OFFICIAL MINUTES FROM THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETING OF THE
ARKANSAS SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF
ARKANSAS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND
The Board of Trustees for the Arkansas School for the Deaf and the Arkansas School for the Blind met for their monthly meeting on February 17, 2009.
Present: Pam Hyneman, Chairperson; Beth Gray, Vice-Chairperson; Andrew Tolbert, Secretary; Dr. Doug Watson, Board Member; Henrietta Williams, Board Member; Khayyam Eddings, A.S.B. Parent Representative; Janice Vaughn, A.S.D. Parent Representative; Jim Hill, A.S.B. Superintendent; Dr. Marcella Dalla Rosa, A.S.D. Superintendent; Katie Becker, Zania Musteen, Interpreters; Amy Ford, Office of the Attorney General; Members of the Deaf Community; Members of the Blind Community
Call to Order
Mrs. Hyneman called the meeting to order at 4:00 p.m. The next board meeting was scheduled for March 17, 2009. Each board member and each superintendent stated their names to signify they were present. All members were present.
Mrs. Hyneman welcomed Janice Vaughn, who was reappointed as Parent Representative for the Arkansas School for the Deaf and Khayyam Eddings, the newly appointed Parent Representative for the Arkansas School for the Blind.
09-J-003 Motion to Approve Consent Items
Mrs. Hyneman asked for a motion to approve the minutes from the January board meeting. Ms. Gray made the motion and Mr. Tolbert seconded the motion. The motion passed unanimously.
Action Items
09-J-004 Motion
Approval of Board of Trustees Yearly Expense Reimbursement
Mr. Hill explained that each year the board is asked to pass a resolution that allows the board members to receive reimbursement. Mrs. Hyneman asked for a motion to approve. Dr. Watson made the motion and Ms. Williams seconded the motion. The motion passed unanimously.
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Board Policy Manual
Mrs. Hyneman: The next thing is our board policy manual. Does everyone have a copy of that in front of you?
Dr. Watson: Yes, thank you.
Mrs. Vaughn: I left my whole file.
Mrs. Hyneman: We may have some extras. This is from our meeting from last time. We all met, the two superintendents and I met and what we did was take all of the legal issues that we have and incorporated the suggestions from the Arkansas handbook for school board members, which I think everyone received.
Ms. Gray: Was that that red and white thing?
Mrs. Hyneman: Yes. And the reason you got a photo copy was because they were out, so we made a photo copy so all of you would have one at your fingertips. So, what we did was went through and combined the one that we had from ’02 that Jim had found and then updated it and some things we’d either change legally because it did change and others were the same. So what we can do, and we corrected, anyone that had an e-mail suggestion, we went through and changed it. So does everyone have one of those in front of them? Okay. So, does anybody, we can just start from, does anybody have any suggestions or corrections they would like to make?
Ms. Williams: For a discussion?
Mrs. Hyneman: Yes, discussion, anything they want before we
Ms. Williams: On page 4
Mr. Tolbert: Point of order, I think we, before have discussion, don’t we have to have a motion and then a second and then discussion and then vote.
Ms. Williams: Well, you know, under Action Item, which really it should be under Discussion Item because we’ve never discussed it before the board.
Mr. Tolbert: Right.
Mrs. Hyneman: Okay.
Ms. Williams: So, how do you want to do it?
Mrs. Hyneman: So just move that down to Discussion Item, or is it an Action Item because we discussed it last month?
Ms. Williams: Well, we didn’t have the document to fully discuss it. You just said that you were going to be working with them to develop it, but we didn’t have a typed, well we just got it.
Mr. Tolbert: We just got it this
Mrs. Hyneman: Did you not get the e-mail that we sent?
Mr. Tolbert: I don’t recall.
Mrs. Hyneman: Okay, well everyone got e-mailed with all that we had done, the changes, and there were some corrections that we did, but that’s fine. We can just move that to the Discussion Items if that’s the best way to do it. Amy, is that what we should do?
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Ms. Williams: I think that’s best.
Amy Ford: If you are still not going to take action today, I would move it to Discussion Items and allow that to go forward.
Background voices agreeing.
