001We will now call to order the Jeff Davis Parish School Board agenda meeting. Um, follow BCB school board minute rules of procedure. An individual speaker who appears at the school board meeting to speak on an agenda item must register prior to the meeting and will have a allotted three minutes to speak on said agenda item prior to the schoolboard discussion of said agenda item. I do like to remind everybody that this meeting is being livereamed. The link is at the top of the page. >> Debbie, you're welcome. >> Sure. >> Mr. Arseno >> here. >> Mr. Borlon here. >> Mr. Burkhouse. Mr. Mr. Dobson here, >> Mr. Doies, Mr. Fry, >> Miss Jones, >> Miss Paula Lern here, Miss Summer Lashern, Mr. Patterson >> here, >> Mr. Petri >> here, >> Mr. Trhan here, >>
002Mr. Walker >> here. >> You do have a quorum, sir. And I have had no requests for public comment or virtual. >> Thank you. We'll now uh have the prayer by Miss Janet Jones and the pledge of allegiance by Mr. Greg. >> Father, Son, Holy Spirit. Amen. God be with us. God of love, we are meeting today regarding ordinary and extraordinary matters of our parish. Be with us in our discussions. Give us insight and courage to do your will with compassion and reverence as stewards and companions for the benefit of the entire campus community and beyond. Help us to know and believe in the gifts you have given us as board members both individually and collectively. inspire us to solve the challenges we may face and to take joy in our shared triumphs in faith
003and hope. We trust in your presence and guidance today. Amen. >> Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. I need a motion and a second to approve the school board minutes of the regular meeting on June 19th, 2025. >> I got a motion by Mr. Truman. Second, >> second by Mr. Petri. Any board discussion? All in favor say I. I. >> All in fa Oh, all names. Eyes have it. Motion passes. Need a motion to second to vote to change the order of topics to be addressed and to add new items not on the original agenda. >> Got a motion by Mr. Petri. Second, >> a second by Miss Jones.
004Any board discussion? Hearing none, we will go to vote. All in favor say I. >> I. Nays. >> Eyes have it. We will now start the board committee reports. We will start with financial committee president, Mr. Phil Arsen. >> Okay. uh grant permission to accept the following donations. Jennings High School, Dave Construction, $300 to SWPBIS for needed expenses. Funds to be used for FBLA National Convention expenses. The Ziggler Foundation, $8,900. Blue Wing Civil Consulting is $500. The Jennings Quarterback Club, $1,85 funds to be used towards supplies. Cheer boosters, $5,500 funds to be used towards uniform and supplies. Jeff Davis Parish Department of Special Services wants to be used to help cover costs such as transportation, uniform, meals, equipment, and event materials. Mr. Richard Arsenal, Professional Law Corporation, Jennings, Louisiana, $100. Tri Parish Therapy Group, Jennings,
005Louisiana, $200. >> Yes. I got a motion by Mr. Arseno, a second by Miss Paulatron, Paula Leern, sorry. Any board discussion? Hearing none, we'll now vote. All in favor say I. >> I. Nays. >> I s the motion passes. >> Permission to pay the Louisiana School Board Association annual dues in the amount of $10,517.65. This is to be paid from general fund. All >> I got a motion by Mr. Arsenal, a second by Paul Tro. Any board discussion hearing? None. We are now vote. All in favor say I. >> All against say nay. Eyes have. Motion passes. Award bid for Welch Reno bond phase one project for the Jeff Davis Paris School Board to contract the TRA construction with a bid of $4,699. Other bids received were from K&J Development for $4,699,000, Pat Williams Construction,
006$4,872,000, Alfred Palmer, $4,795, and ARL Construction 5,354,000. State procedure was used to determine the tiebreaker. >> Second. I got a motion by Mr. Steel Arsenal, a second by Paul Tra. Any board discussion? Hearing none, we will now vote. All in favor say I. I. All against say nay. Eyes have it. Motion pass. >> Permission to Danielle Simeon CTE supervisor to purchase six procertification and practice test license bundles. >> I got a motion by Mr. Phil Arsenal, a second by Mr. Greg Borlong. Any board discussion? Hearing none, we'll now vote. All in favor say I. >> All against say nay. I have it. Motion passes. >> Permission to pay for the fall and spring tuition for dual enrollment students at Magnes State University and Suela Technical Community College. Fees will be covered with SCA. >> I
