4/14/25 Regular School Board Meeting

001are 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. Right. Agenda item number one, discuss and approve the Ibra Parish School Board monthly financial statements, including income statement and the revenue and expense summary by fund through April 25th. The report includes comparison of budget to actual for each fund, including a percent to goal per budgeted account within the funds. Can I get a motion? Motion. Motion by second. Mr. Stewart. Good evening everyone. Um my update to this is that currently we're at 81 plus% general fund received. Uh we're at 98% of maintenance funds received as I'm speaking to revenue uh with the exception of the internal transfers that we do towards the

002end of the year. Um we're actively planning and monitoring some of our special revenues uh keeping an eye on our political environment uh as well as um looking uh or working together to ensure that our new uh myself as CFO and grants manager close out the grants properly tying everything and and and such. All right. Any comments from the audience? Comments from the board. All in favor? I I pass unanimously. Uh item number two, give an update in relation to audit finding within the AUP report. Mr. Stewart. All right. The human resource and technology team has actively been addressing the audit findings uh related to the the disconnect between our our personal data used for the PEP and the information that we have on file. Essentially, uh we're working both HR, payroll, and our technology

003department to ensure that we we update the um the salaries as they change the the changes in relationship to stipens and and sometimes like when we have someone get a degree that their their pay changes. So, we have to make sure all that updates and then ties when we submit it um on a more frequent basis. uh to the LDOE and that should address the issues that we've been having with with PEP. All right. Thank you. Any comments? That's not an action item. So, we'll move on to number three. Discuss and approve the pro procurement of all goods and services needed for the operations of the child nutrition program for a July 2025 through June 2026 school year, including but not limited to food, paper goods, chemicals, materials and supplies, equipment, vehicles, services and repair

004services for repair and maintenance of equipment leases, rentals and other professional services as well as other necessary items. Can I get a motion? Motion. Motion by Mr. Mclofflin, second by Miss Roy, Miss Miller. Okay. Thanks. Um, this is something that we do every year, which is we come to the board to ask permission to be able to um go through the bid process um throughout the year um on those critical things that we need to operate the cafeteria and the kitchens effectively. and we're asking for this to be the entire uh school year July 2025 through June of 2026. All right. Any comments by the board? Miss Miller, do we always is it always on a yearly uh process? Yes, sir. We ask to um have permission to bid the whole year. eventually gonna probably

005go into a two-year span where we're going to ask for it because these are things like paper towels and um maybe kitchen equipment that may go down in the middle of the year and we have to bid. We we don't want to have to waste time to come to the board, ask for it and then go back. We ask for permission now and then when it's time to award the bid like at the upcoming item, we'll come back to you. Thank you. Yes, sir. All right. Any other comments from the board? Comments from the audience? All right, we'll vote. All in favor? I I pass unanimously. All right, item number four, discuss and approve awarding bid number SFS242516, large equipment for MSA West, White Castle, and East Ibraville cafeterias to CRS. Can I get a

006motion? a motion. Motion by Mr. McGloth, a second. Second by Mr. Roy. Okay. Thank you. This is one of the um examples. We had uh two steamers to go out and an oven. And so we were able to put the bid process in place over um the required amount of time and um and now we're coming to you to ask to allow us to purchase these items with school food service uh funds. Perfect. Just to clarify that, that's the purchase, not least. Correct. This is a purchase for this. Yes, sir. The only thing we lease is is dishwashers. Okay. Yes. You're welcome. Uh any other comments by the board? Comments by the audience? We'll vote. All in favor? I Mr. Mclasher. All in favor? I thank you. Y pass unanimously. All right. Item number five,

007discuss and approve the proposed staffing for the 2025 2026 school year as presented. Can I get a motion? Motion. Motion by Miss Roy, second by Mr. Mlashia, Dr. V. Uh, Miss Bailey, if you can pull up the PowerPoint presentation, please. Annually, we come to the school board as uh Louisiana Revised Statute 1781 gives the authority to the board to determine the number of positions in the school district. Uh I'll kind of preface this with, you know, when we look at factors that guide personnel decisions, you can go to the next slide, Bailey. These are the four major things that that impact that enrollment which these things fluctuate by campus. They fluctuate by grade level on an annual basis. Special education services and needs is always a priority. Available funding is always an issue that we've

008got to be able to look at. If you recall for this current fiscal year, all of the uh funding went away from Esser. So we we cut some positions and then we absorbed some in the general fund. Uh and also we had a reduction in the contributions to teachers retirement. Uh and then of course specialy needs. You know we've got needs that arise throughout the course of the year uh that we sometimes don't anticipate that we're going to need but numbers you know kind of dictate that. So do kind of special program and I'll get into a couple of those. I you can go to the next slide Bailey. I sent you a couple of correspondences over the last month or so uh indicating, you know, some needs that I know we're going to have

009for next upcoming school year. Uh the new accountability is coming and we have to expand our internship opportunities for students. The keep keep it on that slide, Bailey. Go back. uh the Thrive component of that new accountability system, which we're going to go over with you in depth on May the 2nd, calls for students to either if they are on a university pathway to hit certain marks when it comes to dual enrollment, advanced credentials, and so forth, college credit earnings, earning an associates degree while they're in high school. But on the jump start side, student internships are going to be critical for our kids to have the type of work experience opportunities that's being pushed. I love it. I think it's wonderful. You know, when I was in high school a number of years ago,

010we had very robust career technical education programs, but we had these internships in place. Many districts use different programs. COE was one cooperative office extension where students went to school for a half a day or three quarters of a day and then they went work somewhere and that was supervised by a teacher at the campus. Somebody had coordinate that program to be the teacher of record. They earned high school Carnegie credits for that but it was all designed around going to work having work ethics working in an environment that is a professional type environment. CAE was another one cooperative a extension. So it was similar to CAE but it went through a some of them you know I know when I was a principal that program being used was DECA you know and I had

011a student that was employed at my school to help in the office. So, the instructional team and I have met several times already to identify the course codes that we can utilize for seniors next school year and to hire some within the school system, but also to reach out to other municipalities, other businesses to try to get it expanded. That's going to affect, you know, how we schedule teachers for next year. We have, y'all know, uncertainty when it comes to federal and state funding. I still don't have anything I can tell you about federal funding for next year. We all know there is a push to dismantle the US Department of Education. I have no idea if funding would be affected by that or not, but we shall see. And state funding, the legislature is

012in session now. We know that those four amendments that were uh on the last ballot, they did not pass. So we know there will be no shifts for next fiscal year when it comes to what happens with teachers retirement in that piece. Uh there is a push from the legislature to try to do something for teacher and support salaries, but it won't be through the mechanism that they tried to do with the constitutional amendment. So we have to keep all of that in perspective. And of course, fluctuations in enrollment by campus. And over this school year, we saw increases in enrollment at MSA West on both sides of the campus and at MSA East. We saw some campuses stay about the same and we saw some campuses drop a little bit, but the grade span

013doesn't, you know, say, "All right, they lost 20 kids, but cut a teacher." Well, when those 20 kids are less from prek through sixth grade in an elementary school, that might only be one or two kids in a grade level. So, that doesn't affect the number of teachers that you have. So, these are all considerations that we looked at when it came to staffing recommendations for this year. So, next slide. Now, we just put this every year when we talk about teachers that includes more than just classroom teacher. And actually by statutory definition, anybody that is in a position that requires a teaching certificate, including myself, would be considered a teacher. But for our staffing purposes, what all of those job titles that you see up there, fall into that. And what we're requesting for

014next school year is a total of 467 positions that fall into the teacher category. We already know we're going to be adding a prek3 class at MSA West and we have an additional special ed teaching position we need on one of the campuses. We need to make sure we've got included positions for these internship opportunities. And as I mentioned in the emails I sent you, we may be able to absorb those with current staff. We simply don't know yet. The high schools are in the scheduling stage right now and and our task the secondary group to really purge into those high school schedules to make sure we're maximizing the staff that we have on those campuses. So this would be a total increase of five teaching positions for next school year. Uh last year we

