she? Okay. Um she had 43 junior high region because again they're K12 and then
059they had 30 all region high school students and 13 allstators. Uh did a lot of work there as well and just really wound up good. And then um also DTSI will go be performing or competing at state CPA on April 10th as well. And then Central Junior High School, Miss Terry we and Mr. Roth, they had 68 all region players. Do either one of you all want to say? Super proud. Okay. All right. Yeah. And then last uh but not Oops, sorry. We're not last but not least, Southwest Junior High School had 38 all region players. Shalter, you want to stay? Okay. Amazing kids. Amazing kids. He had some great ones there. And then Lakeside Junior High, Mr. Ben W. I saw him here earlier. Do you want to say anything about the uh 29
060all region players? I just want to really gra really brag about Lakeside. Um this is my third year with the district and and I stepped into the head role this year. This is in recent history the most students from Lakeside we've had make the outreaching choir and it was really really pride instilling to see just the ownership they had and wanting to accomplish that goal. We had 150 kids audition. So to have 29 of them make it I think we had 30 on the actual day of the event. It was very it was something to be very proud of. Very awesome. And then last but not least, we had George Junior High with 16 all region players. And we have Oops. Do we have Yep. Mr. Dax, you want to say? No, just too proud
061of them. They worked really hard for it. Okay. And then also coral performance assessment has happened also. And the the neat thing about core performance, they actually give you a score from each judge as well. So you can see their scores. And you can see that on their composite scores, they consistently just land right in that one, two division, which is great. Remember, one's the highest you can get. Five is the lowest you can get. So again, very proud of the work that they are doing. This is hours and hours and hours and hours of work right there that you're looking at. Just tons of time. And this is really any of these assessments are really like a student state assessment. So that's that's their state assessment that they have, which is really uh fantastic
062that I'm I mean I go sometimes when I'm a little stressed out to these coral performance assessments and it's just like my whole heart is just rejuvenated. So, it's pretty pretty neat little thing to do. And then last but not least, we have a fine arts celebration we'd like to invite you to. It's on Friday, May 9th. That's where we celebrate all the fine arts students, choir, and band who have scholarships on anything. And so, uh, Dr. Cleveland was there last year. It's fantastic event. We have a good time that night. It's about an hour long. We don't like to extend it out real long. So, it's just an hour event. We recognize everyone with their school flag and and we have them signed and it's just really neat. We have a reception afterwards if
063you want to come join us on that night. We'll be sending you another invite to that as well. Okay. Thank you guys for being here tonight. Have a question. The 47 I should have said that. Any questions? The 4700 participants. Is that K through 12 or is that that's 6 through 12? 6 through 12. Yes. Choir and band because remember in Don Tyson they start in six. Okay. Yeah. So that's about 30% of that population. They pull in a lot of kids. That's a lot of big. Absolutely. And these are all the teachers you see. Yes. I didn't mean it that way. I didn't mean it that way. I didn't mean it that way. But with the band and choir, if you calculated what these wonderful, amazing people do for our kids as far as
064the ones who travel into into higher ed or even into the world of work, if you translate that into money, that that's priceless. Yeah. I mean, I talked to Mr. Ford one day about all the kids who get to go to college and I can't even remember the mindboggling number he told me several years ago and then when when Mr. Ponto was trying to help me learn how to sing even Fred Roger songs we talked about that too and uh I guess what's always blown my mind is the middle school and the junior high choirs and bands talent level that transfers to the senior high. It's I mean some of those middle school choirs I mean it's got obviously started in elementary school but man so it's always been there. I've been on board 13
065years and it's just never I'll say another little piece and that we say this all the time and we meet as a team that I don't know if you realize this but a lot of school districts start in sixth grade. Okay. So these guys right here that you're looking at have to make up a year's worth of work in the seventh grade because they've got to make up all of sixth grade where they didn't have it and make it all the way up to catch them up to eighth grade. And they do that masterfully all these guys. So it's really a testament to their hard work because they could just say we're just going to come to work but no they don't do that. They're like how can we make this better? How can we
