001foreign um foreign like that too um yeah I just say hi okay [Music] okay okay um [Music] he said he said no problem children my phone okay there's a connection is that it I don't know what is my historic Circle okay uh concerned many bird open ufd244 patrons whoever they sign up okay all right so we have we're lost they've been coming to create an items communication the way I receive thank you cards thank you and everybody read those to understand from the thank you cards are from next technology report okay let me go back to the Elementary report oh my gosh yes Donna thank you um okay so I was just a little I have a couple more challenges which was just um recycling um a pair of shortcuts like we really struggle with
002maintenance staff turnover insurance this year um finally the teachers that are willing to work in the after school program to feel certified Physicians it was also been a challenge so we do teaching people I like have a percent license there so that is good that we have some classified staff that will do that a step up for that program I have one concerned um just with extra duty pay going up and you guys talked about that a little bit earlier is like competition with our after school program because we have a certain dollar amount that we paid per our grand so that creates a competitive situation for future staff Recruitment and I'm not everybody win that battle I'm likely we right now have some pretty loyal staff but you know in the future and that's
003just it's a concern and then the last thing is there is really um there's a lot of talk you know it's a state assessment scores and funding that's kind of depending the high pressure right away again so I just think that when you know the states homeless on the curse for that and like if there's that need to perform it just that stresses teachers out so that's a challenge especially as we gain a lot of students throughout the year and if you haven't been under our instructions try to hold here I mean you know they have to kind of really like hear if you need not test her um so that's a concerning challenge too that focus and transition areas for the upcoming year like we're going to be implementing our new reading series we
004did start our letters training especially the fights back I think we're all excited about that it is a time commitment on staff I think at the end I think that's going to be very impactful we actually had one stop whenever that started that last year we just went out on our own to do it and has it's been the best days and times and she has shared a lot as she's learned throughout the years I do think that's going to be a real positive for us in helping reduce means we're really excited about the Wildcat Way in our building and so one thing I would just like to request as we get ready to move forward with that project her implementation is like we're ready to print some large visuals and I'm thinking maybe you're
005like some final posters so that's something you guys are willing to support to help us get that implemented the right way because if we don't implement it the right way it's never going to work so that's one thing I ever be seeking the support for um concern which maybe is less than at the time that I wrote this was the pickup and drop off challenges that we might have at the jail approaching construction but we met with them a week or so yeah the outlook on that sounds really good so I'm really excited about that now because it doesn't sound like it's going to be too intrusive on that and then another real positive just the library remodel I think is going to be really exciting um and then I know as Mr Marshall shared
006with the staff like you know like we'll have a plan to start updating some classrooms and can't help Victory and carpeting I think teachers are really really excited about that some of those rooms really do like when they put in their maintenance list at the end of the year like they're like the format is coming up and they go in there and look at one earlier like some of that it is time so that will be exciting as we move forward with some of those Capital Improvements the last thing that's on here I think I actually put it on handbook changes to the on here just I would like you guys and it can be a discussion point but um when we're having like 80 kids at the after school program that's already a lot
007for us to supervise and we have quite a few kids that stay that either have you know parents in the building that work or just some kids that order around and then like so like we usually play from like three 20 to a little bit before four and we go in and we do our instrument and then we come back out and the weather is nice from like five ten to five thirty that time especially um because when we're the kids that play right after school and several of them have supervision not all I'm not going to say at all but like we get a lot of kids um that aren't necessarily Des students and maybe middle school kids or you know there's kids in around town but they really don't want to follow our
008expectations and rules in a staff correct and they're like why not after school yeah you do I mean I just feel like we have a lot of kids already there maybe but just be best to just save the playground's not open to the public you know it's taxpayer dollars but like I would like us to consider maybe just that we could have signs it says like the playground tonight I've been taught for 5 30 daily because it's it's just more interesting supervisor we're already supervising a lot um I actually had some situations at the end of the year with kids that were lingering around these were some PES kids and like a parent called up and said like my kid's getting bullied on the playground and I like went back and watched film and like
