001So after how many days? You have to have at least 10 days prior to the 27th. >> That's what that's my dad. I can't but I think that works for me too. >> Okay. So if I miss, >> but that's only what that's just going to budget. >> Yeah. So that should be super quick. >> Thank you very much. >> All right. I see it. >> I was looking. >> All right. Welcome to the uh regular school board meeting of Smith Green Community Schools on Monday, August 18th, 2025 at 6:31 to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. >> The mission of Smith Community Schools is to provide a superior educational experience that
002ensures success for every student through excellence in teaching and learning. Please join me in a moment of meditation. Thank you. >> Next celebration. >> In that case, uh, I'd like to inform the board that our staff spotlight. I'm pleased to announce we will be honoring our staff once again starting next month thanks to our generous support of our sponsors. Also, our student spotlight will be starting again next month which is always fun and I'm looking forward to that. So, those things will continue starting next month in case you wondering. Um, also I'm hopeful by next month uh that Mrs. and our local artists will have some art ready for us to display on our walls. Um, also I'm very proud of our teachers and administrators and custodian and kitchen staff for getting things prepared and
003ready for students. If this year goes anything like the first week, I think very excited about this year. Um, then the other thing is I would like to publicly uh thank Mrs. her work uh in preparation for our new teacher orientation, our leadership summit. Um all the additional new training for our teachers that they have received uh leading up to the school. Her hard work has been very impressive and very much appreciated. So thank you. >> And that is all I have. Since we don't have any public tonight, we will skip over that section. under the consent agenda. I would like to draw your attention uh to proposed fundraisers. Uh the girls flag football team uh would like to have a sale day for donations August 14th and our high school band would like to
004do guilt guilty pleasure November 3rd through 14th. Any questions or concerns on If not a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. >> All those in favor. >> Next is our personnel report that we would ask you to approve. I would like to recognize Dr. Nikki Baker, new English teacher who will be replacing Mr. Turner. Um also Mr. Drew Buffer, our baseball coach who will be replacing Mr. Turner. Mr. Tyler Hoffman, cross country coach, junior high cross country coach who will be replacing Mrs. Foxton. And then uh Mrs. Ashley Smith, the cross country coach for the high school who will be replacing Mr. Fox. Questions or concerns on the personel report? Motis report. [Music] No surprises, right? No surprises this time of year. >> First thing we ask for your approval is our latch
005key agreement. Uh this is a agreement between Smith Community Schools and Chair Bus Community Child Care Center. It's a annual report that we ask for your approval for August through June of 2020. >> This goes through 2020, >> correct? >> Motion to approve the latch key agreement. Next, we ask you for your approval for form three, which is permission to advertise. Um, this is a public hearing on the 2026 CPF plan, bus replacement plan, operation fund, education fund, debt service fund, and rain fund. Uh, it will need to be advertised at least 10 days prior to the hearing. So, like I said, planning on the hearing on the 27th now of October and 10 days prior might have a special question to approve form Other business we have since we don't have any public we
006will skip that section as well. Moving into board member administration principal. >> Um I was just going to share that we got off to a really great start. I was going to make a comment too about all Erica's work. Um, our our professional learning days, our teacher work days were really great and organized this year. I feel like we had a lot of time together. The teachers really appreciated that. Um, so that was really exciting, especially on my end where there were lots of changes to scheduling and staffing and things like that. So, I just wanted to to put that out there. Um, also wanted to publicly thank uh, April Figer. She worked I don't even want to know how many hours she put in. for us to get transportation around for our new programming
007um into the summer, well into the summer. Um we had some time changes in our programming that we weren't anticipating and so April worked with um Sandra Cook and Sarah Mutter uh around the clock to get it right and everybody's getting to where they're supposed to be. April got really creative and um did some really cool partnering with with districts around us. And so um we'll have some dry paints because obviously it was new, but we've got a lot of kids um that are able to participate and able to make sure that everybody got where they needed to. So, that was really exciting. Um, we've added some new things to the lane. I have a really cool um student council um group of kids and um Reese Menthorne who is a current junior actually sent