015asked for three reserve positions. We used them. I'm asking for four because of a few different factors. One, throughout the course of last school year, we ended up with more needs with early intervention services. We have more kids coming in at three, four, and five year olds who really require some significant impact. We added one of those with one of those reserve positions this year because of the enrollment that jumped up at MSA West. We added a position there this year as well out of that reserve. So we need to have the flexibility to meet the needs that we have on our campuses. The next slide deals with some of the support staffs. We we used up reserve positions for power professionals this past year again because of some of the needs that have increased

016in the district. Uh I'm asking for a total of 111 power professionals there. Uh we added one into kindergarten at MSA West this year averaging 22 to 23 kids in kindergarten and again the needs have increased. You know when we needed that support we will have an additional prek class and our special ed numbers have increased. School nurse on the east side were requesting to add our RM. We have a partnership with the St. Gabriel clinic on the east side. We have lots of parents who have not consented for their kids to be serviced in that clinic. As a result, we got to call the parents to come pick them up and hopefully bring them somewhere to receive uh whatever medical attention they need or they just stay at school sick, you know. So, we

017have tried to get part-time services there via contract and been unsuccessful. And we have tried to do uh a contract service for our all day person on that side and none of that has worked. So the last resort is to have a school nurse position that's split between the two campuses so we don't have kids either missing school or just not getting the medical attention that they need. This is similar to what we have and Northville. We've got a school-based health clinic and we got a school nurse to service the elementary and the middle high. We have a school health-based clinic at Plaqueman High and we have a school nurse there. This would do the same thing on the east side. Well, I can tell you Dr. V, they half the time don't have a

018doctor there or even sometimes a nurse and then they make you wait all day and you're just sitting there. They're they're very unuser friendly. They've had some staffing issues. they have with some internal things that we're in conversation with them on. I I think this is the best thing for our kids. I agree. You know, uh and the last slide, if you go to that one, Miss Bailey, we're not recommending anything additional at the the district level. Again, we we've trimmed that down and cut that down. We always evaluate vacancies as they occur and you know we we've consolidated some positions and not filled some positions and our departments are reviewing their staff just for potential reorganization that they may have uh but wouldn't mean uh adding any positions. For instance, Miss Miller has been

019in about a year now. You know, we did not fill the school food service supervisor position. That was a a a big position salary wise. We have a a contract that we work with with a consultant. Miss Miller has been running that through her position, but there may need to be some internal shifts of staff in that particular department. Mr. Stewart, I think his anniversary is this week. Uh he's one year in now and has had a full year to assess the finance department. uh he may need to make some shifts and tweaks with duties, responsibilities. If those things come that affect job descriptions, we have to come back to to the board with that, but we're not looking at positions. And Mr. Kagallet's, you know, been around for a little while now in that

020position and we've talked about some restructuring to be more efficient in the maintenance department as well. So, they're working on reorgarch type things, but it wouldn't affect the the number of positions. So with that, these are my recommendations for staffing for next school year. All right. I have one quick question, Dr. B. How often is the sped department evaluated to see if we have enough resources there? We look at those numbers. That's constantly. Okay. That's what I thought I was just looked at constantly. And whenever there's we will either move people from one campus to another because you know sometimes you get a uptick in one place but a down tick in another right uh and we've added you know positions that's why those reserve positions are out there. All right any other comments from

021the board comments from the audience? [Music] All right. All in favor? I I I pass unanimously. Next item up, discuss and approve the job description for STEM teacher facilitator. Can I get a motion? A motion. Motion by M. Roy, second by Mr. Mlasher. Dr. B. Yes. Uh we're not asking for an additional position. When we talk about the 467 that you just approved, this position would fall into there. We spoke about uh Iberville Elementary School in our last retreat uh and the final phasing out of Monasuri. We mentioned to you back then that we were exploring opportunities to pilot some STEMbased STEM themed instruction over at Ibraville Elementary. We didn't want to take one full program out without trying to replace it with something. STEM is huge right now. you know, everything that we're dealing

022with with many of our business partners in our community are all revolving around pushing STEM. That's why you see a lot of them uh investing funds into the academic programming that we have around science, technology, engineering, and and math. Miss Johnson, I'll ask her to speak next about the grant that she has already been awarded with some of the training that's been taking place and another grant that we have or have applied for uh that really is you know hopefully we get it because it's a huge partnership that would come. Miss Johnson. All right. Good evening everyone. Yes. So this year we received a grant from the department of Louisiana Department of Education for around $31,000. And with that grant we were able to send Dr. Skidmore and another teacher from MSA West to a

023conference in January. But we are also using the funds and we're in the process of training several teachers around the district, some from Ibraville Elementary, but other places in the district as well as a train the trainer models through the LSU cane center um in ignite one and 2.0 know in the STEM modules junior which would teach the teachers um how to incorporate the curriculum into the kindergarten through sixth grade classrooms where they start off very basic in kindergarten with computer concepts and coding games and then all the way advanced to cyber sec security and coding projects in the sixth grade. So, we did reapply for that grant as well for the upcoming school year, which with the Department of Education, it's about $40,000. Excuse me. We were also able this year to purchase all

024of the supplies that we would need for Iberville Elementary for the upcoming school year. We've applied also for a partnership with Texas A&M which would be about a $400,000 grant which would train teachers and they would go to classes at Texas A&M and they would be able to learn all of these concepts plus more and be a train the trainer model. It would also provide these teachers with an incentive and an opportunity that where they would be paid $10,000 a year to get certified in this STEM the STEM modules in the curriculum. So hopefully we've sent our letter to intent through LSU and thank you and through Texas A&M. It's getting better now and through Texas A&M. So, we have two letters of support going in to make sure um we're first on the list

025if they do receive that grant. Um, as of now, we have teachers that started in February um going through the Cane Center to get trained on the curriculum and then we have a group of teachers that's going to be going in June. Hopefully, if this position is approved, this person would be hired before June to be able to be trained before the start of the upcoming school year to be able to instruct students in K through sixth grade at Ibraville Elementary. And this would lead to a pathway at Plaean High for coding and cyber security. You got a comment, Dr. B? Answer questions. Any questions from the audience? Comments? Comments, questions from the board. All in favor? I I pass unanimously. All right. Discuss and approve seeking bids for the duplicating paper for fiscal year

0262025 to 2026. Can I get a motion? Motion. Motion by Mr. Mlash. Second by M. Roy. This is standard annual to go off a bit. All right. Any comments from the audience? Comments from the board. All in favor? I I I pass unanimously. All right. Discuss and approve accepting bids for the fiscal agent for fiscal year 2025 to 2026. Can I get a motion? Motion. Motion by Miss Roy, second by Mr. Mlasha. Dr. B. Same thing. Next items are annual RFPs or bids that we're obligated to put out. All right. Any comments, questions from the audience, comments, questions from the board? All in favor? I I pass unanimously. Next one up, discuss and approve seeking bids for sports medicine supplies. May I get a motion? Motion. Motion by Miss Roy, second by Mr. Mlasher. Dr.

027V. Customary. Any comments or questions by the board? Comments, questions by the audience. All in favor? I pass unanimously. Uh discuss and approve seeking bids for the official journal for the fiscal year 2526. Can I get a motion? Motion by Mr. Mlasha, second by Miss Roy. Same thing. Comments from the audience, comments from the board. All in favor? I I pass unanimously. Can I get a motion to adjurnn? Motion. Motion by Mr. Mlasha, second by Mr. Roy. We all journ. Thank you. Miss Hickden here. Miss Holmes here. Miss George here. You have a quorum. Miss Hickden. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Get this set up here. Okay. First off, Mr. Kagnelli, our monthly work order status report. Yes, ma'am. There we go. All righty. So, Mr. Kagnetti, let me read this little statement, please. Thank

028you. Yes, ma'am. 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. Thank you. Are we ready, Miss Miss Bley? Yes. All right. So, work order status for this month, as you see, we submitted, well, the school had submitted 141 work orders. We've closed 128 and we're sitting at about 27 and this is at the time of report. Right now, we got just a little bit over. It's like 21 22 right now. So, we're looking really good. And over the past couple months, we've been seeing this staying at the 20 range, 25 range. So, this is really good. We're expecting a big push come because of the end of school year push

029that we always get that rush, which helps us out because then it keeps us busy for the rest of of the summer, but we'll have a lot of contractors on site helping us out with things. And you'll see a bunch of them through this list on the projects. Um, but if you look down below, you can see where the I wouldn't say problems, but the the where we spent most of our time. Um, and I'm not going to go through all of them, but carpentry and it says welding, but we had no welding. It's just carpentry. Plumbing has been an issue. And then other toxic is just a miscellaneous things of the rest of the things that's not listed on this list. Okay. Any questions, board? No. Okay. Item number two, long-term project planning list.

