001All right. Uh, we will call to order the um first of 2025 2026 budget hearing for USD 437. Um, is there anyone here for public comment on the >> We do not have anyone signed up tonight, but I did want to take the lead on just one comment to confirm uh the end result of prepping the budget for 2526. Um, due to feedback and leadership at the board level, uh, you'll see that for 2526, the middle levy is going to be flat uh, compared to the 2425 school year, which is at 53.319. That's what Brett Bower put in the local newspaper and that was based on the direction given by the board and so hopefully that will be well received by all the patrons in our school community. So, thanks for the guidance and the
002leadership and Brett, thank you for doing everything on the back end. Job well done. >> You said 53, but it's 57.319. >> I wanted to make it sound really good. Yeah, 57. >> So, we're going to stay we're going to stay flat at 57.39. >> There we go. Keeping it flat. That is great. >> So, good job Brett and team on on that. Thank you for your work on that. Um, and that will come up later as an action item in our regular meeting. >> That is correct. >> Um, so we will go ahead and I'm going to adjourn the budget meeting. Um, >> and then I will adjourn the regularly scheduled uh meeting of the board of education at 437. Um, and is there any public comment uh for that? >> No one signed
003up this evening. >> So then we will start uh with roll call. Um, all members except for Brian Smith and Michael White are present. Um, and then we'll move to 3.02. Approval of the agenda. I would accept a motion. >> I would move that the uh, wait, which one are we on? Approval of the agenda as published. >> There's been a motion and a second. All in favor? Motion passes five to zero. Uh, we'll move on to section four, which is disposition of business by consent. I move the board of education approve business by consent including payment of bills on the amount of $6,211,54.73 cents. >> Second. >> There's been a motion and a second. All in favor? Motion passes five to zero. That brings us down to administrator reports. So 5.01 is owner representative.
004>> You bet. And usually we have a Tucker Pacquort, but actually we have a teammate on the uh team and that's Whitney Henley coming up tonight. As she uh walks up to the podium, I was going to give a quick shout out. So a former board of education member Tom Bruno is in the audience tonight. So Tom, thank you for coming back. Feels kind of different sitting in that chair as opposed to up here, I assume. But good to see Glad you're here. Okay, Whitney, time for the update. >> Yep. Quick update on construction projects. What's coming up next? Update on active projects, design updates, and then the upcoming facility. We are going to start with the multi-purpose building. Um the structure was fully complete last week. The envelope is expected to be completed by
005the end of October, which means it'll be all dried in. They'll be able to start some drywall and some paint and all that fun stuff. and they are still um tracking for the substantial completion of that building to be in February. Um this is uh from the inside they did pour the elevated deck last week and then an overview of the uh court area. Uh WRMS outdoor education remodel. This is um the exterior dirt work has started in wall on the inside is complete. They are doing finishes. They are also doing floor prep. That substantial completion is towards the end of November. And as a reminder, there will be this a board of education meeting being held there on October 20th. This is ongoing construction. This is ongoing construction is showing the fact that the
006floor is being prepped. The walls are painted and the ceiling will be next. Um this is um the main outdoor education classroom that will have some um operable partition walls to extend it for uh large group gatherings. And just because this picture hasn't been shown yet because the last time we did pictures of their construction, this is the new entrance and it was just um so beautiful I wanted to take a picture of it. Um over at J Shyler, they are actively working on the prek um what we are calling the annex building. Uh they have gotten to the point where they are actively installing the drywall and finishing which means the inwall rough in is complete. Next they will work on the overhead roughin and getting to the painting activities and flooring activities. Uh
007that substantial completion is also um targeted for the end of November. And again uh we haven't been able to show some of the completion pictures from summer work. So these are the two uh collaboration spaces inside that building. Uh Indian Hills uh they completed the last portion uh right before the holiday weekend and the uh school was able to move into the spaces. So, we are currently tracking um some punch list items and working on those and off hours, get those completed before um the contractor leaves site. And they have a open house scheduled for September 26th. On the right, we have the new art room that they just moved into. And then on the left is the new library. This is one of their collaboration spaces that they used temporarily for an art room
008and then now it is officially the collaboration space over at Farley. It was a very small amount of scope over um at that school mainly focused on collaboration spaces. The main entry is what saw the most change. So, this is a new display case um where they had the plaque in the picture um that got spruced up. Uh the flooring got replaced. There was concrete pillars in the middle that got taken out. And then this is the additional collaboration space that is within the entry as well. Um we have two other collaboration spaces that were put together and sadly for me I couldn't take a picture of them but it was very positive because the reason I couldn't take a picture of them was because there were after school programs fully utilizing them with children.
