Kickoff for Friday night's game at Caddo will be at 7:30.
Just a reminder that Pink Out order forms are due Sept. 30th.
Patrons of Quinton School,
We will have to shut water off tomorrow for repairs. . We will need to go Distance Learning for Thursday. Hopefully repairs can be completed tomorrow and we will be good to go for Monday. Sorry for the late notice but we did had no way to anticipate this issue. Teachers will be at school and will be able to provide Distance Learning materials and we will still have Parent/Teacher conferences as scheduled. Please remember there is NO Virtual Friday this week. Thank you for your understanding.
Patrons of Quinton Public Schools: Some of you are probably aware of the latest, popular TikTok challenge where students vandalize and/or steal school property and film themselves while doing so. Unfortunately, Quinton Schools are not immune. This flagrant disregard is not only costly to repair/replace but it is illegal. Consequences will be severe. Quinton Schools will pursue all legal remedies for the illegal acts, including law enforcement involvement. Please talk to your children about this challenge and report any information to the school.
Patrons of the Quinton School District,
Thank you for taking part in one of the most important duties we have as citizens of our great nation. Voting is the bedrock of how our country functions. This is a great teaching moment for us to share with all of our students. Find something you believe in and be passionate about it. Put in the time and effort to research, find facts, compare and then make an informed decision. To everyone who put in so much work on the bond election; I want to say you have my thanks. No matter the outcome we will continue to do our very best for our students. (Yes, we consider them all ours also). Nothing has changed in that regard. Hopefully we will strive to work together to achieve all we can for these young people. I know we all agree they deserve the best we can give them.
Todd Wilson
Quinton Schools Superintendent
JH softball has been cancelled for today. HS will play at 4:30 at Canadian
Patrons of Quinton Schools. I will try to explain the ballot language. The Oklahoma State Attorney General's office writes the language that appears on the ballot. We contracted with the Stephen L. Smith company for the bond. They help to file all necessary paperwork and forms for the bond proposal. At that point we call for an election and that is sent to the Ok. State Attorney Generals office. They will then write the information on the ballot. We advertise what projects are to be constructed ( see the construction part of the ballot). Once we advertise what we are proposing a Construction Bond for, the Cafeteria/saferoom and the Library/resource saferoom we are required BY Law to do so. If we do not build what we advertised we would be breaking the law.
Pink Out shirt forms are in front of the office or you can download one from the documents section.
Patrons of Quinton Public Schools,
I know several questions have been asked about grants and I want to share this public information with you.
Impact Aid Construction Grant- This grant has not been awarded since 2019. Additionally, we do not qualify. The very first thing to qualify is that 50% or more of your students must either live on Indian lands or have a parent on active military duty. We do not qualify.
"Shovel Ready construction Grant" this was a President Obama era program that ended in 2016. It was up to a maximum of $1,000,000 and I know one local school did qualify for some of this money and remodeled their cafeteria. Again, this program ended in 2016 and does not exist anymore.
USDA Grant- we are actually working on an application to see what we could qualify for. Usually the maximum amount is $50,000 but it can go higher IF funding is available. However, this is a matching grant. Our share is 45% and is based off of what was reported on the Census. This means if we could get awarded $1,000,000( which is pretty unrealistic) our part would be $450,000 dollars. That is money we would have to come up with and our options would either be a bond or a very expensive and long term lease-purchase.
We have written several grants at Quinton Public Schools. Sadly, most grant applications don't get funded because of lack of money.
The big playground set at the Elementary was funded mostly by a grant and a donation.
The shade coverings at the Elementary that were installed last year? They were funded by a grant written in conjunction with a parent.
This year we received a $96,000 grant for Elementary counseling services for the next 3 years. We hope to have that going strong soon but we have some required meetings coming up before we can do so.
Our Ag department wrote and received a grant last year for incubators and supplies to hatch quail for local release. Our teachers will often apply for grants to help with classroom needs or projects.
I hope this information is helpful.
Student Council is having theme nights at the high school football games. This week's theme is "White Out." Wear white and cheer for our boys as they face Gans.
Our General Contractor is MacHill construction. Our liason is Michael Barnes. They are well regarded and do many school projects all over Oklahoma. I should have included that in the previous post.
We had a great bond related question asked. Do we have bids yet on these projects? Let me explain the process.
If the bond is approved on the 14th this is how the process unfolds
according to Oklahoma law.
1) The architect will finalize plans and drawings.
2) The plans and drawings will be sent to the Oklahoma State Fire Marshal for review and approval.
3) After the plans and drawings are sent to the Oklahoma State Fire Marshal the General Contractor will put the plans out for bid.
4) Bidding must be open for a specified time and bids can be submitted during that time. After the time period for bidding ends all submitted
bids will be opened by the General Contractor and we will review bids at that point.
We cannot solicit bids until the plans are approved as we may or may not be required to make minor changes by the Fire Marshal.
We do have a detailed budget that we have developed in hand with our General Contractor. We have budgeted for the higher costs of most materials and feel confident in our numbers. We also have built in a construction contingency, an owners contingency, and a escalation factor. Our General Contractor has told us we are the only people they have worked with who have built in all three to make sure any unexpected costs are adequately covered. Please feel free to reach out with any questions.
The JH softball game for Tuesday, Sept. 7th has been postponed.
Parents and Students,
Monday is Labor Day. There will be no school on Monday, September 6th. Everyone stay safe and enjoy the Holiday weekend.
The JH Softball games schedule for Saturday, August 28th are canceled.
Monday evening at 6:30 there will be an informational forum at the Quinton Community Center over the September 14th Bond Election. This will also be on Facebook live. Please attend or watch to get the most accurate information.
The softball games at Cameron today have been cancelled.
The ARP ESSER III Use of Funds Plan has been posted under the Document/21-22 School year tab
We welcome any public comments. Please email twilson@quintonschools.com
Patrons of Quinton Public Schools, I want to address two questions we received about the September 14 Bond Election.
1) Do I have to own or rent property to vote? NO, anyone registered to vote by August 20 is eligible to vote.
2) Will the community be able to use the storm shelters? Absolutely. If we need to shelter during the school day we will put students in first then take community members until we run out of room. ( combined both shelters could hold 960 plus.) If it is outside the school day the police department will have keys to both shelters and should be able to open them immediately.
The last day to register to vote is August 20. Please watch for more information through Facebook and we will present more information at home softball and football games in the next few weeks.
Please feel free to call or email with questions.
Letter jacket preview will be August 31.
Payments will be due by Sept. 16.
Forms for letter jackets can be picked up from the front office and need to be completed with parent and coach’s signatures by order date.