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we pay for whatever time if we shared staff so how does that work with benefits uh well you know that's up to whatever they give benefit we would you have to work 30 hours to get our health insurance so don't yeah if you work 1200 hours a year and you get the full benefit and then it's prorated down like a half time get fifty percent so you're splitting the teacher 50 50. the benefit would be 50 50 if diocese agrees to pay to happen I don't think just from my perspective that seems perfectly reasonable yeah and who's ever planned I don't know whose plan they'd be on like if they'd be on the school's plan and the dynasty rights as a check or you know that there's a lot of stuff to Etc beyond their plan and we write them a check for what they were for us could that be permanent reduction as well it's based on salary so that's the reason I say that we could pay the full salary here reimbursed we'd have to actually split it a teacher like okay we're paying 60 you pay 40 by the way it probably won't be the same one dollar I don't know like like I think I heard him say try to get to 75 80 percent of what most schools are paying on the salary area so if you're looking probably looking a little bit less for that time that our Capers and the FICA that's all based on one we pay so really well there will be some benefit to concealed ill staff so if we share that the same thing goes with part-time for the USB part-time private which you have to be paid by two that it needs same thing goes the benefits and papers I did talk to him about if they were going to do Sports there'd probably be at least on equipment for depreciation and stuff same way with football field should be easy abuse they know what they do shop use another cost per employment depreciation on a shop equipment so there's a few items in there if they tell me you know if there's not going to be a shot or anything like that offered to put a couple three about it there's so many variables that I don't know yet but there's always you know once you have specifics but I would expect appreciation on a program that they're using are equipment because they're going to appreciate right I mean if they use it a year you're going to have equipment to appreciate you're going to have uniforms appreciate all those things we'll appreciate and there's they're all set on depreciation value anyway so but no I have not keep things like I did give him that number about what I thought utilities give or take I'd have to look again about what I'd like utilities were and I continue to be concerned about how as a district we're going to be able to provide a gym and art and things to our elementary students in Wilson business at this a good solution for that at this point there is no uh right up the art specifically it might be music and physical education would be available for the classroom teacher to utilize that not only is it hard to find an art teacher or types I think I mean I think there's a big benefit not excluding the fact that we wouldn't have happened it might also increase the likelihood that you guys would only have to bring Suburbans over or something in terms of fussing um we've been surveying people and as far as we can tell the majority of people plan to bring their 73 qualificators have been a better business to happen um and I'm assuming the local parish is thoughtful word now they we still need to get the official though it's I mean largely behind it but we had like officially foreign [Music] transfer to be not out I'm kind of all eggs were placed in the basket of silver Lucas and then that didn't work out and so I felt like everybody was left scrambling on the land transfers haven't worked out and now I feel like always are going to be placed in the basket of the the Catholic School and so I have a hard time giving another year and extending things and now it's not just extending things that would really be going back on the motion that has been made and everything else is bought through and the plans that are in place for next year in the future to add to that I have concern about the quality of academics at this point because we have a lot of teachers we already had some positions that were not certified and that's a growing list to fill those positions that's just that's concerning to me to be that for another year I don't I think it's a disservice to the students academically so everybody's thoughts on them moving forward on that negotiations do we give them give the diocese the building what's that we give the guys to use that building put in this report is that an option that option do that you'd have to close the elementary portion from our perspective USD 112 that there have to be no attention centers there is the diocese interested in the entire building Roger um whatever yeah I think something that's hard about that is uh it's going to be difficult already to get in the junior high school like in all the staff and stuff and so to do this don't do that also for elementary if he would be a tall order so not in the media transition potentially yes not immediately interested in having the whole building I guess do not perspective on it those I think we'd be in the same situation like you said but could we sell the building to the city and the city could rent it lease it to the captain diocese but I think we'd be in the same position there couldn't be any Elementary there yeah that's correct the Oregon you know because deployed tennis centers there's no building numbers whatever they wanted to there's got two numbers right we can't give them just the 7 through 12 number yes now because it's an approved tennis center for the state by state statute to tell kids that they can't attend at the USD 112.

I need to give you a little history before I get started on this one because as you know it was approved 350 000 of this budget was approved for a project that was denied we did a spin 300 Pittsburgh the work that was completed was about half we'd have to spend that much out of capital as well like 50 years in that area so we have 350 in our plan for Capital project and it does have to be spent by September 24. we had the four years ago you approved we'll see 280 000.

and we bring more in and this is the same thing we've been seeing in our little meetings I guess that now we've taken our demo account from 235 to 255 without one new student behind I know it's one year it's just these other these other costs we have them going up 600 000 again next year I want to I want to just stop talking about it I mean I'll support everything you want to do I guess that actually kind of answers my my next question or comment in the grand scheme of things what is 576 000 no out of uh you know when you throw in Eminem you throw in title you throw in um uh Esser you're talking you know in capital 23 24 million is this something that we have to make a decision on tonight or is it something that we could table and come back to next month I don't think that I don't think the information is going to change by next month so either we either need to take the leap and do it knowing that there may be some risks or we don't take the risk at all and that's the way I see it and honestly I think I'm willing to take that leap knowing that we can put the the brakes on if need be that way I can see this work it's not that I'm not that I've missed or you know Insight but if we take all the sites all the schools all the Departments and say Here's your budget 83 whatever it is of this year and and try to restrict and really maintain that and then because what I show for next year if we do this extra 576 we could be on a budget of 18.2 we could be spending 19.3 with all these other new costs 1 million 1.2 million over budget we transfer that money from Capital back to m o as long as we can make it work with that with everything in place and we just but that's that's what I see I see some budgets really being tightened up and managed and like we did with the buses I guess as long as you trust this to do what we did with the buses which is not four of them right off the purchase list and then we're going to get through and we're going to be careful with our buses we're going to make it well I don't think there's anything wrong with people being a little bit more fiscally responsible responsibility more than just you know tighten our tightening our belts in certain areas to try to get money into teachers pockets that's kind of what what the the I guess my goal is here so and it's John cool I have a question for you like we get so much for each child in the program do you think that'll get what the cost of living and everything do you think of the get race next year or well I'll answer that in two ways we we alluded to it just a little bit earlier but from the 22-year when we were getting 4 400 per student to the 23 or the current year where we went to 47.70 338 increase I would have to say that was only done by the legislature that for people finding because the floor is two percent I would say it was only done because they had the money to do it they only fund it when they had the money basically in hand so if they do that again this year at four percent or five percent and now that that 47.70 jumps to 48 or 49 or 5 000.

and you know I'm I'm saying that we're going to do this with the same amount that we have based on the kind of the conversation that we had so maybe it'll be somewhere in between and I've never met a finance Financial here at I saw the price of gas went up again now I mean that are going up you know so you know I'm with Sydney I want to give our teachers everything that we have I don't know let me be honest I don't know can I just stop them another sport Maybe I'm optimistic I like the climate and I think it's positive and only with what we're doing here and the way micro our micromanaging the funds we have I think the broader uh climate is is uh favorable too I'm I'm comfortable with the administration's recommendation myself right any other comments questions concerns like I told Debbie Downer right now you're fine because I'm I'm sitting on the fence too you know I mean I just know how much everything is going up you know every day I mean I have the I have the confidence in you guys don't get me wrong it doesn't even have to do with that you know now if we don't you know think I'm gonna I'm gonna twist though okay please think about this okay those are expenses that our teachers are going to have to incur at increased rates so they're they're effective purchasing power is going down because we are otherwise if we don't do this we're giving fairly minimum wage we're given pretty much the minimum wage that we minimum increase that we could give and so um that's you know that's about I think I can't remember the was it like is what we're given for a raise right now and we know cost of living for Social Security is pegged at almost nine eight point seven we know that so their their effective purchasing power for what they're getting in their contracts we'll be going down this just helps alleviate that somewhat okay well there you go requested me you twisted my RMI and I'm not I just want to throw it out there you know you have I want you to have the whole picture you know when you put it into perspective so but I can tell you that the town's cost of living in Merit is well above three percent this next year if we're going to be comparable with other organizations let's move forward I'm going to make a motion to approve a one-time stupid thousand to be paid quarterly this replaces the prep coverage plan that was previously approved second as fast as I can oh my goodness all in favor I I do appreciate the discussion because it's all out there it's all out on the table everyone had their opportunity so I do appreciate that scenario again maybe during this strategic planning process okay if I'm going to take someone to back to battle I mean you were going to battle I don't know where we're going together well we're just having so much fun let's move along to item uh 8D our Personnel report do we have a supplement so make sure you pull out the supplements as well um 16 was this did we know that this resignation was coming or yeah we anticipated that okay okay yeah uh we have eight new certified one new classified ten resignations three retiring 12 certified changes eight classified changes and 182 timesheets uh this is a busy time of year for personnel so a lot going on but we have you know we have 10 resignations but eight new certified so we're down a couple but that's we're working at I know that um I was talking to Mrs Cox this afternoon and and she's looking at applications I was um I know that the high school had some some interviews set up for this week um so I know that that they're working diligently to get these positions filled um we are you know struggling a little bit but it's not unique to Chino Valley it's education in general I have a question about number eight um and their resumes from termination reason I think I think something we're going to experience more of that type of business that person never came to us okay so we offered a contract in hopes that they could get their J-1 Visa but they were never in actually the United States got it okay so um right it was one of our current ones no no no this person we wanted to hire but it just it never panned out and so um again you offered the contract that was a stipulation of the J-1 um actually she would initially couldn't qualify for a J1 she tried to do an H-1B visa and it didn't work out so um 14 retiring yes being done that for a long time um we have a pretty cool SRO that's likely going to take his place we're done 26 that's also 27.

you have to close that building all right if you're close that then you could do would have the option to do whatever you wanted to them what do you do you close the whole building for our way of closing that Attendance Center and that's important now where the resolution was to close the 712 building which has its own separate number all right to do something with the whole building because you'd have to eliminate given just the 7 through 12 buildings yes and you would have to Yes it do 720 you would have to uh if they do this you have somebody come in and actually like a legal description just like you would any property you'd have to have something which actually I think attorney could probably do this possibly come up with that people's description but you'd have to have a legal description sell it give it away eliminated now that being said I will tell you the element you would like to use a gym or physical education and price and recess time with bad weather that's okay and I've picked this around and I I thought about moving the elementary to that end but that is really not equipped for coventory kids I mean the other end's actually put better for elementary kids so you can do it but it's going to be healed kind of inconvenient for both sides of that I mean you put doors up you also have to figure out how to handle utilities because I doubt they're metered separately you'd have to separate the meters out somehow I don't know I could not take right off hand what that would how that would work you have to figure out how to beat yourself Gas and Electric but it would be one way to get get rid of the building and get something out of it whether the negotiations were whatever that whatever that led to and you're still going to have maintenance on the building that expenses Etc instead of said it might be a possible way to negotiate common space whatever certifications are so happy added survey or however that would work yeah just kind of a legal descriptions yeah they've told because I asked about that I think kind of like illegal description just like you would a piece of ground go out and split a piece of ground up you have a legal description on it so you'd have a big description on what property well yeah you'll be like closing costs you know you'd have initial expense get that far and then before the negotiations you shared those expenses however to be negotiated let's come over that way if you have one less bill it's going to cause this to sit there anyway or if it's used from another entity and really in the end it wouldn't change much of what we're negotiating I would appreciate it because it would not have to be one way or the other either they're using our building or we're using the portion of their buildings the negotiations would be the same so how I'm taking it from this letter to Cal F ties would have a difficult time to organize a 7 or 12 schools this year I mean so uh it would I mean obviously it would come at this challenges as ideal but we uh even if you guys into your extension extension we still would want to do negotiations do illegal I agree yeah yeah what I'm saying is the way I'm taking it the reason why they want that extension because it's very difficult to go from now to the beginning of August and have a school set and ready to go if it has a chance but I think what they're saying he put out the year there was no year extension there just don't want to at least believe make an attempt yeah that's what I understand okay yes what I mean and that's kind of what Mr Andrews told me if you know so here's the deal with private doesn't quite have a same criteria number of hours right nothing says they have to start August whatever the TV start as a public school you can start out playing today I just wonder if there's any interest in the Diocese of owning a building the seven through twelve follows if we sell to you per dollar yeah like the 7 through 12 portion of it uh I don't think so yeah I mean that's especially if it would simplify things in terms of negotiations and sharing utilities and stuff yeah coming up with a plan to release the building so well the next year every visit for sale a year from now to see if it turned out to be a Bible School you know for you know that way it looks like a school that's going to be there have a year or two do the survey do the negotiations I would think it'd be a problem to have a basic treatment in three days so yeah I mean I guess I don't but it's at least a great but they're selling to me as the negotiations if that's the way we moved no matter which way or whatever you need to be done you could probably give it that in 30 days because I think that's critical do anything it's critical to have that benefit case that's like if you're looking at least for next year or myself was I think it well I think it would be more difficult I don't think the 30 days could be enough would be enough to but I don't mean I know that but the separation of the two entities they cut the meters it's going to take some time to do right yeah yeah we can't get that done we cannot separate all that and you're talking you know you brought a football field in the gym things like that's going to take to go to diocese School District they won't even know that probably they've said on Sports is if they had enough right and I know they're doing a survey now you know the results of that I don't think the surveys the times you know you've got more time to complete that so and you're going to lose I mean they're going to lose kids they're neighboring districts or it's going to make yourself come here hello my other thought on doing the lease this coming year and then talking about it later too is also figure out what the elementary looks like and that made me part of that too gives us a year to kind of see how that plays out I've been asked about the elementary and I continue to say until August oh no I just like it you're going to go just like you had planned because of the office you really had to have a choice of what one thing that may change before August is Staffing I'm currently three Elementary teachers teacher short of ties for about two months have no application that could be my biggest challenge but obviously well then what do we do if we decide the lease and they don't either have enough kids to have a school there I mean that lease is going to still have to be the same right they're at the lease is the least and that's the sign that I say it knocked I mean I say this flooded Isaac but I actually think it's part of local yeah yeah it's primarily on the parish yes well I agree in that part uh but whatever assignment agreement is in agreement yeah that's kind of like anything you 've decided here at least decided to move back you're still going to pay right exactly has a couple Catholic schools is anybody sharing a building like in this same situation they share some attempting yeah the elementary is a charter school but yeah but the Charter's still public yeah even though I mean the charter is still funded through the District of Bank the schools still funded through the district they specialize in what their focus is what their goal is but the other day is still a public school funded through the state but they do share with a chart or something out there and they've had I think they've had to work out yeah research and then see there's you have to work out some details just with anything you do there maybe things come up they didn't anticipate too when he had to work out I struggled to find that significant downside for the district I mean I obviously that's a little bit of admin work to figure out how it's going to work and do all of that but in the long run I don't know especially if we do the lease if it doesn't work out which I'd probably say I hope it does the Wilson's sake of the church is it but I if it doesn't we're not really out anything it's a district and so I just foreign but I mean I think that I'm sorry and our other circumstance of a teacher sharing Like Larry said you would have to be on the categorithms at their school apart that would be under the least problem an agreement and it might be that maybe the airbags have to get their own yeah the Lush may be the one thing I had to figure out how to determine whether or not they can participate with the nutrition program like we do we sell adult prices because they won't allow you to sell our prices to people who are important I don't know the exact words like that at this point but if we're done here does them at all because all of them but we've got all that confidence not beginner but if we don't share it we got our own music teacher our own I mean as of right now we gotta have our own and we're struggling with five teachers as it is uh and like he said to find a teacher that that would be possibly being paid less or in the situation I he didn't talk about counseling and admin also two areas that you talk about sharing it was Advent counseling also as you know got some contracts later on that we're looking at present positions I guess I mean in the end we're not agreeing no matter what the negotiation is that we're going to do in the end if it's an awful offer then we don't have to take it's not why not that if you don't like it or not other options on the table other than it it does just take away from planning I mean I feel like it's even with this line of Diaries I feel like it's hard and it's just prolonging everybody being able to prepare for next year it's it's moving stuff and and students and parents and everybody just kind of up in the air still and making it harder to prepare and praying and know exactly for sure what what the preferable what you plan for I know I was asked this question Wilson Wilson uh the student wanted to know they started school leaving semester or nine weeks would they still be eligible that answers no no all seven through 12 students this year have a free us be eligible wherever they go but once you walk into a school building to attend it's School you're locked in for a year you can go someplace and play Junior Forest you need something like that but your eligibility is limited unless you move do so that was because you know I think that's what they were fishing is okay so let's say we try we don't like it can we still go someplace else to be helpful to play we can't play JV well they do it's not hardships appeal yeah I know I'm not even going to go there because I so I guess I don't quite understand the camera but like how it would be well I mean just like they said it's like Allison said you know the quality of education for us to extend in another year I mean I think that's what we're talking just the neck of the church I mean it's evident that the consensus for me but even the same thing I feel like been trying to have to slide the dice this week today I mean the bishop and the Supercuts are very supportive and very unborn with this a lot of members of the community as well if you've not say anything that you have the core classes you thought I'd cover well I actually I have for most of the core classes I have people that potentially not like definitely not absolutely but there are we at least possible yeah I it was Hammer's saying that is a good point we're in this and then we say no and they're important there to go to this Catholics when we don't do it then I get their parents that would suck gotta scramble to go somewhere well they're already scrambling anyway this would just be another option for it could be an option for the district to recoup expenses as bad as this sounds that responsibility is not on the district it's only Catholic School it gets I mean they they are asking us and are saying that they're willing to to attempt to get it done for this year but either way if they can or can't if we make the agreement it doesn't necessarily affect the district directly and obviously we're responsible to educate our students but the building is literally closed the authority kids so it's not when would you have your surveys back on well I think we have most of that now already but most of what we're going to get um the are you wondering about numbers are you okay um so the what we have right now is I think I should have brought along with me but we were killing this afternoon um I think about uh 50 of the 60 or so students have been accounted for in the survey um there of that 30 would plan on attending I think maybe 10 or so or uncertain are considering attending and 12 I said no they would not attend um now the caveat with that is this is kind of an error in the survey of it is possible that some parents like both parents filled it out and so we have more kids accounted for that have actually you know had their parents fill out the survey um but give it I mean just in terms of percentage-wise if the majority would be coming yeah it's a decent amount to be considering as well but that's also with tuition and yes they're kind of like us until August to wherever we have involve it if you're not going to happen exact numbers give any idea of what might be coming here I know you know but ten three that six did you send that survey out to the other towns we have yeah we've tried to get it out to Ellsworth and Russell because there are um you know there are some people who likely or you know to be interested in Catholic Education as I said um we've heard one family from Russell or from Ellsworth that's very interested in sending other than that I think they're relatively fresh to those communities since we haven't got a lot of responses back yeah what other option that I have discussed that has been brought up the last week is I have a few students that would like to take on my live classes to finish their requirements graduation because we could have done that even within the whole District of 2012 to use Lakeside learning some classes so there are some students have already started that discussion they don't need a lot of credits to graduate and Lakeside if you graduate every month like we do graduation Alliance so there is there is that discussion out there also I will tell you that Lakeside is funded on September 20th by the kids that are enrolled in Soviet virtual funding Lakeside so what do we need for physical word they're either move forward or not so there's about two things to consider here I think come to the conclusion first of all that's an extension I mean I have you have to pass that by action if you want to consider leasing it like it says you can say we could consider hey they have a lease agreement to be proposed you have to at that at some point you're going to have to approve that lease agreement whatever that is looks like at the very end if we go through it is made reasonable it has you know really it's going to have to be reasonable or for their side than our side you're going to have a chance doing it and now I will tell you that I've had a couple of points that I don't think they want to share I hope share with the Catholic school or share with Central points foreign people who were ever actually interested in it um so I guess that from my perspective though well there's a chance in May when they come back yes well I don't know still that chance but I yeah yeah I mean I guess just with the yeah as kind of if we can get a lease uh right now that's reasonable that splits free yeah it splits things evenly like like for us to know how many the board members are interested in going through with that so it would be that would consider a spellings yeah we can make that emotion right I will make sure yeah it's up to the board but that they have a bunch great job at least right that's what happens I can't remember the name of the time to see it yeah so basically go out and create the agreement s basically charging myself and Mr Andrews to come up basically I like that word between USD 112 and the Catholic Diocese okay for that Roger okay uh the lease agreement between USD 112 and the Catholic Diocese of Salina for 712 thank you to negotiate a lease agreement between USD 112 and the Salina diocese for the use of the Wilson 712 building the school year of 2043-24 but work to review at the May immediately uh do we want to leave that off just in case we need a special needs what's that do we want to leave that off just in case we need a special meeting to do it before yeah I mean I guess that special meeting there is a chance we have personal ity okay he actually used the word to create at least every you said to negotiate and what word should I use it's going to be negotiated to negotiate a lease agreement if that word is better and there could be I think both sides can be used both sides are obviously want that information okay okay the motion is to negotiate a lease agreement between usd-112 and the Catholic Diocese of Salina for the use of the 7th through 12 building at Wilson for the 22 for the 23-24 school year with the board to review foreign Roger okay is there any further discussion questions comments now this I'm going to ask questions this is not gonna supersede the hearing and everything that we closed okay so you know I'm getting asked that like a few people so where are we at so the resolution is in effect right we're operating the most last month of extension until that's that can be changed so that's where we're at right now resolution flows has been passed here's the bush of March not to extend tell people that's what I'm operating on because that's what work has improved in this report so this is just a negotiation yeah that's just on that okay portion because it'll be closed it's allowable okay Roger yes phone yes Josh yes I'm a no Allison yes Chad yes emotion passes sixth one okay and then item 14.

