Any other questions, comments, discussion? Okay. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Same sign. >> Yeah. >> Um item number 13, our KSB policy first reads. >> Okay. So, we're going to be talking a lot about this, especially when we get to our handbooks here the next month. So, I wanted us to turn our attention a little bit to the item that is uploaded for you guys to look at from KSV. um two items that we're going to have and I want to spend a little bit of time talking about um House Bill 2299 that was voted into law uh creates new requirements regarding school district staff and use of social media platforms. Um, specifically the third paragraph there says, "No employee of a district shall provide, sorry, shall privately or directly communicate with any student through a social media platform except as expressly permitted under board policy.
Um but our actual enrollment is sitting just under 20 like 19 and change. So gives you an idea where we're sitting. We'll visit more about this on our May 28 strategic planning day. Um then I've also included for you um we're required to annually run a survey. Survey results are on the paper. They are very typical results. When people's kids are in like a lower elementary grade, they always rate their school high. The older their kids get, they rate the school lower. So it's kind of it's kind of what you would expect. Um but 95% of parents at Tech ranked it good or excellent. That's roughly where it fell last year. 75% at Del Rio, good or excellent, HMS 63, and CBHS 62. So, and then I'd like to draw your attention to the fact that we out of you saw the numbers of enrolled students at each campus and we only had about 140 150 people respond.
So, the first thing is um what will staff training look like. Um we know that we're going to have to put these guidelines into our Dysart Essentials, and this is a piece that all of our staff do every single year. Um they're they're kind of broken out quarterly or now you can do them throughout the throughout the year in different time frames. Um so, all our staff will be required to go through this this type of training that's uh pushed out. Um back to school training, obviously we'll have a variety of different pieces depending on your different uh job. But, we know for some of our teachers and instructional staff, uh we'll have to do some of the training before the beginning of the year before ready to roll out at that time frame, making sure they're ready to uh put that into students' hands and what that looks like in the classroom on a daily basis.
Um I don't know any anything else with this one? >> think so. I said this one was pretty straightforward. >> Pretty straightforward, yeah. >> I would say like I'm looking at C just I'll just add that apart from like um C seeing the board president our questions as part of our other protocol it also get added to our information that results from those questions get shared with the whole board. >> Right. >> So, in our commitment to like everyone knows if one knows everyone knows. So, that's kind of like a follow-up to that protocol. >> I will say D like the part about the president responding on behalf of everyone was probably the one that took me not the longest to get used to, but I felt I feel like if I get an email I'm supposed to respond to the email. Yes, but I'm not um >> I I had I had the same I had the same thought when when we were talking about that probably before you came on the board.
>> Board members, any questions or I will entertain a motion. >> I move that the board of school trustees approve the 202627 Avon online student handbook as presented. Second motion by Kim, seconded by Jennifer. All those in favor? That motion carries. 5-0. All right. Next up, we will continue to hear from Dr. Finlay regarding the Avon High School bleacher project. >> So, uh, we put an RFP out for our bleachers at the main high school. gym. They've they're original from uh pro the the building when it was first opened. So about 25 years old and it's time I think we're running out of um I think Mr. Rollinsson has been keeping it up and going for a long time now, but we're running out of parts and um it's created some issues with the wood floor. So we felt like it was time and we ended up with a great proposal from Lee Company.
One thing I appreciate about the current F-100, um Mr. Stenner, you highlighted that there are different funds, and the extracurricular accounts um are not taxpayer money, not that that makes it any less important, but but I appreciate the fact that we have a policy directed specifically at the extracurricular accounts, because I I think in terms of of our of the administration oversight of that, and and then our oversight, it's a very different um animal than than the other funds that we deal with. And it's also um you could verify this, but but in from my perspective, it seems like the one where there is the the greatest likelihood that a fraud's going to occur is going to occur in the extracurricular account. So, in in that sense, I like a separate policy that deals with how do we how do we oversee extracurricular accounts, rather than melding them all together.
