001for all. You ever had a chance to look before? I make a motion to approve the agenda as presented. >> And I'll seconded discussion. Lucas, you going to do it on the computer? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Motion carries 6 J. >> All right. I apologize for not being here last month. I I believe that that link is very important. I want to facilitate that, keep that going outside of town and couldn't be here. So, I appreciate just sticking with it and going with it and I hope we can continue that in the future. I was curious as I read uh the the agenda about PG shares. How many shares about do we have? >> It's a little over a thousand. >> And um just another thing, the capital outlay reviewed that and I'm in favor
002of capital out plans. I like plans. I appreciate you doing that. I was surprised though there's nothing for the elementary school. We know that there's some needs and I just didn't see the the big things on the plan. So I was just curious to address that tonight but thinking about thank you. Thank you. And thank you very much for addition. Do you guys have any questions for me? >> Looks like you're goingss You guys have a big Veterans Day >> tomorrow. You're welcome to come >> that. We had grandparents week started today. Um wanted to bring that back. So, we did preschool and kindergart would The only thing that I would add is is uh Lee and I and Darla have traveled to um Pit State and ESU to some early career job fairs and
003have put a lot of names with faces. Um matter of fact, I reached out to an individual last week um that we met there for our spend job. And so I think just continuing to be at those um is very productive. We were full at Emporium uh the whole day um until I think Darla stayed till 3. >> Yeah, I had eight interviews that day >> and then I had a meeting uh to get back to and so Lee and I came back at 2:00 or left at 2 o'clock but it was full for 9, broke for an hour at lunch and then was uh full schedule from then on. So that was a that was a good sign. >> You said early job fairs. Were these job fairs we've been able to attend in
004the past or this new this year? Um we haven't been to Emporia for I think last time Lindsay and I went um for a sped opening and then pit we've been going to. >> Okay. >> Um but I felt like Emporia was really really good. >> I also just add in there if I may that like because we've been in our retirement instead of like actually knowing that we have a job and being able to say to these people like I have a third grade job that's going to be open next year is a lot more um it's better. like we may have some opening checking our web page, you know, like so hopefully some of those contacts will turn into some applications and if not some people that we can follow up with >>
005that's what I was ultimately trying to get at. I was curious if what we had done during negotiations if you saw benefit from >> it's much more helpful to you know because a lot of times those kids are like asking us are you going to have any openings or do we anticipate openings or like being able to say like right now I have a third grade opening. Like you're able to go out and apply now, check out our website, move out our business card. That's nice. >> Just I feel like we're it's a lot better spot to be trying to recruit at this point year versus classroom. We went to Pittsburgh in March and like everybody that was a teacher already had a job, so there was nobody to even talk to. So, it's just
006learning out there. >> Great. >> And I'll add on to that with the early reset retirement on our end was able to recruit a English teacher to come student teach here with the sales pitch of you're getting to student teach under the person that's retiring and if you do a good job is yours. So that sales pitch allowed to get a student to become student teacher with the opportunity to have first crack at a English opening in our district. So with that early retirement was allowed to offer that as a recruiting tactic which worked for you last week. So extended job interview >> a fourmon extended job interview. So it was enticing for this student to come down here and do that. I don't think they would have done that without that potential option. So
007>> that's advantageous to us also. >> Yes. So it was very beneficial. We'll have somebody down here in January to student teach and they do a good job which sure hope they do. Got an opportunity to fill a candidate with somebody in house that would be able to transition in there pretty nicely. The career pair has been very beneficial. >> Okay. Anybody else? >> Not as at least for me on this one. No proposals this month of changes. So just on mine at the top for the linkage is where I do my newsletters. No, I wouldn't say no pertent changes or information on this month's one compared to last month. Just completed our second awards assembly this goound. It's got good reviews in that regard. Making some subtle changes in that other than that new
008information to report staffing information. just got back from the national case conference which is the first time I've attended that since being here and it was nice in Oklahoma City so it's close so that they have a lot of really good sessions and it'd be great if I could take a team to that but make sure it's in province Rhode Island so that won't be quite as easy just jump in a car and go >> what's the case >> um I remember council of administrators for special education. >> Okay. >> Something along those lines. Um but it's a national conference and so like like I said next year it's in Rhode Island, the architects in New Mexico. So but it was an OKC so I took advantage of it being closed went down. We are
