April 6, 2023 at 5:15 PM - Lawton Public Schools Board of Education Regular Meeting

1. Call to Order

2. Pledge of Allegiance - Kevin Hime

3. Roll Call to Establish Quorum

4. Recognition of Elizabeth Fabrega serving a new term of office for Area 3 Board Seat

5. Vote to reorganize the Board of Education

6. Special Guests/Special Recognitions - Kevin Hime and Mary Bradley.

7. Discussion, consideration and vote to approve Lease Purchase Agreement dated as of April 6, 2023 with Liberty National Bank for the lease-purchase of artificial turf for the District's high school athletic fields and to adopt a Resolution approving the Lease Purchase Agreement, Development Agreement and Escrow Agreement and authorizing Kevin Hime, Superintendent, to execute the Lease Purchase Agreement, Development Agreement, Escrow Agreement and all other documents, certificates and instruments required to complete the transaction. 

8. Discussion with possible action to adopt a name for the ASYMCA (land swap property).

9. Report of the Superintendent

9.a. Superintendent's Announcement(s)

10. Consent Agenda
(The following matters may be approved in their entirety by the Board upon motion made, seconded and passed by a majority vote of the Board members.  However, upon request of any Board member, any one or more matters will be removed from the consent agenda and acted upon separately.  Contracts are approved subject to review by the District’s legal counsel. Any or all of the public record items included within the consent agenda, i.e. minutes to be submitted for approval; purchase orders to be submitted for acceptance; financial report; proposed transfer of funds between activity accounts; and fund-raising event listings, may be examined at the Office of the Clerk of the Board of Education at the Shoemaker Center, 753 Fort Sill Blvd., Lawton, OK. An appointment to review records is requested.)

10.a. Report of the Purchasing Agent/Encumbrance Clerk - Sheila Relf

10.a.1. Approve Purchase Orders
     General Fund (11) Purchase Order Numbers 1930-1960
     Building Fund (21) Purchase Order Number 113
     Bond Fund (33) Purchase Order Numbers 216-217
 

10.a.2. Change Order Listing

10.a.3. Payroll Encumbrance Purchase Order Numbers

10.b. Report of the Activity Fund Custodian - LaQuinta Chambers

10.b.1. Activity Fund Transfers, Expenditures, Establishments, and Amendments

10.c. Approval of the Minutes of the March 23, 2023 Regular Board Meeting

10.d. Item(s) Removed from the Consent Agenda for Separate Action

10.e. Approval of the Balance of the Consent Agenda

10.f. Approval of Item that was Previously Pulled for Separate Action

11. Proposed Executive Session to Discuss:

11.a. The employing, promoting, or receiving resignation(s) of individual certified and support salaried personnel as listed on the Personnel Reports, Exhibit A and Exhibit B.  (Exhibit B includes new potential hires and presented to the board under separate cover).  
[Authorized by 25 OKLA.STAT. Section 307 (B)(1) of the Oklahoma Open Meeting Act]
 

12. Vote to Convene into Executive Session

13. Acknowledge Board's Return to Open Session

14. Executive Session Minutes Compliance Announcement

15. Superintendent's Personnel Report / Items Discussed in Executive Session

15.a. Approval of Superintendent's Personnel Reports, Exhibit A's (and Exhibit B's that were presented under separate cover)

16. New Business - This refers to any matter not known about or which could not have been reasonably foreseen prior to the time of posting of the agenda.  Okla. Stat. tit. 25 Sec. 311(A)(9)

17. The next regular board meeting date is Monday, April 17, 2023, at 5:15 p.m., in the Shoemaker Center Auditorium.

18. Setting New Board Meeting Dates

19. Board Announcements

20. Adjournment