So that was our highlight of our day. >> So she's kind of downplaying it a little bit. Like we were third in the state out of 40 teams out of 140 individuals. We were fourth as a sophomore, fifth as a senior, second in reasons. We And she was fifth in reasons. I mean, that's a pretty incredible day for a group of kids coming from Deli. Like, we're not a that's not a name that normally was reckoned with. And now we are we we were standing there if we would have been just a little bit better in cattle, we were we lost contest by 10 points. So, cattle decided it and there was the team standing down there that's won. They repeated it and they said, "Are you going to beat us today?" And I was like, "I hope so." But we ended up not. But, uh, she's downplaying that a little bit.
Need a motion to approve that. I'll make a motion to approve. Okay, I've got a motion. Do I have a second? Second. Okay, any further discussion? All those in the favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed the same.
Certainly not all students, certainly not all schools, but I think anything that happens, we'll have to be mindful of enforcement and following the spirit of it. So, we've been in touch with folks that have been ahead of the curve and instituted some things. It's just going to be an age-old kind of cat-and- mouse game a little bit. >> And I believe IdoE was going to come out with a sample policy. Have they done that yet or has that not happened yet? >> I've kept my eyes and ears open. I have not seen that yet. Um, and so if if they have, it's been very recent, like within the last day or two. >> So I know we're focusing on the middle school and high school as well, but we have, again, as you mentioned, this is K's K through 12. What are the elementaryaries? Did Fort Wayne Community Schools deal with the elementaryaries or or what have we what because that to me is a completely different ballgame.
Um, but for most of our kids, either AM or PM is won't be a problem. >> Okay. without I guess stereotyping or categorizing your in-person students as opposed to the virtual students. Is there a a personality difference or is there a diff would there be a reason that's different for the in-person students to be there as opposed to the virtual? Is it again I'm trying to get to virtually? Are they more likely not to follow the rules than those who would be in person? and what kind of teeth can you put into enforcement of the rules on a virtual situation? >> Right. So, in the in the packet, it goes over kind of there's an academic integrity plan that you can look over there. I would say that the virtual students there are two kinds. There's ones that think it's going to be easy, okay?
Like an example, a lot a lot of police departments, right? If they're having issues with the public, they create a public oversight so people can feel heard about these things, right? So, I think there's ways to I I don't know that getting rid of strong town manager is entirely the answer based on how our select board structured, right? It's it's not even There are communities that pay, so then maybe someone could do it as a part-time job. But it's a big ask, right? So, I think we have to start there with the select board. What do they see pluses and minuses of that? But again, this goes back to we talked about if our government was following what we believe they're supposed to, we should have a charter review. It's written in the charter how often you have it. And I did not look up what I just know it's overdue to start the process.
Yeah, there was no way that that um I don't think from that position she'd be able to make a play on the runner. So, really all she needed to do was make sure that the you know, the the batter didn't get over to second base, which she did. So, you know, you know, limit it to one run and keeping the runner on first and hopefully limit the damage to that. So, you know, for for the rest of the inning. Mari Larkey comes to the plate. Uh Larkey did single in the first inning. Still no outs here. That's going to be ball two to Larkey who's up two and oh now against the Mestico uh with the runner on first in the top of the third. And that's going to be a hot shot to the right fielder, [screaming] Kazanjian. No problem. She does throw it back to first just in case.
I justart >> if it provides no value to you, then I don't know what it would provide to us. Perfect. >> Anybody else? >> Okay. if you happen to be in the uh technology uh ends report um I'll just kind of go through some highlights of it uh as as we uh look at it. Uh the first few slides are kind of uh going through our mission and and uh the individual talents which is what our technology skills are part of the R2 individual talents. Um the slides four through uh nine just kind of outline what we see as our district mission in technology to uh work with students 21st century technology skills. We are responsible for the instructional technology within the district. We're uh responsible for the student and business data systems within the district and we also play a role in the career and technical education and uh right at the core of that in uh slide number nine is uh our center point where everything meets uh which is our infrastructure of how we u do technology in our district.
