Pubdate: Mon, 02 May 2005
Source: Enid News & Eagle (OK)
Copyright: Enid News & Eagle 2005
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DRUG POLICY STUDY

Enid Board of Education members tonight are expected to study a policy and 
form related to student drug testing - a move that could eventually provide 
administrators with the tools to implement a policy.

The Enid Public Schools board meets at 7 tonight at the district's central 
office, 500 S. Independence.

The board approved a committee to study the issue after the Champlin 
Foundation proposed donating money to help fund the policy. Board President 
David Meara said the committee agreed unanimously to move forward 
developing a policy. The committee studied policies and procedures, public 
information, types of testing and cost, administrators have said.

The proposed policy may require all students to provide a urine sample 
before participation in an extracurricular activity covered under the 
policy. It also allows random drug testing of those "activity students" and 
when there is a "reasonable suspicion of drug use by that particular 
student," according to the proposed policy.

Another school policy revision includes discontinuing meal reimbursements 
incurred by employees while making one-day school business trips. The EPS 
administrative recommendation comes after Internal Revenue Service auditors 
scrutinized some state school's policies on travel reimbursement procedures 
and determined meal reimbursements must be treated as taxable income.

EPS administrators decided to stop altogether meal reimbursements for 
one-day trips because of extra costs relating to the mandates and 
complications of the payroll changes.

The board also is expected to consider bids on the sale of portables and 
houses. A sealed bid on the Kaufman house, or the McKinley white house at 
1708 W. Maine, was not received, although administrators say they are 
working with someone interested in purchasing and moving the home.

In other business, the board is expected to vote on:

. The district's Comprehensive Local Education Plan.

. The purchase of musical instruments for next school year.

. A resolution to liquidate shares of a trust to fund an award.

. A change order to the Hayes Elementary School addition.

. A contract with the Department of Rehabilitative Services for 
transition-to-work training for students.

. Other policy changes regarding raffles and records investigations.

. Contracts for mowing and yard spraying.

. A number of personnel items.

An executive session is planned to discuss the director of technology 
position and the purchase or sale of property.
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MAP posted-by: Beth