001[Music] 37 Board of Education. Looks like we have a full house tonight. Um we're going to first start off uh with one of our therapy dogs. Uh Dr. Soda, uh do you have that? Yeah. Uh Winnie and Lana, if you'd like to come on up. So this is Lana Cyel. She is at Pauline Central and she is um requesting this evening that Winnie a golden doodle joins the Pauline Central team as a therapy dog there. So we wanted to have an opportunity for you to uh meet Winnie and Lana and ask them any questions ahead of time. The actual approve or the recommendation item will be on the agenda later on, but we wanted you to have an opportunity to meet Winnie. Tell us a little bit about your dog. Uh Winnie is a golden
002doodle. She is 11. She's been a therapy dog for 10 years. Wow. Um we're certified under She is wanting to go to greet everybody. Yeah, sure. That's okay. Absolutely. You can bring her around the back. She can She's here to work. She works the room. She does. She knows how to work the room. She loves She loves kids. Um I work at Pauline Central in early childhood. Um and I'm a speech language pathologist. Um she has gone with me over her 10 years to an elementary school that I in Lawrence. Uh we do a lot of visits on K campus and all of the craziness up on KU campus. Um we've also gone to the juvenile detention center in Lawrence and then we're doing some hospital visits this summer. Um she just loves people and
003she loves to greet people and she's really good with kids and loves babies for some reason. Um yeah, so she has um she's a K9 good citizen and then she's certified through the loving cause therapy organization in Lawrence. Um and we've been with them for quite a while. Beautiful. Do you guys have any questions or anything? She does love to say hello to every person in the room. So if you do not like dogs, you do not want to say hello. She's really good with kids. How do we get purple on her? I don't know if that's gonna happen. I would do lavender. [Laughter] Well, we take Lavender. Okay, good. The KU students love when she has a color on, so we do that. Michael does, too. Hey, Jeff. Sometimes when we have a therapy
004dog that comes in for an introduction, the question surfaces, do we already have a dog at the school? The dog's going to be working. So, Pauline Central, is there a dog there at this time? There is not currently dog at Pauline Central at this time. Right. We have Debbie Williams, the principal at the Pauline Central here as well, and she has given us two thumbs up in regards to having her join the team. So, good news there as well. Yeah. All right. Any other questions from members of the board. So, you're on the agenda for later tonight, but we didn't want you to hang the whole night. So, you're feel free to stay, but you're certainly welcome to I doubt you're going to let me leave. I doubt you'll see any opposition to us. Thank
005you for coming in. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Then we have a couple of uh school highlights here tonight. Yeah. So, we have a packed house. Thank you all for coming in. I can't be more excited to celebrate some of the accomplishments with you from this evening. So, we're going to start off with the girls soccer program. We have all of the coaches here. So, if the team of coaches could come up and talk about this recent uh reason to celebrate, that would be outstanding. So, Coach Hel's the head coach and we've got a couple assistants as well. So, come on up. This is a big big deal. So guys, no, come on up. Absolutely. Yeah. The all the team, come on up. Absolutely. Yeah. As they're walking up, let's give them a round
006of applause. Yeah. Big big deal. [Applause] Yeah. Floor is yours, coach. Talk a little bit about the team and about this experience. All right. We'll uh we'll just tell you a little bit about these uh this year's team. Uh this is the first girls soccer state champion in Washington school history. Uh which is obviously a big deal. Uh but it's also the first 6A school outside of Johnson County to ever win the girls soccer state championship. Uh which was a pretty big accomplishment. Obviously our final record was 19 and two. We won every single game of the 20 girls that were on the final team the last day. Every game that they were all healthy and suited up we won every single time. So uh we had a great season. Be a lot of the
007big games in Kansas City soccer throughout the year. Um but in the in the finals beat no valley in the championship game. It was a zero zero game for 100 minutes. Wow. And we won the shootout at the very end. Kind of a hot day. Uh it was the culmination of a lot of hard work. This is a fantastic group led by 11 awesome seniors who were going to miss dearly. But they were a big part of of the reason this all happened. Um and just a very talented group of young ladies, great students, phenomenal families and parents that supported us the whole time. And it's everything that's right about high school sports and athletics. Mhm. So, [Applause] so a couple of couple of questions anybody can ask. I've got I'm kind of curious. So,
008uh who So, for the board, if you don't know, um it went into PK shootouts. So, it's a tie game. Two overtime, still tied, but you got to get a winner. So, uh who who took the first shot? Who took the first PK? share with the board. Um, so what's going through your mind? Um, you're up and you go and what are you thinking? Um, okay. So, very much was going through my mind. Um, when Hinsel said my name, I knew he was going to say my name. We had practiced it a lot. I mean, we were prepared. We were all very prepared. We had done it during practice and I knew I was picked for a reason. I was picked first for a reason. So, everybody was relying on me. I just kind of
009had to start it off strong. Yeah. I just knew I had to make it and I just made sure I walked up with confidence. Yeah. Awesome. And you did it. And you did it. You nailed it. Who's that? Who's number two? Okay. Now, GK. Yeah. Yeah. What was going through your mind? Um, pretty much same thing that Dane said, just like I knew I had to make it and I walked up there pretty confident. Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome. Number three. You okay? What are you thinking? Um, I was pretty nervous, but I did. I did it. You did it. Yeah. And then I think we had a number four and that was the That's Bristol and I think she's in Hawaii maybe. Okay. Well, she deserves that. Part of the deal. That's right. She's out
010of town. But we went four for four. And our goalkeeper Oh, I know. I want to get to her. You pass. Made two huge saves. Mhm. Yeah. What do you want me to say? My gosh. Yeah. Um I don't know. It was just kind of crazy. I think I had so much adrenaline from the game. So I just like wasn't even thinking about anything that could go like wrong. I just I felt it that we were going to win when we went up to PK. So So you have no time to think about it when the ball's coming to you. So the way you did this, did you actually see something and you jump that way or did you just get a feel and I'm going that way? Yeah, I just like kind of know
011from like doing it for so long that it's just like a feeling I get. I the first shot that went the attempt against me that went in, I was just like after that um shot I like kind of locked it and I was like I got it now. But yeah. Yeah. Impressive. Absolutely. So I was reading an article right after that. I can't believe this is the case but ladies tell me if it's true. So, I was told that in the huddle before you guys go out for the PK, your coach said, "We got this. We're good. Our goalie is going to stop, too." Is that true? Coach, what do you think about that? I was trying to make something. Pretty easy, huh? How about that? All right. Other thoughts, questions? Yeah. Great job, coach.
