Dr. Smith gave a report on the state of the kitchen. The Tulsa Health Department has re-inspected and approved our kitchen repairs as of Oct. 20th and have said they will not require any future work on the ceiling. The board previously approved a total budget of $30,000 for those repairs and the total expense was $26,709. TPS has mentioned that we may be eligible for some rebates for the LED lighting which was installed in both the kitchen and the service line, and we will be following up with with them to inquire about the application for the rebates.  Oppa! is in the process of their grand opening.  October and November are the months of all major reporting and so far, all of our due dates have been met. There has been statewide difficulty with the student information system, but Adriana Lopez has been working with the state department for 21 days trying to get our numbers to match theirs. In terms of the state leadership change, Dan and I have been encouraged by the communication from the state department superintendent, Lyndell Fields.  October 3rd was our Day of Service where around 300 high school students were sent to 20 different sites to complete service projects.  The day was meaningful, well organized and overall an important experience for the students and teachers.  October 9th was FAFSA night at TSAS.  Parents and students came to the school to fill out their FAFSA applications.  Sophomores took the PSAT and there have been a few small visits to local colleges. Tomorrow, October 22nd, is Senior Application Day.  We will have every senior at TSAS fill out college applications to at least one university.  John Turner is launching our Native American Students Club and Tutoring.  This week is Spirit Week at TSAS, and we will have our Fall Festival this Friday, October 24th and, due to the rain, it will be inside this year.  Session 1 ends on November 7th and the next session will begin on November 11th.

Dr. Hahn reports on working with teachers on evidence-based literacy strategies and tools learned at the Summer Symposium.  We are holding Professional Learning Communities meetings. These PLCs are faculty groups in order to get teachers together to talk about their work using data to drive literacy-based strategies.  There are a couple of months when we don’t have a faculty meeting and teachers are requesting to meet, hence forming PLCs.  The grants we were able to secure will be able to pay teachers extra for that time.  Our first PLC is on October 22 after school.  We will be discussing the tiers of data: Map testing, classroom level data, student behavior, and OK state testing from last year.  We just got data from last year's state testing and there is some strong bounce back from post-COVID years. ELA is a core strength along with US History.  Math is an area where intervention is needed and that is the case across the board. There were some staffing difficulties at the math level, but we are working to improve results going forward.  Science results are holding steady and there’s been a high participation score for all testing in general.

Dr. Smith announces the first fundraiser, Trivia Night, is on October 14th. Registration is still open.  There is organizational health and broad development within the group.  They are currently revising their bylaws, and they will be discussing them next week at their next meeting.  There was a financial report at the last meeting. The TSAS FAE has about $75,000 in their checking account and another $50,000 in the Tulsa Community Foundation. Right now, Scott Grizzle is functioning as both President and Treasurer.  The foundation will appoint more officers after updating the bylaws. 

Jesse Stallings reports an estimated 2026 carryover of $156,005.46.

Dr. Smith presented the (1) Career Tech Course Credit (2) Annual Student Remediation Report (3) Annual 7-12 Drop Out Report (4) District Capacity Report Summary (5) School Days to Hours Calendar Summary.

Mr. Stallings discussed the technology updates that have taken place due to our data backup being out of date.  He reports that we used to pay $40,000 for that service, but this year it has been about $20,000.  Erate has awarded TSAS $100,000 in grants, of which we will only be responsible to pay 20%.   

A quick discussion took place, but will continue at the next board meeting.