001meeting October 13, 2025. Mr. Mlasha, >> Miss Roy, Mr. Tuier, you have a corn, Mr. Tuier. testing. >> Our committee meetings are broadcasting live. To access the live stream, there's 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. All right, first item up. Discuss and approve the Ibro Parish School Board monthly financial statements, including the income statement and the revenue and expense summary by fund through September 25. The reports include a comparison of budget to actual for each fund, including a percent to go per budgeted account within the funds. Can I get a motion? Motion by Miss Roy, second by Mr. Mlasher, Dr. B. Yes, Mr. Stewart is unable to be here tonight for the finance committee, so I'll take
002his particular agenda items. This is the standard monthly reports. Uh, it has been brought to my attention that it appears to have a couple of errors in it terms of a few of the columns. So, if you feel more comfortable, I would recommend that you defer approval of this report to the next board meeting. >> All right. I'll make a motion to defer this to the November finance committee board meeting. >> Second. Second by Mr. Mlasher. >> You got that, Kim? All in favor? >> I. >> All right. Next item is an update in relation to progress related to audit findings according to the management's corrective action plan. Dr. V. Yes, as we we've done this is now a monthly thing. Uh the item is a little more extensive in terms of what you have
003in the public comment. Uh as far as reconciliation, uh bank statements, uh our grant manager along with our other finance departments are working to ensure that bank statements are reconciled in a timely fashion. Uh the next part about local governmental budget act, we are in time with everything. We did adopt our budget on time uh and submitted the AFR to the state department of education. Uh the state has changed their reporting portal so some of the line items didn't match up. So Mr. Stewart is still working with them on that but we did submit it on time which was by September 30th. And the last item uh is just in terms of ensuring that our procurement methods are meeting with the uh federal requirements in terms of when things have to be quoted and bid
004along with state requirements on public works and on materials, equipment and supplies. >> All right. Any questions by the board? Any questions by audience? It's not an action item. We'll move on to the next one. Discuss and approve the one-time Iville Parish School Board differentiated compensation plan in accordance with guidance from Louisiana Department of Education and revise the 2025 to 2026 master salary schedule to reflect the approved plan. Can I get a motion? >> Make a motion. >> Motion by Mr. Mlashia. >> Second by M. Roy. Dr. V. >> Yes. This is the third consecutive year that the legislature has set aside funds for differentiated compensation. There's four different categories that we can choose from. Uh and as I mentioned in the correspondences that I've sent to you along at the board retreat, we're recommending
005the uh critical shortage areas that the state has identified that Bessie has indicated these can be used for which are K to2 special education teachers, uh secondary science teachers and secondary math. These still continue to be the areas that we struggle the most with either filling positions or having certified people in those positions. So, we'll recommend your approval. >> And just uh make sure the teachers that do prek and kindergarten, it's going to be percentage based again. >> Yes. All of them are percentage based on the amount of time that they spend. So, if you're a science teacher and you teach two classes and this science teaches five, the one who teaches five gets more. Works the same way for early intervention teachers. Some of them have no kindergarten kids on their case load. Some
006of them have kindergarten kids. So those percentages are broken down for them as well. >> All right. Thank you. Any comments or questions from the board, from the audience? All in favor? >> I pass unanimously. Next item up is to discuss and approve the revisions to the master salary schedule to reflect the distribution of the 2025 legislative stipens for all Iville Parish School Board employees. Can I get a motion? >> Motion by M. Roy, second by Mr. Mlashia. Dr. V. >> Yes. Again, this is the third year that the state department of education has or excuse me, the legislature has allocated funds for a $2,000 stipen for our teachers and positions that require teacher certification and a $1,000 stipen for support staff. We do have to reflect your approval for distribution in the master salary
007schedule and we are recommending to distribute these funds on November 21st. >> All right. Any comments or questions from the board from the audience? All in favor? >> I pass unanimously. Next item, discuss and approve the 2025 Louisiana compliance questionnaire required by annual audit. Can I get a motion? Motion by M. Roy, second by Mr. Mlasha and Dr. B. >> Yes, this is an annual requirement as we go through our audit which is currently happening right now. There's a whole bunch of different things that we have to sign off on. I think Mr. Stewart sent you some items that we need our board members to complete for the audit as well. This is a district level one where we're answering questions indicating that we are complying with all of the governmental uh requirements for audit
008and for our finance and we're asking for your approval so we can get this next step completed. >> Any comments or questions by the board audience? All in favor? I >> I >> pass unanimously. Can I get a motion to adjurnn? >> Make a motion to adjurnn by Mr. Second by Mr. Roy. All in favor? >> Thank you. Committee meeting October 13, 2025. Miss George >> here. >> Miss Hickden >> here. Miss Holmes, you have a quorum, Miss Hickden. >> 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 agenda item, monthly work order status report. Mr. Kagnetti, good evening. Hello. Yep. Perfect. All
009right. Good evening. All right. If you if you look up on the Can y'all put on the screen? All right. On the screen. So, um, we started slowing down. I remember the last time we were here, August, they hit us pretty good. September, they submitted 190. We closed 213 and we're sitting around that 39. It fluctuates around 39 to 40 and we go back and forth between there. So, it's a good little average. And then I changed it from the pi graph to a bar graph. It's a lot easier to read like this and you kind of see where our main problems and issues are. We are focusing big time on keys and locks and keys a lot this week. We're going to each school and picking up keys that's not supposed to be on
010that campus. So, we are having um some issues with that, but we're we're working on them. And then the HVAC, that's a lot of stuff that we just dealt with over the summertimes that's being addressed and fixed or repaired as we speak. A lot of weekend work going on as well. >> I appreciate the bar. It is a lot easier. >> A lot easier, right? >> Lot easier. Yes. >> All right. >> You see things very clearly. Any comments? >> Okay. All right. Project planning list. >> Yes, ma'am. All right. All right. So, we go through. We got a cafeteria renovation. Still waiting on these seven pin lock systems. I think there's, you know, I think one more door that we're waiting on. And this stuff is long items. So, we're jumping ahead on other
011projects and making sure that they come in and on time. Um, we jump down to Dorsyville cafeteria. Um, at the time of the report, it was about 75%. They've done a lot of work since this report. And I know we had some questions and concerns about the rain that was coming over the awning. The new awning and the new doorway. The new awning we did put up. It was just missed on their on their project. They did get it. It got installed and everything's pretty good, but we haven't had a big rain since. So, it's just one of them type of things, right? Uh East Fieldhouse, still waiting on it. We got some issues with it that we addressed last meeting that we're still going through. The parking lot it's um it's almost I mean
012if we got a some punch item list, but it's around I put 75 on here, but it's actually about 95% right now. They did do the ADA and they're going to start painting this week. So, all of that stuff will be completed the installation and the painting part. Welding and pipe fitting classroom. we just met. The biggest portion on this is going to be two things. One, the electrical part of it. The second is the ventilation part of it. That's where your most majority of your money is going to going to have to come from and and for the two then we can have really really bad issues. So, we're going to address that later on. If y'all got any questions, please let me know. But everything else as far as we got the packet,
013y'all will see it. not this month because we've got some things to clear up, but it will come out next month and we'll um start advertising for bid after that meeting. >> The office remodel waiting on the graphics. The graphics are they they have they haven't been delivered yet, but they are made. We're just waiting for a good time that nobody's in the in the school system. So, we can go in there freely and it probably either weekend or the next possibly the next break we can go in there and they can install the graphics. And that's the graphics at the bottom of the office. And um I think I said some out a while back. And also in the band room, we're going to put the graphics on top and and make it look
014really nice. This is after we painted everything. All right. The baseball softball field, the demolition, the demo is complete of it. And we are at I think the softball field has been graded, right? And they're working on the baseball field. >> Yeah, softball field has been graded. working on the baseball field. But along with that is the old demo the um fieldhouse that we were using as a field house used to be old cafeteria. 50% of the slab is still left that we're working on. Probably going to finish that this week if not this week, early next week. Everything else has been demoed and it really opened that place up. We got to start pulling our u when that's done the next step is to grade it out and that's going to be y the