009So um they are being used and they are a great space. So we have three projects left um to go and these are in design. Want to makers technically on the market for bidding and so that GMP approval is targeted for an October board um meeting as well and they are going to uh try to get into the space. The plan is to get in during Thanksgiving breaks, long weekends, and Christmas breaks to do some um elementary poking around trying to see if they can get some measurements and get some material ordered early so that we don't have any kind of procurement hang-ups uh come summertime. Um over at Auburn, those drawings aren't complete until the beginning of next month and then Paul and South will follow in November. And then just to uh I
010know you guys saw this at the last board meeting I believe. So this is elaborate again. We've kind of we've had a few meetings with the building there uh kind of going over how that phasing is going to work because it is a lot of work and it's a very complicated um middle portion at least. So the early investigations will help pre-order the materials to prepare for the summer. The prek edition will be completed a little bit earlier just to relieve some of the labor spread of the building as the plan. And then the yellow area which is that sped suite is is planned to push into the semester of fall of 2026. And the school preferred that version versus trying to get in early and moving classrooms out and then having them displaced for
011half of a semester and then the summer and then as long as there were no procurement issues, they could get into the next year. So it seemed a safer route to just bleed into the next semester is what the has has opted as their option to do this. And then our next step is the facility committee on October 6th to review the wmaker GMP uh review summary results and budgets and discuss the final two projects after that. >> Is that date workable, Brad? >> Yeah, he emailed us today. >> Okay, perfect. Great. Just an observation. I think Whitney takes a a lot better pictures than Tucker. What do you all? >> Very nice. >> I have a lot more that I couldn't fit in here, but they were great. It was fun. So, uh, yeah,
012that's all I got. >> Questions or comments for >> No, I went over to the Indian Hills, saw the that'll be great for many things, including they have the breakfast coming up, so a lot more space for that and other activities. Yeah, Indian Hills specifically. I've had several parents comment about how that that south edition totally changed the way that that school looks and the amount of natural light and it was it was a great addition. >> So, >> all right. Thank you. >> Yep. >> All right. We will move on to section six, which is items for discussion. 6.01, cell phone discussion. >> Yeah. So, there has been an ongoing conversation in the state of Kansas and actually across the entire United States in regards to cell phones, headphones, smartwatches. How best do they
013fit in education during the school day or not? Uh, I'm not 100% convinced that anybody across the nation has actually got the 100% solution to it, but it's been a good active conversation and it's been a conversation in our school community as well. And so I think uh per the request of the board, we wanted to keep the conversation moving uh here at the board level as well. Uh so it's an item for discussion tonight. You may recall um so we've always had practices and processes in place for the most part at the secondary level. Uh so it was real middle school. Now it's the middle school and real north. Um same thing at the high school. I don't believe there has been a need to have as much communication or conversation or guidance at
014the elementary level. It just hasn't raised to that level. Now that we've moved sixth grade out and the highest level is fifth grade, it might even be less conversation at the elementary level. We'll see what the future brings. So, I don't think this conversation is necessarily elementary focused. There was a slight uh adjustment made to expectations at Washurn Royal Middle School and then the opening of Washurn Rural North this year and then um Mr. Reigns and the site council team uh had a lot of conversation and I believe a survey or two through the course of last year as well and so that conversation and that feedback is now available also. So >> just want to kind of set the stage with some of the previous communications that we've had and see what kind of
015conversation you all would like to have this evening. >> Yeah, Mr. I don't if it would be helpful to the board. I would love to just kind of get a snapshot of what site council discussed and then um kind of what the results were of that conversation. >> Sure. Sure. Um and Jackie is a member of our site council, so if I misrepresent anything, jump in. Um just to to give you some background about how u the the topics are selected um every year prior to our first meeting and we may be one of the few site councils um that I know of that actually has students on our site council. So we've got two freshmen, two sophomores, two juniors and two seniors and their inputs vital in terms of the decision-making processes that ultimately
016lead to recommendations to the school. So before um our first meeting, I generally uh send information out to the site council and ask them to start thinking about topics that they might want to explore for the coming year. And then at the first meeting when we come together um uh the people that have the ideas explain what the idea is, why they think it's important, etc. And then we do a DOT activity. So, we get butcher block paper out. We write down all the ideas on the butcher block paper and then everybody on site council gets three dots and you can put your three dots beside one topic that you're passionate about or you can split your dots up. Um but ultimately that's how we decide what we're going to focus on for the year.