007got a motion by Mr. Phil Arsenal, a second by Paula Leern. Any board discussion? Hearing none, we're now vote. All in favor say I. >> All against say nay. >> Eyes have it. Motion passes. grant permission to Christina Fonto, federal programs coordinator to accept the following donations to help facilitate and provide meals and door prizes for prime time family reading that took place at Welch Elementary School every Tuesday. >> Yes, >> I got a motion by Mr. Phil Arsenal. A second by Mr. David Owens. Any board discussion? >> We got dollar one dollar one donations >> got it over there. >> M let the record reflect that Mr. Paul Toronto is gonna excuse himself from this when it comes to transportation. Number seven. >> Hearing no board discussion. >> Go a vote. All in favor
008say I. >> I. >> All oppose say none. >> I have it. Motion passes. >> Permission to repair the roof at Welch, I'm sorry, Welch Elementary School. Three quotes were received from Welch Elementary main building flat roof coding project. >> I got a motion by Mr. Arsenal. A second adoption. Any board discussion hearing? None. We'll go to a vote. All in favor say I. >> All oppose say none. >> Eyes have it. Motion passes. >> Grant permission to purchase four electric relay control learning systems at a cost of $4,833.33. These four workstations will be used for electrical one and two. >> I got a motion by Mr. Arsenal, a second by Miss Janet Jones. Any board discussion? Uh what where is that? It's going to be for Sila or where is that? >> It's housed
009at SUV for our students. >> We have students that go over there for dual enrollment classes >> for electric. >> Yeah. >> Yes, sir. We good. >> Any more board discussion? Hearing none, we will now go to vote. All in favor say I. >> All oppose say nay. Eyes have. Motion passes. Grant permission to Welch Elementary School to purchase two pieces of playground equipment to replace existing equipment that is damaged and no longer safe to be used from Game Time Playcore Company under state contract 4400. I got a motion by Mr. Phil Arsenal. Second by Blake Fry. Any board discussion hearing? None. We'll now vote. All in favor say I. I. >> All oppose say nay. Eyes have the motion passes. That will complete my report. >> Thank you, sir. We'll now move to insurance,
010Mr. Blake Pe. >> No report. No report. We'll now move to buildings and grounds committee, Mr. David Doy. No report, sir. >> No report. Thank you, sir. We will now move to policy committee. Uh, President Russell. >> Policy committee met on Tuesday night. And we recommend that uh on the uh expense reimbursement numbers right uh that we're going to add our mileage rate of 70 cents per mile to the policy which in is increased from 58 and a half cents per mile. Second >> I got a motion by Mr. Russell Walker, a second by Mr. Blake Petri. Any board discussion hearing? None. We'll go to vote. All in favor say I. >> All oppose say nay. >> Eyes haven't. Motion pass. >> That completes my report. >> Thank you sir. Uh we move to the
011transfer transportation committee. Mr. Greg Bordal. >> No report. >> Thank you sir. 16 section Charles Brook house. No report. War two. Miss Paul. >> No report. >> Thank you. Legislative is on. Craig borderline. >> No report. >> Long range planning. Mr. Paul Trron. No report sir. >> Thank you. and food service committee summer leger wanted us to me to tell everybody that this Monday will be the last Monday for the summer meal program boxes to be distributed at the schools. Just a little FYI for everybody. >> All right, sales tax report is going to be by our CFO Christian book. So for the month of June um for the collections for the school board is1,157,8267 which were up $70,529.90 from this month last year. And then for the total year, our collections for the school
012board so far are 12,28,459, which is an increase overall of $219,413.32. We are we do have one more collection to go into the 2425. We're like basic, it's basically two months in the rears. So, we're looking good and we should be um over our anticipated $13 million of collection needs like we were last year. So everything's on track. >> Awesome. >> Thank you, ma'am. Appreciate that. >> All right, guys. We'll now go to new business. Grant permission to the child nutrition program to extend a community elevation approved. I got a motion by Mr. Phil Arino, a second by Mr. Paul. Any board discussion? Hearing none, we now vote. All in favor say I. All oppose say nay. Eyes have it. Motion passes. Consideration of adoption the following resolution ordering and calling a special election to
013be held in the parish of Jeff Davis, state of Louisiana to authorize the levy of sales tax and use tax therein making application to the state. I got a motion by Mr. Phil Arson. >> I got a second by Mr. Blake Petri. Any board discussion? Hearing none, we will now go to a vote. All in favor say I. All oppose say nay. Eyes have it. Motion passes. Declare the following as surplus and send to the next available public auction. Second. I got a motion by Mr. Greg Cordova. A second by Blake Mr. Blake Petri. Any board discussion? Yes. Hearing none. We'll go to vote. All in favor say I. I. >> All oppose say n. Eyes have it. Motion passes. Number four, declare the following as critical shortage. All grades special education uh speech therapists.
