001States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you all for coming. We can get started here. Um, motion to approve the agenda. Second. Motion and second, discussion? Hearing none. See the chair vote. We're still doing the minutes. Basketball team is right. That's the main agenda. After his speech. Okay. Motion carried 6-0. Student recognition. Give state basketball for all. Oh, here it is now. Yes, we slipped it up to the front. So, Yes. Justin, you want to come down? We certainly would like to congratulate the basketball folks. You got the floor, Justin. It's on you. Oh. The Board of Education has developed a practice of inviting students and their parents to the board meeting to recognize them for placing in state.
002Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, thank you guys. Really appreciate you guys having us here as well. Yeah, like especially two we've had a long time to kind of reflect on it now and we're we're able to kind of yeah, really celebrate what we did and what these guys did. Really proud of these guys for everything that they did this season from start to finish. I mean these guys have have worked hard for I mean their whole lives and it really showed off. I felt like in the state tournament. We talk a lot about representing ourself, our school and our community and I felt like we did that at a at a very high level this not just March but November on too. So and yeah, as you know, we've got a lot of guys back
003too. So we're excited for years to come as well and but at the end of the day we're really thankful for the the two seniors we have as well. Like I said maybe what they did on the floor wasn't nearly as much as what they did off the floor for us as well. They're tremendous leaders. You couldn't ask for two better seniors. But yeah, we're uh really really proud of these guys. Have them come down and get their picture. Yeah, Caleb Burke. Troy Ober. Sean Monts. Alex Monts. Maddox Cheever. Talas Sharp. Case Burke. Gage Navarro. Tegan Smith. Mason Collins. Bode Cheever. Brecken Peterson Braised and Spring Max Acton OLLIE HAZEN A LOT OF THOSE NAMES ARE PLAYING BASEBALL RIGHT NOW. YES, great job. Recognition of the staff Yeah, Lisa Myers and Damon Schmidt We can
004take one here, but we'll go out in the hall, too, and take it. We'll We'll take another one out in the hall. Thank you, guys. All right, five push-ups though for interview that left your team out. Coach Mott's had to push in. Everyone's watching you. Okay, that's fine. Um, probably the highlight is uh the end of the third quarter and our honor rolls. Um, just again shows the dedication of students and staff and that they're getting it done on a daily basis in the classroom and I think it's always good to to remember that, you know, when they take a state assessment, it's a one-time shot on that day. And when, you know, so something that I've started doing is going back historically and looking at our honor rolls compared to how are we performing
005level two and three on our state assessments um that we're going to look at there. And then also this week, Wednesday, we have a BLT meeting that we're going to be looking at some ways of how we can get creative to provide some interventions more interventions for kids. Um, so we're going to be looking at that this Wednesday. Um, that was something that we talked about and shared at our site council council linkage specifically, so um got a couple ideas there. We're going to look at it as a staff as our BLT and then take it to the staff from there. Do you have any questions for that? Thank you, Matt. No, well, I just a comment. I appreciate the Alice training set up and doing that. Every time I hear of our buildings doing
006that, it's I like to see our engagement level, Sheriff's Department, and we got some feedback about some things that maybe we can get better at. I was I'm glad we identified them so we can. So, it's it's awesome to have that training. And obviously the people in it were engaged, so that was Oh, yeah, it it is. I'll tell you what, it was comical. So, um I was actually uh Maddie Wilson, myself, and Cat Elliott were near the door watching the LinkedUp, getting some stuff there. And so, I came back and they were like, "Hey, why don't you come watch?" So, Garrett Hahn goes to go in the first classroom there at the front of the building. And I think it was Genie Solana threw a trash can at him. And he with a trash
007can, Sage is hitting him with a ruler, like he takes off and runs the other way. And so, it was it was pretty comical. I mean, they were engaged and it's it's just one of those things that if you get in that bench, say, "Whatever you can do, fight." So. Really, the only thing I'm going to add on here is um we 2 weeks ago changed If you have a high schooler, you've probably have heard of our our power hour format during the middle of the day. Um spent a lot of time with our BLT team and uh discussing different ways to improve that. Um spent a lot of time observing and how the format works. Checking our kids on their eligibility reports. Um actually observed two other schools and how they do theirs a
008little bit differently than ours. And um spent a lot of time with our staff in terms of how to uh collect the appropriate attendance data, how to communicate with staff, and where the kids to go, and then explain the different in-services on how we're going to get this changed. And uh 2 weeks ago we completely changed our format in the school year. Um and the purpose of doing that was to um do about a 6-week trial run to see if it worked. And then um if it worked, then we would keep that for next year. And if it didn't work, then how can we um make it more efficient and better uh for next year? So, so far uh we had a BLT meeting last week. So far, the uh the changes have been receptive
