And so it was great to be able to to to expand their knowledge in that manner. So, I really look forward to working with you guys uh and continue our partnership, growing our partnership. We provided each all of you with our business cards. One of the things that I really want to make sure that is if you have questions, we're an open book. Um we're always available and so uh please reach out to us if you ever have any concerns, questions, or anything that we can help you with. Thank you for having us today. All right. Thank you very much. Um sir if I may board just uh in terms of open I just want to both thank you both for your presentation this evening very illuminating um you you deal with some of the toughest parts of our our communities and what what happens in terms of challenges and um I would say that the way in which you brought your vision your epic uh values um in terms of priorities really does lend itself as you know chief and I have talked about this we um whether it's our school institution schools, um, police, hospitals have not always been the friendliest places for people of color and have been really the source of a lot of hurt.
The second part is their answers to the actually the back part of it is their answers um to the plaintiff's some of the stuff they there's about 30 different things they have listed and they've answered all of them. So that's where they start to look and then they start to discovery. I think they've got a lot of our stuff including including the film the whole works. So questions on that. Um, last thing I had, I just received this. Um, looks like must have been late Wednesday night, early Thursday morning. I I found it. Um, there's a request to go to five outdoor adventure day trips um called Wild Indiana Adventure Club. Is that would I have that right? Formerly summer school. And we have four chaperoons who are willing to take their time for this. None of it is out of state. I don't know.
So this is an invoice um as a request. Mrs. Um we have a need in the elementary for um this specific chair for students with special needs. Um it allow students who are immobile to um remain upright, secure and be able to participate in the everyday activities their able body peers. Um it is a very expensive piece of equipment but the thinking is um that this we do not have any in the district right now and um we will likely need one of these in the future with this particular the device. So, um it's necessary um to meet this child's need. We ask that you approve that. This two will come out of our 61. Is this a static or mobile chair? It is a uh static. $5,662. Yeah.
And over the course of uh the year, school year 26, I'm sorry, 2728, uh almost 3/4 of a million dollars, uh just about $675,000 will not be awarded to uh our operations fund because we will lose that revenue. Uh they have done away with the uh local income tax revenue for school districts uh starting in 27 and 28. So that will be a sizable hit to our operations budget and that is another piece of legislation that was uh that was passed and will go into effect shortly. So um those are just a few of them. Uh we could spend days the the bill or the amendment to one of the bills was 353 pages or something. So we could spend a lot of time going through these.
Uh the lay miz field trip, um remove and transfer the 425 to the French field trip. Um that seemed to make sense. uh computer field trip would be removed and transferred to um the industrial arts club. Alexis's field trips um that would be removed and transferred to miscellaneous field trips. Um you'll also notice in your policy that um graduating classes when classes graduate um they should do something with those funds within two years. Um really at the end of the day um student activities accounts are student activities accounts. The minute that students graduate, they're no longer our students. They really should take that money almost immediately is what the state would recommend. Uh but we went we went with policy and want to give a little bit of a window to some of the more recent classes. But there is uh class of 2008, 2014 and 2021 that we really feel like we should just close and move to um undesated funds in accordance with the policy.
So we edit the sea elegance genome routinely the fly genome people you just imagine a mutation you say I wonder what would happen if I mutate it right here this way you actually design it do it it's incredible and so and you may be aware that a lot of crop plants and and domestic animals you know are being edited routinely for advantageous traits and so forth. So but for uh as a practical matter that that's really powerful but as a technology that for driving research it's been absolutely accelerator you know I can talk loudly okay so uh I'm a chemist I worked in the pharmaceutical industry for most of the time so I'm assuming I believe this um the microRNA is implicated in some cancer and things like that. Um it seems to have a pretty unique structure. Do do you know if there are drugs that target the structure of the micro RNA?
Any opposed? All right. Motion so carries. Thank you very much. Uh we will move down to policy 5141.231 and it looks like slash4118.231 psychotropic drug use. Correct. Um so the reason that there's two two policy numbers on this is that this um as you'll see here in the high in the title refers to students. The 5000 series number refers to students. The 4000 series number refers to personnel. Do not ask me why they don't have the same number as the rest of them. I don't don't know. that would just be too easy. Um, but this uh this has to do, I think, another very self-explanatory policy um with the use of psychotropic drugs um and essentially saying that they're prohibited from both school staff as well as students um in the school community. I think this one is fairly straightforward as well.
