June 25, 2026 at 6:30 PM - Regular Meeting

1. Call meeting to order.

2. Roll call.

3. Vote to approve or not approve the minutes of the regular meeting June 8, 2026.

4. Presentation by Seth Reeves and Bostyn Thompson - Puerto Rico FFA/Latta FFA Student Exchange Program Update

5. Consent Agenda
All of the following items, which concern reports and items of a routine nature normally approved at board meetings, will be approved by one vote unless any board member desires to have a separate vote on any or all of these items. 

5.A. FY 26 Finance

5.A.a. General Fund Purchase Order No. 628 through 648, totaling $452,917.76.
Changes to previous purchase order no. 3, 31, 33, 34, 64, 77 and 180, totaling $11,051.26.
Payroll Purchase Order No. 70484 through 70564, totaling $29,259.15.
Changes to previous purchase order no. 70001, 70012, 70018, 70020, 70027 through 70030, 70032 through 70034, 70039, 70042, 70051 through 70055, 70058, 70072, 70078, 70079, 70081 through 70084, 70086 through 70090, 70093 through 70096, 70098 through 70104, 70107, 70109 through 70114, 70116, 70118 through 70120, 70123, 70125 through 70128, 70130, 70132, 70133, 70135, 70137 through 70142, 70145, 70146, 70148, 70149, 70152 through 70155, 70181, 70194, 70202, 70212, 70217, 70221, 70368, 70444, 70447, 70448, 70455, 70458, 70459, 70467 through 70476, totaling $33,967.94.
 

5.A.b. Activity Fund Report.

5.A.c. Authorize the District Treasurer to reserve funds on unpaid purchase orders

5.B. FY 27 Finance

5.B.a. General Fund Purchase Order No. 1 through 105, totaling $1,445,556.88.
Building Fund Purchase Order No. 1 through 12, totaling $385,447.76.
Sinking Fund Purchase Order No. 1, totaling $1,197,012.50.

 

5.B.b. Resolution of Encumbrance FY 27

5.B.c. Certified Salary Schedule FY 27

5.B.d. Support Salaries for FY 27

5.B.e. Authorization of the Latta Activity Fund Custodian to place all interest for FY 27 into the Miscellaneous activity sub-account.

5.B.f. Authorization of the District Treasurer to place all interest earned from the General, Building, Sinking and Bond Funds into the General and Building Funds for FY 27.

5.B.g. Authorization of the Encumbrance Clerk to increase approved purchase orders up to $1,500 for FY 27.

5.B.h. Addendum to Contract for Certified Personnel.

5.B.i. Stan Cochran as authorized signatory for BancFirst requisitions as related to the bond construction projects.

5.C. FY 27 Contracts and Agreements

5.C.a. LEA Implementation Agreement for Special Education for FY 27.

5.C.b. Federal Programs General Assurances for FY 27.

5.C.c. MOU for Alternative Education Cooperative and Authorization to Pay the FY 27 Allocation of statewide Alternative Education Academy Program Funds to the LEA for the Cooperative.

5.C.d. Resolution #26-120, Interlocal Cooperative Agreement with Pontotoc County Commissioners

5.C.e. Rave Panic Button as the Districts Adopted Emergency Safety Notification Platform.

5.C.f. Bi-annual Standard Oil and Grease Agreement with Allied Elevator Service.

5.C.g. Stan Cochran as Authorized User for PMA-OLAP.

5.C.h. School-Based Family Services Liaison/Social Worker Agreement with DHS.

5.C.i. MOU with Youth Medical Mentorship

6. Superintendent's Report

6.A. Financial Report

6.B. District News

6.C. Cafeteria Equipment

6.D. Latta School Safe Return & Continuity of Services Plan

7. Proposed executive session to discuss the resignations received to date, the possible employment of Payton McElhannon as a student worker for the remainder of FY 26, the possible employment of Landen Norton as a temporary maintenance/custodial worker for FY 27, the possible employment of Amy Byrd as the High School secretary for FY 27, the possible reassignment of Jennifer West as a temporary certified teacher for FY 27, the possible employment of Allen Kimberlin as a temporary certified teacher for FY 27, the possible employment of Cristian Kite and Ashli Eidson as paraprofessionals for FY 27 and the contracts of the Superintendent, all 12 month certified and support personnel for FY 27. 25 O.S. Section 307(B)(1)

8. Vote to return to open session

9. Executive session compliance statement

10. Vote to accept or not accept the resignations received to date.

11. Vote to employ or not to employ Payton McElhannon as a student worker for the remainder of FY 26.

12. Vote to employ or not to employ Landen Norton as a temporary maintenance/custodial worker for FY 27.

13. Vote to employ or not to employ Amy Byrd as a high school secretary for FY 27.

14. Vote to reassign or not to reassign Jennifer West as a temporary certified teacher for FY 27.

15. Vote to employ or not to employ Allen Kimberlin as a temporary certified teacher for FY 27.

16. Vote to employ or not to employ Cristian Kite as a paraprofessional for FY 27.

17. Vote to employ or not to employ Ashli Eidson as a paraprofessional for FY 27.

18. Vote to revise or not to revise the contract of the Superintendent, Stan Cochran.

19. Vote to approve or not approve the FY 27 contracts of all 12-month certified and support personnel.

20. Consideration and possible action concerning FY 27 membership in the organizations listed below:
OASIS
NAFIS
OROS
OPSRC
Ada Area Chamber of Commerce

21. Vote to approve or not approve the Elementary and Secondary Student Handbook for FY 27.

22. Vote to approve or not approve Latta Public Schools Transfer Policy FE and district wide transfer capacities.

23. Vote to revise or not revise Policy DEE-R, Travel and Expenses.

24. Vote to declare or not to declare baseball bats as surplus property. 

25. New Business: This item is limited to any matter not known about or which could not have been reasonably foreseen prior to the time of the posting this Agenda [Okla. Stat.tit. 25, Section 311 (A) (9)]. 

26. Announcements:
Business Office Closed - July 1 through July 3
Board Meeting - August 10

 

27. Adjournment