001There's a link located on our district website, Facebook, and X, formerly Twitter. All right. First item up is to receive an update on Blue Cross Health Insurance, Med Impact, and Med Impact prescription benefit plans. Mr. bagel. >> Good afternoon everyone. It's good to be back in front of you again. Uh this is a meeting that we do every year where we Tro and I really call it kind of our state of the union update. >> I can tell you uh the state of the union is good. It's not great. Um, but we don't have any um terrible news to present today. So, if you want to follow along real quick, um, we we also have uh two of our team members from Met Impact. If you uh can imagine, it is been almost three years
002since we implemented the change with the PBM. Uh, I can't believe time is is passing so fast. I thought we were in the second year, but Dr. Vyron had to correct me that it was a three-year contract and uh so it it time has really flown by. So Troy and I are going to be brief in our presentation because uh we really want to give our colleagues with Met Impact and you enough time uh to look at that PBM program for us. So basically this is a report that you're used to seeing. Um, this is our year-to date and we're right on track of what we normally uh see with our claims. So, in the first four months of the year, if you look, our net expense was 4 million. If you want to break
003it down a little bit in the left columns, it talks about um how many employees, how many have their spouse and children, and then how many have family coverage. This is for Blue Cross only. these numbers do not include human. One of the things that um when I was meeting with Dr. Vyron and the rest of his team, we realized is that we do have a significant number of more employees. Uh so there are some additional hires who have added their dependent. So the number is up and that is uh one of the reasons for the claims increasing just the sheer volume. Yes sir. clarify. We have more employees who have gotten on the plan. Yes, I have more employees. We have more employees participating and also uh participating with their dependent. So, thank you
004for pointing that out, Dr. Byron. U if you look at uh the medical claims, they're running uh pretty consistent. the pharmacy claims uh or the column on the side of that and then we break it out in the total monthly claims and uh really nothing nothing out of the norm although what we are looking at right now we do have some very uh serious health conditions we we do project and I've already seen it this is through April I've already seen it in May and the beginning of June especially the report today claims trending up because of those uh serious conditions that we have right now. So, it's not a frequency issue right now. We just had medical conditions that you can't implement anything to change those things. They're very serious conditions. The next slide
005gives you the projection or the comparison for since 2022 through 2025. The only thing out of the norm on that report, if you look in 2024, um we were fortunate in a in a very bad situation, um we had a dependent um that had about $2 million in claims. So, they hit our stop-loss policy. I don't know if you guys remember, we had a another $2 million claim about four or five years ago, and then we had this one in 2024. So, we were reimbursed our stop-loss carrier um 1.54 million and so it brought our expenditure down in that year in 24. So, I wanted to point that out to you because most of the other years um they're within that framework of what we see with the claims trending. Um, if you multiply the
0064 million where we're at right now, uh, we're going to come what we're going to come in somewhere between 12 and 13 million. I think it's going to be probably a little bit over 13 million based on what we're seeing right now. But it's it's um, it's nothing tremendously outside of the norm, but it is something that uh, Dr. Vyron and our team discussed and I think uh, we're going to present that at next meeting. Yes, sir. So, we'll have uh next meeting. There's no action items tonight. This is information only. Um the MET impact contract is up for renewal. Um and then the other benefits in the July meeting, we'll talk about those as well. So, um if there's any questions on the spreadsheet that we have, Toron, I will be happy to answer
007any questions. You want to >> add anything? >> No, we're good. >> Okay. uh in your executive content I did present some additional documentation which you have as a year to date with Blue Cross. So, uh if you really want to look at, hey, where are the claims? What are the claims? What are the medical conditions? We didn't include it in the public summary because it does have a lot of medical information. There's no names on the report, but if you wanted to do a deeper dive, I did include that for you. And then I included uh two slides on the utilization uh from Met Impact that they're going to actually uh talk in detail about this evening also. So unless there's any questions on the medical, the plan is to come with recommendations at
008the July meeting with uh all of the benefits and present that to you at the next committee meeting. Any questions? All right. So, we will turn it over to our colleagues with Men Impact. >> We have Greg and Basam. If you want to go ahead and introduce yourself. >> Yep. My my name is Greg Colona. I'm from Med Impact. I'm an account executive. I'm the overlural relationship manager at Med Impact. This is Basar. He's my director. Um he's the executive sponsor at Med Impact for the Abraville account. So, we really appreciate the the work that Brad and Troy have put into it. and then uh Nicole and Tamika have done an excellent job working with us and providing information, asking a lot of questions and ensuring that we have our direction and things going in
009the right uh in the right place. Um so we on the next slide we have just a depiction of what went down in 2025 just to give you an idea of where things are in relation to um our benchmark which is our our self-insured book of business which is the same commercial space that uh Egraville is in. So, it the total uh claim cost was about $4 million. This equates to a a PMPM per month uh rate of about $210. After the rebates are done, it's about $137 uh per member per month. So, that's a total fee. And in relation to our our benchmark, $182 is where our self-insured book of business currently resides. So, that's overall claim dollars. When we look at uh pharmacy claims, there's a classification of drugs called specialty drugs. These
010are like biologic drugs that treat a specific disorder. Very highly expensive to produce. Um they're not like done in a chemical lab. They're done in a biological lab. So they're a lot more labor intensive. There's a lot more costs that go into them. These are also considered orphan drugs and what they call limited distribution supply drugs. So very specific on how they're distributed into the into the pharmacy market. So their costs are very high. 2% of the total utilizers of uh the Abraville account are utilizing these drugs and contributing to this cost which is about 30% of the total claim exposure. So specialty is very high. However, we have some programs that I'll talk to in a second that are help mitigating these costs. We actually are leveraging some manufacturer coupons and manufacturer assistance programs
011that help with these uh these with these drug costs and prevent Aville from expending those costs. Just to give you a little bit more on special um >> on these specialty drugs, you'll see that most of the drugs that are being advertised on television are these specialty drugs like your Stellaris and Skyreszes and you know so they're the really expensive drugs that pharma is really focusing on because they just need a few patients to get you know that that money back from their investment. So those are the ones you see advertised. >> Thanks for if I'm talking fast, you feel free to stop me. I'm from New York, so I have a tendency to be as fast as I can to keep up with everybody. When we're looking at the actual top three conditions that
012are being treated uh within the the membership at Abraville, our book of business is a little different, so we're going to see some different numbers there, but uh diabetes is the number one. Generally speaking, diabetes, diabetes, oncology and skin conditions are your top treated. Um, anti-inflammatory is usually within the top five of that. But with diabetes, those are driven primarily through our GLP1s. That's ompic and mangaro. I think we've all heard those right out there. Ompic being the big one. Um, those are treatments specific to diabetes that do the same thing with as a weight loss drug and wobi do. So those are your top drivers with other ones. The other top ones are trilicity, right? And then um the then jardians. Those are the other ones that we see on TV all the time.