017And so this happened to be a year where um cell phones rose to the top and so we divided into subcommittees. There were three different uh subcommittees that worked on the topics that we uh uh studied this year. Uh Mike Steiner uh was one of the ones that was on the subcommittee for cell phones and they did a very informal unscientific um survey of the staff. We have about 155 uh staff members total uh certified staff members. Um little over 80 of them responded to it. So it was about a 54% uh response rate. not enough to be generalizable, but gave us a gave us a pretty decent idea about things. Um, and so the the consensus, I think, in the data that came back from staff was that um cell phones um uh uh
018can be a distraction for learning. Um only about, as I recall, 30 30 staff members that filled the survey out. Um, and don't hold me to these numbers because that I'm not looking at them on a piece of paper up here in front of me, but I think it was around 30 staff members were in favor of a bell-to-bell ban, which means from, you know, 7:55 in the morning until 3:00 in the afternoon, only 30 of the respondents thought that was a good idea. The rest of them felt like um we needed to have restrictions during instructional time. Um, and our current policy, if you looked at it, um, says that cell phones are not to be out during instructional time except as allowed by staff for educational purposes only. And the reason that language
019existed in the in the policy was because when we refashioned the policy probably eight or nine years ago, um, our staff wanted the autonomy to be able to decide whether or not kids could have cell phones out for legitimate educational reasons. I will say that that was prior to the implementation of the onetoone initiative. So right now there's probably less need uh to have them in the classroom than there was previously but that uh the the the teacher discretion piece was born of a want of the staff so to speak. So um ultimately I'm not sure Jackie when was our last side council meeting the end of April. >> Yeah >> roughly. Um the recommendation was made by that subcommittee to the full site council that um we should restrict cell phones during class time
020and there was um quite a bit of discussion about that. I would classify some of it as push back honestly. And so what we decided to do um in order to be more thorough and to be more um sensitive to all of the patron groups that would be affected by this, we decided that we needed to get some input from students and we needed to get some input from parents as well. Um and so uh that survey went out right at the end of school. As you can imagine, the the end of the school year is pretty busy and so that wasn't one of the things that was um on the front burner. graduation, other things were, but we did get the survey out. Um, unfortunately, the survey went out after the deadline uh for
021us to submit our yearbook for the coming year had passed. We have to uh get that approved generally into the printer by mid to to late May and the survey went out in late May. But we do have the data back now. um we will be taking it uh back to site council um from parents and students and looking at um recommendations um uh that might we might bring forward in the future. So does that >> Yeah. So when they talk about cell phones not being out in during class time, did that mean being kept in lockers during the school day and only checked at their locker or what did that what did that mean from from their perspective? >> Uh in their backpacks. um not accessible in their backpacks. Yeah, there there didn't seem
022to much to be much support for um you like yonder bags or yonder, whatever they're called, those kinds of things where where kids don't have access to them during the day. And the the parent information um the parents were largely in agreement with with staff in terms of instructional time. I mean um they thought that about 70% of the parents thought that cell phones were a distraction in the learning environment. Um, interestingly, about 40% of the parents thought that they were distractions for their kids. So, more parents thought it was a distraction for the learning environment than it was for their kid, which is which is typical. I mean, we we see that from time to time, but there was >> um there wasn't a lot of support in the parent survey that I recall
023for a bell-to-bell uh ban either. um parents seem to want access to their kids at passing periods, lunch period, um advisory, those types of things. >> One one thing for a point of clarity, but Jeff and then Jenny is here and we also have a middle school teacher in the audience. So I think at the middle school level, uh it's very common practice for students to go to the lockers during the passing periods. I think at the high school level, it's not very common for kids to go to the locker during passing periods. Is that accurate at the high school? >> Certainly since co it is. We no longer have the senior hallways or the hallways that you know certain classes relegate themselves. >> Is that accurate at the middle level? >> Yeah. Yeah. >>
024So in in the middle school this year um did they made it to where it's not a bell-to bell ban, but they have to keep their cell phones in their locker and can can check them during passing periods but aren't allowed to have them at lunch. >> That that is the tweak that they have made. And uh so we're about a month into the school district thus far and the feedback was um more favorable than not uh from um at least the principal at Washurn Real Middle School as well as Washurn Rule North and so lot of year yet to go um but the hasn't been a huge a huge growing pain thus far >> and and I think does anybody else have any questions for Ed? I don't want him to have to stand