014I got a motion by Mr. Blake Petri. A second by Mr. Phil Arsen. Any board discussion hearing? None. We'll go to a vote. All in favor say I. >> All oppose say nay. Eyes have it. Motion passes. approved the 2025 2026 pupil progressive plan and authorize the board president and superintendent Hall to say >> I got a motion by Miss Janet Jones, a second by Miss Paula Lger any board discussion hearing none. We'll take this motion to a vote. All in favor say I. >> All oppose say nay. Eyes have it. Motion passes. I approve the following non-f facility faculty coaches for Lake Arthur High School for the 2025 2026 school year upon completion of the LHSAA coaching course certificate and board policy requirements. I got a motion by Mr. Blake Petri, a second by
015Mr. Men Dobson. [Music] >> Um, she she's going to have to pass the certification. >> Yeah. Background check. It might be. We'll see. >> Just name on a paper. I promise. >> Any more board discussion, guys? All right. Hearing none, let's go to a vote. All in favor say I. >> All oppose say nay. Eyes have it. Motion passes. Uh addend them to the new business. Declare the following bus as surplus and grant permission to send them to the next available auction number one bus 259. I got a motion by Mr. Phil Arsenal, a second by Mr. Blake Fry. Any board discussion? >> Yes, sir. Where was >> Gwen Auction? >> Auction Gwen send him to Gwen Auction >> two run two we gonna let >> the man in the back >> they're going to
016send them to Glen auction. >> You got to be towed there to drive. They're way out of >> Yeah. And they've been robbing parts and stuff keeping other ones going. Just for an FYI, how long can a bus stay in service? >> 25 years. I thought it was 20. >> I thought it was 72. >> We usually don't let them get to 20. These are right at 20. Yeah. Usually our bus 20 usually the max. >> Yeah. We don't have any buses on our purchases this year, >> but we're pretty much overcaught right now. >> So, in our cycle, the long cycle, what are the older buses we have in in the fleet? Now, if you don't mind me asking, if you don't if you don't know it, I'm asking for just >> the uh
017oldest bus that we have on a route right now is bus uh 275, which is a 2009. I'm sorry. Two. Uh, yeah. Two. This is 2009. It' be 272. >> And so, um, but those if if we be on our normal cycle, those would be coming be coming off. So, we we skipping this year. So just uh we may have a little added maintenance cost this year because we are operating a few older buses and for the first time since I've been here in seven years. This is the seventh year. The U mechanic shop went up on their fees a little bit which is surprising. Everybody else went up after co >> but they haven't gone up and it's still much cheaper than than all the other businesses and local. So, I'll see you south.
018>> Thank you, sir. Any more uh questions about any buses that you'd like to learn about tonight? >> We're good to go. >> All right. I did not the short bus. >> All right, guys. We'll go to >> um my train of thought. Um, all in favor say I. I. >> All oppose say no. >> Eyes have it. Motion passes. We have a littleformational. Condolences are extended to the family of Thomas Hell, Lake Arthur Elementary School principal who retired in 1979 with 24 years of service. Craig Sams, Lake Arthur Elementary School condo custodian, who unexpectedly passed away on June 22nd, 2025. He was a current was a current employ. And everybody else has an other sheet that y'all can look over. Uh we will now go to Superintendent Hall for any comments. I don't have
019any comments. Um I I will next month. I u but I'm I'm not ready now. I want to wait till somebody's here next month to do it. Something special. Got you. All right, guys. Can we entertain a motion to agend? We do. I got a motion by Mr. Men Doson. I got second by Mr. Paul Trron. Any board discussion? We'll now vote. All in favor say I. >> All oppose. Say nay. I have it. Motion. >> Mr. Em was in his early 90s. >> Was like why? He was my principal high school and then him everybody. So even like I think scared of miss