009taking a team to the law conference. We leave Wednesday for that um in Omaha which we do attend that one every year. Staffing wise um right now is my hot spot. Um, everyone else is holding on. I got a couple of become my hot spot just making some moves. So, we'll work on it. Darla and the team's working on it push through. >> So, in your notes, you were talking about director possible. What was that? Replacement or something like that in your notes. mentoring. >> Yeah, I'm mentoring a new director. So, I'm a mentor student for the Kelly mentoring program. >> Uh, last year was the first year I was asked to do that. It's actually pretty big honor. Um, it's actually a program I went through 12 years ago. And so last year my
010mentee was from this year she's from Piper. >> Yeah. >> And she was actually at this last conference as well. So that was kind of nice. >> Yeah. Said for a new director unofficially for another local director. >> Yeah. So there's a director um nearby who does not currently have a mentor and did not get into that program. And so I gone over and visited with her and just kind of weren't missing something. >> Technology >> uh technology big uh thing going on right now is the business cumulative. Uh they got our data back to us about five days earlier than we thought. Um conversion went really smoothly. Nicole has been busily making some We wanted to do some adjustments with our how our uh positions and assignments were in the system and so she's
011been busily making those changes. We actually have u our our tech staff and our secretaries are all going to uh log in tomorrow, clock in digitally tomorrow kind of as a test room uh for us and then U hopefully a little bit later in this week we'll we'll roll it out to everyone. But it's been a extremely smooth conversion. >> Anything else for >> uh coming up next week is American Education Week and again we're so fortunate to have a very dedicated, passionate group of professionals working with our students. If you have the opportunity, make sure you thank an educator this week. >> We'd like to thank our staff for all of our staff for everything that they do, the effort, the time, the energy that they've put in to support education in our district.
012I shared some information last month with you on Kissa. There's just some additional information there. In that second item, again, KISSA is our accreditation process. Like I mentioned last month, not all districts in the state of Kansas are accredited and we are fully accredited, which is obviously very, very important for us. And we received some good news from Commissioner Watson for star for four star awards. Last year we only have three. This year we have four. You see the information down there on how you achieve the star awards. The last one was uh the copper award uh past year on academically prepared for postsecary success. So that was an additional uh star award that we received. And uh again this isn't just about one building. It's about all of our buildings. by our entire community,
013school, students, staff, parents, board of education, everybody involved, administration, leadership. Um, it's very, very important to receive this recognition. So, good news. Very good news. >> Nice to have another star award. Hope we can add some more in the future. >> I don't Building report card review. >> Okay. Um building report card review. Remember Christiey's going to pull up site here. Uh again, you'll see this information when we were doing the results report. So again, I want you to think in terms of the way I'm looking at it with you right now. I'm looking at the 30,000 foot view from above. So when I'm looking at this, as Christiey's pulling up the information, I'm looking at do we have more threes and fours than the state of Kansas? has averaged in different subjects. So this
014is math and you can see that you can see the district from 24 and the district from 25 results and the state from 24 and the state from 25. So if you look from uh 24 last year to this past year, we had fewer kids in level one. And we want to see more kids in levels three and four. And you can see that's happening. that's happening not only comparison from last year to this year this or two years ago I should say in this past year it's also again comparing us to the state so that's in math if you click to the next one go to English language arts please again same thing view from 30,000 foot above this is for the entire district all grade levels that we assess in English language arts
015again fewer people fewer kids in level one we want to see more in levels three and four and again the buildings They'll they'll dive into this more with your results reports. They're diving into this information at their building level with their with their teachers, third graders, fourth graders, sixth graders, seventh graders, whatever, and whatever subject area that they're assessing and then looking at individual students and and individual grade levels much more so than what we're looking at. Like, of course, like right now in this 30,000 foot above view, if you click on the science piece, again, science again, you'll see similar results as in uh because as you've seen in the first two subject areas with math and language arts and that's what we're looking for. We want to see improvement. You want to see
016improvement movement forward progress. Again, you're not going to see kids move from level one to level four very very often. That's not going to happen. You want to see them move from one to two, two to three, three to four, or even in some cases when they're looking at kids in high one to move to low two or if they're in low can we can we can kids in low, middle, and high two. If they're in low two, and if they can move to high two, they may not get to three, but they're moving forward. We want to see movement forward with students and progress. And that's just not with state assessments. That's with Ames Web, that's with all sorts of different assessments that we look at, um, fast bridge, and so on and so