013So those are top your top four drugs that are driving a lot of the spend. The other one to the right is the anti-inflammatory. This is those ones that treat um Crohn's disease, al ulcerative colitis, rheumatoid arthritis. These are the ones that you're getting um like that response your body's uh is causing an inflammatory condition for no particular reason. So that's what these are treating. The top ones there are I think Skyrizzy um being one of those um bellics. So some of these other ones that we're seeing other ones that we're seeing on TV all the time fumera right that's another name that triggers this and emerald which are now our bio similar are treating those as well. So but that's is about $400,000. So those are your top two uh drivers. The other one
014after that is dermatology which is treat has specialty drugs in it which is now forced that drug class to be your number three in scope here. When we're talking about the total performance highlights, which is the bottom section here, uh your total claims that we've adjudicated is just under 25,000 claims for the month for the 2025 year. You have a very high utilizing membership. So, I'm used to seeing our utilizing membership in the mid to low 30s, 33 34% of the population of the everybody using it. For Averville, it's almost 50% of treatments going out. That's not unheard of, but it is on the higher side of my my book of business that I manage. So that's why we see that there's that $4 million spend up there versus the specialty. Now specialty generally it
015takes up about 50% of total spend. So let me introduce we have a lot of other drugs ompic mjaro right diabetes treatments out there. There are other drugs that treat skin conditions that and the cardiovascular conditions that are also being treated that um come from a lot a wider range of conditions that are being treated within the population of Averville. And then we have off to the right we have our cost containment program which I'll get into in a split second which is about $135,000 in savings for plan year 2025. And then we have our clinical savings bundle. This is where we have a limit to the amount of drugs that are given every single month. We have um a list of drugs that we want members to take first before they get onto a
016target medication. It's called the the you know the dreaded step therapy. And then we have um quantity limits, right? That's the other one. So those are our limits. They they actually produce savings. So we're looking at a savings of about $32pm or equivalent to just under $630,000. And then lastly, we have our rebates. The rebates were about 1.4 million which equated from a PMPM perspective about $72.80. And that's our our plan highlights for 2025. Anybody have any questions so far? Okay. So the next couple of slides, first one is our med prescription insight program. What this really is, this is okay. Okay. So, I'm going to go through a couple that are actually in force now to show you what we're doing from a mitigation standpoint and helping with member experience and then helping uh
017drive utilization in in the proper directions to reduce costs. So, me prescription insight is our e prescribing platform. What this does is it binds to the provider's electronic medical records. So, when the doctor's on, you know, sitting at his computer filling out that on his keyboard filling things out, he's and he's asking the put the prescription in, that's where he's putting the prescription in. and what he sees on screen or she is what we're going to come back with whether it needs a prior authorization note where the doctor needs to put information into the system or they're going to see the cost of the drug and they'll see what our target drug is that we want the member to take for the condition that being treated. So factor puts in a brand name for let's
018say it's Nexium we want the other one to be that it's a meipresol to be the the the drug that's being prescribed. So that's a kind of like we want to see the generic being prescribed over that and that's the good news here with the Araville account is that we have a lot of generics being prescribed for over brands. So that's good news. We also have a real-time benefit check and that you prior authorization. Again, these are all linked together and this is where the doctor can see what's happening at any given time when they're putting a prescription in to know what the cost is. So if they're putting in a drug that's expensive and they see there's the alternative. So the doctor will see this one's given a yellow precaution price. They'll see the
019next line over will be the the target drug and the price of the target drug which will be the the lower cost in generally speaking. >> Yeah. One point I want to bring out is before we switched to Met Impact, um, under the former PBM, we had a lot of those what called designer drugs where basically they were taking common things like an Advil and a regular medication, putting them together, and it may cost 40 bucks and they were charging thousands upon thousands of dollars. I noticed that once we got with Met Impact, they do a very good job of governing that. And you know, our specialty is is not very high, but what I'm saying is it could have been extremely high, but they do a very good job of containing those costs. >>
020Yes. Thanks, Troy. So, yeah, that's um a lot goes into behind the scenes, but this is a frontline um help along the way that tells a doctor what what prescription to put in for the condition that they're treating. The next one is our specialty split fill program, which we're in the midst of uh implementing in the in currently right now. Just from a high level, there's a lot on screen here, but what this does is it targets oncology drugs. And during oncology treatments, the first two or three weeks of that member going through the process of understanding or dealing with the drug that's being prescribed, sometimes there's side effects or that the drug isn't performing at the level that needs to where we now we need to move up in a dose. So, it's going
021from a low mega milligram to a higher milligram or down depending on the direction what the doctor feels the response is to that medication. What happens is these drugs are expensive, right? The oncology drugs are considered specialty drugs and they're quite expensive. So what happens is a member will fill a 30-day supply and then halfway through that 30-day supply be a new 30-day supply. So now they've been hit twice. So let's say if the drug's $5,000 a month, now you've over the course of a month and a half have now spent $10,000. And what this does is it takes that it splits it in half. Now the member's given a $2,500 worth of medication and then the member pays the half the copay and they will fill half the script. When the doctor goes for
022the reload and the represcribed and they'll double check to check the blood work and the response that the member is getting and then they'll fill the next 15 days or so. And that's goes on for the first 90 days. Usually within the 90-day period, the majority of of patients have filled their or have find out what dosing that needs to be on for all the medications that they're on. So, this is a big saver when it comes to that particular class of medications. There are a few decent uh expensive drugs that are on the list right now. Some of them are limited distribution drugs, so they are quite expensive, a little over 10,000 a month for some of them. So, that's where this this temper program comes in to help mitigate those costs. Our next
023one is our Medexa program. We see on TV that uh there's programs like uh Good RX, right? Right. So, use go to RX and you'll see where the price is. This program attaches a little over a thousand drugs within our uh generic spa uh space of drugs out there. And it what it does, it grabs a good RX price automatically and applies it to the benefits. And what it does is say if the if a member has a filling a script that say $10 co-ay, the plan is not responsible. Let's say it's $12. So now the plan's paying an extra $2 for that script. This would come in and say, you know, it's $5. So now the plan doesn't pay anything because the member met is not paying $5. The plan doesn't have anything over
024that amount to pay anymore. So it helps with plan savings and we just save the member $5. So that's one of the the big benefits of this particular type of program. Um reduces member costs. They don't need to worry about going on to go to Rex and if they did, they would see that the price is what they're getting and it's in the members uh access portal. So when they're going checking a course estimator online through the member website or the member um online or member portal like using my phone as I have something um that has a it's there too so they'll see the lowest cost no matter what. So it's one of those programs we put in initially when we came on uh with met impact. And then we got our next one
025is our co the initial side we have on our uh cost containment program and this is the specialty program and what it does it takes two different paths. When a member is prescribed a specialty drug they automatically need to contact Med Impact. Benipex's going to have an outreach within one hour of the members of receiving the script through our system. They're going to get a phone call outreach from Med Impact Advocate and they're going to ask member questions about their type of drug that they're getting and then the um if they qualify for certain levels here. The first one is the patient assistance program. It's called we call it PAP on our end, but patient assistance basically if the member doesn't meet the financial minimums that the manufacturer has set, then they receive the the
026drug free through the manufacturer. And we engage this and set that up so the member can uh go through this. And every single year we go through a renewal process and ensure the member qualifies. If the member doesn't qualify for it, they'll automatically bump to the manufacturer co-pay program if one's available and they'll receive a manufacturer assistance co-ay that copay card. What we if the there's a value to that. Sometimes it's, you know, maybe it's $5,000 or $3,000. Sometimes these are a lot more um value to the plan. And what it does is it gives a member a coupon card. So they provide that coupon. Let's say it's $5 for that copay card and then the they'll receive that for the at $5 for the next several months or for the entire year and the
