001Welcome everyone. All personnel is present except Jake of course, but he did send a better attorney than him tonight. As the attorney was explaining to me, the uh uh I need approval of the agenda, but give me uh I need to add I need approval of the agenda with the addition of discuss review pay for 2020 526. We'll make that item F. I need to remove item F, enter into executive session because Jake was not ready. I know he said to tell you to wait on us, didn't he? Wait on him. So F will become Jody discussion review pay for 202526 and any other changes you all see removal of G&H, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yes, ma'am. Sorry. Also move second. Got a motion, a second. All in favor signify by saying I. I. All oppose.
002Same sign. Public comments. Anyone? There are no public comments. Board members comments. That's Becky. Well, I was going to defer to our student board member, Landon, since he's our prom king, and I wanted to inquire about what he did on spring break, but since he's not here, Mr. Arvin, what you do on spring break? Not say work. Spring spring break, I uh had an opportunity to spend uh two days in Chicago, so that was very nice. If you uh get to go, I highly recommend uh the boat tour. Seeing some of those skyscrapers from the river below and hearing some of the stories of the history of the town is is very worthwhile. So, that's all I have. Manda, Ashley, Mr. Jones, no sir. I'll reserve uh virtual education update. Miss Angela Lewis. Good evening
003everyone. Good evening. So giving you an update. We currently have 49 students in our virtual program. 42 from the high school, seven from the middle school. Stand in front of you all. Um I am very happy to say that we have six seniors who have completed all of their graduation requirements. Um I have one senior that chose to not walk to graduation and wanted to go ahead. We did a little private ceremony in the auditorium at the high school for him and it was fantastic. um grandma and dad were very excited to be able to watch them walk across the stage because they weren't sure that was ever going to happen. So, they were very excited about that. I have four juniors who have finished the pro or finished for the year at this point.
004Um and I just found out today we just got our end of program assessment results in that four of the six students who took the end of program assessment for their pathway have passed that and become transition ready. Um I have brought with me three fantastic young ladies in the program. I have two seniors, Miss Jamie Eerson and Miss Taylor. And I have sophomore Alexia Williamson. And I don't I think they might be a little nervous, but Alexia has decided to be their spokesperson. I think with her being in the 10th grade, they they've designated her. The seniors kind of put something together that they wanted to share. Um and then she's just going to kind Good evening. We were asked to come today to share our experience in Galloping Virtual Learning Program. We have
005experienced this program for years, but this year has had a dramatic change since Miss Lewis has became our director. I feel more informed as well as more a part of the school. Every week we have meetings on Fridays to discuss upcoming events, deadlines, tests and field trips. Not only do we have weekly u meetings, we also have a very involved director. Miss Louis is always quick to answer any questions or concerns. We have we are required to accomplish a certain amount of our classes weekly depending on graduation requirements and our educational. If we are unable to get our work done and welcoming to allow space and helping virtual learning academy allows us to um so I can tell you a couple The things that I really wanted to focus on this year and especially the
006seniors can attest to that is communication with our virtual students because it was pretty much non-existent and I probably communicate with them more than they would like for me to but they are well informed. I can say that. Um and just resources. These ladies and I have worked a lot on what what are we going to do postsecary? No one wants to sit at home eating bon bonss after they graduate. So what are we going to do? We've done tons of scholar college searching for the different things that they're interested in. Jamie is looking to go into the medical field. Taylor is more towards the vet animal area. Um, and we have learned a lot about both of those areas. Scholarships that are available, schools that are available. They've taught me a lot about the
007different things. Taylor, it's okay. She just got accepted into a Vette program. Um, and I didn't even know this one existed. So, we we've we've learned a lot together this year. So what's your inerson ratio as opposed to video phone? So right now we are using all egeneuity because I am not certified to teach anything other than um business and marketing. Okay. So they're all online. So they are all online. Um I do I have set up some things with JCTC that I'm filtering some students through a dual credit program with them. Um especially my freshmen that have come in. are starting to take a financial literacy course through JCTC, so they're getting that college credit early. Um, we were able to Jamie hadn't taken any dual credit yet. We were able to get her
008into some dual credit this year. Taylor's taken quite a few. They've done that through Gracer Academy. Um, we have a lot we have a lot of dual credit opportunities. Um, but again, that is all online. But the inperson part I I do meet with them every week. I have a set schedule. every Friday, nine o'clock as seniors, 9:30 is juniors. It goes all the way up to the to my middle school students. We meet, we kind of touch base, we talk about what's getting ready to come up, um what issues they have. If one of them have an issue with something, more than likely a couple others will. Um we talk about the things that they have questions with. I'm always available if they need to do a different meet um at a different time.