before the whatever that was for the bush that that was moved to Hollywood improvements both HVAC and lighting oh last year we put four new compressors at Wilson Bridge back so I looked at a project that we could do for this cost at that cost the district and so right now I have HVAC for the high school gym waitro SE Services How could a prior approval request which is required for professor which requires an air quality study an environmental impact letter and then historical we can make sure it doesn't affect the historical status of a building you get to do those three things before you get prior approval so at this point in the process of they'll have to take vids but we do have to do those three things I'm going to do that historical piece I have a firm innovative solutions which have just completed similar projects and I got references which I feel will do a really good job as far as doing the study and the only all I'm asking for tonight is to the study and do the Environmental water which is also reimbursable through SO3 I have that if I found I got to have that vehicle back to me to make sure that that's could be reimbursed so that's a rat this project is Bid approved Pride we've done a year for this summer uh it's a project that will help the district it's a project that will stay under the be budgeted it will cost the district funds and probably help the district out in all of us as far as maintaining abilities so I have that before you so I think that I'd like to recommend that we do the air quality study the environmental letter a bit of any solutions questions we have all that information when would that study take place that's why you'd ask if you'd like to do it a week prior to the week after the state power lifting so that it's running during that your end so we can study the hair probably within there and we'll put it in two different places okay so this process is take probably six months just to complete this process to get better drink so then uh plan is if approved we would bid these equipment and then come back and bid the contractors because contractors have been this because of the supply chain being inadequate they actually Pat it pretty high so I think it will save us funds to do it equipment and then contractor and they have proved several HVAC projects with this or plants talk to I checked with them to see if those kind of funds could do that they're looking at their projects they think you know we can do this I can tell what I've been told by both of these companies the one that we've used before and just with it you can do it for those kind of if within that budget so basically right now you're asking for this last paragraph okay foreign Josh any further questions hearing none all those in favor say aye foreign motion passes item 15 request for the bus uh city of Wilson has requested use of the school bus the transport Area Youth or swimming lessons in Ellsworth for two weeks of the 2023 summer City will contract with the USD 112 bus driver and pay for fuel as well we've got the pass so the letter is there and also a second motion by Brad second by Chad any further discussion yeah do we know that yeah no no no no she just sent me the date so here I think it was mentioned in the summer school plans for two weeks yeah philosophical June 1st of July study the letter but yeah okay June 26th to the 30th of July 3rd to 7th she has said that too any further discussion okay all those in favor say aye aye oppose same side motion passes 7-0 and School District that's so much need to be replaced because they reside because the board representative to the right Commission to this refresh your memories on that for the new board members we have two uh Representatives that represent usd-112 on the cloud recognition the clap on recognition has two and then as a whole they vote for the fifth person so we're just replacing Melissa Hubbard because she's moving out of the area and so Kirsten Price has taken her position and our other rep this for your information is Drew kermer budget of course there are but we propose we Levy the tax the tax comes us we give the school he says represented you're celebrating foreign discussion I just asked to be that position the recognition I appointed her well that's who they would have found to replace her the board so has now the board could not and this is a kind of an in-between terms I don't know how it's going to perhaps usually with the terms of you look for individuals because at some point they can't continue it's usually it's like two or three turns on the suit unless they want to do it again usually we have about three terms or four terms depends on what they said in the rules for recognition then you have to go find somebody else to sit on it a lot of times you have from one term you can bring it back past recognition assessment policy these don't want to observe they solicit finding a call and trying to find it probably went out trying to find out replacements and Kirsten was willing to do it yes as far as I remember it's always right any further discussion okay hearing none all those in favor say aye give me above same time motion passes seven Euro item number 17 donation request to Central Plains PTO would like to donate a mascot uniform to the school there's a picture of it attached they're hoping to have it ready for next year it has to be paid so it's a kind of a custom Behavior that they're willing to donate to the school the money transactions like they'll have it made and they're just gonna it's like anybody so we're accepting like any donation they want to get it made and donated to the school really felt like they wanted to do this of a relationship board to accept that donation uh because then it comes to schools enough to assign people that want to ask us get it clean it has been get it cleaned and stuff yeah um central place BTS seems like head second by Josh any further discussions all those in favor say aye oppose the same sign motion passes seven zero Mr President I moved the divorce given at six session discuss not like the first nail with the topic investigations supplemental positions certified staff classified staff and such to protect the privacy of the individuals to be discussed with Mr Larry and return to open session in this room you don't you think it only fit 15 minutes 7 55. return back in the room at 7 45.

uh we dumped that right back into our operating fund and then we can transfer it to Capital I'm just oh you're doing your job I can't comment on what their willingness is to do that even if because they're kind of like us like they kind of live year by year Well if we have a surplus we'll pass it on because there's no use just building up the rainy day fund because they know it helps the state when they invest in education I just can't I just kind of deal with concrete things it's like yeah right I'm trying to fill that out there to see you know um so I mean here's a real simple example our Capital fund right now we spent 1 million 639 going through all the calculations I've calculated all the encumbrances and they're Necessary Things Larry's going to know what I'm talking about uh uh Randy's gonna know what I'm talking about fourteen thousand dollars just got on a purchase order last week to Arizona Furnishings for all your furniture at the school Larry knows about logicalis for eight thousand Sunland asphalt 210 000 if they come and fix up uh Del Rio's entrance weight that may be spent by June 30th 305 000 added to the 169 000 1 million 950 spent this year we know next year's budget is going to have about 600 000 carry forward we know it's going to get about 1.2 million new money next year if that's the way the formulas run so 1.8 million if we have to tighten our belts 1.2 and transfer it back to mno we could do it but then that means we have 600 000 to spend and this year we spent you know 0.9 so it's just as long as we as long as we know what's coming if we're going to get in the ring with the champ we want to have a way to win a win as long as you trust just to just stay within super tight parameters at least until December uh to make the work good question well I'm a Pollyanna I believe we're going to get grant money and I believe we're going to stay at 8 increase it was it was 34 44 40 to 4470.

um is this for this next year or we were going to shoot for him just to be the athletic director I'm still working on that okay um but all that is right now is he he got his master degree so it's just uh working on on getting him additional compensation for additional credits perfect okay I have to tell you I'm glad to see 18.

I need to give you a little history before I get started on this one because as you know it was approved 350 000 of this budget was approved for a project that was denied we did a spin 300 Pittsburgh the work that was completed was about half we'd have to spend that much out of capital as well like 50 years in that area so we have 350 in our plan for Capital project and it does have to be spent by September 24. we had the four years ago you approved we'll see 280 000.

motion by Josh second by Brad all those in favor same design we are exactly an open session I need two motions for resignations because it's two different characters timelines I would entertain a motion to approve the resignation of book right Stephanie talk that's a boating teacher and her student is going to selected as an art teacher at Wilson effective at the end of the 2223 school year motion by Brad section second by Allison or Elizabeth say aye oppose same sign motion passes 7-0 and then I read entertain a motion to improve the resignation of Tammy poet as the cook at Wilson effective April 14 2023 come on it's actually my friend second by Chad would say hi all right okay the same sign motion passes seven zero and then uh motion for Willie Schubert her substitute teacher at Central Plains Junior Senior High School and Central Plains Elementary School promotion by Josh say goodbye Allison all those in favor say aye aye both same sign motion passes seven zero silence I moved to approve the new assignments for certified staff as presented thank you Allison motion by Allison Josh all those in favor say aye opposed same thing motion passes seven zero I hope to improved a higher number of Kimball is custodian at Central Plains Junior Senior High School Sheila Franson as head cook at Central Points Elementary School and Rose Wardle at Center Points Elementary School for the 2023-2024 school year thank you Allison there's smoking by Allison second by Josh all those in favor say aye code same sign question pass it 7-0 I moved to improved person crisis head junior high volleyball coach Jesse habiger as assistant junior high volleyball coach and Christina Hayes as Junior High cheerleading sponsor for the 2023-20 conclusion my awesome second by Josh all those in favor say aye aye oppose same side motion passes 7-0 and the administrative reports foreign system it was excellent I sat through Florida and a little I mean the kids were mesmerized the whole time it seemed like and then we'll have one more program on April the 21st of 12 living in space again this is provided by the foundation for Rural service Grant and then the kst mobile lab was out the fourth and fifth okay through sixth graders they rotated through the mobile lab where the extracted DNA of them strawberry so it's fun to watch them do that inside the gym they learn about playing what plants are going to have around to get rid of mosquitoes and then they played various games for a game showing them importance of washing their hands and stuff so it was washing their hands to keep away terms so it was a good experience for the kids as well April 17th I'll have a site council meeting at the 20th or third grade Federal Community Center called in the future the 24th pre-k-formal field trip to the Great Neck Wetland Center and then the sixth graders are busy on the 26th and the 28th and May 5th um they'll go to Ellsworth safety program and then six over the Clara bar and health fairs to get invited to that every year and then on May 5th they'll come over here for an orientation to the junior high then on the floor of the Pre-K form of kindergarten to the zoo our art show and music program on May 4th and then on May 8th we have a challenge to our fourth through sixth graders write books and there's a person that donates well Miranda Stillwell she sponsors this and she also donates the books for us as well and the reward will be a trip to the alley she any questions or Reconciliation Report national bank statements or state assistance will begin next week and we'll end by the end of April for spring Sports we have 20 boys that are 20 out 12 boys and eight girls junior high we have 42 22 girls 24s Dennis there's nine softball five baseball two using perform the original music they did really well page two of their individual ratings anybody with the one is to go to the state coming up 112 honors Bank level 327 we had 14 seniors in the district recognized it worked really well thanks to Wilson for hosting three seniors and three Juniors were recognized at the CPL honors banquet in St John on 328 has top 10 percent of the Juniors and seniors benefit for instance placed third at the CPL meeting Maxwell on four five on Prom and after prom or this Saturday Martin Vortex art shows 414 FHS you work shows for 19 CPL art shows and Pullman's 426.

and you know I'm I'm saying that we're going to do this with the same amount that we have based on the kind of the conversation that we had so maybe it'll be somewhere in between and I've never met a finance Financial here at I saw the price of gas went up again now I mean that are going up you know so you know I'm with Sydney I want to give our teachers everything that we have I don't know let me be honest I don't know can I just stop them another sport Maybe I'm optimistic I like the climate and I think it's positive and only with what we're doing here and the way micro our micromanaging the funds we have I think the broader uh climate is is uh favorable too I'm I'm comfortable with the administration's recommendation myself right any other comments questions concerns like I told Debbie Downer right now you're fine because I'm I'm sitting on the fence too you know I mean I just know how much everything is going up you know every day I mean I have the I have the confidence in you guys don't get me wrong it doesn't even have to do with that you know now if we don't you know think I'm gonna I'm gonna twist though okay please think about this okay those are expenses that our teachers are going to have to incur at increased rates so they're they're effective purchasing power is going down because we are otherwise if we don't do this we're giving fairly minimum wage we're given pretty much the minimum wage that we minimum increase that we could give and so um that's you know that's about I think I can't remember the was it like is what we're given for a raise right now and we know cost of living for Social Security is pegged at almost nine eight point seven we know that so their their effective purchasing power for what they're getting in their contracts we'll be going down this just helps alleviate that somewhat okay well there you go requested me you twisted my RMI and I'm not I just want to throw it out there you know you have I want you to have the whole picture you know when you put it into perspective so but I can tell you that the town's cost of living in Merit is well above three percent this next year if we're going to be comparable with other organizations let's move forward I'm going to make a motion to approve a one-time stupid thousand to be paid quarterly this replaces the prep coverage plan that was previously approved second as fast as I can oh my goodness all in favor I I do appreciate the discussion because it's all out there it's all out on the table everyone had their opportunity so I do appreciate that scenario again maybe during this strategic planning process okay if I'm going to take someone to back to battle I mean you were going to battle I don't know where we're going together well we're just having so much fun let's move along to item uh 8D our Personnel report do we have a supplement so make sure you pull out the supplements as well um 16 was this did we know that this resignation was coming or yeah we anticipated that okay okay yeah uh we have eight new certified one new classified ten resignations three retiring 12 certified changes eight classified changes and 182 timesheets uh this is a busy time of year for personnel so a lot going on but we have you know we have 10 resignations but eight new certified so we're down a couple but that's we're working at I know that um I was talking to Mrs Cox this afternoon and and she's looking at applications I was um I know that the high school had some some interviews set up for this week um so I know that that they're working diligently to get these positions filled um we are you know struggling a little bit but it's not unique to Chino Valley it's education in general I have a question about number eight um and their resumes from termination reason I think I think something we're going to experience more of that type of business that person never came to us okay so we offered a contract in hopes that they could get their J-1 Visa but they were never in actually the United States got it okay so um right it was one of our current ones no no no this person we wanted to hire but it just it never panned out and so um again you offered the contract that was a stipulation of the J-1 um actually she would initially couldn't qualify for a J1 she tried to do an H-1B visa and it didn't work out so um 14 retiring yes being done that for a long time um we have a pretty cool SRO that's likely going to take his place we're done 26 that's also 27.

ah sorry any other questions or comments on tonight's Personnel report nope but I would make the motion for the approval of the personal report a second all right um and the supplements um item nine a is strategic planning just a fashion item spoke to a couple of you independently but just wanted to see if there's any questions and I received names for the court team from three of the four of the five of you um so I think the two that kind of uh gave up who they were so um so I want to kind of get your names and I'll start reaching out and talk to uh Julie bacon as well she's did she send you all the kind of the wrap up that she's okay I want to make sure you got that kind of the summary of our last meeting and then we need to get this core team started and um set up a meeting for that I like the entire process I really enjoyed her interactive activities that made us kind of think outside the box a little bit and help us um identify the needs that we are looking at my two cents I I don't like it because I feel like it cost us a lot of money that's why I don't like it and it's going to cost us a lot of time too which I know here here's my opinion I mean since she gave her two cents I'm gonna give my five cents I think that when what we're doing we're we're changing things that another's group has already started so or not started but like planned out so the things that we're now going to change whether it's you know our our mission and all that kind of stuff another group has already created what our mission is and so to me now we're going to pay money for to recreate our mission where I feel like our mission um statement is going to be the same but maybe change like a few little words but yet it's costing us money to change those words so that's that's my opinion let me play Devil's Advocate real quick and ask you a question do you know anything any of the key items that's on the current strategic plan that we're supposed to be following no great question yeah and that that's one of the main reasons why I feel we need to do it I couldn't tell you any of them even though I sat in on the last strategic plan that was absolutely insane with the amount of things that we were doing and just didn't make any sense whatsoever ever I may be wrong but I know well I'm not wrong on this I know municipalities have to do their strategic plan every five years okay and when was the last time we did one it was like 14. Mr Mr noggle I think was uh 9 10.

before the whatever that was for the bush that that was moved to Hollywood improvements both HVAC and lighting oh last year we put four new compressors at Wilson Bridge back so I looked at a project that we could do for this cost at that cost the district and so right now I have HVAC for the high school gym waitro SE Services How could a prior approval request which is required for professor which requires an air quality study an environmental impact letter and then historical we can make sure it doesn't affect the historical status of a building you get to do those three things before you get prior approval so at this point in the process of they'll have to take vids but we do have to do those three things I'm going to do that historical piece I have a firm innovative solutions which have just completed similar projects and I got references which I feel will do a really good job as far as doing the study and the only all I'm asking for tonight is to the study and do the Environmental water which is also reimbursable through SO3 I have that if I found I got to have that vehicle back to me to make sure that that's could be reimbursed so that's a rat this project is Bid approved Pride we've done a year for this summer uh it's a project that will help the district it's a project that will stay under the be budgeted it will cost the district funds and probably help the district out in all of us as far as maintaining abilities so I have that before you so I think that I'd like to recommend that we do the air quality study the environmental letter a bit of any solutions questions we have all that information when would that study take place that's why you'd ask if you'd like to do it a week prior to the week after the state power lifting so that it's running during that your end so we can study the hair probably within there and we'll put it in two different places okay so this process is take probably six months just to complete this process to get better drink so then uh plan is if approved we would bid these equipment and then come back and bid the contractors because contractors have been this because of the supply chain being inadequate they actually Pat it pretty high so I think it will save us funds to do it equipment and then contractor and they have proved several HVAC projects with this or plants talk to I checked with them to see if those kind of funds could do that they're looking at their projects they think you know we can do this I can tell what I've been told by both of these companies the one that we've used before and just with it you can do it for those kind of if within that budget so basically right now you're asking for this last paragraph okay foreign Josh any further questions hearing none all those in favor say aye foreign motion passes item 15 request for the bus uh city of Wilson has requested use of the school bus the transport Area Youth or swimming lessons in Ellsworth for two weeks of the 2023 summer City will contract with the USD 112 bus driver and pay for fuel as well we've got the pass so the letter is there and also a second motion by Brad second by Chad any further discussion yeah do we know that yeah no no no no she just sent me the date so here I think it was mentioned in the summer school plans for two weeks yeah philosophical June 1st of July study the letter but yeah okay June 26th to the 30th of July 3rd to 7th she has said that too any further discussion okay all those in favor say aye aye oppose same side motion passes 7-0 and School District that's so much need to be replaced because they reside because the board representative to the right Commission to this refresh your memories on that for the new board members we have two uh Representatives that represent usd-112 on the cloud recognition the clap on recognition has two and then as a whole they vote for the fifth person so we're just replacing Melissa Hubbard because she's moving out of the area and so Kirsten Price has taken her position and our other rep this for your information is Drew kermer budget of course there are but we propose we Levy the tax the tax comes us we give the school he says represented you're celebrating foreign discussion I just asked to be that position the recognition I appointed her well that's who they would have found to replace her the board so has now the board could not and this is a kind of an in-between terms I don't know how it's going to perhaps usually with the terms of you look for individuals because at some point they can't continue it's usually it's like two or three turns on the suit unless they want to do it again usually we have about three terms or four terms depends on what they said in the rules for recognition then you have to go find somebody else to sit on it a lot of times you have from one term you can bring it back past recognition assessment policy these don't want to observe they solicit finding a call and trying to find it probably went out trying to find out replacements and Kirsten was willing to do it yes as far as I remember it's always right any further discussion okay hearing none all those in favor say aye give me above same time motion passes seven Euro item number 17 donation request to Central Plains PTO would like to donate a mascot uniform to the school there's a picture of it attached they're hoping to have it ready for next year it has to be paid so it's a kind of a custom Behavior that they're willing to donate to the school the money transactions like they'll have it made and they're just gonna it's like anybody so we're accepting like any donation they want to get it made and donated to the school really felt like they wanted to do this of a relationship board to accept that donation uh because then it comes to schools enough to assign people that want to ask us get it clean it has been get it cleaned and stuff yeah um central place BTS seems like head second by Josh any further discussions all those in favor say aye oppose the same sign motion passes seven zero Mr President I moved the divorce given at six session discuss not like the first nail with the topic investigations supplemental positions certified staff classified staff and such to protect the privacy of the individuals to be discussed with Mr Larry and return to open session in this room you don't you think it only fit 15 minutes 7 55. return back in the room at 7 45.

a band will be a regional band in Pratt on 420 I believe right after school starts back before the end of the day State eight land power that you need will be here on the 22nd at Central Plains just Larry said like the air quality study in their future before that 600 people in the gym so if you don't have anything to do anything uh Community scholarship interviews are 423 at 1 30.

um is this for this next year or we were going to shoot for him just to be the athletic director I'm still working on that okay um but all that is right now is he he got his master degree so it's just uh working on on getting him additional compensation for additional credits perfect okay I have to tell you I'm glad to see 18.