Mrs. Hyneman: Okay. So let’s go to Discussion Items. So this is now a Discussion Item. Is that correct? Okay.
Discussion Items
Board Policy Manual
Mrs. Hyneman: So once again, what we did was take the suggested manual and then also everything that we had to do legally, as far as our board went, and on the original one, and I have the revised version. On the one that we sent y’all, it was marked out if it didn’t have anything to do with us as a different type of school board, that was just Xed out, if it had to do legally, having anything to do with us. Well, we’ll just go through it one by one. I think that’s what y’all want to do. So, let’s go through 1.1 on the Legal Status of the Board of Trustees. Is there anything that anyone would like to add or delete or any suggestions? Okay. We’ll mark that one as okay. Now another question…
Mrs. Vaughn: I mean it’s hard to do that. I have looked at some of this but now about half, I mean the one I got was huge to go through and I don’t know if you got the bound one. Wasn’t that..
Mrs. Hyneman: Not, that’s, oh, no, no, no honey.
Mrs. Vaughn: That’s what I got and that’s all I got.
Mrs. Hyneman: No this is from the state. We e-mailed to everyone’s e-mail address
Dr. Dalla Rosa: Did you get this?
Mrs. Vaughn: No, I did not and I couldn’t open it is why. I couldn’t open it.
09-J-005 Motion to Table
Approval of Board Manual Until the Next Board Meeting
Mr. Tolbert: Look, let’s do this. I move that we table this until our next, until we have had time, everybody has had time to get the correct copy. We’ve got new board members that don’t have it. That would give us time to kind of look at it and, that way we won’t be rushing into some people not having all of the information because this is something we are going to be trying to have for everybody for years to come. So I don’t know if it is time sensitive. We haven’t had one, so it’s not time sensitive.
Ms. Gray: To me that’s actually better because I read through it, but it will help to have more time to, you know, read through it in a more..
Mr. Tolbert: So, it’s my motion that we table it until our next meeting and have..
Ms. Gray: Second.
Mrs. Hyneman: All those in favor signify by saying aye.
All board members voted in favor of the motion.
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Dr. Dalla Rosa: Can I just make one comment? If it does have the Act number, it’s straight from the law book. So we can’t change the law book. So I just wanted to clarify that.
Mr. Tolbert: just to give everybody time to go back and feel more comfortable with it.
Mrs. Hyneman: And I’ll tell you what we’ll do this time that will make better sense. What we’ll do is, we will e-mail this to you all. We’ll follow that up with a phone call to make sure you got your e-mail because if you’re not getting your e-mail we have not idea.. We e-mailed this like two weeks ago, and we did get some response from people with corrections that were minor. Just minor things so we combined several things that were redundant. So what we’ll do, we’ll e-mail, this is a revised copy you all have. If you have any suggestions, e-mail them to Katie. We will meet again like we suggested and go back over it. If you have any more suggestions then we’ll e-mail y’all with the correct version. I will call each one of you to make sure you got your e-mail.
Mr. Tolbert: Okay, that will work.
Mrs. Hyneman: Will that work?
Ms. Williams: Sounds great.
Mr. Tolbert: Before we move from the Action Items, if Madam Chair, I would suggest if the board approves this, under the Action Items for the School for the Blind and the School for the Deaf, there are some items that are duplicate, like the Leave Policy, the Catastrophic Leave, Grievance Policy, Family Medical Leave and, I think Inclement Weather policy may be different, but I would ask that since we’re already on the Joint meeting that we go ahead and take care of those items at one time rather than twice.
Mrs. Hyneman: Okay. Also you should have received this in your packet. Everyone received a packet.
Mrs. Vaughn: Mine’s at the office.
Mr. Tolbert: So I would move that we adjust the Agenda to take the Action Items that are duplicate from the School for the Blind and the School for the Deaf separate Agendas and put it under the Joint.
Mrs. Hyneman: Okay. And those would be Action Items would be 1 through 4 on the Blind School and it would be 3 through 6 on the Deaf School.
Mr. Tolbert: Absolutely.
Mrs. Hyneman: So, we’re all on the same page, right? Okay. Now on the..