030Yes, ma'am. Um, so, all right. So, without going through each one of them, if y'all have any questions, please stop me at any time, but we're going to go to Crescent renovations. We're just doing the uh K cafeteria renovations, just doing punch item list. Um, the library floor replacement that's going to start over the summertime. They just it was we tried to get it done over the holidays, but just getting that material right now is just it was a long lead item when it wasn't supposed to be. and the bleacher replacement um project as a potential. I'm still working on having that ready. And what that is, a couple of y'all have talked to me already about it and I've talked to the school. Those are the last I believe bleachers that need to be

031replaced. They're almost inoperable. You have to pull them out by hand. They get hung up. The boards are breaking off. We put boards back on. I mean, it's it's that time. So, I did get a uh preliminary quote on it to get it replaced. They are on state contract which is going to help us out. Um and you're looking at about that 100 grand area and that's that's replacing that. It's the nice um vinyl seats like we have at the other schools and it's going to be all electric, too. So, there was option to not do it electric, but it wasn't that much different. So, we're going to I just went ahead and tell them to quote me electric on it. I was trying to get that done for the summertime, but I don't think

032it's going to happen. We could probably have to wait till probably go out and look around July, June, start getting more pricing and then after that we can get it done. It's not going to take them long to do it though. Thank you. Any questions? Okay. Yes, ma'am. Thank you. Also on on Crescent, we are going to paint um some the hallways in Crescent this summer. So, we're going to do some painting work coming up that already got approved before after I did this list that got approved. So, we're going to y'all going to see some painting going on along with the floor remodel over the break. They're going to redo the floor where the basketball gym is at that floor that got ruined um because of the freeze. They're redoing all of that with

033a new type of floor and the epoxy floor. So, we never have to worry about that place flooding again. So, all right. Dorsyville Elementary, the cafeterium. You'll see it on here. It's 80% of paintings done. We installing hard ceilings. I think we're almost done with it. Installing a new tank that's supposed to be 14 uh 414, not 44. So, we're still waiting on it to come in. Should be here tomorrow, this week, let's say. And they're going to start putting the tank in. Now, when they put the tank in, they're still going to have to do their welding and stuff like that. But, they should finish up. I think it was around that mid May to late May. And then at the same time, they're still working on the inside of the building. So they're

034looking at June about mid June to be done completely. All right. Um Eastville, we're looking at the fieldhouse completion. Um we solve the deck roof deck issue. So we solved the whole roof issue. So we starting to speed things up a bit and they should finish up. He was saying around July 4th. So and then final completion around July 4th. So we're holding to it. Our office remodel is also going to start during the summertime that you will it's been needing it. Right. The only thing we're not going to do is the floors. We're not replacing the floors right now. They need to be replaced, but that's going to be on a larger scale project. We just didn't have time to put it all together. And I didn't want to like piece it and have

035to do the rest of it. So, we just left the floors and we'll just do a whole full renovation u when the time comes. So, we're going to get rid of the white castle color out of our Yes, ma'am. It's a holder paint. The the top counters will be very nice counter. It was all that laminate broke stuff. So, we're getting rid of all that. Going to something a lot nicer. Okay. Thank you. Yes, ma'am. And I don't have on here is the um the what you'll see here in a minute. Y'all going to y'all going to um be asked to accept it is the parking lot that we're going to do. So, you that'll come up on the project list. Miss Williams? Yeah. Um what about the trees? The trees will be cut down.

036I'm trying to find a best time to do it. We may have to wait till the summertime to do it. But yes, ma'am, we we already got a contractor lined up. He knows he walked it twice already with Mr. Stanley and we're going to get some trees cut. Also, we're looking at the ones at MSA East, the one in the back. They're nightmare. Okay. Roots everywhere. I mean, I know the front is horrible. Yeah, it's terrible. So, we go we're going to take care of them as well. We're going try to get it done during the summertime as best we can. We don't want kids and stuff around while we're doing all that machine work. And what about the status of the um that light? The uh school light is out. this the school light

037I'm going have to get with Josh on that. He's been working with him on it. Okay. But I'll get with him and I'll send you an email. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Yes, ma'am. Thank you. So So [Music] um the trees at are the same kind that they have at East. No. So at um you talking about MSA East? Yeah. MSA East is the trees that's in the back. They get the root system and it took over everything and it's the leaves and they fall. They're clogging up the gutter system. They clog. It's just it looks terrible. They got some that's on a 45 degree angle. Same trees that's at Pla High in that little foyer area. I mean they're they need to be cut and taken out as well. Um but they're just right now

038it's a maintenance problem at MSA East more than it is at at Plman High, but it's not going to be much to take. So you already have bids out for this or you It's not a bid. It's just it's a tree the tree guy that we that usually cuts our trees. We got him to go look at it for us and Okay. He's working up a quote and stuff like that for us. Okay. All right. Thank you. Yes, ma'am. All right. I elementary the perimeter fence project. We reached out to multiple companies. That project is going to cost about $150,000 to do it. It's going to be the whole entire perimeter fence. I'm working with Dave right now. And I don't think we're going to do the three powered gates. We're looking at just doing

039two and then having the one mechanical gate, which right now you have one powered gate and two mechanical gates. They all need to be redone. The fence is falling down. Some spots are broken. They're rusted up. The mechanical part of the what's there now still works well. We just got it re reworked. So, it's in good working condition. We're just going to add one more in the bus lane so where they have access and it's all keypaded or it's um timed access. So, we're going to look at getting that done. It's going to go to the our standard black poly vinyl fence and it's going to look very nice. All right. Um, MSA West, same thing. So, the perimeter fence on that job, I mean, I'm sorry, MSA East is the section in the back

040by the pack center to the parking lot. So, we're going to look at getting that done. So, the reason I missed one on Ibraville Elementary because it's the same area. They got a section that's about 100 foot and they got a one gate at MS on Ibraville Elementary. It's kind of inside and it's separate. It's the last fence that we would have to put that separate the parking lot from the school. So it's the same kind of concept at MSA East Academy and I think that's the last area that they can act anybody can access the whole entire campus but if as soon as we shut it off they're going to now have to go through a gate and 8 foot fence and all of that and it's going to be the aluminum type of

041fence because there's aluminum fence already there. Um and this um the I didn't have it I don't have it up here but I wrote it in my notes. It's the lights for the pack center. We we've done the lights and all of that work at MSA West. Now, this is the lighting part at MSA East. We've done the vocal and and the audio stuff at MSA East. Now, this is the last section of it. And the and it's the lighting part. So, we will have waiting on quotes to come back. We will be doing that fairly soon. Okay. MSA West, um the preK additional, if y'all if y'all go out there, y'all can see it. It's moving very well. I mean the buildings the the blocks up their waterproofing the trusses are framed up installed

042existing roof tie-ins going to start pretty soon roof installation is going to start pretty soon and exterior bridge the exterior brick will follow after that all right um the perimeter fence on this all so I got it as a separate project on here but I'm having it as an alternate on a another project which you'll see down um to after the greenhouse the driveway improvement project. I'm going to go ahead and put it as an alternate and if we can if we want to accept the alternate you can. And it what it is it's the exterior fence a perimeter fence that goes all the way around the uh canal ditch all the way back up. So it starts from the tip of the school and it comes all the way back around to the back

043side of the school. and it's going to just isolate everybody from that any kind of coming from the cane fields and and all of that. So, you're not gonna be able to get to the campus without jumping a eight foot fence. I did have in there a powered gate after talking with multiple people. A powered gate would be hard to do because there's so much traffic coming in and out of there right now. So, we're going to wait on the powered gate, but have options to have it later on in the future as we need it. But we're we're just going to do right now just make sure we isolate everybody out and use this eight foot fence to just get us a good perimeter. Um and then the greenhouse project we got our bids

044back. I'm working with Fusion right now on it on one last little bit and that's the um electrical and the mechanical part of it and the water part of it. We're just waiting on the engineers to get back with us to get this rolling and shouldn't take much to it. We're not going to be able to get that done over the summertime. So, we're going to have to have it on a bigger scale project, which I'll be coming to you probably later on next year to do MSA West, Eastville, MSA East, North Iville. So, we'll do all four of them. Not put it as one package project, but four individual projects. It's easier to track like that, and it's easier for us, and it's a nightmare when you do one package at four different locations.

