001A word of prayer. Let's pray. Father, we thank you again for a time to come and do the school's business. And Lord, as we get toward the end of the school year and our seniors are excited about graduating, just pray you'll be with them, help them to get everything done, Father, be with our students, faculty throughout each day to keep us safe. Be with our athletic teams, Lord, that are in the playoffs. Help them to enjoy that time and that process. And Lord, we pray for three of our students that were in an accident Friday night and pray that you'll continue to watch over them. Thank you that it wasn't much worse. And so, Lord, just help us tonight to do the business that would be pleasing to you. We thank you for all that
002you do for us. In your name we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. I aliance 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. Honor the Texas flag. I aliance to thee Texas. One state under God, one and indivisible. [Music] Good evening and welcome to everyone tonight watching at home. Mr. Palmer, come on up. I I gotta read this if you'll give me just a second to the podium or wherever you'd like to go. Well, that's fine. Um, I know you have uh sat in this seat before, but I still got to read this. [Music] All right. The board will now hear comments from those persons who have signed up to speak. This portion of the meeting is
003set aside for parents, students, employees, and community members to speak to the board about any matter of interest that pertain to the school program. Each person may be may speak for no more than five minutes. During this part of the meeting, the board will listen, but it is forbidden by the Texas Open Meetings Act from specifically responding to or discussing any topic raised or from making any decision unless the ma that matter is already on the agenda of this meeting. The board reminds speakers that public comment is not the time or place to bring the board specific complaints about a particular program or a particular employee. Such complaints are heard in closed meeting in order to protect confidentiality of all parties. The board will now entertain complaints or criticism about individual employees during this time.
004If I board president determine that at a presentation during open form is a specific complaint against an employee, I may respectfully ask that that the person conclude their comments and will refer such individual to the complaint process and local policy. The board is required to respond in this matter under board policy. The board expects all speakers and members of the audience to behave in a polite and orderly fashion during this and all other portions of the meeting. Any loud, disrespectful, profane, or disorderly conduct or language exhibited by a speaker, audience member may result in the board limiting the speaker's comments in public forum. Conclusion of the public forum portion entirely, or if needed, removal of disrupted persons from the boardroom. The board will notify each speaker when their time has concluded. All right. I'm keep
005floor's yours. Five minutes. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. All right. Well, just kind of simply the reason I passed out these books and whatever, um I've noticed I've been, you know, in this position as well, plus I've also Shane knows I go talk to all the the seniors about, you know, at the end of the year every year for things. And I've noticed a change in our children, a change in our kids. And y'all have noticed it too from when as kids grow up that the kids are a little different now. Okay? And one of the reasons that they're a little different now, one of the according to the research on all this stuff has to do with, of course, uh, cell phones, constant cell phon, constant cell phone use. Okay? Now, we can't control what
006people do outside of the school, but we can certainly control in school. And I have noticed not only just from doing the junior achievement stuff that with the senior stuff that it is a constant distraction that people are always on it. The teachers are always trying to stop the kids or prevent them from doing their cell phones whatever. And what we have is a different kind of kid too because there's a certain problem with these that have that have been around for a while but it started around when and I notic in my my two kids my oldest son Hunter and my youngest son Haley in between there is when the cell phone use became the big the big thing and as soon as they invented this type of thing where you had a reverse
007uh camera so then that's when the selfie thing started um has become incredibly detrimental to young girls as they're growing up because they're busy constantly comparing themselves to everyone else is terrible for boys. They they see internet porn at a very young age which they no business doing. Um kind of things that you can't imagine. And what I what it talks about in that book and what I would challenge you to do is to read the book and find a reason not to get rid of cell phones at least at school because that's what we can do. We can just stop it. No. No. You just can't have it. There's always going to be an excuse like an emergency. If there's emergency, the kids need to be listening to Shane or someone in charge of