017forth. >> Craig, I know we talked at some point the past month or two about the state adjusting how they do some of this. How much of these and I not I say it because it looked like the state and us it's not the right way of saying it. I would have scored good in the ELA section. >> Yes. >> Uh both we and the state improved in all three categories. So do we have any idea how much of that is due to them adjusting those blocks? >> I would say that there is a little bit to that but again the adjustment on the cut scores are more in line with fitting with the students and and truly where they are progressing moving forward. So you were seeing some kids like say and and some
018people were saying well kids in level two were a failure. That's not the case. Kids in level two were actually going on to move forward in their career plan of study and moving forward and being successful. So having said that the cut scores really more reflect where the kids should be in their progress and their movement as they move forward in life and their career path. So the cut scores are much more accurate to what the the assessment score should be. Okay, good. Now, good question. And I don't know if any of the districts want to have any comments. >> We talked about this once before, but also just caveat, especially that ELA test, >> but it's a very different test than previously as well as the cut score as well as the number of
019questions that would land in each one of those categories. There's maybe one level four question and four level one questions. So, you miss the one level four and you're out. So, it's it's the deeper dive is more important than to me anyways when I'm looking at a kid and what they truly need than just the overall number. >> It it just does seem like it's hard to build a trend from year to year with the way things change. To me, the only real comparison we can make is how we fit against the state average for that particular year, but that you guys obviously have much better understanding of those numbers than I do. That's why we do like Matt was just talking about doing the interums, but then also why we have our Angel web
020plus or fast bridge is just so that we can continue to get other data to drill down to what is what is it that Lindsay needs or is missing right here um versus just looking at the overall number >> like the interims we've completed interims and I'm going through some data pieces to to send send teachers so that they can go through and highlight okay this is what we have taught so far this year This is how our kids perform. Here's how the state performed um in just about every category we're at or above the state level um based upon the the fall inter. >> Great. Thank you. >> That's all I really have for the building report. Unless you have any questions. The district report is district buildings. There you go. That's So, um,
021well, while I'm holding that up, we'll go to reports. So working. >> So I put together a information sheet Lucas had asked last month um about the the academic support foundation. So just some information I think we've been in the last couple months um so it does have the vision and mission and it's called the Burlington foundation. um obviously to support academics and staff programs, students and staff. So the goals in October, we met twice in October, once with the foundation and once with the fundraising committee. We adopted the bylaws. We completed the 501c3 paperwork and our EIN number, established a checking account so that that way we would have an account. Um we started setting up fundraisers for the foundation and work anyway. Um Then we talked to um a bank and we're going
022to talk to some other banks about the kickoff kickback idea. So one of the ideas was like if there are some communities that have like their debit card. It's like a wildcat card and then foundation you know you could be a tax deduction that made a donation or like a checking account checking account and so like if you work in that account a dollar or something could go towards the foundation. So that was something that was working. Um we've talked to one bank so far. So we're going to work on that. Uh we met in uh November so far. We met with Dave and he is the Gddard. Um he's done this for about 10 years. Very very good when it comes to foundations from the start of their foundation. So ask some specific questions
023like how'd you get started? what was some, you know, what were some of the things campaigning and that type of thing um to get things going. We're going to send out donor letters. I was waiting on the 501c3 because I don't want to ask for donations. I don't have that. Promote and advertise what we're about. So, we're starting to work on that. Um we're going to do some promotional videos about the foundation, what it's about. Um setting up a Facebook page, um a web page connected to the school. We've worked with Courtney some on that, but we need some more information to get her to go on that. Establish a logo, create a QR code. So, some of the ideas are like at a restaurant or activities thing like a QR code if people want
024to donate. Um, and then matching funds. Um, some dates coming up. Um, Hoover Stripway, they have agreed a lot of time. You'll see if you go to um some businesses, they'll ask you if you want to round up for education. It doesn't really go to what it says it's going to do. Um Hoover's um the month of December they we're going to do that with Hoover and it goes specifically to the foundation. So we're very excited about that with them. It's not like they're donating money if people choose to round up and they're going to help campaign. They're really excited. We're excited. So um it's ways that we're getting local businesses are involved but it's not asking them for money. Um so we're we're going to do that. Um we have a tip off night.