045So, um, you will be seeing that the greenhouse. So, is it going to be located directly behind where the chicken coop is or to the side? No. So, it's going to be directly on the side of the chicken coop. Right now, there's a garden right now, right? We're going to take up that garden and it's going to be covering the portion of the garden that's tealed and it's going to extend out 48 feet by 38 feet or 36 feet. The reason being it has to go right there is because in the future if we want to add to it, we can add a whole another complete same section that adds to that. If I push it back any further, I couldn't do it because there's a major main electrical line that runs beside that is

046parallel with the um the driveway. So, we have to stay away from that area. Got um but that's the reason to have it right there. Now, after we build it, there's so much room. That's like 15 20 ft on the opposite side closer to the parking lot to where you could teal up and have that same garden outside right there. Okay. But we wanted to leave enough room to expand cuz we y'all know as well as I know you start doing great things. Man, we I wish we had more room when now we got a room to do that. We can expand another 38 by 48 feet and that's a big area. So then we'll have double capacity. we have more opportunities to do things and you can still use the um the grounds outside

047because there's a lot of room right there, right? So, where where's the one at East going to be? We have to decide that. I got to get we got to start looking at different things. There was one spot, but there's a playground that dome playground thing right there at one time. But we're going to have to um talk more about that, you know, next year when we get that going. Uh, White Cat, I mean, Northville. Many options you can do over there. Um, they got that tractor shed. We may be able to take half of it and make it because it's already built. It's already really good structurally sound. So, we may be able to retrofit it to be a greenhouse already, which would be cheaper because it's already there. We just run some pipe.

048It already got electricity, already got heat. Um, so that's a possibility. We just got to look at our options. And at MSAE, the same thing. We got to look at where we're going to put it. Um where the T buildings were was an idea. Um there's many many many spots over there that we can we can retrofit to put something. Northville, the uh classroom building G. I mean, y'all y'all can look at is going up very well. If y'all haven't been out there, Miss Pam, I know you've been out there. is building looks massive, you know, doesn't it? It looks huge when it's going to be a very nice building. But along with that is the um the elevator, you know, elevator is going to look very nice. Um it's it's um it's a wonder

049watching these buildings go up like this because then, you know, especially when it's over with just the start to finish, it looks really nice. So, I love the work these guys are doing. They're working very diligent, efficient, and clean. and very clean. Very clean. And this seems like they take and level the ground before they leave every day. It's amazing. But it's very nice. Uh the new softball field, it's almost complete, y'all. We're just waiting on a couple things to come in. Waiting for some bleachers to show up. Waiting for the scoreboard to come in. So, it's just tidying up right now. Um it's looking good. We're just waiting, like I said, finishing it out. There's not much to it. Everything's on order. Everything's waiting to come in, but it's still, you know, two or

050three weeks away, but it'll be in shortly. in the football field. The same company that's doing the building G is doing the football field. And again, they're doing a fantastic job as well as the rest of them. Site demos done. The old storm drains removed. Um we started doing some um track curb insulation. They were out at 3 in the morning the other day pouring that. And we're going to be close to pouring this track surfacing this week or if not next week. All right. painting on the stucco. I don't know if y'all have seen it, but it's done. It's complete. Looks very good. Um the parking lot improvements that you will see come out um in a little bit. You're going to see it. Y we're going to ask y'all to accept the bids

051there. The kitchen renovation that's going to be open and accepted on May, it's going to be open on May 6 and accepted at the board meeting on May 12th. We're still working through through some things there and tidying some stuff up, but that is an alpha bid right now. All right, White Castle new gym um competition gym. Again, we still small punch item list. We got um we looked at some some issues with the glass, but it shouldn't be nothing to take care of it. But everything else looks good. CIA building, sorry. And I know y'all they started demoing. So, um it's it's going to be they're going to cut the AC off pretty soon and we're going to get that going. We do have the print room is going to be in is still

052going to stay where it's at. It's um Miss Skylar is going to stay in there and I do have two I think a ton and a half HVAC system, portable systems that's going to be in there to keep her nice and cool. And I already told the guys that's working on that, she will have to stay. So, do not bother. So, we're going to make sure everything's good with our press boxes. Um, we're almost done. We got little bit of stuff left, you know, some touch-up paint and, you know, but nothing major there. And same thing with the concessions. Nothing major. Okay. So the um the um the sound system works. We're waiting on our approved PO and the company that actually put the scoreboard up is coming and do White Castle and East Everville

053and they upgrading everything and making sure that the video board and everything is running. So that'll be done in We had problems with it last year. It'll be done in a month or so. That company comes from Arkansas, so they'll be sending somebody down shortly. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Yeah. Go back to the my my computer decided to upgrade. No. Um, okay. Third item. Uh, discuss and approve accepting the low base bid and alternates one and two from the Luster Group for a total amount of 581,000 and increasing the budget to reflect such for the East Iberville parking improvements. May I have a motion, please? Motion by Motion by Miss Holmes, second by um Miss Roy. Yes. Okay. Miss Oh, we're still linking this. Miss Miss George. Okay. I was That's why I kind of

054hesitated. Miss uh Okay. All right. Any discussion? We we sent you all the bid tabs. Uh we got 11 bids in on this. Uh the base bid uh came in just slightly over uh what our budget was. And alternate one is the lighting. Alternate two is the the concrete that we discussed last month under the bleaches and all that area. Uh I I've spoken with Fusion with Evan and all. I don't think we'll get any better price if we try to do this separately, which both of those need to get done anyway. So, I'm recommending that you accept the base and both alternates and have the budget reflect that total amount. Thank you. Any questions from the audience from the board? Any comments? Okay. All in favor? Unanimous. Thank you. Item number four, discuss and

055approve accepting the low base bid and alternates one and two from Sage Construction LLC for a total amount of 1,276,590 and increasing the budget to reflect such for the Plaean High School parking improvements. May I have a motion? Motion by Miss George, second by Miss Holmes. Yes. Again, this one came out even better. Yeah. And includes the lighting and the bus pad for for the visiting team, which will allow us to have that buses go completely away from the the home side as they come in. Uh so we're recommending alternate base plus alternate one and two uh and adjusting the budget. This one will be by about 27,000. Okay. Thank you. Any questions from the audience? Uh, any comments from the board? Okay. All in favor? Thank you. Passes unanimously. Item number five, discuss and

056approve granting permission to advertise for the MSA West Driveway improvements budget 300,000. May I have a motion, please? Make a motion. Motion by Miss George, second by Miss Holmes. Did you want to comment, Dr. I just want to say with this one, uh, that drive is in dire need of repair. You know, if you've driven back at the pack lately, the the the earth underneath is washing out. Uh there's lots of crack spaces over there and there's quite a drop off in a few of those areas uh as you get a little bit further back closer to the sugarcane field at the end of it. So the the base bid for this I mean the base budget is about 300,000. Uh that's just for the driveway thing. But while we're putting it out there Evan

057is we know we need to do some fencing work. Let's see what we come back with with an alternate. If it comes out way high, then we won't recommend that piece because that part can wait as we're doing other fence projects. Uh but we're definitely recommending uh to to get your approval to put this off a bid because we really need to get that repaired. Okay. Thank you. All in favor? Miss George? I thank you. Uh, approved unanimously. Ajourn. Motion to adjurnn, Miss George. And second, Miss Holmes. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening and welcome to the Parish School Board meeting. I call to order the April 14th, 2025 regular school board meeting. Our meetings are broadcasting live. To access the stream, there is a video icon located in the online meeting agenda and

