Huge school provider. All right, motion carries. That's good. All right. Uh, moving forward, I'd like to get a motion to discuss 6.5, the computer science technology teacher proposal. Okay, this is actually a proposal from Mr. Long kind of wearing dual hats there. I'm going to talk a little bit about So, our current eighth graders um with a new diploma coming out um there's a need for them to take a computer science class to graduate an intro level one. Um so within that we are kind of tied a little bit with having people that are able to do that. Also with some preamping and moving of staff our middle school was short um elective for sixth and eighth grade graders to take um by the state. Um we're supposed to offer technology at the middle school which we are. We're all CTE to our seventh grade but this you're not just checking a box.
If we submit 20% and they would all fall in the top category, which is a $7,500 stipend and they didn't allocate enough money to uh fund 20% of our teachers at 75%, they would adjust that amount accordingly based on the number of awards that they would give. So, this is a a huge change from what we were used to in the past. Uh, one, it's a it's considerably a larger amount than what our teachers had received through the teacher appreciation grant, but nearly 90 plus% of our teachers were receiving that grant. Um, the they were falling in the effective or highly effective categories. Um, so there's going to be a large percentage of our teachers uh that wouldn't receive that or could possibly not receive that if they're not in the top 20%. Um, and that funding will come in the springtime versus Christmas time, uh, when the TAG grant used to be distributed.
So we're going to request that you remove that account and transfer the $130 in it to the civics activity account. So, the goal is to put it in the most closely related account you can find. Um, arts and crafts, uh, transfer that to the industrial arts club. Um, we're going to the garden club. We're going to look at whether there's an opportunity to do we'd like to close it, but hold those funds for now. Um, there is the possibility we might try to see if you can move that to a more appropriate revolving account for the teacher to use for things like plant sales and things like that to help fund classes. So, we want to look at that. Uh, the life skills cafe, the goal would be to remove that and transfer the remaining balance to unified sports. uh the globe middle school global citizenship club would be to remove and transfer $244 to the high school model UN uh math team we're really just you'll see there's freshman and varsity we're really just consolidating those two and moving um interestingly in the aggregate they have a positive balance but the varsity math team has a negative balance so it'll just come out of that other account if you read also read this the student activity accounts policy.
um well, you know, to clone um the first microna, we actually did use evolution to tell us what was the important parts. So, I I cloned this gene from several other species and then compared their DNA. Um but that you had to do that. I had to do that by hand. But now you know we have genomes and we can tell if a gene is conserved all through the whole evolutionary uh families that it's important because otherwise it would just have been kicked out or just it's a specific for just that organism. So yeah, those of you who who are like middle schoolers or high schools, you want to do projects that don't involve actual experiments, you can actually do um studies of the data that's in these public databases. Um when you said like you didn't use technology to find us out, like what did you use to like discover it?
Um, and really that that that is meant to do in extreme situations um to protect the health, safety, and well-being of everyone else in the school community. Um, and of course, if that were to occur, we would work to make sure that that child received the appropriate uh treatments, for example. Um and also um maybe potentially put into place something like a homebound instruction uh so that the child could continue on with their education in a virtual capacity or something of that nature uh while we protect the the health, safety and welfare of everyone else. So this is really meant um what do you do in those situations in which someone could could um pose a potential risk to the school community. It doesn't seem like there's much of a substantial difference between the two policies other than the second one is using a lot more language to yes describe the same conditions.
Do we not have a program that year or just the information? We try to go back the information. Um so we're pulling it. So um we're still looking and like skills USA is this is first year is a CTSo. I just want to make sure we didn't have forensics with 16 people and not have it the next year. I thought I remember people going to nationals last year. Correct. Correct. Sorry. Move to accept the results to monitoring considering the technology education next results have original progress results. Second motion second discussion. No treasure. 70. motion to accept that. How long was this correction? Yes. And we put a posting on the website for that information for two weeks. You can see the focus areas, foundations, restaurant things that are focusing on these things. So, I'm going to show my uh new ones that we're accepting this.