008the school rather than calling mom or trying to talk talk to them. It's not going to be something that cannot be done handled at school. If there's a real emergency, mom and dad will know about it soon enough. Okay? But the cell phone use is so extreme and so bad and so detrimental that it's causing social problems with our kids. They don't socialize like they should. Uh the book goes into great detail about how kids have been kind of pulled indoors. Y'all probably seen me and my wife walking up and down this road all the time. No kids are playing outside. Okay, when I was growing up, every kid played outside. Okay, that's not good. That's harmful. That's harm. The kids are not playing. They're not socializing with each other, but they're inside or they're
009on their phone. The classes are even quieter than they used to be because everyone's on their phone. Okay. Now, if you're you say, "Oh, it's quieter. It's nicer." That's not normal. and the the even the kids growing up now, it's it's the kids that's that were born in about 2,000 past that. Those are the ones that are the most exposed to this. And I find it so harmful and so detrimental. But then I just noticed every time I went to do junior achievement class, it was just a fight to get anyone's attention. And I know I I'm doing it as a minor teacher. I'm not trying to get the coach or whoever is teaching economics in trouble cuz they're having to fight the same thing too. But these kids simply didn't bring it to school
010to begin with or had someplace to put it and not get it in between class, pick it up after school. What the kids find out and you'll see from what has happened in different schools. Oh, is that the kids start to talk to each other more and they realize I can be without this eight hours a day. It makes it easier on the parents when they get home. Hey, you did without eight hours. You can do without a few more. Okay, this is harmful and we can control it here as a school board and but we can't control what happens outside here. But I would challenge y'all to read it and give some good explanation as to why we have to have cell phones at school. There's no reason for it and there shouldn't be
011there. It's harmful. That's all I got to say. Mr. Cook, anybody else? No, sir. All right. Thank you for participating even though you left. Thank you for participating in public school board. This meeting board is prohibited from making any specific responses to your comments other than direct policy and/or agreement processes for parents or employees. Any board members wishing to place an item addressed in your comments on the agenda for a future meeting, we'll follow the agenda request procedures outlined in board policy and operating procedures. Should you wish to file a formal complaint, the superintendent or other administrator can provide the necessary forms and answer any procedural questions regarding the grievance process. Thank you again for your participation. I will now move us to agenda item three, education spotlight. Mr. Ste, recognition. We got some students
012here tonight. Uh, first off, we're gonna have Brianna Culvin and Kate Force could be here, but also Charles Bryan come up. We're going to recognize them for their achievements in academic UIL. So, we had a uh a tie for first place in UIL physics and three of the students in Huntington High School were part of that tie, including Brianna and Charles. So Brandon here for that. But also Charles placed not over tie first in physics but also placed first in biology and then overall first place in UIL science from the district. So congratulations. [Applause] One, two, three. Got him. All right. Next, I'm ask Coach Ford's here. I'm have him come up as well. Coach Ford is our powerlifting coach. And if you uh didn't know, I'll tell you he is uh passionate about powerlifting
013and goes above and beyond. um has brought in um some outside organizations and we host uh national contests, organization, affiliation contest, not just our uh our powerlifting during a season and move on to the next thing. He's he's adamant about it all the time and very passionate. Uh and we definitely see his work paying off with our athletics program and also powerlifting. But tonight we have the honor of having Solomon Reed is here, Sullie. Sully. And Sully is a threetime state powerlifting qualifier. His squat is 640 lbs. His uh deadlift is 525 lbs and his bench press is 465 lbs. uh for a total they add those three weights up and that's 1625 pounds which uh the total the bench and the squat are all three Huntington High School records and so he was able
