So that's it. Thank you. there any public comment today? No. Okay. All right. Sure. So, the only thing remaining is some board business. We're going to approve some uh or we're going to vote on approving some uh items. Feel free to leave. Don't feel bad. or you can stay if you want to uh kind of see what we're voting on. You are welcome to stay, but we don't want you to feel obliged. So, we are not the this there's only a few things.
So, students can hear their peers speaking just instead of like teachers and staff. It's boring. This allows people in student council the opportunity to practice their speaking and presenting skills. Student Council has received lots of positive feedback from this new form of announcements and it continues to get better each week. Okay, thank you so much. We're going to backtrack a little bit cuz we need to also hear Lexi from Coalition. Um can you please pass the mic to her? Hi. Hello, my name's Lexi Quintero and I am from Coalition Junior. Thank you. Uh the question is how has this club or activity helped you talk and share ideas with others? Coalition Junior helped me realize that my voice matters. When we talk about things like fairness and belonging, everyone has a chance to share. It helps me It helped me feel more confident speaking up and also helped me learn how to respect and really listen to other people's ideas.
That means that they'll be given a word orally. They'll echo it, tap it out in isolation for each sound and then they'll record it on their response paper. So, you're going to see some of the daily practices that we use every day during our OG instruction. It's a repetitive structure. They do the same drills every single day for 180 days, which is really great. But we change out the letters, the sounds, the words that they utilize, and they have a lot of multi-ensory based practice in the curriculum. They're reading, they're skywriting letters in the air. They're using positions and hand motions for sound formation. They're writing on their response papers daily. So, it's a really great well-rounded approach to learning how to become strong readers and writers. So, we're going to start with our visual drill and then we'll just kind of go down the line.
With Miss Doyle's good enough is never good enough is never the standard. She maintains high expectations for achievement, fostering an environment where students don't just learn math, they math, they master it. Moral, thank you for your dedication to excellence. We're believing in our students ability to succeed. CONGRATULATIONS. >> At this time, can we have our students come up and we're going to take a picture. I don't mind being One, two, three, smile. One, two, three. One more smile. >> There we go. Absolutely. One, two, three. Smile. One more. Smile. There we go. Thank you. Okay. Uh, congratulations to everyone being recognized. Um, we do have a lot of a meeting left. You're welcome to stay. Um, I will give you that chance to exit though if you have other things to do tonight. So, now's your chance to scadaddle. All right. Okay. Uh moving forward to what is now uh number four.
has one company to try to talk down. He has several. Um, you'll see that some of those companies, like the last one for AP environmental science, it's actually a college level textbook company because it's a college level course. The teachers in those courses actually contacted the company themselves and then came back and said, "Yes, Lynn, the approved book looks good for us." And so that's what we went for. And then we have the exact same timeline as elementary. Our hope is that we will seek approval with you and we'll be able to order things so that they're here in the buildings. One of the really important things is this might surprise you, but when you order this many textbooks, you don't always get what you ordered. And so we'd like to be able to go through those boxes and make sure what we ordered actually comes before we leave in the spring.
Uh Motion for adjournment. So >> second Katie. >> Sure. All in favor? 7 0 All >> right. During the work session, we have no public comment papers. Nope. So, >> Addison, you have a request for the board. Okay. Or presentation. >> So, hi, my name is Addison Gisinger and I a sophomore at the high school. So I'm here to talk about my project which is a sensory garden for Wheatfield Elementary School. And this will be used mainly for the special needs classrooms but also by all the general education classrooms. So my purpose of doing this is to earn my Girl Scout gold award. But additionally I eventually I would love to be a physical therapist for special needs kids. And currently I'm a leader of our champions together club at the high school. And I want to bring the inclusiveness down to lower levels as well.
I would imagine we have like a 48 hour window when we administer that that we have to notify them. I would imagine that turnaround time would be rather quick. >> You you sense that they're sort of phasing out the EpiPen and going strictly >> probably not. um because you can dose that at a lower dose easier than you can a nasal spray. So like our um Barry preschool one day, you know, we might have a kid that's on a lower dose. So I don't think Epipens will ever go away. Um the nasal spray is just kind of an adjunct to that. Um um so I I don't think it'll be phased out ever, but they are difficult to get by and they do they um do seem to go on back order a lot. >> But in our schools, this nasal will replace. You will not keep both.