We got a concrete surface out there and they got a roll out mat that we use. If we want lines, I paint the lines on the distances. Um, once you get water out there, it's really nice to watch the kids try to keep their traction as the mat's moving when they're triple jumping and long jumping. It's not a very safe surface. Um, approximately 2015, we had an extra discus of spring setting over in the trees down by the practice field and I said, "Why aren't we using that?" So, myself with the help of a local business guy brought his forklift in, and we picked it up. We moved the discus rings to where they're at now. I had a construction kid come out and help me pour the concrete and we put down the rings that are on there ourselves. And a parent came in and had a portable generator.
I think that's the second highest tally ever. I think class of 2019 is the only class that has had they had over four million. So, and then I included for you in here, and I think that Becky made you a separate packet that you probably found with your board packet or you can remove it from here about some data that we'll be looking at on May 29th about um enrollments like uh data, residential data across our two zip codes and enrollment trends and how many students there are that live in the community who either take the empowerment scholarship, are homeschooled, or who make other educational choices. So that data was provided for you so we can um review that on our work session day, our strategic planning day May 29th. And then we also have um I included for you the results of our parent surveys that we ran recently.
So, those are the updates for that. This is Jez. Oh, Jez, go ahead. I do like the in-person aspect. I just haven't been able to make these last few, but I do also like the option of online, and I like the idea of collaborating with students for a student's bill of rights. Yeah, I think that'd be cool. Okay, so you got one more vote to do without me. Would you like to decide um to read JKD in JKE? I did not look at JKE because I not I don't have a lot of familiarity with like expulsion because we've not done it in my experience. So that one I I would maybe recommend we hold till next year. But if the team wanted to continue to look at JKD um from where I put blue on and make your recommendations or we just call it and just say we didn't get to it.
And so you won't see any of that in the slides, but if you if you spend enough time in our schools with these folks, you spend enough time with with these guys um outside of that just at a at a community event, I hope you see that there is a person behind that uniform and and that's what they preach and they also live that. So thank you. I I don't have much more. I just wanted to kind of talk about uh looking forward to continuing our partnership with you guys. Um there's some things that you know Jeremy and our team have been working on. Uh Jeremy and Mike, they actually attended one of our trainings over the last month and was able to sit in front of all of our staff and we really were able to talk about this partnership with officers that don't know about uh that have really shied away from working in the school setting.
Any questions on that? um last thing I'm going to give you. I have we received more information this week from the attorneys on the lawsuit. Um, won't mention a whole lot, but I will let you know I've sent copy of some of the emails I've received. Um, I just consistently tried to get back to them. Lindsay David is the partner for Church KD and Enrium. Um, just ask what they need for us to do. They're basically saying they're going to take care of pretty much all of it. U the next step is going to be written discovery. Then you're going to end up with depositions. Um I would guess this will take you probably another two to three years before you're done messing with it. Questions? The piece I've given you is not only the first part of it, it's just some of the uh emails back and forth.
This would actually technology kind of pathway and Nate and then obviously that intro level as our freshman for that graduation week. So we were kind of able to if you guys would kindly approve this would this would help both the high school and middle school um questions. So if I understand you're right, it'll be a cost but you said we lost position so it won't be added cost dollars. Um one thing to note as well so we're it's a state mandate that we offer computer science need to comply with that but also um this would give us um foundation for a pathway students that computer science pathway for their graduation so choose to take that path for comments. [Music] Okay. Uh voting is uh up on your screen. We must be getting faster here. getting smart. Shouldn't have said it. Motion carries. All right. Uh moving forward under new business 6.6 motion discussed equipment for medium high low activity.
So, there's three tiers. Uh, if you meet what they consider the recognition u threshold, that's a $3,500 stipend. If you meet uh what they term as exemplary, it's a $5,000 stipend. And exemplary plus is a $7,500 stipend. But again, we've not seen the rubric. We don't know what that looks like. We don't know how they're going to make us submit those names necessarily. Uh we're guessing sometime this fall. We'll receive that information since they're not going to be issuing those grants until the springtime of 26. The other piece of information that I wanted to share, and I shared this when I did the the budget uh at the last board meeting, one of the areas that they talked about cutting was local income tax or what they refer to as lit. And um not all districts receive that uh income or or revenue from that income, but we are a district that does and it goes into our operations account.
