At this time the campuses and I would like to express our appreciation to each board member and spouse for your dedication and devotion to Big Sandy ISD.

All persons who address the Board at this time must complete a registration form before the meeting begins. Each Speaker is limited to 5 minutes. No action may be taken regarding the information received by the board. The topic must be placed on the agenda at a future meeting to receive deliberate action.

The roof on the Administration building has numerous leaks and needs to be replaced. Wayne had Hefner roofing provide us a bid while they are on-site with the bond job. The bid is attached. He is currently working on comparing this bid. We budgeted $5,000 in this years budget and received a check for $6,000 in damages to the roof at the old maintenance building after a storm last year. We would need to move approximately $12,000 from Construction Fund Balance. Recommendation: Approve bid as presented and approve to move amount from dedicated fund balance.

Items appearing on the Consent Agenda are routine in nature and may be dealt with using a single motion, second and affirmative vote. At the request of any Board Member(s) any item can be pulled from the Consent Agenda and moved to the regular agenda for the Board’s consideration as a single item. If you have any questions concerning bills please call in advance for more detailed information. Recommendation: Approve the Consent Agenda as presented.

Purchase of Interactive WhiteBoards, Ceiling mounted projectors and installation for classrooms. We discussed this last month and I would like for the board to make a decision as soon as possible. Moriah is working on bids and cost estimates. We have $225,000 that was dedicated to equipment fund balance after this last audit. These funds are available to cover the costs.

We will enter closed session during this portion of the meeting.

At this point of the meeting the board will meet exclusive of myself to generate one composite evaluation document. Once this is complete I will be brought back into the session for correspondence and to sign the document.

I would assume you would want to discuss this part of the meeting without me as well. As I stated in the earlier letter, this is usually done at the same time as the evaluation.

I have a meeting set with Robb Decker on Jan 14 to discuss possible RIF's, reassignments and termination of professional employee's. The administration and I have discussed some possibilities and want to have legal input from the attorney. I will discuss some of these possibilites with the board during executive session.

I have asked Karen to provide this for each of you each month. It is a list of events we are aware of at the time of the meeting for the next 30 days.