027plan will receive that you know let's say 5 10 $20,000 benefit to the plan and they'll lay that out over the cost of every single month so that the plan issues a discount. So that's the basic the basics of how that program works. The next slide has the um kind of like how the advocacy program works. Really what it is is once it's prescribed, the system picks up on it. The advocate reaches out to the member. The member has to engage. If they don't, then they they have to pay for the cost of the drug. So there is an it immediate engagement right from the members. If they're not being there isn't a a touch base, then we're all notified of it, including uh Brad and Troy. And then we reach out to Tama or
028Nicole, reach out to the member and get us uh sealed up. And then the next one is our non-speety program which we put in this year for 2026 and what it does it's a little bit different but it's the same concept right where member fills a non-spety drug let's say I'm going to use ompic as a primary one the there isn't a patient assistance program per se but there are coupons out there and what they we're doing now is we're engaging the member into the coupon program so that the plan's receiving the benefit and the members receiving the benefit of the coupon card so it's a kind of a win-win in that regard. And there are a couple of steps along the way for this one. Instead of a phone call outreach, this one's done
029via lettering. Um, and our advocates will engage the member through the letter and then the member has to make the phone call back to us to to seal it up and then set the coupon with the with the pharmacy. And then the other one is when the member is um for if they don't or basically if they don't engage in it, it goes back to the standard benefit. But this one doesn't have an immediate impact on the member where it's not covered and goes up to the full cost. This one there's a grace bill. So they have two months of grace before um it'll automatically uh kick into the standard benefit. So kind of a win-win here to get the members enrolled into the program. And I just kind of I kind of did the
030uh the experience on it. We have received a couple of random things here and there, but for the most part, these both the cost containment program has received a lot of positive feedback uh for the member savings and the uh the plan savings. And one last thing, um this program for the non-specy coupons, even though the member will receive a, you know, could be signing up for a $5 or $10, $20 co-pay card, Vet Impact absorbs that and charges a member zero for it. So, that's one of the other good bonuses of wellness programs. and Sam is gonna come up and do a legislative update and take it from there. >> Oh, sure. >> So, there are a number of uh bills that were passed um I don't know if you've seen the news, but
031PBMs are um under fire around the country as far as from a legislative standpoint. Uh Basama is going to do his best to talk about it's been a little difficult for us to quantify the numbers and the impact yet. So, it's still a work in progress and he's going to talk to you about that. >> Yeah. >> Hi there, uh, Basamitar, director of account management at Met Impact. So, um, the pharmacy landscape overall has really changed. Um, we're seeing a lot of closures within some of the large pharmacy chains, Walgreens and CVS have really seen a decrease there. The pricing strategies like at CVS have changed as well. They're using what's called u cost advantage pricing which similar kind of to the Mark Cuban concept of acquisition cost of that drug. So the the price
032of the drug from the manufacturer the wholesaler plus they're charging a high dispense fee. So CVS we're seeing about a $15 dispense fee for every drug they fill. So in some cases you'll see kind of a higher cost to the members especially on a generic standpoint but we're kind of seeing that throughout the industry a lot of changes there. So here in uh starting 31 of 26, the state legislator legislature here um enacted a for independent pharmacies for those mom and pops that aren't the chains uh a pricing uh pricing that's called NAK pricing. So it's national uh average drug acquisition cost. So for each of those independentarmacies so that they're not filling a drug that costs them more to fill than they're getting reimbursed. Uh what's happening is they're submitting the the acquisition cost
033of that drug at the national average and they're charging a $9 per claim dispense fee on top of that at independent pharmacy. So does it help clients? Not really financially, right? There's a financial impact to that. So maybe on brand drugs, you have less spread from what they're buying the drug and what they're, you know, in our contract with them and what the spread that they're making between their wholesaler and that retail pharmacy. Um, but at the end of the day, so you have the brands where you might break even. The problem is on the generics. If you have a generic drug that costs $3 or $2 or50, now that drug's going to cost $9.50. So, there's going to be there's a little bit of financial impact there. There's not a huge list of independentarmacies
034or list of how many members are utilizing those. So, we'll kind of have to monitor that this year more on financial impact. The other legislation that's occurring starts on January 1st and um the uh state has basically mandated what's called uh spread prohibition. So, a lot of pricing scenarios with your PBMs, uh, with your pharmacy benefit managers, um, where we have a contract with the pharmacy and we have a different contract rate with our clients. And in that way, we can take on some risk in different pricing. Uh, so you don't pay an administrative fee per claim with that with that strategy, but that spread that we make covers your claims administration fee. Starting January 1st, they are removing the they're not allowing that type of pricing contracts with with self-insured clients. It's all going
035to be on a pass through basis. So, whatever our contract is with CVS or Walgreens or any of thearmacies out there, we're going to charge you that exact amount. Uh, but uh but because of that and because we're not making any revenue at that point, we're charging a a per claim administrative fee. So, we're going to work that out from a pricing standpoint on the renewal offer. But um so th those two legislations are basically adding an administration fee per claim. So we're trying to come up with an approximate of what that you know what that financial impact may be. So, I'm going to stop there and ask if there's any questions. >> And um uh are all of the pharmacies going to have to comply with this legisl all of the PBMs agree >>
036on one January one? Everything's passed through including rebates, right? So, it's 100% passed through on rebates and uh network uh contract rates. >> So, the the way that our contract is structured right now, we're going to have to revise it. That's what Net Impact is working on currently. So, >> uh, >> we're also we're also seeing I I mentioned that increase at CVS. Fortunately, um, Aberville doesn't have really high utilization at CVS stores. So, one of the things that we're recommending to um our clients or our or school boards and so forth is that you don't remove them from your network because that, you know, can cause disruption, but potentially think about increasing the co-pay at a CVS or one of these nonpreferred pharmacies from a pricing standpoint to still give members access. But just
037like if you have a doctor that's you know you have different tiers for physicians you know you go here you pay 30%. Here you may pay 20%. So we're we're recommending like a co-pay differential of anywhere from $7 and up per prescription for the member. That way again they remain they are allowed access but um but that alleviates some of the financial impact to uh to our uh clients. >> Now that's not mandatory, right? It's just it's going to be a recommendation. It's something that we're going to consider and we'll present you with both options >> and we'll know we'll have cost projections with that as well. Are there any new programs that you want to touch around very briefly or did that encompass everything? >> I I think that encompass just about Yeah, that
038did uh encompass most of our program other than we do have a GLP program for weight loss. I know Abramville doesn't uh cover that, but we have a direct to consumer option and then we have a fixed cost option for clients that want to cover weight loss drugs. But you know, mind you, we have some clients covering weight loss drugs and their their you know, cost really skyrocketed uh based on the amount of people that wanted to get, you know, zapbound and with YOI. So, >> very good. >> Mr. Miss Pley, you got a question? >> I just wanted to ask this is just a general question about the GLP1. >> Where's big pharma with that? So, so there's been a real shift there, right there. Uh, you know, the the Trump administration kind of
039engaged pharma on taking a look at kind of helping to reduce the overall price of GLP1s. A lot of the PBMs we've been negotiating contract. So we have our our Zapbound GLP1 program where we have a fixed cost of 550 per prescription with a $200 member co insurance. The um direct to consumer products like for Wiggo and Zepbound have been decreased down. Um and but those take all the rebates and the network guarantees and all the other levers that pharma has out of the equation. And that's one reason they've been able to reduce that cost because one of the reasons um your drug spends $4 million for last year you got 1.38 over 25% of of that was paid back in rebates. A lot of that was because of you know like the Oz fixed
040and because they are expensive but you know you get about a $300 rebate per pop. So if you take the rebates out of the question uh out of the equation to reduce the overall ingredient cost similar to what they did with the inflation reduction act IRA on uh diabetes drugs. The manufacturers agreed to decrease the price the ingredient price of the drug but they also got rid of the rebate. Right? So, there is some legislation out there, I think, on Medicare that may limit that uh the the weight loss drugs or the you know, the GLP1s down to I think a $50 member cost share. Um, so there's a lot out there and it's just really dynamic right now in the industry. >> Yeah, it's it's really driven a lot of uh insane pricing basically.