008me a proposal for the new um parking spots that you see out there. Um so that was really exciting and um it was pretty good turnout for our first time. So, we have a lot of fun things in the works. Um working really hard to bring back some traditions. So stay tuned for some um things coming when homecoming comes around. Um athletics is off to a great start. Um Coach Smith has jumped right into um coaching cross country um and just told me this morning that um the kids did really great at their meet on Saturday. We had two girls finish in the top 40, which there are hundreds and hundreds of kids. That's a really big deal. Um, and I was just told that one of our girl golfers just shot the lowest possible
009on the course this week, too. So, they're all excited about that. So, lots of cool things going on. And if you saw my most recent post, our boys um the football team got into the the weight room and had their first official workout. And uh the boys think it's pretty pretty awesome. All of the kids think it's pretty awesome, but that was cool that they got to go in there. And the thing that I kept hearing over and over is that they were all in there together at the same time. There were no like shifts and cycles. So, really cool things happening. Um, if you have if you want to stop in, um, I encourage you to come in and see the kids in the the STEM labs and the classrooms, too. They're they're just
010so excited. So, I appreciate everybody's support through this whole, uh, construction mess. Um, and you know, it it's it's been worth the wait. So, we're we're feeling really good over there. So, >> that's all I got. >> Thank you. My updates are just real short here. I just want to let the board know that uh the formative assessment grant has changed a little bit. And so I think we talked last fall about this time of we were testing kids so much. Um this year kids in grades three through eight will no longer take NWA. So the state those checkpoints so we have one less test in those grades. So we're excited about that. Um we are picking up an assessment tool for grades 9 through 12. Um in assessment tool, but it's based on standards
011mastery. So, we get a little bit sharper at the secondary level and math and ELA. We're going to title that uh this year. So, we're excited about that. We got some updates on assessment. And then, um Susan and I got really great news that our title grants are being audited. Um so, we've begun, we're going down that road and that's been a really heavy lift. Um, but in the end, we'll get some good feedback from the state on how we can improve and what we can do better. So, it will be good once we're through it, but it's going to be a big lift until >> Thank you. >> Um, just a reminder that the ISBA conference is September 15th, 16th. If any of you are interested in going, please just let me know after
012you register. Also, our current enrollment numbers are at 11:37 and that is with our kindergarten class being down. So, last year was 11:04. So, that's pretty exciting. >> That's significant. That's awesome. >> Yes, it is. >> Um, and thank you. I just want to Obviously, our next board meeting has changed now. So, I appreciate that. And our Rotary golfing, the Rotary is coming up as well. I think I mean now too watching. Um I just want to say thank you to obviously all the staff and administrators. I've heard nothing but positive comments so far from the beginning of the year. So, it's always great as you know, we're hearing that things are running smooth. So, so I just want to say thank you. >> That's all I gorgeous. That's Yeah, that's exciting. But I think
013that also a testament to what we're doing, right? >> Yeah. I think I think we're moving in the right direction. Yeah. So, and I've also not heard anything but great stuff. So, um all my kids are very pleased. My oldest has already forgotten an assignment. My lunch. So, did great stuff. >> Uh I just wanted to thank the I believe it's the Rotary that contributed significantly to system. >> So, thank you to them for their local contributions. It's very helpful. very affordable and reduces the load on very generous >> football field and baseball fields. >> I said I walked home from work yesterday. I made sure to stop and looked at the paintings out there. Really neat. That was a great idea. But I I took quite a bit of time. Plus, I had to
014go home and get my kid. But so I thought that's pretty cool. And then just everybody watching, these things are really cool. You need some at your house and thanks for those. That's all I got. >> Oh yeah. I just kudos to all our work everybody puts in in the summer to get everything ready. custodians, the transportation, every little detail that goes into everything. Um, thank you to Susan for all your hard work you're doing for audits and getting members ready for everything coming up on your plate. So, thank you for that. But I just, you know, kudos to everybody, the teachers, the staff, all the kids have definitely been made to feel very welcome. Um, and I think excited to be back in school. So, thank you for that. I love the parking lot
015thing. Something I wish we would have done years ago. So, that's great to see that stuff happen. Um, was phenomenal. When we came on back to school night, which was another great successful evening, we walked out the way to check it out. So, it was very, very neat. It's exciting to see the progress our school's making. Um, being such good. >> I can tell you things are happening. Anything else? So, our next board meeting will be September 17th. Is that correct? And with that, we will close the Monday, August 18th, 2025 regular board meeting of Smith Community Schools at 6:47. I know here bought it and