012How many times have the girls played in the championship game? This was the fifth time. fifth taken second and then it all have been in the previous nine years second four times previous so well awesome awesome job I was on the other side as a parent when we lost a PK shootout in the state championship with the boys so I know what the other team's feeling but great job you guys did great and we were I was watching on social media and it's fun to watch and um and some of you I know and you just did a phenomenal job and I can't imagine being the goalkeeper uh in that situation. I know all the work and training you put into that, but that's a huge uh huge accomplishment to block not only one but
013two. So, great job and great job to the team. I used to work in a place on the east side of the state and somebody told me when I came over here to the quote west side of the state, you guys will never you can't win soccer. You can't do it. It's always on the east. So, the individual that told me that about 10 minutes after um we got the the game winner, he actually texted and said, "Well, I guess you made a liar out of it. You ladies made a liar out of that individual." So, that's a big big deal. Yeah. Can't be any happier, more proud of what you guys have done. Congratulations. Yeah, absolutely. Um um Senator Dedric is here and she's going to join the celebration as well. So, come on
014up. Yeah. So, you kind of angle yourselves here. I've got something for you. So, um, so many moons ago, I was the superintendent here and I went a to a lot of those soccer games as we were just talking about when it was at Hummer. So, I mean, we just quite a few of those. So, I am thrilled for you as a team and schools, your parents, your families, your coaches. I mean, you have such a strong following. People are just so excited for you. So, we have tributes in the Senate, which are these beautiful um uh plaque, and this one's framed for your coach to put in the office. And like I told the other coach, I'm going to be looking to see where you put this. Come by and make sure it's hanging
015appropriately. Remind me the new office in the new building. Okay. Well, we are extremely proud of you. And this is what it says. the Kansas Senate and Senator Brenda Dietrich, that's me, joining congratulating the Washman Roll High School girls soccer team on winning the 2025 6A State Championship. This is a final This is the first 6A girls state soccer championship in school history, which you we just found out about and I I forgotten that. I had just forgotten that. So, it's pretty cool. Um, we went, we want to recognize this team's perseverance. And I called some people and I said, "What do you think set this sets this team apart from some of the teams we've had in the past?" And they talked about your perseverance, your determination, your exceptional skills. Goalkeeper exceptional skills. Um,
016and just your strong desire to win, right? When you go up there and you're ready to make that penalty kick, you know you're going to do it. Strong desire to win. So, um, WRS girls soccer team has just, uh, competed in the final four in 11 straight years. Their overall record this year, 9-2, as the coach said. And we just congratulate Coach Hensel and the championship team on a job well done. And, um, I want to give him this tribute that's framed, but I have an individual one for each one of you to take home. So, just a little momento of all the wonderful things that you've done. So, congratulations. [Applause] We got to take pictures, too. Yeah. So, we might have to turn back around and then face the audience. Who wants to hold
017it in front? Dave, you made the first. So now I got to go. Oh, trying to get over. This is going to They can't see you. Oh my goodness. [Applause] How are you? [Laughter] How many weeks? Second. Oh, you're good. I'm glad you did. I thought that I thought you that you made soccer please come out and watch. insult. No way. You just invite him up if Yeah, Keith. Okay. Is uh I'd invite Keith Wetzel up. He's here to talk about some fresh some outstanding track performances. That's right. Come on up, guys. Also really [Music] So, this group uh good evening everybody young men before you um is part of part of a record-breaking group um collectively uh they're part of a larger team that um this season broke 19 school records. Wow. Many of
018these were were multiple times, but um 19 collectively from distance events to the throws to distance relays to uh relay that we'll get to here in just a second, but um an individual event. So, a very uh very fun season with an outstanding group of kids and a senior class that quite honestly is going to be hard to replace and um with not just what they have done on the track or in the field, but who they are as as young people. So, um, so this group of, uh, of young men, they won the state championship last year in the the 4x4 relay. And, um, I think unspoken, it was kind of a goal to repeat, but, um, that wasn't their main their main focus. They wanted uh they wanted to set a record and
019not just not just a school record, but they wanted to set a state record. And um so the previous state record in the 4x4 relay, each person runs a a 400. Um the previous record was 3 minutes and 17 seconds. And these guys ran 3 minutes and 16 seconds uh and 23. So they broke it in the uh in the state state championship, the very last event of the uh of the two-day meet. So truly they saved the best for last. Um and so they they um repeated as as state champions and um you know all season long their um their nose was to the grindstoneone um working getting better um working with coach Sig Baldson who u coaches our 400 and 800 kids and um so this this group is uh is comprised of
020of seniors Matthew Hower and Isaiah Terry and then uh the juniors Drayden Chentin and Liam Morrison. So this is part this is the uh the crew um and and coach Sigvaltz and I as I alluded to earlier um this is the group that um the as I mentioned the previous record held for 11 years or so um and so we'll see how long this one this one stands but um um previous to um the state record when they initially broke the school record in the event. It was last season and that record held since 1985. So, um some of us were around at that time, but um it it stood for a long time. Yeah. And um so these guys kind of started started that trend of breaking the record and then resetting it along
021the way in uh on their way to what they accomplished this season. So So collectively, that's what they did. individually. Isaiah um at our very first meet of the season, he um he broke a 56-year-old school record in the 400 and he went on to break rebreak break it again again multiple times. Um and then in the state finals he ran uh ran the 92 I think it was. um to to then win the championship, but also um kind of solidify his name there for the for the final time. Um and then Liam Liam Morrison um as a 300 hurdler, he um he broke broke the school record um twice I think this season and then um in the state championship ran the 300 hurdles in 37.68. 68 also a school record and u additionally
022a state state champion. So um couple of individual state champions and then uh collectively the group as um as a relay state championships and state record holders. So um Liam's record previous was uh 1986 I believe it was that uh that that one held. So, some long-standing long-standing records that have been have been rewritten with some terrific young people. So, thank you for allowing us to be uh to recognize these kids. Of course, congratulations, guys. [Applause] This might might be a little bit of a silly question, but so a year ago you ran the race state title, fastest in the state. What did you do from then to this year to get even faster? How how did you improve on what was already the best? Well, really, what was last year, we actually had a
023different runner. Instead of Matthew, we had another guy named Shane. He graduated. Yeah. But coming into that summer, I'd actually talked to Matthew and he wanted to actually run with me all year round. So we ran all summer. I think that was really the main thing is, you know, me and him both actually took it to run the whole entire year around the train. So then when we came back to season, we were both instantly ready to shatter records. And then Liam put in some work, too. And in season, he works insanely hard cuz like honestly coming in the season a little iffy, but after a few weeks. I mean, he's back to trying to amazing. Yeah, that's awesome. No, no competition between you guys, right? So, is this the order that you ran? Yeah.