Mr. Tolbert: There’s motion on the floor.
Mrs. Hyneman: Oh, I’m sorry.
Ms. Gray: Second.
Mr. Tolbert: Okay, now we can vote on the motion.
Mrs. Hyneman: Do I hear.. Okay a first and second, all in favor, please signify by saying aye.
All members voted aye.
Mrs. Hyneman: Now we can go to Action Items, is that correct?
Mr. Tolbert: Right.
Mrs. Hyneman: Okay
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Action Items (continued)
09-J-006 Motion to Accept Lear Policy, Catastrophic Leave Policy,
Grievance Policy, and Family Medical Leave Policy with revisions
Mrs. Hyneman: Now on the Leave Policy, the one you got in the mail, mine did not have part of it in there and it was corrected. They’re both the exact thing for the Leave Policy for the Deaf and the Blind school. However, on Page 7..
Mr. Tolbert: Page 7, I had a question about Page 7 at the top. It may just be words but I want to make sure I’m understanding this correctly and it’s dealing with 12 month employees should be granted time off for designated State holidays and on Page 7, it states if the school is in session on these dates, an employee should receive approval from the supervisor prior to taking the holiday. So that gives them an option, or do you say must?
Dr. Dalla Rosa: Must
Mr. Tolbert: I’m just asking. I don’t..
Dr. Dalla Rosa: I mean I think it’s must.
Mr. Hill: Well, we are given holidays but as a State employee, but school goes on whether those holidays exist or not.
Mr. Tolbert: I understand that part, but a supervisor should need to know if the person is not going to be there.
Mr. Hill: Yes.
Mr. Tolbert: But the ways this reads, I could tell you, or not to tell you. Am I making sense?
Dr. Dalla Rosa: Um huh.
Mr. Tolbert: It’s just a matter of you knowing. I’m not saying that they couldn’t take it, but you need to know if you’re going to have to fill the position.
Mr. Hill: Absolutely, we have to.
Mrs. Hyneman: So, we’re going to strike that word should and put may.
Dr Watson: To must.
Mr. Tolbert: To must. That would be my suggestion.
Mrs. Hyneman: Okay. And then on Deaf School policy, they left out the part about the children’s activity, which they added within the Blind School. So if you go to..
Mr. Tolbert: What page?
Mrs. Hyneman: It would be Page 6 of the Deaf School policy and we’re going to add right below the Court and Jury Duty the part that has the children.
Mr. Tolbert: Page 6? It’s not on Page 6 in mine.
Mrs. Hyneman: What we’re going to add on the Deaf School, on Page 8..
Mr. Tolbert: Oh, Okay.
Mrs. Hyneman: On both of them on Page 8, it was accidentally not included in the Deaf School policy and they..
Dr. Dalla Rosa: We had it in our policy. This is not a change from previous policy. That started last year.
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Mrs. Hyneman: So it’s going to be exactly the same thing that’s written in the Blind School.
Mrs. Vaughn: Can I ask you one thing on that? I haven’t read that carefully but, I mean it’s not a problem, but sometimes when you are (inaudible), does that mean just when they first are called for duty that they have to notify because what happens is every Monday you have to call in to the court and see if you’re called. You’re in that.. What is the policy with regard to that? I mean because that goes on for three or four months when you get called for jury duty.
Dr. Dalla Rosa: I would say that typically I know ahead of time that they’re on it so we can expect them to be out any Monday or Tuesday, whatever the day is.
Mrs. Vaughn: Okay. That’s what I was just wanting to make sure they didn’t have to call because they may not have a chance because you call at 7 a.m. and get yourself to court and ..
Mrs. Hyneman: Was there anything we need to add or delete on that then?
Mrs. Vaughn: Okay. So that’s the only thing on those two. Okay. They are both exact the same on the Catastrophic Leave for the Deaf and the Blind. The same thing from before. Any questions or revisions on that? And then that goes to #3 which is the Grievance Policy. Well, Amy corrected and we corrected on the Deaf School, and that would be on Page 3, excuse me Page 4.
Dr. Dalla Rosa: You’re on the Grievance?
