December 11, 2024 at 6:45 PM - Board of Education Regular meeting

Discussion:  Meeting was called to order at 6:46 p.m. by
Clerk, Eddie White.

Discussion:  Superintendent's Report was presented by Mr. Thompson.
Dakota Lambreth will be our new School Board Member, and
will be initiated into office at the April School Board Meeting.
All surplus vehicles have been sold and are being picked up.
The sale of surplus vehicles brought in around $114,000.00.
Mr. Thompson gave credit to Board Vice President, Neal
Stephenson, for suggesting the use of Purple Wave for the
sale of those vehicles.  They were great to work with.
Update was given on the SRO Safety Grant. The Sharon Gym
Door and Window project will start this week.  They are beginning
to make the panels for the Safety Fence, and Mr. Thompson
stated that he will be getting with the county to discuss removing
the old fence.

Discussion:  Mr. Thompson presented the Elementary Principal's Report.
Enrollment is 124.  The Thanksgiving Dinner was held November
20th and 503 people were served that day. The Native Heritage
Month Program scheduled for November 25th was postponed,
the Elementary Students participated in the Community Tree
Lighting, to be held November 30th, by hanging ornaments on the
tree November 26th.
Activities for the month of December: Christmas Program was
held December 3rd at 6:30 p.m. with Santa Claus pictures at
10:00 a.m., the Christmas Store was open December 2nd to
December 6th, December 3rd was Oklahoma Bureau of 
Narcotics Assembly for 5th/6th grade. Vaping was the program 
presented. Homecoming Week  December 9th-12th was a huge
success. Mr. Thompson stated it was the most Christmas Spirit
he's seen since he's been here. December 19th is Movie Day at
Mitchell Theater.
Basketball-3rd/4th/5th/6th grade vs Taloga November 14th at
home starting at 4:30 p.m. December 16th the 3rd/4th/5th/6th
grade will play Taloga at Taloga starting at 4:30 p.m.
Christmas Break will be December 21st to January 6th.  January
6th is a Professional Development day. No school will be held.
January 7th Second Semester begins.  Teacher Amazon Pages
are still open and will be available all year.

Students of the month-October
PreK- Haylee Parsons
Kindg-Prezlee Parada
1st-Zerek Marin
2nd-Ridge Spray
3rd-Bella Noland
4th-Keaton Johnson
5th-Dierksyn Thompson
6th-Jesse Hedges

Employee of the Month-Lisa Bellows

Mr. Brad Shryock, High School Principal, presented the High
School Principal Report.  Enrolllment is 85 students (grades
7th-12th). At the Cimarron Tournament last weekend the girls
placed 3rd and the boys 4th.  Homecoming Thursday night
will have JH games starting at 4:00 p.m. with Homecoming
Festivities being held between the JH and HS games. A
pep assembly will be held on Thursday at 2:00 p.m. Mr.
Shryock also stated that Homecoming week had been
very successful. The Winter Formal dance will be Friday
the 13th at the school farm at 7:00 p.m.  The show team
will be in Woodward with hogs, and Pampa,Tx with sheep
and cattle this weekend.  Semester test will be given
Wednesday the 18th and Thursday the 19th. Those
exempt will only attend school on Monday.

Discussion:  Mr. Thompson read to the board a letter from Ms. Beers
thanking everyone for all of their continued support and help,
and for allowing her to add a Praise Song Night to the other
scheduled concerts and shows.
The High School and Elementary FCA has been a great
success.  The Elementary FCA has set up a Blessing Box
at the Methodist Church if anyone wants to donate.
Mrs. Shockey went over the differentiated monitoring result
(DMR) that the State Department of Education Office of
Special Education Services identifies for each LEA (Local
Education Agency.  The Determination Tier 1: Meets
Requirements, Risk Category 1: Very Low Risk, and
Differentiated Monitoring Result: Level 1 Support. Our
school meets all expectations.  The state is suppose to
start doing physical monitoring the first of the year.

Discussion:  Discussion was held between present board members
and Mr. Thompson regarding how the 10% of funds
that the school will be required too pay as their part
will be raised. It was suggested by Jeremy Baggett,
board member, to use the surplus vehicle sales money
 and not do any fund raising.  Mr. Thompson and Mr.
Brad Shryock suggested seeing if the school could get
some corporate sponsors to help with the needed funds. 

 

Discussion:  Each board member was given a copy of the policy,
and Mr. Brad Shryock read the policy out load. It was
discussed among the board members, Mr. Thompson,
and Mr.Brad Shryock, and all questions and concerns
were addressed. It was agreed upon by the board
that it be added to the the policy that the school is not
responsible for lost, damaged, or stolen wireless
telecommunication devices. Mr. Brad Shryock will
make the addition to the policy, and address the new
policy with all students next week.  The policy will
become effective when school resumes after Christmas
break.

Discussion:  The next Board Meeting will be held Wednesday January
15, 2025.