014to go and [Applause] compete able to go to compete in the state powerlifting meet this year. Unfortunately, the week prior to the meet, uh, he got CO, right? Is that right? Okay. As you can imagine, that's not conducive to lifting a bunch of weight in in recovery, but he was able to go and compete. Um, but made us very proud with that and just thankful that he was able to go and compete. So, congratulations, sir. Junior break all those records again next play football. Yes. All right. Last but not least, I'm gonna have uh these guys come up together. Brandt and Gabe and Matteo and Edgar. Think all four of them. Yep. Guys, come on [Applause] up. These four uh young men were um on the 4x4 relay this year. Uh I'll get to y'all
015in just a second. um competed in the 4x4 relay and were the first uh Huntington team to qualify for the finals of the regional 4x4 relay at the regional track meet and they were district champions in the 4x4 relay. On top of that, uh we have Gabe Wardo. And Gabe was the uh district champion in the mile and the two-mile. Was also on this uh 4x4 team which won district and then qualified for the finals at regions. And then uh was also the area champion in the mile and in the two mile. He can run some distance, guys. And then Mr. Kobar not only is in the 4x4 relay, but he was the the district champion in the 800, which is two laps for everybody. He is the area champion in I'm sorry, the regional
016champion in the 200 and he qualified at the regional meet. Am I saying all this right? 800. What did I say? Sorry. 800 qualified for the state track meet, which he'll be competing Thursday afternoon in Austin at Daryl K. Royal uh at the state uh track meet. So very proud of [Applause] him. One one last thing I'll say just as a side note is um these these kids really do work extremely hard. Um last week I saw Matteo out running in the evening time with Brandt. Although Matteo did not qualify uh for the state meet, he knew his buddy was going and he went out and was running five five and a half I think he said miles with him just to have so his buddy' have somebody to run with uh practicing for the
017state this morning uh before school. He didn't probably know I saw him, but uh Gabe also runs cross country. And this morning before school, Gab's out on the cross country course getting ready for cross country, which isn't until uh September or uh August started first of school next year, but he's already out there. He's already working on it. So, just the dedication that that they're doing. And so, we wish Brandt good luck this week at state and just the hard work, dedication's paying off, guys. Okay, our education. Okay. Um, I need all my fifth grade science kid to come on up. All right. Uh, this is just a group of our fifth grade students from Miss Wells and Miss Thigpen's class. They've been working on science projects. Miss is going to tell you a little
018bit about them and then they're gonna kind of show them off to you around the room and tell you one unique thing about their project, their animal that they chose. So, we combined our project based learning with our digital learning. So, they did this part at home and then they did their animal research at school. They were combining knowing their environments, their biotic, their abiotic features, their food chains and food webs, how if one creature goes missing, how it affects everything, and then their biome. And they work really hard on these at home. And I love you see them, and they can tell you some things about their animals that they did choose themselves because I think that's really important for kids to pick something that interests them. You want to get your project and
019go around the room? Can I show them what you s [Music] It's hard. [Music] Do they get away? I don't know. We're going to get a green [Music] I guess you Come right here. [Music] This makeup's That's our I found it. You don't know that. It's pretty cool. [Music] I'm trying. [Music] right here. We're going to take a group picture right there. Are you ready? You want me to take it back? [Music] Good job. Good job. I'll see you tomorrow. Yes, sir. Thank you. Huh? You teach him how to run like that? No. I thought he was running from He told me earlier that helped him. Um, no. He did want us two older sister. Oh, I see. All right. I will move us down to agenda item number four, consent agenda. Any discussion? No
020budget amendment? No, sir. Okay. Any questions? I make a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. I have a motion. I have a second. All in favor? Motion carried. Now move us down to five action discussion items. A consideration and action if any upon resolution extending bank depository with ebank. Uh yes sir. This is our um every two years every benium uh we either have to send out for bid um for our depository or we can extend up to three two-year extensions. This will be our third and final two-year extension after this next bianium in 2027. We will go out for bid for depository. So, I'm just asking y'all um to adopt a resolution to extend this. Um honestly, they do a great job for us. They don't charge us anything um to bank