066make this better each and every year? Which is really fantastic. So great job. Thank you. One last share. Barry Fontau, a former central student at Harvard High School's in the second rounds in the voice right now. That's awesome. Oh, wow. He's about 32, so he's been working at this for a while. I didn't even have a clue. Somebody a counselor stopped me and said one of our kids. So check him out on The Voice. Okay, tonight I'll be sharing some important transitions with school safety. One that ensures consistency, strengthens collaboration, and allows us to be responsible stewards of district resources while at the same time maintaining the highest level of security for our student, staff, and visitors. As we move forward, we'll be transitioning from school resource officers to commission school resource officers at Rollins
067Elementary, aligning it with the security model already in place at 17 other elementary schools. Additionally, we will implement this transition at our four middle schools. These changes are fully supported by Chief Wright and of the uh Springdale Police Department and Chief Dennison at the Tonytown Police Department. We continue to maintain strong partnerships with both the Springdale and Tonytown Police Departments, working seamlessly as a team through cross trainining, which we do often, I mean, probably once a semester at least, and a collaboration. Our commitment to safety remains unwavering and and our students and staff and community can have full confidence that we're providing the highest level of security at all campuses. Over the last several weeks, I've had the privilege of discussing this transition with Springdale and Tonytown Police Departments, middle school administrators, and many staff
068members. I want to express my gratitude to all of these stakeholders for helping me make this seamless transition. On the screen in front of you, you can see what this transition looks like. I always look for the little laser pointer and I never can find it. Is that it? Yeah, that's it. So, you can see right here, we currently have an SRO at Tony Town. we'll be transitioning that to a CSSO. And these four middle schools, we currently have SRO's that will be transitioning to CSSOS. So, you can see now we'll go from 18 CSSOS to six uh we started with 18 CSSOs and 16 SRO's and next year we'll have 23 CSSOs and 11 SRO. And again, I want to tell you that I had long conversations with both Chief Wright, his captain, his
069new captain, Captain Pena, which congratulations, it was just announced. and then also Chief uh Chief Jennison and they're fully in support of this 100%. So any questions that you have with that? There is a cost savings. I figure you might ask that. Yep. Don't worry about cost. Yep. I think it's a great move. We have some outstanding CSSOs that we've been really blessed with retired. We have a forming Navy Seal. We have former Arkansas State Troopers. We have former Springdale Police Department. Hit's one of ours. uh and people reaching out each and every day to ask to be part of that team. So, it is absolutely outstanding. I'm excited about it. Um and they're still going to be great partners with us at those schools. If we need anything at all, they're going to be
070right there by our side. So, any other questions? I obviously feel confident with the same level of intensity. Yeah, their number their number one jobs are the same number one job. An SRO's number one job is to confront an active asalent with lethal force if necessary and a CSSO's number one job is to confront an active asalent with lethal force if necessary. There's differences. You know, a CSSO can't arrest or write tickets and but an SRO can't search without a warrant and can't ask questions. So, there's trade-offs to it, but we feel very confident we have a great plan in place. And I appreciate the support that everybody uh I went to Sonor Middle School, spoke with their whole staff for about 10 minutes, explained what we were doing, explained these same things that we're
071talking about right now and ask for questions, not one question. So, it was a very good I believe will be a great transition. And I'm I'm excited for these four people that we're going to be placing there. I want you to have full confidence in this that we're placing some of the most experienced people that we have there. And so, just know that as well. And um that also let the middle school principles know that that we are doing that and they gave them great confidence. It's just going to be a seamless transition. So any other questions? Okay. I think my section was a little shorter than Kendra's too. Yes. I was giving Mr. Donell a hard time because of the number of slides in his presentation. I was worried on the link, but um
072I have two items on your agenda tonight, board. The first is a legislative update. Um we're getting pretty close to the end of the session. Uh we're thinking about one more week is the plan that the legislature will recess on April 16th. Um and then leave the session open until May 5th, which will be siny die at the end of the session. What that means is that all acts that don't have an emergency clause will go into effect 91 days after the May 5th date that they officially adjourn and unless there's an emergency clause. So the date that we're looking at for effective dates of the acts is August 4th. Um this happens every session. We're looking at a lot of changes right as school is starting but um we just have to navigate as
073best we can. So, um, once the the session is done, we'll look at, um, you know, what immediate changes need to be made. We'll be looking for a to ASBA for guidance on policy changes that will need to be made, um, and start rolling those out as quickly as possible. You'll also know that um, the Department of Education will begin their rule making process, which can take a long time. They're still working on a few from the last legislative session. Um so even though the session's over, it almost um picks up speed on the work that has to be done. So a few bills that we're watching closely um House Bill 1945 and Senate Bill 205, they're similar bills um that basically move to allow the school choice process to cover both in district and