025>> the side council. Who all is that composed of? I know Jackie said is on there. And >> you mean specific people that are >> or just community members or >> uh community members, business leaders? Um Alex Glasshouser, who's a professor of law at at um he went to Yale, but he's at Washurn University School of Law. Um he's on it. So he was particularly helpful. Um he was on that cell phone committee and and helped us look at some of the legalities associated with bans um and what the legal research was on it. Um Shane Kochi is a parent on it. Val Anderson who's a producer at KTWU. Um so a lot of parents, community leaders, business um folks uh uh staff members as well. Marcy Sandberg, Mike Steinert, myself, Jamie Callahan, Jackie, and
026then we have some very capable students um who very articulate and thoughtful uh and provide good good feedback as well. >> How often does that meet? When is your next meeting? Will that will that data and stuff come up at the next meeting or will there be more done on the cell phones from the site council standpoint? >> Yeah, we plan to pick that back up with site council. Um, typically our first meeting is in September. Um, Miss Callahan um, kind of organizes that and leads it. Um, I haven't seen anything come into my inbox yet, but typically our first meeting is like the end of September. Um, by law um, by statute we're required to have uh, six site council meetings throughout the year. So we generally have three in the fall and we
027have three in the spring. Um and the way they're structured is that that first meeting is organizational in nature. The next four meetings um generally explore the topics that we've um identified for the year and hash through those and then the last meeting uh results in those sub subcommittees making formal recommendations for us to consider in terms of policy implementations. the the the current uh AI policy that we have for acceptable use u came out of site council. So it's an important group and we lean on them pretty heavily. >> Any other questions for Ed? >> Um do you have a feeling as to how enforcable the staff feels that you know stricter cell phone bans would be at like the high school level? Um, I just, you know, I went to the high school
02810 years ago and it wasn't as big of a deal to have cell phones all the time, but we still had them on us. Um, but it was, you know, your cell phone went off in class. The teacher usually confiscated it and it was not super common for that kind of thing to happen. Um, I just wonder, is it going to be really hard for the staff to enforce a ban if you say, you know, it has to be in your in your bag? What's the current culture? Do students have them out all the time in the high school classes, texting, using them for music? >> So, um I mean it's a good question. Uh Shenoa, I I can share with you anecdotally what I hear. It's a slow burn. Uh you know, teachers deal
029with it every day. Even in schools that have complete bans, um teachers deal with it every day. Um and so you're you're always going to have to stay on top of it. Um, I can tell you statistically, um, based on what we saw last year, um, for referrals that really got to the point where the teacher said, "I am done with this. I'm going to refer you to the office." Um, we had 1370 referrals roughly last year. 65 of those were for electronic devices or cell phones. So about 4% um rose to the level where they wanted administrative support and guidance. Generally we have great kids um they do what we asked them to do but it's a it's you know one day it may be this kid the next day it may be it
030may be this kid and honestly uh with the policy that we have right now um we have some teachers and departments that have said you will not have cell phones during instructional time period. Um and um the the teachers that um have adopted those policies um and followed through in terms of enforcement in their classroom have have experienced success with it. But again I mean the caveat is that when we created the policy eight nine years ago um it was created to give the teachers the flexibility that they said they needed in the classrooms. But at that point, did we have the or the other devices for everybody? >> Chromebooks. >> Yeah, as I said earlier, um we didn't have the one to one initi. >> Okay, that's okay. >> At that point, >> any
031other questions for Ed? >> So you said there are other departments there, teachers and departments that have So there's whole >> Yeah, I think I think um yeah, I mean there are entire departments that have said no cell phones. Um so they've all gone down that road together. So they can they decide as a department that in like the science wing or wherever it is that we're not going to have cell phones here. >> And you know according to the policy, if you read the policy, the kids aren't supposed to have them out during class time at all except with um teacher approval. And so what the science department for example, and I think they're the ones that that went down that road um have uh have basically said is you're not going to give
032approval. I mean, the kids are not going to have their cell phones out. They can they can get them out during passing periods. So, >> I know you can't um you know, tell us what everyone on the site council was thinking with their three dots, but >> is the reason that the cell phone policy kind of rose to the top of that bucket. Is that because of parents being concerned about their kids being distracted individually or was it from staff members saying this is becoming a, you know, it's it's permeating every day. It's kind of becoming a large scale problem. Um, is it a problem that we need I mean we need to address at this time or is it being handled pretty pretty clearly? >> Well, Jackie, do you want to share your assumption?