009and encouraged by the staff. And uh really what the big change was during our power hour, uh kids that are on the tutoring list uh would all come into here. And then we would have assigned teachers come in to help them in this area. Um the issue with that was the teachers were having to move from their room to come into here. Um and then everybody gets in here at a different time. And then there was kids that were needing help with specific content areas that on that specific day, there may not be a teacher in that area that would need to help them. So, for instance, if there's a kid in here uh for upper-level math tutoring, um Ms. Harrison may not even be in here on that day based off scheduling. Um so,
010what we did instead was the first day of the week uh when our kids are in with their uh CAP teacher, seminar teacher, um they get assigned teachers for the rest of the week based off their grades. So, kids now go to that specific teacher versus everybody coming into here. So, the kids are getting more individualized instruction on the areas that they need um in that classroom with that teacher. Uh it took the kids about 2 days to figure out the change during the middle of the day. Uh we've had to reconfigure our lunches. And so, it's taken some communication on a multitude of different parts, but pretty proud that we were able to uh recognize that we had a problem, uh communicate that problem, examine the data on how to change it, observe other
011schools on how we can make it better and then put it into action during the middle of the school year and then um at our next in-service we'll talk about the strengths and weaknesses of it and see if we need to change it or keep it that way this year. So, we completely revamped it during you know, right after spring break. So, so far it's going well, but credit to our staff for willing to recognize that something's not working and then instead of waiting till the start of next year to change it, doing it now, collecting that data, see where we go for next year. Good stuff. Any questions, please? Great. Thank you, Lee. Lindsay? Um really big thing in special ed is after spring break we really start shifting our year for next year
012and looking um at some things. We've had some setbacks in the last week, so we've had to kind of triage a little bit um to just fill some great things. Like baby being born and different things have taken staff out, so we kind of triage through that today and kudos to these two admin next to me because it's affected their buildings the most and so um being able to regroup and make sure everybody's needs are still met. Um and that went pretty smoothly today and and I I just pray that it continues to do that. Um as far as openings um from the professional standpoint, we um had three sped teacher openings this year, three and a half um and we've filled two of those already, so um have one and a half to fill
013and we won't be able to start them spring break, but so we lost some time. Um so we're looking for those, but I'm glad we're filling those for next year. That's good. Great. Are there any career fairs at schools or are those all done? They're pretty much done. Um but like here we filled one because when they had openings if they had spread like went inside and on it and actually were able to get one. And so they met with other super one of my openings in the outer districts and so I met with them about if you're filling and you have other candidates start trying to fill one and see what we can fill that way too. So if we're already getting in the door you know, maybe we can for us too. So
014Um and we've actually done that a couple times. Okay. Thank you, Linda. Anything else, Linda? Great comment. Uh just uh we'll add on there that we did go live with our new e-funds and uh it's been used a lot. Um right now we've got uh instant notifications. So every time a person uses it it sends it to us so we're getting lot Christie and I are getting lots of emails right now but uh it's allowing us to see you know that it is getting used and uh working well and uh so uh we're looking forward to you know doing even more with it and uh it's been successful so far. We did when we first put it online for about an hour um it it was not operational so it was like right after we
015sent out the email it wasn't operational but uh they found that they had a there had been a stoppage between our our link and from our uh system and and their system so um they got that restarted and uh within a couple minutes everything was grading in so um lot of people have been using it. Okay. Thank you, Craig. I appreciate that as a parent. Yeah. Yeah, that's always I mean it's a great new way that make it easier for people to Yeah. Well, and you know, we'll be able to you know, in the past like at enrollment time parents would kind of have to guess what they owed based on what their food service status was the previous year. And so we'd end up having some parents who should be free would pay the
016whole amount and we'd end up having to Christy would end up having to like send them money, you know, back, you know, and things like that. Uh we'll be able to with this system be able to tell them when they log in it'll say you know, this much and uh um you know, and then we'll we'll talk in future also. We've got, you know, the possibility of if we want to charge an extra charge if you're enrolled in say an art class because of, you know, the materials that you would use. We we would have those opportunities as well. So um but parents would go n- uh go into enrollment knowing exactly what they owe. And for uh you know, we can uh we'll be able to decide this as a district, but you know,
