The meeting began with the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States and Salute to the Oklahoma State Flag. Mike Whitney from the COS church gave a prayer.
Superintendents' Report
Friday, May 15th is the last day of school.
Graduation is on May 22nd.
Rotary Club's Lobsterfest is May 30th and volunteers to help serve are still needed. Lobsterfest will held at the new Wolf Creek Expo Center. All proceeds supporting the Grand Lake community through charitable grants and 12 college and 4 Vo-Tech scholarships.
The June School Board Meeting will be Tuesday, June 16th, the third Tuesday.
Principals gave reports of happenings, some of which had not been contained in the reports to the Board not displayed in the Agenda.
Early Childhood Center--
Allie Cole talked about events with ECC students. They included enjoyable field trips, promotion for the Kindergartners, lunch at Rancho Viejo,and an ABC Parade. 72 students mastered the sight word list in preparation for reading next year as first graders The principal thanked the volunteers that put together the Teacher Appreciation Week treats They were enjoyed by the staff.
Lower Elementary
Dottie Smith included a thank you for the Teacher Appreciation Week celebrations. She mentioned the Spring music programs which were enjoyed by all. Dottie gave a shout out to maintenance people who noticed a corner needing clean-up and went ahead with clean-up without being asked. The library had 19,700 books checked out this school year .And last but not least, the third graders were observed working on their cursive handwriting. Cursive handwriting will be started in second grade next school year.
Upper Elementary
Charla Matthews began with a thank you to the community for support during the recent tough situation in their building. The students will be celebrating the end of the year with their "House" parties. Many awards for reading were given at the awards program. The "millions of words read" had increased significantly over last year. The staff thoroughly appreciated the Teachers' Appreciation Week treats brought in.
HS
Mr Kreutz introduced Jedd Patitaz. Jedd is a Sophmore student who achieved a perfect score on his ACT. The Changing Our World amount raised has risen to around $240,000 and will be used for an outdoor recreation area for abled and disabled students at the High School.
Athletics students were recognized for their sports successes by the Athletic Director.
David Poindexter requested a representative from the Board be selected for the Tax Increment Financing (TIF) District . Lacy Berryman will fill that position.
The Board approved a contract with Barlow Education Management Services LLC to plan, prepare and submit an Innovative Approaches to Literacy Grant. It was reported that when Tahlequah, OK was awarded this grant, they received $750,000 every year for five years to use in various ways to promote reading in their schools.
The Board went into Executive session to discuss who to hire for various positions next year. When they came out of session they approved many new hires. Several people who worked in the schools already resigned so they could take another position. It was a little like musical employees!
Pam Jarrett
