001Mr. Abear here. Miss Williams here. Miss George here. You have a qu Mr. Abear. Okay. Our committee meetings are broadcasting live. To access the stream, there is a video icon located in the online meeting agenda and a link is located on our district website, Facebook and X, formerly known as Twitter. First item on the agenda, discuss and approve property general liability, auto liability, autophysical damage, workers compensation and supplemental insurance policies with Brown and Brown insurance for July 1st, 2025 to July 1st, 2026 as presented. Do I have a motion? A second. Motion by Miss George, second by Miss Williams. M there. Uh go ahead, Dr. V. The good news is our insurance renews came back in and we we've got a pretty significant saving in these renews. Uh at this time, I'd like uh Miss
002Barbara to come up and Miss Barbara Ver is our broker agent for these insurance policies through Brown and Brown. So, you can see she's smiling because it's good news. smiling because it's great news. Um, you know, there's I think a few years ago, some of y'all were with me during the hard times when we had some difficult conversations about property. We had a number of hurricanes that hit and carriers were on the panic mode and started to increase their premiums. Luckily, this year they feel like they've had two or three years of that getting their money back, so to speak, and we we're getting a little more competitive again, which is great news. I'm hoping my homeowners looks better come September because my premiums went up so much, but it's good news. Um, the workers
003comp we've got improved rates on as well, even though our payroll's gone up. So, that was great news to see. So overhaul your package is a good bit cheaper than last year. So which is great news. Okay. Do I have any questions or comments? Just for the the record, the total savings is about $289,000 in premium. So that's money that gets to go, you know, back into the general fund. Uh which is always a good thing. And we do All of these documents you you've got some hard copies here tonight, but the documents are posted in board docs that went out last week as well. So, we are do recommend your approval for all of these policies. Okay. Do I have any more questions or comments? Comments? Yes. Thank you very much. We do appreciate
004it. Every saving like Dr. V mentioned goes back to our uh general s our general fund which allow us to do more things and and be able to do the unexpected things that come about. So we truly do appreciate it. Thank you. Great news. Yeah. Okay. We had a motion by Miss George, a second by Miss Williams. All in favor? I I number two on the agenda discuss an approved student accident insurance renewal for August 1st, 2025 through August 1st, 2026 with Brown and Brown Insurance as presented. And this policy is a half. I'm sorry. Excuse me. One second. Need a motion. Do I have a motion? Motion by Miss Williams. Second the motion. Second by Miss George. Sorry about that. Go ahead. Um, this is to cover student an accident. So, if the child
005gets hurt on the playground or during a sports event, it will pick up and help with some of the med medical expenses. So, we're fortunate that this carrier kept his rates flat and no increase in premium. So, it was good news on this as well. Okay. Do I have any questions or comments? I had a motion by Miss Williams, second by Miss George. All in favor? I. Do I have a motion to adjurnn? Motion by Miss Williams, second by Miss George. All in favor? I. Miss Hickden here. Miss Holmes, Miss George here. You have a quorum, Miss Hickden. Thank you. Our committee meetings are broadcasting live. To access the stream, there is a video icon located in the online meeting agenda and a link is located on our district website, Facebook and X. Okay. Our
006first uh agenda item, monthly work order status report. Mr. Kagnelli. Yes, ma'am. Good evening, everybody. Good evening. All right. So, um during the month of April, 104 work orders were submitted. We closed out 102 and as of the time of report we had about 33 that were left over. We now have about 27 28 that and that includes the work orders today that were put in. So they're doing very good. I couldn't ask for a better crew and they are eager to get on the 410s that they love to do so much and that starts June 2nd. So they're looking forward to that. So uh and as you see through these monthly reports you'll see where our biggest problems are landing every month. and it's the heating and AC and electrical. And some of them
007tie into one another, but they are our most and and it's not many. It's just stuff that we're working through, not only with our crew, but with other outside contractors helping us out. And that's it. Thank you, Mr. Kagnetty. Board, do you have any comments? Okay, Miss Williams, on this uh sheet right here, locks and keys, is that the electronic locks that you're putting into all the schools or No, ma'am. This is the the locks that we have outstanding right now that it's either there's a broken lock, broken key inside because we're finding a lot of keys that were made outside of the district and that's a lot of them you see are locking keys. That's mainly what they are. So, we have to go in, take the core out, replace the core, and go
008back with our another core. But we're not going into the um we will we just got to do a lot more research and find out the best pathway for that. All right. And it's just that's a bigger project. It's it's a lot of design that we have to go through and because it's not just as simple as pop in pop out thing. Okay. We're working with Ian and his group on that and it's the same system that we have through the whole verata system and all them guys. Yes ma'am. Any other comments board? Okay. Item number two, project planning list. Mr. Kagowi. Yes, ma'am. Um, I'm gonna go through this pretty quick because a lot of stuff we had already touched on. Again, the floor replacement that's going to start soon. Cafeteria renovations at Crescent.