041So once you review all the information we presented, if there's any questions you come up with, just contact me directly or you can pose them at the uh committee meeting next month and uh we'll have a lot for you to consider at the next meeting. >> Any questions? All right. Thank you so much for your time today. >> Thank you all. I just want to uh thank you guys for you know we've really enjoyed the last couple years working with you all u working with your HR team and just really enjoyed it u you know our partnership so just >> thank you >> can I get a motion to adjurnn >> I'll make a motion >> motion by Miss Roy second by Miss Holmes we are journ at any time. Brent Bailey's right. >> Yeah,
042hang on. >> I'm with um whatever Dav chair I can't even remember which building >> finance committee meeting June 8th 2026. Miss Hickden >> here. Miss Williams >> here. >> Miss George >> here. >> You have the quorum. Thank you. >> Our committee meetings are broadcasting live. To access the live stream, there is a video icon located in the online meeting agenda and also there is a link located on our district website, Facebook and X. Okay. Our first item on the agenda, discuss and approve the Iberville Parish School Board monthly financial statements, including the income statement and the revenue and expense summary by fund through May FY26. The reports include a comparison of budget to actual for each fund, including a percent to go per budgeted account within the funds. May I have a motion,
043please? Motion by Miss Williams, second by Miss George. >> Mr. Stewart. >> All right. Good evening, everyone. Um, we received >> um a little over $4 million in period 11 uh for a total of $141.8 million in revenue and uh a total of $138 million in expenditures. Uh we're well most of that was brought in by our sale sales and use tax. Um and that's that's the bulk that's my update for this agenda item. >> Okay. Any questions from the audience? Any questions from the board? Comments? Okay. All in favor? Uh unanimous. Item number two is not an action item. Update in relation to progress related to audit findings according to the management's corrective action plan. >> Mr. Stewart. >> Yes, ma'am. I almost wrote into this agenda item by mistake. Had to stop myself.
044Um we are up to date. We have actively been reconciling the entire year. uh especially after uh our audit uh findings to ensure that that we remain within that 45day grace period of the previous month. Um we have um began in January um our budget process uh and that's been going well. Uh we've been actively meeting with the different team leads and directors uh to ensure that um up-to-date budgets are our up-to-date cost and projected costs are put in for next fiscal year. Um we have also met uh multiple times throughout the year for our CIP our construction and progress uh to ensure that both finance maintenance and operations are on the same page. That that has been going really well. Um and um we've already addressed the other uh items uh that are listed
045below. That's my update. >> Any questions, board? >> Okay. Item number three, discuss and approve awarding bid number SFS 2627-00008 milk readvertisement for school year 2026 2027 to East Side Jersey Dairy Prairie Farms. May I have a motion, please? Motion by Miss George, second by Miss Williams. >> Miss Miller. >> Yes. Yes. Thank you. Um, we opened bids this morning at 9:00 a.m. There were three vendors that um put forth the bid. Uh, East Side Prairie Farms was the lowest responsive bidder and so we ask that you approve the bid to be awarded to them. Any questions from the audience? Any questions from the board? Okay. All in favor? >> Unanimous vote. Thank you. Item number four, discuss and approve awarding bid number SFS 2627-00009 bread readvertisement for school year 2026 2027 to Flowers Bakery
046Sales of Louisiana LLC. May I have a motion, please? Motion by Miss Williams, second by Miss George. Miss Miller. >> Yes, ma'am. We opened um this bid this morning at 10:00 a.m. Flowers um bakeries was the only vendor that put forth the bid and so we ask that you award the bid to Flowers Bakeries. Any questions from the audience board? Okay, seeing none. Any all in favor? >> Unanimous vote. Last item. Item number five, discuss and approve awarding duplicating paper bids to Veritative. I'm not sure I'm saying that right. Um, 3.395 per FY 2026 2027. May I have a motion, please? Motion by Miss Williams, second by Miss George. Miss Miller. Oh, it is Mr. Stewart. I'm sorry. >> That would come to me. Um, >> okay. >> But Veritative had the lowest pricing as
047it related to the the reams of paper in in the way that we put it out for bid. And so we're asking that you approve them as the winner of the award for the uh the bid. >> Great. Thank you very much. All in favor? >> Unanimous vote. Motion to adjurnn. >> Motion to adjurnn by Miss George. Second by Miss Williams. Meeting adjourned. Thank you ladies. building >> building and grounds committee meeting June 8th 2026. Mr. Chuier >> here. >> Mr. Abear >> here. >> Miss Laws >> here. >> You have the quorum. >> All right. Our committee meetings are broadcasting live. To access the live stream, there is a video icon located in the online meeting agenda and also there's a link located on our district website, Facebook and X, formerly Twitter. And first
048up is monthly work order status report. Mr. Kagnetti, >> good evening. Uh we had a great month of May. We had a lot going on. A lot of school schools letting out and we still were able to everybody they submitted 118 work orders. We closed 116 and at the time of the report it was we had 52. We are down to about 30 something right now. >> All right. Do I have any comments or questions? >> We'll move on to item number two, project planning list. Mr. Kagnetti. >> All right, we going to go through each one of these real quick. Um, Eastville Fieldhouse. I went there today. had a discussion with some some vendors and stuff like that about that. Um we'll talk more about that at a later date. Um welding and pipe
049fitting classroom. We they started it. They're about 50% removing the the ceiling systems, installing the pathways for the electrical is about 50% at the time of the report. I think they are about finished with both of them. And the removal and replacement of the reactor and stuff is about 50%. So, that's moving very that's moving pretty good. We are a little bit behind, but we we plan on catching up pretty soon. Um because we're at that point now. Everything's going to start flowing pretty smoothly. The baseball and softball field, we had a lot of rain. Y'all y'all know it. It over there was was a lot a lot of rain. Uh same at Northville. And we're still holding steady. We're still got we're still waiting on the turf to be installed at the baseball field.