009Um, and basically the inperson is if they're not meeting the goals that they are required, then I'm giving them a call and they're going to come in and work with me during the day and I can put my finger on them and make sure that they're working. We've had a lot of that. So, you have some that aren't being successful. Um, I have some that just aren't working. They're all working. Everyone's working. No one has just quit working on me. But I have some that aren't working as quickly as they should. and I bring them in and I watch them very closely. I communicate with parents a lot with my my job is to make them successful and they might be upset with me and work with me for a week or two weeks or
010however long it takes to get caught up. But my job is so you want to make um I have I have a lot of things that I would love to do with this program. One of the things that I want to change and um actually kind of with us a little bit with the animal or the wildlife animal portion. Um we're going to do some guest speakers. So I've got some people that we're going to do some online guest speakers in their career field that they're interested in and we're working with all grade levels. We're going to do some online clubs. um the clubs. Now, I have several that play sports that are active in clubs at the high school and at the middle school, but we're going to do some online clubs that that
011interest them. So, I I try to be sneaky with things and like, okay, well, what are you interested in? Kids are interested in manga right now, so let's do something with that. It's anime, but Thank you. I didn't know that. So, my goal is to do things with them. That's a whole other story. Yeah, Becky, that that's a not a public meeting conversation. Sorry. Sorry, I didn't hear you. Um, so my goal is to try to do some clubs on things that interest them, but have some elements of reading and maybe reflecting and, you know, things that they really would kind of like to do that will enhance their learning, but they're not really realizing that their learning is being used. Sorry, I had so many questions. Oh, no. You're fine. I was late anyway,
012Becky. So, ask away. Question. Do they log on at certain times of the day to meet with you or we like Google Classroom has their agenda they have to Well, each day they can log on at their leisure and work. Okay. As long as they're working each day and they're meeting their progress. Now, the Google meets on Fridays, there are specific times and they are set every Friday and we are logging in every Friday. And that time, like I said, we have a set time that way they can work because a lot of them work, right? You know, that's one of the reasons why they're on a virtual program. So, we have a set meeting time so that they know when you know to work around that for the year. So, you guys think that
013it's very successful? You love it. What changes would you like to see? issues. I just had an issue with my computer. Let me open up my class on Sir, you you always able to get in touch with your teachers and stuff. They don't ignore you. They answer emails timely. We have an understanding that they can message me whenever they need something because some of them do work all day and do their school work at night. Must tell her I owe you for two dozen eggs. I stopped and got two dozen the other day. But they also understand that the next morning I'll get that message and the next morning is when I'll start working on that. So that that works well. Y'all need to farm fresh eggs. She runs a duck eggs, goose eggs, chicken
014eggs. Not goose eggs. Just chicken. Sounded better with the goose in there. No, I'm just kidding. But yeah, if you ever need farm fresh eggs right there, it's all medical. Yeah, my daughter went there for for dental. It's like a 10 program. It's not long at all. Yeah. So, I know Jamie won't toot her own horn, but she actually got accepted into St. Elizabeth. healthare congratulations program. Um so unfortunately she then found out it was the day after prom was like from 8 to 5 or something like that but um so she got to go and do that program and to do a lot with seeing a lot of things with St. Elizabeth. Thank you all. Thank you all. Thank you. Moving on. Uh, Mr. Landon Johnson is not here. Item 5B, 5C, Mr. Eddie
015Haskell. you have the attendance report in front of you. Has ticked up over the last couple months and then this month it dropped down a little bit. Um it's interesting because I spoke to a lower elementary attendance clerk today who said she's been bombarded this week with new enrollments. So I guess when I pulled the data it was before all those were put in. So I would imagine that would go back up. No real big surprises on the data. Kind of the normal classes, normal data. question. How's your uh truency and all that going? How's it's going good? That could be part of the data going down too because sometimes in order to avoid some problems with that, they pull out the home school. So, that could be a reason for it. Our attendance clerks
016are doing a great job with making sure records are accurate and staying on top of things and partnership with the county attorney to try to get them getting into school. Thank you, Mr. Tony Jury. Item 5D, CEO report. I'll be brief. Uh, next th next Tuesday night, we have the big night planned with ATC and the JCTC, the family night where we're going to take people down there and they'll spend an hour at the ATC, then an hour at JCTC, just learn about all the programs. Uh, we've sent out an invite. Families are are booking that. We'll feed them before we take them. So looking forward to that. I think it's going to be it's it's our it's our attempt to bring families in and to to build some excitement. Uh related to that, uh