009Um, some punchless items. But, uh, the early childhood center design phase is, we're finishing up on it. The demo, I did get a price on just to demo the building. It doesn't involve the concrete. It doesn't involve underground stuff, but just the building is about 85 grand just to demo it, which is not too bad. That's a big area. It's not only just that area, it's the bathrooms and stuff. The only thing that's going to be left is the playground system. So, that's that's the demo of that. The Dorsville cafeteria, the painting is about 90%. They did install the the finished ceiling. Sound systems hooked up. The tank, I did not have it on here because I knew I wanted to have a better update. The tank is about 50% done and what it is
010is a panel tank and they're they're they're riveted or bolted together. I went look at it today. It's about 50% done, but all the piping, all the materials on site. It should be done fairly soon. The flooring has been installed. We're waiting on on, you know, we've been waiting on it for the longest time. The flooring has been installed and that new kinetic that we're going to it's not carpet. It's that it's a new type. It looks like carpet, it's not. Um, and it's very, very good, very efficient. It's it's being used all over multiple libraries. We're also going with that. And the uh Crescent Library, same stuff. It's all installed. So, it looks very good. Like carpet. It looks Yes, ma'am. So, it looks like carpet, but it doesn't it doesn't absorb because it's
011not cotton. It is a nylon or polyethylene. And it's actually 75% of one square is made out of recycled bottles, plastic bottles. So it doesn't retain and doesn't soak in. It sits on top and you suck it up with a wet back. Plastic bottles. Bottles. Okay. I thought he said bones. Me, too. I I would say bones. Oh, no. Bottles. Yes. So, all right. So, the fieldhouse, we should be finishing up pretty quick. Um July 6 is is his schedule shows right now. So, that they're moving right along. Parking lot, the MPT is to start this month, later on this month. welding the welding um and the pipe fitting. We're still working with fire marshall. I go meet with them tomorrow. I believe it's either tomorrow or Thursday. Um so it's this week we go
012meet with them to to get everything going. But the engineering uh and the architects all working together to get this drawn out for us and try to get us a price as soon as possible or an estimated budget as soon as possible. The remodel that contracted us doing the remodel for that office is here today and they're going to start again on June 9th. um kitchen renovations. The design phase on that is just something that we need to talk through more. And the baseball and softball field, I did get the demo for that building. Y know, we did have a fire at that building um a couple weeks ago. It's hard for us to go in and turn that energy back on from energy the company because they want to see us to like repair
013or replace anything. Well, if we're about to demo it and build something new and we're about to have a new fieldhouse, it's a lot of money to go in there and kind of re, you know, uh, renovate what's already burnt up. So, we just wanted to get a demo price and it's about the same price as as Crescent. It's about sitting at around 85,000 to do that. That's nothing underground. It is all top ground. Um, yes, go ahead. The remodel picture Uh we we don't have a visual, but we can uh we'll try to get one. I'll talk to the contractor, see if he can't get us something. Yeah. So we can look at it to see what Yes, ma'am. We what y'all might be doing. We can try to do something because it wasn't
014through an architect just went with the company that has done it. So, um I'll talk to them, see if they can't put us together something. Okay. Thank you. Yes, ma'am. All right. Perimeter fences that we're working on across the district. We got, you know, some pricing on some and you will see one of them today on the MSA West project. Green houses we talked about last time. So now let's jump to MSA West. Additional to the prek area, the existing roof, have you seen on the roof insulation is 100%. The brick installation at the time of report was about 25%. And the remodels of the bathroom are all 100%. That's the one that we've been getting a lot of complaints about smelling real bad. We did find out why. Um, and we eliminated that issue
015and now it's it smells a lot better and it's a brand new flooring that matches the rest of the school. So, it's our new type of flooring that we're going to across the district in the bathrooms. All right. Um, driveway improvement you will see here in a minute. We did open the bids out to on that and everything is explained in the next segment of this report. Building G going. I mean, CMU blocks up second floor. The um rough ends are done on the second floor. The elevators going up. Well, if you hadn't seen it, it's it's it looks very good. And you'll start seeing some completion done it and they'll start working inside pretty shortly. The football I mean the softball field is almost done. We're still waiting on an installation of the scoreboard.
016I thought it was on site, but it wasn't on site. It should show up this month, and they're going to install that for us. football field in track if you hadn't seen it. It looks beautiful. Kevin, I have a If you would back up to the softball field. Okay. The um dugout for the girls. The last time I looked, there wasn't even any benches or anything in those dugouts. Are y'all? So, the the the the um the shell is built. We're just waiting on a couple more pieces of equipment to come in to finalize everything. And that's why we hadn't closed out the project yet. We're still waiting for a couple pieces of equipment to come in. And also, I thought a dugout was more open. Like this is closed in on both sides and
017the back and it's it's metal. That should be mighty hot. Huh. It is. We are going to install some fans though. I talked to the I talked to Tate. Was that last week? We will install fans in them. And that's just like on the next projects we do for this type of building. We don't have fans. We will install fans. Yes, ma'am. But it's just breezy enough to where um if you need Brad can explain, you know, how everything works as far as that. Yeah, you you've got the typical like we're doing at all that it's enclosed and open to the front on it, but you're right. You may get a little bit more heat. It's not like the block that you saw in some of the others. So, the fans will come in and
018be able to move some air in there. So, we should have it should be fine once that's done. But if not, we can always come back if we need to cut the panels at the top to allow some movement. So, and I'm also told that the water still doesn't work back there. So, the water hadn't been tied in all the way yet. That's part of the punch out list. It's also for the football field, too, because we also we had an issue with the electrical because you're going to hear about that, too. The electrical line was cut on a previous project. We can't finalize this one until that gets fixed. We're working with energy on that. Okay. And what about lighting on that parking lot? Is that part of that football project? There's no lights
019back there. I have to check on that. I believe I need to check on that one. I I can't remember. I can't remember now. I can't get you. I can't imagine us building park pluging lights with no lights. I mean, for football, that's where your visitors go. Yes, ma'am. I agree with you. It is dark. I got to check with you. I don't have an answer on the top of my head right now. That could be a definite. Dr. be taking notes. Thank you. All right. Um, so y'all want to go back? You want to go to the football field? Um, the football field, the turf was installed. At the time of the report, it was at 90%. They all pouring the outer track surface pretty soon. The under part was done. So, I put