050The softball field looks good. The groundworks looks good. the fieldhouse, the plumbing and stuff is going in on schedule. The main thing is waiting on is the actual turf to be put in, which I think Brandon said that he's going to come. I they're going to try to hit for Wednesday or Thursday of this week, and that's our goal. All right. Uh Elementary, the new boiler has been installed. The area is about 95% clean because we had to come out this weekend and we had to finish up some some vent piping and everything is running smoothly on that. MSA West Academy, same thing. They the baller is installed. It has everything's been cleaned up and it is running as um perspects. Northville Northville's classroom G. We did get the We still waiting on the fire
051marshal approval. >> Still waiting. >> Gotcha. So, it's the one. We're still waiting on the fire marshall review from the state. We have sent them multiple letters from my office and from the fusion's office, the architect, and it's kind of in their hands until they get back with us. Clackman High School, the kitchen renovations, the doors come in. I think they're in now and then we're just waiting on them to put them in. That's the new doors we had added in the project. They were a long lead item. They they they are in now and then we're just we're waiting on a good time to put them in. All right, batting cage buildout. I went there this morning. It looks great. They got a lot of drywall up. They got a lot of their um
052HVAC system up. And like I said, it's about 75, probably a little bit more than that. And then the interior painting. They did some painting, but it wasn't enough to put on here. And then the ceiling, suspension ceilings. We're going to probably start that next week. All right. Football complex. I was out there again this morning. The turf was all demoed. The um demoed the shock pad. Right now they demo the track. But right now what we're waiting on is hopefully, weather permitting, we're going to start pouring the field of the sub base on the football field. The guy was out there putting in his geo grid and then after that's installed, he was about three quarters about a quarter of the way done. After that's installed, we're looking to pour concrete on Wednesday and
053or Thursday and that's going to speed things up and then we start going with the actual turf right after that and the system starts being put in. Okay. Multicampus the greenhouse project MSA East is is right on the money being through. They have some electrical issues that they got to tie in, make to make some adjustments, adjustments. MSA West, we have the building up and they're starting their MMPs and starting to install all their equipment and stuff. And then we're after we're done with them two, we're going to jump back over to East and finish out um where we at at East. The reason for we had to come back to MSA West to catch it up and then as soon as Northville dries out, we'll be able to get in there and start driving
054piles. That is the one that is furthest like behind. But we do plan on catching up after the other ones. But it's it's still wet and we don't want to get in there and start making a mud pit and ruining a lot of you know the foundation and stuff. There's a lot of underground piping. We start putting heavy equipment on it. It will crack it. All right. And you can see at the last page, I don't know if it's up. Yeah, that's a percentage of each one and and exactly where we're at as I described them. Any questions? >> I got a question. Um, we need an update on the property for the softball baseball complex at White Council High School. >> Okay. Um, Dr. V is going to answer that for me. He's been
055u Holmes is on the agenda for the regular school board meeting tonight for you all to approve the resolution to purchase the property. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Any other comments, questions? All right. Can I get a motion to adjurnn? Motion by Mr. Abear, second by Miss Laws. We are journ. >> Thank you. Good evening. I call to order the June 8th, 2026 Ibraville Parish regular school board meeting. Our meetings are broadcasting live. To access the stream, there is a video icon located in the online meeting agenda and a link located on our district website, Facebook, and X. Also, the meeting can be viewed on Cox Channel 21 every Saturday at 7 p.m. following the scheduled schoolboard meeting. The schoolboard agenda can be found on our district website every Wednesday afternoon prior to the monthly
056board meeting. The public participation policy is posted on our district website and at the front entrance next to the elevator. Thank you for following our policy. Roll call, please. Miss Oce, >> Miss George, >> here. >> Mr. Abear, >> here. Miss Hegden >> here. >> Miss Holmes >> here. >> Miss Laws >> here. >> Mr. Mclasha. >> Miss Roy >> here. >> Mr. Tuier >> here. >> Miss Williams >> here. >> You have the quorum. >> Thank you, Miss Oce. We will now have a reflection by Miss Terresa Roy following a moment of silence. Please stand and remain standing until after the pledge. God guide our minds as we seek to understand new lessons. Lord, give us wisdom in every decision that we make today. Heavenly Father, we ask us listen and learn with open
057hearts. May we grow in knowledge and respect for each other's thoughts. God like the wisdom be present in all our studies and indeeds. Amen. >> Amen. >> Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you, Mr. Roy. Uh, and now we will have our Everville Parish School Board vision statement by Mr. Michael Abear. >> With our families as partners, the Everville Parish School System will provide equitable opportunities, academic excellence, and positive school environments so that every student thrives in the path that they choose. >> Thank you, Mr. Abear. We'll move on to our recognitions, presentations, and reports. Uh item number one is congratulations to the following Ibraville staff for successfully completing
058the LDOE's aspiring principal fellowship. Mr. Kyle Duhan, MSA East. Miss Nikisha Joseph, MSA West. Miss Brittany Martinez, MSA West. Miss Crystal Turley Watson, MSA West. Miss Althia Morgan, Fleckman High. And congratulations to Dr. Emily Martin for successfully completing the LDOE's English learners fellows program. Miss Johnson. >> All right. I'll tell you a little bit about both programs. The aspiring principal fellowship supports the development of aspiring school leaders across the state. The department of education launched launched its pilot cohort in 2122 and this is the sixth cohort of aspiring principles and they have continued this fellowship throughout the entire year. It prepares up to 50 individuals with the critical knowledge and skills needed to serve the principal role. It is intentionally aligned to Louisiana educational priorities in Louis Louisiana leader rubric and learning experiences are designed
059to develop and strengthen leadership practices aligned to the competencies by which principles are evaluated and that that directly impact teaching and learning. for the English Learner Fellows Program. The Louisiana English Learner Fellows Program is a prestigious year-long initiative launched by the LDOE to elevate instruction and advocacy for multilingual learners and the educators who instruct and support them. The inaugural cohort consisted of 15 educators from across the spa state who spent the year developing and presenting targeted research to boost student achievement. Throughout the program, the EEL fellows received critical information from the Department of Education representatives offered feedback and field experiences to improve statewide programming. Congratulations to Dr. Martin for completing this fellows program. In addition and in addition, based on her LDE fellows problems of practice, she was nominated and selected to serve on the
060national 21 educator advisory council for the upcoming year. So congratulation to our aspiring principles, Kyle Duhan, Nikesha Joseph, Brittany Martinez, Crystal Turley Watson, and Althia Morgan, and also to Dr. Martin. >> Thank you, Miss Johnson. Next, we will have our consent agenda, which will be enacted with one motion. Discuss and approve a condolence resolution to the family of Mr. Nicholas Nick Lewis, a retired bus driver for Everville Parish School Board. Number two, discuss and approve the May 11th, 2026 regular school board meeting minutes. Discuss and approve the May 29th, 2026 schoolboard retreat minutes. Discuss and approve the May 29th, 2026 executive committee meeting minutes. and discuss and approve the June 8th, 2026 consent agenda as presented. Do I have a motion? Motion by Miss Py, second by Miss Roy. Any comments from the audience? Comments
061from the board? Miss O'Shea machine, please. Online voting now open. >> Online voting now closed. Passes unanimous. >> Thank you. Next we have superintendent reports updates. Dr. Varro. >> Good evening and for June. We we got quite a bit to update you on tonight. Usually this is a pretty, you know, small one. But first off, I do want to make some administrative introductions tonight. Uh so as I call each one of you, uh like you to come up to the mic and give a few words to to introduce yourself. First, our new appointee for supervisor of special education, Miss Sheronda Joseph. First of all, >> hit the button. >> I thought it was >> Good evening. Okay, now you can hear me. >> Good evening everyone. First of all, would like to take this opportunity