074out of district transfers. Um one of them has a capacity provision in it. I think it's two. No, I think it's 1945 has a capacity uh provision in it that 95% capacity is what we would use. Um so basically this would be the state mandating what our in district transfer process looks like um as open-ended. You can go to with this application process to pretty much any school um as long as they're within 95% capacity. Um, House Bill 1945 is further in the process, but we're also at the point in the session where you kind of get competing bills sometimes um that you think one may have stalled out, but another one um stalls out and this one passes it. And so when you have law or when you have bills that are covering the
075same topic, whichever one finishes last is the one that's in effect. So there'll be some of that sorting at the end of uh what the law actually turns out to be. Um you'll see that blank bullet point there because just before I came down to the meeting or earlier this afternoon um one of the bills got moved from the watching closely to the on the governor's desk. So we'll talk about that on the next slide. Um Senate Bill 451 is a bill that um several superintendent um in this area um have been working on offering some support for extreme student behaviors. It contemplates some DHS resources and task force um that would be able to come in and assist uh public schools with extreme student behaviors. Um we're hopeful that at least some form of
076that bill makes it through so that we have some additional resources. We've been talking about Senate Bill 90, I think from that first legislative update. Um it's Senator English's bill that deals with public comment at schoolboard meeting. Um it appears she's been very open to the amendments that have been requested and the form that it is in now um is one that is not much different than how you all operate. It would allow public comment at board meetings. It does say before business items. So we would navigate what that looks like. Um but it does limit the p the people who can comment to um patrons of the district um parents of students in the district or employees of the district. So that was one of the concerns that we talked about early on is
077opening it up for you know national advoc advocacy type groups to come in and have a a stage. Um it also has a provision that would limit the public comment to three minutes and then um a process for if public comment goes over 30 minutes moving some of that public comment to the end of the meeting. So overall it's definitely a bill that we can um work through. There'll be some revisions on processes, but we're certainly pleased that um the amendments as they are now um are things that will be easy enough to work through. Again, that one hasn't made it through yet, but it appears to be um getting some momentum, and I expect it will be um law when this is all said and done. We talked about Senate Bill 484. I think
078it was filed right before your last meeting. Um, in the original version of it allowed the Secretary of Education to fill a vacancy on a school board, there has been an amendment. Um, the amendment now is very similar to the process that you all have used in filling a vacancy before and that there's an application process and publication of that application. Um, and it is not just a a fill by the Secretary of Education. So again, we'll continue to watch that because it directly affects your work, but the amendments to that bill um look to be pretty good. These two bills are on the governor's desk. Um the first one, House Bill 1598, um has to do with the state's accountability system. They'll be redesigning the accountability system with a new assessment system. Um it
079allows for um no letter grades to be issued for the 23 24 school year and then um design the new accountability system issue the grades for 2425 but then there'll be sort of a appeal process for that grade. Um again that one's on the governor's desk. I don't see any reason why it wouldn't be signed but it's not signed yet. And this one just made it to the governor's desk this afternoon. House Bill 1724 um which has to do with school board members terms. We talked about that um probably the last meeting, maybe the one before. There have been some amendments to it. Um the the meat of the bill now requires school boards to have either four or sixyear terms. Um and one of the provisions that was concerning with us when came out
080was um shortening some of the terms of people who have already been elected. Um that those provisions are still in there, but it's not as big of an effect as when it first came out. So for um example, it says that if your term set to expire in 2026, it'll still expire in 2026. Um, if your term is set to expire in 2028, it will still expire in 2028. The one that changes is the one of our one board member who's not here. 2027 will now expire in 2026. Um, again, I think there's probably some issues there. I've talked to actually a couple of attorneys today about it. Um, and it makes them uncomfortable as well. I don't know how that will shake out. Um, but that's what the current form of this bill is.