015parking lot of for the baseball softball field perimeter fence at is complete. We are waiting the the last of the electrical stuff got done on the gates. I think we're still waiting on the card readers and gates for the new aluminum fence part. That stuff again is is long lead items. So, a perimeter fence at MSA East. Everything was was walked down. Everything was was sent for quotes. He does have a PO. He's he ordered all the material. It came in over this week. He started to do this a little bit of welding that he has to do and he is going to use 200 foot of the existing panels that's on the soccer field. Start date is was today, but he called me this morning. He's probably going to start coming out, start staging
016everything probably tomorrow. >> Okay. So where is where is that you taking the the fencing from the soccer field? >> Yes, ma'am. >> And >> so it's going you know where you got your pack center. >> Yes. >> And then that's where the buses drop off. There's no I mean kids come and go. So we're going to enclose it from the pack center all the way to you got the your chiller yard and so it's going to enclose the whole way. So now it goes from the old the well not old but the MSA campus all the way to the pack is all going to be closed in. >> Okay. It's kind of like we did um three years ago now at MSA West in the back back there. We went from the school building
017to the pack and had them two gates. This one is going to have three gates. Uh and it's it's going to so it's going to be all closed in so nobody can enter. >> Yeah, I'm great. >> They're going to be all card readers and all doors. >> It's it's definitely a need. >> Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. All right. Um MSA West, I have Mr. Either Brandon or I have either Brandon or Mr. David to come talk about MSA West and give you all better update. >> Good afternoon. Um MSA West is moving along. We had some drainage issues that were addressed. Uh we've added six new catch basins to the um uh playground side of the school. Um they that should be wrapped. They're pouring caps on the last two catch basins and doing
018final grade inside this week. So, that should be wrapped up by the end of the week. Um, on the new admin building, they are the block works finished and they've gone up with trusses. The trusses are the roof trusses are about 90% of road there today. So, they got those done pretty quick. And that project's still on track uh mid December for completion. Thank you. >> So just just to let y'all know once that roof goes on, it's going to start speeding up and it's going to get faster and faster and faster. All right, let's go to the next one. Northville classroom G. David, if you want to come talk about that, give us an update on that one. Good evening. >> Good evening. >> So, we just recently had the fire marshall final inspection
019on that in which we received uh partial occupancy on that building. I have a few uh things to tie up uh some loose ends so that we can grant substantial completion on it. And I think we're on schedule to get uh an opportunity to move in probably as soon as the Thanksgiving break. So that uh it'll be a good time for transition. And they will be wrapping up the alternate one, the elevator edition on the existing building during that time as well. So any questions on the building? All right. Uh, the football field. I mean, obviously everybody's seen it, loving it. Heard hadn't heard anything bad about it except >> except I knew it was coming. Except the the uh LED display board. What happened? We had a contractor that when they were doing the
020field work had hit the wire. They didn't know they hit the wire until they went to run the board. found out that they hit the wire. Well, this is what the what data wire. So, you can't splice it. You have to repool. So, we are waiting now. They're moving on it now, but they do have to run a completely new wire to the press box from the press box to the um the new scoreboard. And once that's done, that's our only problem. We did address some other issues, but we just got some new equipment that did not did not sync up what we had already. It's just new stuff and we got that addressed, but this is the last portion of it and we just kind of found out about it and had to jump
021through some hoops to get everything right with the dacttronics company that we get our school boards from and this they told us what we had to do and we're moving on. >> Where are we with our bleachers there? >> Yes, ma'am. So, Mr. David can talk to you more about the bleachers. >> I I'll address that first. That was value engineered. I if you all remember this came in like 1.2 two or billion over budget. We added I think $500,000 to the budget, but we still had another six or seven to to accommodate for. We have work to build into our budget to do the bleacher extension. Uh and we're looking at a couple of different options to get that done. No matter what option happens, the lead time of those things are months and
022months out. So, it wouldn't be until next football season that that would be able to be installed. >> We're looking at the most uh efficient and effective way to get that done. >> Another thing, Dr. Vyron, when we talked about the bleachers, we talked about the home side. We have an issue on the visitor side as well. I mean, it's several of the board members were there Friday night, I mean, Thursday night, which was a small audience for the home team and there was it's packed. I mean, there's nowhere to park. There's nowhere to sit. There's the It's bad. >> We We didn't budget on the visitor side, but again, this won't be able to get done until next fiscal year. So, we have time to work around that as well. >> I think we
023are far exceeding what we anticipated to happen at North And that's great. I hope it continues and I hope the enrollment follows as the attendance of the football games go up. >> Right. True. True. Good. Thank you. Thank you. >> All right. Plaim Mahan parking lot. We did pour the last section. We got it going and we will start striping if not this week. Um next week and then we're going to start doing the siding and seating. There are there are two light poles that still need to be installed and I think that'll take care of all the lighting, but there are some punch items that will have to take place after that. We would like to be ready. I can't give you an official date right now because I don't I don't I can't
024say that, but we would love to be ready for um for Halloween. And that's our goal is to be open for Halloween so people can bark. So, I just want to make that clear. We get everything good, everything's going good. Our cure time right now is going to determine that cure time is 28 to 30 days. So we are like 38 the 30th day is the 31st. So we'll see how things go and but we are getting everything striped and getting ready for that. So if we do open it up for the public then it'll be ready to rock and roll. >> It looks great. >> Yes ma'am. >> It looks really good. >> Yes ma'am. >> That soft spot Evan. Uh >> that all got taken care of and >> Yes. You want you
025want you want David explain to you? >> Sure. Yes. Uh so the contractor was given a recommendation by the geotech which they came in and pulled all that soil out, remediated it and they had it uh poured back just recently. So all that's completed and ready to go. >> What did that change order cost, Dr. Vick? >> I think it was 120,000. >> Yes, sir. 120 and some change. So the initial geotech that we get doesn't didn't identify that >> David you want to explain how the >> sureing happens. >> So the initial geotech uh didn't it should had good readings. So typically what happens is when you have geotech initially if there's a lapse in time between the initial testing and construction uh things change with groundwater I mean you know rain all that
026all those sorts of things. So the longer it sits, the more things are likely to change. So that when they came back to deal with that particular area, even though they treated it with lime, it still wasn't passing the proof rolls. So they had to deal with that particular area. So all right, I'm just trying to wrap my head around why we paying for Geotech and they're not liable for what they done. Uh it's the math ain't math to me. >> Yes. So um per square foot. So when you do a when they when they come out and take samples per square foot if it's a bigger area like I forgot the numbers right here off top of my hand but they do three different areas. Now these source core samples about this big right
027>> 6 inch would you say? >> Yeah it's a 6 in >> 6 inch boring. Well they may be on this area right here and do a 6 inch here. They may get it right here and do a 6 inch. They may do a 6 inch here. So as a whole and an average that's how they did it. Unfortunately, sometimes you get in a situation with like we did here. The section that wasn't didn't have that 6-in board, but the 6-in board was 5 foot from it. It was good. So, that's how you got to do that. It's average per square foot. How many sixinch boards that they do? And that's across the board. It was just this one was not taken in that 6inch board. And you want when we typically do uh saw
028testing, you're going to pick several selections on a site. You can't do a whole bunch because it cost every time they drill. We've had this on sites that you know 100 years ago there could have been a slooh or waterway in a certain or you may have a tree that was rotten or something that happens in an area. So occasionally we have projects that we run across that will have a bad area. So the only thing that they can do the geotech engineer makes a recommendation on how to treat the saw. In general, if you find a bad area, what they're supposed to do before they pour any concrete, you'll see a big roller that goes on site to be able to make sure the compaction's there. If the saw continues to pump because it