Uh accounts aren't supposed to have negative balances in accordance with the policy. So, we're going to try to wipe that out and clean that up. Uh guidance college fair. Um we're going to um remove and transfer the balance to PSAT AP test. Um, I am also going to look at that account as to whether that has a pretty large balance and it's not really doesn't really fit the definition of a student activity account per se. Uh, in my former districts, we've had uh more formal revolving accounts, guidance revolving accounts that they would use for that. So, I'm going to look into that. uh library. Uh we move remove and transfer to miscellaneous field trips. Anatomy field trips remove and transfer to miscellaneous. These were sort of for oneoff field trips and items that just aren't done anymore. Uh Spirit of America field trip, um move that to miscellaneous.
Yeah. Didn't mean to say we didn't use technology. We used the technology that was there at the time, right? But this was in the 80s and it was much crudder than today, right? Computer programs. Yeah. Right. We did not use computers. So that nowadays there's gene genome editing right which became something that we knew about 2012 or so where um where it was discovered from basic science research into the inner workings of yogurt bacteria. right, is that the Danon Yogurt Company started studying issues that they had with their yogurt bacteria and that along with studies that were going on in other labs, they converged on the discovery of crisper which is a adaptive immune system in bacteria was completely unexpected and then it turns out that with further study they realized you could actually turn that bacterial machinery into a tool for editing any genome.
I think it has a co update is what I how I read it. Yeah. Uh are there questions from any committee members on this? Okay. Um, without any qu questions from committee members, any non-committee members have any questions? Can you just scroll down? I just want to make sure I have the right when I'm look. Okay, thank you. Nothing was changed on the printed version. I promise. No, thank you. No, I just want to make sure I had all this paperwork. All right. This is a pretty straightforward policy. So, um I'm I'm not surprised there's not much conversation on it, but if I could get a motion, please to recommend to the board for a first read of policy 5141.22, communicable infectious disease. Motion. A second. Thank you, Wanita. Thank you, Al. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. I.
Is this until we replace with something else? Is this or is it for a set period of time? This is for this this upcoming year for a set period of time. We evaluate based on needs items between 5 to seven years. Okay. Good question. Family consumer sciences for FACS motion approve facts curriculum materials as presented. Did we just I just didn't know if we got input from the new teacher. say we just did hire so probably the answer is no that's the direction in terms of the program where we see it going right now there could be there could be go ahead with with the new materials too it offers the suray handler and suray manager certifications that follows along with what the Kansas board of education has us do with certifications and so the person is well aware like actually sent me an email like what trading night you go to and said well aware that taking this position that they wouldn't have they don't offer that in college you don't get certified in that and so what we purchase it goes along with that so our kids will get those certifications upon completion of the class so she communication has been there yes do I need to reotion I think that discussion so yeah second any further discussion [Music] A second discussion motion 7 construction manufacturing materials and again this focuses on drafting.
He made welder. He made all the repairs on it. So again, I had people doing a lot of stuff. Um I have put these two new boards on there, just wood boards, but I know they got a lot better stuff out there. Um you can buy the kick boards. They're not real cheap, but um we do have the boards out there on the rings. I replace those. Um with any minimal rainfall, the track holds water. Um and I'm going to have a lot of pictures of that here. Um the track has to be drugged repeatedly a lot uh to keep the footprints out. If you went down there right now, there's probably 3-in deep footprints in there from the rain last week when they had to powder puff football and all the kids went across the track to go out there and play powder puff.
We're compelled to run a parent survey and that survey was run and you can see um the results of the surveys. All of the schools had favorable um results and returns from their parents. The other thing I wanted to share with you which is kind of new and unique this year is that we have had an increase in public records requests. So entities can make public record records requests for the things that are publicly available. So it would be like financial information, um qualifications of personnel who work for the district, years of experience, degrees earned, things like that. Um most of our requests this year, we've had one unique request for information about hiring trends and we responded with some questions so we could provide accurate, you know, like the kind of data the person was looking for and we never heard back from that person.
Give us some more time. I feel like that one's pretty important. We should probably like have a pretty involved conversation about it. And I I would agree with that guidance. Um because like what I'd hate for us to do is we're in our final meeting and we're just trying to get that one done to complete it. It feels like it would be better maybe being, you know, we tend to have a little more fire and energy at the beginning of the school year than at the end. So maybe that should be queued up for the first thing we hit start of next school year. And then maybe too it might be nice to make that like one of the first things that the APs look over because it it really it's interesting. We label it JKD and JKE, but really it's like regulations to JK.