I think Mr Howard we I sat in on one with Mr okay and I want to say that was 2014. okay that makes a little more sense and I I want to you know just mention you you had focused on the street on the mission statement and the kind of tagline um I think that's just a small part of it yeah um but that's just again that's my opinion but and there's nothing that says we have to do that no I think the main focus is that we understand the direction of where the district is going and that's the the meat and potatoes okay um and that's the sort of the more specific um uh uh the the specifics about the direction we want to make sure we're headed and then it's up to us to make sure that we're meeting those okay and that's where I think we're not sure whether we the district is doing it or not and that's our job that's why that's that's what's most critical I think the other part of that is is ensuring that we know what the community wants the district to be doing so that when the new superintendent comes in we can say and this is who we are and what we were supposed to be doing instead of that person having to redefine and um reinvent themselves and the district all at one time okay so question could do the strategic planning with out hiring somebody can we do it within ourselves um I'm gonna say no I think it's good to have that outside party they have a it doesn't it doesn't have to be the asba I I do want to say that doesn't have to be there are other people that we could utilize but I think it's good to have a kind of a a non-partisan or non um a stakeholder yeah really driving that process because I think that that person could kind of steer things a certain way and where a um somebody that's not involved has doesn't have that stake in the in the game and it won't won't you buy us that way I'm someone that has experience with other school districts so again kind of like the 576 thousand dollars how much does the is it six six thousand six or seven years about a thousand to visit for six visits so in the grand scheme of things [Music] because we have to do this for this year and then I have to open another PL first we don't use yeah no I I'm glad you said that yeah it was just my just it was my thought just like the last time that we were in the meeting and I just was thinking I honestly going into that I didn't know it was gonna cost us money until I asked about it because I I didn't feel like maybe I wouldn't pay attention though which that could I don't think we learned how to shared it with you I know I talked to Cindy about it I don't know if I shared it with the whole board that was going to cost me yeah yeah charging something though so and I have a feeling and again don't know this that we're getting a pretty darn good right through asba instead of going to an outside consultant I don't know the answer about that yeah I just I can't answer that you're just presuming that going to a private contractor for patina Solutions 46 000 to 18 months with the bond for 40 million they needed passed so it was 46 000.

motion by Josh second by Brad all those in favor same design we are exactly an open session I need two motions for resignations because it's two different characters timelines I would entertain a motion to approve the resignation of book right Stephanie talk that's a boating teacher and her student is going to selected as an art teacher at Wilson effective at the end of the 2223 school year motion by Brad section second by Allison or Elizabeth say aye oppose same sign motion passes 7-0 and then I read entertain a motion to improve the resignation of Tammy poet as the cook at Wilson effective April 14 2023 come on it's actually my friend second by Chad would say hi all right okay the same sign motion passes seven zero and then uh motion for Willie Schubert her substitute teacher at Central Plains Junior Senior High School and Central Plains Elementary School promotion by Josh say goodbye Allison all those in favor say aye aye both same sign motion passes seven zero silence I moved to approve the new assignments for certified staff as presented thank you Allison motion by Allison Josh all those in favor say aye opposed same thing motion passes seven zero I hope to improved a higher number of Kimball is custodian at Central Plains Junior Senior High School Sheila Franson as head cook at Central Points Elementary School and Rose Wardle at Center Points Elementary School for the 2023-2024 school year thank you Allison there's smoking by Allison second by Josh all those in favor say aye code same sign question pass it 7-0 I moved to improved person crisis head junior high volleyball coach Jesse habiger as assistant junior high volleyball coach and Christina Hayes as Junior High cheerleading sponsor for the 2023-20 conclusion my awesome second by Josh all those in favor say aye aye oppose same side motion passes 7-0 and the administrative reports foreign system it was excellent I sat through Florida and a little I mean the kids were mesmerized the whole time it seemed like and then we'll have one more program on April the 21st of 12 living in space again this is provided by the foundation for Rural service Grant and then the kst mobile lab was out the fourth and fifth okay through sixth graders they rotated through the mobile lab where the extracted DNA of them strawberry so it's fun to watch them do that inside the gym they learn about playing what plants are going to have around to get rid of mosquitoes and then they played various games for a game showing them importance of washing their hands and stuff so it was washing their hands to keep away terms so it was a good experience for the kids as well April 17th I'll have a site council meeting at the 20th or third grade Federal Community Center called in the future the 24th pre-k-formal field trip to the Great Neck Wetland Center and then the sixth graders are busy on the 26th and the 28th and May 5th um they'll go to Ellsworth safety program and then six over the Clara bar and health fairs to get invited to that every year and then on May 5th they'll come over here for an orientation to the junior high then on the floor of the Pre-K form of kindergarten to the zoo our art show and music program on May 4th and then on May 8th we have a challenge to our fourth through sixth graders write books and there's a person that donates well Miranda Stillwell she sponsors this and she also donates the books for us as well and the reward will be a trip to the alley she any questions or Reconciliation Report national bank statements or state assistance will begin next week and we'll end by the end of April for spring Sports we have 20 boys that are 20 out 12 boys and eight girls junior high we have 42 22 girls 24s Dennis there's nine softball five baseball two using perform the original music they did really well page two of their individual ratings anybody with the one is to go to the state coming up 112 honors Bank level 327 we had 14 seniors in the district recognized it worked really well thanks to Wilson for hosting three seniors and three Juniors were recognized at the CPL honors banquet in St John on 328 has top 10 percent of the Juniors and seniors benefit for instance placed third at the CPL meeting Maxwell on four five on Prom and after prom or this Saturday Martin Vortex art shows 414 FHS you work shows for 19 CPL art shows and Pullman's 426.

National Honor Society abduction on the 24th at 7 in Auditorium senior field trip will be the Wichita on the 27th Junior Senior High Spring music will be on the 28th in the auditorium that is a calendar change from the 21st our music teacher's daughter's treatment on the 22nd so um state music will be on the 29th at Heston May 3rd is community cleanup cookout talent show and other activities here at school May 5th is the sixth grade orientation beginning at nine High School awards line is May 10th at six o'clock it's a potluck Junior's last day is May 11th graduation is May 14th at two o'clock and Sunday here in the gym High School junior high awards ceremony promotion uh will be May the 17th at 2 o'clock in the afternoon in the auditorium May the 19th is the last half days any questions okay cool go through a little bit of the Wilson report all accounts are balanced and accurate if you have an opportunity to review all the crisis drills the lockout Lockheed lockdown reviews and before it was still a car here they were going to clock out for about 15 minutes because they didn't know what Microsoft at the chase or whatever so they were to block out for about 15 minutes um been a busy time with events finding substitutes of course has been challenging this time of year continue to work on committees curriculum technology crisis Committee in Kisa for my report the first was graduation Alliance you've got this uh downloaded here pack it there I've got some hard copies circulating if you'd like I guess the thing that I see the first visual that I see is the one here and there's active students in the state and if you look at the graduates of the state it's all over the state of Kansas including our area of course the urban areas are by far more represented uh we've had over 600 graduates the state of Kansas which to me that means economic growth the state have 600 people that now have their High School diplomas I think it's beneficial we have over 300 active students each month taking courses to graduate October seems to be the highest graduation month uh August January the highest enrollment months also in here there's marketing they do entrance interviews and exit interviews it's very interesting to listen to people that get their diploma and circumstances the way they had to get their diploma and what it means to them at this time I know and we take pictures you know capping a gown up there we take pictures with them and one lady come up and she brought her kids and her grandkids to be involved with her getting her picture of the promise of their a lot of great success stories and that if you'd like to read those uh we will change July 1. to the central plains diploma so that'll be a change a little bit as we go through that process we uh current on our Child Care Network we currently have raised 157 thousand dollars we still have sixty five thousand one hundred dollars in tax credits yet that we could that people can purchase as a donate toward this fund so that's available I've been thinking that if we hit 200 000 we might be able to process of what what we do for daycare uh here I'm looking at other grants I've talked to Patterson Family Foundation they currently did not have any open Grant periods but they're going to have some coming up they're interested in helping out there is a child care capacity accelerating Grant but we've made partner with uh Bartlett County Economic Development as they're going to write accelerated grant program for ABB with abcc which is advancing the Barton County Child Care and that will actually talk you to her next week to see what's available to help us accomplish our goals as a Child Care Network I would like to ask each board member to recommend one person to be on an Advisory board for our Child Care Network I feel like need to get something in place to help us develop this as we go through there so Beach Board member could recommend a person that has interests or wants to be involved with child care our district so they can feel that board and help advise and go through and make decisions as we developer in our district and we hopefully we can extend it to all of our sinners including Holly all of our tennis centers we have it even pushed it or wherever companion daycare we're going to talk about that have that advisory could help us as we go through that uh as you know last year we were paid for a line enrollment and we will be doing online enrollment this year it'll be a change but after a year I think it'll be appreciated and so forth and also we're going to be lucky that online payments probably bringing a proposal to the board on online payments that also will be proudly popular with parents uh because of the convenience it also it gives them using their students PowerSchool information in case of uncheck attendance and grades where they're there uh and so forth so that'll be available hopefully we'll get that in place and be ready to go uh probably toward the end of July like in a period of time and we will provide computers and support for people to learn also uh our technology met and that was one of the things we talked about is automatic enrollment and online payments um we have so many student devices setting right now that we do not have to purchase student devices for next year okay because we've purchased quite a few here that being said we're looking to put teachers devices on a rotation I will tell you I got all the years we have a lot of teachers that are still using devices that purchased in 2013 2013 must have been a popular year I don't know what it was but I went through a lot and they're all apples so we're talking about letting teachers choose between Apples or PC but the apples will probably have a longer period because cost is a little bit more but they last a little bit longer so their rotation will be available I just want to get into a rotation so you don't get hit with an excessive amount of money to replace it a bunch of laptops we also have a grant that we usually use for student devices this year we want to I'm going to look at teaching devices for teachers I know not everybody has Smart Boards some of those smart boards are not working they're having difficulties we're looking at maybe upgrade some of the teaching devices that we have with our grant this year our technology very happy with our security software big thing is schools are getting hit to go cyber attacks trying to get and they went pay Ransom to get to release you so worth it so really taking a lot of precautions with our security and doing a good job with that uh Camp intervention is a project that started in Ellsworth last year that we're currently planning on having a session in Wilson and one in a central plains Edition held in Hollywood this is a kind of a self-containing turnkey it's stem education for kids it's stem stands for science technology English advantal put together they won this is sponsored by the national inventors Hall of Fame uh we are looking for Gunners to provide scholarships to kids it's 260 dollars per student there are several funds that they've already collected and we have some donors that were looking at we're still trying to work out the details I talked to the Kerry Morton she is the one that is the director uh the curriculum and Wilson will be different than the one in central plains so there'll be two opportunities to do two different things and the times will be not the same uh I can see oh she had a really good turnout and those were the Ellsworth students may want to take advantage of the timelines let's say can the district will probably help with Transportation within our district for those camps but it's a week-long camp kids thinks of problem solving and so as creating problem solvers so I think it's a really good program for kids so we're just working on that trying to get more details because we'll work on that we're having questions from people thank you president I knew that the board it was executive session discuss teacher negotiations for the purpose of new noticing items for negotiations another exception of the employer employee negotiations under the komma and they we return Open Session and in the room 10 minutes good enough at 8 26.

ah sorry any other questions or comments on tonight's Personnel report nope but I would make the motion for the approval of the personal report a second all right um and the supplements um item nine a is strategic planning just a fashion item spoke to a couple of you independently but just wanted to see if there's any questions and I received names for the court team from three of the four of the five of you um so I think the two that kind of uh gave up who they were so um so I want to kind of get your names and I'll start reaching out and talk to uh Julie bacon as well she's did she send you all the kind of the wrap up that she's okay I want to make sure you got that kind of the summary of our last meeting and then we need to get this core team started and um set up a meeting for that I like the entire process I really enjoyed her interactive activities that made us kind of think outside the box a little bit and help us um identify the needs that we are looking at my two cents I I don't like it because I feel like it cost us a lot of money that's why I don't like it and it's going to cost us a lot of time too which I know here here's my opinion I mean since she gave her two cents I'm gonna give my five cents I think that when what we're doing we're we're changing things that another's group has already started so or not started but like planned out so the things that we're now going to change whether it's you know our our mission and all that kind of stuff another group has already created what our mission is and so to me now we're going to pay money for to recreate our mission where I feel like our mission um statement is going to be the same but maybe change like a few little words but yet it's costing us money to change those words so that's that's my opinion let me play Devil's Advocate real quick and ask you a question do you know anything any of the key items that's on the current strategic plan that we're supposed to be following no great question yeah and that that's one of the main reasons why I feel we need to do it I couldn't tell you any of them even though I sat in on the last strategic plan that was absolutely insane with the amount of things that we were doing and just didn't make any sense whatsoever ever I may be wrong but I know well I'm not wrong on this I know municipalities have to do their strategic plan every five years okay and when was the last time we did one it was like 14. Mr Mr noggle I think was uh 9 10.

public awareness and they did the same thing posters all over but they had all these days all right anything else bored fantastic medium thank you all see you June 7th so for you guys and just FYI

a band will be a regional band in Pratt on 420 I believe right after school starts back before the end of the day State eight land power that you need will be here on the 22nd at Central Plains just Larry said like the air quality study in their future before that 600 people in the gym so if you don't have anything to do anything uh Community scholarship interviews are 423 at 1 30.

superintendent Bill Murray attended motion by Josh in a second by Allison never say aye product Open Session there's no Act actually so do we have any board member reports they'll clarify like that house bill with uh going through the state about wherever I want lunch so that might be open Agenda items two as far as closing the building yeah it was printed with two other bills you have to get the number now 38 yeah three things with it besides that and uh it took a lot of stuff out of those three bills uh I believe it has to pass I think it did pass both houses wait for the Governor's security is it so it's an advisory opinion on building closure that's what that is thinking like really close your decision State Board of Education reduce it gives it advisory the final decision at us I what they've advised me it does not yes I read it but I need to get it back after January and last Saturday another question I had I got a picture today about a petition If This Were disorganized usd112 yes that petition has been circulated to install the district and if the devil legal voters registered voters signed that it'll go to a general election I have not two things I'm not sure about that bill has never is it just the next general election which as soon it was because it was in a special election somebody would have to be paid and they're not going to go spatial without somebody paid I think the way it reads is I think the way that it reads is that it has to be to be on a ballot where there's a School Board for lunch so it'd be the next general election because school boards now it's every two years so that's what it would be put to a boat if they had the signatures uh this is kind of a known territory to be honest with you it's also been circulated at the district also the same attorney so it may have been a general election because that far big enough signatures nobody knows because it hasn't been I don't even know if they even got that far in 1960 when it was last utilized what the result was uh state board will have to determine how to dissolve it if it's if it passes the technology which is a simple majority of assume what's the reasons somebody barely wants I mean I think that there's a couple different reasons why people are for it the not the NYE system most reasonable reason that I've heard is not we don't have students attending the district that will some patrons don't want to pay local taxes they want the tax dollars to follow their students but you ain't gonna have 100 because we don't have any questions else or Republicans apart it's not going to be 100 no matter what it's new yeah actually our our tax dollars don't cover what we give the state be honest with you anyway you know some school districts like the very wealthy school districts I think it so much more money than what they get from state aid that their their backpacks is actually going to distribute across the state to equalize that any other open agendas and for next month if you would answer three personnel and also uh negotiate police agreement I would entertain a motion to return so moved approached by Allison and second by Josh okay um

I think Mr Howard we I sat in on one with Mr okay and I want to say that was 2014. okay that makes a little more sense and I I want to you know just mention you you had focused on the street on the mission statement and the kind of tagline um I think that's just a small part of it yeah um but that's just again that's my opinion but and there's nothing that says we have to do that no I think the main focus is that we understand the direction of where the district is going and that's the the meat and potatoes okay um and that's the sort of the more specific um uh uh the the specifics about the direction we want to make sure we're headed and then it's up to us to make sure that we're meeting those okay and that's where I think we're not sure whether we the district is doing it or not and that's our job that's why that's that's what's most critical I think the other part of that is is ensuring that we know what the community wants the district to be doing so that when the new superintendent comes in we can say and this is who we are and what we were supposed to be doing instead of that person having to redefine and um reinvent themselves and the district all at one time okay so question could do the strategic planning with out hiring somebody can we do it within ourselves um I'm gonna say no I think it's good to have that outside party they have a it doesn't it doesn't have to be the asba I I do want to say that doesn't have to be there are other people that we could utilize but I think it's good to have a kind of a a non-partisan or non um a stakeholder yeah really driving that process because I think that that person could kind of steer things a certain way and where a um somebody that's not involved has doesn't have that stake in the in the game and it won't won't you buy us that way I'm someone that has experience with other school districts so again kind of like the 576 thousand dollars how much does the is it six six thousand six or seven years about a thousand to visit for six visits so in the grand scheme of things [Music] because we have to do this for this year and then I have to open another PL first we don't use yeah no I I'm glad you said that yeah it was just my just it was my thought just like the last time that we were in the meeting and I just was thinking I honestly going into that I didn't know it was gonna cost us money until I asked about it because I I didn't feel like maybe I wouldn't pay attention though which that could I don't think we learned how to shared it with you I know I talked to Cindy about it I don't know if I shared it with the whole board that was going to cost me yeah yeah charging something though so and I have a feeling and again don't know this that we're getting a pretty darn good right through asba instead of going to an outside consultant I don't know the answer about that yeah I just I can't answer that you're just presuming that going to a private contractor for patina Solutions 46 000 to 18 months with the bond for 40 million they needed passed so it was 46 000.

National Honor Society abduction on the 24th at 7 in Auditorium senior field trip will be the Wichita on the 27th Junior Senior High Spring music will be on the 28th in the auditorium that is a calendar change from the 21st our music teacher's daughter's treatment on the 22nd so um state music will be on the 29th at Heston May 3rd is community cleanup cookout talent show and other activities here at school May 5th is the sixth grade orientation beginning at nine High School awards line is May 10th at six o'clock it's a potluck Junior's last day is May 11th graduation is May 14th at two o'clock and Sunday here in the gym High School junior high awards ceremony promotion uh will be May the 17th at 2 o'clock in the afternoon in the auditorium May the 19th is the last half days any questions okay cool go through a little bit of the Wilson report all accounts are balanced and accurate if you have an opportunity to review all the crisis drills the lockout Lockheed lockdown reviews and before it was still a car here they were going to clock out for about 15 minutes because they didn't know what Microsoft at the chase or whatever so they were to block out for about 15 minutes um been a busy time with events finding substitutes of course has been challenging this time of year continue to work on committees curriculum technology crisis Committee in Kisa for my report the first was graduation Alliance you've got this uh downloaded here pack it there I've got some hard copies circulating if you'd like I guess the thing that I see the first visual that I see is the one here and there's active students in the state and if you look at the graduates of the state it's all over the state of Kansas including our area of course the urban areas are by far more represented uh we've had over 600 graduates the state of Kansas which to me that means economic growth the state have 600 people that now have their High School diplomas I think it's beneficial we have over 300 active students each month taking courses to graduate October seems to be the highest graduation month uh August January the highest enrollment months also in here there's marketing they do entrance interviews and exit interviews it's very interesting to listen to people that get their diploma and circumstances the way they had to get their diploma and what it means to them at this time I know and we take pictures you know capping a gown up there we take pictures with them and one lady come up and she brought her kids and her grandkids to be involved with her getting her picture of the promise of their a lot of great success stories and that if you'd like to read those uh we will change July 1. to the central plains diploma so that'll be a change a little bit as we go through that process we uh current on our Child Care Network we currently have raised 157 thousand dollars we still have sixty five thousand one hundred dollars in tax credits yet that we could that people can purchase as a donate toward this fund so that's available I've been thinking that if we hit 200 000 we might be able to process of what what we do for daycare uh here I'm looking at other grants I've talked to Patterson Family Foundation they currently did not have any open Grant periods but they're going to have some coming up they're interested in helping out there is a child care capacity accelerating Grant but we've made partner with uh Bartlett County Economic Development as they're going to write accelerated grant program for ABB with abcc which is advancing the Barton County Child Care and that will actually talk you to her next week to see what's available to help us accomplish our goals as a Child Care Network I would like to ask each board member to recommend one person to be on an Advisory board for our Child Care Network I feel like need to get something in place to help us develop this as we go through there so Beach Board member could recommend a person that has interests or wants to be involved with child care our district so they can feel that board and help advise and go through and make decisions as we developer in our district and we hopefully we can extend it to all of our sinners including Holly all of our tennis centers we have it even pushed it or wherever companion daycare we're going to talk about that have that advisory could help us as we go through that uh as you know last year we were paid for a line enrollment and we will be doing online enrollment this year it'll be a change but after a year I think it'll be appreciated and so forth and also we're going to be lucky that online payments probably bringing a proposal to the board on online payments that also will be proudly popular with parents uh because of the convenience it also it gives them using their students PowerSchool information in case of uncheck attendance and grades where they're there uh and so forth so that'll be available hopefully we'll get that in place and be ready to go uh probably toward the end of July like in a period of time and we will provide computers and support for people to learn also uh our technology met and that was one of the things we talked about is automatic enrollment and online payments um we have so many student devices setting right now that we do not have to purchase student devices for next year okay because we've purchased quite a few here that being said we're looking to put teachers devices on a rotation I will tell you I got all the years we have a lot of teachers that are still using devices that purchased in 2013 2013 must have been a popular year I don't know what it was but I went through a lot and they're all apples so we're talking about letting teachers choose between Apples or PC but the apples will probably have a longer period because cost is a little bit more but they last a little bit longer so their rotation will be available I just want to get into a rotation so you don't get hit with an excessive amount of money to replace it a bunch of laptops we also have a grant that we usually use for student devices this year we want to I'm going to look at teaching devices for teachers I know not everybody has Smart Boards some of those smart boards are not working they're having difficulties we're looking at maybe upgrade some of the teaching devices that we have with our grant this year our technology very happy with our security software big thing is schools are getting hit to go cyber attacks trying to get and they went pay Ransom to get to release you so worth it so really taking a lot of precautions with our security and doing a good job with that uh Camp intervention is a project that started in Ellsworth last year that we're currently planning on having a session in Wilson and one in a central plains Edition held in Hollywood this is a kind of a self-containing turnkey it's stem education for kids it's stem stands for science technology English advantal put together they won this is sponsored by the national inventors Hall of Fame uh we are looking for Gunners to provide scholarships to kids it's 260 dollars per student there are several funds that they've already collected and we have some donors that were looking at we're still trying to work out the details I talked to the Kerry Morton she is the one that is the director uh the curriculum and Wilson will be different than the one in central plains so there'll be two opportunities to do two different things and the times will be not the same uh I can see oh she had a really good turnout and those were the Ellsworth students may want to take advantage of the timelines let's say can the district will probably help with Transportation within our district for those camps but it's a week-long camp kids thinks of problem solving and so as creating problem solvers so I think it's a really good program for kids so we're just working on that trying to get more details because we'll work on that we're having questions from people thank you president I knew that the board it was executive session discuss teacher negotiations for the purpose of new noticing items for negotiations another exception of the employer employee negotiations under the komma and they we return Open Session and in the room 10 minutes good enough at 8 26.