009one kid was chasing another kid with a stick or a string or something and I mean those like you know when the secretary took the call they were like well there's not supervision if your kid isn't in after school which is true but it still happened on school ground so it still took me a long time to go back and watch the video so I don't know I just that's kind of becoming more prevalent so I guess I would just like to hear what your thoughts on Howard so you'll know who the kids so you'll be able to say you can't [Music] for quite honestly like so yeah she would do it during the school year or so like let's say it's August 1st and you don't prefer I mean like yeah Monday through Friday
010yeah something about yeah yeah unless you're just like we could begin in school or in the after school program yeah I could just put like you know yeah like Monday through Friday playground is closed the first like you would have a 5 30 daily I don't know I mean yeah I think you would put those on put that on the banner some of those banners yeah it's a sign of some sort that just oh letting them know till they could give information to their kids so somebody you can't go down and play yeah right yeah I totally yeah um on that Wild Kratt way for those like printing large visuals or whatever I know like the tangent Wolf Creek but like we Wolf Creek has donated like the printing of all the um programs for
011you know theater Productions and things like that I know that table so I still like working at life in the other show the other day delivers training like she used to build design like the larger well that's what I'm just saying [Music] no problem oh yeah I think you're exactly right when you say to roll out of that it's going to be done right yeah we have to like have I mean like if we don't have our official one the first day out it's not gonna work like so yeah yeah I mean I just want to make sure that we can support our Passover radio you know like I even have like some exchangeable forever it's not like confessing thing has been a concern last couple years been like I really want you to bring
012the bus down from the first day of school just be more intentional and teaching what we expect from kids and so that's what our plan is is just to make a schedule for the first day of like the classic programs in different stations and like having to resolve teach the expectations of the different very good insurance thank you for finishing up participating sorry technology uh I don't know if you want me to go over the list or of successes in that or however you thought of that um I do want to thank you all for your support this year as we've transitioned um we really I feel we really accomplished a lot we learned a lot this year was kind of in brief here this year was uh we've gotten great teachers and they do
013great things with technology so this year was a lot about our staff becoming comfortable in our new positions and learning the new stuff that we needed to do and so next year our our Focus will return to advancing our programs and Technology looking at our competencies and shorting their lives and coming up with new ways of integrating technology in the classroom working on better and increased professional development in that so um those are kind of big goals for us just we have a great staff and our technology area now took us some time we worked with Darla to make sure she had a replacement for the person we wanted to hire in our last position so it wasn't until January that we had that all in place but we appreciate having Selena join our staff
014and everyone moving around uh successes or email change has has been a positive and a lot of work for the positive our VM servers that's been amazing as it implemented the bulk of it implemented by June 1st and it's been I've noticed things just working quicker and better with it um we've had firewall training this year we've as part of our district and fiberboard we've purchased a Class C block of IP addresses this year which makes us independent of having to be with a a certain internet provider meaning that about a year ago there was a possibility had they not been bought at the shores us up and makes sure we don't depend on a company for that we've added last summer we added the elementary security as well as out of the bus barn
015and at the Belk and they also worked with us on the Vape detectors some of our other projects were adding additional Wireless out of the bus barn the bus cameras the video based scoreboards and the wrestling gym worked on e-rate this year and you learned how that program works and uh we were finally able this year Mr Marshall and I were able to finalize the rural utilities service grant that we had received and finally were able to bring in the the hundred thousand dollars that we had uh been awarded so as that Grant project finished up we were able to bring that in um so as we looked at 20 324 I kind of mentioned you our Focus will go back to improving our tech programs and our Integrations I hope to we've got a
016lot with letters this year and the new Ela resources that may not happen this year but in the next year or so I'd like to get back to S7 a mini conference it's been about seven or eight years since we last had one but it's basically a full day of Technology conference with seven to eight sessions uh each hour to hour and a half where staff choose those sessions say one out of ten and we bring in experts as well as our staff and do a lot of great technology training more movement to our Microsoft 365 with kind of each day we see more and more value and opportunities for file sharing and collaboration with that and kind of looking ahead and the summer 23 24 24 25 we all need to be looking at