This again this information was displayed for two weeks for public viewing. No comments were made. Nobody uh planning to look and see what we're doing with traffic. But again, I don't know if you have any other comments. This was looked at with through Mr. Buck. Mr. Buck is our teacher for this class and uh he's uh very much in favor of this being used for the construction manufacturing curriculum. Motion to adopt the construction manufacturing curriculum materials as presented. Second motion second discussion you want to talk about yes right yeah so this is looking to approve Kansas border solutions as our employee benefit program again over the last several months we've been researching anter alternative to American Fidelity employee benefit solutions. Uh in the process, we conducted a staff survey to gain insight to what our employees desire from an employee benefit company. Uh Kansas board solutions offers again the same benefits for employees including supplemental insurance options again customer service.
Um, when I say bicycle tracks, those are the easy ones. It's when literally we have people sometimes go down there and drive around the track with their vehicle and I'm trying to drag those out of the track. Um, if it has rain, the teams can't practice outside. And I say teams, it's middle school and high school. Um, we can't just clean it off. It's kind of not a good deal. And when we're forced to practice inside, you're taking approximately 60 athletes and putting them in a gym in the hallways and saying, "You're going to practice long jump, you're going to practice triple jump, high jump, shot foot, discus, javelin. Try to do hormone work all inside a really tight facility. I mean, you can only do so much pounding on concrete halls before they start getting shin splints on top of it. So, it really restricts what drills you can do, the workouts you can do.
Um but we have sent out requests about our financial expenditures from the last four to five years, vendor names, PO amounts, um all that kind of thing. Most of those requests are being generated by companies who are AI and so they're using they have every right to request it. We've been responding. Big kudos to John and his crew because it took them many, many hours to put all the information in a format that was requested and would be usable. Um, and what we know is AI companies will use that data, call it, and then sell it to vendors to try to get us to purchase things that are consistent with our purchasing patterns. So none of those none of the financial requests for purchasing records have come from instate. They've all come from companies on the eastern seabboard or in Florida. So we know that it's more marketing oriented than anything.
So that might also be something to consider is change it to like a regulation because it really is like the step-by-step process. So we could get the AP's recommendation of what they see and then decide if that fits like other policies. Is that everyone feels? Okay. It's been great snowing y'all. No, I'm kidding. Um I I we do have quorum without me though, right? Is that okay if I head out? All right. Well, I mean yeah, if I mean is everybody in a great I mean essentially we're coming to a stopping point anyway, right? Yeah, I think so. I mean from from like a teacher perspective, it's very helpful to have the eights and principal input on some of these policies. Yeah. especially like with student suspension since as a teacher we're pretty far removed from the process. So I think I mean it it would be very helpful and it's always helpful to have Adriana you know when when you're here because you can talk to you know these are the papers that we're giving people and these are the procedures.
Um, whether you go into a hospital and you get less than mediocre care um, because of who you are. Um, whether it's you enter a school and you are marginalized in terms of the statistics and you experience less than primal um, uh, less than excellent education. Um, I was told that I couldn't even go very far in my education by teachers growing up. And so those were our schools and the same goes for police um whether it's the reputation or the experience of many um in dealing with policing. And so it was really an incredible learning for me when I came to this district and was able to learn about your commitment to continuous improvement to learn about how you had taken ownership yourselves really um to lead us in thinking about the ticketing practices and in partnership with the district. I think it speaks volumes for all of us in these various institutions to think about how we rethink how we do business with both our our students um with our community and with um with each other and I want to thank you for centering that practice.
Normally, I think in the past it's been my um understanding that you prove you have to approve out of state stuff, but if it's in state, you don't. Is that they still consider build? the summer. So, it's not how what they consider that. I guess if it's still considered field trips or um we're still kind of planning and and trying to see what it's going to look like, but I think the biggest thing is we would require the use of the school bus. Um I think that's what we kind of need the schools. I may be overstepping, I'm not sure, but I think that's what we need from the school most of other stuff. that that's pretty much what she said is is the only assistance uh needed would from the corporation would be to cover the cost of gas and the drive. Um they would be going to Indiana Dunes for I think this is a day and then the following week you take another day.
Any questions? Okay. Should be able to vote at this time. All right. Motion carries. New business 6.7. And I'd like to get a motion to discuss creative floor coverings for all. All right, Mrs. Okay, so there are several proposals. Um, Michelle has done a really good job of labeling them all to review. Um this includes Camden, the elementary school, the middle school, and the high school. Um this is part of the carpeting schedule that has been in place for several years now. So this is not as minimal in terms of the amount that has been approved in the past. this uh the cost to cover the the replacement of the carpeted areas on the proposals would come out of our um bond money and uh for Camden the cost will be $26,286 um but we're going through that as well. Um we attempted to get two additional um in addition creative however companies declined particip,286 for um the it's on the kids in the agenda the teacher lounge front entry walkway door number one walkway way.
