001Start the meeting. Good evening. At this time, I'd like to call the meeting to order. Like to have Miss Josie do the flag salute for us tonight. Ready? Begin. I pledge algiance 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. Okay, one of us needs to take a picture now. Picture picture. We'll do a group photo at the end. Be the easiest way. Okay. I'd like to call for a motion for approval of the August 27, 2024 regular board meeting minutes. Oh, go ahead. I move to approve. Second. All in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. Like to call for motion approval of the August 27th budget hearing meeting. Make a motion to approve. Second. All in favor?
002I opposed. Motion carries. Uh any additions or anything? No. No public comment. We have the public and she has comments. Okay. We're going to move on to Dr. Darling. Uh will share your report with the board. Thank you all. So, um, Jose and I had coffee with the soup and Chuck showed up, um, at the PM session on the 3 and it's interesting. We had some topics that we never had before. Although some people were the same, we still had different topics, but we had some interesting learning coming out of it. Um, some just some good conversations. I kind of told you we had topics about summer school. One of the set of grandparents, they said, "How come we don't offer summer school classes like you do year round?" So like you do the normal
003year so we can send our kids to summer school all year round and that's really what they wanted. They want year round babysitting. It was a really good conversation. We explained how at the high school levels more about credit retrieval and such. Um and then a parent come up and he said we want to know why we're having nine cuts for the girls volleyball program which we ended up not cutting anybody. And we and Jose and I kind of explained a different reason. He goes, "Yeah, but why the number nine?" He was really hung up on the number nine. How did they determine that number? So we we we got that information for all some questions about restroom access to the high school. They were shutting down one restroom during passing periods and funneling kids
004to the one that's more more visible and and his story was his son went to several restrooms and he couldn't make it in and then he was tardy and so we so we looked into that talked to Nick about that and then we had a former librarian and board member want to come discuss like what is our process for banning for when people want to come ban books. She says you hear about it across the country. She want to know like what's our process for us. Jose shared with her our process. She was really impressed that we had such a comprehensive process already in place. Have we had anyone want to? Not yet. Not yet. No. There's one in the works, but not yet. And it was Karen Belo. Yes. So, I mean, we had
005a really nice conversation. Yeah. Um, I attended a middle school open house, Smith open house. I've been visiting school drop offs and pickups and the different sites just to get a little bit more familiarity with students, a little more visible with the parents. And I was at HT and Peter put me in charge of the bird bus. So I was out there with the sign walk the bird bus and I walked into a lock gate and had them start climbing over the fence. He told me that wasn't appropriate. What is the bird bus? They have each each bus has an animal. Oh, I was in charge of the bird. I didn't know that. Not the kind of bird you're thinking of as we were thinking of a starling. And just so you're all aware, the
006high school has their open house tomorrow night. McLar has theirs next Wednesday and HT rounds it out at the end of the month. What time is tomorrow? Is the high school 5:30 to 7. I do have one question. Um, so I was told that we've gotten rid or we weren't able to offer like all of the combo teams and D teams. Is that correct? High school. No D teams. We've been able to salvage the combo teams in the middle. Okay. Yeah. But moving forward that those are the going to be the first on the chopping block just because it, you know, we had talked about how much that would save us over the course of the year and save us 20 $30,000 just in those cuts alone. So yeah, they were able to salvage a
007combo team and they were able to actually make a combo team for soccer and just have the two coaches share the three teams. So they're making that work as well. We're just covering extra travel and officiating expenses and the D team. So there's a RC JB and C but no D team. Okay, that's it. Excellent. Thank you. Any questions? And okay, I'd like to move uh call for a motion to approve the consent agenda. I move to approve the consent agenda. Second. A second. All in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. Okay, we'll go down to policies and procedures. Uh we get to do a motion on one uh for the title one parent and family engagement. Call for a motion. I I uh move this is the second reading on policy 4130. Do we have to
008read anything about it? We're just cleaning up. We're just finalizing it. Move to approve. I second it. All in favor? I posted. Motion carries. We also have the second reading on uh policy 6220. Move to approve. I second it. All in favor? I opposed. Motion carries. New business. Like to call for a motion to approve the assistant superintendent of un unrepresented central office administrator and district director's 2024 2025 salary schedule. I make a motion to approve. Second. Second. All in favor? I opposed. Motion carries. Geez, we're already down to the front the board. Um, don't worry. Just make I know she will. So, one thing from the board I need to bring up because I forgot to bring this up a while back on the first day that we went to the school and met
009the staff. The divider in the men's restroom has been repaired. Took me a year. Only took a couple years, but uh, one for Rob and one for the other one. But it is finally installed. I was very impressed. Very impressed. At what school? At the high school in the men's restroom where the urinals are. There was a divider been missing for a couple years. It's finally been repaired. Better late than never. Better late than never. Um, another thing I'd like bring that. Yeah. Another thing I'd like to bring up at this time is I met with uh Rob. Him and I just had a little sit down and just go over a few things and he's kind of just letting me know kind of what's going on and we've talked for a little bit. One
010of the things that he would like to do before we do the adoption of the policy governance with Rick, he has talked to Rick and is willing Rick is willing to do like a mock meeting with us where we kind of do a dry run and we actually go through a meeting like that and Rick zooms in and walks us through pretty much what his meeting would be so we would know kind of and then we can tweak it and adopt it how we But he's wanting to do that with us the 22nd. The 22nd. So we our meeting would be an hour early to where we could accommodate that. Does the hour give us enough time? I think so because I think it's just a matter of running through the routines. We could probably
011run through it a couple of times. We're not going to do anything. We're not going to actually review the stuff. We'll just really it's this is where you would review this policy. This is kind of how you would do it. No, I think it's a great idea stuff. So, I want to make sure everybody's able to make that work. Yeah. Um, so if it is, then we'll get that on the docket to be able to do that and then do a a dry run. Uh, and then we can kind of develop with Jean's help our timeline will work based on this new thing, if we change it at all. Maybe we just have verbiage in our same spots or not. However, So, do I need a mot? I need a motion for that, don't I?
012Next time. Oh, you want it'll be new business time. We'll put it under. Okay, perfect. Anyway, we're just discussing I have one thing on what we're doing with Mcken Street. Did we since doesn't all the money have to be spent by the 20th of this month? Have we gotten bills from them and work progress far enough that we can spend all the money? Um, yes. Okay. So they they sent us through you see the most recent one that came through the 1.5 million. Yeah, it's in there. So we're very close to the last the rest of Thank you. Oh yeah, true. That's true. Glad you told me. Anything else from the board? Tell you what, this could have been a record meeting. my room. So, we're going to move to executive session uh for 15
013minutes with no action to follow.