062to thank Dr. Bang, our directors, Miss Miller and Miss Johnson, and the school board members for allowing me to serve as the supervisor of special education here in Ibraville Parish. I do not take this responsibility lightly. I assure you that I will work tirelessly to serve our students with disabilities and exceptionalities while remaining committed to being transparent and supportive to everyone providing an inclusive education to our students, including our parents and families. Since 2007, I have served the students and teachers of Iberville in several capacities, including teacher, mentor, instructional coach, assistant principal, and principal. I understand that there may be some reservations regarding my background in special education. However, throughout my career, I have gained extensive experience supporting students with disabilities. This includes serving as an O.D.R. in all IEP meetings and supporting teachers in
063writing IEP goals aligned with student needs. I have coached both general education and special education stu teachers and using LEAP connectors and other key instructional resources to move students towards mastery of grade level standards. Furthermore, I have collaborated with general education and special education teachers to review accommodations and modifications, ensuring that they maximize classroom time and create a safe and inclusive learning space where students can succeed. I've also worked with MTSS teams to implement interventions and behavior plans that help students manage social emotional challenges and function effectively in the regular classroom. In e in every role, my mission has remained the same to ensure that all students, regardless of their disability or exceptionality, receive a free and appropriate education in their least restrictive environment. I recognize that there is much work to be done to
064not only ensure that Ibraville remains in compliance with federal policy and regulations, but to also ensure that all almost that all of the 500 the almost 500 students with disabilities and exceptionalities within this district are served, supported, included, and can go on to live, work, and function as a normal individual in today's society. But I'm no stranger to hard work, especially when it comes to growing kids. Simply put, I'm not new to this work, and I'm deeply committed to it. This means showing up every day, working hard to serve our staff and students with joy, that is, and prioritizing the needs of the students we serve. It is my hope that this year, all stakeholders in this great district will join our special education department in empowering every learner every day. Because when every student
065matters, every voice counts and every dream is possible. Thank you again for your time, your consideration, and again this opportunity to serve you all. >> Thank you, Miss Joseph. Next, our newly appointed supervisor of federal programs, Miss Kelly Barbie. >> Good afternoon. Um, I don't have anything as beautifully prepared as Miss Joseph, but I do want to thank Dr. V and the Iberville Parish School Board. I have been an employee for 29 years in Iberville Parish. I have worked at a title one school for 29 years in Everville Parish. Um, I've begun working with Miss Outlaw to make sure that we are following federal guidelines and I can assure you that I will do my absolute best to continue with this district moving forward. I want to thank everyone for this opportunity and I look
066forward to working with you in a closer capacity. Thanks. And next, Mr. Nick Mintosh, who has already begun his tenure as the new principal of Plaean High School, effective on June 1st. >> Good evening. Mine's kind of short and sweet. So members of the school board, I'd like to express my sincere gratitude for the opportunity to serve as the new principal of Plaquean High. I'm honored by the trust you have placed in me and excited to begin this new chapter. We've been here for a week and we've hit the ground running. I'm committed to building upon the school's strong traditions and fostering a culture of excellence, accountability, and student success. Together, we will work to ensure every student is prepared for success both in and out of the classroom. Thank you for your confidence. Thank
067you, Dr. V, for providing this opportunity. Thank you, staff. I'm glad to be here. And go Green Devils. >> Thank you, Mr. McIntyre. And last, but of course not least, newly appointed principal for White Castle High School, Mr. Tommy Hillyard. >> Good evening, everyone. I am truly honored and excited to serve as the principal of White Castle High School. I would like to thank Dr. V and selection committee for placing their trust in me. I also want to thank my family for their unwavering support throughout this journey. My parents and my wife and my children are in attendance. Shout out to Brienne and Vincent. Uh, additionally, I would like to express my sincere appreciation for all that Miss Joseph has done for our school. Because of her leadership, I'm stepping into a school with an
068incred incredible staff, dedicated students, and a strong foundation. I'm excited for the opportunity to fully step in, an instructional leadership role, and focus on what matters most, which is student achievement. My priorities will be instructional excellence, a positive campus culture, clear communication, and continuous improvement. My goal is to build on the great work already taking place at White Castle High School and ensure that every student is challenged, supported, and prepared for success beyond high school. I look forward to partner with all stakeholders as we continue moving White Castle High School forward together. Thank you. I'm excited for a great school year. >> Thank you, Mr. Harriet, and congratulations to all of you once again. Uh, as the dominoes keep falling, we'll have more introductions for you at the July board meeting as well. On our
069next slide, uh, it's been a while since our last board meeting, but this came out. I emailed the board. We have billboards out, we posted it on Facebook, and our schools have done some of the same. Uh, this was absolutely amazing when we saw these results get compiled this year. Two years ago, our scholarship totals were like 5.2 million. Last year there were 5.2 million and to see this accelerate to almost $12 million in scholarships. Of that amount over 9 million were not TOPS related is truly amazing. Congratulations to our graduating class. There were 295 graduates that accomplished this. uh and also to the work of our teachers, administrators, counselors, graduation coaches, and so forth who work with our students to to apply for the scholarships that they did. Uh th this is truly amazing.
070And I let me tell you, we've got a new accountability system that we're transitioning to that uh only, you know, weights LEAP scores to the highest degree. There's not one LEAP score that led to that. LEAP is not a requirement, but not one of those scholarships that our students got. So, I think we all need to keep that in mind as our ACT scores have grown. That contributes far more to this than a LEAP score does. Dual enrollment credits, this graduating class earned 2,383. And when we did an average of how much $3 of credit costs across our closest universities, that equates to at least $278,000 in savings. We've got some students this year that are going into college already as a junior. Industrybased certifications, 305. That's huge. Many of our graduates are able to
071go straight to work. You saw some of those with the firefighting academy last month. And military enlistments. We can never ever not recognize that four of our graduates have enlisted in one of the branches of the armed forces. So, congratulations to those students as well. On our next slide, we did get the uh upbeat engagement survey uh completion rates and we didn't get the results back in time for this board meeting as we just got them last week. I'll make another presentation about the results at our next board meeting, but we had a high participation rate again across all three categories. Every one of these exceeds the national average of participation which shows that uh our administrators are using these and our staff feel like it's worthwhile completing on the next slide and and I'll
072give you some updated information. We released these agendas last week late Friday afternoon. We got more information. Uh amendment three did not pass. Amendment three would have provided a pay raise for teachers and support staff. So those raises will not occur. The state has not or the legislature had not uh allocated any funds and they still have not. The governor did announce his desire to have a permanent pay raise. So before the legislative session ended, there was a concurrent house resolution uh that the Senate approved as well that there will be a task force that will be put together which will consist of mostly legislators to study the MFP to try to come up with ways to come up with a permanent pay raise. If you go to the next slide, since then the governor