081And like I said, it's on the governor's desk. Um, ready for her signature. I was thinking I was 26. I mean 27, too. What? I thought I was 27. I think you're either 26 or 28. Well, look. I pulled it up before I came up. I think I'm 28. The same year. Our website says you're 28. So, and finally, I won't go through all of these. You may want to look through them later. These are some bills that have already passed. Um, there have been several um bills about things that are going to have to be taught in school through various processes. One, the perils of communism. Um, another firearm safety. Um, we've talked about public school employees being released from their contracts by May 15th. the governor's access bill, which was um kind of
082her higher ed version of learns. Some people call it learns 2.0. Um I just want to tell you this because I've gotten several questions on this. When you read the bill itself, you see some strikethroughs that might make you think AP classes are going away. Um it's just how the bill is written. AP classes are not going away. the bill moves um to a more comprehensive word or term called accelerated classes. And that term includes AP, IB, concurrent credit, and CTE classes with the idea that all of those courses will in some format have an opportunity to be a weighted credit. And so I just want you to know that AP classes are not going away. there are going to be additional opportunities for weighted credit, but when you do read the bill, um if
083you don't read through the whole thing, you see some strikethroughs of AP and you kind of panic. So, that's not what's happening there. Again, there's a lot that will have to be fleshed out on that. Um but since several people have asked me specifically about that, I wanted to make sure you had that talking point um because I'm sure you'll get asked too. Um, we've already talked about uh minutes of your board meetings being posted and agendas being approved. We already do that um for the most part. There are a couple of bills that would make amendments to the Freedom of Information Act. Um, we're going to see where those shake out and um and if any changes need to be made. Most of them that we've looked at really just um codify the way
084that you all are trained as far as how you conduct your business. Um, so it's nothing that's that's really earthshattering on that front. Um, once everything is passed, it might be beneficial for us to do a lunch and learn and really dive into some of these and um, you know, hearing from the curriculum and instruction team on what it actually looks like to implement some of these things may be beneficial. So, if that's the case, we can look at that when we get a full list of of everything and see what what passes and doesn't. It was me. Oh, I'm sorry. I was like the voices from the Yeah, it sounded like back there. I know you don't have the answers, but free breakfast for any student like is that is there funding tied to
085that? Yes, we talked about this one time. Um, and I'll mention it again. The funding is coming from the medical marijuana money. That's kind of ironic. I know. It's kind of It's worth mentioning again because it's kind of funny. Apparently the fun. So does the money come anyway or do the students have to be signed up to get that money or how does that work? I believe there'll be some reimburse reimbursement process that that school districts go through and our food service already goes through that with the federal government. So I assume there'll be some sort of matching process with with the state. There's nothing that the student has to fill out or do. They simply have to say, "I'd like breakfast." Yes. So, if you're full pay, you get free breakfast, but if you're
086reduced, you get free breakfast regardless. And if you're free, you get full free breakfast. But we will get reimbursement from federal government on that. Are there any questions about legislation? Okay. Um, the second item that I have for you is approval of the policy updates. You'll remember last month I went into a little bit more detail about what these policy updates are. Um, essentially we're moving to section six of the model policies as we slowly get there incorporating all of those. And then there are some various kind of cleanup changes or minor changes that were brought forth by PPC um that make a lot of sense. for example, um how sick days and personal days occur. Nothing changed in the policy. There's just a table in there to make it more clear. Um allowing outofstate
087college experience to count as teaching experience. Um they have been shared with both PPCs. Um I have gotten very little feedback and so I'm happy to answer any questions. Otherwise, I would ask that you approve the updates to those policies. questions. I make a motion that we approve the policy updates as presented. Have a motion by Mrs. Cook and a second by Mrs. Creek to approve the policy updates as presented. All those in favor? I opposed. Motion passes. All right. Thank you. Thanks, Peter. Good evening board. Dr. Cleveland. Um the first item on my portion of the um agenda is the seeking approval of the March 2025 financial statements that was in your board packet. Um the financial statement reflects that we're about 83% of the year has been completed uh for financial purposes. Our