058a link is located on our district website, Facebook, and ex formerly Twitter. Also, the meeting can be viewed on Cox Channel 21 every Saturday at 7 p.m. following the scheduled schoolboard meeting. The schoolboard agenda can be found on our district website every Wednesday afternoon prior to the monthly 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. Miss Siraj. Miss George here. Mr. Abear here. Miss Hickden here. Miss Holmes. Miss Laws here. Mr. Mlasha here. Miss Roy here. Mr. Tuier here. Miss Williams here. You have a quorum. We will begin with reflections by Mr. Mario Mlashi following a moment of silence. The pledge of allegiance will be presented will be presented by our Northville students and

059they are Tyler Pikney third grade. Kylie Tusant third grade Marina Bosch fourth grade. JC Martin fifth grade. C. Arian Huitt fifth grade. Please stand and remain standing until after the pledge of allegiance. Name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. Dear Lord, we are grateful for all the blessings bestowed upon this board. We're thankful to live in a parish that cares so much about our children. We ask that you place your hand above this board, Lord, and help guide us in making the right decisions for our students, teachers, parents, and our entire community. As we enter spring break, we pray that everyone, teachers and students, enjoys a nice break and comes back rested, refreshed, and ready to tackle the remainder of the school year. In your name we pray. Amen. I pledge algiance to

060the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, Mr. Mlashi. And thanks to the North North Elementary students for participating in tonight's meeting. And now we will have the Paris school board vision statement by Miss Katherine Williams. With our families as partners, the Iperville Parish School System will provide an equitable opportunities, academic excellence, and positive school environments so that every student strives in the path that they choose. Thank you, Miss Williams. We will begin with tonight's recognition present recognitions and presentations. If there are any elected officials in audience, please stand. The first recognition is recognition of Iville Parish School Board March senior spotlight. Miss Bless Robinson, a senior at East Beville High School. [Applause] Blessed Angel

061Robertson is a senior at East Ibraville Elementary School. Blessed is currently a member of the senior beta club and the teen court of greater Baton Rouge and the superintendent student advisory committee. She is also the manager of the East Ibraville powerlifting team. Blessed is employed by Go Jobs as an office aid worker. She is a very dedicated student and employee. Her hobbies include drawing, acting, wearing costumes, traveling, dancing, and learning new things. After graduation from high school, Blessed would like to pursue a career in one of the following: Broadway theater, art history, or journalism. Blessed Angel Robertson, senior, East Iberville High School. [Applause] You do an office. You know you have that office. Good evening everyone. I would like to thank um first of all I would like to thank God for helping me getting

062to where I am today. I'd like to thank my family who's sitting over there. um without their support and unconditional love, I wouldn't be standing here talking. I also like to thank my school, my principal and assistant principal for encouraging me and helping me into achieving my goals and following my dreams. Thank you. All right. Our next recognition uh of tonight is recognition of Iberville Parish School Board's April Senior Spotlight. Mr. Jaquan Perry, a senior at North Iberville High School. Northville High School senior spotlight is Mr. Jaquan Perry. He is the son of Chris and Eugina Perry. After graduation, Jaquan plans to continue his education at Louisiana Tech University, where he will major in computer science. His passion for technology drives him to learn as much as possible about the ever evolving world of computing.

063Throughout his high school years, Jaquan has been an active member of FFA in the Beta Club while also serving as the football team's cameraman. At the conclusion of his senior year, he will have completed 15 hours of dual enrollment courses from LSU and ULM. He currently holds a 4.28 GPA, scored a 25 on the ACT, and achieved platinum on the Work Keys exam. Jaquan would like to give a special shout out and thank you to his math math teacher, Mrs. Major, for all that she does to help him shape and prepare for college. His favorite quote is from Susan Stathom. Your life is your story. Write well, edit often. Mr. Jaquan Perry from Northville High School. Um, I would just like to say thank y'all for this award. I would like to thank my parents

064and my school, the faculty, and the teachers that have given me such a great environment to look learn in. and of course my [Applause] principal. All right, our third one is recognition of Louisiana's 2025 student of the year regional honore, Miss Kinley Landry, a fifth grader at MSA [Applause] East. Okay. Miss Kinley Landry, a fifth grader at MSA East, was named as one of Louisiana, the Louisiana Department of Education's 2025 student of the year regional honores in conjunction with the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. The department recognizes outstanding fifth, eth, and 12th grade students who have demonstrated excellence in leadership, academic performance, achievements, citizenship, and service to the school and community through the students of the year program. Kinley Landry is an exceptional fifth grade student at MSA East. This young lady is

065a shining star within the school community. Kinley has not only excelled academically, but has also shown remarkable kindness and leadership. Outside of school, Kinley enjoys reading and is active in dance and choir. She loves dance so much that she even is considering a career as either a dance teacher or a high school teacher. Kinley prides herself on being a respectful and hardworking young lady. She believes giving back to the community and uplifting her peers to become the best versions of themselves is vital to ensuring a positive culture at school and in Iberville Parish. We are honored to have Kinley representing MSA East and Ibraville Parish Schools as elementary student of the year. [Applause] Good evening. My name is Kinley Landry, fifth grade student of the year, regional honore from Math, Science, and Arts Academy East.

066I would like to thank Abramville Parish School Board for taking the time out of your regularly scheduled meetings to recognize me and my accomplishments. I would also like to extend a huge thanks to the best principal ever, Dr. Austin for all of her support and encouragement, ensuring I get the necessary exposure for all of my accomplishments such as leading the pledge for school events and being included in Ibraville Parish inaugural black history program. Thank you goes out to Miss Hec for her guidance and encouragement as well, making sure I was prepared for every interview and making sure I had all necessary information to help me advance. Last but not least, a big thank you to my parents for supporting and believing in me, for always guiding me and encouraging me to always do my best

067and never give up. Also, I can't forget my sisters. Thank you for your support as well. Just thank you to any and everybody that has played a role in helping me get thus far, whether it was a prayer or encouraging words. I thank you to MSA Eastville Parish School Board and the Louisiana Department of Education. Thank you all for believing in me and choosing me to represent my school and parish in the best way possible. You haven't seen the last of me. You haven't seen the last of Kinley Landry. Thank you. [Applause] Okay. I like that. Miss Landre, I thought you were shy. Great. So our next presentation from the Everville Parish Library regarding their millillage renewal. Thank you. Good evening. I want to thank the Ibraville Parish School Board for allowing me to be

068here tonight. I'm Jennifer Synica and I'm the director for the Ibraville Parish Library System. And if you've noticed some signs around town lately or absolutely anywhere in the parish in front of our libraries, you know that the library has a millage renewal coming up. And at these times, we always like to get out into the community and let people know about our long range plans because I always think that's the big thing people ask at these times. So the library is looking down the road to its next 15 years and also what we've done so far. So, we've been in place since 1951, and we are celebrating 74 years of service to the parish this year. And all of our branches, all eight that are located across the parish were built over 40 years ago,

069and they are well-loved, well used, and they show it. So the first thing that our library board of control has done is they have worked over the last two years with Fusion Architecture to prepare and complete a master building program. And one of the things that we are going to start this summer is renovating and working on all eight of those locations to bring collaborative workspaces and focus study areas across the parish for our library users. It'll start this summer and go through fall for our five smallest locations in the northern and southern parts of the parish. And then starting in 2026, we are looking at our three largest locations for expansion and renovation at our Plaean Eastville and White Castle locations. Another thing that the library is currently doing is we are conducting a

070community survey across um all of our library users. It can be found on the front page of our website and we're asking our users to let us know how they're using the library and what they want more of. And so far we have heard we want more books, more programs and more events at your locations for us and we are actively working on that right now. So, the library over the past year has brought in learning kits to support STEM um education with for all families across all of our locations. You can find those kits at any of them. We are bringing in databases for our adult library users that support professional skill building, job searching, and especially ones for our veterans that can help them with veteran benefit assistance and also um career transition.