Those are some of the highlights and I'll entertain any questions on those or anything else that you may have questions about. So, they they haven't told you how you're going to pick those 20%. No, I'm trying to think how do you pick 20% of your staff? I mean, you're you're graded. And here's what I will tell you, ma'am. Um, this is what we know, okay? um we must use a state created rubric that incorporates student data and mentoring expert expectations. Okay, beyond that I can't tell you what the requirements are. Um I will also tell you that we must report why each selected teacher qualifies. Um and there's a couple other pieces here. I I will tell you this is a real struggle for me. Um because we're all working very hard on teacher compensation, but yet we put we're we're taking money out of 80% of our people's pockets right here.
There will be um an effort to reach out to the other classes that have graduated and a renewed effort to speak with um those classes, the newly graduating classes in advance of their graduation. uh things I've seen done frequently is the graduating class will take whatever funds are left over and transfer that um do a formal transfer to the incoming class. So they might give that to uh the incoming sixth grade class or they might do something on behalf of the school donated to the school for a statue a bench something like that. So, um, some options. Um, so adding the grade six, um, math calculators. Again, not really, this doesn't really didn't really feel like it, a it fits the the um definition of a student activity account. Um, additionally, it hasn't been used, so we'd move that to the math team. Uh, invisible child fundraiser, we'd move that to the civic activities club.
Yeah, that's a good question. I mean the the primary sort of drug that um folks have tried to make is just another nucleic acid that's complimentary to the micron right so yeah and so it would they mimic the target and sponge up the micro you know encumber it so u it's called an anti-me all of them do good therapies um yeah that's primarily The approach was I he wants he wanted you to grow. The Lin 4 CL again it said it repeated its adolescent lifespan over and over and over again, right? Could you alter it enough to like expand its make it live longer essentially? To live longer. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, ironically, those mutants live shorter. So, it's like uh counterintuitive, isn't it? And um yeah, they they live shorter. Now, this is going to get gruesome. Okay. reason one of the main reasons they live shorter is because you know they don't have the apparatus for egg laying so they can't lay their eggs but they they are hermaphrodites so they self-fertilize internally and that's really convenient for us the experimenters because we can grow this mutant and it propagates and it's very convenient to you can uh propagate it and grow up huge amounts of this worm the mutant um but what happens when the eggs uh the embryos hatch inside the the other and so they do what's called mattress.
Are there any questions from committee members? Any questions from non-committee members? May I just ask you scroll down and make sure I got the right documents? Thank you, hun. The only other thing I will add is there there's a note here um from CABE if we wanted to add anyone else. Um, and essentially this paragraph is referring to that school health or mental health personnel, and it goes on to list who school nurses, practitioners, the district's medical adviserss, psychologists, social workers, and school counselors may recommend that a student be evaluated by an appropriate medical practitioner. If there was any other personnel that we wanted to list in that uh listing, we could do so. um it seems very comprehensive in nature from the appropriate personnel that we have in the school environment to do that. So I do not feel an explicit need to list anyone else.
So I'm just going to mention that Nicole Laplin and Christy Hess have been taking kind of the lead on this. I've been involved in it as well and they got to the final stages. We've just had a lack of of customer support system, customer support from American Fidelity here. It seems like they've had four different representatives in the last five years and they just really haven't been great for that customer support piece. Uh Kansas board solutions, those people are going to be the consistent people that will be able to serve our employees and I recommend the board for KPS 125 plan for employee benefits. So basically these employee benefits are for both VA and non VA personnel or all employees all eligible. Yes. Right. Good question. Thank you. Most approve board solution of our new 125 plan employee benefits provider. Second motion second discussion. and negotiation.
Um, we've done it a couple times this year where I'll have two hurdles set up on one side. I got the high jump mat set over there for kids to jump off a springboard into high jump mats to work in and then the kids are waiting for high jump for us to get done with that. So then we can put in some standards and they can practice high jump. Practice takes a really long time and then you're trying to get middle school kids worked into that as well. We all know how 12y olds, 13year-olds attention spans. Um, it's fun hurting them all around. So this is some pictures on Thursday this year 24th um went down there. We had about half inch to 6000s of rain thanks to what it recorded here in town. And this is looking at the inside two lanes. And this is another issue.