020it at 50%. So, all like the gravel and everything was done. So, now they're waiting to pour it. And it's looking very good. Also, we had added some drainage stuff that um a contractor did for us as it was raining so much. I did go on site and it drained very well. They still got some things that need to be touched up, but it is draining a lot better than it was last year this time. All right, Placman High Parking lot improvements. They're going to start again at the end of this month and you will see the kitchen renovations. Um so y'all can accept them bids today. White Castle Band room we in initiation process the design on it's about 25% and the HVAC system upgrades are moving right along the installation of equipment is
021about 40% at the time of the report but I think it's a little bit um ahead of schedule right now so we're looking to finish up pretty soon and the main building we're still in the design phase of it it's about 50% of the second story of this building Kevin you're done yes ma'am Okay. Any other comments from the board? Okay. Well, let's move on to item number three. Discuss and approve accepting the low bid from MAP maintenance in the amount of 2,339,000 Plaman High School kitchen renovations. May I please have a motion? Motion by Miss George, second by Miss Holmes. Does anybody want to speak on that? No. This this project came in well under budget. We had a $3.65 million budget established which includes some replacement of kitchen equipment as well. Uh so
022we're recommending your approval. This was a a really good number and kind of frees up some money for some things that we're going to talk about later on tonight. Great. Sounds good. I do have the representative for map maintenance here today if y'all would like to meet them. They're in the back. That is the the project manager and that is Matt Maintenance's supervisor. Great. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Any any comments? Uh let's vote. All in favor? Okay. Good. It was unanimous, Miss Kim. Uh, number four, discuss and approve accepting the low bid and both alternates one and two from Guy Hopkins in the amount of 460,334 for the MSA West Driveway improvements and increase the budget to reflect such. May I have a motion? Motion by Miss Holmes, second by Miss George. Yes. And
023these bids opened this afternoon. Uh I emailed you as soon as I got them with some clarity on them as well. Uh we we do have that significant savings on the prior item. For this particular one, we set a budget and this was one of those unexpected expenditures for this year. Uh we did set a budget at 300,000 with with Mr. Jesse Thompson on this project. Base came in, you know, under budget if we just take the base. However, while we was putting this out, we wanted to go ahead and add perimeter fencing while we get somebody on site, see if we get a good price on that. And then uh while they're there as well, the striping and cleaning the parking lot. So, with all of that combined, we're recommending to go ahead and
024take both the base and alternates one and two to be able to get all of that work done at a a pretty reasonable price. considering. We do have the savings on the previous item, so we're good with with this particular budget. Any comments? Okay. And I would like to just say for the record, you know, in in all of the the schools, perimeter fencing is a priority that we've been getting more and more done as we can. Evraville Elementary is the the next one coming because that's the one that we have in most dire need right now. Thank you. All in favor? Thank you. Unanimous. Motion to adjurnn. One second, please. Miss George, I did confirm the lighting is in the football project and is already bid out so it'll be installed. So, okay. Meeting
025adjourned. Thank you. Thank you very much. May 12th, 2025. Mr. Mlasha here. Miss Roy here. Mr. Tuier here. You have a quorum. Mr. Tier. All right. Our committee meetings are broadcasting live. To access the stream, there's a video icon located in the online meeting agenda and a link is located on our district website, Facebook, and X, formerly Twitter. All right, first item on agenda, discuss and approve the Iriel Parish School Board monthly financial statements, including the income statement and the revenue and expense summary by fund through April 25th. The report includes a comparison of budget to actual for each fund including a percent to goal per budgeted account with the funds. Do I have a motion? Motion by M. Roy, second by Mr. Mlashia. Mr. Stewart, good evening. Um, I'd like to focus on our
026revenues. Um, the greatest revenue outstanding is sales and use tax broken up between the 1% and the 2/3% tax. Um and as I look into those we have six million outstanding in the 1% and two million outstanding and these are approximations uh with the twothirds percent but um in that we we project that they will come in and and perhaps even exceed with the 6 million because there's a range of 1.2 to 1.9 million monthly with the sales and use tax with four more payments outstanding. we for fiscal year 25 we still go into July and August uh for this year's um you know uh funds that are lighted for this year and so looking at that and the amount that we receive per month we should see receive at a minimum the six million
027outstanding or more and with this the twothird sales in use there's a 500,000 but a range within that 500,000 that we receive monthly with four more payments outstanding that should get us to that 2.4 four million or so that's outstanding. Um so we're on track to receive our revenues which is always a really big deal. Um so I won't have any major revisions as it relates to revenues. All right. Thank you. Any comments from the audience? Comments from the board? All in favor? I I pass unanimously. Second item is uh provide an update in relation to audit finding with within the AUP report. All right. So, in relationship to that particular finding, what we are striving to do this year is to at least not get dinged uh so to say for uh our revisions.
028So, we would like to fall within that 5% variance uh for all revenues and expenditures. And to do so, I'll be coming to the board on next month with the budget revisions for the fiscal year 2425 budget period. All right. Thank you. Uh, next item, discuss and approve the safe school stipen increase to $300 with a recommended July 1st start and July 31st deadline for current continuously employed staff. Do I have a motion? Motion. Motion by Mr. Mclasher, second by M. Roy. Dr. Mhm. Last year you approved for us to give a $250 stipen for completion of the safe schools training suite. Uh we implemented that in a manner last year uh that allowed for about three months for completion of this which put everybody into the start of their contracts and uh almost all
029employees complied. They were very appreciative of the stipen. However, with those parameters, we ran into a couple of issues. One, tens of thousands of lines of data to verify dates and timestamps of completion, which really was extremely inefficient for uh for that procedure. And our auditors have told us that you you really need to get these mandatory trainings done closer to the start of school where you don't have people working for three months in the school and they haven't had mandatory trainings on multiple items that statutoily they have to do. Our payroll department uh I'll give them full credit after this process all took place. You know they asked you know Dr. if we do this again, we have an idea that can get the money to people quicker and really be a lot more
