Teresa Barnett

This plan details how Bristow Public Schools will utilize ARP ESSER III funds over the fiscal years 2022-2024. The strategic approach focuses on implementing COVID-19 prevention and mitigation strategies, addressing academic impact and learning loss through evidence-based interventions, allocating funds for technology upgrades, staffing, and retention, and responding to the academic, social, emotional, and mental health needs of all students, with particular attention to those disproportionately impacted by the pandemic.

The document contains financial statements for Bristow School District Number I-2, Creek County, Oklahoma, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, and the Estimate of Needs for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2026. It includes details on revenues, non-revenue receipts, cash balances, expenditures, and liabilities across various funds such as the General Fund and Building Fund. Key schedules cover ad valorem tax accounts, revenue sources, warrant accounts, and expenditure reports, providing a comprehensive overview of the district's financial status and future budgetary requirements.

The Bristow Public Schools Continuous Improvement Plan (2009-2015) focuses on five key goals: improving core academic performance, connecting learning to real-life applications, instilling the Six Pillars of Character, providing a safe and healthy learning environment, and enhancing school climate through parental involvement and community collaboration. The plan outlines specific strategies and action plans to achieve these goals, including professional development for counselors, career-focused educational opportunities, integration of employability skills into all classes, and initiatives to promote positive health choices and character development. Targeted outcomes include improved academic achievement, 100% student preparedness for post-secondary opportunities, 100% of students displaying good citizenship, and a positive school climate with high staff retention.

The meeting agenda includes presentations on school accreditation and retirement recognition. A consent agenda covers routine financial reports. The Superintendent will provide updates on construction, maintenance, child nutrition, energy management, site reports, curriculum mapping, and finances. Discussion and possible votes will be held on surplussing a school vehicle, revising board policies (including those on workers' compensation, sick leave, personnel duties, support leave, suspension/termination of employees, student safety, student residency, student conduct, fees, fines, charges, activity funds, extracurricular participation, eligibility for activities, equal access, student organizations, concussions, suicide intervention, and physical education), approving a memorandum of understanding for a girls' soccer program, approving a sick leave sharing request, approving general fund, building fund, bond fund, child nutrition fund encumbrances and change orders, approving support staff attendance incentive stipends, approving one-time stipends for staff, and approving a substitute teacher. An executive session is proposed to discuss support staff attendance incentive stipends, one-time staff stipends, an agriculture education teacher vacancy, and the Superintendent's evaluation.

The Bristow Board of Education meeting agenda includes discussion and possible action on various financial reports, funding agreements, donations, lease-purchase financing of equipment, a COPS grant collaboration with the City of Bristow, FFA program purchases, high school activity fund changes, auditor selection for a grant, contracts with various service providers (J & J Educational Services, Rosenstein, Fist & Ringold, CCOSA, American Fidelity, Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Miller Office Equipment, OMECORP, LLC, HASLER, EMCO, Firetrol Protection Systems, Brooks Grease Service, Inc., Airgas, Software Technology, Inc., Eastern Oklahoma Erate Service, Barlow Education Management Services), bids for bread, milk, pizza, and a prime vendor, gym floor refinishing, fundraisers, resolutions, support pay band changes, board policy additions/revisions, encumbrances, change orders, staff resignations, and hiring for several teaching and administrative positions. The meeting also includes an executive session to discuss resignations and hiring negotiations.