025So we had a really good idea um December 11th at the Wildcat Grill. So we're still in the works of getting everything. But the idea is that maybe some of the athletes or staff would or foundation members would be the servers and do all you know we're going to promote Wildcats and the basketball teams. And so the next night maybe have a mascot. We asked the cheerleaders. band, see if they would all come out there and then I'll um any tips or anything and then we'll donate percentage of that to the foundation. So, we're pretty excited to cut instead of kickoff, you know, like tip off. So, we're excited about that. Um we've talked to about doing papa shop maybe for some of the home basketball games. Um and we've definitely talked about we don't,
026you know, somebody's already doing it or we don't want to take that over. It's just if there's no one doing it, we want it. um payroll deduction opportunities for businesses. We're working on that. Um we scheduled bingo at Rock Creek Country Club on Saturday, January 3rd. Uh Mike Rooney did a lot with the um CASA bingo and he is agreed to help with that also. Um and yeah, he did a great job and does a great job with that. I was like, "Okay, can you help us with that?" So, and we do it, but it's different for that. Um we talked about um a couple other activities and then also like the that used to be where they put flamingos in your yard and you would pay to get them out of your yard and
027we talked about egg Easter eggs or you know looking into that a golf tournament scheduled June 20th which is alumni weekend. So I think that that could be really good. And then other any other ideas um that come to mind? We're excited about that. um the the goals we've met with each of the schools. Um and we're working on, you know, we want people to donate money for specific things, not just donate money for no purpose, right? And so each of the buildings has given us um some goals that they want. And so those are going to be, you know, your money is going to this or that, not to just not what you don't know. So classroom grants will be a big thing obviously and we're collaborating with these instructors. So happy to answer
028any questions. You're welcome to come or I think our next meeting hopefully will be November 21st >> um on the web page connected to the school with this being a separate organization all together and we verify that we are able to tie it to the school's website and that that doesn't cause any uh conflict of interest or anything. Well, so it is separate, but there's still um in the bylaws it specifically says that you know there's board members, superintendent is a like a non- voting member and so it's like a connection to the school. So like even >> Okay. I just wanted to make sure we looked into that because it seemed like it could be. >> Yeah, for sure. >> I don't want to get find out two years from now that we did
029something wrong. Well, thank you. Done a lot of work on this and we certainly appreciate all your time. >> Awesome. >> Yes. The capital review at this time. Every year in November, we do review capital alllay. And so a lot of this information will look very very similar with just some different figures and adjustments uh you know made there uh in in this document. I'm not going to go over read it word for word because again you had a chance to see it but I do want to go to that last paragraph and kind of talk about this kind of ties in comment that Jay made a little earlier. Um in the capital outlay again I met with each of the building principles. I've also met with Margarita Solano, Brian Shank, Margarito with the grounds,
030our chief of maintenance, and my Brian with grounds and transportation in terms of the things that we need to project out into seven years because you as a board asked me originally to do five years. Now we're out to seven years. You asked me to add a couple of years. It's really hard to identify seven years for a couple of reasons. One, you never know exactly what's going to happen. This document is very fluid. If we have a boiler that we think's going to need to be replaced next year, then Margarito tells me that we can get another year out of it. We just move it. We either move things forward or move things uh or move things back a year or two or move it forward if it needs to be moved based on
031a need. Uh so on so forth. Anyway, it's a very fluid document as you guys know. Um we uh again met with all the building principles. We looked over you know their facilities and tried to project and of course seven years out projecting what things are going to cost. you take what the cost is now and you usually are projecting anywhere from a 2 to 5% increase each year. So again um having said that we did not put very many if anything from the elementary school because quite honestly the elementary school again what we're looking at doing there is going to cost millions of dollars in the future. So, we didn't put anything purposely on the for the elementary school on this list because we don't know what the future plan's going to be. Again,
032is it add-on? Is it renovation? Is it a new building? Different bond issue. Uh, I can tell you that today Darl and I had a meeting with Mac Gordon representatives Clark Simpson, people again that we've been working with with Macau Gordon. We met with them today. Clark, Darlin, I had some very good conversations. They have some dollar figures today. We just did get presented. Um I can tell you the number and I'll give you some information in Friday notes and we'll have a meeting and discuss this in the in the future. They are working on a few final, you know, some small tweaks, but it's pretty expensive. >> This is the list that we asked for that is needs and wants. >> This is what you guys wanted to hear in terms of what a