071We're looking at um other databases and other resources that we can bring in to support um reading. So, we have live homework assistance. You probably are already familiar with that program. It's going on through uh a cooperative endeavor with the State Library of Louisiana that offers live online tutors for our students anywhere with their library card. We have way too many services for me to mention um in just short three minutes and plans. So, I do invite everybody visit our website or take a look at the mailer that went out to all households in the parish that talk about our plans over the next five to seven and even longer, 15 years. If you have any questions, I will be here through the meeting. I'll be happy to answer them after the meeting or right

072now if there's anything that you would like to ask. Thank you for your time. I very much appreciate it. Thank you. [Applause] Next, we will have the consent agenda which is considered routine and will be enacted with one motion. Discuss and approve the condolence resolution to the family of Mr. Ernest Allen, brother of Mr. Raleigh Ricky Allen, school food service driver for the Parish School Board. Discuss and approve the condolence resolution to the family of Mr. Larry Hall, father of Mrs. Brandy Sutton, special education instructional facilitator. Discuss and approve the condolence resolution to the family of Mr. Jerry Gilbert, maintenance worker for the Parish School Board. Discuss and approve the condolence resolution to the family of Mrs. Pameley Pam Albert, sister of Mrs. Bridget Diamond, school food service accountant. Discuss and approve a condolence resolution

073for the family of Mrs. Lorraine Jack Vessel, mother of Mr. Marcus Jack, warehouse manager and Mr. Marvin Jack, head custodian at North Pavil. Discuss and approve the condolence resolution to the family of Mr. Darius Favorat, son of Mrs. Deborah Green, cafeteria worker at Ibville Elementary School. Discuss and approve a condolence resolution to the family of Mrs. Sophonia Camel, retired bus driver for Parish School Board. Discuss and approve a condolence resolution to the family of Mr. Kurvy Green Jr., brother of Mus Dess Green, Early Childhood Family Services Coordinator. Discuss and approve the March 10th, 2025 regular school board meeting minutes. discuss and approve the April 14th consent agenda as presented. Do I have a motion? Have a motion from Miss uh Polyhden and a second from Mr. Davin Tuier. Are there any comments from the audience?

074Any comments from the board? Machine please. Mr. Rash online voting is now open. Kim. Yeah. I'm vote. Yep. Okay. Thank you. Online vote is now closed. passes unanimously. Next, we will have the superintendent report. Dr. Veron. Yes. Good evening. First, if you go to the first slide there, uh, April is autism awareness month. As you know, uh, we participated, I think it was on April 3rd with the LFU Arc and LFU Paris government with the big districtwide, I'm sorry, uh, government. I'm having flashbacks. Uh and we it was a great event districtwide uh in support of autism awareness and tonight we wanted to show that as well. Uh so that's why you see us all in in blue tonight and many of our staff members here as well. The next slide uh is our enrollment.

075This we've been keeping a guide and as I've indicated to to the board throughout the course of the year, these numbers fluctuate. you know, we we moved up, we moved down, moved up, but we're still actually ahead of where we were uh on October one. And then the next several slides, I wanted to highlight some of the activities that are going on uh in our school district. Uh and several of these are activities that Miss uh Dr. Shelanda Skidmore, our career teched supervisor, orchestrated along with several members of our IT department and other teachers throughout the district. But on March 13th and 14th, we had our STEM challenge days uh with elementary one day, middle high school another day, and the engagement uh was just absolutely amazing. It was great to visit those when that

076took place. And we thank RPCC as well for hosting us on those two days. It was great for our students to get exposure to uh a little gymnast sitting right behind Plaque and High. On the next slide, go jobs. Dr. Skidmore coordinated with Miss Dbor over at the workforce commission. We kind of streamlined the way that we had students participate in this at their request. Uh, and you know, we had a lot of students out there who's graduating this year who got to see, you know, what types of jobs are available out there in particular if they're ready to go to work, but also, you know, what they can think about as they may be moving into their next level of education. And the next slide, uh, RPCC hosted industry day for us as well.

077Uh again this exposed bunches of our students to uh different careers that are available to them in the uh business and industry side in our you know right here at home. You know there's so much opportunity there. Uh and our students got to see that as well. The next slide ventures that took place March 27th and 28th over at ZTO center. Uh we have bunches of kids go in and out of seeing all sorts of activities. Uh we thank you know our a teachers uh Miss Megan Pera, Miss Taylor Shane, Mr. Solomon Lee, the LSU uh egg extension for their partnership in this event. Uh it was great to go out and and see that as well and see what our kids are being exposed to. And just an announcement here because lots of questions

078are going on in the district about budgetary things for next school year. Uh Mr. Stewart is working on our budget for next fiscal year. You know, we've got some good things I think we'll be able to share with you as far as resources for our teachers. We do intend on coming to you next month with recommendations for the master salary schedule for next year. At least now we know with amendments two's defeat, you know, that there's no plan today, teacher support raised from the state and no issue with teachers retirement and education trust fund. I can tell you that there are bills filed in the session that started today to have pretty much everything that was on the ballot that failed earlier this month go back out there again. Now I I don't know the

079timing on when any of that would take place, but at least we know a little bit more about this the retirement side of things and with the state planned at that time for 25 uh 26. And the next slide, we are doing our spring employment engagement survey. It will open on April 28th when we return back from the Easter break. Uh we we did the fall survey quite a while back. Every one of our principles and department heads were tasked with identify one thing one thing from your survey results to focus on and work on uh to improve improve the employee experience in our school district. Uh, and well, now it's time to do the survey again and get results back to see how we did on our action plans and identify the next thing

080that we want to kind of focus on. Uh, we need to work constantly to retain the dedicated employees of our school district while at the same time have structures in place to recruit, you know, the next generation of people coming in. So, we've had very high participation rates on these surveys in the past, and we're definitely going to push for high completion rates. Again, last slide. We've got a lot going on this week and and following the holidays tomorrow. You know, Miss Pam Moore and and the special ed pupil appraisal departments are hosting the ability games at Plman High beginning at 9:30. If you get a chance to stop by, pop in. you know, it it's kind of our version of a Special Olympics event. Uh, and it should be great to see our virtual

081academy, excuse me, our academy lottery will be held virtually on Wednesday afternoon at 400 PM. We do have a lottery at PreK3 and PreK4 at uh MSA East and in kindergarten and 8th grade at MSA West. Uh, we have holidays coming up. Unfortunately, April 23rd falls during our Easter break, but Administrative Professionals Day, formerly known as Secretar's Day, is April 23rd. Uh, and y'all, we have a great group of support staff in our school district. I am blessed to work with Miss Kim on a daily basis uh in her capacity as yours and my uh executive assistant, Miss Lata Butler, who just stepped out uh to to go take care of getting her daughter to her her cheer stuff tonight, but Lata does a lot of work as well. Those two ladies work side by

082side with me. Uh and certainly I wish it would be next week, but uh you know we'll celebrate you know upon our return from the break. But all of our secretaries out there on our campuses and our departments and throughout the district when you see them give them big shout out and a thank you because they do a lot you know just like all the employees in our district. April 30th, as you know, is your LSBA capital date. And then when we get back from the break, we're going to be starting with with leap testing. Uh board retreat on the 2nd. Our final moving forward Monday activity is on May 5th. We will be wearing our moving forward Monday shirts. We're not dressing in Cinco de Mayo theme that day. Uh, Everville Day at the

083Capitol is a day that the Chamber of Commerce is really pushing hard. Once we get more information, we'll get that out to you as well. And in less than a month, we'll be sitting back here again on May 12th, our May board meeting. That concludes my report. Thank you, Dr. V. Uh, next we will have uh governor's business. The first item on the agenda is to discuss and approve the April 14th 2025 finance committee meeting recommendations. There were 10 items on the agenda. Nine items were action items. Nine item passed. Do I have a motion? I have a motion by Miss Katherine Williams and I have a second by Mr. Mario Mlasher. Are there any comments from the audience? Any comments from the board? Mr. Raj Machine, please. Online voting is now open. stated for

084the record, Miss Williams. Thank you. Online vote is now closed. Passes unanimously. Item number two is discuss and approve April 14th, 2025 buildings and grounds committee meeting recommendations. There were five items on the agenda. Three items were action items. Three items passed. Do I have a motion? I have a motion from Miss Teresa Raw and I have a second from Miss uh Pam George. Are there any comments from the audience? Are there any comments from the board? Maj machine please. Online button is now open. Online vetting is now closed. Passes unanimously. Next we will have curriculum 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 by Miss Pam George and a second by Mr. Mike Abear.