Use of board approved social media platforms is acceptable for official school purposes as defined in the policy. No employee shall require a student to use a social media platform for any assignment or extracurricular activity. uh the provisions of this policy do not apply to virtual schools as defined by Kansas law. So, we're looking at a couple different platforms that hook with our website and hook with P school to be able to try to merge that into one where we have our classes. Uh the principal is attached to any of the communication pieces back and forth. Um also athletics activities as well have their own little category in there too where they can click on it, put all of them together as well. So, um, we're looking into that. We have a meeting with APG at the 1 of June and they're the ones that run our website.
So, pretty um and that's also pretty typical. So, um, one of the things I want to share with you, which is odd, and I I really can't account for it in any way, um, our school district, but it's like a problem statewide. It's come up in lots of other, um, like meetings and stuff or newsletters. Also, I know for towns, counties, um since the um 2024 election, there has been a significant surge in public records requests and they're coming from a loosely refer to them as agencies. Of all the I keep um like I filter them all into an email folder so I can see how many we're getting. Last week we had five. That's a lot and it creates a lot of work for the business office to produce those records because we have to correspond and find out are they a for-profit or a nonprofit because we have in policy fee structures um for that.
And then we know with anything it's important to can have ongoing training. And as things develop or as things change, we get feedback. But, more importantly, as situations develop and as uh students use in different capacities, we'll have that ongoing training uh throughout the year and years to come. Uh student training, uh you can see that guidelines will be put into our parent student handbook. Again, we want everyone uh to be able to see that and know what it's about and know what our guidelines are, be very transparent. Um and then have our have this integrated into our scope and sequence. And so, all of our uh instructional grade levels have a scope and sequence of what is taught. We'd like to try to blend that in um as we move forward on this journey to to show how I could maybe use some of these AI tools with what we do on a on a daily basis or our monthly basis.
I I I think I was probably the hardest one to >> Yeah. >> convince um >> How the tables have turned on me. >> Well, no no yeah. No, I was >> Well, I think there's a there's a cumulative effect in the district as well because if you know, when I was a teacher if a parent had a concern or had a question for me if they went straight to the principal and then give me a chance to respond, I always wanted first that engagement. And so, in this instance it's always helpful. Similarly, when the board one entity the board gets a message there's a designated person who's responsible versus all seven. Like he gets mad. It's to avoid kind of this uh individualized approach to board management when there's one board and the board has free flow of conversation. Um it's actually a little different than the principal example, but I think it's the goal though is to to have a process that's free and fair that everybody can understand and transparent to be honest with you.
We're excited about that. that Lee Company also did Brownsburg's gym recently in Westfield and they've done some other large high schools. So, um I'm recommending that we approve the the new bleacher project at Avon High School and obviously this is a huge undertaking because we're taking away our main gym for a certain period of time. So, uh Jason Young will be working very closely with them so we can do it. I think we found a little window of time in the fall when we can start to bring them in so that we're not missing any basketball season or volleyball games. How many how many RFPs did we receive? >> Three for this project and and two were about $100,000 more than this particular and there's a certain type of bleacher we were looking for which was a Hussy product which is what Brownsburg used. It's a real durable product and so we had put that out and we ended up receiving three.
one policy, but a clear section for for each. Uh Mr. Schulz. Yeah, I mean, I'm I'm with Dale. I I agree. I think your highest risk is similar to nonprofits as your ECA. Um I also I mean, I think in the spirit of what Dr. Phillips was asking, I'll I'll just give my one sense and then feel free to default to everyone else. But I I guess I see it in three different categories. One, clearly say the PTO is outside the realm of any of these policies. Then you have ECA, and then you have corporately held funds. I don't believe the public sees our fiduciary responsibility different. I I do disagree with the prior assumption of that our our responsibility appear different between ECA and corporate. I think we should hold the same hold the same standard. I think what we would do is what we should be doing is applying um internal mechanisms and audits reflective of both the risk and the and the monetary impact.