017plans are in motion for the college and career ready lab at the middle school. We're excited about that. Uh some of the estimates came back for the renovation work that we want to do, much lower than I had intended, closer to what Mr. Arvin had u estimated. So that was good. We're excited that'll start moving and shaking probably the day after students are done with the classroom. Um the counselor over there and and I had a conversation today about how we're going to start scheduling those kids in there and making sure they get looks like they're going to get nine choices from the time they go from sixth to 8th grade. Nine of the 15 or 16 modules that are in there. So some some of them that's a good number because don't make me
018take uh cosmetology and and barbering, you know, I don't want to take them all. So nine's a good chunk of that. So hopefully in the future, next year when we do this parent night at ATC and JCTC, they had been through some of those modules and we can say, hey, the next step for what you're learning is the ATC or the next step is enrollment at JCTC. so we can start building that um into a program. Um, another thing that Miss Lewis has been doing a great job with is our new teacher induction program. Um, she's worked with OVC and they they've had a number of training for our new teachers across the district. Uh, there's a KRS that says we do that, you know, we have to do that for first year and second
019year teachers now. So, we're into the planning of the second year and she has a great plan put together. um just the high school alone, we know we're going to have seven new teachers over there, uh out of I think 17. So, that's going to become even more and more and more important as as we move forward, making sure we're training our new staff and making sure they have what they need. Um we're discussing PD plans for the end of this year as well as over the summer and in the beginning of next year. So, we want to make sure those are in line with our improvement plans. Uh I I did a a day of uh SPDM training today. So I'll be putting together a plan on how to train SPDM councils uh this
020summer. Um our new ESL person started this week. She's excited. Uh she she showed up at at uh 45 minutes before we wanted her to. So she was here. She's ready to go. Uh I was wanted to follow up with her today, but I couldn't I couldn't get over there. And other than that, we're getting ready for KSA testing season. that's right around the corner. I think we start the second week in May, we'll start doing our KSA. And on that note, u there's a lot of talk about accountability 3.0 coming out. I don't know if you've heard about that, but it's it's uh in the future, not next year, but the the following year, just totally redoing how we talk about school accountability. There'll be state accountability, federal accountability, but a a large portion
021of the accountability model is going to be shifted to the district for local control of accountability to where we start talking about what do we want to see uh a Gallton County graduate know and be able to do or a Gy County third grader or fourth grader. We we set the standard and expectation. Of course, there'll be uh models out there. I don't mean to interrupt you, but that uh does take effect. What? 26 27 I think it is. I think so. Yeah. Yeah. I thought you was going to tell me my time's up. I'm good with good lot of information. Yeah. Good stuff. Okay. So, you know, uh I I really haven't I followed that a little bit because they came out with with 2.0 and 2.3 and 2.6 and now they're at 3.0.
022I was waiting for them to to get that finalized uh so we can really start talking about um but I think it'll be um a good thing for all of us to come together, the parents, the teachers, the students, the community and decide what we want our students to know and be able to do at each level. Uh and of course the end goals when they graduate what we want them to know and be able to do. The interesting thing is at the federal and state level, the accountability will be consistent of reading and math. Uh they're shifting science and social studies and some of these other things just to the local level. From what I understand, it could be could be 3.5 will come out and it'll be different, but from my understanding on
023it, Mr. Uh they're they're going to keep it in place for a while, but they are shifting from when I've been talked to people on it and been told they are going to shift control to the local districts. That's good. And then House Bill uh 421 that took effect March 31st. You going to touch on it any? No. Are you going to touch on it, Mr. Ar? I would we don't have that much time. All board members to read it. It's long. It's Uh 421, wasn't it? Okay. 241. 241. I'm sorry. I'm dyslexic. So, what's the top? A little bit of everything. Uh the five NTI days that uh Okay. Oh, okay. And then paragraph two, got another bill shoved in under. We talked about it in our sitebased training today and I was going