033>> I feel like when we had that the the time the night we did that, I feel like it really I was surprised how many students were were willing to talk about it. Um, it had been discussed that this blue ribbon report I don't know if it had come out yet or not. the state. I'm not sure if it had come out. >> I don't know. I don't know that it had. >> We talked a little bit about that it was going to be coming out, but honestly, I I felt it felt very studentled to me the whole process. And then to see the the statistics that some of the staff how they felt about it was was interesting as well when they presented that at the end of the school year. So I that's
034how I perceived it. >> Yeah, we have we have some very motivated kids by design on site council >> and that group specifically. I will say I will feel like there were some seniors that were also very interested, but that weren't just seniors. It was it was all age groups. >> Yeah. Um they were also um some of the K one of the groups during that last meeting that had um the most questions or push back about uh about a ban as well um to the irritation of some of the staff members on the committee, but you'd expect that honestly. >> Yeah. Yeah, I read the surveys. Um, you know, I thought a lot of I thought there was a good portion of the parents that had very very thoughtful researched responses on there. Um,
035some of them even cited sources and things of that nature. Um, and it felt that, you know, the parents were maybe 50/50 right around there in, you know, in favor of having stricter cell phone policies and then many of them were concerned about school safety. Um, also we're concerned about getting a hold of their kids and also the thought that cell phones have permeated all aspects of our society. You know, no one's going to take your phone away at work and so you kind of need to learn how to manage that device on your own. But then I felt the students were very largely against um >> which is to be expected. >> Yes. Naturally. >> Yeah. It was uh it was interesting reading, wasn't it, Shinoa? >> Yes. I will say that some of
036the students were at least at site council, not not the surveys, but the students in site council were probably more willing to be stricter than than their parent than their own parents were in those casual conversations >> that they had talked about it some of them with their parents and >> the students at least in that group were and and some of their groups that they had pulled in formally were very willing for restrictions. Um it was some parents that were not as willing in that case. >> Yeah. You just, you know, for to to play like the other side of it, if the students don't want their cell phones, they don't have to have them, right? They can just put them in their locker themselves versus having some sort of ban. You know, if
037they're in favor of it personally, they don't have to bring their cell phones to class. But I just kind of wonder with the way that this reads and the way that the policy is currently um and if departments and teachers and staff are able to make those decisions to say you guys can't have them. Uh I wonder, you know, are we like inventing a problem or is it something that needs to be addressed? So that's just kind of my thought. >> Any other question? Sir, >> are there any other data points or information that you would like uh to have at your disposal moving forward? >> Just like generally I I guess to me it's about kids in education. So I'm I'm interested in you know I don't know if it's out there if it
038exists. I mean I searched and found various things but like is there is there data from schools or districts or states that have done this looking at test scores and that kind of stuff? like is there educational benefit that's being seen or not being seen or you know that kind of context. I mean it's one thing to say kids want it or don't want it like that's fine and that's a good conversation but I think at the end of the day we have to look out for I mean you know education of the kids. >> It's a it's a it's a very good question and um some of the research was shared when the subcommittee um rolled out their recommendation. I mean, honestly, I think it's fair to characterize the research that's out there currently
039as a mixed bag. There are research studies that will tell you there are no academic gains. There are no social emotional gains to cell phone bands. There are other uh research studies that are out there that point to um uh at risk students and females as having improved uh mental health outcomes. Um but other studies that contradict those findings um the majority of the studies have been done in England. They've been done in Sweden. Uh one came out uh uh this summer out of Australia as well. Um but there isn't anything out there uh empirically that shows this is going to result in improved student outcomes, improved student mental health. If there were, we would have been all over it a long time ago. Any other questions for Ed? Let him sit down. I think
