001I'd like to open the uh June 26, 2025 meeting of USD 437 Board of Education. Calling the meeting to order. Uh we're going through the agenda. The second item is open forum. We have no school highlights and no one signed up for public comment. Um I will now move to item three which is roll call. We'll show that uh uh everyone is present except for Joe Fall and Michael White. So we do have a quorum. I would ask for a motion to approve the agenda. Move to approve the agenda as published. Second. I have a motion and a second to approve the agenda as published. All in favor? Motion passes five to zero. Disposition of business by consent. Move the board of education approve business by consent including the payment of bill amount of 16
002million74 $474,41055. Second. We have a motion and a second to dispose of business by consent. All in favor? Motion passes five to zero. That takes us down to administrator reports. I see there are none. There are none. takes us to item six, which is uh items for discussion, final budget transfers. Yes, I'm going to turn those over to Brett, but I did want to mention one thing that I learned um this week at a KSD budget workshop. There is an option uh for the board of education to not schedule a year-end meeting like we have tonight. That used to always be the standard, but there's another option available at the organizational meeting, which is the first meeting in July every year when you, you know, do the assignments of board members and the board dates
003and all the things. Um, you can make a statement in there that I have access to that says, uh, give the administration the opportunity for final budget transfers and then share those at the first meeting in July. So, um, the next meeting is the first meeting, but it's the organizational meeting. And so, I was going to share that with you. And if that sounds like a good idea, so we have two board meetings instead of three in June. It also um gives the business office more time to take care of final budget transfers. This is the final budget transfer meeting, but the reality is um school districts use the entire uh summer months to finally close things up. So Brett has a nice snapshot of where we're at now, but there's a lot of more
004work that's still going to take place. So I think I kind of saw heads nodding. Yes. If you're okay with that approach, we probably will put that in the organizational meeting for the July 7th meeting and then we won't have this meeting next year. I would have been better with it if we did it last year. I think it's a really good idea and I think because we've had years since I've been on the board where we've been struggling to get some of the final numbers because there's been some some piece waiting on. So I I think the exact a little a few days extra would be great and I don't think it adds any additional time really to the next meeting we're having. So yeah, I did a little straw pull the superintendent around.
005I said, "Well, would you do that?" And I absolutely. So I think it'll probably be the new thing. Do we need board action for that or we just Well, it'll be on the organizational report. So, I'll have the statement. So, and then we'll just do it. There you go. So, it'll be at the next board meeting. Yeah, you bet. So, good new news moving forward. And but tonight, we're going to go ahead and take action on it. Exactly. Yeah. You bet. Turn over to Brett. Yeah. So, thank you for being here. um as has been in years past. This is just kind of our standard uh year-end wrapup uh to approve those final payment of bills and then talk about final year and transfers. So um really through the course of the year really nothing
006extraordinary or um to to report on. Um, we did receive earlier this month our final audited legal max budget and so that sets our maximum authority for the general fund and the local option budget. Um, some years that is more than the original published budget and unfortunately some years it's less. And so this is one of those years where we saw a budget reduction um as a result of both um some audit adjustments and then just some changes in waitings through the the process that um resulted in a budget reduction of around $870,000. So, um, but we will be, as Scott said, continuing to work to close the books and get everything posted and, um, transfers made, etc., etc. So, anybody happy to answer any questions? Yeah. Anybody have any questions? I feel like we've
007done a pretty good job managing, you know, what we we kind of knew this year, too, we might be a little tight as we were coming to the end anyhow. So, we've been looking at it and I think we've all been diligent. So, the uh the next big number to take a look at will be September 20th, the count date of student enrollment. Um it's always important to that's a good indication on how your budget's going to look. It's driven by the number of kids you have enrolled in your district. So, we were down just a little bit this year compared to the prior year. We hope that's a funny looking number and it's not the normal. And then maybe we can bounce back up with some kiddos this upcoming school year. Yeah. And so