033renovation would look like for again the elementary school. And I can tell you that the plan that we looked at today, talked about today, did not include a fifth grade at the elementary school. It did not include a new cafeteria, a new kitchen. It did not um it basically included a small office area square footage addition to move the office more towards the front where the front we would think the front would be in terms of the northeast corner there by the gym. So again, having said that, I'm going to have some information for you, some numbers, but it was uh it was expensive. I will tell you this the we don't have the final numbers but and again it was very detailed. It showed the the project and what this would cost and that
034would cost and uh I think uh you guys will be surprised. I think patrons will be surprised at what the dollar amount is on on a renovation for that building. Don't want to give away completely right now yet because I just did get it and they're just today got some information and they're making some tweaks to it. So again, once we get this information, I think then we'll share obviously with the board. Then I think it's time to, you know, have maybe some public conversations and say, "Here's where we are and what's going to cost for a brand new or excuse me, for a renovated Burlington Elementary School as as compared to again a renovation versus and small addition versus a brand new building. and that $45 million building that we wanted to do last
035May, it's not 45 million anymore. So, it would be an increased dollar figure for a new building. But again, like we talked about our our brand new building plan, if we go to a new bond issue, would be possibly adjusting that plan. Do you move fifth grade out of that new building? Do you not put the bulk in that new building? What do you do to make that dollar amount come down? But again, that's going to have to be something that you guys will have to decide. Um, I will say this that if in terms of the project, and I think we can talk a little bit about that. This project, they have a timeline like a lot of projects do kind of like what you saw with the VOAG welding shop. This project, if
036approved at a March 2026 bond issue, would take you for the rest of March, rest of 2020. the renovation of the current elementary. This bond issue would take you for the rest of 2026, all of 2027, and definitely all of 2028. And it's going to be work construction done during the time during the school year. It's going to be you're going to have to work around them and they're going to work around us. It is not ideal for, as I noted here, it's not ideal for for students to learn and teachers to teach when you're doing a renovation. Like we said, when construction people do a renovation, there's two days you're happy. It's the first day when they show up for the job because everybody's excited and it's the last day when they leave because
037you're leaving and they're causing no more noise, no more dust, no more problems for for students to learn and teachers to teach. So again, I did not put anything related to the elementary school, but maybe a couple of items in there possibly. I will tell you this, any immediate needs, Margarito, and Darla Long are going to let us know any immediate needs. We will take care of immediate needs. So, if there are things that they tell me need to be done, we're going to take care of those. Now, are we going to put a brand new set of LED lights in the whole second grade wing with dimmer switches? No. If we have a light go out in the in the second grade classroom, are we going to repair it and fix it? Yes. So,
038it's lit up in there. We're not going to do any major quote unquote major projects, but we're going to make sure the immediate needs are met based on what Darla and Margarito tell me. And with that being said, I will just entertain any questions. Any of the administrators can chime in as well. And again, these are possible projects. Like for example, we have a middle school wait room as a possible project in the future. We may not do that, but it's something that there's some interest in there potentially to have it. We're send currently right now, we're sending eighth graders or seventh and eighth graders, >> seventh and eighth graders to the high school for for a strength and conditioning type of program. We may choose not that may we may decide that that is
039good enough for what we have right now. We can work it in the schedule. We may not need a middle school weight room. So it's just again I don't want people to look at this and say they're building a weight room at middle school in 28 29. No, it's on the list and that list is fluid and things can come off that list and things can add to that list based on what our needs are, what our wants are, what uh what what you guys decide in the future. Did that answer your question? Anybody else have anything on that? I know we probably have questions for >> uh the only not on that specifically. I was going to mention that there is an item that's on 2526 that's also showed up on the next year