um I'm just here today to talk to you all about the walkout that we had today at Adams City High School um we were raising awareness against gun violence as well as other issues in our community um and here I am today to ask you guys um to work with students um to improvise our lockdown standards um I know we had an incident earlier this year and it kind of fell on students and staff um and so I just want to work with our board to improve those lockdowns so our teachers don't have to worry about their students and our students don't have to worry about their safety so I'm just here to raise awareness of course I've set out those posters that we had today and I really want to thank the board for allowing this to occur and for supporting our students today and so yeah thank you very much thank you so much thank you thank you uh next Christy Douglas please join us the podium good evening everyone thank you for allowing me to speak and uh I am here to recognize Aaliyah he just spoke because she had the fourth rate thinking to organize the the walk out today and to recognize that we have a crisis with gun violence our own family has had that experience with our daughter being a teacher at Hinckley High School where there was a shooting in the parking lot we spent that entire afternoon we were on a tour for CDOT and we were not able to leave wouldn't have done us any good to go over there anyway however we spent the whole afternoon being traumatized and terrorized by knowing that our daughter was crawling on the floor across a classroom trying to figure out how best to protect her kids in that classroom teachers are teachers not because of the money they are teachers because they love kids and they want to protect them but how can they be in a position of being able to protect them when they're they're always worried about how that could happen at any minute and that the circumstances are always going to be different and that they're going to have to be thinking about how to protect those kids in those different circumstances and so for this Brave young woman who happens to be on our Karma City youth commission which I am the council one of the council Representatives along with council member Craig Kim I was the council rep for one year by myself no one else would step up to the plate and then when councilman member Kim was appointed he he joined me and it's been wonderful having him and and being able to learn from these incredible students who are our future we have to figure out some way to stop this madness and we all have to work together stop the hate if you hear someone remotely speaking in a vicious manner please stand up to them and and stop them if you see suspicious Behavior please stand up and put a stop to it we all have to work together these kids are our future and I want to thank you Alia for being the person that you are and being such a fearless leader thank you well thank you all for um being brave and coming this evening we don't normally respond to a public comment but I hope we stick around for the rest of the meeting and um hopefully board members will have something to say um next on the agenda is 5.1 superintendent Lydia's updates I'm Dr Lauria yes um thank you madam president members of the board whoops okay members of the board I I do have a couple of things on my updates and one of them actually was um the workout today or walk in I um was there this this afternoon when it happened and I just want to Echo you know the things that have been shared about the leadership of our students I was so proud and I am so proud of our of our leaders of Elijah and um just um to see our very gifted students demonstrate and bring awareness of something that they care about in such an organized and professional manner so this is what Global Citizens look like this is what a great communicators look like this is what critical thinkers look like and um so I do I just want to say also I know many of you were there actually all of you most of you were there and you were able to witness it but we will continue working with the students we will continue working with families and staff to really rethink how we do in and envision safety because it's no longer physical safety is emotional safety it is cyber safety it is also physical safety so thank you Aliyah Aliyah for for your leadership definitely we're talking about on cabinet how the district is going to be you know her district and you know all the students that we are we have in our schools in 20 30 years so certainly if the Future Leaders look anything like our students we're going to be in a much better place in 30 years I'm just saying because they were phenomenal the other thing that I wanted to give an update to you and the community I was invited by two national organizations knapsby is the National Alliance for black student schools Association and also Alaska Association of Latino administrators and superintendents to go to Washington DC and participate in a congressional briefing address I there were 100 superintendents invited Nationwide they were hand selected Nationwide and out of the 100 superintendents five were selected to actually provide an address in you know two Congressional staff I was one of them uh and I was very uh proud there just representing our narrative our story uh we had five as I said there were five superintendents including Miami-Dade Arlington Public Schools they were superintendents from Arizona there were 21 states represented and this is the first time since the Inception of the Nazi and the alas organizations to actually come together with one voice so this was a huge deal soon after two days later we had been invited also by the National Association National School Board Association to also do a presentation to tell our narrative and our story and we were there you you were there as we had been invited to go and present for for our district so we are changing The Narrative of our students we are working very hard to ensure that students like Elijah have a a different opportunity just because of how or what people will know us for and that is for um you know having lots of linguistically gifted students who will be a new a new breed of leaders that are well needed so the other thing I wanted to share is we are having work sessions for our parents Spanish-speaking parents specifically through parida this is something that the community had come to me several times actually before I got here I remember almost I would say now two years ago and I I was doing some research about the district before you know to go through the process of the superintendent search and remember looking at watching videos of parents asking for this kind of support and I'm telling you this two three years old already and that was not happening and they we started already we are partnering with them so paridad will be having sessions for um for our parents to really Empower our parents on how to ask questions at the schools how to advocate for their students understanding the the educational system to ensure that their students have also opportunities for um for you know studies After High School so the date is going to be from April 8th through May the 13th is going to happen on Saturdays from 9 to 12 30 p.m and 9 in the morning to 12 30.

it's a 30-year franchise this is pretty traditional in the field in fact in Michigan most franchises are 30 years it's a traditional franchise largely governing the rights of way it expires in 2027 but also in Michigan the franchises are revocable at will unless they go to a vote of the people and a vote of the people can allow them to extend beyond 30 years but that's rarely done because things change right and 30 years is a lot a lot of time so we're going to get the best deal you can and then you you go about your business no I do also want to point out that in Michigan you must have a franchise to provide a utility service in a second I'll talk about some of the research we've been doing on our side there are parts of the country right now that have continued having Utility Services while still negotiating an expired franchise that would not be legal in Michigan so we must have a franchise to provide a given service and we are very very interested in looking to integrate our residence desires for Clean safe healthy affordable and reliable heat into any future franchise and I have franchises because we are open to lots of different Pathways for how we can achieve these goals of Clean safe healthy affordable Reliable Heating for our residents and I'm going to use the word heating but I want to name heating it's truly what we're talking about here if you think about you heat your food you eat your home you heat your water okay so that's sorry that's a framework we'll stick with on this so just quickly in terms of what we've done today we have been uh reviewing a lot of City franchises especially newer franchises and franchises from peer cities that have similarly aggressive climate and Equity goals we've spoken to a number of our peers around the nation so certainly we've read the materials that they have but we've also talked to them about their experience why they chose to do what they did how they negotiated for what they did the kind of the rationale and their thinking we certainly reviewed Ann Arbor's previous franchise and you can find that actually if you're interested it's listed online um and then we started speaking internally with our other staffs about opportunity for improvement right so thinking about the folks that work in the rights of way what what's working really really well right now in terms of coordination and what's not and where are there opportunities for refinement uh and then we have continued to look at and start talking to other utilities that are doing really aggressive uh things around affordability safety health and climate action to understand kind of the heating solutions that they're pursuing and then you know this Council adopted a resolution a few weeks ago directing the city administrator to begin negotiating a new franchise uh importantly that franchise and that resolution is agnostic to the provider of the service but reiterates the goals and the objectives we also launched a website that we're keeping up to date as we're finding more information and you can see that and we have launched an email address to start Gathering feedback and we have received some feedback from residents it's franchise feedback at 82gov.org where we're just looking for residence ideas they're concerns uh what they're hopeful for in terms of what a franchise looks like what they want to make sure that we're thinking about we're seeing some stories of individuals their lived experience and what they want to make sure that we're very intentional about addressing as we move forward in this process so this is the last kind of talking thing I'm going to put out there this slide and the next slide just has some general seating questions this is generative only please don't take this there's anything other than that but the idea as we looked across all these other franchises and we've been thinking about the goals that we have in the community some of the things that we've started talking about are negotiating around contract length certainly the rights of way how people operate the communications in that system finding alternative sources of heating such as District geothermal or network geothermal systems having deeper Energy Efficiency programs creating new low income programs enhancing safety gas is not an inherently safe system so what are we going to do to make sure that we have safety improvements working on air quality and health enhancements price stabilization right we've seen fluctuations over the last two years in terms of our Energy prices what can we do in that space a greater accountability greater transparency into how things operate coordination or and of course climate action so these are some of the variables I just want to put forward as you're as you're starting to think and now I'm going to be quiet I'm not meant to answer questions in this session as you can probably tell I don't think my voice could take much more I'm just going to start taking notes but these are up here just to kind of get you thinking um so chairman I think I'll turn it over to you and I'm going to grab a pen and paper thank you missy so um I think that's really an excellent Framing and one that leaves things wide open for uh our input and for discussion and that's exactly what we wanted to do tonight and I think I can safely say since uh this is a process that is likely to take a couple of years that um just because you don't say something tonight that doesn't mean that you can't raise a point next week or next month or potentially even next year so keep that in mind and I'm sure that we will be as a commission as well as the city and as well as any maybe support resources we're using we'll be looking at developments in this field across the country so that we'll we're able to use those lessons learns and best practices here so um with that said um I'd like to open things up for comments and discussion Council or commissioner Macomber I'm um curious to know how much leverage we have um have other cities have been able to exercise leverage to um achieve some of these goals through their franchise negotiations so I'll take that question but I really don't mean to have a q a right now I'm not going to be my voice isn't going to take it I'm sorry so um I'll just share that yes they have and there's that's why we pointed to some other examples happy to come back with more yeah that's good so what we'll do here is um where where it's appropriate and possible we're just going to capture these points and um the city has a website uh as was shown and so hopefully some of these questions Missy maybe uh I maybe we can just say that um I can't remember if there's an FAQ I think there is is there FAQ already there and we we do point to some other cities so right um explicitly right with with that in mind let's let's take this as an opportunity to add questions that could be addressed on the FAQ not only for our purposes but also to inform the general public so um commissioner Smith okay thank you uh yeah so certainly um a great starting point in terms of uh you know ideas to consider as part of uh you know franchise here uh I'd be interested and totally understood that this uh you know answered me uh need to be forthcoming um but if you could share the outcomes um of the peer City review and any learnings um in that process to uh you know help us potentially leverage this opportunity to not only further decarbonization goals but provide uh you know clean safe uh reliable energy um uh here I think that may be helpful if if at all possible um and then I think we could provide you know be able to let better lovers out to provide more specific recommendations in terms hmm thank you commissioner McKenna thank you um first of all thank you so much Missy for being here and for sharing this with us it means a lot to me that we kind of get to um to look at it together first before it really goes out um to the broader audience and I look forward to participating along the way um I want to share a couple of of things that come to mind um you know having worked in um kind of uh I guess policy strategy not specifically in policy but in strategy like I mentioned uh previously in my work with Massachusetts cities and towns that were um trying to ban Natural Gas there was an effort there and I know that that Missy may be already looking to this but there was an effort there in Massachusetts because of actually a natural gas explosion that occurred I believe it was in 2017.