030efficient on uh on the the paperwork side of it. So, we mentioned this to you all at the retreat couple of weeks ago and our recommendation is to increase this to $300 to provide a little more incentive for employees to get it done in a timely fashion, but for it to be completed in the month of July. That way, the bulk of our employees are not under contract at that time. So, there's nothing to check but completion of each training. Uh the 12-month employees and 10 and 10 and a half will come back for partial time during that time. They just have to do it outside of their regular work hours. So, uh it increases efficiency and provides a little more incentive uh for our employees to do this. So, we're recommending your approval on
031this item. All right. Any comments by the audience? Comments by the board? All in favor? I pass unanimously. All right. Next item. discuss and improve an increase from $10 to $15 per hour for substitute pay rate for support staff as well as an increase to the hourly time cord rate for par profofessionals and support staff from $10 to $15. Do I have a motion motion by Miss Roy, second by Mr. Mlasha, Dr. V? Yes. Uh we we brought this to you all for some discussion at the retreat and and we're recommending tonight to go ahead and make this change. We have a very difficult time filling support positions for substitutes and our pay is currently $10 an hour. Kelly Services, who we go through for subs, they actually approached me with this because every other
032district that they do work with are paying $13 to to $15 an hour for these subs. We increased pay uh about three years ago for teachers and since we increased that pay through Kelly back then we've had a much higher success rate and fill rate for substitute teachers but for the support ones we really struggle. Uh, and currently for power professionals on a time card, you know, when we have them come in for a training or PD, it's $1250 an hour. We think we should pay them at least what we're paying a sub to come in for those kind of trainings as well. So, we're recommending your approval on this one. All right. Uh, any comments by the audience? Comments by the board? All in favor? I I pass unanimously. Next item up, uh, discuss
033and approve a rate increase from $9 to $15 per hour for student workers. Do I have a motion? Motion by Mr. Mclasha, second by Miss Roy, Dr. V. Uh, this is another one we we talked to you all about and really administratively, we were kind of kicking around. Do we do with 12, we go with 15? Uh, and then we found out the parish government is paying $15 an hour for their student workers. So, we're recommending to be in line and consistent with the Paris government. One part of this is we hire student workers in the summer. You know, we do that every year and uh we certainly don't want them not to come do work for us because they're making more elsewhere. But a bigger piece of this is we are going to increase
034internship opportunities for students uh which we're being required to do by the Department of Education. Uh, and we certainly want to pay them a fair wage as well. Uh, but to be consistent with Paris government, we went ahead and recommended $15 an hour. All right. Any comments by the audience? Comments by the board? All in favor? I. I. Next item, discuss and approve awarding the official journal bid to Plaque Post South for fiscal year 2025 to 2026. Do I have a motion? Motion by M. Roy, second by Mr. Mlasha. This is just procedural, huh? Annual bid we have to do. Uh the P South is the only local eligible and they do give us a very good rate for what we're required to publish. We recommend your approval. All right. Any comments by the audience?
035Comments by the board? All in favor? I I pass unanimously. All right. Next one. Yeah. Go ahead. For the post South, where do you get them from? They don't they don't have them locally in stores or nothing? No, you have to do it. You have to order a subscription. Oh, okay. And you can either do an online subscription or a paper subscription. All right. Next item. Discuss and approve awarding the fiscal agent contract for fiscal year 2025 to 2026. Do I have a motion? Motion by M. Roy, second by Mr. Mlasher. Uh, Mr. Stewart. All right. So, this is um our fiscal agent. It helps insurers above the $250,000 mark for our account balances. Uh, it also allows those who receive the um the award uh as our fiscal agent to invest those funds and
036kind it's basically almost like an insurance. Um, this is something that we do every year. Uh, it's that tan piece of paper that we pass around that the president and superintendent have to sign. Uh, which I'm going to run to the office and get for you right after this. All right. Any comments from the audience? Comments from the board? All in favor? I pass unanimously. All right. Discuss and approve awarding duplicating paper bids to GBP Direct Incorporated for $3.14 per ream for fiscal year 2025 to 2026. Do I have a motion? Motion. Motion by Mr. Mlasha. Second by Miss Roy, Mr. Stewart. All right. So, this is the big reams of paper that we get that we order and send to all the schools as well as throughout the district. Um they won the bid
037uh with the 314 per. All right. Any comments by the audience? Comments by the board? All in favor? I pass unanimously. All right. Discuss and approve awarding a bid for sports medical supplies to Medco Supply Company. Do I have a motion? Motion by Miss Roy. Motion. Second by Mr. Mlasha. Is that one you too? Uh, Mr. Stewart, I'll take that one. Is annual as well with sports medical supplies. We we we have to purchase a lot of this every year with our athletic program and it does uh exceed the bid threshold. So, this is an annual bid with a low bidder. All right. Any comments by the audience? Comments by the board? All in favor? I I All right. Uh discuss and approve awarding bid number SFS25261 bread for school year 2025 to 2026 to
038Flowers Baking Company of Baton Rouge. Do I have a motion? A motion. Motion by Mr. Mclashen, second by Miss Roy. Miss Miller? Yes, sir. Uh we're just asking uh for approval to award the bid to flowers. This is something that we do annually. All right. Comments by the audience, comments by the board. All in favor? I I discuss and approve awarding bid SFS25264 paper goods for school year 2025 to 2026 to Jamack LLC, Ascension Paper Products. Do I have a motion? Motion. Motion by Mr. Mlasha, second by Miss Roy, Miss Miller. Yes, sir. Once again, this is something that comes before you annually for our paper goods and we're asking that you awarded to um JMPAC Ascension Paper Products. All right. Comments by the audience, comments by the board. All in favor? I I. All
039right. Discuss and approve awarding bid number SFS252605 small equipment for school year 2025 to 2026 to Singer Equipment Company. Do I have a motion? Motion. Motion by Mr. Mlasha, second by Miss Roy, Miss Miller. Once again, something that happens annually with our small equipment. We're asking that you approve the bid to be awarded to Singer Equipment Company. All right. Comments by the audience, comments by the board. All in favor? I pass unanimously. All right. Discuss and approve awarding bid SFS25260 milk for school year 2025 to 2026 to Bordon. Do I have a motion? Motion. Motion by Mr. Mlash. Second by Miss Roy. Miss Miller. annual bid uh that we're asking you to award to Bordens for this year's milk bid. All right. Comments by the audience, comments by the board. All in favor? I pass