024to do some following up. It's on my desk. U Mr. Arvin gave it to us and said, "We need to read this." Yes. You know, I've read it, so I'm going to reread it a couple more times actually. Before I start talking about it, there's just a lot in it to Mr. Arman. I'm sure a lot. Can you forward that to us? Yes. Be helpful to me. I'll get you guys. There's a virtual education component to that too, right? Yes. It's got everything in it. So, year 2028, they're going to stop uh non-resident enrollment. Maybe. That's what it says, right? But there, if you read into that bill, I think they're going to take what, three years? Three years they're going to come back. It might kind of like uh because I was going to
025bring it up to you was talking about have we got anything set up with Gateway yet to where they're going to We had that meeting. I don't think anybody's followed up since then. Nobody's contacted us. Okay. I have I'll get them followed up and stuff so we can get stuff set up with them. Okay. For next year, too, to do tours and stuff up there. I said they've got the lineman program set up up there. Yeah. What that is what we're talking about there. Uh Mr. Jury, Mr. Arvin, myself, uh Senator Williams, uh I just lost Who else in that? Who all who else was in that meeting? Uh Corals Corals and then the the his administration. Yeah. two people from they're going to allow us to send kids to Gateway. Yeah. And then they're
026what they say three years and that way it give them time to get stuff in law because we're not the only district this this is affecting where they built new schools and stuff across Kentucky. You've got schools closer than us from my understanding that schools can't send to because that invisible wall. Well, they're thing they tell us that we can't send a student to Gateway if JCTC offers the program. Well, JCTC offers the programs, but they're all on downtown campus, which is 65 miles of travel for our kiddos versus 26 miles of travel to the Gateway campus. So, once we brought that up, they they agreed with us. A lot of exciting things happening over the next year or two. We we do have to have financial literacy course in place. Yes. For our um
027I think next year's freshman before they graduate, they got to have that financial literacy course. That's a new KRS. That be a new position and a job description. I don't think so. I think we can we can handle that with with Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Did you say the parent night includes the middle school students? Yes. The seventh and eighth grade. Seventh and eighth. Seventh and eighth. U and Becky under one part of I think it was 241. I'm pretty sure it was under that bill. Uh they're supposed to come in and audit like what 20% of was that under 241 off? Yeah, it was um auditing 20% of was it virtual programs every year? Make sure that it's truly working and stuff. It did say 300 um 300 student contact hours a day. Yes. Per
028teacher. So Angie at 4950 would been her cap for one teacher to get 300 hours. So that's something we're going to need to if we're going to continue to add students to that program and we've got over 50 full-time, we're going to need to look at you and you some help over there. All right. Thank you, Mr. Jury. Moving on. Superintendent's report. Mr. David Orbin uh found out today that a u a grant that uh nurse Batty wrote uh we you know we received or will receive uh she was notified of it today, but the district will get 10 brand new AEDs. So those brand new are about $2,500 a piece. So that's $25,000. uh that we will be receiving very soon. Uh for that uh we have a lot of AEDs that are over
029eight years old. So this gives us the ability to update those. They're going to be newer uh and so that is um fantastic news. Um we've got a um fundraiser that was set up to be had a car show coming up this weekend. It was going to be held down at the park. They're moving that to the high school campus just because of the flooding and everything uh that took place. Right before spring break on April 4th, we had a preschool art show uh which was which was very neat. Uh kids were very excited. They came over before and brought us uh some some papers that that they had made and invited everybody to come over. Um, and then over spring break, uh, we had our first middle school track meet, uh, on the new
030track. And this Saturday, we will be having our first high school meet, uh, hosted on the track. We're very excited about that. And, uh, as I mentioned to you all in the email, at some point uh, in May, we will be hosting the region track meet, which is uh, very exciting. Uh, be schools from all across the state. didn't realize our track region stretches from central Kentucky all the way over to um Berea down on on 75. So, it's a pretty big swath of schools, but they'll be coming here for the region meet. So, that's all I got. Thank you, sir. Moving on. Did everybody uh item 5s, SBDM agenda minutes? Everybody get a chance to look at those? Item 5G, human resource actions. Everybody get a chance to look at those. Uh, next item
031on the agenda, item six, consent agenda. I need to add to the consent agenda. Uh, football training camp request. He didn't get it in on time. And the training camps 3 days before the next meeting. So, I'd like to add that also under the agenda to approve that. And then I need a motion to approve consent agenda. If no hearing, no further discussion, I'll make a motion. Mr. Jones so moves second. This Amanda seconds. All in favor? All opposed. Item seven, recommend action of new business. U everybody get a chance to review all the contracts? Are all those contracts the same as they were last year? Yes, sir. No changes? I just think there was a whole Yeah. Just anything new that that we added that you guys approved over the previous year, we added