085Miss Hickden. Thank you. Our meeting was held March 27th and um unfortunately we we are not able to have a representative from the council uh from Ibraville Elementary and one of our MSA West representatives uh was removed because of attendance and so we do need another representative. Our community assessment uh is done every five years and and I know it's a very lengthy report but it is an excellent report. If you have you have some time I think you would enjoy reading it. It is um all about Ibraville uh facts that honestly I've been lived here for 70 years and I truly uh did not know some of these things. So it is an excellent as excellent assessment of our community which of course um our staff our early childhood staff has put together. Um

08695% of our three and four year olds are in live in poverty in Ibraville and 13% of our birth to two year olds are in poverty. The we okay you can keep rolling till we get to the readiness goals. It's a lot. It's a lengthy report. The uh readiness goals growth was shown in every skill which is wonderful to to know. Um there we go. Thank you. Thank you. though that is also lengthy if you want to just scroll through that miss. Our safety monitoring goals are attached. Our February incidents minor and critical are also attached. Our attendance report is attached. our registration which is our current registration and then round one of our registration for next school year and then our uh what's happening in family services our March dads parent participation chart is

087also attached and these are some great pictures of all of our schools and our dads who participated in So for one week and each week it was a a different Oh, do we see somebody we know? We have a dad sitting up here with four precious children that participated. Um just different games, movies, uh many many different things that they the dads participated in. So March Dadness was a great success and we all know how important a father father figure is in our children's lives. Also, our mental health report is attached, our fiscal report, our specialist report, our education manager report, and our next meeting is Tuesday, April 29th. Thank you, Miss Bridgette. Thank you, Miss Py. Are there any comments from the audience? Are there any comments for the board? Mr. Garage machine, please.

088Online voting is now open. Online voting is now closed. It passes unanimously. Next, we will have new business. The first item is to receive a report on fueling success act initiatives in our district and schools. Mr. Promise. Yes, ma'am. Good evening. So, I'm going go through this report on our ACT initiatives in the district. Obviously, when the ACT has been a focus of ours this school year, not just because of the SPS, but because we always want to make sure we're doing what's best for our kids. So, you know, within the schools and the district, we've done, you know, in my opinion, a great job of collaborating this year with the principles, their instructional staffs on campus. So, as you can see as we go through this, um, one of the things that we've heavily

089focused on is maximizing instructional time because there's no way we can increase the ACT scores without, you know, a great daily teaching in the classroom. So, the school and the districts have been monitoring instruction on a daily basis. Um, we've increased our course offerings within the district in regards to ACT by offering ACT prep on the campuses on the high school campuses. One big thing that we have done is with the change to the seventh period day, we have been able to implement RTI. You know, RTI's response to intervention. So, one of those things is we always hear, you know, individuals say this students behind or the students needs extra assistance in this area, but RTI helps us to do this, you know, 25 minutes a day, five days a week. But it's also not

090just for those students that are behind, but it's also to push our students that are excelling so that they can grow and continue to achieve. So RTI has been a great help for that. You know, one thing that we are blessed with, all of our core classes have tier one curriculum, high quality instruction. So our teachers are delivering with that and that helps us with, you know, ensuring that our students are on pace with those ACT. And a great thing that our school leadership teams have done is monitor daily assessments, whether it be bell ringers, ACT exit tickets, and just make sure that their ACT formatted questions align and kind of prepare our students for that test also on a daily basis. You get that next slide, another resource that we have is the Edminum

091self-paced tutorial. So, if you click on that link, it'll show you that all of our students have access to self-paced testing and prep at home, whether it be in English, math, or reading. So, that's something that they can do on their own time and the parents can also access and help their students at home with. We have the math nation curriculum, which is just an additional resource to help students at the at home also, and it can also be used in RTI along with the ACT work keys curriculum. So the work keys curriculum also, you know, silver replaces that ACT score within a 18 and gets us points within the district, but it also prepares students and lets them get that work work keys national career readiness certificate. So that's a win-win for us within

092the district. Also, we have 26 teachers across the district that got ACT instructional mastery certified. And those teachers are also able to bring back within their classroom on a daily basis and teach ACT strategies that can be implemented in the regular classroom instruction. Give the student give it also gave this certification also gave those teachers a deeper understanding of the core ACT test and the research behind it. So to bring that ACT knowledge to the students on a daily basis as well and also a lot of those teachers teach our ACT prep classes allowing them to enhance those classes as well. On the next slide you'll see that we hosted ACT mass repair boot camps on Saturdays. You know some of the schools did this on on their own but we also did this these

093within the district. These are the ones that we hosted on February 22nd. The district hosted one at MSA East and that was for the MSA East and East students and we had 26 students attend and it was from 8 to 2. Also want to thank Eastville Inc. as they donated lunch for us on that. On March 8th we did one at Plaean High School that was for the Plaqueman High White Castle and MSA West kids. And we also did one on March 8th for the North Ibraville students. And I want to thank Mr. ride with Fusion as they donated lunch for both of those campuses on that day. They say those students had a long day. Um the next initiative that we took in place was maximizing work keys testing across all our campuses. You

094know, we strategically test to make sure that we can get kids to each level. The word keys test, if you're unfamiliar with, has three sections to it. So if a student only needed that one section to get to gold, to get to silver, gold, or platinum, we only tested them in that one section. as well if they only needed two. So, we just we did our graduation coaches, our counselors, our teachers, and our administration. They did a great job with that. We also held work keys boot camps during the school day at Plaean High and North Iberville on March 7th. So, that was strategically done also right before we gave it. And those graduation coaches and counselors only pulled those students that needed to grow in certain areas. So, they got tutored in that one

095particular area. and we did it on March 17th at Eastville. One of the big things that we did was on the PD day on January 6, we brought every campus into the C into the CIA building if anybody had any association with ACT or any could help with ACT. We spent the second half of the day just collaborating and trying to see ideas that were going on across the campuses. You know, we had some good things going on at plenty of campuses, but we wanted other campuses to hear exactly what everybody was doing and not everybody to be working in, you know, silos and say, so if they had a good idea, they brought it. Each each campus presented what they did on a campus and everybody took ideas from that. So, we had the

096counselors, administration, graduation coaches, teachers, we had the gifted teachers come in. So, everybody presented on that day. Um, just for your information, we had all IPSB juniors and seniors. They were administered at ACT on Wednesday, March 12th. And one of the things that we are, you know, very lucky to have, we got counselors and graduation coaches within our school. So, our counselors and our graduation coaches have been doing a great job this year progress monitoring, tracking data, and especially educating students on the TOPS requirements. And this has been motivating the students. And you can see this uh bulletin board right here on the slide. I think that's at White Castle with the TOPS and the path of graduation and also the jump start pathway because we've been trying to get these get our students, our

097parents, community, everybody involved just to see what it takes to enter a college, enter with a two-year degree, what your work keys test can do for you, your path to graduation, the difference between jump start and uh the university pathway so that they can have some sort of plan and once they graduate, you know, to truly be successful. The next couple slides are just some initiatives. All of our schools have done a great job with initiatives, recognition, building relationships, bulletin boards, putting information out. You'll see, you know, some of these things was lunch with principles, pizza party, jackets. You pretty sure most of you have seen these sweatshirts at Plaqueman High. They just gave out uh academic letterman jackets as well. A lot of our schools are doing a great job with that with promoting

098this promoting the students and you know getting this academic achievement up. And I think the last slide you saw is you know what which was truly remarkable. Go back down for me one second Bailey. We had 98% of our student attendance for the spring 2025 ACT test which is truly you know it's a great thing to have that much. And if you look at it, I mean, you look at MSA West, they had 59 out of 65, but the seniors aren't required to take that test. So, we probably had a few kids that already had the score that they needed that didn't test on that day. So, to have that much attendance, you look at the juniors who are required to test and you look at the attendance that they had right there, that's remarkable.