is that what it is been yes that'll be new number six under action items is there anything else for the agenda without any objection I'll move to approve with that change is there is there a second second by Miss Anna Marie Stevens go ahead Ben [Music] okay with that we'll continue number two is our approval of the March 8 2023 regular board meeting minutes um or without any objection we'll go ahead and approve as well uh March 28 2023 special board meeting a motion to approve is there a second second by Miss Anna Marie Stevens all those in favor of the motion watchable thank you number four is our call to the audience for the record we have no call to the audience this evening will continue with our agenda letter e is our information items number one is the barbecue Unified School District students of the month uh superintendent Diaz president via members of the board members of the community um [Music] hmm it is and it's a pleasure to be serving it on our Autumn Community as the superintendent and at this point I would like my principal for the primary school to present to the podium students from the primary and if you are the student of the month for the primary please go forward and I'm gonna need your support in coming up here uh in front um right behind me so you can go up the staircase Primary students of the month please come up foreign take it away um good evening governing board president buendia governing board members superintendent Diaz um I don't know if she's here at pre-k Leah rain cloud are you here not Alex Alex Reyna not here sorry okay for first grade he is here his name or he was nominated by Miss Black he is in the house of isabindi um Alexander Juan was nominated for student of the month because he works hard in the classroom he is always in class on time and ready to learn Alexander has sharpened his skills in all areas in ela math and reading Alexander has become a great role model he follows directions quickly he has a great friend to all he is kind and patient Alexander is one of the group leaders and does his job with passion when he grows up Alexander wants to be a firefighter congratulations Alexander [Applause] very nice yeah [Applause] for second grade we have from Mr Health's class also from the house of Issa Bindi is Jaden Pablo [Applause] Jaden is a model student for all the following reasons Jaden quietly cares for his fellow students in many roles and is well thought of among his classmates Jaden is a very polite kind and thoughtful young man Jaden is always ready to come to the aid of his fellow students in their time of need Jaden has been in Mr Health's homeroom student in his homeroom class as his Tech Helper and takes on the self-appointed role of door holder class Helper and any jobs he finds were a little more help and support is needed as one of the stronger students in Reading Ela and math we often asked Jaden to help us as a small group and assist other students who need extra support consequently he is highly thought of as a class leader and supporter among his teachers and peers Jaden you are a vital member of the class and it is a pleasure and honor that you are nominated as March 2023 second grade student of the month [Applause] when he grows up he does want to join the United States Navy and help bring peace and protection to our world [Applause] our third grade students is Nayana Escalante [Applause] Nayana is in Miss Jackson's class and she belongs to the house of alturismo she has exceeded her goals in all areas in ela math writing and reading fluency she is currently in a 4.1 in SFA which is fourth grade reading and continues to score above proficient in her assessments she is a joy and it is honored to have her in my class congratulations Nana [Applause] and our final student of the month is Talia Ochoa she was nominated by our court our second grade culture teacher Mrs Francisco she is in the house of Revere Miss Francisco has observed Talia over several months and she has grown academically she has always been of help to miss Francisco in the classroom she is a role model for the Autumn language and values without being boastful she is always willing to help out her classmates if they need help with the language Talia is her go-to person in the classroom when she was asked what she wanted to be when she grew up it took her several days to think about this question and her decision on this question is she wants to be an awesome excuse me a person that heals others with her gift and healing powers Miss Francisco is encouraged by her decision because a person so young rarely thinks that becoming a medicine person congratulations thank you [Applause] very good and then just checking did Alex or Leah walk in no all right I will turn it over to intermediate campus good evening I'm Miss leyba I'm the assistant principal at the intermediate campus and this evening I am representing Miss Begay Lewis as she is out of town today so do we have any of our student of the month from intermediate one and a couple of the teachers were here that would like to present Mr Flores is tubalia come on up I'd like to present Mr Flores who will be presenting the award for his fourth grade student foreign Diaz school principals teachers staff parents Guardians and Learners fourth grade teacher of Walt Georgi Intermediate School I have the honor of introducing to you the March 4th grade student of the month this student maintains an admirably high rate of attendance and has made significant academic progress across the board his kindness openness dependability optimism and sense of responsibility in school and at home as he openly discussed what he does before going to school I mean he returns home helped his family in his straightforward style amazed me and further convinced me of examination his laudable aim is to one day build homes for the homeless so that no one will have to leave industry without comfort and safety friends it gives me great pleasure to introduce Casey Manuel as a fourth grade student of the month with proud ma'am is Tanya sudam and family true [Applause] game Miss Hannah I am very thrilled and excited to present to you uh the sixth grade student of the month Miss Alexandria Birdsall Alexandria is the daughter of Mr Carl Birdsall and her very own faculty member Mrs narissa Birdsall Alexandria tops every test that we do may it be Ela Math Science Social Studies School City test and fingers crossed the state test she has a positive attitude towards learning as she is driven and motivated on wanting to know more and wanting to learn more she learns fast and each day she comes to school with a grin on her her's face and willingness to learn and improve she consistently shows respect to both her peers and the teachers and her manners give always impress me and I'm glad to be her teacher and when I asked Alexandria how will you make the world a better place she wrote I would make the world a better place by wasting less water and picking up trash even though it may not be yours because it might get stuck on bird and animals who will try to eat it that's Alexandria's selfless and kind help me welcome on stage Miss Alexandria bird cell and with her dad on the audience um thank you very much [Applause] thank you okay the next student do we have savior Romero here yet or thailana Pablo no okay I will um quickly read what Mr Cody wrote for savior Romero who is his student of the month savior Romero comes to us from big fields he is an excellent student who is very polite to his fellow classmates and is very helpful in the third quarter savior has shown great Improvement in mathematics and science savior has improved his vocabulary and math skills and fractions and when asked how he can make a better the world a better place he said I will be generous and finally um Miss olumba has chosen thailana Pablo thailana is a representation of respect in no way or fashion have I ever seen her not be respectful whether it's in library or during the brief time in teaching the math class that she was in she is considerate of others and herself she never has an attitude and she is always willing to help she is attentive and very polite when asked how she would make the world a better place she said she would like to give the homeless a place to live thank you good evening board president buendia governing board members and Mr Diaz I am proud to present our secondary students of the month and for seventh grade I'd like to call up Soraya Anton Soraya are you here the seventh grade team names named Soraya Antonis a March student of the month Soraya is the daughter of Diana Antone and Shaylin Patricio her home Village is tapawa in Baba kivre District Soraya is a good student with excellent attendance she is also an athlete playing both basketball and softball with the Lady Cougars her favorite class is thought Anthem history with Miss Martin because Miss Martin is awesome and Soraya likes to learn about culture and himathe after graduating from BHS Soraya plans on going to college she's currently considering a career in medicine or law the people that Soraya most greatly admired admires are her uncle Merle Anton and her brother Devin Antoine because they push her to follow the right path and do what is right she is grateful for them congratulations Soraya [Applause] our eighth grade student of the month is Alize wieger are you here Alize is a student of the month for eighth grade Alice's Guardians are Miriam and Damon Ramon her home Village is in sales District Alison is a strong student with good attendance who turns in her work on time she is an athlete too playing basketball for the Lady coovers Cougars and serving as manager for the lady cougar softball team her favorite class is Donald Trump culture with Miss Martin because it's interesting and fun after graduating she plans to go to college and play basketball her dream career is to play in the WNBA for the Memphis Grizzlies one person Alison greatly admires is her Grandpa Lester Lopez because he always took care of her and continues to push her to be her best congratulations Alize keep clean our freshman student of the month cyan Francisco come on up sure all right cyan Francisco is the Freshman Class student in the month for March cyan's parents are Christopher Francisco Francisco and Marion Toro his home Village is coma Bobby instructor District cyan is an excellent student with very strong attendance he participates in sports with his classmates in PE um cyan and Joyce's online classes with Miss Long his love for online learning has deepened because of this class he also likes Automotive class because he learns through Hands-On activities according to Mr Francisco he and cyan have done a few auto repairs cyan is very focused on finishing and passing all of his classes this year he is working hard in creating sex success every day congratulations Siam you're ready yes [Applause] all right if Christopher Pablo gem Roque and Malachi Chavez are here can you please come line up at the uh stairway please all right our sophomore class student of the month is Christopher Pablo [Applause] Christopher Pablo's parents are Carmella and Milton Pablo his home Village is San Miguel in Chicago District Christopher is a very strong student with excellent attendance his favorite class is art with Miss roach because it's very relaxing his favorite teacher is Mr saligan because he gets the job done but is not too serious after graduating from Baba Kiri High School Christopher plans to go to college but where is still an option an open question his career goals are also open but Christopher is interested in learning about psychology if Christopher had a superpower it would be teleportation because he likes to travel and see the world you're doing a wonderful job Christopher congratulations [Applause] our junior class student of the month is Gem Roque she is the daughter of Joseph D Roque and cherisel Roque her hometown is Bacolod City in Negros Occidental region in Philippines she is an outstanding student with excellent attendance in addition to her academics she is involved in extracurriculars as well she is the secretary of the yearbook club and serves as the manager for the lady Warriors softball team when asked if when asked if she has any favorite classes or teachers Jen says that she enjoys all her classes and teachers equally after graduating from Bobby keevery high school she plans on going to college to and studying medicine her current career goal is to become a Dermatologist one person that Jim greatly admires mid Myers is her older brother Charles Roque she looks up to him because he is a great leader in example congratulations Jim [Applause] and our senior student of the month is Malachi Chavez Malachi is the son of Aaron Chavez and Elena Andrews his home Village is San Luis in guachi District Malachi is a strong student with outstanding attendance he is active in Wyda playing six different instruments in the BSC wide event he is also a member of Biden a traditional white of hand he made with his friends his favorite class is Wida and his favorite teachers are Mr Enriquez Miss Lopez and Mr Hooten after graduating in May Malachi plans on attending college and studying to become a systems administrator the people that Malachi admires the most are his parents because they helped him to know right from wrong taught him so much about the world and always pushed himself that pushed him to be his best self we are proud of you Malachi congratulations [Applause] thank you I just got word that Alize has arrived in the building Alize can you come up our eighth grade student of the month is Alize Weger her Guardians are Miriam and Damon Ramon her home Village's cells she is a strong student with good attendance who turns in her work on time she is an athlete too playing basketball for the Lady Cougars and serving as a manager for the lady cougar softball team her favorite class of final Anthem culture with Miss Martin because it's interesting and fun after graduating she plans to go to college and play basketball her dream career is to play in the WNBA for the Memphis Grizzlies one person Alize greatly admires is her Grandpa Lester Lopez because he always took care of her and continues to push her to be her best keep up the good work Alize congratulations [Applause] just a smile thank you all right and I will pass it off to Mr Fox with BBQ re-accelerated Academy [Applause] congratulations young lady good evening everybody good to see you we'll only need that one uh my name is Barry Fox I am the principal of the accelerated campus next to intermediate our sister campus and for seventh grade we have a student that we're going to recognize tonight not only because he's an outstanding online student but his circumstances and how he came to us was quite different him and his family experience their house burning down he and his family experienced their house on fire so he's been living The Sweet Life in Tucson for the past month and a half I say that because they're living in a hotel right now but his name is Daniel Rivas and what the Neo has done in that time that he's been with us is 96 activities that's pretty impressive for him coming from secondary where he was very successful where he will be going back but he Blended in so smoothly into the online program that we were just so proud of him for doing that we had to recognize him so I hope you're listening Mr Rivas congratulations [Applause] okay Jessica make your way down here come on Jess [Applause] so for the high school our student of the month is Miss Jessica Puella she could have been student of the month every single month if if that were permissible um just this month she did 288 activities and I know it's too late to correct my board report a record break corrected me in the past she has done more than that in a month uh Jessica is the type of students who work she works all day then she goes home and we see Edgenuity that she's been doing it from three o'clock in the morning until 5 30 until she gets back to school she is an amazing wonderful beautiful young person who's gonna be going to tocc in the summer and starting her college career we are just so proud of this young lady okay [Applause] they want some pictures come on [Music] yes uh first I want to say because isabindi had the most students of the month I think they deserve a house point [Music] did it not yeah excellent I just like to do that because he likes to talk about Amistad all the time so I just wanted to set up but thank you so much um for the evening uh again this is the best part of our whole agenda it is to recognize the achievements and the and the greatness that is our students thank you so much to all of our families our our supporters everyone who helps these kids get up every day and who gives them the encouragement and to the students themselves who encourage themselves from time to time the motivation is definitely there and we're hopeful and grateful to be able to help support that thank you on behalf of the barbecue governing board we'll go ahead and take a break at this time to allow for pictures and mingling in the in the foyer but other than that we'll take a break thank you there was like this really huge one and it was very I got to go inside and actually uh kind of move around the mechanics and actually know um a lot about the Flames um it was very hot that day I had to buy a hat because I didn't bring one um I think out of all the people that went it was a very fun experience and actually getting to see the Thunderbirds that was a very cool experience thank you [Applause] um I would like to speak about the BHS alumni visits a student council has been recently inviting BHS alumni back onto campus it's been nice hearing from BHS graduates they've shared with us their experiences in high school and in college so far we had three presenters Leilani Jose who is an architect major from the University of Arizona Susie Garcia is a recent graduate of the University of Arizona who majored in criminal justice and hanum Garcia who will graduate this may from the University of Arizona with her Bachelor's in criminal justice we're looking forward to welcoming more alumni back onto campus during the month of March we also recognized our student students for their accomplishments for the third quarter after the ceremony student council provided popcorn for the students and their families we are so proud of the all student Award winners [Applause] hello hello my name is Uriah Lewis I am a freshman at barbecuebrew high school and we would also on behalf of student council would like to thank superintendent Diaz with being able to make time to come with our Twitter to our monthly meetings with student council we would also like to give a big thanks to the our board members for making time and to come to student council and to visit around the campus and another thing is the on May 5th there will be a basketball tournament against all four houses isabindi River Amistad and altruismo in the basketball tournament at the primary on May 5th is there any questions president I just want to take a moment to give a big shout out to our student council leaders our young leaders and I'm going to need everyone so please help me to recognize him and give him a big hand not for a couple of things number one I'm very impressed at the amount of activities that you guys organize every single month number two having to stay in front of the audience and having to prepare it's a skill and it's a skill that you're gonna take with you forever um as as scary as you may seem you did a wonderful phenomenal job I want you to know that I'm very proud of you thank you anything else on the board anything else Anna yes thank you thank you for inviting us to your campus it was a great experience to be there and also to honor the seniors that were gonna be that are going to be graduating and just sharing that information I had a good time playing the games and the questions you asked will explain [Music] um I had so much fun that day it was really fun and to be able to witness one of your meetings and um and see how you all were involved in that meeting it was really good to see and I'm so happy that you guys are able to come and be a part of our board meetings because it is going to help you in the long run and um I'm looking at you um you when you said that um you were scared before and now you're okay and it shows it shows you guys are really stepping up and and moving forward and I'm really glad and can't wait to see next month Miss Hendrix hi I just wanted to um say that I'm sorry that I had to miss your uh your luncheon or your lunch meeting I actually got sick that week and unfortunately I was kind of kind of really disappointed that I wasn't going to be able to attend but I did get a lot of positive um uh comments from other board members on how well your meeting went and all the accomplishments that you're doing all the activities that you're doing I think they're really great and I think that uh if you continue doing this I think you will build the best morale around here on your campus thank you thank you thank you to the board members thank you guys so much it is definitely a truly an honor to have you present I think that it's it's something we we genuinely have tried to push for so I'm really glad that you guys are stepping up and willing to come out and getting a little bit more comfortable so trust me trust me it doesn't get as easier but the more your practice is at it um it starts to get a little bit better so thank you okay number three is our Barbecue University president superintendent news president and at this point I would like to um ask Mr Martinez and Mr Dan to come up to the podium we have um a couple of awards that we would like to present today and it's on honor for special guest to be here today to receive those Awards so Mr Martinez and Miss Sudan please come up thank you good evening president board uh buendia's board members superintendent Diaz um I would like to congratulate Miss uh Roque uh she's our ESS teacher for the uh intermediate campus she has been doing an exemplary job within this month in regards to our ESS compliances as well as physical agendas and preparedness in regards to our services so big congratulations to uh Mr okay and um just an added Point uh we are currently working on our ESS parental surveys so big shout out to Mr okay for having 100 of those uh completed surveys being done so thank you thank you for your domination Mr Martinez um at this point if you don't mind presenting your nominations thank you good evening again I'd like to call up Dr Francis Dr Karen Francis Begay and Martha Lee from The University of Arizona [Applause] um I nominated them for the hematic award because we've been working closely with them for the last several months to develop a dual enrollment program that would allow our students to experience Student Life at the University level this plan has come with logistical challenges but Dr Francis Begay and Miss Lee have always been Solutions minded to eliminate as many barriers as possible as a part of building up this collaboration we planned a college tour so students could begin to gain familiarity with the campus and begin to Envision themselves as students the college visit was specifically designed for our Bobby high school students students learned about admission financial aid and housing they were connected to valuable student resources that supported indigenous students such as the Native American students of student affairs where they met other Anthem college students and participated in an activity with a mentor program called native soar the day concluded with a self-guided tour and a women's basketball game and and we showed those highlights in last month's board video the work that Dr Francis Begay and Miss Lee did to provide our students this opportunity went above and beyond our expectations and it was evident that students enjoyed themselves and began to picture themselves as future Wildcats so I'd really like to thank them for their support [Applause] congratulations and they're asking for permission to share a couple of words president and if they want to come up as well for the picture foreign good evening I'm Dr Karen Francis Begay assistant Vice Provost for Native American initiatives and happy to be joined by my colleague Martha Lee who is a program coordinator in our office we just really had a wonderful time organizing this visit for the students in support of us being able to help them Envision college and see themselves at the University of Arizona Wednesday leave barbecue free high school we do have a special gift for the principal sudam as well as the board and administration so when the students were at the basketball game we had a professional photographer who took a group picture of the students Juniors and seniors down on the basketball court students were really excited to be on the court but also to meet some of the basketball women basketball players as well as some of the former basketball players that are now in the WNBA who were there for that night's game so just lots of excitement but we have the image blown up had the title put on it and so there's two copies here and just want to leave that with the district and with the school thank you [Applause] please come back to the middle so we can take an interview with the awards [Music] um [Music] foreign [Music] just as a quick announcement I know especially for the hemlock award and the recognitions I really am grateful whenever we have anyone who is recognized especially for that honor I think it's important to be able to recognize Community Partners and individuals within the within our within our district that are definitely being able to um provide whatever your assistance or or encouragement especially for our students so thank you so much to everyone and and to those that are nominating please do continue to nominate as much as possible I think it's important to address and acknowledge those individuals as much as possible so thank you thank you superintendo Diaz Mr Martinez I miss you Dan appreciate it number four this evening is a presentation by Miss Vivian Saunders thank you [Music] uh Sanders um school school board good evening school board members um chairman bendia superintendent Diaz and recognize Mr sabala for assisting me through this process and it's really an honor to be here and thank you for providing me the time uh this evening I have April 12th uh all right I thought the meeting was tomorrow but so um would like to um first of all state that I am here for two reasons I want to present to you um my dissertation outline I am also a student learning as lifelong and also to make a request of the school board and leave it to you to to decide um at the end of the presentation and I'm more than welcome or happy to return if you have additional questions in the future I'm a member of the Donald commission from which is that's south of here and I'm also a proud graduate of Bobby caver High School class of 1977 when the high school was in sales at the middle school I'm very um heartfelt to to see all of the awards for Senate this evening and all of the recognition and all of the wonderful work that the school is doing for um all students within our nation currently I'm enrolled at Grand Canyon University College of doctoral studies in organizational leadership I'm a EDD candidate and I began my program in the fall of 2020 and that was at the height of the pandemic and this kept me saying um to be honest and I um I want to acknowledge my husband Richard who's here this evening um been very supportive throughout this journey um I have a master of arts degree from the University of Arizona in American Indian studies and public policy and Bachelor of Arts of Education from Arizona State University the purpose of tonight's presentation is to update the school board on the research study and to request permission and assistance by notifying school students who completed College and Career Readiness program from 2018 to 2021 to contact myself if they are interested in participating in the research study the research study itself the title of my dissertation is how American Indian and Alaska native students perceive College and Career Readiness programs the methodology is qualitative descriptive design and I wanted to um just Express that this type of research generates data that describes the who what and where of events or experiences from a subjective perspective and it's a citation Kim at l2027.

and so these where the funds are being derived any questions I'm happy to answer no questions I I did have a question about the 2000 but that you answered that so all right so can we have a recommendation to approve item 2.7 Chuck a second from Margaret all in favor that looks a lot unanimous okay item 3.1 this superintendent recommends it's a government board approve the proposed resolution to receive financial assistance under disaster The Disaster Relief act you want to explain you explained to me what this is absolutely important for those that are listening and we've applied for some covid funding um last year and is it in the amount of about thirty thousand dollars where it it's probably a long shot to get it but we still want to try and so in order for us to be considered we have to have this resolution posted and passed it by the board as it is reflected on this agenda any questions in regard to that so can we have a motion for item 3.1 to reflect this resolution I have a second from Diana all in favor at two's unanimous all right all right item 3.2 recommendation to approve Junior Leadership Academy the GLA um Dr Wright there again I'm turning it over to you and Jackie Solomon Vick he's here and I think shimles help us out with that Michael and Beth we'll turn the time over too the three of you thank you very much for having us Vicki Solomon with Nexus Coalition for drug prevention executive director and something really cool about this program this will be the 15th year for Blue Ridge for the junior Leadership Academy we also do one in White River and we have taught snowflake into their third year so we're trying to expand the program for the for those of you who don't know what Junior Leadership Academy is it's just a short-term program and we did a pilot program two years ago in Blue Ridge to do an after-school program and we met with the schimmels and we as a group decided that the after school program was actually more beneficial and easier on the students and the parents and so we have switched the summer program for Blue Ridge to to an after-school program so we've been doing the after school program for the last two years and we plan on doing that again in May first through 12th right May 1 through 12th and so we just wanted to come and the schimmels have created a short three-minute video for you to watch what went on last year for the after school program and if you don't mind we'll take that three minutes and watch that and then I'll have the channel speak for just a minute foreign [Music] super serious programs you can tell we don't have a whole lot of fun with this at all we're watching those I'm just going to read some things that the kids are getting out of the program it's self-awareness through social skills and learning style and development self-advocacy physical fitness Community collaboration life skills leadership responsibility choices positive decision making and problem solving team building and collaborating and networking goal setting life skills and career exposures drug abuse prevention and awareness including a parent education components community service integrating career and life tasks foreign [Music] foreign [Music] excellent so you know the last several years have been really hard on everybody and it's been especially hard on our youth and we've got a lot of mental health challenges and I feel that Junior Leadership Academy addresses some of those and what brings more joy than laughter for these kids and I believe that these kids that go through the program this is something that 40 years from now they're going to remember the junior Leadership Academy and they're going to remember the shimmels so I'm going to turn some time over to them oh hi everybody hey Diana I haven't seen you in a while good senior um you know all I'll say is looking back over the video I was just thinking about how much easier that has made this teaching year a lot of those kids were fourth graders uh last year when we had them and then we get them after having spent those two weeks with them and the relationship that's already there it was easy to build on this year and then watching some of those kids are sitting there looking at the Roseman kid zip and a class and the kids amazing but I don't know if I would have guessed on that last year but the time we spent with the kids getting them to interact with each other that I don't know the last couple years of covet I think smashed some kids really hard and it was really sad to see so getting the kids to work together getting them in front of some old people no you guys uh but we're going to take them down to soltera and see some people even older than you own and uh and uh you know have them interview these these folks and talk to them about their life we're going to have people come in and talk to them about making good choices you know of course super important and and you know the thing that blows me away every year is these kids after these simple two weeks together and some of them say it's the best thing I ever did and it just blows my mind and even even to the point of they they can't wait for the food we give them but it's it's helpful how tough it is for some of these kids so um anyways let's thank you very very much the shimmels are fantastic I told them I wish I had a coffee machine so we can put them throughout the whole Navajo County because we we need more shimbals to do what they do so thank you very much if you guys have any questions we're happy to answer anything about the junior Leadership Academy yeah I guess could you elaborate on the criteria you use to select kids for this program absolutely so most importantly our teachers are with those kids every single day so it's a combination of the teachers the principals and the parents and we look for kids that are struggling could be academically it could be emotionally could be some physical whatever the struggles are that they just need just a little bit of TLC and those are the kids that we're looking for those aren't the only ones in the program we we have found through trial and error we want to have mentors that are in the program as well so that we have kiddos that are sending example for those that are struggling and it seems to work very well when we have that combination and even if you're a breathing human being right now you're gonna you're having struggles so any you that get into the program I think it's going to help and just move them up a level thank you I just my only regret is Mike and Beth didn't have 12 kids yeah that'd have been nice and Greg and Amy too if he'd had 24 schimel kids and we still had them in school it'd be awesome yeah year two of your your youngest one of your youngest sons and your nephew moved me in almost nine years ago and they were gentlemen and so they're a great reflection of both of you thank you for what you do gonna miss you oh [Laughter] [Music] maybe with all your free time you can cut my grass I'm just kidding thank you thank you can we have a recommendation for item 3.2 which is to approve the junior Leadership Academy for another year I have a motion and a second all in favor that again unanimous Dr Wright we're going to turn some time over to you for a district update absolutely the first thing I want to do is just highlight a couple of things that was shared with the board that I don't know if I know I know the board knows I know most the people in the audience know but I don't think you can say it enough do you recognize the regret the gravity of having two young women accepted into Elite military academies two years in a row from 650 kids we have amazing students outstanding teachers and we do that this is not Xavier or Brophy prep we're not in the middle of ala and a bunch of wealthy kids most of our kids are Middle America in fact 40 percent of our kids live below poverty it doesn't stop them it doesn't it doesn't reduce any of the efforts of our staff and faculty they pour themselves into helping these kids one of the kids that one of the students that received a full ride to Cornell his his brothers at Columbia it's not an accident schools that were were getting these kids into are tough schools to get into and so I'm very proud of these results I'm proud of our teachers I'm proud of our support staff or Administration it's not an accident it's hard work and in many cases it's years of hard work so the board should be proud of the product that we're putting out our community should be very proud we'll have our banners up on the fence again this year announcing the accomplishments of this class and the past and we we just we can't say enough good about what these kids are doing our young lady last year that is about Victorian she's at Brown University in the full ride getting into University at Berkeley you know University of California Berkeley and Stanford the year before that we had a full ride to Stanford these are really amazing kids and and we're we're loving we're proud of them thank you I'll get into the other report I want to announce this and make sure we have this on Facebook we only have two social media Outlets that's Blue Ridge that is branded and approved and authorized and that's Facebook and Twitter anything else irrespective of what you see is not ours if we do not do Tick Tock we don't have anything on Tick Tock we don't have anything on anything else but Facebook and Twitter we can't not be responsible for everything our kids post all 24 7.