032in. uh anything that we uh are looking to remove or not to update then you know we we took out so I make a motion we approve the contracts Mr. Jones so moves second this Amanda second hearing no further discussion all in favor signify by saying I all post same sign motion carries 50 7B review approved updated calendar for 2024 2025 I so move second Mr. Jones seconds hearing. No further discussion. All in favor signify by saying I. I. All oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. 50. Item 7 C. Discuss. Approve. Ovac Uvel teacher pre-apprenticeship agreement. Yes, I have. There's no issues with it from a legal point of view. Miss Becky so moves. I'll second. All in favor signify by saying I. I. All oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. 50. Item 7D. Review approved job
033descriptions for and stipens for teacher apprentice mentors. Motion to approve. Miss Amanda. So moves. Second. Mr. Jones seconds. Hearing no further discussion. All in favor signify by saying I. I. All oppose. Same sign. Item 7E. Review approved job description wages for student workers and teachers apprenticeships. I'm going to take a motion, a second, and I'm going to discuss. Miss Amanda moves. Are we going to stay on that? That's when we're going to discuss. I need a second. I'll second. Mr. Jones seconds. Uh on that. We had se uh 725 750 I think 775. If we truly want people to go into teaching programs and stuff, I would ask the board to take that to 1225 1250 and 1275 for the pay because yes, we're not paying benefits or anything on them, but we've got teachers
034aids. I think they make 15 something an hour and the it be more of an incentive to get if those children's going to be in here student teaching and things it'd be a more of incentive and more rewarding to them than sitting there looking at 725 an hour when they go out to McDonald's make probably $15 $16 an hour. So I I would ask the board to approve with the addition of the pay increases on that. Uh do I need to read? No, we can approve with that amendment that uh with those knowing that that's what the pay is going to be. That work for you, Jac. Both our attorneys. That's just for the teacher apprentice student wages, not all student wages. That is correct. Okay. And the number was 1275, 1225, 1250, and 1275.
035It's got to increase by a quarter every year. Call the question. Whatever it is, Mr. Jones called the question. All in favor signify by saying I. I. All oppose, same sign. Motion carries. 50. Next uh item F, discuss, review, pay for 2025 2026. Under this, I've got the motions wrote down as uh the uh I'm going to be making several recommendations and a lot of motions under this. So, if any time when anyone has any discussion or question, please feel free to stop me and Here we go. Y'all ready? Uh cheer uh under extracurricular salary schedule cheerleing coaches, they do three different seasons. I uh I move to take the cheerleing coach to 5,000 and add an assistant coach for 2500. What is it currently? Uh what is it like 26 28? John, I thought
036we were talking about Yeah. I think he's got a bunch of things here for So, but this isn't going to happen till next year. That's correct. Next year. Yeah, starting next year. So, would it be better to have that in front of us laid out so we can look at it? Yeah, we can real quick. I can put it in front of you real quick or I guess can you tell us what it was and then what it was? It was 2250. 2250. 2250. Yeah. Mr. Jones, him and I talked about it because where they do the three seasons. Yeah. instead of just the one season to take it to 5,000 and then add one assistant for 2500 on the extracurricular and I think uh looking at it and stuff I don't see why we
037wouldn't because we look around us and stuff on the districts and that's pretty much on that one because what we're going to do I'm going to recommend we do here in a little bit that's why I said everybody just bear with me there's going to be a lot of motion A lot of discussion down through here. So motion on the floor is to take the cheerleading coach to 5,000 and add the assistant position 2500. Do we want to hear all them or we're going to vote on each one of them? Vote on each one of them. We're going to have to vote on each one of them coming down through here. Okay. That's why I said we'll need to go and discuss. Is this going to be a lot of the extracurricular or just right
038now? This one's for the cheerleing coach and stuff for that position. Okay. So, it's only that one. We're not going to talk about any other extracurriculars. Here in a second, we're going to talk about uh weight training coach and then we're going to get on into across the board increase and discuss what we're going to do, what I'm going to recommend on that. And when we do the across the board, that'll take care of Okay, just bear with us for a minute. So, do we need a motion on each one of these? Like I move to approve. Okay. So, I I made the motion. I I move to approve that one. Okay. A second or second. Miss Amanda second. All in favor signify by saying I. I. All oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. 50. Next