017replacing Network switches and wireless equipment but we will be able to utilize 70 reimbursement through our e-rate funds for that and our antivirus that will expire in May of next year so they'll be looking at different providers this year we will not be continuing with our current Denver for anti-virus and so we'll be investigating several other sources or programs out there do we have any plans in looking at um additional cameras Etc as Jody talked about earlier that you know incident happened no we don't have cameras out there but and as we have this new Turf on the football field the baseball and the softball field I I think it's probably a wise investment to monitor our facilities and part of the problem with that does become an elimination issue too because we do not
018have lights on at all times out there so if it's a late night scenario that occurs and we may not have a very limited lighting there's security lighting around the baseball softball concession stand building but is it going to be enough to to deal with vandalism could we could put a security line or two out there just light poles like street lights and strategically plant those maybe between the two Fields but I again just don't know but it could it could be a possibility we actually do you have to improve yeah you could also look into a camera that automatically switches over to third world when the lights are dark yeah our our outdoor cameras do happen to a ram and so we do have that probably more of an issue and it's you know
019not a uh Instagram in surmountable um situation but uh probably more likely the the bigger issues would be the coal and the network connections to those locations um but definitely is something that we could be looking to look at so I think we should explore at least what about motion sensitive lights off until recognition just expenses guys I mean it truly is and then covering the vast I'm talking about football baseball softball field there's a lot of land out there that has been a lot of square footage to cover so again it's just it's all about money and cameras and so on and so forth but we we can look into those things I think it's worth it I mean even in you know as the entryway of the track or whatever if you have
020some damage and somebody walked in there at nine o'clock and you know the next day I'm sorry if it wasn't you but you're the one on camera I mean you know or whatever even some of those silly signs is this these films are being altered by aerial surveillance yeah yeah oh where's this at so definitely good yeah [Music] thanks Craig anything else for Craig superintendent support uh just again a very busy time this year I went into the Christmas hardware store the exam I said you're having a great summer I said well it's busy and they I think they think I get the summer off at times he was very busy incredibly uh busy time of the year in our central office staff's doing a great job wrapping up again starting ending the budget year
021starting a new budget year dealing with all the different things that are going on uh you know with the onboarding new staff and wrapping up reports for the state and and so yeah I just want to thank all of our central office staff for a lot of work that they're they're doing um not too long ago we did the Strategic plan with the staff board members patrons Bob was a part of that problem it was a part of that as well a number of people were involved we haven't had a chance to actually formalize and wrap this up you have a couple of documents there uh the first one I just want to look at and look in and they have to approve the first one uh Burlington usd2441 that is a simple one pager
022that we are I would like to try to go ahead and get this like printed and like poster form laminated for each classroom and that way that this is a reminder to our staff each and every day the things that we looked at and we discussed and we talked about with not only our staff our board members our community members we think are very important so having said that um I know you've had a chance to look over this we're a part of this planning process again that would be a focus area for us not only just this year but years to come on the reminders of things that we're looking to strive towards um that's that one doctor the next document um I've got one of them through questions on this document that we
023worked on well I appreciate that you brought it back at me because I attended the meeting and then you know like you said it was margin we had Britain come back we had Britain come back it just didn't quite work to have everybody here so we didn't really get a chance to fully go over the document again and uh I shared with you we'd be doing a backdrop at a later date so having said that this is the later date um I don't know if you have any questions about that one pager again it'd be a simple poster like every classroom every teacher has it this would be the focus area for our administrators to talk to our staff at the beginning of the year I don't know if you have any adjustments to that