017uh like for enrollment we can set it to where parents can make payments toward their enrollment. So if they can't pay that whole amount at one time uh it we'll deduct from that if we choose to say allow uh allow partial payments. Um for some of those parents who need a kind of a payment plan that can be put in place. Great. Good work. Thank you. Anything else? Good. Anything more from Europe? We continuously see a lot of activity out of Wildcat Athletic Complex. It's that time of year where it's warm and people want to be outside and doing a lot of different things. And again, just a lot of different things happening out there outside not only with our activity our athletic teams, but you know, little kids uh sports and activities as well
018as our PE classes being out there and so on and so forth. Just As a matter of fact, today, due to Prairie View's field conditions not being good, we hosted JV baseball here instead of having to go to Prairie View. So, that was That's always That's what the third is right there. I struck Prairie View once. Exactly. Exactly. So, uh again, it also again allows our kids to be able to play, compete. We just don't, you know, it's all like that. Unfortunately, JV games get canceled and it's hard to make them up. So, uh it's a very nice positive um You have a report there that's attached as Parents as Teachers report. Uh this program is funded through the Mobilizing Literacy Walter and Evan Jones Testament Testamentary Trust Grant. Darla Long and I started work
019on this 10 years ago and again, uh Parents as Teachers uh we had it in the district, they dropped it due to funding before um I got here. Uh we fired that back up with the grant with the Mobilizing Literacy Grant. There's two big key components of the money that we use there. That's the Parents as Teachers program that funds Lori Johnson, which she's been here at different times to report, as well as the um Pre-K uh and Kindergarten Liaison position, Amanda Briggs. So, again, there's a report there, you can look at that, just some information. Um again, um it's a grant that's currently I say we don't know if it's going to continue on in the future. We're not sure. Um Parents as Teachers part of that for us is around a $25,000 amount.
020About 25 kids that are seen by Lori. Uh again, birth to age five. So, anyway, there's also some information there. Um one of my colleagues did some uh research and data gathering on certified and classified salaries and just information in general. This is not an all-inclusive list of all 206 school districts in the state of Kansas, but it it there was there was quite a few that did respond. I just give you some information there that you can look at and see if you're interested in. And then Christie and I are going to do a quick review of the S S N P, that's school nutrition program. And the C A C F P, which is child and adult care food program. Yeah, acronym world that we live in here. You'll have a couple of
021reports that you see. Um and again, big kudos go out to Christie and um you know, her and and then just our our staff in central office dealing with a variety of different things uh you know, with different reports that we're required to give uh throughout the year. Um Christie, I don't know if you want to say anything. I think that's reports pretty self-explanatory though. Site review occurs once every 3 years. And uh they look at um a lot of data, um everything from our financials to um actual point of sale point of service. And um what everything looks like in our in our kitchens. And this particular review was done primarily at uh the site was the elementary school. And they were very complimentary of us. If you look at that audit report, um
022I will just say this, not every district gets an audit report like we get. And matter of fact, this year they did it completely remote, didn't they? Uh they did our T S D E audit all remote. >> Yes, completely remote. That was a little nerve-racking for us because we like to have them there and talk to them. And you weren't exactly sure, you don't get a feel for people when they're not there again. So, but long story short, uh you look at that last uh conclusion paragraph again, not everybody gets a report like this and they were again very complimentary of uh of our staff. So, again, kudos. I think that is it. Questions for me? It looks like we did come up with some opportunities to improve. Um just looking to see what
023the I guess it says does that affect us the internal protocols additional staff training? I think we're always working to get better. >> Yeah, absolutely. >> So and that's what an audit that's how I look at an audit. So whatever whatever they might look at for example, it could be as minute as um so we take in several food service applications and it could be as minute as I didn't sign it. To to as big as um Well, also as minute as why did you have cucumbers from Mexico? I mean, you have to account for that and explain for that. So it could be very very small or it could have been you know, large like if we um were serving spoiled food or we were serving meals that were not reimbursable um which would
