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.