April 13, 2026 at 7:00 PM - Okarche Regular Board Meeting

Discussion:  President- Heather Nance
Vice President- Joe Alig
Clerk- John Pinkerton
Deputy Clerk- Rob Anderson
Parl- Jarrod Mueggenborg

Discussion:  None

Discussion:  Not present.  Came in at 7:45pm.

Discussion:  SWOSU Scholastic Meet - scanned individual results to you.  Okarche Schools are Division Award winners in the Language Arts, History/Social Sciences, Fine Arts and Math Division and also the Sweepstakes Award.   State Testing has started: Junior ACT and state testing is complete.  7th and 8th grade testing begins on Thursday.  5 students attended SWOSU Pharmaceutical Day.  7th Grade Band Superior Rating Seiling Music Festival.  6th Grade Band Superior Rating Okarche Solo/Ensemble Contest  5th Grade Band Superior Rating Okarche Solo/Ensemble Contest  HS Band Excellent Rating State Band Contest  Grant Alig and Gabe Vogt have been accepted to participate with the Oklahoma Ambassadors of Music European Tour Summer 2027.  6th Grade band will perform at the Cimarron Nursing Home in Kingfisher this Thursday.  6 students will participate in State Solo/Ensemble contest at OSU on April 23.  Spring Band Concert grades 5-12 will be on 4/26 at 3:00 in the gym.  Select Elementary Band students will participate in the TriState Music Festival on April 29.  10 Speech students will compete at the State Speech Tournament on SNU campus this weekend.  Maybe mention Prom and After Prom locations and times.  FCCLA was awarded the Chapter of Excellence award for 2025-2026.  Our FCCLA Chapter was also awarded the 100% Chapter Participation Award.  These were awarded to us during State Convention on April 2nd.  Okarche Shooting Sports has had an outstanding month of competition! The Senior Shooting Sports team earned 1st place with an impressive score of 237/250, while the Junior team secured 4th place in the North Region. Both teams will compete at the State Contest on Wednesday, April 15th—best of luck to our shooters!  Okarche FFA Judging teams have also been busy traveling and competing over the past several weeks, bringing home great results:  Redlands: Milk Quality - 1st Place  Connors State College: Milk Quality - 2nd & 3rd Place; Farm Business Management - 2nd Place  Southwest Invitational: Milk Quality - 2nd Place; Farm  Business Management - 1st Place  Seminole State College: Milk Quality - 2nd Place  Both teams will represent Okarche at the FFA State Contest on April 25th in Stillwater. We are incredibly proud of their hard work and dedication  The Okarche FFA would like to extend an invitation to all board members to attend the Okarche FFA Banquet on May 2nd at 6 pm in the Okarche High School Gym.  The High School boys golf team placed first in small school tournament at Elk City. Hudson Mueggonborg placed 8th as individual!
 

Discussion:  Next Tuesday, April 21 is our special board meeting at noon to sell bonds.  State testing is underway and will continue through next week.  Softball Districts will be at Dewer next Tuesday and Baseball got a bye and will host regionals.  Graduation is May 15.  Prom is April 24th.  Girls golf just found out they are going to McAlister April 20th.

Discussion:  General fund- $3.9 million, Bldg $2.3 million.  Mr. Alig asked if Mr. Sumrall has a budget to show what we may have next year while we are approving these contracts.  He asked if it would be smart to postpone anything contract wise until we have our budget?  Mr. Sumrall said that our budget doesn't come out until the summer, and that most of these contracts are ones that we do need.  

Discussion:  Mr. Sumrall got a quote from the Assistant Principal and it was $6500 and Barlow is $6792 and he doesn't have any schools with a private school.  Mr. Sumrall talked to many surrounding schools and most use Barlow.  

Discussion:  Mr. Sumrall has talked to all the coaches and it has made a significant impact on our success.  How much does 6-8th use it in the summertime, Jarrod asked.  Maybe we offer it as an option to charge the athletes in the summertime.  Basically $130 a person for the summer.  Mr. Alig asked if since we had to get rid of the cleaning service and teachers are cleaning their rooms is this a good expenditure.  Mr. Alig can't prioritize this over the other things we have to cut.  Mr. Alig asked could we use the Certified Teacher in there?  Mr. Mueggenborg said our coaches are not certified trainers.  Mr. Mueggenborg would like to offer the summer at a cost to the students.  Mr. Pinkerton asked average class size and it's 15 is the biggest and 8 or so is the smallest.  Mr. Alig asked if there is any other elective that takes this much money.  Mr. Alig wants the certified teacher to be the one teaching the class and get him certified.  Mr. Alig would like to see an estimated budget to make a decision on Edge and other contracts.  

Discussion:  None