008as that final audit is completed and they've done their audit report and Okay. And do we I'm on the internal audit subcommittee. Are we supposed to have a meeting for that at some point between as a matter of fact maybe at the end of this meeting. So um Burbridge Treyan and company they have just completed the audit so we can have a subcommittee meeting and have it presented at the next board meeting July 7th. We've got quite a few things happening all kind of at once right now. So we have the audit that has been completed. That's a subcommittee meeting. Probably our owners rep Tucker Pedacor is going to reach out to board subcommittee members. Probably going to get ready for another facility committee meeting in the month of July. And then on top of
009that, uh we've got some new information or an update I guess we could share in regards to bus transportation in the work that we're doing this summer. And so that would also be a subcommittee meeting. So the problem is a lot of folks serve on mo each of those committees. So, it's hard to say on July 7th at 5:30 come in because some folks are going to say, "Well, which one do I report to?" We'll get that figured out. That's the reality of summertime. Just a lot of things taking place. But, uh, the short answer is yes, the um audit looks great and they'll come in and present it at the next board meeting. And so, we'll get information out to you prior to that meeting. Anything else? Thank you. Um, that brings us to
010action items. Uh 7.01 our final budget transfers. I'd like someone to make a motion on that. I'd move the board of education approve year end transfers as recommended. Second. Motion and second to approve item 7.01 final budget transfers. All in favor? Motion passes five to zero. 7.02 the forensic science 2 resource final read. Anybody want to make a motion? I move the board of education to approve the presented instructional materials in the amount of $5,34562. Second. I have a motion and a second to approve item 7.02 forensic science 2 resource final read. All in favor? Motion passes 5 to zero. 7.03 MS peer mentor elective course final read. Shano, you want to just keep making the motions? Um, I move the board of education to approve the peer mentor course for the middle school. Second.
011We have a motion and a second to approve item 7.03. All in favor? Motion passes 5 to zero. 7.04 2025 2026 elementary student handbook. Um, I move the board of education approves the 2025 2026 elementary student handbook as presented. Second. I have a motion and a second to approve item 7.04, the 2025 2026 elementary student handbook. All in favor? Motion passes five to zero. 7.05 property and casualty insurance workers compensation renewals. Don't have the language for this one, but I move that the board of education approves the property and casualty insurance workers compensation renewal for 2025 2026. Second. We have a motion and a second to approve the 7.05 property and casualty insurance workers compensation renewals. All in favor? Motion passes 5 to zero. 7.06 bus driver and paraprofessional compensation. I move the board of
012education approves the starting wage for bus drivers at $17 an hour with additional pay for relevant experience and that we maintain the current starting wage for pair educators at 1353 an hour but implement a new experience ba experience-based pay ladder second a motion and a second to approve 7.06 06 the bus driver impair professional compensation. All in favor? Motion passes 5 to zero. That would bring us down to communications and we have none. Nope. And you guys are making this easy. A uh at this time at 6:40 I would move that we go into executive session to discuss students pursuant to the exception relating to the actions adversity or favorably affecting a student under coma to discuss personnel matters pursuant to the exception of non-elected personnel under coma or to discuss budget pursuant to the
013exception for employer negotiations under coma for 10 minutes and the meeting will resume uh at 6:50. 50. Second. Motion's been seconded. All in favor? Motion passes 5 to zero. We're going into executive session. back in open session after being in executive session. We have a couple of motions that need to be made. Jackie, you want to take the floor? Yes. I move that the board of education approves the request for the teacher to be released from his contract as discussed in executive session. Second. You heard the motion and a second. All in favor? Motion passes 5 to zero. And I move that the board of education approved the request for the adjustment of title and salary for the employee as discuss discussed in executive session. Second. Heard the motion and the second. All in favor?
014Motion passes five to zero. Move to adjurnn. Second. We have a motion and a second to adjurnn. All in favor? Motion passes five to zero.journ.