021there. They That's a plus. Uh they have good rates uh of return on their investment accounts. Um and it just is a lot easier to keep a bank put than it is to change. So, any further discussion? I make a motion to extend uh the bank depository with you bank. I have a motion. I second it. I have a second. All in favor? Motion carried. I am going to table 5B until after executive session. I will now move us down to C. Discussion only. Will you between four-way special utility district and Huntington Independent School District? Yes sir. We are um looking to we're going to enter into thisou just a memorandum of understanding. Um, currently we have our radio repeater that we use for all of our maintenance radios and transportation radios is on the
022city of Huntington water tower right there at the corner of um, Main Street and 69. Um, they tore down it was the shop that was there and that's where we originally got our power to run that. They don't have any immediate plans of rebuilding that. Um and so in an effort to make sure that we have continuity with that, uh we John uh reached out um to Four-way and they said, "Sure, we'll be happy to help you out." Uh the use is pretty standard language. Basically, we don't indemnify them. You know, if they have an emergency on their tower and they have to tear our repeater up to fix their water tower, then it is what it is. Um and that we obviously agree to do any upkeep um to the repeater. Um as well
023as they're going to let us um hire a contractor to come in and power that up from their uh their pump house. Um and and there's no um end date. We left it open indefinitely and we can terminate at any time and they can as well. Um currently we're thinking that the repeater will be put up um on the tower right here on 21109 um just because that might give us the reach that we need down toward the lake. Um so anyway, that's that's really all that is. It's a discussion item only simply because Dr. Fish yeti through pol through policy has she can sign an agreement like that. But we just wanted to make you aware and make sure there were no concerns about doing that. Any further discussion? All right. I will move
024us to the discussion only maintenance custodial grounds and transportation updates. All right. I can lay this off. I would say everything is smooth and it is now but was we were kneedeep in a word line this morning picking word line high school. So, it's um it's good now. We got back. No, everything's been going good. Uh we're just getting ready for all the end of the year activities. Uh moving tables, setting up risers, just all the normal normal end of the year stuff. And uh looking ahead to summer. We got a few summer projects. We are actually started today. We're working on um little extension on the egg shop right there. There's a little alleyway between the a shop and the cafeteria. We're going to concrete that, make a little lean tube bay in there
025to give them some more storage. and they could back the trailer in if need be to get out of the rain and and do some extra stuff, but it's it's really it's I don't know why it was a concrete to begin with. It's it's a useless alleyway. I mean, you can't it stays wet. You can't get in there to do anything to it. So, by this it actually gives us a little space in there and gives us some use out of that that space. So, so we we started working on that today and we're going to do the lean tube the summer. My guys are going to build the lean tube. So, so other than that, summertime, we're looking at doing a lot of uh security stuff, a lot of doors, locks. I mean, we're
026getting Matt will come to y'all next week about some budget items and stuff that we're looking at next week. So, or next year, you know, so I know we got our security audit coming up. We're looking to change seral locks, enclosures, and do as much upgrades as we can during the summer to get ready for everything. So, it's we finished the high school complete last year. So high school is 100% new locks, hardware, everything onto it. We're looking to do intermediate this summer and also probably the gyms because the gyms get a ton of use here at middle school and you know cafeteria stuff like hight traffic areas we're going to definitely knock out this summer. So and then just slowly work our way through all the campuses replacing and upgrading everything. So So that's
027the main deal of the summer. We're all going to paint the elementary gym. The interior of it kind of looks, you know, all them kids running around there and laying up against it and scraping walls and all that stuff. Very easy on stuff. Yeah. Right. So, we're going to give it a fresh look this summer and get it kind of back looking good again, too. So, just uh just keeping everything up and going and and moving along, getting, like I said, getting ready for upgrades this summer and getting ready to do it all over again next year. So, yeah, it's just way it is. We have plans for breaker panels baseball field. Exactly. Yeah, we got it's on the vid. Uh Mr. Favre actually I think his kid was involved in one of the wrecks,