039motion to add a weightlifting training coach. It's $6,000 for Mr. Arvin. You can talk on that one. You ask. Yeah. Just somebody to help uh coaches oversee weight training. You know, even just speaking with Mr. Jones basketball was his area of expertise. Uh weight training not exactly uh the same and looking to find somebody that that is something that they u you know are really good at to help all of our teams out. This person would not be getting any other stipen. They would not be coaching another sport. This would solely be their responsibility. Now that being said, we're not looking to just give that to anybody. um that's going to be somebody that's got to have some qualification and credentiing and experience uh to be able to justify that. But at least having that
040on the books gives us an opportunity to seek out an individual that can fill that role. I'm an advocate of this. Um I think your typical coaches know about their sport. So much of sport anymore has got into your weightlifting is an equal part and coaches don't know per se about weightlifting. Um, so I think it'll be helpful to every sport and you'll that I think it helps us on liability because now we've got one person in there that should be trained on what they're telling the kids to do versus that was always one of my fears. I I really had no clue. I might read up on something, but I didn't know how to perfectly position you underneath a bar and do things of that nature. So, I mean, I think it's worth the
041money just for the liability sake of ourselves. What do you think, Mr. Attorney? I think even forget liability, I think it'll reduce your injuries. And so, when you have reduction in injuries, you know, it's going to be reduction of of liability, reduction of claims, reduction of everything. But these are going to be certified. Correct. Mhm. I move to approve. I'll second. Mr. Mand moves. Mr. Jones seconds hearing. No further discussion. All in favor signify by saying I. All oppose. Same sign. The motion carries. 5. Uh need a motion to accept J A grant for $40,000 and hire a certified person. Mr. Arvin, you want to speak on this? Yes. So, we uh spoke with uh this JAG is jobs for America's graduates. Uh they have programs all across uh the state of Kentucky. Uh Mr.
042Butler and I had an opportunity to to speak with someone about it. They offer grants to local schools. Uh the individual will work with students, freshman through seniors, uh teaching them, uh career skills. This is not meant for uh you just take your best students and put in there. uh they're meant to have uh you know a wide swath of students from all across the school in these classes. Um, part of their time every day has to be spent building relationships and connections with local businesses so they can set up opportunities for students to be able to get out uh build relationships and get connected with jobs uh and do a lot of job training with students uh to be able to help them as they look to seek employment uh whenever they get through
043uh through with high school. So um you know they had two spots left when we spoke with them. I asked them to give me uh give me a month uh to give me time to present uh this and potentially let you guys look at it and for whatever that teacher salary is, they're going to pay $40,000 of it. And this is a reoccurring grant. Uh and the gentleman told us uh in the meeting, he said, uh we're not worried about funding for this. If we were concerned, we would not be presenting and meeting. I think they uh added 13 additional spots across the state this year and we've got an opportunity uh to be one of those. Awesome. Miss Becky so moves. I'll second. Hearing no further discussion. All in favor signify saying I. I.
044All oppose. Same sign. I need a motion to create a JAG position and just have the superintendent to send out the job description to the board. I'll make a motion. Mr. Jones so moves. I'll second. Hearing. No further discussion. All in favor signify by saying I. All oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. 50. Need a motion. I'm going to make a motion to approve a 10,000 stipen for 6 through 12 math and science and K12 special education. And we we're going to discuss this a little bit. Also move Can you res what's the uh to approve a $10,000 stipen for 6 through 12 math and science and K through 12 special education. So, am I allowed to ask a question yet? Yeah. Uh, should we get a second, John? Because we're going to vote these up
045or down. So, I'll second. Miss Becky seconds. So, open for discussion. Okay. When you say stipen, basically this is a stipen to attract people to apply. This is this is what we spots. Yeah. We kind of talked about recruitment stipens for uh these hard to fill positions. Special ed is obviously one. Math and science 6 through 12 we've been light on for several years. Uh and these are retainment uh bonuses essentially or stipens bonuses. Yeah, not bonuses, stipens. Um that are payable on June 30th or the last, you know, payable day of June. Uh, and we would obviously work with Jake to get language drafted uh that kind of lays that out, but uh basically for to get people recruited down uh a stipened for a period of four years. So would they get 10,000
046a year or 10,000 over the four-year period that you're talking about? There's Jones way I'd like to do that. We've done uh I talked about this I think it was what three four years ago Mander Becky and my thing on it was a way to entice people to go come into those jobs. The way I'm want to do it and Jake looked at it for me once before to make sure we was legal on it. Stifen will be paid June 30 if they work the first year. Stifens paid June 30th. They signed for the next year. If for some reason they don't complete the next year, we can legally go after them. From what Jake was telling me, we can legally go after them for that money back. If they complete the second year, they