Mrs. Hyneman: Uh huh, the Grievance. Grievance, Page 4.
Mr. Tolbert: I don’t have a copy of that.
Ms. Williams: The Employee Grievance Policy?
Mrs. Hyneman: It says Uniform Grievance Policy and it’s just a little bit (inaudible). The yellow came from the Deaf School so if you have a yellow copy you’ll see it. And what it is, the wording is different on the Blind School and the Deaf School, and the correct one is the Deaf School because Amy corrected it.
Amy Ford: Okay, Jim did you call me about it?
Mr. Hill: Uh, in relation to the superintendent making a ..
Mrs. Hyneman: Okay, let me, I’m not making myself clear. On the handout from the Deaf School, it says the grievant shall have the option to have the grievance held in open or closed session unless an issue involves the student population, in which case it shall only be heard in closed session. That was added. That was not in the Blind School and is deleted in both of them that the grievant and the superintendent should agree to have a grievance heard in open or closed session and also strike out that the board chairman will have the final decision. That was not correct.
Dr. Dalla Rosa: Right and that was from discussion when this was presented before and so we came up with this new wording. Now a concern that was brought up today is, let’s just say, like there was a sexual harassment grievance and the person was reprimanded and they filed a grievance. Then the person that was sexually harassed would be a witness and they probably do not want to be in an open session to have it because it’s uncomfortable anyway. So are we going to list everything or are they going to be closed
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every time or what is the suggestion and we do our, for clarification, we have to do our grievance differently. We cannot have a grievance with the entire board as a closed session, as a state agency.
Mrs. Hyneman: It’s different, we talked about earlier about state school boards.
Mrs. Vaughn: What do other agencies do in the State? Amy?
Amy Ford: I’m trying to, um.
Mr. Eddings: (Inaudible) you have a victim testify in a closed session?
Amy Ford: You cannot have a closed session for a grievance because you cannot allow the necessary parties in. The witness would not be able to testify in an executive session grievance because within the executive session only the person who is grieving or the employee who is being disciplined, the immediate supervisor, and the superintendent are allowed in an executive session grievance. So, if it’s completely open then it has to be everyone can be there. However, by allowing one member of the board to hear the grievance, that can be in closed session because it’s not subject to FOIA and that’s the reason we do it that way. Other boards or commissions or such don’t have that many steps because they directly hire their employees and have direct control over them. Many of them are executive directors or titles which exempt them from the grievance process too. So you don’t have the situation that you have in a school board also being a state agency and because you are a state agency and because the schools are state actors, FOIA applies.
Mrs. Hyneman: What’s the short version? What would be a written short version? How would we change it or modify what we have already?
Amy Ford: You wouldn’t even allow a closed session; you would not allow full board. You would say that the board shall appoint a hearing office who will conduct the grievance in a closed door session and that balances out, and that hearing officer will come back to the board in executive session and present the case. That’s what we had, you know, normally. But some grievants in the past wanted to put (inaudible) before the full board and argue it that way but I think it’s the board prerogative to say this is the way we are going to do it, and that puts you in compliance with the State grievance policy, keeping it confidential and then a giving the employee the opportunity to have their case presented to the board.
Mrs. Hyneman: OK, then..
Amy Ford: I would recommend that you require grievances that reach the board level to be heard by an appointed hearing officer by the chair, and that the results of that hearing be presented to the full board in executive session for a final determination.
Mr. Tolbert: That’s what we do now.
Amy Ford: That’s what you do now.
Mrs. Hyneman: It’s just not written that way.
Amy Ford: It’s not written that way.
Mr. Tolbert: OK.
Mrs. Hyneman: Well did you get all of that, Katie?
(Inaudible response)
Amy Ford: Lucy is familiar with the process.
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Katie Hodge: I know what you are saying; I just want to get it correct.
Mr. Tolbert: Okay, because that’s what we’re doing now.
Mrs. Hyneman: That’s right but it needs to be written that way.
Mr. Tolbert: Right.
Dr. Dalla Rosa: But are we saying that for all grievances would be conducted that way, or ..
Amy Ford: Yes.
Mrs. Vaughn: I thought we were just ..
