School Board Meet 7-14-2003 -- Collinsville, OK -- From The Newspaper Museum Site

3 Hirings + Revisions to Student Handbook + Software Purchase

1. Purchase order approvals & payment of purchase orders, funds & reserves, budgets, ...
-- Approved

2. Activity Fund Fund-Raiser for Volleyball -- Approved

3. Revisions to Student Handbook: (1) Piercing will be limited to the ears only. (2) Visibly offensive or distractive tattoos must be covered. -- Approved -- Discussion indicated the same rules should apply to teachers and all other school employees and that topic would be placed on the August 4th agenda. The High school student handbook has been consolidated with the middle school's to support consistent rules and a smooth transition for students entering high school.

4. Bids & Purchases: Computer software to manage the USDA Federal Breakfast/Lunch programs. $19,773.90 bid from Accu-Scan (represented by Michael Parham, Owasso) was the only bid returned from 4 requests. -- Approved -- Discussion indicated the present manual system was more than 30 years old and no longer supported. The new system would be PC based and the bid included installation and training. The 5 PC computers are not part of this purchase and have been ordered separately. This meal tracker system has been used in many other school systems nationally.

5. Resignations: none submitted.

6. Hiring of Personnel: (a) Phil Davis [Summer Groundskeeper], (b) Larry Meeece [Summer Custodial], (c) Damon Herald [Secondary History, Drivers Education, Coaching] -- Approved --
An additional position [Elementary Special Education Teacher] was on the agenda but the interview process had not been completed so it will move to the August 4th agenda.

Some items of interest from the Assistant Superintendent's Report (Craig Creech):
* To eliminate flooding in the high school boy's dressing room ... shrubs have been removed and the gound level brought up to no longer be lower than the parking lot. Sod will be placed this week.
* A Sallee Field sign with ~2ft lettering will be placed on top of the press box.
* A "dump" behind the baseball field at the high school has been covered and would be fenced off and gated to prevent further dumping. Some additional dirt-only material would be added as it becomes available.

Some items of interest from the Superintendent's Report (Pat Herald):
* The likely date of the next school bond election would be in February 2004 (possibly the 24th). The main objective for that bond election would be to upgrade/remodel the middle school facilities. Most area schools are avoiding fall 2003 bond elections to avoid any confusion with the upcoming county sales tax vote in September 2003. Mr. Herald indicated architects are already taking a preliminary look at options, and that after school begins a committee would be named to further define plans. It is hoped that with a February election, work could start in May as soon as school let out to minimize the amount of time middle school students would be displaced by construction in the fall of 2004.

* Superintendent Herald thanked the community for their generous support getting through this past financially difficult year. He indicated that the new state school funding numbers would be available this coming Wednesday. One example of the generous support given was the donated work (nearing completion) by Code Red Underground on a sprinkler system for the softball field. They had previously helped wth sprinkler systems for the baseball and football fields.

-- Ted Wright 7/14/2003