047signed for coming into the third year, they'll get another 10,000 stipen, but in classes like uh what was we looking at? Like chemistry, science, whatever we're going to call it there. We will be able to use them not only to teach in our school district, but Mr. Arvin has talked with districts around us where their students, they'll pay us $500, $600 per student to be able to virtual in while our teacher is teaching and they'll pay per student and that'll offset the C. Uh I figured that it would be more than enough because what number did you have the last time as far as might be interested students? You remember? Um I had several districts that said they would so even at say nobody get a chemistry teacher. So if we calculus is about the
048same boat. Yeah. So if we're sitting there with these teachers say they pay us $500 $600 a student. Even at 500 we get 60 students from other districts logging in. That generates us 30,000. And that more than offsets that stifen for the year. So 10,000 a year. Yes ma'am. For up for four years position. what what happens after the four years they can uh if they're a new teacher and stuff when they on their fifth year when they get the step increase then they will still be above that it's just a way to entice try to entice new people to come in after the fifth year depending on how long the teacher's been doing it they're going to be well above that anyway with the with the pay increases and stuff that each year that
049they go up in years of service uh it should offset in there by the fifth year they should have got enough raises over here to offset that 10,000 by the fifth year. You've got like a $10,000 step built into the fifth year of the salary schedule year pretty depends on years service and stuff. uh our step increases. We probably got some of the best step increases in school districts. And it's just I truly think that it's a way to get these get us chemistry teacher like John said, some math teachers that can teach AP classes and stuff for us and close those gaps for us. My thoughts are, what's the phrase? If it isn't broke, don't fix it. But if it is broke, we got to have to try something. And we've been broke on
050this for a while. I I it's hard to look people in the eye and tell them, "Yeah, we're going on year four where we haven't had a science teacher in the eighth grade." So I think we owe it to our kiddos to to try something. So, and here's the thing. If it don't work, we can scrap it. Yeah. At least we hydrer fail trying. Well, I wouldn't even look it as a failure. If it's don't work, let's look uh take a look at it and regroup. Yeah, let's give it a couple years. If it don't work, let's regroup it. I think we got to do something. We need to call the question now. Mr. Jones, I'm like, what is it called? Mr. Jones called the question. All in favor signify by saying I. I. All
051oppose. Same sign. Motion carries 5. Okay, I've got two more here. Uh, I'm going to move uh del rate for summer school. Uh, for summer school, I'll make a motion to pay deli rate for summer school and use the middle building and let them go ahead and shut the other two down. Uh, they can do everything this middle building. We got cafeteria in there. There's no reason that way that go it won't interfere with getting the buildings and maintenance and work done and stuff if we just use this middle building out here. So my motion is to approve the daily rate for the summer school and use the middle building. Talk about average daily rate. Yes, sir. Why wouldn't we do that anyway? The way the way it's set up right now to do anything
052for for summer school, it's paid at the ESS rate. And so what this gives us the ability to do is use that ESS money to pay that rate and then we pick up anything over that to pay the teacher what they would make per hour working. I move to approve. Yeah. Second, but I think you were. Yeah. Miss Amanda seconds. All in favor signify by saying I. I. All oppose. Same sign. the uh I'm uh approval our parking lots and stuff. We need to get them uh sealed and strikeed. I'd like to be able to give the superintendent to set him up to take bids and things on them and then go with the lowest or best bid when they come in. And him and I was talking about it earlier. I'd like to I
053was going want to do it all at one time to get it all done, but the cost of that by just rough estimate figuring and stuff was going to be between 130 and 150,000. So, well, John had mentioned to me, how about we do in sections and me and Mr. Arvin was talking about earlier to do maybe draw a straight line down this road between the high school and the middle school here. do that section first one year, come back and do this section the next year, and then do that lower elementary the next year. So, what I'd like to do is be able to uh project I'm start on take bids and get the approval from the board when the bids come in. We'll send the bids out to you all. Just let them
054know the price of the bids and everything and then give him the authority to uh move on so we can get that done. But we're going to do it in three phases. Yes. Yes. And then after we get that done with everything else, this district should look phenomenal. Do you need a motion? Yes. A motion to put out the bids and then what the Okay, Becky. I'll move to let the superintendent solicit bids and then the uh to take the lowest or best bid on the project. Does that work? You're not going to review the bids and approve after they come in. We can set a bid date to open them. Yeah. Just to come in and open. I'm still putting on the consent agenda. Okay. What Jake said, he's trying to hold us up