024have a financial impact. Okay. On the on the Jones Trust Grant, the last sentence we aren't sure if this grant will continue to be funded in the future. Is that from the state funded? No, the Walter Evans Jones Testamentary Trust Grant funds grants for three different counties, Lyon, Coffee, and Osage. These are oil men that had a lot of money and didn't have family to give it to, so they put this this grant uh that they loved teachers, they loved education. This is the history that I've gotten from uh representatives with the Jones Trust Grant. Um and so they um they just they put money into education and funded a lot of different opportunities. Uh um So, we'll see we'll see if it continues. So, we don't have any action. It's just if it's available
025then we get it. We don't have to apply. I hosted the Jones Trust people here because they had new leadership, two new one new leader, I'm sorry. One Greg, I'm like I'm drawing a blank on Greg's last name. But, anyway, I hosted them in January here in Burlington to let them know what we've done with the Jones Trust grant, the baseball, softball, restroom, concession stands. We've done the Belk. We talked to them and invited the man to Briggs and Garland Wong to join us to tell about what Amanda does and what we accomplished. And just wanted them to know really what what what we've done and it's created some opportunities. Like for example, the Belk. That's created a wonderful opportunity for us to, you know, impact early education. But, it's also it is a springboard
026in the pre-K. We only had one pre-K teacher when I first got here and we only had one morning and one afternoon section. We have That's the board we've we've added a second pre-K position to be able to fund two full-time positions, two morning sessions, two afternoon sessions. So, wanted to tell them that not only what the Jones Trust grant has provided for us, it's created opportunities where our board has expanded what they have, you know, started with us with their with their generous donations towards uh education education in Burlington. Thanks. Okay. Anything else for Craig? Um I don't know I feel this way, I don't know how the rest of you feel, but Craig, if you could write an article for the newspaper um about like the fund some of the funding that we're
027losing and potentially losing. So, like um was mission mentioned in the tech report like the I L I X L program, right? Um the special education, how it's not fully funded. I don't even know that most people are aware of that. Um and anything that they additionally may have cut. Um JC's position potentially, um the after school program grant that you know, just I just think it would be good for people to be aware of what has been cut, what's not being fully funded, and what we might be looking at like being cut. Um I just think it'd be good for our constituents to be aware of like what we're kind of facing, you know. Talking about it you know, a year before some of it hits the fan. Right. Having conversations so that we're
028thinking about it, you know, that the after school program's not funded through that. Right. >> the board's committed to trying to make it happen somehow, but Just so the public's aware like this has already been cut, these are what grants, you know, have been cut and this is what might potentially not be funded in the future and just so that the public's aware of kind of >> trying to cut it, but they're not funding it. Right, yeah. Um you know, I think that when yeah, when they hear well and then and then keep that position or they didn't keep this program, they cut it. Well, it's not it's it's bigger than us that's taking that money away. So, I think it's good to get that message out there. I don't know what the rest of
029you think. I think somebody's Does anyone else have anything to bring up? I'll go back and Darlene, do you have anything you want to mention since you're here? Um one thing that's kind of popped up just recently is um so like last weekend on Easter weekend I borrowed some tables and chairs from the school, and when I went to take them back, um like there was a lot of people at our park, which is fine, except like there was an animal on our turf, which I think is inappropriate. And then we've also This is something we talked about a couple years ago, and I um you know, the board supported this position and like our our park our school park is closed to the public from you know, during our operating hours. Um I just
030dropped the ball on getting some signage um posted that I talked to Greg this week like should we I really feel like getting good out signage and making some signage that says like, "No pets on the turf." Um because I mean, people aren't necessarily cleaning up after their animals. Um and just that doesn't help the life of that stuff, so um just so you're aware, you know, we're going to be getting some signage and getting those posted on these facilities. I'll be devil's advocate. Sure. If somebody's got has their animals on the turf, what can we do? Well, I mean like I mean, there's nothing we can do if we're not there policing it all the time. I mean, if if we're there, we can just say, "Ah." Like we also have people like that
031riding bikes. I mean, I I I personally believe our turf takes a lot of um abuse in after hours, and um our camera on that side doesn't extend all the way. Um you know, you got nothing there but possibly getting the camera somewhere else that would just give us a better view. But you know, we've had some vandalism issues early on when we got that um equipment that you know, the police were having to help us try to address as best they could, but I don't disagree, Darla. I totally agree with you, but is there something that we need to do as a board for policy, or is there something we need to talk to the the chief of police for I don't know. I think at least if it's posted, and you come back