029has too much moisture, that means they can't pour. They got to treat it. A lot of cases, you can come in and add more saw cement or lime to be able to make it harder. In this case, they had to dig out a whole bunch because it was a real bad area. But we've done several projects here in in the Paris before that we've had issues where the geotech had one thing, but they had a bad area. So the good thing is is that you can tell in the areas where they did do the borings, we didn't have problems. So they just didn't have a boring at that that location. So >> thank you. >> All right. >> Okay, >> I'm done with that. Any any more questions? >> Thank you. Thank you. Sure. I
030I do want to make a a clarification. We do not know if that parking lot is going to be ready on October 31st. >> Yeah, >> that's a hope. >> So, as everyone knows, that's hall I mean it's Halloween, but it's homecoming. >> So, the school has made all their plans around uh the roundup and all the activities with the assumption that that parking lot will not be used. So, it'll be extra parking if it can happen, but they've already made all the plans and arrangements. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Yes, ma'am. All right. So, next one. Um, this is Mr. Brandon's bread and butter. So, I'm going to let him talk a little bit about the plaque kitchen. >> Yes. So, kitchen's still on tracks on schedule. Um, we we did have some change
031orders which we discussed. Um, but they have they're finalizing paints. They're putting in the ceiling grid. Um, the cooler and freezer on site. They have started this week putting down the quarry tile flooring in the concession and kitchen area. Um, this coming Monday, the 20th, they're going to start the new HBT flooring. Um, and this project is still uh scheduled to be complete mid December. So, you know, we're looking at that mid December, end of uh 1 of January time frame to get back in that area. >> Okay. >> Any question? >> All right. [Music] All right. Multia campus greenhouse projects. It's on my list. Everything has been done since I've um I've done this report and y'all will be seeing that on the next slide that we talk about. >> Okay, >> I think
032that is it. And if y'all have any questions, >> sure. >> So, Evan, I know a while back we talked about coverings at Northville from the um for the carpool line. >> Yes, ma'am. Can you tell me where that's at or >> So you talking about the existing cover that's there or >> I think it's at Isn't it at the high school? >> It's on the high school between the high school building where the new parking lot is and that nursing station in the front. >> Okay. Um we're gonna have I'm gonna have to get back with you on that one next month and I'll have a better answer. Right now >> they rerouted the um carpool line from the elementary to the high school. What we have asked them to do is when it's
033raining to have them run through where the buses go after they're done because there's very few buses that actually run through there in the meantime. >> Yeah. >> Because that's a whole another thing that's got to get designed and then has to get into >> a budget somewhere is that it's not budgeted for at this time. >> You might want to remind them >> to go under the bus way when it's raining. >> Fortunately, it had rain. >> I know. >> None is in the forecast either. Awesome. Any other comments or questions? Okay. Thank you, Mr. Kagnetti. >> Yes, ma'am. >> All right. Uh item number three. Discuss and approve accepting the proposals from 4A cont uh contracting group and FOB Landscaping LLC for the Iberville Parish Board Grounds Maintenance Service. May I have a
034motion? Motion by Miss George. Second by me. Any discussion? Dr. >> I'll start. So, as we mentioned to you all at the board retreat, uh this was an RF which revolves more around quality and service as opposed to a public bid that's strictly based upon price. We did have I think I included in an email all of the different companies that had submitted something because I'm not going to say they all submitted a proposal because we had a little as little as one sheet of paper, you know, submitted by one of the vendors. Only four of the vendors who submitted uh proposals actually met what needed to be met in submission. Uh the document kind of explains that's attached in here what was missing or what wasn't followed in the RFP process. In that RFP
035process, you have a committee which we did. I witnessed what the committee did as well on the committee. uh as well as Miss Miller and the scoring came out as you see with FOB landscaping is the highest 4A and HNO were just one point apart and rci was a little bit further down. Our intent to begin with with this process was to try to award four different zones to four different contractors. Well, it didn't work out that way. We intended well we offered three the highest three since rci had a lower uh score out of those. We did offer three to or three different vendors. Two of them with FOB since they were the highest score. One to 4A and then one to HNO. HO declined to uh to accept just one of the zones.
036So we reverted back to 4A for the second zone. So the zones that are are recommended are for FOB East Ibraville, MSA East and then Crescent and the two campuses at North Irville. They are already the contractor at East and MSA East and are familiar with them and they've been cutting on a asne bases over at Crescent and at North 48 was offered Plman Highville MSA West and the White Castle Dorsyville zone and the total cost of the two contracts would be $189,850. Uh we have this in the budget. We're actually net right now with the money that we're looking at with how it was budgeted and where we will save. We're ahead $500 uh of what the the total cost of those contracts would be. And we do think we're going to save even
037more money in the long run with this. Uh as we mentioned at the board retreat, part of this is a whole comprehensive plan to kind of reshift the way that we do uh work with the maintenance department. We have not been able to keep the positions filled on that grass cutting the two different crews. We we currently out of six positions have three vacancies. Uh we have had historically uh attendance issues with the folks that have worked on those crews. Uh and it's just been a revolving door and it's gotten to a point that we can't even fill some of these positions. >> What is the address for u these companies? Are they local or what? >> No. Uh FOB is I don't know where FOB is. >> West Bat. >> They're in West Baton
038Rouge. >> FOB's right here in West Baton Rouge. >> And for I think is in Tibido. Tibido. What months are they cutting? Is it April to August? April >> year round. >> So they cut they cut year round. But certain months I don't have my sheet with me. I apologize. Certain months they'll cut four times a week. They cut once a week. Then it cuts back to two times. Then it cuts back to one time. They do we changed it on here because instead of them broadcasting once a year, which to me in our area is just is not enough. So they're going to do it four times a year instead of once. If we have to cut back on some of our pricing, then we'll look how it works and we can even cut
039that back and it says states that in the documents and we had that verbiage specifically for that if we need to go twice a year and every six months to do the broadcasting. >> So being we're not in season right now until we get high season or whatever, April, whenever, why couldn't our guys just handle it until that time and then we revisit this? Is that an option? >> It anything the board wants to do is an option, but we've got two crews with six positions and three vacancies and one crew is not enough to cut this whole parish. You know, part of the other uh part of this is our people have to cut it during the workday. And with the contracts with these, if they're awarded, they will have to cut these before
040school, after school, weekends, when we have to get crews out, if we can even get them out to make up for when you have inclement weather, that's time and a half that we've got to pay those folks if they actually get out there. Uh, one of the things that's not calculated in the savings that we have, uh, is last year we paid $17,000 to replace glass throughout the district. Uh, which 90% of that was through lawnmower shooting rocks or pebbles or weeding and shooting rocks or pebbles. Uh, we're already at over 5,000 this fiscal year with those expenditures. part of these contracts or for the company to pay to fix that type of stuff. Uh there's just a whole lot of issue other than price with this one. And the price is really not that
041bad. You know, when we look at how we can cut back on how much we're spending on lawn equipment and repairs on the equipment that we have, then that's a savings that's transferred over for this contract. And when we also look at the way we'll utilize, we basically keep one crew for services of lawn to cut maintenance area, central office, and to maintain landscaping. That's in the district. That was a $20,000 contract that we were using before that we won't be spending. And by filling vacancies with people who may want to work on multi-purpose type things and maintenance as opposed to working outside, we don't know where that number is going to be yet, but it should lead to savings on contracts that we're currently getting people to come in and take care of maintenance