040that I'm guessing should not be on. >> Yeah, the multimedia room felt wall replacement. >> It jumped at me because it's one of the more expensive items. >> Yeah, >> thank you. I will get that off the list of one here and move it remove it from the locker room countertops in the middle school >> because it all did replace some counter tops in there with something >> not in the middle school but in the high school. We did that in high school in restrooms and in the girls locker room because they were in pretty bad shape. >> Okay. >> If we just did the epoxy floors and like the stall partitions >> stall partitions I think were two years ago. So now the last piece would be the counter top. >> Couple more questions
041later. So how many more years I think this is coming up with the third installment year three. So this will be the third payment in December. And then again remember after the fifth payment we have the early payout. >> Yes. Correct. >> We do. We do not. And again, it's not so much a heat issue. It's it's more of an AC issue because it gets really hot. This is something that Ari brought to my attention that and and again, you have you have equipment up there. You have some video equipment up there because they're doing video from the press box areas. You have Jim Hills, Rick Smith doing voice of the Wildcats games on the radio. It it's it's uh like I say, it's something that probably needs to be looked at. Uh you know,
042because it does to stay hotter during the football season now. >> So anyway, >> baseball softball parking lot rock >> could be an addition additional parking space possibly. >> This 26 27 >> Yeah, it could be an additional area. We talked about doing that uh with uh um with with Brian Shank and uh possibly so. in terms of the main entrance into the parking lot there. And as you're going and be to the the east towards the north parking area, adding additional rock and gravel, if you will, to create additional parking space. >> So just to Yeah. Well, not really behind the outfield. It' be more just more to the north. >> Yeah. More to the north between Yeah. Very much between the dirt pile and the current rock that we have. that can be
043an additional parking area that we could look to, you know, to add on to or we may not do that. We may decide that we have enough parking as it is. But, um, it's that that area is being used for parking and it's fine >> as long as it doesn't get wet and then all of a sudden we end up with ruts and problems for mowing and it's hard on mowers. So, >> So, then I have one more. >> Okay. >> Do we have a roof schedule like roof replacement schedule? I We only have one roof in there for replacement and that's in 28 29 >> and I'm feeling like I don't know somewhere before then. >> So because we've regrouped the middle school completely and the high school and it's only seven years out.
044I didn't put it on there because we should be good at the high school and the middle school with our roof situation. It'll be the elementary school >> that will need a new roof. And again, just kind of depends. >> They are. They're very obviously roofs. Roofs are very expensive. And as I've mentioned to you, I think you guys at the board before, there are two kinds of roofs. Those that leak and those that are going to leak. >> What's the When we redid those roofs, it was before I was on board. I remember saying it happened, but what's the life expectancy on something like that before we need to start going in and looking at a replacement? >> Again, that's that's a that's a good question. Hopefully with this new TPO system, we're hoping
045that we can get close to 30 years, but again, I I would say if you can get if you get 20 or more years out of the roof, closer to 30 would be ideal and the TPO system seems to have longer it seems to have a longevity that's greater than the older style roofs that have been um been built in the past. >> Do we have some kind of warranty or something where they come back and patch any spots that are leaking for a certain amount of time? >> We we do. Exactly. And we have certain again once they go off warranty. It's kind think in terms of your car. If you have a 5year warranty on your car, you don't sell your car after 5 years. Most likely, right? You're going to keep your
046car past five years. So again, in terms of warranty, when a warranty goes off, we still should have life, >> okay, >> life in the roof. But again, it'll it'll it'll come down to, I guess, in terms of factors. Are you, you know, if in year 25, if you have a leak here and you just fix it and patch and repair that, but in year 20, that is one option. If in year 25, if you got 50 leaks in your roof, you're probably looking at doing a new roof. It all depends on again how it's reacting. Good questions. >> So you would guess then in seven years we only have one group. >> Correct. So the high school again the roads are all 10 years. Excuse me. >> I think 13 years or newer because
047they did some roof projects before I got here. The last was done my first year here >> and the middle school was done by co. So it's been six years ago. >> Five, six years ago. So you're in good shape there. That answer all my questions. >> Other people, anybody else have any other questions? >> Again, this will be a very fluid document, very helpful for the new superintendent to be able to see what uh is in the works in the future. And of course, you guys will just continue to adjust this document as time goes on. There are some items on here we do not have on here that we've missed. By chance, it's possible you can shoot me a message and I sure can add them in and try to get some proposals.