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>> Yep. >> That's no longer needed. >> Um John, why don't we let Shannon finish and then if you put your your hand, I'll I'll I'll bring you up next. Okay. Okay. >> So, that's really good. I I do want to just explain just so that everybody on the call knows what we're talking about. And if that's not the case, then that's good news for us to hear. But let's get to that in a minute. Um originally it was um brought to our attention that whatever the uh Pelum assessment for the regional school district which is the middle school and high school um whatever their increase in assessment is that increase would need to be um absorbed by Palum meeting. Not only would we just get um level funded of the 1.8 8 million that I was mentioning before. Um, whatever the increase is for the regional school, it would go down further, which would then further increase the deficit for Pelum.
I will keep you updated as they they progress through that. And then something that is not in there that is that was just approved last Thursday. Um, as you're aware, we a couple years ago we changed our middle school seasons where we separated uh girls wrestling where they could they could dual sport, they could do basketball and that. Well, we separated that a couple years ago as a league. And those of you that had middle school girls, basketball seasons like that, three games a week, they don't have a lot of practice time. Uh Mr. Wilson and the AD from Iola spent a lot of time on this. Um and we are now going to be a lot more equal with our kids. Um so for example, girls and boys basketball will have 33 practices, 14 games of meets, 48 days of the length of season.
So, I can't I can't fathom mid20s. So, so I'm going to take a little bit of time to go through these. So, the first one is the concrete bids. Um so, this is for the concrete foundation supply and labor. So, we did get two bids in return back. Uh, one was from Christensen Construction in the amount of $64,000 and then Sharky Construction for $112,867. So, when I go through these first two Kansas bid laws, does that bid law does require the board of education to go with the lowest bid if it's over $20,000. So, just keep that in mind as we go through here. Um, so we will need a motion on that. So, I'll go back to that one once I go through the the other few here. So, we do have our electrical bid. We did get a bid from Kerr Electric um for up to all electrical and new transformer for $43,972.
So if we do the 3.5 and say we only need three, the difference can be banked. You have to wait a year to be able to use that. But I can tell you with the 2024 bank, we had $107,58363. Now in 2025 we only have 92 34383 and we can't use that until the ensuing year. So that would be in 20 27.
If you do not have the 506 forms, then certain certain things that are a part of funding you're not eligible for. The same thing applies with the JOM forms. The JOM form from my understanding is new because speaking with different parents and different families, they have never heard of that form before. They've never seen it. They don't know what it is. So this year is the first year that we have started getting parents and families to submit the 305 form. Right now only 36 families have completed the form. So, we're still working on getting more parents to fill out the information and submit the forms. >> And you said how many kids say that they have Native American? 10 and something. >> Yeah, we have about 106 107 students. But, um, I think since February, um, four students have unenrolled and they've moved to different areas.
This has been huge. Just a quick like clearing the air instead of the kids being mad. Let's just have a quick conversation with you and the teacher, be the neutral third party, work through it, get back to class, let's get this done. And then we continue to have our relationship with our SRO to address vaping, bullying, and fighting, which is a reduction. So, all right. Oh, sorry. We go back one for me. Thank you. So, um I broke it down by special ed discipline and gened. So, I'd like to focus on the sped discipline. If you look here the in blue is inschool suspension and in orange is out of school suspension. So you can see our inschool suspension has decreased and our out of school suspension has decreased for special education students. So the next the next one is the general education students. This one is been um blue again is in school suspension and then out of school and to me I'm most proud of the out of school.
Um, but I will tell you, we have we have a number still. And what we're doing right now is as soon as the eighth grade year is done because we try to give them time to pay, but as soon as eighth grade year is done, we send them to collections. >> So we're we send them a notice. This is your last chance to pay and after this is going to collections. So we we do that. >> Now how I guess how does it work with them getting a Chromebook? Because I think the last time we talked about this like Chromebooks weren't for everybody didn't have their own because now we have that technology insurance fee. >> They have to pay for that if they they have to pay for the technology insurance fee if something breaks. Uh they have to pay for that. So they all do have a Chromebook, but I can't we can't withhold it.