040there's a few other things. Just kind of in general, I think what's brought this about um is a lot of um recently we've seen 501 um with implement a cell phone ban. We saw Manhattan um implement a cell phone ban. We saw the Kansas uh Department of Education come out with their blue ribbon task force um on student screen time um which is where it seems like the basis for at least Manhattan's when I read um their board discussion on it came strictly from that um which was in favor at the time of a a a bell-to bell cell phone ban um and then through conversations with with Brad and and others the state of Missouri has implemented a a cell phone ban in in all schools. So, I think it's important that we continue
041to have this discussion. I think it's important that we continue to u make sure that um we're, you know, doing what's best for kids and also making sure that we're staying on top of where where the research and where where other boards are going and we at least have that uh discussion in public um so that way um everyone knows that we're having these discussions and ongoing conversations. >> Absolutely. >> Yeah. Yeah. Is there anything on the learning services side of things that any I don't know the different >> I mean >> committees that you represent that have brought that up or >> No, I mean honestly nothing beyond what Mr. Reigns has described. Um he's accurate in terms of the research. It it becomes very difficult to draw clear links between things like cell
042phones and student achievement data when there are a lot of factors that influence that student achievement data. And so one always has to be careful with what some of that research looks like. Um it will be interesting in the coming years as more um states and municipalities and school districts choose to follow these bands. Maybe more specific research will come out that will inform us. Um I will say that um we have had just in general conversation about what this looks like and I know that they take parent and student feedback very seriously in this process and so I think that would be what I would contribute to the dialogue. >> Good. Thank you. I think uh the last thing from from me is um obviously school safety is a is an utmost concern um
043for us. So if we were to and I know Patrick and I have had some conversation of the ability to reach students if we didn't have cell phones in the community and having a onetoone I um Chromebook makes that significantly easier um and tapping into messaging software that can go across Chromebooks. But um it's definitely something we want to keep in mind um and want to keep the conversation uh moving forward. So >> well and if there are um Mr. Wils any other data points that we can provide that you think would be helpful, we're happy to do that. >> Yeah, >> perfect. >> I do have one thing I think I would like to know is on those Chromebooks, you know, what is it quite honestly just a computer with unlimited access to the
044internet, etc. Um I'm thinking about the positive aspects of cell phones. I've hosted three foreign exchange students that have gone to the high school. Um, and all of them struggled a little bit at the beginning with like translation. So, a lot of them would use their cell phones to um, Google translate things during class and and whatnot. Are those all things that could be easily replaced through the Chromebook? Is it have that access? >> Patrick, I'd Mr. King Chromebook here. >> Yes, it is. Especially the modern Chromebooks. It literally has Android in it as well. So, if there's an Android app out there, you can probably load it on it. Um, we do have Google Translate specifically open on our Chromebooks. Um, we had a little back and forth with that because sometimes they can
045get access to websites they shouldn't when they ask it to translate a whole website, but the educational value being able to live translate the assignments, the notes, um, outweighed that. And honestly the soft the filtering software has progressed to the point it's able to catch that as well. So we get true educational benefit of like Google translate without opening the problems. And so I won't say it can now there's some things with like picture like Google lens or Siri that Chromebooks can't quite do today but I'm sure they're working on it. Um but I'd say 90% of it could be handled by the Chromebook. I guess my question, thank you. That answers it. Also, kind of just generally speaking, um, all of those positive things that students use cell phones for, can all of those
046things be replaced via use of the Chromebook? Um, in which case they wouldn't need to say, "Oh, I need my cell phone for this or this or this in class?" Um, I guess I'm just not sure what the limitations of the Chromebooks are. You know, if we have like a list of allowed apps, websites, etc. >> Uh, a list of allowed apps would be easy to come up with. the list of allowed sites because we tip take the stance that everything is good until it's not. And so all these new tools are coming out. We honestly no one can bet them live. Um and so until they start misbehaving and we stop access to them is what we do. So we let the kids explore and choose the tool that works best for them. And