Amy Ford: I think we are saying that there would not be a grievance before the full board in open session.
Dr. Dalla Rosa: Or we have to come up with the issues that we want to protect the people who are..
Mrs. Hyneman: I’m going to ask you to repeat that one more time.
Amy Ford: Okay. The board of trustees will hear grievances by a single member appointed as a hearing officer, who will hear the grievance and then report back to the board in an executive session for the board to make a determination on the grievance.
Mrs. Hyneman: Any questions about that?
Dr. Watson: That’s not written here.
Mrs. Hyneman: No
Ms. Williams: I mean that’s what we’re doing now but we have allowed if they did want to bring it.
Amy Ford: I don’t recall there ever being on in open session.
Voices stating there have been in open session.
Dr. Dalla Rosa: One from each school.
Ms. Williams: There’s been a couple of them.
Ms. Gray: I remember one last year actually.
Mrs. Hyneman: So how do we correctly go through with this? Do we need to modify this and bring it back?
Ms. Williams: Yes.
Amy Ford: If, if, if what she said, she may not agree that it be modified, but if you are going to change, you’ll have to modify it and come back. If you like having these options of an open, then you want to leave it the way it is and you will have, the chair will have to decide if it’s open or closed.
Mrs. Hyneman: That’s how it is right now?
Amy Ford: Uh huh and so it would be up to the chair and the chair (inaudible)
Mr. Tolbert: Now this is for regular school board. There is a bill that will allow regular school boards whether the grievant or the parent want it to be in open session or not, the board has the final say whether it is in closed session or not. I don’t know how it’s going to affect this board. Probably not affect at all but it may become an Act that they would allow regular school boards to have the final say whether it’s in closed session or not. Right now, you ask the parent or you ask the grievant do you want open or closed, and if
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they want either, then you go with their wishes, but this bill, if it becomes a law, will allow the board to have that decision.
Mr. Hill: Evidently it meets the FOI requirements. If one board can do it, surely the others..
Amy Ford: Public School boards are specifically exempt for certain things under the FOI. So it doesn’t affect in the way it affects this board.
Ms. Williams: Well, rather than having the board chairman make the final decision, why can’t it come to the board then?
Amy Ford: Time constraints. You would have to meet every time there’s a grievance in order to make that determination.
Mrs. Hyneman: We had talked about that last time, about not having, you know, the chairman making that decision. But the way it’s stated right now, it’s only …
Lucy Cockrell: Amy, excuse me. Whenever I receive a grievance, if it’s coming to the board, there is a mechanism that all board members have an e-mail address that I can e-mail each board member and say I have received a grievance.
Amy Ford: That’s in violation of the FOIA for it being to polled members. It would have to have a, they would have to have a called meeting of the board with notice and everything in order to take a vote on whether it was going to be opened or closed.
Ms. Williams: I would rather keep the option open. So, I would say just let stay at the board chairman to make the final decision.
Amy Ford: It’s worked so far.
Mrs. Hyneman: Okay. So it goes back the way it was? Okay.
Mr. Tolbert: So the way it’s written here is the way it will stay?
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Mrs. Hyneman: Okay. The other thing they talked about changing is from business days to agency business days and that has to do with the fact that if you have, if you are off for Spring Break, and so that wording was not in the Blind School’s; it was in the Deaf School’s, so we’re changing that, just that wording. So this stands the same except we’re changing it to say agency business days and there are three places that says that. So this is staying the same except for saying the term agency business days. Does everyone agree with that?
Voices agreeing.
Mrs. Hyneman: Amy?
Amy Ford: Spring Break is an agency business day.
Dr. Dalla Rosa: Correct
Mrs. Hyneman: Right. That’s why we’re putting agency business days in.
Amy Ford: But that’s the same as business days.
Mrs. Hyneman: So did we change that? Why was suggestion changed?
Dr. Dalla Rosa: It said work days. It said work day before and (inaudible; different members talking at the same time).
Amy Ford: Okay. I accept that definition.
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Mr. Tolbert:
Right
Mrs. Hyneman: Okay. Any more discussion on this?
Ms. Williams: On Page 2, the first item highlighted about any information regarding the grievable issue is not to be discussed at any time including the information before stated or provided in the grievance hearing.