055on my price. We're going to review and approve the bids. Yeah. Yeah, you need to. I mean, even if you just put on your consent agenda, you need to approve it after the bid date. Create specs, right? Yes. Okay. All right. I'll second that. All in favor signify by saying I. I. All post. Same sign. Motion carries. Uh, fuel bids. We received a fuel bid. I think Mr. Arvis said he got them in today. Did you open them? No, we've got them. I think we got one for uh the fuel and one for propane. I believe they opened it, taped it back. Give me one second here. Y'all could have just told us how much it was. We could have approved it real quick. You say we only got one? Yeah, fuel bids. It's usually
056bids. Anybody read that? That dude needs no ink. That's here. I want uh let's reject that bid until he gets it cleaned up. Yeah, I'd be guessing that's on the fuel. We'll reject that one until Nobody else want to see it by mouth. Reject it until we can read it. Yeah. Is this our propane? Mhm. So, we only got one bid. Yes. It's about all we ever get down here. No. No. Uh propane bids for fereral gas. says propane $154 uh 1.545 so $154 cents per gallon delivered includes the tank schedule 41425 probation against conflict of interest is signed I so move to accept a propane bid uh at a $1545 a gallon delivered Second. It's the only one we got. Delivered. I so moved. John seconded. All in favor? Second. Five. Say I. All
057oppose. Same. Sign. Carry. 50. Now for the big one here. Y'all ready for this? Every year I make recommendations to the board. Uh last year we done the 5,000 for the 15 plus. Year before that we went through every department. We pretty well got those closed up. What I'm going to recommend to the board this year is a 10% increase across the board. It does not include the extracurricular salary schedule and all paying positions be froze for a three-year period to be looked at each year for a stipen to be given. The 10% increase is going to cost us around including benefits and everything around 1.385 billion. Yes, ma'am. And and the uh but that includes uh benefits everything and that should still leave us probably 2.8 to 3 million contingency. Yes. So this is
058a 10% increase for this year or the three Three three going forward 10% increase across the board for each year going forward. That puts us 10 this year, 10 next year, 10 the next year. Yeah. Across the board means that it's every year going forward. I don't The 10% is a forever increase unless we vote for it. You're not saying we're going to do a 10% this year and then next year we're going to do 10 above that. No, I'm afraid we we see across the board for one year. For one year and then it's Yes. Okay. Yeah. Going forward. All those guys were calling their stock broker. They're getting ready to invest. Well, it is. We're going to freeze it, but we're going to reevaluate everything. Yeah. Yeah. I could tell by the look
059on Tony Jury's face that we were saying something wrong. He was unwilling to look up and ruin a good thing over there. 10%. Look at that's a guilty look right there. Here, let me 10% across the board. And it does not include stipens. Excluding excluding stipen. And then each year going forward, we will review it. Positions are froze. Everything's froze at this point. I talked with Mr. Arvin about it. Mr. Jones and I spoke about a little bit. Everything is frozen at that point in time. He can't come and ask us for employees. He can't unless the numbers justified, right? And uh for the next three years each year, we will review it and make a decision whether we want to do another stipen. Yes. Any further discussion on this? I think my support of
060it part of it is is it makes us mega competitive with Carol. Carol County just done a 5% raise for their employees tonight. So for last year and this year they're push no one would in their right mind would leave simply for money to go to one of our neighboring districts other than a boom Kentner or Campbell and they're just in a with a different league than we are. So Carol's 5% raise 15% property tax. They're just nailing it. They they 15% property tax. But the uh but yeah, I just want everybody in here to understand that everything's froze going forward and then we'll look at it once a year to see if maybe we want to include a stipen. This are we doing this for one? We've proven this for one year. We proven
061this for three years. One year. One year. Okay. So this time next year we'll be looking everything is frozen and then we'll reevaluate. Okay. And so you've made the motion. So a second. One more question real quick. Once the this 10% is given it they'll keep it for next year, right? We'll just reevaluate whether it'll take effect till next year anyway. Well, I mean it stays on their salary. That's okay. Yeah. Just want to make sure I understood. Any other questions? No, I ain't selling us down the river. Don't think that Mary Jane done. She done threw something. Call the question. Amanda to call the question. All in favor signify by saying I. I. All oppose. Same sign. Motion carries 50 for the 10%. I'll make the motion. Who seconded that? John. John. Okay. Motion
062to adjourn. Second. Okay. John seconds. Hearing no further discussion. All fif say I. All carries. Everybody get out of here. Thank you all. Thank you. Thanks for your work. Can we get a heads up?