It'll be like another three minutes. Okay. All right. Uh, we're moving to 8.1. Can I have a motion to approve the consent agenda, please? >> I may Wonder I make a motion to approve all items under consent, including 8.1 field trips for overnight and or more than 200 miles. >> Erica seconded. Okay. >> Miss C. Dr. Pak Miss Robinson Dr. Martin. >> Hi, >> Mr. Cerrone. >> I >> Miss Wenmouth Dr. Mario. >> Did you say I? Yeah. [laughter] Motion passes. 70. All right. Action item 9.1, approval of fuel bid for transportation. Can I have a motion, please? >> I make a motion to approve and award a 2-year contract for for the transportation fuel bid to Arnison Oil Company. Mr. Cerrone, Miss C. Dr. Martin, >> I >> Miss Wedmouth. >> I >> Dr. Mario >> I >> Miss Robinson >> I >> Dr.
Thank you so much. Um a representative from MSA? Hello. Um nice to meet you guys again. My name is Abdullah Waheed from Oswego High School MSA. The question is what is a problem you faced and how did you fix it? Um when I first had this question, I was kind of confused. Like, what do you mean by a problem? If you ask any high schooler, the like the list is endless. But, I kind of bring it to more of the collective whole about like my whole club as a whole. Uh it's very popularly known about our defense happened 3 years ago after the attacks on Gaza and Israel, that conflict. Um there was a huge surge of about Islamophobia and anti-Muslim hate that surged our community. Uh just here in Plainfield, 6-year-old Dia Fahmy was stabbed 23 times, you know? Um just here in Menards, I was attacked by this older gentleman who was ignorant and believe everything he saw on the news.
So, you guys all ready? Okay. So, remember when we do our visual drill, I will show you the card. I'll count to three. You'll do the letter, the keyword, and the sound. If there is a motion, let's make sure to do it for our formation. You ready? All right. One, two, three. >> E S Checkers. >> You're good. >> Wist. >> I on the nose. >> Um. >> And what is our rule? >> Very good. Be checker. >> E. F >> S H ship >> A apple >> duck checker >> not a B. So what is it? >> Very good. And last one. >> E K duck. >> So next we're going to do our blending board. You'll see in this board that we make real words and nonsense words. Um, and this is just to practice their decoding skills. Kindergarters are really good at memorizing things and then they get to words they can't read and they're stuck.
I would like to invite uh performance services forward for a facility assessment. Thank you, Mr. President. Good evening, board members. Um, yeah, the performance services team. We're excited to be here tonight to really kind of share with you a lot of our our findings and recommendations from this district-wide facility assessment that we completed over the last several months. And really, I'd say over the next uh 30ish minutes or so, u you'll be hearing really from our talented team of architects and engineers behind me. We'll do introductions momentarily. Um, they've walked every square foot of your buildings, both inside and out, uh, to really kind of give you all a really good baseline and understanding of what your current buildings are, your current assets are, and then how to really help plan for that well into the future. Um, so I do and I do want to take a moment too just to kind of say, you know, we're very thankful and grateful for your the district-wide help.
So we don't have teachers that come back and say, "Hey, so we have twice as many chemistry books as we need, but we have no biology books." That literally happened with ELA a couple years ago when we got twice as many tenth grade and no nth grade books. So, we'll go through it and then um do our level best to get professional development for those teachers in May and June so that when they start in August, they're good to go. I think we're ready for questions if you have any for us. Board, if I could share with you while you're still thinking. I'm sorry, Mr. Allen. Did you have a question? Mr. Meltter. No, go ahead. No, you first. You might answer my question. Let me give you some estimated costs. Again, estimated because um I won't say this is a fun part of my job, but trying to help them understand that we don't have a lot of money and we're ru we are a rural district and here's the amount of money that we have to spend.