042work order type things that we should not need nearly as much anymore. uh it it's a big part of ensuring that we get our grass cut. They also administer the pesticides, the herbicides as part of why all of these things are required. Uh they also have to provide liability insurance, workers comp insurance. If we get a person injured on that crew, we're on the hook for that for workers comp. Uh so from a liability standpoint, we're in a much better posture and over time I think it's going to be a pretty significant savings for the school district and it sure ensures that the grass gets cut, the lawn gets maintained, the pesticides. I know I get calls from y'all sometimes about the ant piles, you know, uh six positions that you can never keep filled
043can never keep up with this throughout this parish. I know I've gotten a lot less calls since they took over at North. >> Really? Good. That's good. That's a good thing. >> Yes, certainly. >> And so, and Evan, we're talking about throughout the whole district closely to 100 100 plus acres. >> I think Yes, ma'am. It's around 28 or 20 acres per zone. Yes, ma'am. And that's 189 total. >> Yeah, >> total. Okay. >> All right. Very good. >> Why was the numbers in the spec sheets and all bid sheets not on the agenda? Usually with like the very next thing uh advertise whatever 400,000. This one seems to just be missing on there. Why is that? >> We put the agenda item based upon RFP to award on RFP. RFPs are not awarded based
044on a price. It's awarded based upon the scoring of the bid package. Uh I sent that package to y'all probably about three weeks or so, if not more than that, and that package stayed out there for a long time. There's a lot of things in an RFP that are far different from a bid. >> And so why did we certainly share go through a RFP and just not a bid? The RFP is generally used for a service and you have multiple requirements that need to be met. If you go with a strict bid, which is what you have to do on construction of a building, for instance, a public works thing, then you are bound by low bid only. you know, it doesn't take into consideration anything dealing with quality, dealing with references, dealing with
045past history, and dealing with all of those things that's in that RFP document that we shared with you all quite a while back. >> Okay. So, I'm I'm trying to wrap my head again around this $190,000 a year for 36. Well, I came up with 30 cuts. Y'all got 36. So if if roughly you're doing 30 cuts all is over $6,000 a year. I mean for per cut. So time nine is so you you have 324 cuts a year for $190,000. And why was this RFP so lengthy, 47 pages? I had a couple of them come tell me that they had to bring it to a lawyer to be able to read it because some of it they didn't even know what it was. And we we got somebody from Tibido. I thought we were
046supposed to be staying local. >> None of the local people met any of the requirements that needs to be met. Whether it was lack of insurance, whether it was lack of pesticide licensing, whether it was contractor licensing, we're a public body and you have to comply with all of those requirements. If you look at any standard bid document, they're that lengthy. And if you look at any standard RFP document, it's that lengthy. uh just after we got these developed, I went on and just Google local school system and governmental RFPs for lawn services and you will find that that RFP is in line with any other one that you see for any other governmental entity that has done this, you know, and you know, we don't control where these come in from. You know, we've
047got contractors that do all of these projects that we've been doing and they could be from all over the place. Uh that's how an RP works. That's how public bid works where the difference is on your bid. You have to take the lowest price and you can't take anything else into consideration, which sometimes get you stuck with some bad contractors. We know what that looks like. >> Yes, we do. The RFP allows the entity to take a look at much more than that and take far more into consideration. One of the the companies that submitted a bid, it was over a million dollars or RFP, you know, they didn't meet all of the requirements, but it was well over a million dollars. So, uh, so that's, you know, part of the reason why I wanted
048to to do that presentation that we did at the board retreat to explain what those differences are because we're going to have another RFP coming out fairly soon on the janitorial contract, you know, that we currently have that we utilize at MSA West and Plaean High. It's a different process and it's a different process for a reason. Okay. Yeah. You good? Okay. Any other questions or comments? >> Okay. So, Miss George, you and I can vote. >> Sure. Okay. >> Okay. Unanimous. All right. Let's go to number four. discuss and approve granting permission to advertise multicampus greenhouse project budget of 400,000. May I have a motion? >> Second. Okay, Mr. Canetti. >> Yes. This is the greenhouse project that we've been trying to get to y'all and we finally got it done. We finally got
049all the areas picked out. We did have to change one and it was at Northville because of some underground piping and some overhead electrical. You can't have this building too close to electrical utilities obviously and then right next to the new backflow preventer for the new school. So we had to just shift it over a little bit and it's going to work out great. It's next to the school. It's actually closer to the school than it was previously and it's in the best I believe it's in the best area that it could be at this new area. I don't know if y'all remember behind the science area middle school they got that slab. not the new one, but that old slab and they got the benches there. It's falling apart. That's where it's going to
050be. And we're going to put a walkway to the to the to the brand new walk path for the new school. So, it's going to kind of all tie into one one another. And if there's any questions, I can answer any that y'all may have. >> I have a question, Evan. Uh if if it is approved, uh I guess it'll be next meeting with the bids. When is construct construction expected to start? cuz they want to do an outdoor garden but they don't want to plant everything and then everything get ripped up. Uh so I was asked that. >> Yeah. So I would definitely not do an out outdoor garden right now only because they could start it right now but they wouldn't be able to harvest that crop because we will start as soon
051as possible once we get to go ahead to start. We can go ahead and and put it out and it's going to take 30 days once he gets approval. you come to y'all. Let's see, Febber, January. Um, but then they can if as soon as they get the approval, they can start ordering their material and get everything in. But before they order material, they're going to start their ground work. >> All right. You're looking around January, but >> I'll let them know. >> I wouldn't. >> Yeah, maybe lettuce. Lettuce grows pretty fast. >> Yes. >> It may not be until December that this comes back to you for approval. >> Okay. >> Yes. That's what January may start building, but yeah, it'll be December before we come back. >> Meetings on the 10th, so we
052only got like 28 days between the next board meeting. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Any other questions, comments from the board? >> Okay, very good. Um, >> may I have a vote? >> I I Okay, unanimous. Uh item number five, discuss and approve advertising for bid an agricultural lease on schoolboard section land. May I have a motion? I'll make a motion. Second by Miss George. >> All right. Does um does everybody know what we're talking about here? Did did y'all get briefed on where this piece of property is? It's the piece of property that's behind the baseball field. um that is I think it's 8 acres or nine acres something and we were getting actually we had a company that was cutting because our equipment we don't we're not we have a big enough equipment to
053cut this field so the company was cutting it we're no longer using them right now so the farmer we reached out to him and he would love to take a a stab at possibly leasing this so about him by public bid law I did tell him let's say look we can't just let you lease it we have to go through the process for it and this is where we're Okay. All right. Any comments, questions? Okay. I have a vote. >> I I unanimous. Last item. Discuss and approve advertising for bid hunting leases on 16th section lands. Section 16 township 10 range 11. Section 16, Township 11S, range 10E. Section 16, Township 11S, range 11E. Section 16, Township 11S, range 12E. And section 16, Township 10S, range 10E. May I have a motion? Second. Okay. Well,
054this Evan doesn't know about it, but I'm gonna ask. >> Okay. Okay, great. >> You want to start this? >> I I I'll start. About 11 months ago, I I was approached about looking at trying to put out plans for lease for hunting. uh as there were individuals who were on property that the school board has an interest in and of course they're not under any lease. Uh at that point Evan Alvarez and I began discussions and uh their firm kind of did a whole lot of research around uh what properties we do have because the one in question was just one. Uh so they've done that work around that and then worked on developing lease documents to put these out. We also got information from an individual very familiar with land values and lease
055values in that area to come up with the minimums because we didn't want to put them out where you don't put any minimum out there and you end up really having something happen with public lands that really shouldn't. Uh, so this is the the first time I I think we go after this. I I did some research and some of you all might remember there was some talk about doing this and back in 2017. Uh, and for some reason that that didn't go anywhere. Uh, but as Evan and I spoke through it, uh, we feel as though it it's actually better in the better interest of the school system to pursue trying to get these properties leased. uh because again just like you have with uh with bids and and with RFPs and such there
