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March 2025 School Board Meeting

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Source
YouTube / Jefferson Davis Parish School Board
Date
2025-03-21
Location
Jefferson Davis Parish, LA
Material
Transcript
Extent
1,503 words · about 9 min
Collected
2026-06-15

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001e e e F BCB school board meeting rules of procedure an individual speaker who appears at a school board meeting to speak on the agenda item must register for the meeting and will be allowed at three minutes to speak on the agenda item item prior to the school board discussion of the agenda items we'll Now call the Jeff Davis care school board agenda meeting to order uh Miss Chloe Austin will be giving the invocation today she is the haway high school 8th grade student Parish student of the year and also a regional winner she far of let us bow our heads Heavenly Father we come before you today with grateful Hearts thanking you thanking you for the opportunity to serve our community and the precious gift of Education we ask for your guidance As We

002Gather to make decisions that will affect the lives of our students teachers and families grant us with wisdom Lord so that we make make may make choices that reflect your love Justice and Truth help us to seek your will in all that we do and may our actions reflect the values of kindness patience and respect for all we pray for Unity Among Us that we may work together with understanding and compassion please bless our students with knowledge strength and desire to grow in faith and learning May our decision honor you and lead to a brighter future for all in your name we pray amen David can you lead us inure 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

003and justice for all hold on Miss Miss Chloe you come back up I want you to stand here for didn't talking I got something for you last time I saw you I was surprising you right um this is called a c courage coin it takes a lot to get up here probably not as bad as the interviews you had to go through right year I can only imagine that was H pretty stressful uh probably your mom was more stressed than you were huh oh yeah I want to give you this just to say thank you for coming and and all the preparation and coming and being with us tonight really means a lot to all of us sure all proud of you for the young lady you've turned out to be and the great achievement

004of being student of the year thank so thank you can y welcome to stay if you want but I think that your family might be hungry get no we're we're going practice we have a junior high rodia thank thank you B can you please call Mr arido here Mr Bard law here Mr Brook house yeah Mr Dobson here Mr does Mr Fry Mr Miss Jones Miss Paula lern miss summer lern here Mr Patterson here Mr Petri here Mr Tran here Mr Walker here you do have a quum sir and I've had no requests for public comment on any agenda item thank you need a motion and second to approve the school board minutes of the regular meeting on February 20th 20 I got a motion by I second by Philip Arsen any public comment any

005board discussion all in favor say I All oppos Eyes hand need a motion a second to change the order of topics to be addressed and to add new items not on the or original agenda I got a motion by Paul TR second by Blake Petri any public comment any board discuss all in favor say I I all oppos all right we move on to our board committee reports finance committee Phil Arsen Commission accept the following donations High School Wana Club $500 funds to be used for Key Club Convention expenses Lake artha Elementary School kns of Columbus $2500 funds to be used for special education classrooms like Arthur High School Nights of Columbus 25 00 has to be used for special education classrooms Alfredo and G Gallardo and Kayla Chapman a 6 by2 net Nation craft

006and closed cargo trailer VIN number 7 pbe1 121 OSD 01354 6 valued at $415 this is to be used by the football team for equipment Welch high school at Desert $100 funds to be used for the end of the Year Awards program K Kelly $100 funds to be used for swpbis cost the Welch high school PTO $5,000 funds to be used for end of the Year Awards progam program and again Kade Kelly $160 wants to be used for Hound coin snack for students and a 500 grand for the following schools I got a motion by uh M Arsenal and a second by David doens any public comment any board discussion all in favor say I I all oppos I uh adopt the following resolution for the Jefferson bab SP School Board cafeteria plane cafeteria plan

007resolution on this date the Jefferson Davis Paris School Board I got a motion by Arsenal a second by doson any public comment any board discussion all in favor yeah PR commission to Jennings Elementary School to enter into a service contract with Schnider elevator Corporation company I got a motion by Phil Arseno a second by sour any public comment any board discussion all in favor say I permission to jenings high school to repair and replace ban instruments that were damaged in an accident the repair cost total was $1 14,713 I got a motion by Mr Arsenal a second by some any public comment any board discussion all in favor say I all oppose permission to La High School accept the lowest quote of $14,500 from I got a motion by Mr Arsenal a second by Mr