024Yeah. From backwards. I was last and second. Yeah, that's what I figured. So, how long do you think this current record will hold? Um, honestly, hopefully at least five years. Nice. What What' you shave off from? Was it Oh, just under It was point8 point eight. So, just under one. Okay. And uh Senator Dedrick, do you have a uh I do. Yes. Well, I have a tribute for the relay team and then a couple of individual ones for those of you who won state championships. So, I'll just grab it over here. How's that? layer in case you need it. So, Coach, do you want to come over here and we'll just see what this says? Um, this is for the 2025 boys 4x400 meter state champions, the Kansas Senate, and I uh join in congratulating
025the Wash High School boys um relay team on winning the 2025 6A state championship. Uh, and your names are in here, Matthew, Liam, Drayden, and uh Isaiah. And the time that you broke the title, and it also says the team's hard work and dedication, just like you just said. Now, you didn't say anything about the fellow standing to your right. Oh, that's good because this guy's a year round athlete. Okay. Double checking. You're not He's not iffy. He's good. No, he's not ify. Anyway, your hard work and your dedication are recognized and we hope, you know, I the thing I love about student athletes is I really think everything thing that you learn being part of a team is going to carry you forward into whatever it is you do next. I mean, you've got
026seniors who are graduating. You've just done some wonderful things here that will just carry you on as you move forward. Hurdler. Who's the hurdler? I don't know how you lift your leg that high. We'll get to that later. Anyway, we want to uh commend you for the great recognition you brought to yourselves, your team, your school, your community, your family. You've done great things and we're very proud of you. So, I'm going to give this tribute to uh Coach Wetzel and then we have an individual one for each one of you as well. Coach Wessel, do you want to take a picture? Yeah, absolutely. [Applause] Might want to back out of this. I thought that was pretty significant. They don't have prepped him for ever. I'll be a girl and go. We'll balance it out.
027Isaiah. Okay. Okay. Liam and Isaiah, you want to stay up here a second, are you running in college? Yeah, I'm running. Watson. Cool. And Isaiah So this is, you know, again, you've done a spectacular job. So, um, let's do Isaiah first since you're standing right there. So, Isaiah, this is your, uh, Senate tribute for the two 2025 6A state champion, 400 meter dash, time of 47.92. Right, I've got Okay, I've asked three people. So, the Kansas Senate and I join in congratulating you on this outstanding accomplishment. extend our best wishes for your continued success. Again, hard work, exceptional skills. That's going to serve you well in all aspects of your very young life. So, congratulations, [Applause] Liam the Hurdler. You're going to show me how to lift that. How do you know how you do
028that? You're very limber. So Liam, uh, this is the 2025 6A state champion 300 meter hurdles time of 37.68, the Kansas Senate, and I join in congratulating you on this outstanding accomplishment. Do you think you can do it again next year? Okay, I'll be back. If you can, I'll be here. Uh, we want to extend our best wishes for your continued success. Again, hard work, yearround hard work, right? exceptional skills will serve you well in all aspects of your young life. We're very proud of you. Congratulations. [Applause] All right. Thank you guys. That uh we don't have anybody signed up for public comment. That completes our open forum. You're welcome to stay for the rest of the meeting, but this is a good time to exit if you don't want to stay for the rest
029of the board meeting. No one ever stays. Merrick, you could have been the first. I know. I can't figure it out. Could have been a trends setter. [Music] All right, we're going to move on into our uh item number three. Roll call. We have everyone present but uh Jackie Lightcap. Um 3.02 is approval of the agenda. Would someone make a motion? I move them approval of the agenda. I have a motion and a second to approve the agenda. All in favor? Motion passes six to zero. Uh item number four, disposition of business by consent. Does somebody want to make a motion? I move the board of education approve business by consent, including payment of bills in the amount of 5,660,146.95. Second. We have a motion and a second to approve the disposition of business by
030consent. All in favor? Motion passes six to zero. That takes us down to uh Section five, administrator reports. I understand that Tucker Pedicord has a report for us today. Welcome. I love following state title night. Yes. Always great act to follow. Um all right, we got a pretty uh good update um on where we're at. We're going to start. I got a progress update on everything that's going on. I think last time I talked to you guys, we had a lot planned for this summer. We got a lot in development. We got a lot under construction. Um, and so we are two weeks or it we're more than two weeks into the summer. Um, but we're we're at the second half of June. So, um, then we'll do a design update and then talk about
031some next steps. So, current progress and I've got some pictures um to put with this. So, watch Rural North uh talked with the folks today. We're we're on our final punch list items and we're in the process of getting our fire marshall walk planning done so we can get our certificate occupancy. Put that one behind us just get get and go uh for the school year. Um multi-purpose building pad construction is complete. Uh if you drive by the the soccer field right now, you'll you'll see it sitting out there. Um and then WRMS uh the balance of renovations are underway. The library is complete. And then Jay Shyler, the pre-K edition is nearing completion. Uh if you if you don't have a trained eye and you drive by there, you almost can't even tell it.
