April 8, 2024 at 12:00 PM - Okarche Regular Board Meeting

Discussion:  Also in attendance was Brandi Fuxa, Haley Mitchel, Brandi Krittenbrink and Tresa Smith

Discussion:  Mr. Pinkerton takes the oath of office.

Discussion:  None

Discussion:  Last week we went to Kingfisher Fine Arts.  24 kids competed in poetry.  1-6 went for music part.  Excellent ratings.  Mrs. Geheb does a great job.  1 student went for Piano.  5-7th band went to Seiling and performed.  This week is track meet Thursday, weather permitting.  State testing starts April 22-May 2.  3-6th grade.  April 30 is the spring concert.  First of May our 6th grade goes to Camp Goddard.

Discussion:  Band-Did great performing at its competition.  Overall they received 3 "superior" and 2 "excellent" scores.  Color guard-Performed at State.  They were amazing and Mr. Harris was extremely proud of them.  They competed against 32 schools of all classifications and finished 6^th overall.  Congrats to them!  The Milk Quality Team has been traveling around the state the last couple of weeks. They placed 2nd at the Redlands Judging Contest and 3rd at the Conners State College Judging Contest with Jace Rother Placing 2nd High Individual. They will be traveling to Seminole State to compete again this week and be on the road the next couple weeks with State being on May 4th in Stillwater at OSU.  The Junior Livestock team competed at Conners State College Judging Contest and did very well. They will also compete in Stillwater at the State contest on May 4th.  The Okarche Junior and Senior Trap Teams competed in the North Regional Trap Contest on April 2nd. Junior Team placed 1st with Will Kroener winning high individual Junior Male and Tenley Lugwig winning high individual Junior female. The Senior team placed 5th in the North Region with Callie Cramer placing 3rd in the Senior Female Division. Both teams qualified for State which will be on April 17th both teams will shoot at 9:00am.
*13 High School speech students will compete in 19 individual events at the State Speech Tournament April 12-13 at Rose State College campus. *Chloe Goble and Afton Shirey have been selected as nominees for the 2024 Oklahoma Education Awards for Excellence. Both are honorees in the Drama/Theatre category.  Mrs. Harris is extremely proud of her group!  High School Boys golf placed second in small school Clinton tournament and the regional qualifier will be held in Blackwell Oklahoma on April 22  Congratulations to Coach West for being named Coach of the year for the Oklahoma Coaches Association Region 1!  The team’s success and style was noticed all across the state and we have had many compliments about him and his team!  The state coach of the year will be selected from the 8 region winners in the state.  The Coach of the Year will be named this July at Coaches Clinic  Congratulations to Mr. Sumrall for being named Region 1 Athletic Director of the year.  His work with our hospitality room, the accommodations made to visiting teams, coaches, fans, and officials as well as the efficiency in the way our hosting of Districts and regional tournament is handled by him has earned him this recognition.  Excellent job!  He will be up for the State AD of the year and it will be awarded at Coaches clinic as well.  Testing: Test Administrators and Proctors have been trained in both buildings.  11th grade is halfway through and will finish up this week.  3rd grade will start at the beginning of next week followed by 4th -8th grade.  Mrs. K took 18 students to compete at the SWOSU Scholastic Meet.  13 of those students placed 1st, 2nd, or 3rd in their testing area.  Okarche won the Language & Literature Division Sweepstakes for our school size.  Parker Schieber will be representing Okarche at Boys State this summer.  We did not have any Junior ladies apply to go Girl State this year.  Mrs. K reports that all but one local scholarship have been distributed to the Senior class.  Scholarships will be awarded at the High School Awards Assembly on Friday, May 10th.  Sophomore/Junior students are currently enrolling for Summer and Fall Concurrent Classes.  This spring we have 30 Junior/Senior students taking concurrent courses at Redlands Community College.  Mrs. K reports that we have 6 high school students that were accepted into CareerTech Programs at Canadian Valley for next year.  Their program of studies include: Health Careers, HVAC, Esthetician, and Aviation Maintenance.  We also have 1 senior that was accepted into the adult program after graduation.  Prom was this past weekend, mother nature showed she has a sense of humor but it ended up being a great evening.  Promenade was here in front of the high school, then the kids drove to The McGranahan Barn on NW Expressway.  No one chose to ride in the transportation provided by the school.  The juniors did a great job.  Feedback that Mrs. K has received was: the kids liked that they could go outside & walk around, so many picture areas, it wasn’t a gym, and food was great.
 

Discussion:  Want to brag about our extra-curricular organizations.  We have had 10 of our teams or organizations qualify for state in the last 2 years.  Really impressive.  Not many schools have that many qualify.  Coach West coach of the year OCA and he was also awarded Oklahoma Coaches Association and Oklahoma Boys Basketball Coaches Association.  All conference we had 4 players: Jett Mueggenborg (MVP), Easton Roby, Wyatt Pinkerton, Hunter Mueggenborg
Boys Honorable Mention: Caden Schieber & Braxton Smith
Girls All-Conference: Jadyn Rother, Katie Parham, Scout Payne
Girls Honorable Mention: Ruby VanDenDreissche, Avery Schieber, Harper White, Katy Creswell
Jett Mueggenborg was voted OBCA District 1 Runner-Up MVP all District Team
Wyatt Pinkerton was voted OBCA All-Star which is the top 10 seniors in Class A
Boys basketball team has been invited to the State Capital on May 7th.  Big honor.  We are starting spring projects outside.  We will be hosting baseball and softball districts.  May 10 was originally scheduled to be out and we will now be out May 3 and in school May 10.  This is to accommodate awards assembly and other events.  Graduation will be May 17 that evening.  

Discussion:  General Fund- 4.5 million, Bldg fund 1.8 million.  Mr. Alig asked if we are concerned with any trends going on with finances.  No big concerns.  Gross Production is staying about normal.  We look to carry over maybe 5 million.  Mr. Alig mentioned that we should monitor the financial trend more closely from month to month.  

Discussion:  Insc does not offer a program like this.  The company will give a certified and signed report once the work is done.  We are also welcome to send someone up with them.  It will also extend the warranty by 5 years.  The amount is $11,010.72 per year and we can approve year to year.  It covers all roofs district wide.  

Discussion:  Return 12:46pm

Discussion:  None