048Anybody else have anything? We have insurance. She made a presentation last month. You'll remember 4% >> 5% over 5%. So we had an increase of 23,000 $24,000. So >> I move to approve the insurance approval from Trust Point Insurance for 522,166. >> Second discussion none. Motion carrot development council points for professional learning community. >> Yes, this is from again PBC meeting this past month. Um, and basically we have some PLC meetings that are occurring in Burlington Elementary School during teachers plan times. They would like to get PDC points for those PLC meetings. This is just a formal request to the board to be able to do that. Um, Darla, I don't know if you have anything else to add. >> Yeah, so like a PDC time outside the plan time. My teachers, we don't have
049that. So, one of our initiatives this year is I'm asking them to meet weekly within their grade level to just talk about things they need to talk about. Um, and then they're also required to meet with the title teachers and Denver Parker instructional coach once a month and kind of do like a data review and just that's part of like kind of we're looking at that MTSS process and figure out how you know what we need to do differently to meet the needs of our kids. So, that's kind of where this Since we're taking actually two planning periods a month well it's actually four once a week once a week with our team and the fourth week is with people. >> Can you explain to me what PDC points are used for >> lure and
050salary advancement. So you've earned a certain amount of the benefit questions motion to approve professional development council points for BDS staff who attend the professional learning committee meetings. We don't need to do that. Second >> motion second discussion 6. So uh as you know we talked last month about the principal financial group. >> Yes. >> So and then we were unknowingly participants stock options I guess you call it shares. So obligation to have and Craig sell those shares with financial group because again we should not this is from a health insurance policy from way back in 2001 has started and I'm sorry not health life insurance I'm sorry insurance life insurance policy back in 2001 um again long story short we should not own shares of stock. We have to have secured government investments like
051CDs that have a return on your investment, a guaranteed return. When we found out about this, that's when we went into motion with a lot of phone calls and finding out what we need to do. That's when I alerted you guys in our Friday notes about this about this situation. So, with your blessing, what we'll do is look to and this is again for KSD Finance for our auditors. uh we need to get rid of these shares of stock because we should not own shares of stock. >> Think the question is then what are we going to do with that money that we receive? >> That'll have to be we're working on finding out again where it would need to go. Christy and I will present that information once we get that uh once we
052get these shares. So um there are some different areas where we can put the money but one example would be we have some interest earned like on CDs that would go into capital outlay. That's typically where we put interested investment wise. >> So if we approve this motion tonight, then you will just put it somewhere until we talk about next. >> Well, there's sorry there's a long process that we're having to go through right now. So once we once we get to that point, then I mean our policy is to put um put the interest or funds into our capital. We will bring that to you guys as the board for for once it's time to do something once we have sold those shares where we are going to place it and why we're placing
053it. >> Real quick, I want to also answer the question and I should probably put it in here. The number of shares we have is like $1,400 >> and some shares right now market value anywhere between84 and $82 per share. Um the offer we received was well under what market value was that kind of not that we even knew what the heck it was when we got it honestly took us by surprise. So >> just letter >> that's how we found out about this and that we wanted to buy the shares and we had no idea. And then when we found out what they were worth it was way below market value their offer. Somebody was trying to pull one over on us. I presume you guys have looked for better offers than >> we
054don't we don't really have I mean have to the market share through computer share >> is who that's through who principal has utilized so they're basically the holder of it and they disseminate like the dividends from that on behalf of principal and so we're trying to we're working with um a financial planner to help us walk through that process which is it's slow but um I mean they'll they'll help us offload those uh shares so at a fair market rate and that's for our best interest though >> should we have been receiving dividends all of a sudden >> we have been >> we didn't know why we were I did not know why we were receiving them but they the district receiving them since 2001. So at quarterly rate of about I mean depending on