also we had a first semester Awards assembly um great turnout lots of students to celebrate and I want to thank Mrs Cuevas Mr Nathan and our awesome support staff who shows up and works beyond the Call of Duty to make it all happen you'll see some pictures there of some of our kids so we're very very proud of your semester success Jazz fourth grade musical where are my fourth grade students do we have any in here fourth grade all right okay Mr Lane you wish um thank you this is valetti for another successful grade level musical our former University did an amazing job so we are very very proud of Miss valetti and what she's done this year featuring grade level musicals to highlight our kids parent advisory we had our last meeting and we decided to move our last meeting to April because may get super hectic for everybody um but we discussed our A-Plus School of Excellence application that you will hear more about because we are going to be putting together our application to be submitted in on Facebook will be reaching out to different community members parents and staff as well I also shared the state of College and Career Readiness at K-12 which is a report done by Zello where 122 teachers 27 leaders and seven counselors responded and the key findings were that 78 think that creating a sense of community is important or very important and successful College and Career ready at work and um that we have great Community involvement you know when we have our family nights our literacy nights our math nights um it truly is a community effort and when we think about all the community members that support fundamental through tax credit through donations um it's incredible so we are well on our way to attributing to this community also 55 of respondents felt strongly that Community Support was a key factor in helping students achieve future success and it was interesting because the top four indicators for Success Beyond High School were all around Community Support Workforce Readiness social emotional learning competencies and grades so when you think about our goal to produce well-rounded children who are College and Career ready grades was actually the fourth indicator right because a lot of times as parents and teachers we feel that sometimes the grades don't truly reflect the ability of our kids because we do know that our kids are good characters they are critical thinkers and sometimes it's not demonstrated in the grades that they receive so the report clearly supports and justifies our Avid efforts in College and Career Readiness and working closely um in Avid to close that opportunity gap for all students K-12 so we do have copies of the report if you'd like to see it board members you have it there in front of you and um we can actually scan this report into um a link in our next newsletter for you to have as well for reference okay National paraprofessional day we celebrated last week so just a huge thank you to all of our parapros our programmatic assistance and playground monitors and preschool parent Pros who work so hard to keep our students learning and providing the extra security and safety of our students and we truly do expect them to be the eyes and the ears of our cult family in terms of letting us know what's going on as teachers are busy teaching and focused on standards we depends a lot of non-parent Pros so I think I fried maybe 120 tacos for them on Thursday to come through and kids you can see they've made posters and cards for them that were very well appreciated by our parents so thank you boys and girls for helping us make that day special for them Transportation update congratulations to Tom and Josette for becoming our newest members of the Continental Transportation family also a state that transportation and software is being upgraded and will go live on 526 at the end of May so it is replacing our current software that we've had the new platform is supposed to be user-friendly and easier to navigate and Mr main is going to work through all the bugs and keys from me to get us ready for a great start in August and our staffing needs always we need five to six drivers to cover different routes and possibly a new special education route we have two candidates currently in pipeline so please keep your eyes and ears open also and send any potential drivers our way thank you have a great evening that concludes my report for this month all right thank you enough for the fun part of our meeting don't forget the pizza in the back um this is where we um recognize our cultivate with that Mr Lathan will kind of kick it off course and square us okay we can get all our tools of the month they're coming up we're going to start with preschooling the front the kids are first until I'm back all the way to 8th grade right now is everybody here parents were free to come and take pictures strip feel free to do that too Samuel kinder this is Lathan from our library our librarian nominated Samuel and she writes Samuel comes to the library each week ready to learn he brings his book almost every week and follows the rules he's a great leader in the library he's always following the directions sits quietly and is willing to be helpful whenever needed thank you Samuel for being such a great Library friend foreign so much in her behavior and has learned to be responsible by completing her assignments and staying on test she's nice and kind to her classmates she follows the safety rules in and out of the class she's one of the most improved students in our class this year and I'm very happy to teach her every day she's a great addition to our classroom congratulations foreign student she's kind and gentle with her friends and she's a wonderful helper Natalie happily gets her working and always is working at her best she participates in all of our activities and encourages others Natalie's always calm and positive presence in our class I feel so lucky to be her teacher congratulations Natalie foreign Miss Madness writes for the month of March I nominate Harper for being kind safe and responsible I catch her often being kind to others and always smiling she's safe and responsible with her own things in the classroom but more than that she's always there to help others and make sure to stay safe she shines bright in our class and on the school campus keep up the great work Harper congratulations my name's aren't you and I'm in first grade so our June teacher rights our June is a terrific student it has polite manners and is kind to teachers and students too our term uses all his school supplies and equipment correctly and safely every day he demonstrates responsibility when he completes his classwork and he's ready to learn our tune is responsible because he takes good care of his belongings and the materials he uses too thanks for being a good part of our classroom Arjun keep up the good work foreign [Music] Brooklyn is always ready to help her peers she's kind smart witty and an overall amazing student congratulations Brooklyn foreign [Music] Miss Jones writes Renata demonstrates kindness safety and responsibility every day she's inclusive of everyone she follows directions and stays focused on doing her best way to go Renata congratulations foreign [Music] rapes Giovanna has been an exceptional student this month and has made the best efforts in class and outside of the classroom she's been considerate of the classroom rules that makes her very safe kind of responsible when it comes to her actions towards the teacher and her classmates Giovanna has proven to be on testing class and she shows kindness to others when they've been hurt congratulations foreign Isabella is an exceptional young lady she gives her best effort in the tasks we accomplish in class Isabella treats her peers with kindness she's a great example of a continental cult congratulations thank you [Applause] Foundation my name is Landon and I'm in sixth grade softball one of our Middle School teachers writes Landon joined Continental School at the beginning of the second semester in just a few days Langdon demonstrated that he was very kind students accepted him as part of their group he plays Sports and is aware of following the rules and the expected vehicle Landon uses his time wisely turns his work on time and is always eager to learn and help we're happy to have a land in with us once a cult always a cult congratulations foreign Macy is an outstanding student who always puts forth her best effort in all of her work she's always careful in both science and PE making sure to follow rules during her projects Macy is very helpful in assisting other students and always has a smile and a kind word she's a delight to have in her class congratulations thank you my name is eighth grade the middle school team writes Caden is kind-hearted and incredibly smart he is knowledgeable on many subjects and can easily teach the rest of us he's considerate of others we are excited to see what great things he accomplishes once he leaves Middle School congratulations Katie congratulations parents you have a wonderful wonderful children please come back up once more we're going to take a picture and then parents who can come up and take pictures too and then we're going to do our Golden Horseshoe of the month which is our staff members um if you can please stay standing we're going to redo our golden horse show award which serves as our employee of the month to where we have very everybody should be awarded for every work they come into here daily but this award is voted on by the colleagues of the school and so our first award goes to Maureen nurse Maureen Schwarzenegger her colleagues right right and wrote nurse Maureen swartzenshuper is a rock star she's so very thoughtful and is always on the lookout for how she can bless someone on my first day of work I found a simple bouquet of wildflowers it's a welcome milk and a thoughtful gift she randomly brought in treats for Groundhog's Day she supplied most if not all of the items for the staff gift basket for the sweetheart Gala we really appreciate her servant's heart and this is a compilation of a lot of people's conflict nursing is always supporting our students and us she continues to make all students safe here at Continental no matter what she is doing she will always try and help out she's a true team player Maureen is always thinking of others staff and students she's very thoughtful and a generous person if there is a need Maureen always contributes in some way she's always ready to help and goes above and beyond for this thank you we're going to add a couple words ourselves here [Music] um Marine is probably one of the bravest nurses that I've ever worked with she was brave enough to stand with us as an Administration to keep our school open during covet I know that wasn't this year but for her being willing to stand with us be creative think of the different strategies that we could use working with Pima County day in and day out and all the reporting that she did during those covered years that was required by the county for us to stay open countless hours like for poor husband we thank him too Joe is here because she would have to take those reports home because she couldn't get them done during their school day crack job and we're at nights and weekends to make sure that we can open again on Monday so honestly Your brave is one of the most dedicated individuals that I've had the pleasure to work with and I really appreciate her her dedication her time not only the continentalism organization but the staff and students held well and safe foreign had that she truly is the woman of all trades because she's a great nurse she's a great caretaker she's a great cook she baits she cooks she she rides the tractor during campus cleanup day so I just really appreciate Maureen for her willingness to always step in and help get the job done and again also Joe her husband for supporting her and allowing her and also supporting us and being here on campus on different occasions so thank you both but thank you Maureen we really appreciate you thank you I would like to say thank you too because you always have a smile on your face you're always making us laugh but you are a very thoughtful person and it's good for students to hear this about their staff members and their teachers and their nurse because they're great role models here on our campus too so thank you and um Mrs Gracia got nominated she's one of our teachers she's our kindergarten teacher unfortunately she wasn't able to make it tonight but we will make sure that we honor her at one of our upcoming staff meetings so congratulations to Mrs Garcia she was very honorable foreign t-shirt did you get your t-shirts and thank you for everything you guys are free okay so you got everybody's welcome to stay and see all the rest of the exciting meeting or um okay thank you [Music] for a second any comments [Music] and that leads us questions for you tonight you have the district financial report I believe that was accurate as of 8.4 um I overheard any questions that you may have on the district finances you just can't get that seven six going there I can but it would be wrong I'll miss the lady anybody have a motion to approve the district financial report a second okay any discussion okay yes this is somebody else yes Mr mcgibbon yes yes a new business day the annual superintendent summative evaluation that we went over in executive session um I need a motion to approve as discussed in the executive I'll make that motion to approve the evaluation as discussed previously in the example session a second okay any discussion Mrs left Weaver yes thank you and 11b the 301 plan for next year so with this plan um we have looked at it and this is first draft so we wanted to see if the board members had any thoughts on it what we have done is since we have early release Wednesdays every Wednesday which was not the case two three years ago a lot of the 301 committee work was after hours three to four o'clock and we realized that it's not um it's quality versus quantity of hours and time so you'll see that some of the Committees the way we've structured Wednesdays because we do have professional development we do have data digs we do have planning meetings and professional development for teachers during that time that that is their that is the primary role of the teachers in terms of teaching and learning and so we've kind of eliminated we've eliminated the curriculum committee the admin advisory committee because those will happen throughout our Wednesdays and early release with key people because we were kind of just working more towards compliance rather than commitment there are a few things as we look at the language that we would like to change just to kind of make it a little bit more positive and not so punitive because as you go through the document and there's a lot of highlighted areas of must mandatory required and and it's all about accountability and so we just wanted to tweak some of the language and we will bring it back to you for next month with blue lines on what we've added in red light work being taken off but one example naive you can scroll a little bit to the next page you'll see on the Chrome page where it says be responsible for their activity some of that language is not necessary and we do Post our 301 plan on our website so we do want it to to be more positive when you see at the bottom where it says staff enrolled in online classes are not exempt from track meet participation so we are going to to me one more time with the career ladder via the 301 steering committee to clarify some of this and if you scroll another one Miami um go back on top where it says administrators cannot assign alternative duties for any category that the administrator the building principle does have to have input into this plan so we're going to change recommend to the committee that we change that verbiage to the site principle along with the 301 steering committee that will assign alternative duties because we understand that life happens emergencies happen and you know you could be an outstanding Rockstar teacher but if unfortunately something happens there's always something that we can do to um assign them an alternative Duty so the point of clarification is not good you're asking for approval of concept rather than specifics because this is a draft right right so we just wanted you to approve the concept and the purpose of kind of what we've eliminated it'll be replaced by an actress yes yes so it's really still I think just a discussion yeah it's still a discussion realm we don't really have to vote on it today because we will vote on the final one but I did want you to have an ability of time to discuss the drafts those sound like a pretty good ideas soften it was on okay that was just a discussion do you really any discussion questions let me roughly what's that sorry what's that going to be the amount so they come out with the preliminary figure for weighted student account [Music] um we haven't put anything together on what that's actually going to be it didn't look like it was an increase though over over this year okay I want to say it was 757 dollars per weighted student account where this year it was already around 7 40.