088year-to- date revenues exceed our year-to- date expenditures by approximately 7.4 million. Our next large tax revenue period will be in May, and that's when we will see the collection of all those escrow payments for taxes on residential. So, we should see that um coming up here pretty soon. Um we're a little bit ahead of our um expect or where we were at the same time last year on our collection of revenues on um we're about where we need to be for expenditures. I did want to point out on vocational education. It looks like we've expended 94.32% of our budget, but that's a little bit of anomaly because year-to- date we have gotten about 546,000 in reimbursements for equipment that we've purchased for CTE. And so at the beginning of the year, we weren't expecting that.
089So if you take that out of the expenditures year to date, we're at about 67% which is where we should be for the year. So, I just wanted to point that out because I was afraid that that might give you a little bit of pause when you look at that. Um, the other supporting services reflects some spending from Treehouse Pantry, which was um we have received that as local donations. So, even though that does look like that is out of line with budget, it really isn't because we had additional revenue collected that is actually covering that. Um, our next payment for debt service will be due in May and at that point we will see approximately 7.6 million in principle and interest will be expended as expected on the budget. Are there any questions? Do
090you have any updates on all of you for and thank you for giving me my play with it today and it was good. Okay. Um I think do we need approval of this and then I'll I'll be happy to give an update on all of you. Make a motion to approve the March 2025 financials. Second have a motion by Mr. Ramos and a second by Mr. Owen to approve the March 2025 financials. All those in favor? I opposed passes. Okay. Thank you. Um, I I'm going to step ahead and and answer Dr. Cleveland's question about all of you. You can do it any time. Oh, okay. All right. Then if if you don't mind, then I'm going to go ahead and do the disclosure. Okay. Um, I have a related party um transaction request or
091contract disclosure form. This is from Mr. James Crumby uh doing business as Crumby Designs LLC. He is offering design services um for uh various items within the district uh that would really be used like in t-shirt design uh logo design that type of thing. He said as owner of Crumby Designs and a teacher in the district he knows the value of staying within budget. He'll provide a portable design services. So attached is also a resolution for your approval that would grant um the district the ability to do business with him from April 8th of 2025 through April 7th of 2027. Make a motion to approve the related party transaction uh for uh James Crumpy Crumpy Designs. So a motion by Mr. Ramos and a second by Mrs. Creek to approve the related party transaction for
092Mr. All those in favor I opposed motion passes. Thank you. Um in reference to aliv you should have all received an email this afternoon from Brandon Castow. He is our representative with Aliv. It should have gone to your preferred um email address that uh Miss Smalling has on file for you. Um so there's just a link that you can click that will get you into the program. Um the next day or two you should also I will be sharing with you a document. Um it's really more of a PowerPoint presentation that will kind of give you um kind of an overview of what is in the program how you can access different things and what they mean. Um, it will kind of be a breathing a living breathing document in that as I get requests
093from each of you individually of how do I get to this part of the program, I'll be adding to that document so that if um, Mr. Emerson sends me a request about how to access something, I'll add that to the document so that at a later time if Miss Creek's looking for that same that'll be available. And so, um, there are some things that, um, I will note in there, uh, that we we're working with Mr. Castow as far as adding to the program as a functionality. Um, one of the things that comes to mind is that when you get in there and you can look at the staffing, there's not a a the ability to search by name to be able to get to like if you're looking for a Mr. Smith to see
094what their uh, salary benefits are. there's not a search function in the program for that. And so hopefully as we uh progress through that, those items, they seem to very be very open to trying to add that functionality to the programs. So any questions y'all have, if y'all will email those to me, I'll be happy to pass pass those along to him. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Hello board and Dr. Cleveland. I don't have any photos today. So um Central Junior High over spring break we finished that up. Um along with both Springdale High and Harbor High baseball softball projects. So those are completed. Um, so a quick update for the professional development center. Um, so on the second floor where we've got primer put on the walls, first coat of paint is on there.