032God had added on to the building. Uh I thought HTK did a nice job with the design of that and how where it was placed. Um and then the next uh the summers are uh underway um including the annex. We've gotten into the annex and started demoing that out for the new prek. Indian Hills, the prek edition is completion with the summer renovations also underway. So pretty similar the south edition. However, it it's more complex. Um it was initially already on a tight timeline and we've obviously we talked clear back in January and February about the weather challenges. Um they were pretty significant. Um especially on this component and so we are uh applying a high level of focus and pressure on making sure that we keep pushing forward on that addition um as well
033as the renovations um because there's a lot going on. Um, and then Farley, the renovations are underway and they're going well. Um, pictures wise, this is the building pad at multi-purpose building. Does anybody have any questions on our progress there? Okay. Um, WRMS. This is Sorry for the pictures being a little bit blurry, but this is how far along they are already on the fax room. So, um, they're moving up pretty quick in there. And this is the completed library. If you haven't gone into the building and looked at the library, you should. Um, kudos to Multist Studio on the design. I thought it was going to be dang near impossible to pull off. We worked a lot um with Mike to be able to get in there um a semester early than what we
034originally planned. And if we were trying to do that at the same time as doing everything else, we would be in trouble. So kudos to the building. Kudos to Multi-Studio on the design. Kudos to Tyler with Lloyd and and those guys on on what they accomplished in there. It looks great. When the time is right, we'll have a board of education meeting at the middle school, probably in the library. And so we don't want to get in the way of all the other construction taking place now, but at some point we'll be there as a as as a board for a meeting just to showcase it, show it off to the community as well. That's easily the most significantly impactful, neatest renovation I've ever seen inside of any building. like it's pretty cool. Um this
035is the um hallway renovation. So there's a like almost every hallway in the whole building is being completely renovated with paint and carpet. Um this is the front entry. The the uh all of this over here, this glass has been taped off and so they're doing all the work to uh put the graphics up front and all that front entry changes. Um that's it for WR. Any questions on WRMS? Uh J Shyler, like I was talking about, it's kind of hard to tell. Um that's a closeup of it. Um that's the interior. Um you can see that they're really to the point of final finishes in there. Um so that's moving along pretty well. The nice thing about that is that provides some flex space and that's why one of the reasons why we can
036take over the annex during the school year because the annex isn't going to finish renovations during the school year. Um this is what the interior of the building is. The library if you look right through here is right there. Um and this is where that new collaboration space is similar to Pauline Central where it's kind of tied into the hallway and some of those other general use areas. of the kitchen and cafeteria on this side of that picture. They're starting dirt work out there um for the parent drop off for prek and all that. Um and then this is the annex that they are starting to tear into Indian Hills. So you're going to see varying levels of completeness on this one. So this is the prek edition. And the only thing that's really where
037it's maybe a little bit different in the photo from um J Shyler is ceiling grid which is in which is not a major item. So it's it's very close in its completion stage to J Shyler. This is the uh sped suite. So, the sped suite was renovated inside the existing building over the last where the old library was over the last uh semester and so it's nearing completion which is nice to get the finishes out of the way so that those finish contractors have capacity for the rest of building that they have to work on this rest of the summer. Um you're seeing right here. So this is the south edition and this is what I was talking about earlier about the complexity of it. So there's a lot of shoring, there's a lot of
038slab cutting. This is standing looking through what will be the new library into the um new south edition. This is the status on the south edition. So you can you can see that it's got quite a ways to go. Um and then as you move into some other spaces the rest of the renovations. So um there they had to put in shoring when they remove this wall to install a beam so that they can open that wall up and have a two space open collaboration space. So just some of the work that goes into creating collaboration space. The type of structure we had at Pauling Central, you could knock a wall down and move on. This type of structure, it takes a little bit more work to to make that happen. Um, and then this
039is looking through the opening up from the uh existing cafeteria to the gym um to provide some accessibility through there for more flexibility with a greater number of people using that space. Um, any questions on Indian Hills? Um, this is Farley. Uh this is what uh Rich and I are and uh Brian and Whitney and Dave have been working on overseeing over there. Uh it's going really well. Um saved a significant amount of money um in the way that we're executing this work. Uh you can see on the left is how we started dividing a classroom up um with having to build around these cl ceiling clouds. And then on the right you can see what it's starting to look like as we get a half a classroom and we're ready to start finishing drywall
040in there. Um, and that's where we were splitting s those single classrooms into two to make room for the sped u type of well intervention and resource teachers. Um, this is the new front entry we're using as a collaboration space. So, this is how they've already done the flooring. So, they've already taken out all the concrete. We've already taken out all the bamboo flooring and put on the new BCT. Um, and so that's um moving along. We're trying to keep as many people working as fast as possible to get it done and off the books. This is the library collaboration space on the left. Um, what this is is the new wall that was built in there to open up that space for the uh, younger folks that are on that side of the building
041to have a collaboration space off the hallway as well. Any questions on Farley? Okay. uh Pauline South uh we just had a meeting with the facility committee and went through um all of these projects and really u at Pauline South we don't have I'm not going to go through everything in here but we've got the same types of features of collaboration spaces and we're we're looking at a feature associated with a outdoor shade structure with a connecting some kind of a connecting sidewalk so that um those collaboration spaces can kind of have some outdoor learning similar to what we've been trying to put in all of the other facilities. Um, and then locating uh sped services in a way that um serves this building as far as grouping some and spreading some out within the
042space. Um, and then the one thing I'd say about this building is that it is you're not graduating anybody out of this building. It is staying the same size as far as you might be getting rid of a grade, but you're adding a grade. So by adding collaboration spaces, you start to sort of um need to find spaces for people to be. And this one has been our biggest challenge as far as making for sure we find a space for everybody. Good news is we did. Um and so that's polling south. If anybody has any questions on the details of the design, feel free to reach out. I'm not going to go into every single This is mainly just renovations. There's no addition at Pauling South. Auburn is similar. There's no addition at Auburn. Um