with respect to exploring ways to increase private and grant funding it is a highlight that our one-of-a-kind partnership with Rush Medical will be continuing for the third consecutive calendar year and this partnership in in other efforts similar to that where we're reducing barriers to care for our employees and our medical insurance has been a Cornerstone of our strategy to keep medical insurance rates steady for six consecutive calendar years more importantly 36 percent of our employees that have District 308 medical insurance have never seen their premiums adjusted upwards that's more than one in three of our staff have never had to see their deductions go up come January 15th because of the need to increase our premiums now in looking back to last year and what we and how we intended to further the district's progress toward our goals we wanted to ensure that we had updated onboarding programs for all categories in place that we were identifying high quality and diverse teacher prep programs and prioritizing placement from those programs when all requests couldn't be honored that we were updating performance evaluation for different categories of employees and that we increased the utilization of Rush Medical as a percentage of our medical claims spent it's a pleasure to say that we have updated our administrator and teacher onboarding and training programs and that we're currently working on revising the onboarding program for support staff our student teachers for 2223 are coming to us from in-state institutions that have teaching programs with demographics that are aligned to our goals and I'm also pleased to report that we have had no need to prioritize placement because we have many cooperating teachers who are interested in sharing their skills and expertise with the next generation of teachers we have not yet but we are planning to update our performance evaluations for oespa ocma and our non-boarding support staff as many of our efforts this year were focused on revising certified evaluations to comply with new legislation and also our outpatient and Doctor claims at Rush Medical did represent an increased proportion of our medical claims compared to the prior year additionally we also entered into a memorandum of understanding with the oespa to assist in our retention efforts and we also negotiated an amazing contract with the OTA that will boost our Recruitment and Retention efforts for years to come when we're looking at what we're hoping to be able to accomplish for next year we're currently in negotiations with the oea and we're looking to negotiate a successor agreement that will enhance our climate and culture and increase student learning we're also hoping to be able to conduct a market analysis for compensation and benefits to facilitate our efforts to recruit and retain with a focus on those areas that are traditionally harder to staff we're seeking to build relationships with regional universities and organizations that reflect the community that we serve so that way we can further our efforts to recruit and retain high quality staff and also continue our partnership with Rush Medical and build upon that in focusing on the connections that we have to other areas Across The Envision 308 plan our efforts to negotiate an amazing contract with the OTA and to negotiate a retention-focused mou with the oespa will reduce turnover in the accompanying Financial impact of turnover on the district conservatively speaking turnover averages between 50 and 200 percent of the annual salary of the staff that is departing depending upon the level in the organization and so by keeping those numbers down not only are we going to be able to retain the investment in organizational knowledge and expertise that these staff members have picked up but we're also going to be able to help the bottom line at the same time so this focus on reducing turnover and increasing representation among our staff is also going to have a positive impact on students in our efforts to increase the breadth and depth of our onboarding programs will better equip them to be responsive to our student needs not only now but in the years to come finally our partnership with Rush Medical and also our new partnership with first stop health for telemedicine has created a Continuum of Care with no net out-of-pocket expenses for employees on our medical plan now not only has this allowed the district to keep medical rates steady for six consecutive calendar years but it's also reduced barriers to access for our staff to get the care they need when and where they need it so I know I've just covered a lot of ground in a very short amount of time so are there any questions that the board might have first off Ken I would just like to say congratulations on what you've done with the benefit plan for our employees here in District 308 you know six years of of consistency and 36 percent of our employees never knowing what it is like to increase in the in their cost of benefits is outstanding for uh for any organization especially in today's day and age so congratulations on that thank you um I just have one question um and for those of us for those of us that are teachers and um those of us certainly who are talking to our colleagues and so forth um it it seems like we have as our as our student population diversifies right um we have many um by by having by not having diversity in the staff we have many um teachers who are people of people of color many times that are dealing with larger amounts of students who are choosing them as their trusted adult and one of my concerns and I'm curious what we're doing is to ensure that we're not burning them out right in other words if um these teachers many times are having larger amounts of students who are who are engaging them and and and that can be um that can be a lot to put on someone's plate and I am just uh I'm happy to see us uh diversifying and and and and bringing in more diversity but my concern is for those that are already here I don't want to burn burn them out and I hope the question makes sense and if you need me to clarify one I'm just curious what we're doing to make sure that that's not occurring it is really stressful especially for our Junior High and our high school teachers we're not hearing that as much from the elementary that are there but certainly at Junior High that is a concern that you have so many people that are leaning you know to them one of the ideas that we're discussing it wouldn't be until the fall is to have some Affinity groups of those people to be able to come together not another after school meeting but something during the day that what what can what can we do to better support them in talking with other districts I haven't really seen somebody come up with a great here's what we need to do but maybe by gathering them we could at least show them some appreciation and maybe they have some ideas I had a quick question if that's all right um I think it was really interesting that you brought this up because it's something I'm going to talk about later in my little report but um you mentioned hiring uh diverse teachers having diverse faculty and this is something that I recently discussed with a group of students um that having diverse faculty makes students feel seen and heard and it builds a sense of community and safety that you feel at school that you don't really know you didn't have until you see it for the first time and I know I definitely felt that because we've had more teachers that look like me come into the school recently and I do realize that I'm leaning them on them a bit more so maybe having more diverse staff will prevent that burnout but I guess my specific question is are you looking at student demographics in any capacity when you're figuring out which demographics of teachers and faculty are bringing in because of course like I guess bringing in the correct demographics of stuff that get students can lean on might be important as well and that could be a factor but I'm not sure if that's something you're looking at right now well really what we're focused on is taking a look because we don't want recruitment efforts to become zero-sum where our gain is coming at someone else's loss as far as the existing overall makeup of teachers within the state of Illinois are those that are licensed to be able to come to Illinois to teach what I'm looking at is from data that's gathered by the Illinois Board of higher education in their degree in enrollment data tools what are the demographics of those teachers those people who are graduating with bachelor's degrees or master's degrees in education from in-state institutions of higher education what is the pool of available talent that exists and are our hiring practices mirroring those that are coming into the profession because otherwise we get into a zero-sum type situation where where all all districts are doing is robbing Peter to be able to pay Paul and at the end of the day that's I want to see us be able to grow and I want us I want to see this District be able to take advantage of the talent that's that's coming into the ranks of Education who are motivated who are excited to be here who just spent four years or longer of their lives honing their craft to be able to step in front of students for the first time in an official capacity that's that's an area that we definitely want to be able to focus on because to do anything else would would in invariably as we go down you know as you go two or three moves out on the chessboard becomes Zero Sum at that point so thank you in addition to what Mr Miller said um one of the strategies that we use this year was to expand the pool that we're drawing from so we about tripled quadrupled our attendance at job fairs we went outside of our typical um kind of within the two hours and we actually went to our surrounding states both urban and rural and Suburban areas to really try to diversify the candidate pool that we were trying to attract myself members of HR and Mrs comidas are working to also rebuild that recruitment website because we're looking at a new generation also of talent and um looking at different recruitment strategies based not only about the schools and recruiting to the schools but also to the area also there's a lot that we have to offer in our community and surrounding areas that we want to kind of get us out on the map and recruit a wide variety of people to come to meet our students needs and reflect our students for our staff thank you thank you for saying that Dr Kincaid did you get your question answered on you um to some degree it wasn't exactly what I expected but I got the question answered so thank you both so much I think it's really important and I challenge the administration here and whoever the new superintendent might be that it can we can go beyond Educators our our Dean's assistants our Deans our um custodial Crews our I would like to see some more diversification in our Administration um it doesn't have to be a teacher I know when I was growing up and going through school wasn't always a teacher that became my trusted adult it could have been mine was the librarian it can be anybody so I challenge our administrators our higher those that are hiring in our district to look Beyond and continue to make sure that our staff and its entire entity reflects our community and our student body I wanted to ask the question regarding like our grow your own um exploration we have been you know looking at it and reviewing it and I would like to understand like what are the challenges around growing your own and what you know are we interested in going that route what do we need to be doing about about that and then the other thing is I know that there are teachers who live in our district and they work somewhere else so what is the you know what what is what is that about um I can guess but just wondering people just don't want to teach and work in the same Community okay I know and I'm sure they're probably they're probably more more issues right than just that yeah but um I would love to understand like the grow your own piece and where what what what has stopped us from doing it what is it that and we know that it's a benefit there are many other districts who do it and do a really good job at it so what is it about us that we we can't get off the ground with that and by growing your own you're talking about having high school students experience teaching and giving them time to do that and not just them but like other individual in our school system who are currently work for us putting them in a program that would help them be to become teachers as well so we currently have a few opportunities right now we had a partnership with a local University this past fall where they were working on their administrative endorsement so we in essence worked collaboratively at the University to give them release time from their teaching responsibilities to be able to do that internship that's required similar to a student teaching for their admin endorsement we also currently have a a cohort that are working on their El certification that we are funding some of the tuition so there are programs going on within the district to help grow our own or expand the opportunities for our current staff we definitely could look at expanding that program but there are some programs currently in place within the district so those programs are they producing in yield for us what we expect I'm very excited about the El endorsement we've utilized a couple of the recent pieces already for our staffing for the fall in hard to reach areas so that's been exciting and where we really struggle sometimes in having teachers that have the proper certification for English Learners this year we do not have near as many gaps absolutely so our university has a program and we're not partners with them in this District but there are universities the problem at the end of the day boils down to who can you get to go into teaching and who wants to do that and you have to do that with you educator programs in your or clubs in your buildings and at the end of the day you have to get them in college you have to get them through college and they have to graduate college but I just like I would I hear what you're saying a hundred percent I would just caution that sometimes when we talk about we need to add more diversity I want to caution us not to hire some all things being the same I think you should hire someone that is diverse but I don't want us to start a I don't want us to start just hiring somebody based on a peer you know what I mean on a culture I just like I don't think that's the intention I don't it's not the intention but like sometimes when we talk about it like people hear what they want to hear so I I just I think people people um and I think we could do more for our Tas too because we have Tas in our building who are incredibly different that population of Tas is incredibly diverse and if you could get them in a teacher program and somehow help them out and get them into their teaching degrees I mean these are people who are working with our highest need Kids all the Time those are the kind of adults you want in your buildings as staff and we don't currently do anything for them and there is a organization called grow your own that you that you can look at to model it's it's a phenomenal organization but it is hard to get people to take I mean as you know the decline of of people going into education but I think the opportunity within the TA population is tremendous I think also what you choose to measure and what you focus on um is incredibly important writing down those goals and I think on the flip side of that I think that's the easy part is um pulling down barriers when organic opportunities come I do know that our talk hike program has started to take their mentors and go into different schools and so the and honestly Caitlyn you can probably speak to this more than than myself but that is such an incredible way to create those um the grow your own organically which is their their meeting with their mentors they're they're programming with their mentors their mentors then go to their what would you call it their home school if you will so what's your home school um mine's Old Post but we haven't run a hike that's actually next week so we haven't yet to do it at Old Post but I know a lot of people do it um box Chase is one of them in Boulder Hill I believe but um the feedback I've heard from that is really great and students look forward to seeing those mentors and I think it's really good to make those connections especially with older students and then having whatever that population is of our mentors who want to go into teaching how do we then support them through the process but how do we also remove that we find out that this program works how do we want replicate that success and remove barriers so that it can work across verticals like not just teaching but like maybe it's custodial maybe it's technology maybe it's I can't of all the ones but you know where do we take that and why don't we make that a goal and write it down and then really focus on that so because Latonya I wrote that as my second bullet point what is going on with growing your own because we keep talking about it but we're not focusing on it and measuring it and so yeah and so jump um with regard to accountability because you brought that up and Ali brought it up earlier um we know what gets measured gets done right and so where where you know what are we doing in terms of our evaluations that would help us to um achieve more success if we are evaluating and holding people accountable for um you know these areas that we're interested in you know Mr simultane the second question you asked is uh you know why do teachers why do people work in school systems you know that live here in other places and I can I can tell you over over my time here that's the one question and I always ask anyone that says they're in education and say why don't you why don't you work here in 308 and you know you can get you can get a you get a variety of answers for that just like one just like aliens in regards to um sometimes people just don't want to work actually in the same schools where their kids go to school um sometimes it's that they moved here they moved here and they already have tenure in another school district so they're you know they're they already have they're already stable in that school district what have you sometimes they just love their school districts sometimes they just love the school district they're in that's true so I think there's a lot of I think there's a lot of answers to that question thank you want to share your answer [Music] well you know me I I sometimes I'm an open book to a fault but I actually did apply here a number of years ago yeah and uh no but the reason I bring it up is because I knew going in that I was probably not going to get to the position I don't want to speak ill the position was more geared towards a language arts position and the social studies it was half language arts half social studies and for my fellow social studies teachers out there you'll probably be able to relate to the following story um I knew that um they wanted somebody who was stronger in ela then in social studies and I was I had my endorsement uh Ela at the middle school level but my primary focus was social studies so sometimes it's also a matter of what's available here and what what you can teach and so I never took it personal or anything like that and to be honest with you to Ali's point I find it extreme rewarding to serve the community I I live in here this way and serve the community that I work for and there's a lot of lessons that can be learned learned from bringing those pieces in I talked to a lot of Educators quite often in this District who work elsewhere and it is it is educational to share those experiences and so I I get the desire to have people here but there's also and and I see the downside but there's also there's also a positive to that which is many of those Educators have enlightened me quite a bit over my tenure here as far as some of the things that are going on in their own District good and bad right I just didn't want to teach chemistry I got offered the job I thought I went straight for the physics job see many many reasons many reasons thank you thank you Mr thank you Ken well done all right moving on to 6.1 superintendent report all right good evening board tonight I have a few items I'd like to cover um as we all know on March 27th there was a school shooting in Tennessee our hearts go out to the community and the victims families whenever tragedies such as the one in Nashville happen it causes us to think about school security and what we can do to help prevent these types of things from happening within our own community another way to look at the question is to look at what we've done and what and to reflect on what else can be done uh Mr Plover and I were talking last week uh in regards to this and I felt that I should highlight some of the advancements in school security that we've made over the past 10 years within our school district Safety and Security is always something that we take very seriously when thinking about Safety and Security there are many things to consider ten years ago we started out by adding alarms to our schools to ensure that they're secure in the evening hours we then looked at security measures during the day we've created secure vestibule entrances where people are able to enter the vestibule but not the building here we've added air phones and video equipment where front office Personnel are able to screen people prior to entering the main offices we are currently in the process of adding another layer to this where the vestibule entrance will soon be locked and visitors will be screened prior to entering it once admitted admittance is given into that vestibule the door to the main offices remain closed with video surveillance to ensure that the only person that has entered a vestibule is the person that that we that we admitted once in the main office we have the Raptor system which screens visitors against sex offenders and Custom Custom databases prior to gaining entry into the building outside of the main office and then to gain entry into the main school you have to get through another secure entrance over the years we've added hundreds of security cameras throughout all the buildings of our district that are used to Monitor and record information we've also looked at the exterior of our buildings to ensure what Security Experts consider line of sights around all of our campuses we've implemented Alice alert lockdown and form counter and evacuate training in all of our schools our administrators are trained in Alice and we conduct an active Intruder drills at all of our buildings we allow the police to use our vacant robber building to conduct training drills with an in an actual School we also work with our law enforcement to help ensure that they have the tools if an event does arise they have maps of all of our schools and we are working on providing them camera access to in an event that just in case any type of situation to help in any type of response this year we hired a safety and security coordinator for our district who is also looking at additional screening and prevention technology and over the years we've promoted see something say something to what with all of our students we have the safe to help as well it's a free service that allows students to reach out 24 7 by way of phone text or Internet in our obligations as school administrators to report clear and present danger also helped to create a safer state in Illinois pursuant to the Firearms owner identification card act when a student or other person demonstrates threatening physical or verbal Behavior determined to pose a clear and present danger to themselves or others School administrators must submit a report to the Illinois State Police within 24 hours and the state police evaluate these reports and prevent individuals who pose a danger from Legally accessing firearms for firearm Ammunition by revoking that individual's FOID card from preventing them uh that will get it preventing them to get one in the future so those are some of the ways that we've increased security and safety in School District 308 over the past 10 years because again when whenever we have such a tragedy such as the one that happened in Nashville people want to say well what what are you going to do and it's not so much what are we going to do it's what have we done and then as I said when I first started my comments as always continually looking at what else can we do to to ensure to the best of our abilities the safety of our students and our staff on March 22nd we held our community advisory committee meeting and Mr Bell executive director of student services started us out with a high level overview of the changes to the 23 24 student rights of responsibilities that we are going to be the board's going to be asked to approve this evening they were Rich discussions at each table and at the beginning of the meeting each administrator at each table provided feedback for each of the groups that rotated through feedback also being that also from that evening is included in the document that we're asking you to approve this evening two other quick items I wanted to share that Dave Jeffers uh building engineer Brokaw Early Learning Center is a top 10 finalist in the sentis custodian of the Year contest yes Cintas will offer 5000 and census and Rubbermaid products and services to the winter school and the winter school will also receive a facility assessment and Consulting package from Issa the worldwide cleaning industry Association valued at thirty thousand dollars the winner is determined by the number of votes one receives information is on our website and how to vote this would be a great tribute to one of our employees to be recognized as the custodian of the year as well as a benefit to our school district so I Contin I encourage you to visit the website and vote and you can vote until April 14th and we wish Dave the best and on a final note last week was National assistant principles week I'd like to take an opportunity to thank our assistant principals for all that they do their commitment to our staff our students in the community of SD 308 they are all very much appreciated I know that report was a little lengthy but but that is my report for this evening so thank you Ms Hamilton I I just want to say thank you for addressing that I know I have quite a bit um since since the event and a lot of concerned um community members and parents so I'll appreciate you addressing uh addressing that tonight great thank you can I comment as well I think something that as I've transitioned from a parent and Community member to a board member that I think is incredibly important to touch on when we do have um something happened in the in the community in the schools whether it be a school lockdown whether it be the I don't know a variety of things oftentimes our human um nature is to go to the internet and start talking about what may or may not have happened and why hasn't the school called us and why hasn't the district informed us and um I just want to make a plea to our parents and community members out there that our staff is so myopically focused on the safety of our students and our staff when something happens they are going to communicate as soon as it's safe they are going to communicate as soon as they know that all of the checks and balances that have been put in place have been checked and balanced so I encourage parents when they are like well my child texted me my student texted me and told me this my student students have such a small purview into what actually is going on in totality but I also know that our communication in times of Crisis is incredibly quick but please know that there is a process happening behind the scenes to ensure the safety of all of our students and all all of our staff and you will be communicated to as soon as it's safe I appreciate that because as quick as we are we can't be as fast as social media and uh and as you said the number one priority always is the safety security of the situation at hand and the second is the communication piece so thank you for that appreciate it we get a little bit you know the board wants to know as well because we start getting phone calls and it's taken some time to for myself to train myself not to be like I just heard on you know the Oswego mom's page that this happened what's going on John you know and so it has been I just ask that we all do that and give our administrators and our teachers and our students the time to get to a safe point and all of the correct information will come from the school as soon as it's possible there's also a whole set of things that you didn't share tonight that happened in buildings in our district that we are not purview and should not be purviewed to to also increase the safety of our staff and our students and so there is so much that goes on behind the scenes that I just want to thank all of our administrators and teachers for um for keeping our our students and staff safe very good all right 6.2 student ambassador report hi everyone so the ssac plans to meet twice next week uh we finally finished our survey surrounded surrounding mental health and we hope to finalize some of those last minute details and plan for a day when we are sending this out to the student body uh just as a reminder this survey is going to have three sections including student-to-student interactions student to teacher interactions and building accessibility it'll have long answer questions and multiple choice questions in order for us to best receive feedback from our student body today we also got the chance to talk with other students in a focus group surrounding the search for the new superintendent and it was split by schools but I thought it was very impactful to hear the voices of other students and something that was I it was really strange but I thought it was really awesome that we all had such different perspectives in our group but we all share the same goal of wanting to help our student body and I feel like in all the other conversations I've had with other students I never really got that same feeling and drive in students and everyone wanted something different so I think today our little focus group was very impactful in how we talked about our community and our schools and how students are interacting with each other in them um Oswego East also had focus groups and artists took place right here at the school we also were talking about the search for the new superintendent and one thing that I would love to add to Caitlyn's point is that it was really interesting to see students really take the opportunity to use their voice if they're provided the opportunity and Caitlin and I had to work hard to like find people that represented a wide portion of our student body because of course you can't have all like 3 000 of us heading to a room to talk it's a little bit difficult but I saw people that weren't really comfortable speaking in big groups and I saw people who love speaking in big groups and people who had a lot of opinions and people who didn't know they had as many opinions coming into this room but they all really took advantage of the opportunity to be able to advocate for their students and they really took to heart that they weren't just representing themselves they were representing their like their fellow students I guess I just wanted to talk about some of of the big points that they emphasized a lot throughout the meeting that I was definitely touched by the first one was diversity which is like a super big topic so I guess I'll break it down a bit um first they wanted to talk a little bit about teachers faculty how certain students have uh teachers that are from the same Faith as them or who look like them or share beliefs with them and they're able to find a community with that and they really appreciated that they talked about the fact that having different communities that are recognized by teachers in schools and respected by teachers in schools is extremely important because when they feel unheard or unseen by teachers for who they completely are it's hard to thrive in that learning environment they talked a lot about the fact that especially oahs because I can't speak for OHS but add to this if you definitely agree but there's a lot of extracurricular opportunities in our district we have so many opportunities for students to express their interests and that's that's really amazing but a lot of the time these aren't pushed as much for a lot of students who don't even know that they exist or who don't know that Mental Health Resources exist or where they are in schools um we were talking about the fact that when we're getting a new superintendent but also when we're working on building bridges between Administration teachers students and parents we want to emphasize these resources a lot more and I guess the last thing that we talked about was making sure that we are communicating effectively and in a way that's receptive to students especially we did feel that information is being communicated to our community a little bit better especially in recent years and we appreciate that but a lot of the times like high school students get the information first and we're all deliberating privately and then like a day later we'll get some information and it's like totally different and we're all really confused and there's several events that have happened this year that caused that to happen so I guess one thing we really wanted to talk about was not just strengthening like Administration to community and parent conversations but directly Administration to student conversations as well especially at the high school level that was a lot of talking but thank you so much I think that was everything from my side did you want to add anything um maybe just like a couple of the bigger things we talked about too we talked a lot about staff diversity that was one of the first things that got brought up um even by like we've talked about this in other meetings before and it was brought up by students who didn't even attend those meetings so that was really great to know that students will share their voice like Anya said and we also talked about how there are a lot of clubs and extracurriculars that students want to do but the accessibility and engagement in them has started to like fall back and we might have the resources to put on a club or activity for school but the engagement is so low that it doesn't always succeed and then that causes them not to continue in the future I was just yeah I know I'm not I'm always wild but yeah I was thinking about how when our search firm asked us to identify students for a focus group and we were sharing with them that we have student Representatives on our board and that we have every confidence that we could put that into your hands and that you would do a fabulous job of handling it and so I loved when you said we wanted to make sure we worked really hard to make sure that all voices are being heard that you Diversified the group of students in the room so that you would make sure that you had the voices in the room that needed to be there and so I so appreciate the efforts that you've made toward that in and we knew we would be able to have confidence and if we put that in your hands so thank you for the opportunity the search firm also told us that they had much more fun with you than us so they got a lot from you yeah they said don't take any offense but the student Forum was the coolest best so we're just like well which by the way on that note committee report um I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna turn to you a little bit because um we'll get there but don't go anywhere whatever you do because I want to hear your voice on that student voice okay well we're here now that first yeah 6.3 board committee reports is that what you're referring to I am yeah and I would love to start off because I'm going to tell you that I don't want to speak for for Mr Cerrone here but I have to say that that was promoting uh tell them what you're talking about I'm sorry our Dei committee Equity advisory committee yeah Equity advisory committee sorry sorry my fault sure I'll hear about that one um but it was probably one of the most rewarding experiences I've had as a board member and I'm not going to sit here and talk about it but I would love to because we have two people and I understand I get it that there's notes on that and everything but the the premise of this is we brought in many students we had some very um awesome conversations but I'd actually love to love to hear from them if they want to offer anything can you just preference it by saying well why were they there what was the topic that kind of thing sure although I I would I would love to hear from them but if you want me you want me to do it that's fine why were they there like we decided do you want me to speak or yes yes okay so we decided when we were doing this one of the things we wanted to do was we wanted to dear from students we like you know that's that's we talk about Equity so we wanted to hear directly from a group of students and um so we sat down and we did a lot of listening and was very interesting okay I would love to hear it we would love to hear it thank you Caitlyn so I'm kidding so the conversation was about equity and learning environments like it was that broad yep you're asking me yeah yes yes awesome that is such a big topic um but it's definitely one especially in my second year in this position that Dr Waller has definitely emphasized a lot she's big on that and I'll admit I didn't know much about it before she talked to me about it so I guess when we're talking about equity in the learning environments I'm sure I don't need to tell you guys this but I guess I'll just give like my student outlook on what that means to me um and what it means to students it means that we're being given an equal chance to thrive in the learning environment and that doesn't always mean we get the exact same resources or the exact same opportunities because someone might need a different opportunity to thrive just as well or just as much as they need to in comparison to another student when we're talking about equity in the learning environment I think the most important aspect that I've seen among the communities I know in my school is on that individualized diversity Spectrum because when we're looking at students who have who come from extremely different backgrounds or different values when they're not having those parts of themselves addressed in the learning environment whether that be part of the curriculum or not it inhibits from that and it feels so I guess my the example that I'm thinking of in my head when I'm saying this is I was in my AP human geography class and we were learning about different cultures and there was one religion that was talked about and one culture that was talked about like for about like five weeks and then there was one of those taught taught in like maybe three or four days um that's of course based on the AP Human Geography curriculum but when when we're in a class that's talking about you know the entire world at scale perhaps deviating a bit from that very rigorous curriculum to make sure that everyone is feeling hurt in that learning environment is important now does that necessarily mean that you're getting an opportunity from that no it's not like you're getting like an internship or something but you're getting an opportunity to learn and when you learn about different cultures especially in a world that's as diverse as ours right now you're more likely to succeed because you'll be able to meet different people you'll be able to talk to them in the future and you'll be able to understand them better I don't think that diversity is taught the way that it needs to be and that's taking away from our students ability to thrive in the future when they'll inevitably be people who are extremely diverse that's one of the biggest ones that I've seen so far that we actually talked a lot about today in our student focus groups I'm done [Applause] I mean I know we might as well and thank you brother yeah I do we actually scripted it so I rehearsed for a really long time that's so important especially if they Dr Kincaid I mean I think that's so important when we take that back to you know when curriculum is being purchased or developed I think that is something that lens that needs to it needs to go through that lens because you kind of heard it from being responsive and sustained practices yes yeah wow um so at our table for this meeting we talked a lot about safety um and we were we acknowledged that we do love all the clubs and things that we have at our school and we have been able to Foster environments within those clubs for students to feel safe and to have teachers to go to the sponsors who run our clubs are very good and they will reach out with helping students when they need it um So within those individualized clubs we do have supports for students in places where they can accomplish the goals that they want to accomplish but with that also came people saying as soon as they stepped out of those