056are insurance requirements that come with this. Uh now these bid documents you you have them attached in here. These are just the ads and all. They're not as extensive but they're quite a few pages as well uh with all of the requirements that go out you know for this. the advertisement will be pretty short, but when they want to submit a bid, they're going to see a whole bunch of things that they've got to turn in and submit uh and name us as an additional insured on million-doll liability policy and so forth. Uh and it kind of puts somebody uh on our lands if we can get them leased to to kind of watch out for them. You know, uh when I got the call about it, I'm like, all I can do is call
057the sheriff's office. I mean, I don't even know where the land is, you know. Uh, I've got a better idea now where they all are. Uh, but this is the first shot at it, you know, and if nobody puts in a bid, then we can always work on doing putting it out again and and kind of adjusting if we need to. But, uh, Kevin, >> yeah, I mean, y'all do have a couple nice 16th section tracks. U, these hunting leases, I mean, we they're they are pretty popular. A lot of our boards do do these hunting leases and I mean some of these get tens of thousands of dollars a year um because some of these hunting camps come in and you know they they do some nice improvements to the property and and you
058know they do dues for all that. Um so you you do have some nice tracks. Now you know just one thing to keep in mind on since this is going to be the first time that these are being put out there you know we do expect to have a few little hiccups. You know, one of the things that we're looking at is that, you know, although all five of these six sections are located completely within Iberville Parish, they are located three of them are located in townships that uh we do share with St. Martin. So, it is possible that, you know, whatever the revenue that we're getting off of of these leases, a small portion of that revenue may have to go to, you know, remitt it to another school board. Um but we are
059still looking at that right now. Um you know, as Dr. Vall said, you know, these they've been, you know, out there for the benefit of Bigville, uh but nothing's really been done with them. So more than likely people's been out there hunting and using these lands anyway for all these years. So, one of the good things about these hunting leases, you know, you are now putting somebody on these property and pretty much they're going to now start policing these lands for you because once these people get these hunting leases, they usually are pretty protective of them and making sure who's coming on their property and who's not supposed to be on there. So, in a way, they are going to be your eyes and ears about, you know, what is going on on your property.
060So, that's another benefit of it. um for this one. You know, the terms of this is something that the board can consider and uh you know, it's free to consider a lot of these things. Right now, we're going we we just picked a random uh two-year initial term. Uh the reason for that is that, you know, these things are these are coming up for the first time. So, you know, we don't necessarily want to get uh locked in on a long term, especially unsure what the prices may be on this initial term. Uh on the flip side of it, you know, because these are coming up for the first time, people may not be sure what they're getting. So, they may not want to lock themselves in uh to a long term as well. So,
061that's why we're going two years. Uh you know, if you put these out there and they end up being nice tracks of land, you know, word's going to spread and then in two years when these are coming up again, you know, that may help push your prices up a little bit more at that point in time as well. Uh any questions about >> where are they located? Uh, four out of the five are in the A Chaffalia Basin. They're >> west side. >> Yeah, they're they're all in the A Chaffalia Basin pretty much except for one which is located close to the A Chaffalia Basin but outside the the levy system in uh in Bayou Pigeon. Mr. Tuier can tell you where that one's [Music] >> but they're they're pretty much all they're only going
062to be uh accessible by boat. And you know, we do have that in the documents that look, you know, here's a little map of them. You know, you're before you bid on it, you need to look at the satellite imagery and make sure you can get to them by boat through public waterway. >> Great. >> Kevin, has any other school boards ever done something like this as far as we got? >> Yeah, we got a lot of school boards that do hunting leases. >> Gotcha. There's some of them where uh they got very nice 60 section tracks and like I said, I mean it fetches a lot of money for them, but >> wow, that's great. >> I don't have a question. I just want to say thank you to Dr. V and to Evan
063for getting this done and maybe I won't get so many calls this year. >> Okay, any other comments or questions? Oh, M. Dr. Val, >> I did have one board member ask me earlier, how much could we get? So, if all five were to get leased at just the minimum, it's about $23,000 uh per year. The agricultural one, if it gets leased at just the minimum, would be about another five. So, that would be a total of 28,000. Uh it could be more, you know, depending upon how competitive some of these are because we went with the low end of the range that that I was provided on each one of them. could be less. You know, one of them is I think one of them would only fetch $42 a year, you know, but
064the other four would would do a lot more. >> Uh so there's an opportunity there, which also like at Plaque and High on that land, we were paying money to keep that thing up at what, $800 a month at at some point to keep that cut out there. uh which we didn't even calculate that in a savings as far as the other item we talked about earlier, but uh it's a way to bring in some revenue to also go back to help us with grounds, you know, and a source of money for that that we didn't calculate that even in uh into any of that savings on maintaining the rest of the grounds in the parish. >> Okay. Any other comments, board members? Um I just have a question for Evan. Not you, Evan. You,
065Evan. Um, so where are we with the fieldhouse? I I >> Dr. V I I don't >> Oh, you're going to throw him under the bus. >> No. Well, Mr. Evan Alvarez and I and and Brad and David, we had a call with that contractor and with their attorney uh and pretty much we got nowhere. Uh we are being asked to accept uh a warranty on the floor that the manufacturer will not honor uh by the contractor and it's a 10-year warranty. Uh the floor has been rejected. The floor was not installed by uh the certified installer and was not installed to spec. and we're certainly not going to uh just take the contractor's word to give us a 10-year warranty on the floor that the manufacturer won't even honor. That's the biggest hangup that
066we're dealing with at this time. And Evan, I don't know if you >> want to say anything else. >> Really, the main thing is is that the general contractor is kind of caught in a battle with its own subcontractor. Um and you know there's some issues there that is just stopping that flooring from getting completed um based on that battle. But in the meantime, you know, we've had meetings with the contractor and the shity liquidated damages are continuing to acrew and I think that was was $1,500 a day >> $2,500 a day. So, you know, every day that this delay, uh it's $2,500 in LD. So um you know we had we tried to have that meeting uh I guess that was last month and the shy company was there. We required them to attend
067and you know we conveyed that you know what is right now an internal dispute between those two contractors. Not that much of a dollar dispute uh is on the verge of probably growing into a pretty major dollar dispute because of how these LDS are you know just swirling in the background. And uh as of now they have not presented a resolution. So in the meantime, LDS continue to to run until that project reaches substantial completion, which as of right now it cannot reach substantial completion. >> Okay. Um in Okay, let's get back to number six. Any um any questions or comments on item number six? We can vote on it. Miss George. I I Okay, unanimous. Um, adjourn. I'll make a motion to adjurnn. Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Meeting adjourned. Thank
068you. >> What What is this? Good evening and welcome to the Parish School Board meeting. I call to order the October 13, 2025 regular board meeting. Our meetings are broadcasting live to access the stream. There is a video icon located in the online meeting agenda. A link is 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 school board agenda can be found on our district website every Wednesday afternoon prior to the monthly board meeting. The 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 >> George >> here. >> Mr. Abear >> here. >> Miss Hickden
069>> here. Miss Holmes. Miss Laws >> here. >> Mr. Mlasha >> here. >> Miss Roy >> here. >> Mr. Tuier >> here. >> Miss Williams >> here. You have a quir lost. >> Thank you. We will have reflection by Mr. Davin Tuier following a moment of silence. Please stand and remain standing until after the rep the pledge of allegiance. >> Please bow your heads. Heavenly Father, we come to you today asking for your guidance, wisdom, and support as we begin this meeting. Help us to engage in meaningful discussion and allow us to grow closer as a group. Fill us with your grace as we make decisions that might affect the students, staff, stakeholders, and community members alike. Lord, we also ask you place your hand on our parish as a whole. As the community is