099So, we're expected to see some growth and hopefully some tremendous growth in in regards to the ACT index. So that does anybody have any questions? Just a comment, Miss Polly. Let me make a comment quick, Mr. Promise. Thank you. This some good information. I know that we've been pushing hard uh with some ACT initiatives and good looks good. Great work, Miss Polly. The prep course, how is that how is that u administered during the school year? So the ACT prep course is just like any other regular course. I mean we have virtual not virtual we have online resources as well as you know the the oldfashioned paperback resources in terms of like the ABC books but it's just dependent upon the kid because ACT prep is a tough course because a student has to want

100to be in the ACT prep class. So all of our administration, all of our graduation coach and our counselors as part of uh educating those kids and putting them in the right place to take that course, but it's an elective course, but it's also can be given within a semester where say a student wants to take the test and we learn they want to take the test in December, they might only take that ACT prep from August to December instead of just putting them in there that full year. hard. You might have a student that took the test in in December and we want them to grow and they're taking the test again in the spring. We might put them in that course from January to the end of the school year. So, it depends

101on the student and depends on what and how and where they're trying to grow. But a lot of the online stuff is self-prescribed. So they'll take a test and then it prescribes them exactly what they need to know and that teacher can use that information and bring in outside resources besides the online stuff and give every kid what they need. So ACT prep it takes a special kind of teacher to teach it because everything is individualized except you know trying to teach them test taking strategies and things like that. So it's offered at every high school. It's offered at I want to say it is offered at every high school in some way shape or form. Yes, ma'am. And so what is the participation of our students? Are they are they taking advantage of it

102or not? Participation is growing. I'll say that in regards to this, but it's not where we want it to be. Exactly. But I mean, we always want to excel in things, but we're we're really pushing it and growing ACT. And I think a lot of the things that the schools are doing will make that participation grow in those ACT prep classes because, you know, a lot of students have a goal with ACT, but they don't see that process in regards to having to study and things like that. And to be honest, we don't want our kids have to reach and go to outside resources to get that prep. We want to be able to provide it for them within the school. So, yes, ma'am. Thank you. Any other comments? Dr. I just want to close

103out with, you know, thanking Mr. Primus, Miss Johnson, Miss Bartholomew, Dr. Skidmore. We knew last summer when we started getting preliminary scores that ACT wasn't where we needed to be and then we saw it when the accountability scores got released. our schools and there's people in the audience tonight. They're the ones who have done the work and with the work that's been done out there, we're anticipating a a bump up in those ACT scores this year with the focus not only on just the traditional ACT but work keys as well. We met in pupil progression here last week and I made a comment in there that there's only one number that really matters at the end of the day when it comes to any assessment because whether you make a 90 on a test or

104100 is a eight. Whether you make a 750 or a 762 on LEAP, it's mastery. But that number on ACT matters. Whether you're going to a university or a community college, when you hit certain numbers, scholarships come with that. TUS kicks in with that. Those numbers matter. Our principles, our counselors, our teachers, our graduation coaches, I can't thank you all enough. What our district staff has done is hopefully try to provide as much support and guidance, but what you do out there is what makes the difference in what's happening. So all of you, I'm not going to go through the roll call, but all of you that are working in those capacities right now, please stand up so everybody can see you. Go ahead. Come on. Miss Dawson, Miss Heck, Dr. Awesome. Mr. Stand up.

105Thank you for being here and for staying here beyond those recognitions because again what you're doing is what's going to make the difference. Now if you need anything from else let us know but you're the boots on the ground taking care of this along with a whole bunch of other people who could not be here tonight. So, thank you all and we just want to let you know what was going on and let the public know what's going on because one of these resources that was in that presentation, anybody they can go online and we have purchased access for kids to do those tutorials. Thank y'all. Thank you. Okay. Next item is to discuss and consider authorizing the superintendent and board president to execute the title six certification form provided by the Louisiana Department of

106Education. Do I have a motion? I have a motion from Miss Teresa Roy and Miss uh Katherine Williams as a second. Uh Dr. Voron. Yes. Uh, and and Evan uh is going to comment a little bit. I'll let you go first, Evan, if you don't mind because this is fresh, hot off the press. Uh, I emailed you all about it, you know, as well. But Evan, if you can give a little commentary, that would be great. Came about last week. Uh and and basically what's happening is a United States Department of Education is making all the states certify uh that they're not doing certain things, that they're not teaching certain things that uh the federal government believes would be in violation of title six. So what they are doing, they're requiring the state department of

107education to sign these similar types of certifications about what's going on in the Louisiana districts. Well, Louisiana Department of Education hasn't turned pass those certifications on to each individual school board as well, saying, "Look, if I got to tell the feds this, I'm going to have you give it to me in writing first." So, that is what this is about. Uh, it was a pretty tight window that they that they gave um the boards to get this done by. Uh, I am aware probably I think around 20 something boards have already signed signed it as is. Um what we're requesting or or what we're recommending is uh for the board to go ahead and assign it so as not to jeopardize your your your federal funds. And the plan is we're going to have a

108cover letter that will accompany this certification just saying, "Hey, we as the board, we've approved this. We've authorized our representatives to sign this. Uh but we just want to clarify that uh these signatures are based on uh you know things that we believe things to our that are within uh our best understanding and belief because at the end of the day you know nobody can certify exactly what's going on in every classroom at any point of time in the day. All you can certify is, you know, based on your understanding and belief, these things are not going on uh in Ibraville Parish School Board. And a lot of it is basically saying that, you know, we we're certifying that we're in in in compliance with Title Six. uh which you know it seems easy enough

109but uh you know as we've seen as administrations have changed over over the many years there's always a slightly different interpretation or sometimes a drastically different interpretation in terms of what laws maybe mean. Uh so uh the current administration has issued some dear colleague letters. They have issued some executive orders uh basically saying this is how we as the federal government are going to be interpreting title six. These are the types of things that we would believe would be discriminatory. These are the type of things that we believe would be okay. And part of your certification is, you know, you're acknowledging that you have received those executive orders uh from the president and uh that you've received those dear colleague letters from the office of civil rights and that basically you're going to be in

110compliance with title six. Yes. All right. So, the letter is attached in board docs when we first received this last Wednesday. Uh we had no idea uh what it was to begin with. Uh and and I'm going tell I was ready to sign it right there because I'm going comply with whatever they tell us we got to comply with. Uh that that makes sense that doesn't jeopardize our federal funding. Uh and then lots of communication started kind of circulating with all the superintendent in the state and then we got legal guidance to go ahead and place it on your agenda because it would be safer to have the board authorize the board president and the superintendent to sign off on it. But there's still a lot of uncertainty and a lot of clarity unl unclear

111parts of this. But at the end of the day, we're going to comply with what we need to to not jeopardize federal funding, which includes far more than just Title One and and special education. You know, our entire school food service department is subsidized by federal funds. You're talking millions in millions of dollars. So, uh we're going to re recommend you give us the authorization to sign it. And then we'll also send additional correspondence that Evan spoke about with it. And and we did try our office did reach out to uh Louisiana Department of Education just to see like hey can we make some tweaks or some minor changes to this form and the response was basically like look we got to send this in to Washington DC. You know you can you can change

112it however you want but we don't know what Washington DC is going to do when they get those revised forms back. So, it's kind of like you do it at your own risk type situation. So, um our recommendation is to go with the form as is. We'll have a cover letter on top that just has that qualifying language. Any any comments from the audience and any comments from the board for Mr. Evan? Okay. Hearing no comments. Uh Maj is now open. Online vote is now closed. Passes unanimously. The third item is to discuss and approve the nomination of one board member to serve on the Iberville Parish School Board Discipline Committee. Uh do I have a do I have any nominations? I have one nomination from Miss Katherine Williams. I'd like to nominate Mr. Dam.

113Yay. Are there any other nominations? Hearing none. Um I'll accept Mr. Tuy accept the nomination. Uh any comments? Mr. Siraj Machine. Do I have a second for Miss Pam George? Second. So I have Miss Katherine Williams nominated Mr. Tuay and a second by Miss George. Online voting is now open. Thank you Miss Raj. Online voting is now closed. Passes unanimously. Do I have a motion to adjurnn? Have a motion by Miss Terresa Roy and a second by Miss Polly Higden.