055market value I can say recently um probably less than $6,000 a year like on a quarterly basis less than $2,000 per quarter obviously. And then we were um our practice was to put that into actually general fund as a reimbursement. Um so that's that's what we've been doing is taking those dividends and putting them into >> they reached out and called previous superintendent and everything else. >> Did the research to find out what my predecessors had done and um so >> yeah. So, >> long story short, the predecessors did not handle this properly. >> Well, I don't know. >> I don't want to say that. I think >> with as much footwork and things of that nature that we've had to do to even get a hold of coffee share and ask for the accounting
056of it and get that switched over. It's it's it was very time consuming. And so, and like I said, even our predecessor We even went back talked to Dr. Clark, talked to Dale Rosson about it when it looked past minutes to see what that might look like. Where did that come from? And the district essentially had um life insurance as a board, it means as a board fringe benefit to all of its employees. And the carrier of that life insurance at the time was principal. When principal went um public Then that's when the deutralization happened and they gave their um anybody that had I guess policies through them. So the district had policy through them. They then gave that to them in shares rather than any type of I mean cash. That's the best that
057I could come up with. I'm not a financial um guru but this I mean that we're working our way through it. So, as soon as we knew right, >> you know, we notified our auditor. That was our first, you know, what is this? What what you know, what should we be doing? And they said, well, you you need to get not not have the sharers first of all. So, then we reported to KSD to let them know and they have been very um they've been awesome to work with and um so yeah, it's just taken some time to work through. Mutualization again definition right here is the process of converting a memberowned company such as a mutual insurance company or a stock exchange into a shareholderowned stock corporation. This conversion allows the company to access
058public capital markets for growth and requires policy holders or members to receive compensation typically in the form of cash or stock in the new company. That's the $10 word through demutralization right there in the definition. >> I don't know if there are other districts. Um I I haven't found that out. I I know this problem is unique KSD. There's a lot of people who want to know for president what's going to happen with this and um so um so it is a unique issue. The financial advisor that we have been talking to had actually a relative that had this happen to um because they had a policy through principal as well. The uniqueness here is that we are a school district and so we're a company that might hold this could be an LLC for
059example. We are not. We're a USD. So things that they would want for um oh evidence does us being a company if you will um like articles of um our articles of incorporation or for us and our it's articles of unification. So when did we in fact become a school district? So we've had again KC has been helping us with that as well. >> Um so >> yes Yeah, we're we're doing the right thing. We're we're doing the right thing. >> So, they've been doing a lot of work. >> Yes. Dale Dennis, veteran, longtime KSD uh financial person, has been assigned a special like special consultant to us on this. So, Dale's terrific. We're very fortunate to have those people helping us and guiding us. So, again, we will when all this is worked out,
060we just need a motion for you guys to allow us to take care of this situation >> basically. I'll move to authorize Christy Hes and or Craig Marshall still shares principal financial group. Any discussion? >> Yeah, I was just said let's ask the auditor people making sure that money's going right. What other places are we vulnerable at? >> We did say what other places are there? >> We did and they would they also advised according to our polic where we put our funds >> is in support of that >> nice to use some give us some guidance where we can use it and >> we will share that later >> when we come back when it's all said and done >> okay discussion >> I appreciate you guys doing your due diligence, digging down through
061all those layers to try to find the answer to this. >> We came to work one day and we didn't know this was going to happen. So, this was this was a it was an interesting day and has been interesting days after that. So, thank you. >> At the end of the 2026 school year, Chris Motion to accept the retirement request of Christine Asper >> with regret at the end of the 2526 school year. motion. Do we have >> Yes, we'll get a motion discussion and I'll say at the end of the 202526 school year, she will have been a teacher for 37 years. Four of those years been at BHS. We will miss Chris. And it looks like we got one for Lucas. Oh, Lucas. Go ahead. >> Yeah. So last meeting we had
062a discussion about the matching funds for belt for $15,000 for one time bonus for everybody based bonus and uh we asked Greg and Christie to look at where those funds come from uh trying not to use general fund and it sounded like they were successful and so I just wanted to thank them for finding that information for us and getting that done without any funds going out of general fund but still being able to match the donation. >> Great. Thank you. Thank you. >> Thanks, Lucas. Anything else? Thanks again.