070mourning the death of Deputy Charles Riley and also praying for a complete recovery of Deputy Brett Stassy Jr., we ask that you bring peace to the families involved and comfort them during this time in Jesus name. Amen. >> Amen. will be presented by Darcy Elementary students. First grader Tomiana Rome. Second grade Darianne Shaw. Third grade Len Lenine Lena Gatier. Fourth grade Trinity Singerton. Fifth grader Jordan Favorite. And sixth grade Caleb Kennedy. I pledge algiance to the flag of United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please be seated. >> Thank you, Darville. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the ple which stands one nation under God indivisible and justice for all. You
071may be seated. >> Oh, thank you. [Laughter] >> Thank you, Mr. Tuier. And thanks to the Darcyville Elementary students for participating in our meeting tonight. And now we will have the Parish School Board vision statement by Miss Pam George. With our families as partners, the 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, Miss George. If there are any elected officials in the meeting tonight, please stand. Next, we will have tonight's recognitions and presentation. The first recognition is Parish School Board October senior spotlight. Tatiana White, a student at White White Castle High School. Mr. Promise. Good evening. Our senior spotlight is on Miss Tatiana Ashanti White. Tatiana is a daughter of Tina White and Jamarcus Stevenson. She
072is a member of the White Castle High School Booming System marching band, Louisiana Leadership Institution, Allstar Marching Band, Beta, and 4H Club. Tatiana is on track to finish her dual dual enrollment classes in spring and summer for process technology. Her favorite subject is history and hobby is playing her trombone. Tatiana is a well-rounded student who maintains a 3.8 GPA. She plans on attending D Southern University after high school to major in process technology and engineering. She wants to march in the Southern University human jukebox marching band. And after college, she dreams to one day become a plant manager and own various family businesses to pass down to her family. She hopes to also have enough acres to start her own family compound with a farm. Ladies and gentlemen, our October senior spotlight from White Castle
073High School, Miss Tantiana Ashanti White. Good evening. I just want to thank everybody who supported me throughout high school and always being there for me every time I feel down. They always lift my spirits up like my mama, my principal, my sister. Just thank y'all to everybody. [Applause] The second item is recognition of the National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. >> Dr. Fee. >> Yes. As you all know, uh, October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Uh, and each year we kind of do this recognition. We we're all wearing pink tonight in in honor of that. And I thank everyone for for doing that. If you have uh if you're a cancer survivor, please stand [Applause] and and I think we all uh have been touched uh in in some kind of way and we would
074all stand uh if the question was have you had this impact in your family uh and with friends. So, uh, in honor of of breast cancer awareness month, uh, we will be participating with all of the parish in of Iberville on October 21st with all of our schools, with the parish government and all the other governmental agencies participating. So, October 21st, please remember to pull the pink out again. But, uh, you know, that's lost. >> Thank you, Dr. The third item we have is Louisiana Farm for Farmto School Institute Institute award presentation to Deeperville Parish School System District team members. We have Miss Cecilia Stevens the program manager. No. Okay. What? Let me call out the names that are going to be recognized which are Mr. Scott Allen of North Pavilia Elementary School, Miss Taylor
075Shun of North Pavil High School, Miss Megan Perpa of MSA West and Miss Bridget Diamondville Parish School Board School Food Service Department. Miss Alita Miller, Iville Parish School Board Executive Director of Operations. And we have Miss Rebecca Lorett, LSU coach. And may I have your name? >> Does it need to be No, it's on. >> All right. Um, my name is Ty Bankister. I work with Cecilia. She couldn't be here tonight, so I crossed the river, came back. Um, and so like I said, I'm here on behalf of the seed success team with the Louisiana Farm to School program to recognize a truly special group of leaders in the district. Um, in early 2023, my own team was selected uh as a farm-toschool institute adapter and we had team members that were trained in Vermont
076at Shelburn Farms through the Vermont FE program and that experience equipped us to launch the inaugural Louisiana Farm to School Institute, a year-long professional development opportunity designed to support school teams as they build a culture of wellness, engage students, and strengthen local food systems through farm-to-school practices. The application process was competitive and only four teams were selected statewide. I was thrilled to see Irville Parish among them. As a former teacher in the parish, I knew this team had the heart and the grit to make the most of the opportunity and I never let my co-workers forget it as we prepared for the event. At the retreat, one team member stood up and said, "I'm not exactly sure why I'm here." Which gave many of my co-workers pause, but I said, "Trust me, they're going to
077be great." And by the end of the planning retreat, that same person filled with excitement and passion for the plans the team had developed announced to the cohort, "I know why now." And man, did this team take the ball and really run with it once they came home. Some highlights of their team activities include just in this first year of institute involvement. Over $20,000 spent on locally local produce through the local food for schools funds, taste tests featuring locally grown sweet potatoes, beef, citrus, and more. revitalizing three school gardens, launching a new one, and starting a hidden egg operation at North Abraville High School. Building strong community connections from soliciting donations from the local tractor supply to having farmers visit students to coordinating garden work, Parish showed up for the farm to school team, securing
078over $14,000 in new grants and funding and creating the farm to school Fridays program for the third graders at Northville Elementary, giving these students regular access to hands-on experience. space a education. I could go on and on about the agriculture education rock stars you have in this district, but I know you already see their impact. We do not doubt that farm to school programming is here to stay in Everville Parish and that this work will continue to better serve all students in the district. So, on behalf of the LSU A Center and Louisiana Farm to School Institute, it is with great pride that I present this award of completion to the Everville Parish Farm to School Institute team. Never forget, we're rooting for you. [Applause] >> Thank you for being here tonight and and thank
079you to Miss Miller uh when we began these discussions. I'd like all the team members to to please come to the back. We appreciate your efforts. This is great when we see these gardens at the schools. Uh and we definitely look forward to continuing and hopefully expanding Hallelujah. We can go too. Nice. Now we have the consent agenda which is considered routine and will be enacted with one motion. Discuss and approve a condolence resolution to the family of Mr. Ryan Landry, husband of Ms. Kiara Green, preK teacher at Eastville Elementary. To the family of Ms. is of Mr. Verdis Allen, brother of Mr. Ricky Allen, truck driver for school food service. To the family of Miss Elma Afford, a retired teacher from Sunshine Elementary and High School, now Eastville Elementary and High School. To the
080family of Miss Noel Johnson, a retired school food service technician at Darcy Elementary. To the family of Miss Anita Johnson, a a retired teacher from Crescent Elementary. To the family of Miss Tyrese Terry Dur, mother of Miss Morgan Dur, teacher at Crescent Elementary. To the family of Miss Charlene Henderson, teacher at Cresen Elementary. To the family of Mr. Alfred Charles, father of Miss Shandra Jackson, early childhood family education facilitator. To the family of Miss Patrice Lamont, sister of Mrs. Dair Promise, teacher at Elementary to the family of Mr. Tommy Robertson, father-in-law of Mrs. Anna Robertson, secretary at Plaean High School. And next we will have discuss and approve the secretary September the 8th, 2025 regular school board meeting minutes. The discuss discuss and approve the September 26th, 2025 board retreat minutes. discuss and approve October
08113th consent agenda as presented. Do I have a motion? Have a motion from Miss Pam George and have a second from Miss Polly Hickdens. Are there any comments from the audience? Any comments from the board? Machine, please. >> Online voting is now open. You want to just state it for the record? >> I vote yes. >> Thank you. Online vote is now closed. Passes unanimously. We had a lot of condolence res uh condolence. So our prayers are for our family members here in the parish school system. Next we will have the superintendent report. Dr. Voron. >> Yes. Good evening. Uh Dr. Skidmore. Uh go to the next slide. The October one enrollment uh has been uh submitted. We're in the certification process of that. We did move up a few kids uh in the total
082enrollment for the district. Of the ones we did, five of them counted in both. So, it kind of took five out of the the net game, but we did pick up a few more prek kids and a few more in the MFP count. Next, uh y'all, I emailed y'all about this, but since we talked about this at the last public, you know, meeting we had, I wanted to publicly give uh an update. We have been approved for the waiver in order for Highway 30 in front of MSA West to be designated as a school zone. Finally, >> I'm sorry, MSA East. Uh, we finally got it. And I I can't help but, you know, be thankful and grateful to I know several of you have gotten involved with this and and went visit DOTD personally.