024document or anything that you feel like again it can be a working document and we could we could adjustments later on next year if needed needed but I appreciate the collaborative effort that was involved with this uh this plan this process it was just good to have people together talking about what the future holds for us and what are what are things that are important for us so questions on this one pager well I think two like even revisiting it like mid-year or site councils reporting what you know this would be something good for site councils to monitor like Hey we're not doing whatever and what could we be doing to do that I mean I think and then reporting back Wednesday the administrators and I will be meeting our administrative Retreat we're not going
025to the Bahamas or anything it's going to Marshall's basement so it's just nothing fancy it's just nice collaborating talking about preparing for next year this will be a topic on our agenda to discuss we will in my in my mind what we do is there will be some pieces that I would want them to report on just a quick you know they have their monthly reports to you guys put in an item or two from the Strategic plan that they are that they're seeing in their buildings that are happening so it'll you're exactly right when it'll be a um it'll be a uh ongoing sharing piece that we will do with the with you as the board to uh just to kind of focus on the things that we said that we're reporting the Strategic
026plan any other questions or comments good good comment there this document again was just the final report this is what Britain shared with us I'm not going to go over everything with you because again you've seen it again this is what he put together you can have it to go back and refer to uh import docs as needed there's just some information from that report you want to continue scrolling um yes continue to go on these were the things and when we were talking about vision statement mission statements some key words and keys some key terms that kept coming up we were important to move on um and this was the readwork commission statement based on those key words the ones that kept coming up the scroll down just a little bit more when Britain
027did that word program the the words that are the bigger print were the ones they kept coming up so scroll back another Direction so Learners contributing those were the words that we put in in that vision statement when we're trying to con or that mission statement we're trying to construct it the words that kept coming up from the group and that's kind of what like you say what what we came up with if there's something you want to change from that we sure can just because those words kept popping up and we wanted to put them as much as much as possible but you guys may have some feelings of some other information you may want to you know may want to include there again your mission statement you kind of want to have somewhere
028that 20 word scenario you only get too long too lengthy but anyway questions on the mission statement anything so I think the Strategic plan posted the mission statements the bridge well the shorter one that just had multiple scores committed to developing each student accounting responses and lifelong Learners just but I like the one that's all strategic order you do okay and then that's fine that's fine we can use that that one as well okay yeah and then this was the strengths weaknesses opportunities and threats information that we did with those Post-it notes this was the summary of those of those day one activity that we did again I just leave that there for you for reference you can always go back and look at it we can go back and look at it as well
029as we uh you know go through next year and the years to come so um anyway continuing on that we might be getting towards the end yeah there's just a little bit more information here um from Britain's Britain's uh final report I don't know if you have questions or anything I do a little bit because I know we talked about so have we determined the responsibilities or at least we know that there is a project later on some other stuff we haven't done them with that yet yeah so those are planned sometimes I mean everybody's got enough water plate there but it may be a the administrative team as well as the board I mean all of us working together but I do like to call them the means of evaluation because you know we
030can sit here and listen to Jody say oh hey hell we read that yeah we meet that yeah we meet that and we go well we know you really mean it because we're just you know and so you know means evaluation so there's a tool that tells us how you need it and I think that was part of the shooting plan that's important that we do do that questions on anything else I would just ask if everybody was okay with Lucas's call ing Commission keeping the mission statements on the bottom one versus the one that was up there yeah so yeah the ones up there that was on the big screen that's the one that's currently on our USD 244 page that's what it lists you know you know succeed in life life and careers
031contributing Global community and lifelong leaders the Strategic plan actually adopts a different one so I wanted everyone to kind of be aware that if we approve that you're actually adopting the convention statement will change if you've got memorized by heart tell it to everyone you see it all's got to change the spinal it'll work trust me it'll work and you see on that strategic plan that one page where there's again a mission and a vision statement both nutrition do you support all that cool Administration support that change I don't think it's my car my keys are in mine yeah yeah I was wondering if you all supported this I mean it's like of course I know this was going to be you really want to do okay so um I guess we'll accept a motion