clubs they don't feel safe in the hallways they don't feel safe in their classes um and we talked a lot about like knowledge and people just don't understand that some of their actions are um can like be taken in different ways and they are negative and they they don't create environments where students feel safe and I think that's also a really important thing is knowledge people always say knowledge is power and I think that some people take that very lightly but I really think that if you're knowledgeable about something even if you don't fully support it if you know about it and you have the ability to ability to understand and put forth like the effort to care about others then we can really create environments where students feel safe in our schools [Applause] absolutely I want to click a clarifying question physically safe psychologically safe both um I think we talked a little bit about both intellectually safe all of those things yeah yeah all of them I think that is something that the administration needs to hear and understand what that means and how that's those supports can be better resourced so thank you for bringing that yeah it was we just got it was very it was it was a lot it was in the classroom it was in the hallways it was in any physical space it was you know in diverse of staff there was yeah it was great conversation it was also uh you know recognizing differences uh in in the school culture because we were listening to high schoolers so it was it was very cool so you guys aren't just sitting you are putting forth ideas and thoughts and giving us insight and it's our responsibility to act on those things and so we hear you and this is really working it's working really well yeah yeah Mr pluger you said that you talk to other students too about equity in the learning environment um could I ask like some of the things that they brought up because I know there's a lot of like more academic focuses on Equity that I don't know if they brought that up or not yeah and you know it kind of relates to my you know I I really was able to relate to what you were saying with with e-classes and as some AP it can be frustrating because at on one point you're really trying to prepare your students and on the other point they bring up the exact same things you do which is p you know students want to see themselves right they want to be able to relate um and and sometimes right sometimes teachers certainly and Educators I should say can certainly help by by stepping out of their comfort zone or getting to know um what's going on um and and it's sometimes it's hard to describe you know um and sometimes I have to keep my mouth quiet because I gotta share the time up here but when we had the example of um you know trying to bring in staff um there was an example here at OE where my my son he runs cross country and and all of a sudden um we have an uh an all-girls Muslim school that was here running against them and I look over and it's it's my it's my former student right who's the coach uh which was just awesome um but one of the things I learned because I learned from my students constantly is she did not go to school to be a teacher she would school be an accountant and this was her way and she was explaining this to me that she was giving back right so she was doing a year of giving back um and teaching and of course me as the educator I was like hey well you know you never know and it's like no no Mr plugger I'm gonna be an accountant I'm like okay um but but it's those little nuances and I think sometimes listening and sometimes to your point everything you're you're you're saying I I sit here because my with my own students I hear that there's this feeling it doesn't matter whether it's reality or not it's the feeling of not being heard I ironically I'm going to say I hear that loud and clear but um and that seems to be a common a common theme and I understand that we as adults have um our own perceptions and our own feelings and our own things with that but uh and and we do need to prepare our students for the reality of the world on the other hand in some ways our students and this is uncomfortable for many adults to admit in some ways our students are more in tune with the reality of the world than we are and I think that's uncomfortable at some times to to point out and talk about it's an uncomfortable conversation for adults because they have to go into a place that they're not comfortable with and one of those things that I hear all the time is you know um where where is where is my community here right um and and sometimes to your point yes there there are but then like how much pressure is on those those uh those faculty those those Educators because that's a huge that's a huge burden at that point and I don't think we understand sometimes that feel like they're always on you know under under a microscope more so appreciate the question I hope I answered it did I answer yeah and thank you I guess for like talking about that a lot too because I guess it's nice from like the student perspective to get the full picture of how things work around here because of course like I didn't know that before I came up here so thank you [Music] come all of these reports Equity finance and facilities and policy committee reports are online or in board Docs um and then do we have any other questions on any of the other ones I just would actually like to invite our community and our students to our teaching the learning meeting tomorrow evening at The District administration Center room 61 at is it six or six thirty six right the agenda is to discuss three policies six colon 130 program for the gifted six colon 260 complaints about curriculum and six colon 290 homework we are also on the agenda to discuss parent teacher conferences parent involvement controversial topics the curriculum objection form and we would really love any student and or parents to join us and provide feedback so I just wanted to throw that out there very good all right 6.4 board member comments any board member comments trying to make it quick uh I made quite a few School visits because as we mentioned earlier uh some of us Educators work in different districts so it's always an interesting two weeks where this district is on spring break and I'm not and then the following week I am on spring break and and this District isn't so um I'll make this quick visited Prairie Point uh noticed uh phonics instruction stuck out to me the dhh program always sticks out to me when I go there Library I'm always impressed with our libraries I don't know why but I always uh Churchill was definitely one of the highlights and fun I get to exercise do calisthenics with some kindergarteners one actually asked me if I was a rock star that was interesting uh no I'm not although it wasn't a band back in the day but that's yeah they literally asked me that and that was that was funny I love kindergartners they're great um the homestead the fourth and fifth graders they grilled me on government wow oh yeah and that was awesome uh to say the least uh so that was uh that was fun uh like it's great going to these schools uh an old post the thing that stuck out to me was the SEI programs I could sit here and talk about it forever but no one wants that I know so but thank you to all the staff and the principals and assistant principals at those schools I appreciated it should we copyright calisthenics with kindergarteners that's a nice ring to it it was it was it was cool like uh yeah it was a great brain break and yeah it was awesome I have one I had a phenomenal opportunity and I have a picture but I promise I burned it already uh I was I had a phenomenal opportunity to attend an event uh the BSA black Excellence um event that was held last week and the purpose of the event was really to provide the students with the opportunity to showcase and to celebrate Black excellence and and I all of these student events that we attend from sporting events to Fine Arts I'm just always to even the academic events there's another well I'll talk about that in a second um it was a fun it's always phenomenal for me just to watch the um the talent that we have in our schools and so we had we were able to observe Runway walks to poems to cello performances uh to trumpet and cello Duets um art and and digital art displays we have such phenomenal talent in our district and I just always am impressed and and thankful to have the opportunity to display so wonderful event most definitely in poems although I'm sorry I don't know if I said that but wonderful event and was glad I had an opportunity to attend at the end I guess it's custom that they call everyone up from the audience to come and dance but I did not know that there was a photographer there taking pictures when I was forced to go up there but it was fun I enjoyed uh doing the wobble with the kids you know what I I um I invited the community last meeting to attend the uh MSA fassathon I went ahead and participated um I failed on the drinking water part um and I admitted it I didn't realize that part but um I made it all the way till eight or whatever got a nice uh nice meal there there were some great speakers they had a trivia contest um on you know your what you know about Islam and Muslims and it was uh it was great yeah and one of the speakers talked about you know the benefits Universal benefits of fasting um temperament you know ground you makes you appreciate what you have I I didn't write down I I did but I didn't bring those notes here and then there was another lady she was an author of a book um she was an Egyptian uh Muslim and uh you know her experience in in Plano and you know how she has uh you know there's misinformation and you know a lot of different things so it was it was it was great to go so I just figured I'd indicate that as well yeah um I just wanted to remind the community that he um search for the new superintendent the um survey is available online on the District home page if you'd like to access it it's about 20 Questions shouldn't take you very long at all if you'd like to fill it out I had asked Dr sparlin um and he assured me that our students and our staff would be able to take the survey during school hours so we're looking forward to setting aside some time for them to take that so that they can participate and then just a reminder that tomorrow there is a open forum for our entire community at is it six o'clock or six thirty six thirty and where is it it's at Old Post in the gymnasium and they should use door number one to get in Old pulse in the gymnasium and use door number one and then there's an open form for staff only at 4 30 4 30 where same place same place okay and also tomorrow your kids should get some sleep because the SAT is happening it's good to know I just wanted to make um too quick I just wanted to share two quick things um before our policy meeting um not this last one the one before that Pathways um if you don't know has two micro businesses one of them is Creations by Pathways and the Phoenix Cafe we were very lucky to right before our policy meeting to attend the Creations by Pathways craft show and it absolutely blew me away what our young students are learning with regard to Independent Living skills employability skills functional academic skills absolutely unbelievable work going on there I just wanted to give a huge shout out to principal Mecklenburg and the entire staff over there I bought some of the coolest products that I um that I now treasure for Easter that we'll have in my home that will always remember and just to see our students selling things behind the cash register like adding things up and doing things skills that I think we all could have a refresher in was just incredible to see what was going on over there and then I just also wanted to share an email that was actually shared with me and how I just am so proud of our students I'm so proud of the things that they do the voice that they use and this one happens to be from a student who was writing to his teacher I'm not going to say the names but dear so and so I wanted to thank you for reaching out to me as you see that I'm having a horrible time recovering from such a horrific illness I just wanted to thank you personally this news was really exciting to me and I'm not going to share what that was about that it almost brought me to tears it's no exaggeration when I say that I am incredibly blessed and honored to attend this school and to be your pupil I truly can't remember a time as a child where I could confidently say that the entire school had my back until I attended goal once again thank you a thousand times I just I was so touched when that email was shared with me and it just goes to show that our students are thriving in all of the different programs that we offer and I'm incredibly proud of our staff for the incredible work that they're doing here all right moving on to 7.1 consent agenda agenda are there any questions on the consent agenda um I have a question at some point too so foia's I'm curious what is our process for alerting the board when the Attorney General finds we did not release enough information for a foil Dr Betsy would you like to answer it yeah so um any uh any person who requests a foia can uh not agree with our response or feel like we're not sharing as much information as they think we should and so they can request to the attorney general or the Public Public Access um and they can have the foia reviewed and what we do in that process is we give the attorney general or someone on their staff the unredacted uh response and the redacted response and then they determine whether or not we were in line with the redactions so uh anyone can do that and it doesn't change our process in my honestly in my 17 years I've had three people question uh this last time we did have one person question and uh if anything was found to be an error then we would notify the Board of Education about that but otherwise we fulfilled Our obligation in fulfilling the foia request and we didn't notify the board at that time so if we want something to change or if you want to know if we're challenged we can certainly let you know that too I just want to know the process I appreciate it thank you yeah you're welcome all right can I have a motion to approve the consent agenda I make a motion to approve all items under consent including minutes from the Board of Education meeting on March 20th 2023 open and close session and to acknowledge the foia request received by the district second Miss Swanson aye Mr Cerrone aye Ms simultan aye Mr Gatewood aye Miss Johnson aye Mr ploger aye motion passes 6-0 8 win his financial statements does the board have any questions on what has been presented this evening item 8.2 uh Dr petsky all right it's always nice to change seats for presentation um tonight um on the agenda what I've got is just a conversation and see if there's any questions that the board might have but the village of Montgomery is actually looking at some development and so what I want to do is take this opportunity to talk the board about what development commercial industrial manufacturing development could look like and uh what exactly number one it is and why we're talking about that so presented by me but obviously in the background I'm working very closely with our property attorneys uh Brittany feast and Stuart Witt just to make sure that uh we're dotting the eyes and crossing the t's on this so some of the project background just so that you're aware of the last three to six months we've been working with the village of Montgomery's Economic Development Office they've been working on a series of projects that include several Parcels of land that are currently in our district it is a very competitive market so the commercial properties that were looking at developing there's the developers could go anywhere they want to go and they're choosing to look at Montgomery so uh they're they're right now the Montgomery economic develop Corporation is working with the village of Montgomery waubonsie Community College Kendall County and the school district to see about what incentives or our appetite for incentives otherwise known as abatements that we're willing to support so just to fill in on what an abatement is a property tax abatement is just a way to support or promote the expansion of businesses at the locations for new businesses um basically a business that receives approval from a taxing body what they get is um they're going to invest dollars to develop a site to build infrastructure um to buy the property to do a bunch of things to have their business there um what we'll receive is a benefit uh will receive increased property values um and things of that nature but Wilder while they're doing those Investments what they'd like to do is instead of paying us the full percentage of the updates to the property tax or the properties that they would be updating they would be seeking an abatement so in other words they would they let's say they have a ten thousand dollar parcel of land and they develop it and it's now all of a sudden worth a hundred thousand dollars we would get more tax dollars because of those Investments but in order to go from ten ten thousand to a hundred thousand they have to invest in that property as well so when they pay their taxes on those developments or those updates they they would be able to pay a lesser lesser property tax value use that to invest and then after a certain amount of time we would collect the full assessed value on that property probably the worst explanation on a property tax abatement I've ever given if there's questions on that um we'll we'll definitely talk about that a little bit more what I did want to show the board today in the community was just uh the location the property property that we're talking about um so if you look up here we're looking at Galena Road and Orchard Road it's kind of where the old Caterpillar plant was there's vacant land in that area in green that you can see to the west and to the south of that plant and on the picture to the right you can see how they're looking at developing that putting in some some commercial industrial distribution facilities in that area and in very very tiny writing in that blue box you can see some of the developments that are happening there as well so what I wanted to show the board today is okay that property you're collecting some assess assessments on that property now we are it's about 204 acres and if you look uh those four pin parcels and the number of Acres you can see what the current assess value is and then what the extension is so basically the school district is getting about uh six thousand dollars in tax revenue from those properties when it's developed we will get much more than that so I really want to just talk and offer that to the board and and kind of offer these recommendations number one is just to see um uh the administration is recommending that the board kind of provides some acknowledgment of its support for the development in those areas are there any questions you have as uh as they look at developing that for commercial industrial manufacturing types of facilities and those are questions that I can bring to the developers and things that I can have answered for you but also I'd like to ask the Board of Education provide some direction to the administration to allow myself and whitlaw to work with the village of Montgomery the Montgomery Economic Development Corporation and the other taxing bodies to really to really get the formal proposal what exactly are they asking for in terms of abatement how much how long and I'll be able to put some financials to that and tell you what the financial impact of that would be as well So based on that information just wondered if there were any questions or discussion as we move forward I have one how do you guarantee that it's not that it's business in that housing yeah because we've been down this road before where they've said it was senior housing and then it became something and then it was going to be veteran housing and then it became low income housing right so I have zero interest in abating I mean clearly I won't be here but I wouldn't Abate housing but I would have made business yeah so I I hear what you're saying so the residential component right absolutely not and uh but for commercial it depends on the investment and the and the uh what that's what that provides okay but I'm looking for a guarantee yeah and we can actually work that into the abatement agreement it's like what is this property to be used for so they don't change the use on us as well I would agree with with that piece but one thing I will say is um I have 100 appreciated um I want to acknowledge that the communication that comes out of the village of Montgomery and their board um you do an excellent job of of communicating and working with with their partners and um I have nothing but good things to say and nothing but good experiences and so um this is a controversial issue for sure um I get it uh but but to your point ali um we need more than houses here we need we need business along Orchard Road and um the other piece is you know I I am hopeful and I'm sure they are but I'm hopeful that they're doing whatever they can to make sure that that business stays here um and I I understand that this is part of that and that would be my my only message to them other than the one that Ali brings up which I think is valid too is okay we but we're also you know making this investment too so um and and I'm sure they are I have a lot of faith in them but um I want to acknowledge um I think they're great good that's nice to hear I've I've had some really good dealings with them as well so the village of Montgomery the Montgomery Economic Development uh committee they've been doing some really uh really close coordination um keeping us up to date on where they are yes as far as as far as I'm concerned yeah obviously your second bullet you know work with with law I'd be more interested in the details of the you know the abatements um and the long-term prospects um because obviously right now it's six grand but you know if we if there wasn't an abatement did we suspect it would be another 20 years before this developed kind of things along those lines I I just don't know the those kind of details um and there are there are some um in the village of Montgomery they do have some rules about abatements and things like that so we're going over those uh we're going over those and finding out how this fits and how exactly they're looking at quantifying the abatement amount and the time so we'll be engaging in those conversations oh yeah I'd love to see that yeah all right thank you Dr petsky most appreciated uh additional commercial industrial property with our 308 boundaries is a is a good thing so yeah um our next item is 8.3 this is an informational presentation and how to improve our transportation services and I know Dr petsky and Mr DeArmond are going to share some information with the board of education so with that it's all yours good evening thank you for letting me come and share with you tonight so we'd like to uh persist to the board for consideration developing and working with Tyler Tyler systems to for a system called Tyler Drive and then also part of that system will be another apparent app called versatrans my stop so what is all right so what is what is uh Tyler Drive so it's a it's a tablet solution it's uh it's a GPS solution so it's essentially uh nuts and bolts it's a it's a turn by turn drive a turn by turn GPS for the drivers but it's a multitude of other things too the technology allows us to do lots of things so one of the key safety features that we want to develop as part of the program is to have our students actually check in and on on off the bus I don't know if anybody's been in the uh I think Faith was with me in in the beginning of the school year when when police officers come knocking on transportation's door looking for kindergartner students that happen to get put on the wrong bus is that seems to be a repetitive thing every year they get put on the wrong bus or don't get off at the right bus stop uh with the check-in and check off software we would actually know what buses students got on we would know if they got off tried to get off at the wrong stop because it'll actually give you an alert if they're trying to get off at the wrong stop on the high school level it would keep students who aren't supposed to be on that bus off that bus sometimes we have that issue but definitely a strong safety feature that I'm really proponent of additionally route changes so right now in the craziness of being short staffed we're always making changes last second changes last minute changes a driver becomes available something changes we have them at the school but they don't have the route so now our process is we have to print off the route we have to create a PDF or scan it in at the printer send it to the we have to email it to whatever school they're at somebody in the school's got to get it off and print it off over there somebody's got to walk it out to the bus and and it's even happened that sometimes between all that they still end up getting the wrong route um so we could actually all they have to do now is just type in a code on the tablet and voila there they have the route and they have GPS directions so a driver potentially a driver that's never been in Oswego before could have GPS directions for a route right in front of him in a matter of seconds instead of going through the whole process of a driver trying to read a route sheet that's in about eight font eight five size eight font that I'm driving and trying to keep track of 40 elementary students and go down the road at the same time so anyhow so that that kind of moved right into that so substitute drivers new drivers people not familiar familiar with the area it would uh definitely be more safe for them to have this type of situation system in place um and then again kind of lastly our contractors they use different types of GPS systems with a tablet system we could actually provide tablets to our contractors and then we could all be under one GPS system you know currently somebody calls looking for a First Student Bus well now now I've got to go look into for students GPS system and dial up and I got to figure out which bus that is it can be become penitious but now with this type of system we can actually provide them the tablets and we would all be under one platform that we could view it from I think the question is probably going to arise well how is GPS better or than a paper if they've got to watch the GPS it's actually designed to go dark when the bus is moving and it's Audio Only so it would be Audio Only GPS system when they're actually moving so that they aren't distracted by that so what does Tyler Drive offer like I said it's a turn by turn navigation it helps eliminate the paper route sheets uh the Tyler drive integrates with our current versus trans routing and planning software which is also another Tyler product so it it integrates I don't want to say seamlessly because there is no such thing as technology integrating seamlessly but it integrates better and they've they've been doing this for a while they were kind of the innovators for this type of system so they've been around and they've done this a few times so also like I said gives us the ability to adjust in real time for route changes even even such something as simple as hey I've I got three students that didn't ride today I can take those students off the off the route right there on the tablet and the tablet will re re uh reroute for me automatically so I can take you know I can maybe knock 20 minutes off my route if these kids are way out of the way that aren't on the route also again increased accuracy for our ridership management and tracking I can get real-time updates on who's on the bus again to keep students reporting the wrong bus one of the things I'm really looking forward to would be is real-time student accounts which allow us to respond quicker to bus inefficiencies otherwise buses that aren't as full as they should be and or overcrowded buses um and you know so sometimes trying to get head counts uh actual head counts is sometimes difficult and usually it takes you know two three days over a week a week a period of trying to track to get those numbers so but with this with someone actually swiping their card on and off the bus we could actually have instant accounts almost every day now versatrans my stop what is that so part of this uh versus trans myself is a parent app it's a it's basically a ETA notification type app that would allow the would hopefully reduce it would reduce incoming calls to Transportation you know from people asking asking our dispatchers Hey where's the bus you know these things are this is always always worse when dispatchers need to focus the most uh you know first days of school bad weather when our dispatchers really need to be concentrating on what where the buses are and what they're doing and what's going on those are always the days when we get the most phone calls get the most people wanting to know Hey where's my bus what's going on where's you know so my stop would help us eliminate or reduce that it would also allow us another level of communication with our community with our members it's an app so we could actually push out notifications to that app so whoever's got the app would be able to get those and then it would also the mobile app would allow us to have multiple student families with multiple users so parents and students both will be able to view the bus ETA and receive those push notifications and why that's important is because as we go through here so communication is it Transportation everyone knows that the buses unfortunately are going to be late sometime but and it's the thing I always hear just tell me let me know let me communicate that to me that the buses that the bus is running late parents don't get so frustrated with the bus running late as they do the not knowing it's running late so this would allow us to be more timely because it's automatic it automatically gives you the ETA when the bus is going to arrive at your stop you can also set up what we call geofences so you could actually receive a notification say it passes through a certain intersection at a certain time you know that it's got to pass through that intersection five minutes before it gets to your house you can set up a notification so when it crosses that intersection you know you get a notification you know you got five minutes to get out to the bus stop currently our current notification process through Blackboard just rather time consuming you kind of got to jump back and forth from systems you got to jump into a system into Blackboard and it's very like I say time consuming susceptible to making mistakes then also again our incoming parent calls tend to overwhelm our office staff especially on the days like I said that they need to be most more focused and then again some of the issues I've received are the with Blackboard our students our students don't receive uh tend to not receive text messages because the because those that contact information comes out of Tyler sis and that information is usually just parent contact phone numbers so it goes parents get those messages but students tend not to so our Junior High and high school students you have to rely on their parents to contact them with the information if a bus is running like whereas if they have the app on their phone they can get direct contact uh get a direct message and they can actually have like again say they would have the app they would actually get etas live on their app on their phone and that's basically all I have to share about that thank you to Mr DeArmond what questions do you have uh Forum at this time you know I um I'm sorry I didn't send these in advance um I love the safety features um other districts that use this and their experience 204 uses it uh I talked to them quite a bit with Ron Johnson over there he loves it again it's it is technology it's it's based on a database so you got to keep your database current you got to stay on top of it you get you get out of it what do you put into it so so but yeah everybody I've talked to I was at a a conference um and a couple weeks ago and uh just before spring break and several people that I and they were Transportation directors uh several of them in there in districts similar to inside stars or larger use that type of system use the Tyler system year one is um oh year one is um on the the fees is that Hardware mostly yeah yeah it would be the tablet would be the installations uh it would be the card readers um I'm trying to think what else professional development and training that's involved they would they would do the installs so even even that part is at the reimbursable rate yeah so okay yeah because yours two through forever it's definitely an easy hurdle um and then it's budgeted yeah we already had a line Engine line item in place uh you know our Hope was to kind of split it over to budget periods so we could get the initial contract established and pick first initial payments and then final payments in the next budget year and this is this here's a final question um the app um is that limited to people that are in our database or yeah it would be limited to basically who we set it up as you know you know they would have to we could set it up that we actually and I'm sure our tech department will love me for this but we can actually set it up so that we establish the credentials and that it's it's secret you know yeah that's that's the only I love the safety feature there but that was my only safety concern and that's why I asked yeah you got to have a student ID or or something related to that in a credential to get into it yeah I'd hate somebody to download the app and know exactly where such and such buses you know what I'm saying yeah so okay two-part question so thinking about the the challenges that we had uh last year and thinking about um some of those greatest challenges and or root causes how will this system I'm not expecting you to rehash the presentation but with thinking about some of those root cause causes how will this system address those which I guess I mean which which exactly well I'm not con I'm thinking about the the issues I'm thinking about making sure that when we invest into the system that we still can ensure that it's going to address some of the concerns that we had last year yeah so like I said I think a lot of the issue is not knowing where the bus was you know with the driver shortage um you know not having buses at all and and then our being overwhelmed in our office that we weren't able to get those messages out um or if they were you know the bus is running 30 minutes late 40 minutes an hour two hours we can more quickly because you can go right through the app you can be right in the app on a dashboard basically we can see where all the buses are and then that dashboard actually allows us to send those push messages out to specific buses so it's a little bit cleaner than what the Blackboard is as a former Tech guy I would I would get very frustrated going into the transportation office and knowing we have all of this data in versatrans and all I'm asking is simple questions I want to know this route this bus I want to know who's on it and I want to know how we've Consolidated those routes and took to watch the process of having to go in and manually do it what this software in this system allows us to do is it automates all of that so it automates three things routing and routing assignments it automates the uh attendance and then the uh and just tracking of those buses so by having that database accessible to uh to us all of the data is there there's not a whole lot more data massaging that we need to put in it's now just having a system that can give us the data we want out so will it decrease the the delays that we had or will it just increase our opportunity to communicate it will increase our opportunity to communicate but it'll decrease the amount of time it takes when we decide when we finally decide we need to make those changes to be more efficient we can do that much quicker in real time than having to manually manually do the process can I throw a wrench in your attendance so here's a thought as a senior well not a senior he's a sophomore as a Sport parent in general you have sports who run some Seasons you have kids who go in go work out you have kids who only take a bus home but they're entitled to the bus home then they get to that bus and oh wait a minute we don't have room for you so then they get on the wrong bus and they end up across town we've been there right um so like my concern is when you guys are talking about real-time attendance not every kid is going to take the bus because the bus doesn't come when they need it right so how do you ensure that those kids who you know like I get it if they're getting a parking pass they probably don't need to be on the bus those kind of things I get but my concern comes in when so now my kids in football he's not going to need it until whatever November right or now he's in wrestling and he's not going to need it until March whatever it is right so how do you ensure that he still gets a spot on that bus if he needs one yeah communication I mean it's it's a two-way street too I mean it clearly states on our website that if you know we have somebody that hasn't ridden a bus for several weeks that we'll probably drop them off the bus you know we'll probably drop them off the route but on the converse let me ask this have you ever communicated that with parents because it might be on their website but nobody ever called me because my kid never takes the bus to school because he's always working out or he catches a ride with the neighbor but nobody's ever communicated with me that he lost his spot on a bus well doesn't mean that the driver always communicated that the student wasn't writing either well whose job is it that's my question well I'm saying if we have this type of system that would make it easier to make those decisions it would make it would kind of take that take the weight of that decision off of the driver right and bring it back into the administrators to my point who is a crapload of money on another system that could help us communicate better but we're still not communicating it gives us the data it gives us the information gives us the data and the information to know what we're dealing with like right now we're not getting some of that information so part of the challenges for transportation is we have to provide transportation for students who are with with a farther I'm clearly but now how many of those families really ride we rely on the bus drivers to share and update that information with us and sometimes we don't get the full picture with this we'll have much more information to make much more quality decisions now how that translates necessarily to the the Athletics and whatnot we'll we can monitor that I think that there is some ways that we can communicate better about now that we've got some system and we know what those we know who's riding and who's not we can clarify some Communications to those families who opt not to ride is this permanent is this temporary what is the reason for that and I'm sure the system can you know we can take some notes on student ridership and one that needs to be accommodated I would just I would caution taking kids off a bus if they're in a sport because sometimes kids get hurt and then they're not in their sport but my other question was I know that we have to get new software because our Tyler system is right so how will this work with that do a Power School whatever it is PowerSchool has been around the block a few times too right but how do they we have no concerns about PowerSchool communicating with Tyler with our versus trans or with but have we checked I've I've worked with it at other school districts when I was a first student a lot of our school districts use PowerSchool to communicate with our versus trains so I I really have no concern about powers for a little but to that point I guess what I'm interested in is two things number one when would if this was approved what is the rollout plan because you have a wide variety of drivers with different skill levels when it comes to technology so I don't want to see a rollout and a training program like two weeks before school starts like what is that number two um how are how does this address exactly kind of what Ali said but all of the things that we have discussed over the last couple of years for instance um I know one thing it will solve right when our buses were late last year at my home school what was happening was they were so late that information only the principal would have to go find the emails from those parents and sent I mean it was just a clunky system but those kids were missing their bus to get home to get to go to sports so I see that but what about the kids that maybe at the wrong bus stop but got left there and not picked up what about the fact that we heard from a lot of parents that buses were um overloaded and Michael knows that I've off I've come to him and say I heard there were you know 80 kids on the bus and he's like okay there were really only 62.