032and there's an issue, and then you have some kind of evidence you can at least open a conversation with those people to like be respectful of Yeah. that. Sometimes you can tie those um malicious type offenses into a trespass offense. Like if you say if you say you're in here uh at certain times when you're not supposed to be, uh you will be charged with trespassing. Or if you're in here with a dog, you will be charged with something else that counts as trespassing. >> to the you know, one of the things is like our our facility is a taxpayer facility, the public. So, you know, I don't want it to be closed all the time, but this conversation actually started when our after-school program was like at bursting at the seams and people were
033having their kids out there. Um when we're already supervising 100 kids um or attempting to, and then like, you know, they were kind of loitering around after school because it's a nice day and people want to play. Um and so we're like, "You can go use that park, but like this park is really our after-school facility, um kind of our programming at this time." And really for the most part, it has worked nicely um to just tell people um this park is closed right now, um but I think some other things are popping up, so some signage there would be helpful. Um but just I mean that day I was like, you know, when I took those kids on the trampoline, there was three dogs running all over a bicycle kind of park, and I'm
034like, you know, like Were they off leash? Um Off leash? They There were two that were on, and then one I think maybe had been tied up, and then it took off running and they couldn't capture it. It was It was quite a whole ordeal. But um I'm sorry. just um I'm sorry. you know, well, that turf wasn't an investment for us, and you know, >> Yeah. I think the signs It becomes a liability if someone has a dog here and then someone else's children are there and someone gets bit or, you know, and it's on our Well, I think the signs will at least make people aware. >> "No dogs in here," I mean, I guess it's a little bit more And so that would be just one thing to add. I think you
035contacted a sign company today to get some to get the ball rolling. Multiple signs in multiple okay, multiple spots. Is that private company or just through the city? Um it's somebody that we used that we used before. It's a company out of Ottawa. I know we do have a sign a sign shop or something. I don't know how the county or city does signs, but it sounds like you got it worked out. Yeah, yeah, we just I mean, I just called everything and I'm like, "Who does signs?" And they were like, Okay. Thank you, Darin. Anything else, Darin? Uh I would just recommend just to highlight the hours and keep the dogs off. I don't think they should stay clear of any trespassing comments or anything like that. >> Yeah, I I asked the lady
036to do me a quote, but they just said like, "No no animals or something." And then like that. Close it however you would word it, like close to public from 7:30 to 5:30. Johnny, the reason I mention that is the one time that someone goes out there and says um "Didn't see the sign, you can't be here." and they tell her to you know, whatever. Yep. Then she just has to go in with her tail tucked. She has no words. She has no grounds. It's like a law enforcement officer out there doing something that's not illegal going to say something. You got to have some grounds to be able to say something to somebody. Yeah, so you start off with a nicer if you need to be mean, you can. I'd go on Facebook, tell
037people we're offensive, not to give everybody a hard Okay. Thank you. Nobody has anything else for Darin or else we'll move on to board reports. Any of the board members have anything they want to bring up? Um I just had one thing. Uh cell cell or bell to bell no cell next year, right? With the whole no cell phones. Um the state gave us zero money to spend on implementing this program. So, in my opinion, every dollar we spend on it, whether it's cubbies or whatever, blah blah blah, is coming out of staff salaries. Because it's going to come out of general funds. So, I think we should spend exactly how much money the state gave us on We have begun having conversations about this KASB, as I mentioned to you in my Friday um
038notes to you guys. We started having discussions and we want to have some input from KASB on policy and procedure and I know Craig is gathering some information as well. So, we're we we've got some time to sort through this, but you're right. Um it's one of those unfunded mandates. It's not fun. You can put that in the article. You can add that in there. Of what we're being directed to do without all this money. All the money we're We We haven't gotten no official guidance, but we did receive an email last week that uh I believe it was KASB. It was either them or KSDE. I'm not sure which one which group, but that they have visited with some of the legislature and and their intent was not really as deep as they have
039in the law and so they're, you know, looking at if they can work with them to kind of make a a compromise cuz a lot of them were like, well, we just kind of want them in backpacks. Well, it's not what it says. It's not what it says, you know. Exactly. Exactly. They would have to be hanging up in most of the classrooms. But but yeah, but that we use KASB we can't do that. Just hang them really high. So, So, we are waiting for a little bit more information. You know, we had talked about, you know, okay, we're just not allowing them to come. But then, you know, or they need to leave them at home or in their car. Well, that doesn't work with middle schoolers. You know, middle schoolers don't drive here.