073issued an executive order that would provide for uh a stipen to be given. Again, this does require a twothirds vote of both chambers of the legislature. At the time that all of this was put together, the last thing was true. Now I know more. late Friday afternoon. I sent you all an email Saturday with all of this information in it. The way that the executive order will be implemented, if passed, will pull $168 million from district's MFP allotment for Iberville Parish. That amounts to $1.44 million. So, the MFP dollars will be allocated and then 1.4 44 million would be taken back. Please keep in mind as of our last budget of our 13 some odd million MFP dollars, 5.8 million got pulled back to give to charter schools. This would be another 1.44 million being
074pulled back. This executive order would then state when we get that 1.4 4 million back to us. You must allocate it for the $2,000 teacher stipens and a $1,000 support that they have issued the last three years. However, they did not include everyone in it that was included before. So, the allocation would be about $170,000 short of what we got before. PreK has never been included in this and our board has included preK in that distribution which was around 135,000 or so that we estimated last time. So the true cost to the school district if the legislature votes to approve this and if the board chooses to give those stipens to everyone again would be $1.7 million to $1.8 $8 million hit to our general fund fund balance. Ballots were sent to all of the
075legislative members today via email. They've got till July 23rd to vote yes, no, abstain, or not vote at all. If 70 state representatives vote yes and if 26 state senators vote yes, then this will be implemented. As a result, our intention was to bring our operating budget to you at the July board meeting. We will not be able to do that and adhere to all of the public requirements that we have to do to put a uh budget out. We have to do 15 days of public inspection prior to the adoption and we have to advertise with the numbers 10 days in advance. We generally run it twice. So we would have had to begun public inspection, distribute the budget to you by June 25th. There's no way we can do that when we won't
076know what's going to happen with this until then. So, at this point, it looks like we will be targeting an August 10th school board meeting budget adoption, which is still well within the timelines. You have to approve a budget by September 15th, and we have to get it to the LDOE by September 30th. We were hoping to get this done a little bit quicker. This has now caused a delay. This also delays any recommendations that we can make to you on the master salary schedule for the next school year. We may be able to come to you with something small as far as some board certifications that I emailed to you about, but until we know what happens with this, we can't make any other big recommendations in that salary schedule because we don't know
077the impact on the budget quite yet. Next slide. I'm going to turn over to Miss Johnson for the next couple of updates since she works directly with this and my voice is about to go out. All right. Good evening. I just wanted to provide you with an update on Hope Squad. Um, just a reminder, Hope Squad is a peer-to-peerbased suicide prevention program, but more than that, it's for peers to recognize signs of distress in their classmates under the advisement of a school-based advisor. And we implemented this this past school year at three schools, Plaeman High, White Castle High, and MSA East. At all three schools, there's a middle school club and a high school club. We had soft launches this year and I'm proud to say MSA East has truly embraced the Hope Squad and
078is a model for our other two schools. So we hope to have more activities at our other schools as we did at MSA East. This year we will have a new squad at MSA West. So we would be ahead of the game. We trained our sponsors, the staff members in March and April and the implementation will be in August for a middle school club and a high school club. So at all sites, you know, there may be some students that have left that were peer-to-peer advisors. So classmates actually nominate their peers that they feel are trustworthy and caring, that they feel comfortable enough with to connect with if they are having an episode to connect them with a trusted adult and a professional. So, we're happy to add that new club this year. Star Academy
079at the board retreats. Each board retreat we gave you updates just with regards to discipline and attendance at White Castle High School in East Iberville High School. We are still waiting on academic results. Um, discipline referrals. You'll see at White Castle High School in 24 25 in the seventh and eighth grade there were 350 discipline referrals and this year there were only 97. So with the project-based learning and the engagement and also the great work of White Castle High, it wasn't just the Star Academy. We saw a significant decrease in discipline referrals. They had a pretty high attendance rate anyway. So their attendance rate was approve improved a little. At East Iberville, the greatest impact we saw was in attendance. And if you spoke to kids at East Ibraville, when you'd walk in those classrooms,
080they would say, "Please make sure we have this type of learning and engagement as we continue on past the seventh and the eighth grade." Although we didn't see as much of a significant decrease in discipline referrals. We did see a decrease and most of those were repeat offenders, which only were a few subset of kids. It wasn't the entire population of kids in the seventh and eighth grade. For summer school, we have a total enrollment of 1,190 students. In preK, we have 95. In K to 8, 503 for credit recovery in high school, 107. Attendance recovery, which is a new initiative we started this year and we are seeing great success with, is 273 students. They have to recover all of the seat time they missed for being absent during the school year. For LEAP,
081we have 115 kids. Special education ESY is 61 kids. We have 24 kids attending speech camp. And we are proud that we have two new programs this summer. As you know, we've been talking about it at board retreats and in board meetings. We have seen the needs of some of our students with exceptionalities increase. Um, so we have a new intense needs camp. These are nine ESY kids, nine students in the RISE program for students that needed behavioral needs in summer transition. Um, we have three students in that program. We plan to expand those programs for the upcoming school year, but we're piloting them this summer. And on the last slide are, you know, important dates and before we know it, it'll be August 3rd, teachers will be back and on August 10th, students will
082be back. Uh, that concludes my report. >> Um, I was just wondering if there's a possibility that the Hope Squad will eventually make its way to North Everville. >> Our goal is for it to be in all of the the middle high schools in particular. Uh but you have to have the adults who are willing to sponsor it and that's been a challenge in in a few of our campuses. It's a very sensitive type of of club and I think as it's implemented in the schools that we have it in and that grows then ultimately it it'll be in all the campuses. But it's something that you really have to have the right adult sponsorship for that and they really got to want to do it. >> I think it's very needed and it shouldn't
083be I mean I don't want to say that it's we pay these people well and if if that's part of the job it's part of the job. >> It's not part of the job. It is an extra activity. It's an extra club just like any other club in a school, >> right? >> None of those are mandatory. >> I understand the club part of it, but I also understand the mental part of it as well. If the teacher, in my opinion, a teacher is there to nurture the children anyway. So >> minus that hope squad, every campus has the social emotional learning supports available, the social work service available, the counseling services available, even external counseling services available. This particular club incorporates not only adults, but it incorporates other students into it. It's very good.
084is very powerful but it's not something that we can mandate that kids or employees actually participate in. >> So this is this this is um staffed by a teacher >> or >> it's a club so got to have a sponsor >> I but could it be somebody that's not on your staff? >> It has to be somebody on the staff. >> Has to be somebody on the staff. >> Okay. And there's specific training for sponsors. Then there's training for the students who choose to be involved in this club. Uh it's very prescribed uh and and very intense as far as the training component of it. >> We've had a couple of suicides from the north area and that's why I think it's needed. Thank you. >> We we this is long time coming. I I
085know Davin and I >> worked on this for quite a while and I just want to thank all of the people that are involved in getting this rolling. This has been years. Uh we went to a conference many years ago and were so impressed and um we we wanted to bring it to Iberville. Wasn't able to bring it to Ibraville at that time, but I want to thank Dr. Vyron for doing that. He's been a supporter and I appreciate that. >> I agree with that as well. >> All right. Next up, we have governance business. Discuss and approve the June 8th, 2026 finance committee meeting recommendations. There were five items on the agenda. Four items were action items and four items passed. Do I have a motion? Motion by Miss Dav, second by Miss Laws.