040unanimously. and discuss and approve awarding bid SFS252607 frozen and staple food items for school year 2025 to 2026 to P N/Gold. Do I have a motion? A motion. Motion by Mr. Mlasha. Second by Miss Roy. Uh Miss Miller. Yes, sir. Uh this is our last um request that we're asking to award to Pine Gold Star for frozen and staple food items for this coming school year. And I would like to make a comment from for numbers 10 through 14. I'd like to publicly acknowledge Bridgetette Diamond who did all of the hard work behind getting these bid uh packets together and making certain that the process took place. But yes, that's what we're asking. Awesome. All right. Comments by the audience, comments by the board. All in favor? I I I. And can I get a
041motion to adjurnn? Motion to adjurnn. Motion by Mr. Mclash, second by M. Roy. We are ajourned. Good evening and welcome to theville Parish School Board meeting. I call to order the May 12th, 2025 regular school board meeting. All meetings are broadcasting live. To access the stream, there is a video icon located in the online meeting agenda and a link is located on our district website, Facebook, x, formerly Twitter. Also, the meeting can be viewed on Cox Channel 21 every Saturday at 700 p.m. following the scheduled schoolboard meeting. The schoolboard agenda can be found on our district website every Wednesday afternoon prior to the board 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 George
042here. Mr. Abear here. Miss Hickden here. Miss Holmes here. Miss Laws here. Mr. Mclasha here. Miss Roy here. Mr. Tuier here. Miss Williams here. You have a quorum. We will have a reflection by Miss Polly Hickden following a moment of silence. Please stand and remain standing until after the pledge of allegiance. Lord, as we come to the end of this school year, we offer thanks and praise for the dedication and commitment of our teachers, school staff, and administrators. We are grateful for their encouragement, especially on challenging days. We are grateful for the passion they bring to school each day. We are grateful for the sacrifices they make to impact our students growth and development. Lord, as we ask for your blessings upon our students and their families during the summer months, keep them safe from
043all harm in their homes and communities. Keep them healthy in mind and body. May they return to school in August, ready to learn. This board comes to you today, Lord, asking for your guidance, your wisdom, and your support. Help us engage in meaningful discussions, courageous in the face of difficulty, and wise in our decisions. We ask this in your name. Amen. Amen. Today's pledge of allegiance will be presented by elementary students. We have Cash and Corbin Gore, second grade. We have Hudson Lucas, kindergarten. We have Jay Johnson, fourth grade. Julian Johnson, second grade, and Jordan Scott, sixth grade. I pledge of algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, for liberty and justice for all. Thank you, Miss Hickden, as
044well as our elementary students for participating tonight. [Applause] [Music] And now we will have Ifville Parish School Board vision statement by Miss Terresa Roy. With our families as partners, the Inville Parish School system with will provide equitable opportunities, academic excellence, and positive school environments so that every student thrives in the path they choose. Thank you, Miss Roy. We will begin with tonight's recognitions and presentations. If there are any elected officials in the audience, please show a hand. I see the first item, recognition of the Parish School System students who scored 27 or above on their ACT scores. Dr. V. Yes. Good evening. And it is our pleasure this evening to to recognize uh our students who scored the required TOPS performance score criteria award. Uh any student who makes a 27 and above uh if
045they have all of the right coursework with the GPA earns the highest top scholarship award that there is in the the state of Louisiana. We are extremely excited uh with our students this year who have earned that which we have 18 students in our school district uh who have earned that honor which is a pretty large number and we can't be more proud of the students who are here tonight as well as the ones who are unable to be here this evening. So before we start, you know, calling out and and handing out these awards, uh I do want to congratulate you on behalf of our school board and our staff as a whole. Uh I took that test a long long time ago and and I know some of you are 10th graders in
046here that did this already uh and have earned an honor tonight. But we have a you hear when the names are called some sophomores, juniors, and seniors. For those of you who are seniors, congratulations because this is going to make a tremendous difference for you almost immediately uh in the next couple of months when you begin college. And for those of you who are sophomores and and juniors, you have a little while longer to wait for that. But uh your achievement is outstanding and we congratulate you and we'll get started with the award recognition at this time. Good evening. We will first announce North Abraville High. Harley God, senior with a 27 on her [Applause] ACT and Caleb Grove, senior with a 27 on the ACT. [Applause] The next school will be MSA West. Darwin
047DS, senior with a 27 on his [Applause] ACT. Annaise Gillery, 10th grader with a 30 on her ACT. [Applause] Kai Palot with a senior with a 34 on his ACT. and Ambry Vaughn, senior with a 32 on her ACT. [Applause] The next school will be Plaean High School with Sha Pusho, senior 29 on his ACT. [Applause] She going in the picture. Oh, the picture. So cute. She said, "I'm going too." What's the name? Okay, we her name wasn't highlighted. And another one at MSA West Asia Helm Setter, sophomore with a 28 on her ACT. [Applause] I know, but she didn't turn in the paper. They had a permission slip to turn to permission. So she was taking MSA East will be the next school. Nikari Kimble, 11th grade with a 32 on the ACT. [Applause]
048Jasmine Latche, senior, 32 on the [Applause] ACT. And Catherine Orso, 11th grader with a 30 on the ACT. We also had several other students that could not attend tonight. So, I'll go ahead and call out their names. at MSA West. Nathaniel Anderson was a 10th grader. Hannah Kate Behem was an 11th grader. Dorian Berthalot, 11th grader. Steven Kavanaaugh, 11th grader. Fischer Gilchrist, 10th grader. Alex Lewis, senior. And Zayn Sanders, senior. And all of these students also scored a 27 or above on the ACT. with another reminder that the highest score you can get is a 36. So, all of these students have done a wonderful job and congratulations again. [Applause] Okay. Again, congratulations to all. Next, we will have the consent agenda which is considered routine and will be enacted with one motion. The first
049one is to discuss and approve the April 14th, 2025 regular schoolboard meeting minutes. Discuss and approve the May 2nd, 2025 schoolboard retreat minutes, and discuss and approve the May 12th consent agenda as presented. Do I have a motion? Have a motion from Mike Abear and a motion from a second from Miss Pam George. Are there any questions from the audience? Any questions from the board? M Siraj machine please. Online voting is now open. Online voting is now closed. Passes unanimously. Next, we'll have the superintendence report. Dr. Voron, good evening. Uh, and this will be the the last report for the academic school year. Uh, we'll go to the first slide there, Miss Bailey. Our enrollment looks like it's going to finish up about where it was on uh October one. As you know, you see,