040So, you know, when they're trying to contact after practice at 5:30 p.m., you know, for a pick-up or whatever, uh you know, that doesn't that doesn't work. So, you know, we may have to come up with some sort of system that, you know, the middle school differently than we would the high school, differently than we would the elementary. So, uh we are we are working on working on that. >> get pricey if you did for example if you put a cell jammer around this building. But, yet our administrators may need it and some kids who have medical issues with, let's say, diabetic situations where again there will be some exceptions. Um you could have students check them in and we could have them hanging in the buildings and then at the end of the day
041mass check out at the high school, for example, 250 kids all of a sudden wanting their cell they want now cuz they got to get to practice or they got to get to work or whatever. That would be utterly chaotic. So, yeah, the thought process on this bill the again like Craig said Good intentions. Yeah, they they didn't necessarily do the due diligence. But, anyway. I know there are schools in our league that have a no cell policy. So, we can Yeah, let's ask ask them and see what they've done. And part of that I think we need to make sure we keep the communications with the public open so they're not shocked at enrollment which they they probably still will be. Staff might be and it goes to other things, too, like social media
042interactions with students by teachers. Is that right? That was in We're supposed to be getting something in ASB as far as And they're hopefully going to have policy updates sooner than later this year because of what's happening with the legislation. That's fine. I just wanted to Good good thoughts. So, who wants to talk about the results before uh in the middle school and the elementary? Sure, I can go first. Um couple couple year or I guess it would have been seems like a couple years years ago. My first year was one of the things the board wanted was for middle school kids to have PE every day. And so, we're still able to do that. Um if we ever went to a seventh period day, I think it'd be pretty tough to still to be
043able to to to get kids into PE every day. Um the the strength, power, and speed class, we're at capacity. We've been at capacity at 42. Um and there are a few kids that are on the waiting list for that. Um so, I think that's awesome that, you know, we started this 2 years ago. Um we're quite at capacity and then and every kid wants to be able to do it um within that. So, um maybe we can expand that in the future. Uh all kids get to roller skate except a few. Um maybe if you broke your arm last year like one of my kids, you did not participate in roller skating. You did not want to. Um and then also, you know, seventh grade and hunter's education is a huge huge hit. We're
044going to look at making that uh even more involved next year. Um you know, the the Lonnie Jasper Foundation uh bought pizza for the kids. And so, been talking to JJ, we're going to try and add the um some things to that day also um rather than just going out and doing the live shoot and eating pizza and just >> the hunter's education now? Uh Aubrey Caruthers and Taylor Wilson. And so, Aubrey became fully certified last year uh under Charlie Whitworth. And now, Taylor's going to have to go back and and get that. Uh little over $7,000 in change in in Dr. Wall for heart, which was which is awesome. Um and then starting this year, um it's kind of depending on Mr. Bostick's schedule, um but a lot of times kids could not take
045band and choir. And so, we've worked that that out this year that if if you're taking band, you can also take choir if you choose to. So, hopefully that will help cuz our vocal music uh especially at the middle school, we were up pretty high. We were at 11 kids 2 years ago, I believe it is. And then we dropped back down. So, as we were looking at that's one of the pieces is is that they they weren't able to take both. And so, we've worked out that schedule with Mr. Baldwin uh and Mr. Bostick's time to be able to allow kids to be able to do both. So, hopefully our fine arts numbers um will increase. And I think if you go to a music concert and you listen to um our bands from
046fifth grade to high school, you could you can it is one of the most amazing nights, I think, cuz you hear the fifth graders start and you go into sixth grade, then you hear seventh and eighth grade, then you go into the high school and you kind of hear that that top end, and it is it is impressive. Um matter of fact, when we were at uh Emporia State, Darlene and I were, people would come up and talk to talk about Mr. Bostick and how, "Hey, if he can we can student teach or Hey, if Mr. Bostick, we want to work with that guy." And so, Billy has done just an excellent job with that with that program. So, hopefully we can help support him in building that uh vocal program even more so. Um
047my middle school is the same information and everything. Like, this doesn't apply to the elementary school. Do you have any more questions? >> Um, move to accept the results two monitoring reports in the same physical education, performing arts, and visual arts and foreign language as we will progress through the meeting of those policies. Second. Motion second, discussion? The question I have for Matt is that where where you said we're at capacity for strength, power, and speed. You need to set that because of the teacher or something? >> we get a we get it for one class and so uh coach Carlos can take 42 kids. Over here to burn. Yeah, they come over here to the high school. Yep. And I'll add on to that, um, our new hire for PE also has a background
