December 14, 2020 at 6:00 PM - Regular Meeting

1. Call to order and roll call of members.

2. Vote to approve minutes of previous regular board meeting of November 9, 2020.

3. Vote to approve warrants (FY'20); claims, building fund (80) and bond fund (2).

4. Vote to approve encumbrances (FY'21); payroll, general fund (70708-70741), coop fund (80042-80043), child nutrition fund (NONE); claims, general fund (591-656), coop fund (25), building fund (24-27), child nutrition fund (41-43).

5. Vote to approve warrants (FY'21); payroll, general fund (1399-1709), coop fund (164-206), child nutrition fund (217-269); claims, general fund (1398, 1710-1787) and (1788-1789), coop fund (207-215) and (216), building fund (19-22), child nutrition fund (270-281).

6. Vote to approve activity fund reports.

7. Vote to approve activity fund sub-accounts, transfers, expenditure requests, andor interest designations.

8. Vote to approve activity fundraisers.

9. Public Comment (As outlined in Board Policy 2004).

10. Consider and vote to approve the continuation of lease purchase agreements for six school buses from Summit Bus with funding through Empire Financial for the 2020-2021 school year.  The lease purchase of the buses would be funded through the use of the district's One Half Cent sales tax allocation administered through the Pottawatomie County Commissioners and the Pottawatomie county Clerk's office.

11. Consider and vote to approve the Board President, Board Clerk and District Treasurer as authorized signatures on the district general fund, coop fund, child nutrition fund, building fund, bond fund and sinking fund accounts.

12. Consider and vote to approve the Impact Aid, Indian Policies and Procedures for Tecumseh Public Schools for the 2020-2021 school year.

13. Consider and vote to approve the Title VI, Indian Policies and Procedures for Tecumseh Public Schools for the 2020-2021 school year.

14. Board review and possible vote to approve the 2019-2020 school year financial records for the Parent Sanctioned Booster Clubs, according to Board Policy 3024.

15. Discussion and possible vote to update the district's "Return to Learn" plan.

16. Discussion regarding school personnel including possible executive session:
A.  Consider personnel resignation requests:
      Hilda Pineda - Child Nutrition - District
      Corey Wilson - Athletic Maintenance/Asst. Softball - District
B.  Consider hiring personnel for the remainder of the 2020-2021 school year
      (temporary contract):
      Jaimee Reeder - Paraprofessional - Early Childhood Center
      Billy Don Sigman - Lay Coach, Wrestling - Middle School
      Sheena Standifer - Paraprofessional (Return from Leave of Absence) - Cross Timbers
      Nick Storm - Athletic Maintenance/Asst. Wrestling - District
C.  Board to conduct an evaluation of the job performance of the Superintendent
      of Schools:  Tom Wilsie
D.  The Board may vote to convene in executive session to discuss said personnel
      matters as identified in items A through B as per Title 25 Oklahoma Statues,
      Section 307 (B)(1).

17. Board vote to convene in executive session or to remain in open session.

18. Board to acknowledge the return to open session and to request the minutes clerk to record executive session minutes.

19. Vote to accept personnel resignation request:  Hilda Pineda, Corey Wilson.

20. Consider and vote to hire personnel for the remainder of the 2020-2021 school year (temporary contract):  Jaimee Reeder, Billy Don Sigman (Lay Coach), Sheena Standifer (Return from Leave of Absence), Nick Storm.

21. Superintendent's Report.

22. Board Comments.

23. New Business.

24. Vote to adjourn or recess and reconvene.