083Uh, also the sheriff, the the parish president, they've all been involved with trying to get this done. Uh, the parish is in the process of procuring. So, we thank President uh Del for that to get the signage up that they've been ordered. As soon as that arrives, they'll get them installed. Uh, thanks to you for keeping this to the forefront. And also uh I did reach out to our legislative delegation and Senator Klein Peter and Representative Brown both uh reached out to DOT personally. So thanks to them as well. I'm glad that that's finally done. Uh and I think that traffic situation is only going to of course get greater and greater over time. So I look forward to seeing those lights and flashing signs soon. earlier tonight at finance uh and you just ratified
084it with the well not yet you're going to ratify in a minute with the committee recommendations. I I did want to clarify for the purpose of the public. I mentioned this to you at the retreat as well because I'm still getting questions where people are a little bit confused about some things that have been put out in the media around the constitutional amendment that's going to be coming up. So, what we're doing now and and you approved in finance and and we'll be asked to approve a full board in a few minutes is the legislative stipen for the third year of $2,000 for teachers and certified staff, $1,000 for support. This is not a prominent pay raise. Uh, and our plan was for you to distribute on November 21st. You go to the next slide.
085Where there is some confusion out there is the legislature did pass a bill to put up a constitutional amendment in April which would take $2 billion in a trust fund and apply that to the unfunded acrewed liability in the teachers retirement system. Should that amendment pass, then districts would realize a savings in the contributions that we make as a school district to teachers retirement and then we would be forced to use that savings to give a pay raise to all employees. The amounts however would be 2,250 for teachers in certificated positions and $1,100 support. The amendment has to pass in order for this to occur and this would not go into effect until next fiscal year. So, uh, we put some information out to our employees already. I'm still getting questions about it. So, I
086wanted to have this as part of this report that anyone can go back to and and refer. On the next slide, uh there a couple of accountability updates. First off, uh I received an email that all state superintendents received that they are projecting to release the accountability scores at some point about the same time they did last year, which last year was a little bit later on in November. So, not sure if that's going to be when it is or not. But one of the things I I want our public to know as well, beginning in 2028, the testing of high school students is going to change. Currently, they take end of course exams in algebra 1, geometry, English one, English 2, civics, and biology. Beginning in 2028, in that spring, so that's 2728 school
087year, that will be reduced to four exams instead of six. They will have to take at the end of 10th grade a comprehensive math exam and at the end of 10th grade a comprehensive English language arts exam. They still would take LEAP for biology and for civics. They still will have to pass either the civics or the biology. However, they will have to pass both the English and the math. We're not quite sure how things play out in terms of what that's going to look like for value added measures for teachers and uh they're telling us at this point that the cut scores to graduate would still be the same as what they are now. There will be at that time also as you know these things keep changing. So by 2728 we're going to
088have brand new standards again for English language arts and math. The comprehensive exams do help us to reduce the number of tests at high school. Uh and those students that are currently taking the end of course exams who have already finished high school but not have earned their high school diploma because of not making the passing score on the exam will have the opportunity still to come back and take those exams. the state will provide us with those and they'll be administered at the district level just like it is with the old GE. So basically the old GE is coming back. Uh and one good thing is all of the career technical programming and uh internships and so forth are coming back with it. So I think those are good things. The last lodge is
089there's a whole bunch of activity coming up over the next month. And that concludes my report. >> Thank you, Dr. Ven. Next, we're going to have uh governor's business. The first item was to discuss and approve the October 13th finance committee meeting recommendation. There were five items on the agenda. Four were action items. One item was deferred to the November finance committee meeting which will require our CFO to review some discrepancies and that item was to discuss and approve Dville Parish School Board monthly financial statements and income statement and revenue expense. The three items passed. Do I have a motion? Have a motion from Mr. Davin Touier and I have a a second from Miss Katherine Williams. Are there any comments from the audience? Are there any comments from the board? Mr. Rash machine, please.