043it has a very limited scope. Um it's mostly collaboration spaces. And then what you're seeing here are resource and intervention teachers. Um and then these are your autism rooms that are getting a little bit of like renovation, some office work. Um and it gets a new prek playground because this building is getting prek. this building has more flexibility from a space standpoint moving forward. And I'm I'm telling you what it is now, like just so as a board, you know what you're dealing with. Auburn has um a few extra classrooms from a space standpoint. Um it's not as crowded. So, it's going to make it um a little bit easier on the construction team, but it's also going to make probably easier on the building as far as moving forward flexibility. Womaker is going to
044be a challenge. So what we are doing here is this is the oldest part of your building. Um and it is where going to be where you have a sped suite. So Womaker was a building that looked at with at the model of Pauline Central and says we want to try to duplicate that as much as possible. Um and not every building every building has tailored their sped suites to um what the needs are of the building. And so this one um is is mirroring that s quite a bit. Um then we have a collaboration space over here and then the whole eastern wing um if Rich if you want to comment on that but it's there was originally planned to do a bunch of work over there through the previous year's capital outlay budget.
045Correct. We we had done the west side and we added dehumidification a couple years ago and so it was in our capital outlay plan to um do the east half of the building or the east wing of the building this summer but the building asked that we wait and time it with construction. So we just are going to put it all on the contractor so that they can coordinate that work and we're not in their way. But use, you know, those dollars are already there and that was already approved. And then the green that you're seeing here is the new prek edition. Um, originally it was going to be on the back, but that's going to cause some issues with storm water and easements with the city. And so we've worked through several different options
046with the building and this is what we've arrived at. The next big lift over the next two months is to figure out how to do this uh in a timely fashion without uh overly impacting um the building. If you the way I see it is Whoops. Uh these these three wings of the building are connected by arteries. And if we cut this artery during the school year, we have to figure out how to bypass it. So, um we're we're talking through through some things. Um and you know, we We'll report back probably by the end of the summer on how we think that's going to impact the overall schedule, but we're still trying to wrap up the base bond projects by August of 2026. Uh, also important, these are on budget. Um, this is the
047schematic design phase. Um, so they're um they're more detailed than the original budget, but they are still in development. Um, there's still a lot of work to do, but I feel good from a budget standpoint. The the teachers and the principles have all weighed in on this and they on all of these designs and they are happy. There's no I haven't heard any major concerns about missing out on something or doing something that is not approved. So, we have I think we have happy buildings and we have a happy budget and now we just got to figure out how to have a happy schedule and we will pull this thing across the finish line. I was going to mention that as a compliment to everybody that's connected to these projects, but each of the principles
048pulled together the team. Um, so they made team decisions on this is what's best for our kids in our building. So this isn't just a principal or just a couple of teachers. Um, actually the teams are pretty good size. Honestly, they've all done a nice job getting unified on this is what's going to be most impactful or best for kids at the school. So it's been a good process at each of the three sites. Yeah. Uh next facility committee um will probably be reviewing some summer work progress. So um just evaluating how things are going. It'll might most likely would be a a virtual brief meeting just to kind of update you guys on how things are going on. We don't want to take up your time unnecessarily. We need to get you guys together.
049We'll be respectful of your time. But um that's what is next on on our plate other than driving to the design. We've been running the same process on these three in design. um to make sure that they get their due process. But um it's it's only about eight millionish dollar 8 to9 millionish dollars worth of construction. So compared to what we've been dealing with, it's significantly less, but equally complex, especially that's a lot um lot going on. Questions? Thanks, Tucker. Yep. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. That was the only uh administrative administrative report we had tonight. We're on the uh section six items for discussion. Pauline central therapy dog first read. All right. Earlier you had an opportunity to meet Winnie and Lana. We're excited for the opportunities that Winnie can bring to the
050Pauline Central community. Um Lana's a speech pathologist within the early childhood center center there. As you heard a little bit earlier, Winnie has extensive experience uh in the Lawrence community and their schools and at KU and they have warmly welcomed her. Um she has gone undergone the training at least three times. Um well certified great team. Um also in your board packet I will provide a list to you of all of the therapy dogs that we currently have just to give you an idea of what schools have um what dogs. There is currently not one in the Pauline Central community and so we're bringing this opportunity for you um for your consideration. So, um do you have any questions about Winnie? Thanks, Jeff. Thank you. I would I would suggest we put this on consent
051for next week. Yeah, I have no no problem with that. Great. Um that takes us then the 6.02. Uh Jenny Leonard, I think you have the this one and the next one, don't you? I sure do. I have a friend for the next one, though. Don't have to stand. You don't allow phone a friend. No phone friend. How about um district administrators at All right. So earlier this year, as I get plugged in here, earlier this year, you um approved our new forensic science 2 course, and I have had the opportunity to work uh closely with a team of teachers to um get this course off the ground and running. And so through that curriculum work, um we do have one resource request for the board um this evening. So in terms of some updates,
052I actually just went back on today to check our enrollment numbers. Um so for our 2526 school year, that's next school year, we have 143 students currently enrolled in this course. That is double what we anticipated, which is a good problem. Um which would give us four sections in the fall as well as four sections of students in the spring. So with that, the instructional resource request this evening is a forensic science from the crime scene to the crime lab fifth edition. It's a brand new textbook coming out in um July, but we have had the opportunity to preview several different textbooks and this is the one that um we landed on for a variety of reasons. Very much aligns to our competencies and allows for a lot of hands-on activities and labs with the
053students. So um with that, I do have digital access to the textbook since the physical preview is not in print yet. So I will pass that around. Um and then I have also included for you a resource request of $5,34562. So in terms of questions this evening, what I remember when this course came through, we were all thought it would be like a very interesting course to take, you know. Yes. So I'm not surprised we have a lot of interest in it. Yeah. So many really cool opportunities for kids with this course. Any questions? Okay, I think we're good on that one. Wonderful. So that leads me to my second um proposal tonight. So um Mike Care, if you'd like to come up here and join me. Oh, is that your friend? That's my friend.