032to present the uh there is an emotions that we recommended action I'm going to adopt the USD 244 strategic plan um motion seconded all those little computers motion car 7-0 and one other item to discuss new legislation has allowed and I shared this with you in providing us on the school districts starting next year can pay board members for their service on the board that is legal that's up to you you don't have to but you can you can decide to or you can decide to leave it as it is a community service um they can be whatever you want within budgetary because one of the re honestly no joking aside one of the reasons is I just need we need to Christy and I are planning for budget for next year we need to
033know what to budget for a board member salaries if we are doing tests anybody else feel differently one of the things I did think I mentioned this to you Friday go to one of the people watching this really did not come just so you know it's not like they're a group of 50 school districts and board members went to legislators to to do this they're we believe that there were some people behind the scenes potentially that were trying to recruit board members for their boards to for reasons that may not be completely supportive of schools and so people that it could be uh I guess they I'm going to say against public schools might be willing to do a board member position if they were getting compensated for it and maybe they might not be
034on the board for the right reasons and that's another possibility too yeah but it wasn't like they were like it wasn't like there were 50 school districts that came to the legislators and said hey we want this to happen because we can't get more members than we went I wish they would vote on some other things I would agree I would and again just want to thank everybody board student staff Community First another Super school year and we are heavily heavy in preparations for next year with letters training and onboarding new staff and and facility improvements I'll probably give you a facility Improvement PowerPoint next uh next month just a lot of things happen and negotiations and the list goes on and on so we're very very busy questions board member items anybody the we
035didn't either discuss that I think in our previous from our previous meeting do we want to for the start of the school so yeah I think it's been successful previous I think Natalie would be more appropriate time with a larger turnover and staff to get everybody together in years past I think we did it what we did did we just actually we didn't do it last year was the year before because of anything right that other issue Traders thing also you haven't seen one of these right it's a like district-wide picnic before put some food brings everyone in it's kind of a get to know everyone it's new faces ministerial Alliance to help serve the food side dish we provide the I mean I liked it because then and then the grown-ups can talk and
036it's a bigger area air conditioned inside air conditioning it's really hot or so the only thing is if you do the 14th I know that it could conflict with some personal Sports no yeah we we don't I'm just saying that's from 14 so we some you want to do something the tattoo is the one I was actually looking at myself being made well I understand that we should do that because yeah I think it would be nice because we have a lot of new faces yeah so I always like to text anybody anybody see any conflict right now yes I will yeah okay um next month policy review we're gonna have to have a hearing for one of the policies that we're gonna have to adopt from legislature if there was a I don't know
037which one it was but they told us the policy and then they said we have to have a hearing for it I'll do some checking and see in my channel I think it's a whatever that they're just figuring it out but also there's some confusion that I wouldn't mind reaching out to our local Representatives if they would like to maybe attend the next board meeting and explain how they thought we were going to implement these laws that would have lost great um I don't see how some of them can be done but my dollar they're looking for Andover field thank you we'd reach out and at least get maybe some help and direction if they thought it was necessary to have it so a number of the the and just so you know there's a
038weekly Zoom media attend superintendents um throughout the state actually um through Green Bush Greenbush facilitates that there are a number of these policies you should talk about are being discussed in that meeting and that can the kasb ksde are both helping to develop that policy piece for us to look at they will create a framework and then you can we can tweak it as as needed so one of them for example would be the attendance limit policies because we're having to put that in place by January 1 of 2024 so that's Midway through the school year we don't have to create attendance thresholds that's something that we're actually going to talk about Wednesday at our administrative Retreat we have some framework in place that that they are sharing with us from from again from Greenbush
039to superintendent's form as well as kste and kasb and they said just we're constructing some more specific information that's coming so um yeah all right yes and budget Workshop Christine I'll be attending the yearly budget Workshop they are going to be preparing information at the budget Workshop to share with us in regards to a number of the policies we are part of the budget Workshop is actually a policy emergency recognition is one of them has a big red type page that says manage we're meeting before this so um has to do with housing students from overnight stays and stuff um yeah we may like I said we may have to do that so the 10th first of the month Maybe but yeah it's just a and as far as I thought we could have that