047so that's part of where that policy came out. Now, there's some thing to be said about comfort of the device because there are some kids that are very comfortable using this, not so much the Chromebook. Even though they can flip it around to a tablet, the format, the handheld, it's still more comfortable for them. So, technically, it can replace most of it. realistically comfort level. Uh that's that's a harder and in some cases impossible, especially in some of our meteor children. Uh that's something to consider for them, too. >> Thank you. And I know that we I I've looked at a couple and I know Brad has looked at a couple policies of of people that have had um you know cell phone some b some sort of cell phone b put in place and
048that that is a big thing that they mention in there is exceptions especially you know especially for IEPs and and um other plans is if a if a cell phone is needed for that to make sure that that is obviously included. So, any other questions or comments on that? >> All right. Keep the conversation going. >> Absolutely. >> All right. Thank you. >> Thanks, Patrick. >> So, we will move on to action items. Um 7.01, uh, English language arts novel request final read. Hello everyone. I was here last week with that novel request, a long walk to water for our eighth grade classroom. So, I'm just here to um open it up if you have any questions about that request. >> That's good. Any questions? Entertain a motion. >> I move the board of education
049approve the presented instructional materials in the amount of $2,594.75. >> Second. Yuck out of the camera. >> All right, there's been a motion and a second. All in favor? Motion passes 5 to zero. Thank you. >> Scroll back up here. Um, we're going to move on to 7.02, which is approval of the fiscal year 2025 2026 budget. There's no questions. I'd entertain a motion. I'll move the board of education approve the 202526 budget with a mill levy of 57.319 and the local option budget all set at 33%. >> Second motion and second. All in favor? Motion passes 5 to zero. Um and then we'll move to 7.03 the KASB delegate assembly appointee. Scott is that yours? >> Uh yeah. >> I tell you what. Yeah. So, I just left that blank. That's a conversation at
050the board level. Whoever would be available on Saturday, November 15th for a virtual meeting for the KASB assembly. So, Jackie has done that over the years. I think Brad, you did it last year. Um, I don't think it was too painful when you reported back to the board. So, yeah, I've got the motion here. If somebody wants to put their name on the blank, >> I'll read I'll read Brad's name in. >> Okay, let's see. >> Are you good, Brad? >> It's a Saturday the 15th. >> I know. I meant to look at the date. I can't go this year. So, >> it'll be virtual, but let's see. >> And this is an all day activity. >> You can actually do it virtual. >> Virtual. It's like a couple hours virtually. Is there an option?
051>> How long did it Did it uh require >> Yeah, it was a little over an hour. >> Okay. A little over an hour. You can do it from home online. >> I can do that. >> We're really trying to sell it. >> Okay. So, Chanel. Okay. Um, so I would just I would move that the board of education approve Shinoa Emory as the delegate assembly representative for the KASB delegate assembly meeting taking place on Saturday, November 15th, 2025. >> Second. A motion and a second. All in favor? Motion passes 5 to zero. U move on to section 8, communications. Doesn't look like there's any today. Um and then the chair will move that we go into executive session at 710 um to discuss person personnel matters pursuant to the exception of non-elected personnel under
052coma to discuss the budget pursuant to the exception of employer employee negotiations under coma and to discuss students pursuant to the exception relating to actions adversely or favorably accepting student under coma for 25 minutes. The open meeting will resume in the boardroom at 7:35. Second. >> Second. >> All right. All those in favor? Motion passes 5 to zero. We're in executive session. We are back in open session after the executive session. Entertain a motion. >> Okay. I'd move the board of education approve the change of status for the teacher discuss executive session for probationary to non-probationary status for the 2025 2025 2026 school year. >> Second. >> A motion to second. All in favor? Motion passes 5 Z. >> I move that the board of education modify the administrator's contract as discussed in executive session.
053>> Second. >> Been a motion and a second. All in favor? Motion passes five to zero. >> Motion to adjurnn. >> Second. >> There's been a motion second. All those in favor? Motion passes 5 to zero. We are here.