054Well, if we've known that was your friend. Hey, keep talking, Jenny. You want this approved? Keep talking. All right. So, we have a course proposal for our middle middle school here mentor a course. Um, in terms of information, this would be a 68 elective option. Um, it would be a semester long and we could accommodate perhaps approximately 20 students semester um throughout the year. So reasons why we need this course. So in terms of enrollment growth, Washman roll middle school has a higher enrollment number than Washman roll north and um we just really needed something um to per provide an additional elective course for our students. Um in addition, this offers us a purposeful choice that combines leadership development um along with service-based learning opportunities. um we would be placing trained peer mentors um into
055our classrooms um both in general education as well as special education settings. So it would help us address both academic as well as behavior supports um while reinforcing inclusive practices. Um it would help us foster a respectful, supportive peer interactions to really promote this positive school culture and a sense of belonging. um it would support our growth in responsibility, patience, and empathy while aligning um to our Kansas individual plan of study goals. And lastly, um it really does help support career readiness with skills like um communication, collaboration, and professionalism. So, in terms of the description, this would be the published course description. So, it's a leadership leadership, excuse me, and service-based elective where students support peers in building academic and social emotional skills. Um these peer mentors would work directly with their classmates in a
056general education as well as special education setting um assisting with academic tasks, classroom routines, positive peer interactions. Um they would receive some training from the school counselors in empathy, communication as well as confidentiality um in order to help them develop their skills and responsibility, collaboration and leadership while promoting a positive inclusive school environment. So with that objectives that students would be responsible for completing, they would need to demonstrate leadership and empathy through peer support, practice effective verbal and non-verbal communication, apply academic strategies to assist their peers, model positive behavior and classroom engagement, foster a sense of community and belonging, understand the importance of confidentiality as well as professionalism, and to build those inclusive environments and respectful peer relationships. Um, in terms of programming and resources, there's the potential to serve up to 40 students per
057year, thinking about that 20 per semester. Um, no additional staff are needed, no additional course fees and no additional resources. So, tonight we are just here and Mike is here um as my sidekick to kind of maybe elaborate a little bit on the vision for this course as well as to answer any questions. All right. Well, here just a little bit about it. Actually, I'm just going to tell you how this was kind of born. Um, last year we had a girl who um was close to being long-term suspended and once we started pouring back into her and forming back into the school a little bit and giving her a sense of ownership in the building, her behaviors decreased drastically. She has a desire to actually work in our medically fragile room this next year
058as a peer mentor and where she can utilize her skills, build those skills of empathy, all the things that were getting her suspended and an in school suspension. now to grow those and actually give back to kids and kind of grow as a person as we continue to just grow good humans in middle school which is which is a task in itself and so kind of think about this it's not really a you know you might think about like a it's not really a teachers aid I mean we don't need kids going in and stapling papers putting things up we need kids to build skills and so through a peer mentorship um and either the counselors or myself would probably be the teacher of record um and then we just kind of have, you know,
059maybe uh advisory meetings every couple weeks where we just get all the peer mentors together, pour into them a little bit. Also have them reflect on their experiences and how they're growing and those kinds of things and really just uh provide opportunities for any kid in the building who wants to grow and uh have some responsibility and some good good mentorship. Questions? Is there um you know if we can accommodate 40 students across both semesters would there be a selection process or just anyone who Well, this first one we were just kind of asking like kids like because we have uh actually we you know we have kids selected their electives. We're really focusing on seventh and eighth graders this first year um because we really want them working with maybe younger kids whether it's
060that wallflower in the classroom that needs that support or just a small group intervention those kinds of things. And so we had kids choose their electives, but unfortunately not every kid was able to get their electives. So we're going back and just asking kids, hey, what would you think about this or what would you think about this? So we have a handful of kids right now who are on board and then once if this gets going, then we can actually put it out there for kids to be able to um and we say 20. I mean, that's kind of a goal, but if 30 kids want to do it, I mean, there's teachers are really excited about this and being able to offer, you know, because they'd be really be housing the kid and working
061well, but teachers are really excited about the opportunity and and they're on board with the whole mentorship, not a teacher's aid. So, anybody else? Thanks, guys. Thank you. Uh, 6.04, 04 the 2025 2026 elementary student handbook first read Jessica Roberts has that one. Yes. So I'll take the lead on this. There are very few changes to the elementary student handbook this year. Those are documented in red in the board docs that you have in your packet. Most of them are just regular routine updates, changes to the school calendar, employee names, board member information. The two significant changes are to arrival times. We bumped that up 10 minutes to match the transportation policy changes. And then the emergency safety intervention section. That is actually a board policy that was approved in July of 2023. It didn't
062get made in last year's handbook. So those the board has already updated and approved those changes. It's just now filtering down to be part of the student handbooks. Any questions? All right. Thank you. Um, the next one is the 2025 2026 early childhood education handbook 6.05. Do you have that one, too? Or so I have that one. So, this would actually be a new TOU handbook, and we worked really hard to get it to the finish line at this board meeting, but we weren't quite there yet. So, um we'll bring this to you at um an upcoming board meeting when we are um across the finish line. Perfect. Thank you. Uh 6.06 property and casualty insurance uh workers compensation renewals first read presenter is Brett Bower. Yeah. So, usually um this time of year I'm
063coming to you with a a renewal increase. Um but good news this year. Um we actually have about a four 4% decrease in the um premium. So good news all around. Um the cooperative that we um are are participants in um has has seen a growth in membership. Um I think that has helped um probably drive that premium a little bit um in addition to just changing market market conditions and experience. Any questions from anybody? Thanks, Brad. Um 6.07 bus driver and paraprofessional compensation. Yeah, been having an ongoing conversation with the subcommittee for bus transportation. Goodness. Um that committee, you all have been meeting since the winter months. I think that started around January actually. conversations have continued to are we doing everything we possibly can uh to retain our bus drivers and pair professionals