090Online voting is now open. Online vote is now closed. Passes unanimously. The next item is to discuss and approve October 13, 2025 buildings and ground committee meeting recommendation. There were six items on the agenda. Four items were action items. Four items passed. Do I have a motion? I have a motion from Miss Teresa Roy and I have a second from Miss Polly Hickden. Are there any comments from the audience? Any comments from the board? Miss Raj, please. Online bone is now open. Online vote is now closed. Passes unanimously. Next we will have curriculum and instruction campus operations. The first item is to discuss and approve Head Start policy council agendas, minutes, reports and handouts. Do I have a motion? Have a motion from Miss Pam George and a second from Mr. Mike Abear. Are there
091any comments from the audience? Any comments? Sorry, we need Miss Polly Higgin to give us some information before we do any comments, Miss Higen. >> Thank you, Miss Law. Uh, if you could just go to the attachments, please. Thank you very much. Okay. Our safety monitoring monitoring um is attached. Our minor critical incidents are attached. Uh the attendance report 99% attendance enrollment 89% enrollment we have three as of as of our September meeting we have three spots remaining for three year olds. 46 spots remaining for four year olds. And of course, we enroll all year. It's all ongoing all year long. Also, we have uh what's happening in family services. The first parent meeting was held at the school sites. We have our mental health specialist report. We have our fiscal report. And under new
092business, our we have our policy council members as of 2024-25 were transitioned out and our policy council members for 202526 were transitioned in. And we have representatives from, of course, our school sites. Crescent Elementary, Dorseyville East, MSA East, Ibraville Elementary, MSA West, two from MSA West, and an alternate from MSA West, North Ibraville, and the officer elections will be held at our next policy council meeting, uh, which is Thursday, October the 23rd. Thank you Miss Polly. >> You're welcome. >> Now are there any comments from the audience? Any comments from the board? >> Maj is now open. Online vote is now closed. passes unanimously. >> We'll have new business. The first item is to discuss and approve an online auction beginning October the 14th, 2025 and ending October the 24th, 2025. Do I have a
093motion? I have a motion from uh Miss Williams and a second from Miss Pam George. Miss Miller. >> Yes, ma'am. Thank you. These are items um that are outdated and were in our surplus warehouse for school food service. And so um most of the items were broken or missing parts. And so we're asking for permission on those. And then for maintenance, SB10 was the truck that had an accident about um that was in an accident about a year ago and um it is being auctioned as well. it is uh nothing that we want to try and repair. I think it's going to be too far um out of the the the range and so um that vehicle is asked to be auctioned as well. >> Okay. Thank you, Miss Miller. Are there any comments from
094the audience? Any comments from the board? Machine please. Miss Raj online is now open. Online vote is now closed. Passes unanimously. >> The next item is to discuss and approve adopting the changes to 1966, 1961, and 2001 school board sales tax ordinance as required by state law. Do I have a motion? Have a motion from Miss Pam George and I have a second from Mr. Mario Mlashian. Dr. V. >> Yes. At this time, I'd like to call on Mr. David Hall from the uh tax collector's office to give you an explanation as to uh what we're doing with this agenda item. >> Good evening, board members, staff, general public. Uh thank you for having me here. Uh last year we had the 2024 third extraordinary session of the Louisiana legislature which was the tax reform
095session and there were a lot of changes made uh to the tax laws. Uh the uh definitions the sales and use tax definitions they were recottified. Also the exemptions were recottified and in addition to that uh we had some unintended consequences with your legislation which uh vendors comp got repealed. So from January through June 2025 tax periods you receive the full gross tax from dealers throughout the United States that we collect from. So during the regular session, the 2025 regular session, vendors comp was uh reinstated and in addition during the 2024 regular session, uh there is now taxation on digital goods, digital audio works, um any type of digital products, software as a service. Um and there's also uh this concept of sourcing which uh for digital transactions it helps us to identify which items
096should be taxable which items should not be taxable. So we got a process that we're going through with that uh relatively new but these are things that were enacted uh during the 2024 legislative session and the 2025 regular session. So in your ordinances digital the taxation of digital goods is not there. So we brought these ordinances to you to include that because we are collecting the tax from dealers as it applies to that effective January 1, 2025. So um so this is the reason for the amendment to the ordinance is to bring them up to current date. >> Okay. Thank you Mr. David. Uh thank you for the explanation. Clearly understand now. Um do I have any comments from the audience? Any comments from the board? >> Mr. Raj Machine, please. >> Line voting is
097now open. >> Thank you. Thank you, Mr. David. Online voting is now closed. Passes unanimously. >> Okay. The next item is to discuss and approve consolidating all craft junior maintenance/helper positions to the maintenance junior mechanic/helper. Do I have a motion? Have a motion from Mr. Mike Abear and have a second from Mr. Mario Mlashian. Mr. Dr. Vyron. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Uh, as we discussed uh in in your retreat few weeks ago, now uh we're asking to take the job descriptions for junior mechanic helper that currently reside in silos. You know, carpentry and painting is one. One is HVAC electrical and and one is plumbing. And we want to consolidate all of these into a more generalized maintenance junior mechanic or helper job description which allows for us to have better use of our
098staff uh based upon need. You know, sometimes the needs in carpentry, painting, multi-purpose are greater. Uh we have about two to three months in July, August and September that we need more people helping in the warehouse when all the curriculum materials, all the annual bid items come in and so forth. At times we need more help on the HVAC side. uh we would still utilize individuals that if they're really good, as we mentioned in the board retreat at a certain craft, we'll keep them in there. But with the restructuring that we discussed in that retreat as well, I think we'll have nine of these total positions in the school district as we shift some resources off of currently people that are on grounds crews and advertise positions for these crafts. Uh so this job description
099uh that was shared with you a couple of weeks ago just kind of consolidates all of those. >> Thank you. Do we have any comments from the audience? Any comments from the board? >> So Dr. Vyro, how many positions are we talking about? >> So there's a total of 20 maintenance positions in the the entire school district. I think it's nine. Once we take some of those positions that were on grounds and move them, I think it leaves a total of nine uh helpers slash junior mechanics out of that group. >> So, we're not creating any more. >> We are not creating any more positions. Uh you have 20 that are included total in your budget which included those grounds people. this just will shift instead of filling the three vacancies that's on the ground
100crew that we haven't been able to do. So, we're going to try to fill one and move the other two into these junior mechanic helper positions. >> So, all those are the same grade pay grade. >> The Jun No, they're not. So like a a lead groundskeeper uh would be at a 22 I think and then junior mechanic helper is at a 20 and helper is at a junior mechanic is at a 20. Helper is at a 18. So, actually, you know, there's going to be about a $6,000 annual savings uh with those position moves, which was also included in that component with the budget as far as the lawn cutting services. Right. Thank you. >> Any other questions from the board? Sage machine, please. Online voting is now open. Online vote is now closed.
101Passes unanimously. Next item is to discuss and approve sending policy GAB political activities to the executive committee for possible revision based on act 89. Do I have a motion? I have a motion from Miss Pam George and a second from Miss Teresa Roy. Dr. Voron. >> Yes. Uh at this time I would like you to uh entertain a substitute motion. We have the attachments in here for two policies uh that I emailed you all about. LEG, which is the sponsorship policy, uh but we didn't have it in the text of the agenda item. So I'll ask that you if someone could make a substitute motion to add policy LEG commercial promotional and corporate sponsorships and partnerships to this agenda item so we can send them both to executive committee to uh look at the potential
102for revisions to those. So, would we need to amend the agenda to include that or >> Yes, that could be your submotion. >> I'm a little confused. >> Okay. >> So, the substance of this as a result of a change in the law, um staff feels like you need to revisit some of your policies uh to see, you know, how how you want to operate basically with the new legislative act uh act 80. I'm I'm sorry. Policy G Ah is um the first one that was in the agenda item, but policy LEG after further looking at it, policy LEG is probably one that you have to look at as well. Uh because of that, the substance of that policy is going to tie into that as well. So, I I think it's fine just to
103make a motion to uh send both of those policies uh to executive committee because that motion would fall within the sub subject matter of the agenda. >> Sending policies uh to executive committee as a result of the change in the law. >> Right. That that's what I wanted to know if it was the same thing and not a new item that needed to be added. Yeah, you you can do it as a >> Okay, I'll I'll make a substitute motion to include both policies to be sent to executive. >> Okay. Do I have a second? >> I'll second. >> I have a second from Mr. Davin Tuier. Any comments from the audience? Any comments from the board? Machine, please. Maj is now open. Online B is now closed. Passes unanimously. The next item is to
104discuss and approve terminating the memorandum of agreement with the St. Gabriel Health Clinic in accordance in the terms of the agreement. Do I have a motion? I have a motion by Miss Katherine Williams and I have a second by Miss Terresa Roy. Are there any comments from the audience? Any comments from the board? >> Dr. Faron, >> it just simply the the clinic is shut down. They're not providing the services. They've already cleaned out the office space that they were utilizing. And as a formality, we do have an agreement with them that has a termination clause for us to provide 60 days notice. So, I'm asking you, since the board approved this originally uh a number of years ago, we're asking you to approve us sending the termination letter. >> Okay. Thank you, Dr. V.
105Any comments from the audience? Any comments from the board? Maj is now open. online voting is now closed. Passes unanimously. Last, do I have a motion to adjourn? I have a motion from Miss Teresa Roy, second by Miss Polyhden. Meet and adjourn. Thank you.