095Uh, we've got the duct work started on the first and the second floors. Um, we had to put the roofing off last week because of all the rain. So this week they're flute filling that and installing the tpo roof. Um, and then we've started um putting in the ceiling on the first floor. And then we've finished putting in all the FRP panels in the in the restrooms on the second floor. So So the finishes are going through really well on that project. We'll start putting in sound panels on the second floor and then I'll have our custodial department go by and do the the final grind on the on the concrete probably in the next pro probably next weekend. um the industrial arts building over here, uh the old lock building. Um we're digging footings
096for the uh storm shelter. And then we did have some structural issues, so we're adding some footings to put in a new support bracket on on part of that roof. Um all the insulation has been completed there. Um the electrical's been started. We should get temporary electrical power back next week. Um, and then all the the CMU block is going in right now for for all the classrooms. Um, and then we did have a meeting with the planning department of the city today and um, they gave us a permit for the interior. So, we'll get that tomorrow to continue on on the work we're doing and then we'll get another permit for the exterior. And the exterior portions are just there are two awnings. One will be on the north side, one on the south
097side. Um, and then we're also going to add perimeter fencing. We've had a lot of foot traffic through there, so we're going to put some temporary fences up to keep that site separate from the from the public. Um, and then also this week, um, actually last week, Fimple and I worked on, um, the Harbor football field turf. We got that released, so it's in production right now. Um, and we're set to start that on May 19th. As soon as soccer and everything's over, we'll we'll start in on that project. We're shooting for about 28 or 29 day turnaround from tearing it out to to being done. Um, so we're working with uh our architect on some we're going to redo that plastic fencing. It's all deteriorated. So, we're going to go back with some black
098uh rod iron like we did at Springdale. Do you guys have any questions on any of that? Running out of stuff to do. Uh yeah. Yeah, we we completed two, but we're working on the next ones. So now we're ready on for Friday, right? Yep. Friday. I've got a baby bus reserved. So I'll have it. We'll bring it over. And what's the menu? You don't know. Um I'm looking at Leanne. I don't know. Leanne just got back. She's had a family, so she just barely got figured out. Yeah. But yeah, we'll we'll we'll have everything ready for Friday. Do we have any water or wind damage from the weather the last few weeks? We did have um several leaks. Just a lot of them was because the roofs couldn't shed the water quick enough. Um
099so I mean probably had 200 leaks. Um we did have several lightning damage on fire alarms. um some of the fob systems and then actually school of innovation Friday about noon took a lightning strike, knocked out the u the east generator and and part of the building. So our guys, our our electrical crew got there and started bypassing the transfer switches and getting the emergency lights and everything back on. I think they finished up um Friday night into the night. Um, we do have some prices. We've already got prices. We've got parts coming to replace the transfer switch that got hit. So, we did have some damage. Um, and then we've been working through through the weekend and then this week on on the roof leaks. So, Okay. Thank you. All right. Thanks, Good evening
100school board and Dr. Cleveland. My name is Valerie Hannah and I am the SEA president, also a teacher here in Springdale. And this feels weird to say, but I'm very excited to be back after being gone for two months. Um, I think there's a lot of people that get in know you guys and are not as excited to be here and for some reason it just felt wrong to be gone for two months. So, um, that being said, last month we were able to elect two of our SEA members who will get to accompany myself and Miss Cali Day to the NEA uh, representative assembly this summer in Portland. um as Springdale delegates, Miss Demetria Watts of SHS and Miss Andrea Danenhauser uh of DTSOI. Um so they will be Cali and I will be