050we've added and added, then declined a little bit, and that's a trend that continues, but uh at least we shouldn't see a a net loss from October one, which is typically uncommon. Uh the next slide, I do want to make a couple of introductions tonight uh and give both of them the opportunity to come up and say a few words. First, uh, the newly appointed principal for next school year of Ibraville Elementary School is Miss Erica Bennett. Thank you. Good evening. And um, thank you all for having me tonight. I'm very excited uh, about being named as the principal of Ibraville. started there when I first entered the district. So, it feels like I'm going back home. Um, I look forward to working with everybody on the board, of course, with the leadership team here
051to continue to do the great things uh for our students and for our community in Neighborville. So, thank you for having me again. Absolutely. Thank you, Miss Bennett. And, uh, newly appointed principal. She served as acting principal this school year over at Crescent, but now it's officially the real deal. Uh, Miss Tiffany Stein. [Applause] Good evening. Um, I just want to say thank you for the opportunity to remain as principal at Crescent. Um, as I've said before, it's home for me and so it's really an honor to be there and to work with the great teachers and staff we have as well as you guys and all of the district leadership team as well. It was very helpful for all of you this year to to be able to, you know, pick your brains and
052get through the year. And um we have a lot of strong traditions in place at Crescent and we just want to see those continue and keep moving forward and keep moving moving the bar up. Thank you very much, Miss Stein. Uh next slide. Congratulations to the class of 2025. Uh graduations will be held this week and we look forward to having those take place. Next slide. This last week was was teacher appreciation week. Uh we can't thank our teachers enough and all of our employees. We take the approach during this week to uh show our love for all employees and kind of call it an employee appreciation week. Uh and so we definitely wanted to recognize our folks for that. We have multiple schools that have earned national showcase from capturing kids hearts. Crescent Elementary,
053Eastville, MSA East, MSA West Elementary, and Middle High, Northville High, and White Castle. And our school district for the second consecutive year is a national showcase district, which again, we're the only one in the state of Louisiana. Uh so congratulations to everyone out there who are implementing these processes around building relationships with our students. Summer school's coming up. We will have summer school at our campuses except Plaan High where we'll have kitchen renovation going on there. And the next slide just gives you a little synopsis of the type of programming that will take place on our campuses. We will have some LEAP high school retesting taking place uh and ultimately we'll have some third graders that need to take dibbles again that'll uh retest as well. Besides our traditional summer school, we've got more opportunities
054again uh the industry institute Dr. Skidmore has been working on that on both the east side and the west side to offer those uh opportunities to more of our students. Adobe Jumpstart program as well as uh summer welding program. Uh and she just emailed Miss Johnson and I uh about another program we'll be doing with RPCC as well. So uh there's even more to come with opportunities for our students this summer. And it it took almost a year for Mr. Promise to be able to get all of this worked out. Uh but driver's ed will be starting this summer uh for our students as well. We've done this the last few years. It's happened during the school year. That particular company we could no longer uh contract with and go team driving school. Uh finally
055was able to get all the clearances that they need. So instead of waiting for next school year to kick this off, uh we're beginning it this summer and then beginning in the fall, we'll follow our normal cycles as well. And then the last slide are some dates for things coming up. with that quite a bit. The next week and a half is going to be really really busy uh as we close out the school year. With that, that concludes my report. Okay. Thank you, Dr. Boron. And next, we will have governor's business. The first item is discuss and approve the May 12th, 2025 insurance committee meeting recommendation. There were four items on the Did I get that one right? insurance. There were four items on the agenda. I got that one. Insurance was two two
056items on the agenda. There were action items and two items passed. Do I have a motion? Have I have a motion by Miss Teresa Roy and I have a second by Miss Pam George? Any comments from the audience? Are there any comments for the board? Miss Raj Machine, please. Online voting is now open. Online voting is now closed. Passes unanimously. The second item is to discuss and approve May 12th, 2025 buildings and ground committee meeting recommendations. There were four items on the agenda. Two were action items and two items were passed. Do I have a motion? I have a motion from Miss Katherine Williams and I have a second from Mr. Mike Abear. Are there any comments from the audience? Any comments from the board? Mr. Raj Machine, please. Online voting is now open. Online
057voting is now closed. Passes unanimously. Item number three, discuss and approve the May 12th, 2025 finance committee meeting recommendations. There were 14 items on the agenda. 13 items were action items and 13 items passed. Do I have a motion? I have a motion from Mr. Davin Tuier and I have a second from Miss Polly Hickden. Are there any comments from the audience? Any comments from the board? Mr. Raj Machine, please. Online voting is now open. Online voting is now closed. Passes unanimously. Next we will have curriculum and instruction campus operation. The first item is to discuss and approve the early childhood teaching and learning environment policy. Need a motion. Miss, do I have a motion? I have a motion for Miss Hickden and I have a second from Mr. Mario Mlashian. Are there any comments
058from Miss Lydia? Um, I have a few policies um that are on the agenda. I think it's three. What we have is there were we had a visit from licensing from one of our specialists and she informed us there had been changes to bulletin 137. So with that they wanted to look at all of our policies and see if they matched the wording in bulletin 137 and it had that exact wording in them. So some of ours did not. So, we're going to do some revisions. So, that's what you you have in front of you with the three different policies. And so, I'll just quickly go through the three policies. And so, um the first one is actually a policy that we originally had as part of our discipline policy, but because that policy was
059so lengthy, we decided to pull this out and make it a separate policy. Um, we also added a few more things into it, but mainly it's just the Head Start performance standards and it covers the things they'd like to see in our teaching and learning environment. So, for example, a well organized learning environment with developmentally appropriate schedules, lesson plans, indoor and outdoor learning experiences that provide adequate opportunities for our children to have choice, play, exploration, and experimentation. amongst a variety of learning, sensory and motor experiences. Um, we also want during our program snacks and meal times is also a part of our curriculum and a learning time. So it must be structured and used as a learning opportunity that supports teaching staff and child interactions, fosters communication and conversations and contributes to a child's learning