040hearing right before the board of things anybody else has anything more than the course uh I would just like say I it's nice to see the concrete repairs and stuff going on throughout the organization that just it just shows I mean I think we're keeping up with things and looking at this okay move on to budget yes this is standard information that we've shared with you in the past and again there's nothing really new other than some of the dollars and cents of everything I'm not going to read through all of those word for word but uh you can see the full state aid uh base a for student Excellence is going up next year up to 5088 per student up from 48.46 there's some other information there categorical AIDS slightly for next year by
041about so it looks like a thousand one hundred and fifteen dollars somewhere in that neighborhood there's just some information there that if I say that Christy and I have been working on uh together in preparation for close out of a budget you're starting a new budget year um and taking care of just all those details that we need to do you can see the summary from the years past again those are the three recommendations that we make to you moving forward in again preparing that budget and right now in recommendation two it looks like the state is going to be at that local option budget 31 State average remember last year was the year before it was 30 percent it when the state average went up by one percent that's the first time in my
042seven years it has actually gone up and it looks like it's going to remain the same per our conversations with ksde budget staff that it'll stay the same at 31 if it would for some reason go up to 32 we'd want to go to 32 go to the state average and leave uh continue with that state average but again only if it does increase questions on this budget information again you've seen this before so the special ed it said it's increasing that the amount says 2023 is thirty thousand . is that I read that wrong I'm sorry I did that or is it decreasing is still here ended up being 31 915 it adjusts so they have an estimate that they start with and then they adjust it at the end of the year depending
043on how many so they take that long money and they distribute it among all this stuff that qualified okay so while it ended higher um the and the number for next year is 30 800 I believe that is slightly higher than what was estimated for the beginning of this year okay oh so thank you for clarifying A lot of time to you right it changes thank you and I'm sorry I read that backwards but yes well I mean it sounds like it'll increase really in the end it depends on the again like we talked about for example for us staff shortages when you don't have either teachers or parents that you feel that pot of money increases because there's no money and an average increases so they started out with a number and then the
044end they give you a different number in June so questions on any of that information oh so is there is there a crystal ball or something that tells water or what numbers are going to look like well no huh yeah do you have one right now um I don't anticipate our numbers being too far off from last year I wouldn't say we're going to hopefully remain fairly stable I don't see a big increase or a big decrease in terms of Burlington Elementary School Burlington Elementary School from the beginning of the year to the end of the year had a plus 50 approximately that we really didn't plan on throughout the year so again and again September yeah it's a real good problem to have um talking about future growth because there are so many districts
045that are trying to save their schools um yeah there's there's so my next question would be is how much growth can we have well and then that's something I thought about too that we need to activate a topic for a future fifth Monday the building it's to talk about is to talk about growth yeah um because like we said we're going to start breaking the ground here very soon we could have I'm going to say I want to say temporary students that's not the case but we could have we could have families that relocate to Burlington during the construction they may be over here one year two years they maybe live in RVs campers rentals buy a home sell it in two years there's with growth obviously becomes you know a challenge um and so
046so I think that's a possible fifth Monday topic um or maybe a before board meeting um well let's say a linkage but you get the idea of a meeting before the meeting yeah to focus on some growth some growth topics and growth discussions and to see exactly where we feel like you know where we can be as far as what what are our thresholds in in buildings what's our class size what are we happy with because again like we said we have to come we have to come up with some with some class size thresholds right that would be public for for you know for January 1. 50 unexpected happening around the district wow yeah I know Burlington High School was built for 400 kids maximum I don't I I've not been told I can't
047remember middle school or Elementary School of course Elementary School was added on because they have the the base building and then the two add-ons 59 83 89 Middle School and High School were both available for n79 I can't middle school capacity was but high school high school that I remember I remember somewhere I read somewhere where it was built for the potential for 400 kids now if you if you have 400 is in that building yeah it may hold 400 kids and that was back in 79 it's going to feel a lot different in there after about 1960 270 this year all of a sudden you put 400 in there you'll feel a lot different classes will be 25 26 27 28 29. it's going to feel a lot different in some in some classes