101Arkansas delegates and um Miss Watson, Miss Danhouser will actually be specific to Springdale that we are um bringing them with us. I think it'll be also a great opportunity for them to see what all that looks like and just fun time to have in Portland. So, in the past several months, the barrage of bills and legislative changes have been decidedly exhausting. Um, and it's an and the unfortunate effect of all of this is that we're starting to get and seeing educator apathy where we are exhausted. We don't even want to look at our news feeds or any of that stuff because it's just another day, another thing. Um, but we do truly appreciate the efforts that are being made by Dr. Cleveland, the board, and Miss Tisher, Miss Tisher to protect us with all of
102the new legislation that is being passed that can affect us. Um, it was funny because as I, as Miss Tisher was going through her report, I was clicking stuff off of what I was going to say because I was like, "Yep, she got that one. She got that one." H You mean Miss Clay? Miss Clay? Oh my gosh. Sorry, Miss Clay. I mean, Miss Clay, I was really confused. Yeah, Miss Tisher's doing a great job, too. Yeah. Um, she was like, you know, filling in the next role, like going to be curriculum. She wants to be she just she just does it all for us, right? Um, swap. One of the ones that is one of the newest ones that has come up is House Bill 1939, which would cut off educators from the state
103national board bonus if they have not achieved the certification by July 1st of 2025. And if you don't know, getting your board certificate or your national boards takes about a year to do. So, the fact that they've introduced it here at the end of March with a deadline of July means that essentially if this bill were to pass, no one would get their national board bonuses anymore. Um, or no new person, I should say. Um, and within the bill, it also makes it more difficult in certain areas for um, educators to get merit pay. Now, I will admit and I am very grateful for the fact that I am in a school district where I don't have to worry as much about whether or not that merit pay is coming or not because of the
104pay scale that we do have. But that does lead me to worry about what funding might be retracted in the future and that will eventually affect us. So, just something to keep an eye on and maybe ask questions about. Now, back to the happier stuff. Um, so we got an email today for that the scholarship applications have been opened up and we are excited to to look at the students uh from Harbor, SHS, SOI, and Archer who have applied for our future our SEA future educator scholarships. Um, I know they're due by the 25th and by the time we meet again, one of the announcements will be made. So, we might be able to say a name then, but a couple of the others will still not be made, but at least we know they
105are coming. Um, and finally, uh, occasionally SEA has the opportunity to endorse a candidate. A motion was made early last week, uh, to our board and was unanimously approved to endorse Mr. Eddie Ramos for reelection in the upcoming schoolboard election. We are excited to offer our still full support to Mr. Ramos and as he has been a consistent advocate for our educators and so and our support for professionals throughout his time on school board. He has been a great support to our association and we believe that he is the kind of school board member that we need here in Springdale. We have encouraged all of our SEA members to show their support for Mr. Ramos, even if they do not live in zone 5, your support can still make a difference. We would also say
106like to say thank you to Mr. Ramos for the continued advocacy and involvement in shaping the future of our Springdale schools. Thank you. Oh, side note, we made a little flyer. Thank you. You're getting a drip. Can I Can I get a thousand of those, please? I I I guess you Thank you. Oh boy. Do I say something or Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody have anything else? Uh May 13th or May 13. If you all will have me again, I will collaboratively rejoin. another five years or four or six or three. Somebody will have to tell you. Yes. We'll keep you on the team, big head. Okay. So, that actually is appreciate it. That's a school meeting. Yes, sir. Oh, it is a school board meeting. N graduation meeting. Okay. All right. Everybody
107good? Anything else? That meeting is adjourned. Thanks for coming. Thank you. Very nice. Good job. I signed a couple of those. Would you like to get out of here? No, I said