028Chris Favre. So he was actually he's working on getting me to vid anyway, but he's of course been a little busy over the weekend with the sun. So right, but he's going to get it this week, he said. So yeah, he's on the plans to for years they've just used the breakers to turn lights on and off over there, which is now it's the breakers are getting weak from flipping them a million times over the last 20 years, you know. So, we're going to change that panel out and put a contactor switch in where it works the contactor and you don't have to flip breakers for every event. So, it's a little easier on the breakers and longterm it'll be a whole lot better off. So, John, how you feel about the retirements and replacements
029and your personnel? I feel real good. I think me and Matt did a great job on replacing. I couldn't ask for two better hands. Like I said, they they've done really good and they're they're not afraid to jump in there. I mean, of course, you know, we're still at the learning curve on a lot of stuff, but I mean, they're they're they're doing really good. So, good. They're hard workers. They really are. And like I said, they're we definitely blessed that they came along. We scary situation. It was very scary. I I had a lot of lot of sleep. John was lots of sleepless nights looking at looking at that for sure because them guys I I wouldn't been scared to turn anything loose with that crew. And this crew here is they're going to
030they're going to definitely be a good future for us. I think we we hold them together. We got a we'll be all right. It's hard to find self starters and both of these guys will if he tells them to do it, they'll figure out a way to get it done or they'll call and say, "Hey, this is not working like we thought it was. What do we need to do now?" So, yeah, that's the only thing. Sometimes they uh they think they know more than they do. Sometimes, you know, it's sometimes the right way to do stuff is not the I mean, it's the right way to do it, but it don't work for our situation. So they got to get in mentality of our situation making it work. So you know making it work.
031Yeah. So sometimes the the right way may take a little bit too long. Like today we had that wordly coire and it's like we bust a word line going in the cafeteria and it's they're jumping to run turn the water off. And I was hold this water off. We can't kill our cafeteria. We got to make arrangements before we just just you know we got to So it's just changing their way of thinking a little bit to our our way of business here. They're doing real well though. They're doing good. Mr. Yes, ma'am. U here recently we did get an excavator rented and got in and we got the tree between intermediate and softball. Got that piled up and burnt down to what it would burn down to. And then out back joint effort between
032John's guys and us back at the boneyard. We call it Mr. Clifton. Your favorite area back there. We love it. It's It's all not visible now. Everything's down to We basically took the excavator and got everything down manageable to where now the rest of this week we'll finish getting all that didn't burn up in the tiles. We have a pit dug back there as long ago. All the wood will disappear. So, it'll help clean up our campus area over there a lot, getting rid of most of that. Um, our future for the summer right now that we have planned, main thing we have planned is the parking lot. uh we put in for uh to bring in some asphalt. Y'all notice the high school parking lot is starting to get several little sink holes that
033are starting to hold water. So, we'll come in this summer and patch all that, roll it, and get it all packed down and hopefully prevent that from becoming a a bigger issue right now than what it's been doing. Uh janitorial will be doing not not much to say on that of what we'll do the same we always do. about all the buildings this summer, scrub them or strip them and then wax them. But other than that, things have been going pretty well. Fields held up good for the year for the sports fields and guys have been working hard. We're still trying to hire one more. Our hiring process is never as easy. I I don't know why we just it's hard for us to find people sometimes. We've had a little bit better luck with
034the Well, yeah, we we received 22 applications and he tried he attempted to call all 22 of them. He received eight return phone calls, set up six interview, we set up eight interviews. We had two and a half show up. Yeah, two and a half. They asked this morning in the admin meeting, how do you get two and a half? And we're like, well, one of the guys said he can only work part time. We said, well, buddy, that's not really I can do 20 hours a week. He said, well, we're at two and a half. So it's a little bit little bit of a challenge, but we did hire one. Still looking for one more. And then custodial is still fully staffed right now, though. So now the grounds we're trying, but other than
