March 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM - Harrah Board of Education Regular Meeting
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Call to Order/Roll Call to Establish a Quorum
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Others Present: Paul Blessington, Superintendent, and Leslie Hobaugh, Minutes Clerk
Visitors Present: David Harrell, Susie Terrell, Jennifer and Sarah Foutch, Makinzie Smith, Shayne Turner, Channa and Jason Smith, Laney Foutch, Bo Manek, Brandy Manek, Craig Yadon, Seth Schoenecke, Mike McAfee. Others may have been present but did not sign the register or the signatures were unreadable. |
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Principal/Director Reports
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State place winners were recognized in wrestling and swimming.
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Consent Agenda
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Minutes of the February 10, 2025, Regular Board Meeting
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General Fund #526 to #546, payroll #50295 to #50301, change orders and financial summary
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Child Nutrition Fund #26, change orders and financial summary
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Activity Fund Summary Report and Transfer Requests
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Treasurer's Report
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Monthly Comparison Report
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Superintendent's Report/Announcements
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Student Enrollment
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The student enrollment as of March 1, 2025, is 2,053 students. This is five students fewer than this time last year.
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Timberlake/LDG update
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The bond projects at Virginia Smith Elementary and Clara Reynolds Elementary are out for bid. There is a pre-bid walk-through at VSE and CRE tomorrow, March 11th, at 3:30 p.m. The bid opening is Tuesday, March 18, 2025, in the auditorium. There will be a special board meeting on March 31, 2025, at 6:00 p.m. to award the bids. The next two projects will be at Russell Babb Elementary and Harrah Middle School. They hope to award the bids at the April 14, 2025 regular board meeting.
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Items to be Considered by the Board
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Discuss and take possible action to contract with OKTLE for evaluation services for the 2025-2026 school year.
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The district uses this service to evaluate teachers each year. There was no price increase for this service.
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Discuss and take possible action to contract with Quality Choice Testing LLC for drug and alcohol testing for students and bus drivers for the 2025-2026 school year.
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Guy Worth recommended continuing our agreement with Quality Choice Testing for drug and alcohol testing of bus drivers and students.
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Discuss and take possible action to approve the contract with S & B CPA's and Associates LLC to perform the 2024-2025 financial audit.
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Mr. Blessington recommended we continue to contract with S & B CPA's and Associates. The contract amount of $13,000 did not increase.
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Discuss and take possible action on the out-of-state travel request for teachers to attend a conference in Dallas, TX on June 29 to July 2, 2025.
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Discuss and take possible action on the April 1, 2025 transfer capacity report.
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Discuss and take possible action to declare IT items and surplus.
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Vote to convene or not to convene into executive session pursuant to 25 O.S. Section 307 (B)(1) to discuss the employment of those employees listed on Exhibit A and B.
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Acknowledge return to open session. Executive session compliance statement.
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Discuss and take possible action to approve extra duty assignments, Trent Platt as an adjunct teacher in social studies and Heaven Howard as an adjunct teacher in speech and debate for the 2024-2025 school year as listed on Exhibit A.
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Discuss and take possible action to approve to re-hire certified staff for the 2025-2026 school year and to employ new personnel on temporary contracts for the 2025-2026 school year as listed on Exhibit A.
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Discuss and take possible action to employ support personnel and substitutes for the 2024-2025 school year as listed on Exhibit B.
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New Business (Items not known at the time of Agenda preparation.)
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Announcements
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The special board meeting to award bids is on March 31, 2025, at 6:00 p.m.
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The Board will vote to adjourn.
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The board adjourned at 8:07 p.m.
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