060development and socialization. Also, we want our teachers to use visual schedules with pictures so that children know what activities we'll have next and also that we are being um we are utilizing the conscious discipline which is built into our curriculum. So all the things to help with discipline, breathing strategy, visuals, commitments, safe place, a kindness tree, and also continuing to utilize our daily teacher parent communication form. That is the highlights of that policy. Okay. Are there any comments from the audience? Any comments from the board? Mr. Garage machines online voting is now open just state it for the record. Miss Mr. Mlasha. Thank you. Passes unanimously. Okay. Thank you. The second one is uh item is to discuss and approve the early childhood revised child abuse and neglect policy. Do I have a motion? I
061have a motion from Miss Mr. Davin Tuier and I have a second from Miss Teresa Roy. Miss Lydia. This policy also was already in place and we just made a few changes. So, um the changes are in blue and the red uh strikethroughs are what we took out. Uh, one of the things that is very important is within seven calendar days of the first day that anyone is present at the center and prior to assuming sole responsibility for children, those staff members must complete key training module one from the department of education and also the DCFS online mandated reporter training. Um in addition to that this training must be updated annually online and when we also do a daily health observation. So when children arrive at school every child's physical condition um is looked at
062and we must record possible signs of illness, infection, bruises or injuries. Then whenever we need to make a report or we have any suspicion of abuse, we have the Louisiana Child Protection statewide hotline number. Um, our staff knows that we must not delay reporting to conduct conduct an internal investigation ourself. And also, this was the big point they wanted mapped out in our policy that we shall not require staff to report suspected abuse or neglect to the center or any management. So, the um report can be made directly to the hot hotline without having to report it to anyone else and then they would have fulfilled their duties. Um, also if it was a non-emergency nature, it can be reported on the portal hotline on just on the online portal instead of the hotline. And
063if a oral report was made, it must be followed up by a written report within 5 days. That's an overview of that policy. Okay. Thank you. Are there any comments from the audience? Any comments from the board? Miss Raj machine please. Online v phone is now open. All voting is now closed. Passes unanimously. Okay. Item number three is to discuss and approve the early childhood disclosure policy. Do I have a motion? I have a motion from Mr. Mario Mlashi and a second from Mr. Mike Abear. Miss Lydia, this is a very short policy and it just is letting our parents have notice of the licensing authority that exists with the state department and the availability of any of their inspections, regulations, or information regarding early learning centers from the department's website. um it lists a
064link where they can obtain information about all of the cent's licensing surveys and and inspections and um it's really just informing and giving them that disclosure. Okay, thank you. Are there any comments from the audience? Any comments from the board? Maj is now open. Online voting is now closed. Passes unanimously. Thank you so much, Miss Lydia. Okay. The fourth item on the agenda is to discuss and approve the Head Start policy council agendas, minutes, reports, and handouts. Do I have a motion? I have a motion from Miss Pam George and I have a second from Miss Katherine Williams. Miss Hickden, thank you, Miss Law. As I reported last um last month, we now have one new member for MSA West, which gives us a total of two council members. But unfortunately, we still do not
065have any members on our policy council from Ibraville Elementary. I'm hoping that that may change next school year because we really really need representation from Ibraville Elementary. for new business. Um, we have our self uh attachment, our action plan, and there are several several several pages. I'm just going to give you some highlights. Um, the service area, quality education and child development services. Our goals um our goals are to build strong longlasting family and community partnerships that support the overall wellness, personal growth of each family member. Um also on the action plan we have challenges, time frame, documentation and who is responsible for these plans. Um, Lydium, Miss Kenova also uh just gave us an overview of these policies, teaching and learning environment, child abuse and neglect, disclosure of information. So, the next one is
066the nondiscrimination and the complaint policy. And of course, the um it's revised policy. So, if it's written in red, it's deleted. And of course the blue is the new wording for the policy. We also have our safety monitoring for March chart. Happy to report no critical incidents in March. That's always a great thing. Um we have our attendance report for March, our student enrollment, our registration uh which is round two and of course you know that changes weekly. Um the monthly what's happening in family services the April edition attached as always is our fiscal report our specialist report and our education manager report. Our next meeting is Thursday May 22nd. Thank you. Thank you Miss Hickden. Are there any comments from the audience? Any comments from the board? Miss machine please. Online voting is now
067open. Online voting is now closed. Passes unanimously. Next we will have new business. The first item is to discuss and approve the resolution between the Parish School Board and Shintech Louisiana LLC for participation in the industrial tax exemption program 20230484 IT application. This is a continuation of the older ITP under the PRA rules. Do I have a motion? I have a motion from Mr. Mike Abear and a second from Mr. Mario Mlashi. Um, Mr. Danny Satar. Thank you all for letting us be here. Um, as a native of and lifelong resident of the parish, I do appreciate y'all's service to the parish and supporting our school system and the support that you've given Shintech through the years. So, my position at Shintech is vice president of manufacturing and we also have Mr. Jerry Bradford who
068is uh our corporate controller here who's also a native and resident of the parish. So this project is under Governor Edwards IT rules. Uh we still have a couple more that will be coming through similar to this one over the next year or so. Um it was to build a new brine well at the facility in White Castle. So brine which is also salt. So we get a solution of salt water from these facilities that's a raw material for making the products that we make in our plants. In the original uh construction of Shintech, they drilled two brine wells, but over the years we've drilled a total of 12 of them now. Eight of them are still in service, and it takes about six of them to keep our facilities operating at any given time.
069So, this construction was related to our recent expansion as well as the retirement of some older Brian wells that have uh kind of reached their end of life. So, the total uh investment here was $18 million. Uh it is under the 8020 uh split. So the parish will begin to receive the 20% uh immediately assuming that this is approved and the other 80% would be exempted for 10 years. Any questions for me? Any questions? Dr. Baron, I don't have a question. I just want to clarify for for the board and for the public. uh the ITP rules have changed and a year ago uh the board had to make a decision on whether the board president or the superintendent would sit on the local ITP committee which the board decided that the superintendent would do.