086Any comments from the audience? Comments from the board. Miss OA machine, please. Online voting is now open. Online voting is now closed. Passes unanimous. >> All right. Next, we have finance and business operations. Adopt and approve the amended budget for fiscal year 2026. Do I have a motion? Motion by Miss Roy, second by Miss Holmes, Mr. Stewart. >> Right. Good evening again. This budget revision is a proactive procedural measure to ensure all departments remain within the approved spending parameters and to prevent any audit findings related to the variance exceeding 5%. Uh the revised allocations reflect actual financial trends and anticipated obligations through the year end. This is by no means the the the beall or endall of what we will present when the full budget is presented to board for fiscal year 27. There will
087be more edits and everything will be fine-tuned even more so. But this is again procedural to ensure that we meet all our 5% variance before year end. >> All right. Thank you, Mr. Stewart. Any comments by the audience? Comments by the board. Miss O'Shea machine, please. Online voting is now open. Online voting is now closed. Passes unanimous. >> All right. Curriculum and instruction and campus operations. Item number one, discuss and approve Head Start Policy Council agendas, minutes, reports, and handouts. Do I have a motion? Motion by Mr. Abear, second by Miss Williams, Miss Py. >> Thank you, Mr. Tuier. Our policy council met May 20th and as always, we have many attachments. Our first attachment is the attendance and tardy policy which we've had some slight changes and I hope that you were able to
088look over this somewhat. Uh this is discussed at every parent orientation which by the way is mandatory. Uh students cannot be enrolled in our programs without a parent attending a parent orientation. It is mandatory. So they will know all of our guidelines and there are many in Head Start. Uh the behavioral support guidance steps are also attached. All steps must be followed before suspension is considered. We have a very very telling data in indicating um to our early childhood staff which skills and which schools need more coaching and emphasis on the skills. Usually the schools with the least amount of absences have better percentage of growth and their scores are better. Makes a lot of sense. got to be there in the classroom to get the skills. So, we're kind of bearing down a little
089bit, making a few little adjustments on our uh attendance and uh great cooperation. Everybody on the staff and Dr. Vyro and Miss Johnson, everybody is is in sync with this. So, we're hoping for improvement. the emotional and support and classroom organization both grew our as always the safety monitoring for April uh we're a month behind is attached our minor and critical incidents are attached thankfully still got a little bit going on but nothing nothing horrific thankfully our attendance report in April is attached 99% attendance 90% enrollment with our 444 students and of course registration round three our uh activities Mrs. and me our art activities. I know this is a lot of information but I I you know if you have any questions please please um ask Miss Kenova. Um and also our mental health
090specialist report is attached and of course some of these students will move into our specialized classroom which we've talked about in the past. that's going to be housed I think one or two at Iville Elementary. So all of that is transpiring. Of course our fiscal report is attached and our next meeting is August 27th. We have no meetings in June and July. Thank you. >> Thank you Miss Py. Do we have any comments from the audience? Comments from the board machine please. I'm sorry. >> Yes. >> Hi. >> So, um, this policy, the attendance portion of it, this would be effective for the next school year >> for the August. Uhhuh. Yes. because I'm aware that at Crescent there were parents who received letters stating that their children were being discharged from the school from
091the um program for three absences during the school year and that wasn't a part of their orientation process. >> That's what three year olds was that three year >> four year foury olds. >> Four year olds. >> Yes. And so um that was actually what sparked my interest in coming here today. I was very excited to see this pop up on the agenda because during the orientation the parents were told that at that age you know it was encouraged that they attend but there wasn't a minimum requirement for attendance. >> So >> th this sounds like a isolated school issue. So I would advise that you speak with Miss Kenova after the meeting >> uh to discuss. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you for your question. >> Yeah. Thank you. Any other questions, comments
092from the board? Miss O machine, please. >> Online voting is now open. >> Online voting is now closed. Passes unanimous. >> All right. Next up, discuss and approve accepting the two 2026 2027 Parish School Board's District Handbook as presented. Do I have a motion? >> Motion by Miss Laws, second by Miss Py, Miss Blanchard. >> Yes. Um, you all received a copy of the full handbook that was highlighted along with the outline of all the changes and the page numbers that went along with that. So, I'm not going to bore you and go over that again, but if you have any questions about any of the changes, I will gladly answer them. >> Okay, thank you. >> M 28 do want to point out just to make sure we you all had already approved the
093clear on mess school bag policy. We did that way several months ago so we could get that word and message out to parents, out to vendors, out to people who want to donate on and on. So that was done. But I do want to make sure we put it on the record. I mean most of this stuff is you know formatting type things or technical things not anything that's really of major substantial substance but there were things added in the discipline side of it that defined more things for schools when it comes to disciplinary consequences. But a main thing I want to publicly make sure to put out because if you approve this tonight, there will be a big blast on social media tomorrow uh with the ban on the smart glasses and you know
094that's dealing with frames. We had an influx of students and even some employees coming into campuses with these smart glasses which have the ability to be used as a phone. They have the ability to record without anybody knowing. And so this recommendation that came through our discipline committee and handbook committee processes was to ban those all together. And please note these are frames. So when they claim that I've got a prescription, the lenses are the prescription, not the frames. The lenses can be put into just like what I have right here. And believe me, these are not smart. But as you get questioned, I I think you're going to see this is more common. Other school districts are doing very similar measures to this. We had incidents that we dealt with last year where we
095had parents who wanted to obtain the video of the employees smart glasses, meta glasses or Ray-B bands, whatever they were, and were like, first off, that's we don't own that property. If they actually recorded something, we don't own that. You know, we have our own surveillance system, so we don't need anybody using smart glasses to to do that, right? But I did want to make sure we pointed that out in particular because that's the biggest change that you know is part of this list. All right. Do I have any other comments from the audience? Comments from the board. None. Miss Sheen, please. >> Online voting is now open. Online voting is now closed. Passes unanimous. >> All right. Next up, we have new business. Item one, discuss and approve revisions to policy DJD, travel expense
096reimbursement, as recommended by the executive committee. Do I have a motion? >> Motion. Motion by Miss George, second by Miss Holmes. >> Dr. V. >> This went through executive committee unless you've got any more questions and I'm recommending your approval. >> All right. Any comments by the audience? Comments by the board machine, please. >> Online voting now open. Online voting now closed. Passes unanimous. >> And next up we have discuss and approve the revisions to policy JD expulsion as recommended by the executive committee. Do I have a motion? >> Motion by Miss George, second by Miss Roy. Same thing. Dr. V. Any comments by the audience? Comments by the board. Miss O'Hade machine, please. >> Online voting now open. >> Online voting is now closed. Passes unanimous. >> All right. discuss and approve the resolution
097to purchase the White Castle property. Do I have a motion? Motion by Miss Holmes, second by Miss Laws. Dr. D, >> we spoke earlier about Hope Squad being a long time coming. >> Well, this has been quite a long time as well. You know, uh the resolution today authorizes the board president to sign for the purchase of adjacent property of approximately 7.4 45 acres uh from the Ellen Falls Land Company uh for a future project when the fund balance is supported uh to build a new baseball and softball field at White Castle. As you know, the softball situation is, you know, not the best. The the field is at Dorsyville, not at White Castle. So, that's not even on the same campus. Uh, and as you know, that's part of a master plan that we
098put together for quite some time. Uh, I played baseball on the field in White Castle back in 1988, 89, and 90. Uh, and it it looks about the same. Uh, so Mr. Chris Dagel is in the audience tonight. And of course, you all know Mr. Dagel was on his board for a very long time and was board president for a couple of years. And this, you know, really began to get going probably about five years ago, two years before I became superintendent. This does involve the total purchase of the land. Uh Caroline is here tonight and and and Mr. Delahe, we've been working on this for several years now. uh this was a little bit more complicated to get the land owners to actually go along with doing this. And I don't know how much
099y'all know about farmers. I know some of you do. They generally don't sell property. They're looking to acquire property. Uh but we were able to have many discussions over the years with the false uh land company. And then of course it involved cane roots and you have to pay for the value of cane roots. So all of those evaluations have been done. And I have emailed you all about this multiple times over the last three years just to kind of keep you posted on where we are. Uh but I do want to reiterate this is to acquire the property at this point. We are not in a position for that type of capital outlay project because as you know the one we're currently doing at east was 5.6 million or so. This one is going
100to be more. I mean, because we're not dealing with uh an existing area or anything like that, you know, so this will have to be, you know, a little down the road once your general fund balance builds back up to be able to sustain that kind of project, you know, and as we talked about last month and at our board retreat on the 29th, we've we've got some other things we need to get finished off in some other places as well. So, I'm recommending you approve this tonight. >> All right. Thank you, Dr. viral. Any comments by the audience? Comments by the board? Associate machine, please. >> Online voting now open. >> Online voting now closed. Passes unanimous. >> And now I need a motion to adjourn. Motion by Miss Roy, second by Mr. Holmes.
101We are journed. Thank you.