064as well as maybe even get some new ones. And so uh now that we know what we need to do to become operational moving into the 2526 school year, the conversation shifted to compensation in regards to bus drivers in Paris. And so through some uh feedback back and forth uh something that I'd like to at least offer as uh speaking not on behalf of the subcommittee but just in conversation uh the possibility of considering increasing the hourly rate of pay u for the incoming bus driver without experience. As you'll see that number is currently set for the 2526 school year to be just over $15 an hour. And we thought if we could get that uh starting salary up to $17 an hour, uh it might help attract some new people into the pool that
065we could consider to be a bus driver. So that's one uh part of the equation. And then the second one in regards to paraprofessionals, um it has been shared with us before over the years through building leadership as well as transportation. um if there's something that we could do in regards to paraprofessional um compensation, maybe not necessarily adjusting the hourly rate of pay, but I think I know somebody somewhere that currently does the job, but won't come over and join us because they have to start back over on the on the pay grid. And so, is there any way that we could honor previous years of experience? And so as this conversation is continued, we thought that might be a nice give. Uh that might allow us not only again to retain the current professional
066uh pair professionals that we have, but it might expand the pool and we could hire some others. And so I would offer that as well on the Paris side, not changing the current rate of pay hourly, um but giving experience pay. That's kind of a two-way process. one for anybody that's not currently employed with us in that employee group. Um that might be a way to attract them. So we give them years of experience in a like position. Um but we would also apply the same principle to all of our currently employed PAR educators. And so I wanted to share those two offerings with you to try to help uh do everything we can with the changes that have already been made in transportation services moving into 2526. Chelsea has more detail, can provide examples
067uh if you're interested in learning more about either one of these. So, I wanted to tee it up with that and then open it up to the board subcommittee members or just anybody else uh thoughts uh questions. Um that's where we're at at this time. Will this come in the form of a recommendation then for us to well take action on what I have just so this is an item for discuss discussion. So, we're discussing it and if this is something that the board kind of says, "Yeah, this I think makes sense." Then at the next board meeting, we actually have three in June. So, it would be June 26. That would come back as an action item, give you all an opportunity to take a vote on it at that time. We thought that
068there might be some interest in trying to get this um across the finish line earlier than later because it is recruiting season right now. Yeah. just trying to get the word out that hey, you know what? We'll always um express interest in hiring more bus drivers coming into any season. That's what I was going to ask is when's normally somebody who's, you know, looking at those type of positions? Is this the is this about the time they really delve into those or first of July or or Yeah, we have ongoing interest, but we manage our positions and our postings all summer. Our principles do a pretty good job of keeping an eye out for that and we'll refresh everything right after the 4th of July as well. and we usually get some more activity at
069that time. Okay. If uh depending on what action the board chooses to take um that would be a new starting rate of pay for bus drivers. So we would give certainly a social media push. Sure. And update all of the um the flyer information that we have for marketing uh to try to attract, you know, some of those folks that may not have considered us otherwise. So yeah, we'll we'll do everything we can to make a splash with whatever it is that you choose to do as a board. I'd like it to be on the agenda for us to take a vote on it. No sense waiting. I mean, yeah, I agree. And I I've talked previously, you know, to the ex I'd like more information on sub pay sub. I guess we have pairs
070that are subs as well. So, if we get some more information on that as we move forward to that would be helpful, too. Yep. We'll we'll get it. I assume that's a daily rate of pay. Mhm. But uh just some information, you know, terms of what we pay, when's the last time they had a raise, and all those kind of things. I'll partner with Chelsea and we'll put put a packet of information together. I'll send it out to you all and then we can see how that conversation may choose to go. But yeah, I agree with I'd like to get these done as quickly as possible. Yep. Okay. Anybody else on that one? And if not, we'll move on to 6.08. The school crossing guard. Chelsea, you have that one? Sure. I think it's part
071of the kind of the same package of what we're talking about. So, um I have a position ready for your review. Uh the school crossing guard position would be new to our district. Um it's to keep our safety in place as we transition with um people getting to school and different methods for next year. So, I have a job description for your review and some other details in there. Um the personnel subcommittee has seen this information. So, you have any questions, let me know. Any questions? I might uh just make one uh suggestion. I kind of saw heads nodding yes. We would like to go ahead and kind of start promoting this position as well. So if there is no opposition to this, although it hasn't been board approved yet, you may see through social
072media kind of start going out there if you're okay with that. Again, we just don't want to give up a couple of weeks of um the possibility of recruiting. So, it will come back to you on June 26, but we don't want to put the cart before the horse, but I think you're okay with the position. So, we might start getting the word spread. I'm okay with that. Any opposition? Let's go forward. Thank you for that. All right. That then is all of the discussion items. It takes us down to action items. Section seven, 7.0. Real quick, sorry. On the elementary handbook, uh I think my wife will appreciate somehow you got her phone number on there. So, one. So, okay. Oh, why did you say anything? I would have just left that joke. I've
073been debating husband. I could feel it. Maybe I better check mine. I actually have Mike's phone number on been that way for years. Worked out okay. Number. All right. Uh, number seven. Action item 7.01, middle school specialized course resources final reading. And if there's no discussion, I take a motion. I move the board of education approve the presented curriculum resources in the amount of $3,151.93. Second. I have a motion and a second to approve item 7.01. All in favor? Motion passes 6 to zero. 7.0. 02 skills for success curriculum adoption final read. Anybody have any questions or discussion? If not, I'll take a motion. I move the board of education approved the presented skills for success curriculum resource materials in the amount of $36,685. Second. I have a motion and a second for item 7.02.