048so I've never gone to Middle School the high school we just enclosed yeah yeah right I mean that was almost a great difference yeah the one I guess the one positive that we do have is we've had the ability to look for a potential new facility if all of this comes to pass and we end up being USD 244 with let's just say a thousand kids you know to 1100 kids we we have that we have the space and the land to be able to either grow in the buildings that we're in or we have the 17 acres north of the baseball softball fields if we need to use that a facility of some sort but like we said we had to again the planning piece is the key it goes back to the crystal
049ball you know we we we I think we set ourselves up to be a very desirable place for people to be with the new growth that's kind of occurring in the county you look at our facilities when you look at the amenities that we have in in Burlington Rec Center yes they utilize it for practicing and things like that but they'll probably be problems they would probably not using our turf fields more than they are at that area so that yeah that a lot that sets between the rec center and that house well just maybe just south of the high school in middle school that is ours which also can do something where you're moving kids across the because I I think that good testimony deals though is a good time to really we need
050to start looking at that preparing work and I'll give the administrator some time too to think in terms and we have a lot of discussions about this on Wednesday at our Retreat how many how many more students could we could we handle in each building I mean is it is it is it 150 total in the district could we handle without having I'm going to say a need for expansion of facilities is it a hundred students what's what's the magic number and of course they're never again they're never equally distributed for kindergartners for first graders for second graders never equally distributed as you know you get the idea that you're going to have 20 in one grade and three in another well I think it's twofold I mean how many more kids could you take
051long but how many more staff I mean you're going to have to have more staff to take those kids on or you're not going to build them and that comes back to again domino theory of a lot of things that comes back to class size thresholds where do you guys what are you guys comfortable what are they comfortable with what are we comfortable with as a board as administrative group insane okay we are okay with 20 in a classroom 20 hours 22 average 30 30 100. you get if you get used to having 16 or 17 that class and all of a sudden you get 22 to 23 in a class that's a big difference I mean it's a big difference research and studies will show will tell you that again in 25 Dr Watson
052always used 25 for us in the first so 25 is the magic number you didn't come and talk to him about additional staff until you got in a classroom now that's again that's been a few years ago seven years since I've been an elementary principal but that was the magic number because because again research and data will show at 25 there's not that much difference in student achievement between 25 and I'll say 16 17 18. in a class now the teachers I mean I'll tell you it's a big difference it is a big difference but as far as pure pure research data it's it it doesn't show a significant difference but it is different it is so anyway well thank you I think that is a very important discussion but we really crazy I'll try
053to work the plan uh maybe something in the future for us okay okay question question again recommendations back to the budget I'm sorry I'm in a different direction but that's okay it's all kind of tied yet all right I mean kind of just speaking towards the with the budget and cap Wildlife budget we took back down by Bill but if we want to wait and have the wave overtake us with whatever's coming up north we need to address that before in either start talking about going back up the mill or what but we can't just sit and wait oh no we now need a building we don't have fun to work I didn't carry that part in my discussion that's right so I'm gonna be available right to talk about and shareable enough to hear
054hearing things like raising your taxes but the tax base is going to grow and so it's going to need more services so it's in order to have more services we're going to have to do that more money because there's no doubt it's going to grow I mean I just don't know okay yeah when we did the windmill for five years and we said it was going away and we took it away we had no idea that five six years ago that we would be in a situation that we're now a very enviable situation for everybody in the state we went to the United school administrators conference in Wichita I had a number of people talk to me boy this is incredible for you guys what does this mean I mean they were asking questions they
055were did I say very envious so um yeah I think I do think it's it's something to consider like you say you want to be ahead of the game or you want to be behind in the game I think we want to be ahead in the game and again continue to make ourselves the desirable spot for people to be so if we were to ask for that again when we can do it at any time we remember we have our guidelines we have a a um and we have to publicize that we have to do it in the publication in the Coffee County Republican there's a 40-day protest window I think this would be a this would be my recommendation to you guys we have a I'm going to say a planning meeting of some