008Petri any public comment any board discussion all in favor say I all oppos sorry permission to Lake artha High School to purchase from Lake artha First St I got a motion by Mr AR second by Mr bord any public comment any board discussion all in favor say I I all those eyes hav rep permission to Laine High School accept the following change order change order number four I got a motion by Mr Arsen second by Mr Petri public comment board discussion all in favor say I all oppose eyes have it that will conclude my report sir Insurance Mr Charles Brook ad Insurance pet sorry about that insurance Mr Petri no report no report buildings and grounds committee David do yeah Mr President the building grounds met earlier this month and we abided award to to

00910 uh to entertain changing the name of the Jennings Jerry Simmons stadium and had people talk for and against and the motion uh it was voted down by building grounds just to give just to give an up an update yes sir thank you for the update sir thank you is that all yes sir thank you that concludes my report policy Mr Russell Walker no report Transportation committee great Bard no report 16th section Charles brook house no report War Two Miss Paula vour is no report from her uh leson Greg bordon no report long range planning Melvin report Food Service committee summer that's going to conclude all reports by Comm we have a sales tax report by Leo believe she's at a conference so she asked me to just report to you guys so for the

010month of February um they collected for the school board or school district of 1, 26,6 2552 which is in increase uh from February of last year of $50,400 32 and for the total year collection so far we've collected 7,527 18159 we're still down about $ 64,9 4330 compared to this time last year uh which it is a little bit smaller than last month's deficit in collection so hope they're picking back up that's all I have on her behalf thank you I want a new business need a motion a second to authorize a ifs I USA i s motion by Mr Arsenal a second by PA any public comment any board discussion hearing none I'll vote all in favor say I all oppos nice have it I need a motion a second to adopt a resolution

011appointing the school board president as the school board's representative I have a motion by suur a second by Mr arsena any public comment any board discussion all in favor say I I oppos eyes have it I need a motion a second to approve the following out ofate travel JHS Key Club to travel to Cho Mississippi to attend the Key Club district convention Louisiana Mississippi Tennessee I got a motion by Phil Arsenal as second by Blake peton any public comment any board discussion all those in favor say all opposed we do have some information here uh condolences extended to the family of rosalene Shirley Elton Elton Elementary School teacher who retired in 98 with 35 years of service in Miss Betty Wade central office Elementary supervisor who retired in 1994 with 31 years of service uh

012the Jeff Davis Parish Schoolboard meeting strategic planning will be Thursday March 27 6 p.m. at the F King we have the department of Special Service events y can go ahead and read those and we have everything El we're on to superintendent's comments yeah just a few things I want to give a couple of things out uh Miss Francis Le blong our our of our prcum supervisor she has been working um for the last uh three four months teaching math class at a school where we had trouble finding math teacher she's been doing this week after week week after week um two sometimes three days a week and still continue to do her job and you know she does a great job here I just wanted to thank her because that's a big Endeavor to get

013into that and started starting to grade papers and and things like that so I wanted to thank her also I want to thank Mr sha reort uh his work during the snow event we had was just really remarkable um the preparation and and this his attention to to all campuses it's communication was great um I I just want to thank him both of these Miss Francis and missa I don't know what we do without him uh couple other things uh Mr Aaron bobf is now our state finalist for Teacher of the Year from he's our a teacher from Jennings high school we just found that out yesterday so uh we're we're uh supporting him in that whatever efforts it takes for him to to to do uh prep work we're going to make sure he

014gets that done um and last Laing High School Mr Peter do would you like to say it about the honor that they got this past week about baseb fields are open what's that said baseball fields are open baseball fields are open they they finally got on them yesterday for the first time they brought all their equipment over there and so their their girls and boys are practicing I went and watched them unload um and there was a lot of laughing you beat me too and I had it WR basketball to slide it still no I had I had it down here uh they uh line High School Class B state champs they play the balls public charter and won 77 to 61 so it's great great for their school their program yeah we they are

015going to come we tried to get them here tonight but some scheding error so problems so they'll come when they can some of them kids come from fitting right hey right and also the the little girls they won their State uh basketball little dribblers last yeah can I entertain a motion to I have a motion by Mr petriot second by m Mr Brook house any public comment any board discussion all in favor say I I all oppos or

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