070So those are for the new IT. So just want to clarify this ITP goes back to I think 2018 18 rules and what the rules were back then. So that does require a vote of the board and we will have like I said a couple of more. This project was the first well to be completed. We actually drilled three. So there those other two will uh come up in a future meeting and there may be one or two other ones that we have that are under those 2018 rules that still haven't made it to this far yet. Okay. Thank you. Any comments from the audience? No comments from the board. Machine, please. Miss Raj, online voting is now open. Online voting is now closed. Passes unanimously. Item number two is to discuss and approve declaring
071a public emergency due to the unexpected destruction of a chiller located at MSA West Academy. Do I have a motion? I have a motion from Mr. Mario Mlashi and I have a second from Miss Pam George. Dr. Boron. Yes. Uh unfortunately we had an issue occur last week that was discovered on Thursday where a major fan in the chiller that operates the pack which has multiple classrooms in it besides the theater as well as the new STEM expansion that was built at that time with multiple classrooms. the big fan collapsed and busted up everything on the inside uh of that particular chiller. So, of course, it went out of service. We had that chiller looked at and it it's irreparable. Uh the chiller is original to when the pack was constructed, uh which is getting
072to be a number of years now. We are currently uh operating with a rental chiller that we're paying almost $9,000 a month for beginning uh Saturday when it was turned on. The building is cool. We have a lot of activities happening in that building this week with final exams with uh graduation Thursday night. I think they have an awards program that starts at 7 o'clock tonight. Uh, so multiple things are happening at MSA West, so it was critical to get the rental there. We're asking you to declare an emergency so we can begin the procurement process without having a twomonth delay on the normal public bid process. If we do not do this, there is no way we will have a new chiller in place for the start of school in August. We should be
073close to having it in place if you approve this declaration. Evan has already worked on, you know, getting a a quote package together because we still have time to get multiple quotes, but we really need to get started on this project immediately to have any chance of having that chiller replaced by the time school starts. I think we all remember the fall of 2023 uh when we dealt with drought and severe heat. We don't know what's coming in August of 2025 and we want to make sure that we're not wasting close to $9,000 a month and actually get the fix done. We're estimating a budget of about $450,000 for the chiller and the installation, but we are working on getting quotes. I did ask Evan Alvarez to to come in tonight uh in case you
074had any questions about the whole process around declaring uh a public emergency. Okay. Thank you, Dr. Von. Are there uh any questions from the audience and the board? Do you have any questions for Evan? Hearing none. Online voting is now open. All vote is now closed. Passes unanimously. Okay. Item number three, consideration and or action approving the superintendent's recommendation for payment of a one-time salary supplement in the amount of $2,000 for full-time active duty employees hired on or before May 12th, 2025, who contractually agree to remain employed and actively working through December the 19th, 2025. Do I have a motion? I have a motion from Mrs. Pam George and I have a second from Miss Katherine Williams. Dr. Voron. Yes. Uh I'm really excited for us to be able to offer this for our employees.
075Uh we've kind of almost made it a a semester tradition as long as we have funds available to do this. Uh, and so we did this last year in May for people to agree to to stay with us through December in the amount of $1,000. And then we did it again in November uh for the spring semester in the amount of $2,000. We're recommending 2,000 again uh as a retention stipen. Uh and as stated in here, employees will receive acknowledgement. uh this has been a really good uh incentive for our employees to to come back and stay with us. They're very appreciative. Uh when the agendas were released last week, you know, there was a lot of buzz in the district around this as I'm sure you all heard uh just as I did in
076in visiting campuses last week for teacher appreciation week. So, we are recommending to to give this again. This is really a a nice incentive for our employees who uh who stick with us. Thank you. Are there any comments from the audience? Any comments from the board? Mr. Raj Machine, please. Online voting is open. Online voting is closed. Passes unanimously. Item number four, consideration and our actions approving the superintendent's recommendation for a 4,000 acrosstheboard pay increase to be effective July the 1st, 2025 and included in the 2025 2026 salary schedule for all full-time salary schedules. Do I have a motion? Have a motion from Mr. Mario Mlashi and I have a second from Miss Polly Higden. Dr. Voron. Yes, Mr. Stewart and I for months have been uh really looking at the development of the 2526,
077you know, budget. And uh we we knew when we went out to our voters back in the fall to ask for renewals of our current taxes and a reminder at lower millage rates uh in a few years seven mills will come off of those rows. But we felt as though we we have a healthy balance right now in order to give a a pay raise to all of our employees. Currently with the salary schedules around the state from the the data that we had collected back in the fall, we were number four in starting teacher pay in Louisiana. If you approve this, this will move us to number one at least for the time being. You there are three districts that are ahead of us and one of them I've already heard is going to
078be given a raise again. But these are the numbers that we feel comfortable with. Uh because this is a recurring expense and again our employees uh you know the ones that have stuck it out with us. Uh this is something that they're going to really appreciate as well. uh everything out there costs a whole lot more money and when we've got especially you know two teachers in a district you know this will definitely be good for them as well. Uh but I'm asking for your approval for us to make this effective with the start of next school year. This is a huge piece for both retention and for recruiting. And and I can tell you at this point where we're hiring for next school year, we already have a pretty decent amount of applications of
079certified staff that have gotten into the pool. And I think once we're able to publicize this, it's going to get even better. Good. Thank you. Are there any comments from the audience? Are there any comments from the board members? I just want to say thank you to uh Mr. Stewart, Dr. Vron for getting this done. Thank you all. And then I want to tell all of our full-time employees, congratulations. Absolutely. But first, we have to vote. Let's see. Miss Raj, online voting is now open. Online voting is now closed. Passes unanimously. Now I can say congratulations and and yes and before you move to your German section on behalf of all employees of Iberville Parish Schools. Thank you to our board for your continued support and for valuing uh the employees in our school district.
080I can't thank you enough. I know they can't thank you enough. Uh we've continued to do all that we can. Uh and we'll continue to to do more in the future as we're able to do so. But without your support, we can't do any of it. you know, and that's not just for for these salary, you know, increases and stipens, but just across the board as we do things programmatically. You know, your support is tremendous, and I thank you on behalf of our entire uh staff and faculty of all schools and at the district level. You all are welcome. Lastly, uh do I have a motion to adjourn? I have a motion for Miss Teresa Roy and I have a second from Miss Katherine Williams. Miss Siraj, we all in favor. Thank you all.