074All in favor? Motion passes 6 to zero. 7.03. 03 English learner resource final read. Does anybody have any questions or comments? If not, I'll take a motion. I move the board of education approve English learner resources in the amount of $25,67. Second. Have a motion, a second to approve 7.03 English learner resource. All in favor? Motion passes 6 to zero. Uh 7.04 4 f food service program meal price recommendation for 2025 2026 final read. Um anybody have any comments or discussion? And if not u make a motion please. I'll move the board of education approve a 15% increase in the student meal prices for 2526 school year. Second heard a motion and a second to approve item 7.04 4 the food service program meal price recommendation for 2025 2026. All in favor? Motion passes 6
075to zero. That takes care of all of our action items. Now we are on to item eight communications summer updates. Jessica. Yes. So I have several updates for you. In the mail in the next week you'll be receiving the next by annual magazine school news. So look for your faces on the front cover of that. Um, the wall calendar, which is the annual calendar that we also mail to patrons and families, is going to print this week. So, that'll be in your mailboxes in the next couple of weeks as well. Some key dates to keep in mind as we were building those publications that you might want to plug into your calendars if you're interested. All staff convocation this year is going to be held on Tuesday, August 5th. The program is still being developed,
076but it will be a function of a a morning event. And then if any of you are golfers and are interested, the foundation golf tournament, we're having our second annual golf tournament at Cypress Ridge on Friday, October 17th. That's a no school day. Um that'll be held that afternoon. It'll be sunny and 70° just like last year. That's right. Um, a couple of other things just to keep you in the loop in terms of transportation communication. We did implement uh strategy last week, I guess on June 3rd, maybe that was two weeks ago. Um, targeted messages went out to those families impacted by the policy changes in terms of living within 2.0 miles of the school this that they are assigned to. We started with email communication. We've done an initial send in a reminder
077that actually was intentional so that we could get respondents in and not have to mail as much so we could save some money on that end. We did end up sending a mail on Friday a notification through mail to about 700 families. Um so we're trying to track down those final 700 families that we need to hear from. We're asking whether they're utilizing bus services or not to please let us know so that um transportation can start building those routes. We're going to continue to do email reminders and then probably early July pick up the phones and make sure that every single person on that last on that list is communicated with and has the option to opt in. Um and then the final piece, Jessica, you may have stated it already. I think the
078number was right around 1300 families that we initially started communicating with. True. We've already heard from about 50% of them roughly and so it's the remaining 50% that's the target audience right now. So fortunately each week that number gets smaller. Um but it's been an email emails plural, it's been US mail, and it will eventually be phone call. So we're doing everything we can to get to have communication with those that need it. Yeah. Yeah. And the the mail notifications that went out were very specific and indicated these are the exact children in your household that are affected and um that we need the forms from. So um and then in terms of open enrollment, so that is a new function as of two years ago. Um that deadline to apply was the 15th, June
07915th. So if you go to the website now, you can still click on open enrollment. You can still click on the application, but we're not accepting submissions anymore. And there's basically just some language that says the application period has closed, but you can still click on the capacity chart and see that information. Um so published so a year ago we had no capacity in any of our schools. Um the amount of elementary kids fell within the ranges and then of course the middle school. Um one of the reasons the bond passed was because it was beyond capacity and we're going to be taking care of that. The high school has been at capacity as well moving into this current year. um that we actually had two spots in which we did have some capacity at
080the elementary level in which we could still take some more kids to get within the range. Uh there were four grade levels at Farley Elementary School that we could take on not a lot but a handful of kids and at Wanomaker Elementary in kindergarten only uh we had capacity and so um this is the first time that we have had the opportunity for some capacity. I want to be clear that we aren't bringing on new kids to then create new sections with the current staffing that we had. We still had a little room for a handful of kids. And so that window was open. And so anyway, that's the new law that's in play. So Scott, does the does the new law give districts a little bit less more decision- making during a bond process
081like this? Because we talk about kindergarteners a want to maker. I mean, we just came from a meeting where we talked about how wmaker is going to have some issues with the bond. So, did the law not take into account those types of situations where school district may or may not I mean, clearly we have capacity, but we're going to have space issues there at some point with construction, right? Um, I would say that the law is written in a way that doesn't create or provide a lot of flexibility. That's what I figured. Yeah. Anything else on that? No. Any other comments or questions? Okay. Um, no other communications, right? None. All right. So, then I'm going to move that we uh go into executive session at uh 7:42 uh to discuss uh students pursuant
082to the exception relating to coma. uh to discuss personnel matters pursuant to the exception of non-elected personnel under coma or to discuss budget pursuant to the exception for employer employee negotiations under coma for 30 minutes and we will be back in open session at uh 8 um what 12 uh second second all in favor motion passes 6 to zero we are going into executive session back in open session after being in executive session. We have a couple of motions that we need to take up. Yeah. I move the board of education approve out of district students and transfer requests as presented for the 2025 2026 school year. Motion got in a second. All in favor? Motion passes 6 to zero. And I move that the board of education approve the request for the teachers to
083be released from their contracts and uh wave the penalties as discussed in executive session. Second. Heard the motion and second. All in favor? Motion passes six to zero. Move to adjurnn. Second. You've heard the motion to adjurnn and second. All in favor? Motion passes six to zero. We arejourned.