035that, everything's going well. Any questions? Be happy to answer. All right. First off, thank y'all so much for purchasing the five buses. You did six counting the special needs bus. We actually got the first one on it route that made it maiden voyage this afternoon. So these buses are so in my lifetime bus is a bus. I mean they all pretty much look the same. These are the first buses I've ever had where I'm happy to train the drivers. They're so different. Like the air brakes they aren't your just pull in pop out style. It's it's 11. The gear shifter is not on the dash anymore. It's on the looks like another blinker switch. It's actually just a turn. Reverse is up. Drive is down. It's a whole different go. Speaking of, we have a
036spot for you. I can sit that up. You can give yourself a raise. They are really They are really nice. Um, they look nice. They are really nice. I started to bring one over here. Have that new bus smell. Yes. And that won't last long no matter what we do. At least these are air conditioning. you know, they're not uh maybe the the the odor won't build quite as quickly. So, but they they are all air conditioned. They have the Cumins engine in them, so that's a plus. Uh I do have we had to wait a little bit on the cameras to come in. They did we've upgraded. Our old systems, which we've had for years, were basically four channel systems, so you could have four cameras, and that's what we have. Uh the new
037cameras are a 12 channel system. So, right now we just have the four, but I plan on next budget cycle adding at least to those five buses or six the stop alarm cameras that we have on bus 10 right now. And I'm also applying for a grant with TPS, who's our insurance provider. They do a annual uh grant for their insured um to get the other buses with the stop arm cameras. Um we just feel like that's kind of where we're at in the world. People don't stop uh from the stop arm. um they will blow right by them. So, it's ridiculous. But, uh we are waiting and the cameras are a lot more involved than the old ones were. So, Jason's had his hands full, but we are waiting uh still waiting on the
038radios to come in and he he's told me it would be three more weeks. So, we're going to put them out there and they have their cell phones. So, you know, used to we didn't have anything. They just went out into the world and took their chances. So, Uh, like I said, bus 11, she was still driving a 2010 model. So, that was my next question is how what's the oldest bus in our fleet now? 2010. 2010. With the new ones, even with these new ones, we're not going to be able to retire 2010. We're pushing. Those will be sold. Okay. Yeah. Now, once we set 2014 will be our oldest except for now the little red express. It's an 11. But it's still I mean, knock on wood, we have no problems out of
039that thing. But um it just stays around town, doesn't it? Well, no, it's it's been around the world. I think it's literally been to Nashville before. No, it does. It goes newer when it went to Nashville. Yeah. Yes, but uh it'll it mainly stays around East Texas, but it has make it does make trips to Austin sometimes. But uh the red and black buses are parked. They are no longer they won't go anywhere anymore. So, we're done with it. But that is the plan to sell all the 2010s, which there's six of them. Those were the first we started on the buying six. And uh you know, every 10 years basically our fleet is renewed. So, uh, the way it worked out, the reason she was still in a 2010 was we used to have
04013 routes. And you know, that left one that didn't get a new bus. And she swears she didn't tell me this, but I know when we got the new buses in 2019, I offered her a 2014. And I swear she said no. She liked her bus, but she told me the other day, I said, "Are you happy to get a new one?" She said, "Yes, I've been waiting." I said, "Well, you told me you didn't. I never said that. Maybe I put it I made you say it. I don't. But uh she is she was very happy to get that bus and I'm glad to get them all on the road. So other than that, we're rolling along. Thank y'all very much. Anybody have any questions, y'all? Anytime. Of course, you're welcome to come by
041anytime and tour and meet uh Eve when we have our gettogethers. But if y'all want to come by, look at the buses, just holler at me or just stop by. Or the drivers are really excited when you pop on in the morning and just do a route maybe. They are. What are you doing your end of the year deal appreciation for all your bus drivers? I haven't sit that day. It's usually the last It's usually a day or two before the last day of school. Okay. I I'll let y'all know. Okay. Thank you. You want a ribeye, ain't you? No, I just want to come by. You turned it down both times. I know. I have one ready for you. Appreciate all. Thank you. Appreciate you very much. Appreciate all this. All right, I'll move