048in weights, so they're going to co-teach that class together. Um, 40-some kids in a weight room with one teacher is just asking for trouble. Now, we we do send an aid. There is an aid that comes over to help support that. So, it is a lot of kids. Having two certified weights people in there is going to be beneficial for our kids. Um, and then at the freshman level we've moved some classes around to give them more of an opportunity to take elective-based classes. Um, and we're moving health back to be taught to all freshmen. The last three or four years it's been sophomores have been able to take it. Um, they've been able to some schedules, so we're moving that back down to all freshmen. So, hopefully that will increase our numbers in there
049even more to give kids more of an opportunity to be in there. We'll have two We'll have two We'll have two certified high school teachers in there. Co-teaching that class this year. Okay, there's been a motion and a second for the results monitoring acceptance. Any further discussion? So move to vote. >> This is the time of year when you see some information on open enrollment policy. We've talked about this over with our administrative team. Can you see this chart, the information? Basically, to kind of give you a just a general practice is what we're looking at. You'll see Look at the chart in terms of let's say grade levels. You know, we're trying to keep the numbers down, you know, reasonable in terms of the class sizes. The elementary school, Darla and I talked and
050looked and see to see where we are now and where we project. You can see 53 is that number that we kind of came up with in terms of even if if you think it's about 18 approximately per you know, per per grade or per actually mean per section in each grade level. And that's that rough number that we're looking at. Again, class size does matter. At the middle and high school, a little different. Classes are a little different with the bell schedule in terms of you know, an hourly period schedule. Uh we talked about this term in terms of the difference in in again the different electives they have. It's not a self-contained classroom. So, you see where we can accept a little bit more there in terms of those grades. And our numbers
051uh again in terms of you know, those those those class sizes uh approaching that 60 number. Now, um so yeah, again, high school, little bit more cuz again we have even more electives, we're looking at about 65. And again, the administrators, um, we talked about this, we've discussed this, we've looked at this. Um, it gives us some potential out-of-district non-resident student enrollment capacity to take some kids. The kids that are already in out-of-district that were accepted before then get to continue to stay. They do not have to apply. This is not This is not counting in of of a student, like I said, that's a student in good standings, then great, we want them back. This is only for new students. So, we have a little bit of capacity there, um, you know, to to
052look to potentially grow. So, these are projections. So, if your projection, let's just say grade five level is 60 instead of 59, maybe you not accept anybody? Well, if you look at the bottom of the chart below, where we have one open spot. Yes. So, let's say we have three kids apply for that one open spot, it becomes what we call a lottery draw. Put three kids' names in the hat, pull out whichever, and that's the way it works. >> saying the projection is 59, if that was 60, if you had 60 in there Yes. Yes, we we would not probably It would be a zero number there. >> That's what I was That's what I was asking. There There Yeah, there could be. We talked also about the larger class sizes in terms of,
053let's say, if you look at uh high school juniors and sophomores at 65. We put in a few there just because, again, and if some people do want to come our way, if we put zero there, guys, we don't accept anybody. But we may have some kids that decide they want to come. We didn't have We never did put zero in in any of these. We We at least wanted to have the ability to accept some kids and to, you know, to be able to have um have kids join us. Now, again, if if if one of those non-resident students come to us and they are not attending, they're not uh showing up there tardy, their grades are bad, their behaviors We we can only accept them for a year and things don't go well,
054we can decide to pass. But we have to have We've got We've got those parameters in place per board policy that allows us to return the sender a student not in good standing. Questions on the charts? So you said you said high school was 65. The juniors and the sophomores were projected for next year 65. >> our cap was at 65. Yeah, but but again we we I didn't say our cap. I said we were trying to hold it in that general neighborhood of 60 to 65. We decided talking with Mr. Baldwin that we would have three open slots there. >> And we said 68. So we could go to 68. That we at least wanted to have a few possibilities in case some of these people want to transfer. Typically, what we're finding is
055So for example, seniors typically aren't transferring to a different school. They like to be a senior and they're going to stick it out. They're going to ride it out with, you know, the district that they're in. Could there be a potential for some seniors depending on, you know, a variety of different things, who knows. But typically seniors you don't have a whole lot of seniors wanting to switch their senior year. So we at least wanted to give the ability to accept students at each grade level. And keep that number in that 65 to 68 range at the high school and keep that number at the middle school again in that 60-ish range. Now if you come in one year and get accepted and you're in your year two, does your slot then move up to