056sort again like a fifth Monday I think our next fifth Monday might be uh in September or October I'd have to look and see but um I think we'd want to have some plans to be discussed and like when we were successful for one meal for five years we identified what we were using that that one metaphor and then we also explained to the public the reason we were doing this is so that we can continue the projects with other parts of our building excuse me our building's uh boiler systems were aging HVAC systems were aging carpet paint lighting you know we just wanted to refresh all of our facilities we wanted to make sure that we were continuing if we did that if we did those projects the science rooms and middle school and
057high school and the gym renovation that was needed worked for we were going to tap out all of our reserves in capital Ally and we weren't going to be able to do any of those projects we're going to be able to carpet paint Library models office remodels the classroom you know lighting and so on and so forth so I think we if we get a plan together and explain what what we're doing and why we're doing a female Republic is going to be more receptive and then I would get out and talk to the Lions Clubs the rotary clubs the booster clubs the so on and so forth to get out that get that information out so that there wouldn't be a protest I would think it's just important that we do again talk about
058that and then get that information out the boat because the last thing I want the public to do is well now you're just trying to pay for your goldfish we have to be able to give them the plan of what we're doing correct right good point very good point you know will no longer fall I mean we'll know more in the fall also with the numbers and with if it you know breaks well yeah I just didn't start looking sooner than later yeah I agree okay good discussion anything else in the budget good moving on contract approvals women's meal prices and this is information for you from Bill prizes for next year and the oil prices are remaining the same absolutely promotion to improve new process of presented for the 2023.24 school year vote as
059you feel on the computer motion carry seven zero apologize foreign vacations spring supplemental positions and they are listed if you remember we move these to uh the June simply because we were wrapping up Sports Seasons uh with Jody and Taylor both being new they wanted to finish out the sports season they want to have um final evaluations with these people to go through have any questions I can answer or Jody or Taylor could answer and I know you you're working on but I just always say so we should still be moving to a position where administrators are not applicable yes but thank you for stepping up there's a plan place okay working on that so it'll be a shorter term solution okay motion approved VHS supplemental positions for spring Athletics as presented for the 2023-2024
060school here second first and second in Motor Vehicles motioncare 7-0 recess and executive session for 15 minutes to discuss certified contracts pursuant to the exception for employer employee negotiations under coma and to return to open session in this room at the end of that time including Greg Marshall exactly if there's a favor never called oh I don't understand so I can get on your number Iowa soccer okay I will not above that well I'll find it I'll find out okay almost care 7-0 each other thanks thank you thank you you did that lumberjack show all the time the kids absolutely great for younger kids tonight she just lost her interesting we may need to reboot that uh I don't think there's anything else it's wireless so so I did look up the event comment but
061I have to have a hearing and that is on non-resident students hearing him during that non-resident students that's true and that again won't be until um January I think I think that no that's the threshold I'm sorry that's the threshold non-resident students I will check to see I think it's a sanction up where you set your your number of students or Your Capacity right that are if you're below capacity and non-resident enrolls then they just come on in there's more than what the capacities would hold minutes for people especially if you've got three or four kids that are coming from out of District all in the same family are they each one on the lottery right right is it a family lottery or and it's year to year I don't know so when we talked
062a little bit about the solar thing was that internet yeah okay so I'll talk about I'll bring some more information maybe at the next meeting on that as a possibility and one last thing too and this was briefly touched upon that the High School Burlington High School received the supply um award from the state again basically it's uh the school they received this award schools that chose to continue their post-secondary planning efforts with two or more events in the same school year school hosted a school sponsored FAFSA completion for financial aid school health held a college Signing Day which we did at the end of the year which is really good uh Burlington High School who got recognized as a an apply All-Star high school and that'll be I've sent some information to the Republican
063and sat on social media so that's a nice honor Donna Boland Crystal eckton Jody and Taylor all do a lot of work with that so post-secondary very important so yeah well if there's no other concerns then uh there's more pizza red slice there's a dessert sticker too grab a slice this is