042us down to six superintendence report. All right. Um, all of your monthly expenditure reports are attached to board book and um, our attendance and enrollment also is attached. Our uh, total right now is 1573,573 students. That was as of April the 18th. Um, our yearly percentage um, is 93.82%. 82% attendance. So, um that is our attendance and enrollment budget workshop. Um we have this down. It was actually May 5th, not six. But regardless, we have a recommendation. Um I've spoken with um Mr. Clifton. And due to the challenging legislative environment and the changing with these all the Senate and House bills, there's lots of information that has yet to be released in regard to um the finance uh raises and what um rules and strings are attached to that. Now, I'm going to let um
043Mr. Mr. Clifton kind of explained, but our request is that that be moved um until a little bit later in May in order for us to receive more information from this bianium. We we're really at this point we're kind of shooting in the dark because they've passed some legislation um through one chamber or the other about funding, but nothing is solidified at this point. Um, so coming up with a compensation plan and setting a budget is very difficult to do when we don't know which part of the legislation would be passed, what funding mechanism they're going to really adopt moving forward. Um, and honestly, I think if we wait just a couple of weeks, uh, we were really hoping for, um, that there would be some availability for you guys, um, May 27th, 28th, 29th,
044or 30th. Um, because hopefully the session will be coming to a close um, and then maybe there will be if we don't get special sessions called it, sir. Special sessions. Excellent. Um, that's great news. My guys told me I just came back. Well, they they really most of it geared around. Yeah. I mean, obviously that's a large funding piece, a large part of the the fiscal budget. So, um I'm I've got my fingers crossed. I was on a TASBO webinar today. Um they're talking a little bit differently because they have a date set in June where they're going to go over after the legisl legislation closes um in hopes that we will have some idea. We're just in a little bit different situation because we're a July one fiscal start. Um all those things have
045to happen like right now. Um we have posting deadlines and that kind of stuff. So um obviously we we've got a lot of decisions that will have to be made but at this point it's kind of difficult to make any of them. Um so anyway if if I I would appreciate if we could maybe uh punt down the road a little bit and maybe the 27th, 28th, 29th or 30th. Um, I can be available any of those days if y'all if y'all can um to to hopefully get that settled and we'll have that conversation and get you a date. Sure. Together. So um the next item is the May board meeting. Just a reminder that um we are having it on May 19th, not May 12th. We that was a confusion a little bit this
046morning because had we had an election, we would have had to canvas votes earlier, but we didn't have an election. So, we are sticking to Maya and 19th. Um, we are having it earlier at 5:00 pm because at 6:30 is the athletic banquet following. Is it It's 6:30. Correct, Mr. Okay. Any questions on that? Everybody has that down. Um, SLI, that's the school board leadership conference. Um, we are at 100% attendance, I believe, coming or going in June. So, um, excited about learning together, team building together. um and uh all things schoolwork. So that'll be great. End of year activities. You all have a sheet. We asked the uh principles to send us all things May. And so here you are. And you are welcome and invited to all things May. It is a front
047and a back. Um so you can see some of those things. Um you'll see the repeat in the newsletters, reminders, things like that. that this is so you can fill up your calendar in May and then we'll talk about our personal report in session. All right. I'll now move down to agenda item seven executive session during the course of meeting session. Anyone should be held in a will conduct. I'll circle back to 5B. Consideration action if any upon granting superintendent hiring authority for qualified and certified personnel from April 29, 2025 through August 25, 2025. Any further discussion? Yeah. Did you see how we changed the wording in that motion? No. I thought he did, but you're going to say it again. Say it again. qualified and or certified addressing the discussion that there are some
048non-certified positions that need positions that need to be hired. That makes sense for us non-teer positions or andor do whatever she qualified and you write all that right the qualified andor no I'm just sitting here thinking though who do you hire I mean okay never mind go ahead we're good that needs to be we're good I'll entertain a motion make a motion uh to grant superintendent hiring authority for certified and or qualified personnel from August 29 2025 through August 25th 2025 have a motion Second. Have a second. All in favor? Motion carried. I will now move us to personnel report. Make a motion to approve personnel. April 2025 personnel report as presented. Have a motion. Second. I have a second. All in favor? Motion carried. I'll now move us down to 10. Motion to obtain
049a motion to second. All in favor? Again.