056the top or do you stay filling that bottom slot? Yeah, they they they do not count towards the open enrollment numbers. >> Cuz they're now in the open >> They're in with us. Once you're in and you're in good standing, you are in. You don't You don't count against that number. Right. Good question. Anything else? And then we will post this information on the website per policy. And that this there's a cutoff date on this one of June 1st. I see. Yes. Okay. And this was base A number if you look at that public content information of 5618 this past year and next year base A 2627 school year will be 5782. A slight increase which I've shared with you that information before. Motion to approve the USD 244 student enrollment projections and non-resident enrollment
057capacity as presented. Motion second. Any discussion? Any discussion? Hearing none, submit your vote. Motion carried 6-0. Approve the July 26-27 USD 244 calendar We thought we had Good Friday lined out. It turns out we didn't. We spent a lot of time making sure the calendar's right but we we just we would have done this and so this is just a simple clerical error and uh it's just one of those things that we missed. We got the wrong date. It's a lot earlier. Motion to approve the revised 2026-2027 USD 244 school year calendar as presented. Second. Motion second. Any discussion? Hearing none, submit your vote. Motion carried 6-0. Greenbush Blended Learning MOU. Okay, this is for Spanish classes. You see this information before. Again, because we're doing online Spanish, you see the number of students that
058are enrolled anticipated for next year and the cost. They're billed at two different times, October 1 and February 1 for the students involved in Spanish 1 and Spanish 2. And this total amount is approximately $18,000, approximately $18,000. It's a lot less expensive than having a Spanish teacher for 24 kids. I'll make a motion. I guess is it effective though? I mean, I know it's cheaper than >> It is. having but are they really learning? It it it is effective. We do evaluate that. I'll make a motion to approve the Greenbush Blended Learning Memorandum of Understanding for the purpose of delivering foreign language instruction to Burlington High School students for the 2026-2027 school year in the amount of $450 per student per semester. Second. Motion second. Any more discussion? Looks like we still pay the $2,000
059uh What's it called here? The annual fee of $2,000 per section. What's that? If less than 10 students enrolled in the course, if we have less than 10, then So, we still pay This is We we know we're paying the 2,000. We're just making the motion to pay the 450. Possibly. It depends on other school districts. If we if we can pool together and get 10 total I got you. then if let's say three other schools have three other kids each and then you throw us with three, that's 12. They won't charge us that fee. Okay. Good question. Make your vote. Motion carried 6-0. Negotiation. You have some information that I don't believe we really need to go into executive session right now. We have our first meeting on Thursday set up and uh maybe
060next month we'll be talking. They they do I did talk with Kathy Freeman. I asked her and the view to represent representation if they would prefer to do negotiations sooner with me or later and start July 1 with Donnamond. They preferred to go with me and want to get it done sooner and with the board which is they're not with me but with the board. They want to try to get this done sooner because they would like to have their summer and I think uh that's a good good plan. So and I have stayed stayed in touch with Donnamond about this and she would prefer not to have to jump right into negotiations so right out of the shoot. So I will keep her informed and uh you know any discussions of what we're looking
061at doing all every step of the way. When is your first meeting? Next this this Thursday. This Thursday. Uh Can we yeah, I would like to go into executive session? On Negotiation. On for negotiation? Yeah. How long do you 5 minutes. Uh motion to recess into executive session for 5 minutes to discuss certified contracts pursuant to the exception for employee or employee negotiations and to return to the open session Thank you. Motion second. Any discussion? Make your vote. Yes, you got it. This is 5-0. Okay. >> Mhm. >> I think the one that's got the stuff. Yeah. No, no, no, Steve, no students, no. No, you have special questions? No, but but uh you you you do have um some information on 11A. On 11A sales tax. If you have any questions about any of
062those positions uh that are listed in that document, please let me know before the May meeting. Again, a reminder, we do approve the fall, the winter supplemental. We hold off on spring until the spring seasons are over, evaluations are done. Spring will be uh those those positions will be uh approved at the June meeting. But we won't have an executive session on that. Yeah, unless unless you unless you need one or want one. But if you have any questions about any of those positions, please let me know before the May meeting, and I will get information for you. Okay. Yeah. You don't want hear anything? Okay, we're moving on to student executive session. Nothing. We have none there. Closing items. Anybody have anything else that we missed? Everything is good. Discussion on the Lincoln Circle
063tonight. And uh So, sounds like things are happening. Challenging times, for sure. Yeah. Nobody has anything else? No. We're good. Thank you. You have a good night.