Mrs. Hyneman: I thought we took that out.
Dr. Dalla Rosa: No, which one, are you looking at the School for the Blind, or
Mr. Tolbert: On Page 2, School for the Blind is ….
Ms. Williams; Well then I have an old copy.
Dr. Watson: I have an old one also.
Dr. Dalla Rosa: Because, yes, and so that was an issue when this was presented before and so, individual should refrain from discussing information regarding the grievable issue outside the hearing process. Which means if they don’t there is no repercussions from discussing it. However, we do want to say to people, please refrain from discussing the issue. It is not good for either side.
Ms. Williams: No repercussions or…
Mr. Hill: I want to clarify the fact that on an issue like that, and if I have an issue that is a grievable issue and I feel that the board needs to know about it, I will tell them because that’s first and foremost is that they be advised; and I had an issue like that and I felt it was my obligation to let the board know about it so that if the question came up and met the media, the board would be informed.
Mr. Tolbert: That was just for point of information. You didn’t go into details of the grievance because then you prejudice the board against when that person has to come to the board; but I agree with you that it’s good policy to let us know in case, rather than reading it in the paper.
Mr. Hill: Within those perimeters then I can live with that. I feel like, and I’m sure Marcella agrees with me, that we need to let the board know.
Amy Ford: But this policy is with regard to the employees. It’s not between the superintendent and the board. This is telling employees they can’t talk about the grievance among themselves and that’s why we modified the language in the Deaf School to soften it. To put them on notice that it’s not appropriate to talk about a grievance and so that’s when we changed that language with the Deaf School because it was a point of contention.
Mrs. Hyneman: The next thing will be the Family Medical Leave and it stays the same for both schools. So the yellow one is highlighted and the grey one is the Blind School, but they are both exactly worded the same.
Dr. Dalla Rosa: That was a new Act that needed to be added.
Mrs. Hyneman: So those four policies are the same for both schools. So now I would ask for a motion that we accept these four policies for both schools?
Ms. Williams: Name them again.
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Mrs. Hyneman: Okay. Do I have a motion that we accept for both schools, the Leave Policy revisions, Catastrophic Leave Policy revisions, the Grievance Policy revisions and the Family Medical Leave Policy revisions?
Ms. Williams: So moved.
Ms. Gray: Second
Amy Ford: May I ask a point of clarification? With the corrections, which is the Grievance Policy.
Mr. Tolbert and Ms. Williams: With corrections.
Ms. Williams: I move that we accept the policies, the four policies mentioned with corrections.
Dr. Watson: Second.
Mrs. Hyneman: Any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying Aye.
The motion passed unanimously.
Mr. Tolbert: While we’re on it, Inclement Weather Policy. Can we,
Mrs. Hyneman: Those are different for both schools. That has to go to different schools.
Mr. Tolbert: They’re different? Okay. Thanks.
Discussion Items
Khayyam Eddings – A.S.B. Board Representative
Mr. Hill introduced the newly appointed A.S.B. parent representative, Khayyam Eddings. Mr. Eddings is the parent of 5 year old student at A.S.B. and is a partner in the Friday Law Firm. Ashley Carper, a parent of two A.S.B. students and who is the State President of NAPVI, was in the audience and Mr. Hill introduced her to the board.
Mr. Eddings said he was thrilled to be on the board and wants to help in any way he can.
Chris Wilks – Gifted and Talented
Mr. Hill said this Discussion Item would be presented at a later date.
Janice Vaughn – A.S.D. Parent Representative
Mrs. Vaughn said she has had many calls from people within the deaf community because deaf schools are closing across the county. She said she needs some guidance in answering these questions. Dr. Dalla Rosa said two e-mails have gone out on the number of schools and budgets that were cut at other deaf schools. She said she is also concerned but the school does have strong support from the legislative body and would continue to say that and the school is not getting budget cuts that are any different than other state agencies.
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There being no further business of a Joint nature, the meeting moved to the Agenda for the Arkansas School for the Blind.
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Pam Hyneman, Chairperson
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Andrew
Tolbert, Secretary
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