001i didn't we are live god [Music] i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for we'll all to any old business or anything to finish up for the final meeting with the 2041.2 board know if anything that we need to wrap up or anything so go ahead and adjourn the 2021 20.2 board and call toward the 2022-2023 board of education any additions to the agendas presented agenda does anybody have any comments or anything i like to discuss in there we were some rental fees that kind of changed a little bit in there with our facilities nothing major just kind of keeping up with the status quo for everything board meeting schedule i think that's
002there's no third weeks or anything is there in there i didn't see that one or one time in march the fire alarm testing was the same as last year so no change there substitute teacher pay was i'm sorry excuse me a slight increase for substitute teacher pay because there are other districts around us that are paying that 100 a day and so again it just it was time to do that again for our substitutes student fees are going to stay as is again this year they'll stay the same so that'll be a help to our our community our families is because that that's just good yes yeah a lot of information yeah a lot of information that's all like i said kind of started here i'll go ahead and move to approve the consent agenda
003as presented motion a second to improve pacific agenda and we can vote on our computers motion passes 6-0 move on public comment section communications i didn't see anything come across move into the technology report anything to add or ask questions or anything or it's kind of a short and sweet one has there been much headache switching from tail xp to quitcom not yet i've heard some feedback from some residential users we just the point of reference we were already committed to telexp as part of that federal e-write program so and the bid windows had all closed for that federal program so we had one of two choices abandon about fourteen thousand dollars in federal grant or make it work for a year the other thing was we would have been trying to do a conversion
004in about six weeks time and we did not feel comfortable with either one of those items so with that decision we decided to make a vendor change in the grant program which is approved and then basically in february in january february of next year we open that back up for bid again and then at that point in time we'll take a look at service performance level price performance level several of the factors that you may have heard about and then make a decision at that point and again from our internet perspective remember we have two pipes we have the quickcom pipe and the mt networks pipe that provides us a bi-directional ability to go either north or south if one pipe goes down the other pipe's still up we still have internet service an outage
005in kansas city doesn't take both of our pipes out from that standpoint so it's important that we maintain that but so far the one thing that quitcom did in a positive way is they hired the gentleman who had been our lead tech person for telexp for the past 20 years and so that has that has been a positive on the service side of things any other questions or comments is we haven't done the in-person presentation on social emotional well-being for the online thing that is that every year we do that or do we do it's difficult we do something every year with our students on on internet safety and cyber citizenship and so forth and then we try to do something bigger you know about every three to four years because i think i remember
006that we had parents and everything involved in one maybe a while back yes and i think that's i heard that last time there were little positives and i'm working with the gentleman right now he's not really done much with it before but one of the hot topics in education is social emotional well-being and one of the things they found was we've seen an increase in student mental health i got an increase in student mental health but an impact on student mental oil health especially with kids that were involved in long times over long stretches of remote learning you know so even though we say hey i'm more connected than ever before with this device at the same time our kids are more isolated than they have ever been because of this device and what does
007that mean how do we go about how do we go about helping our students identify that and address that and so that's one of the components that they're going to be adding to their program as well and talking about mental health and getting mental health from that standpoint so it's something the district's also getting ready to expand into yeah so questions comments technology report do you want a superintendent's report all right and real quick too mr before we're starting with my report that doug and christy do a terrific job with social media type information whether it be twitter or maybe the website i just want to commend them both on and there are others in the district who do a lot of different things with their programs that uh yeah we just very lucky to
008have doug christie and others in in the community in our school community really promoting the things and telling about stuff that's going on in schools even during the summer because there's a lot of things happening in the summer as well so thank you guys i just i just have some information this is regarding the revenue neutral rate information this was new last year this is again basically follow-up information from last year we still have to do go through that process christy and i are in the process of putting together the information for the revenue neutral rate which we have to submit to to the county treasurer court i'm sorry county clerk about andy kirchner county clerk andy kirschner on july 20th so basically there's information here again about the revenue neutrality this this was put
009into effect last year it's really not it wasn't intended to be schools weren't intended to be a part of this but that we did get put into the mix so again the biggest thing for you all again is you as school board members you approve our budget and go through that process of looking to see where we are with our budget is the military i mean that's big obviously for everybody is you know anticipating and hopefully again that they'll allow you to stay the same or less now this year we will see at least one mill drop off because again our one more provider has expired this year if we ever want to go back to an additional mill in the future we have to go through that that process of publicizing it and putting
010that information out to the community but again that will drop off this year so our military looks to drop at least by that one mill if not a little bit more so i don't know if you have questions about the middle levy um again arguably about the revenue neutral rate it's just a formality it's a process that we have to do again just asking for you guys to again allow us we're going to fill out the document for revenue neutral rate that we will again we're going to be exceeding the revenue neutral rate now does that mean that our middle leg is going to go up no most likely it won't it's going to go down because remember again assessed valuation assessed valuation goes up your middle leg can go down and our said valuation
011has gone up so with that being said um it's like it's just a formality it's just a process that we go through um people sometimes maybe would look at this maybe last year and maybe this year and say well revenue neutral right you're exceeding it that means your your middle level is going to go up no that's not the case it's not the case any questions that you have the public needs to understand that we did drop that one i mean that we said that's what we're going to do and we did it so yes it might be a future newspaper article yeah so any questions on again any anything dealing with revenue tolerance it's a little confusing but it's just a kind of a mandatory thing we have to do again because if we're
012if we're exceeding the revenue neutral rate we can't do our budget until well somewhere between august 20 and september 20. if i remember it's the correct date before remember we used to have the do the budget before august 25th well because if by by law we can't do if we exceed the revenue neutral rate we can't do the budget the formal budget hearing until between well it'd have to be before september 20th sometime before september 20th we will probably look to schedule that on the same day as we have our september board meeting to make it just one less meeting to deal with pretty quick right it's a journey starter meeting yes good question any other because it's a little different in the past i guess that's one good thing about the revenue rate we
013get an extra month to put everything other questions no okay thank you we want to board member ios yes we did talk about the possibility of doing uh retreat with your calendars so as far as calendar days for a retreat looking for a couple of evenings i don't know you know i know that it's coming up here pretty quickly did we have it on 13 as well i'm sorry uh nothing else any questions or anything about bringing up let's move on to ground rules looking at our shannon operating procedures i think this is kind of the same language that we've had since i've been on the board it's kind of reinforcing the idea of those prizes and being on a team and questioning the comments and communication and conversation or a good thing no matter
014where we might all fall on item or a topic let's talk about it or not and try to surprise anybody or anything that's what's best keep us all progressing for our goals which i think are listed down here yes did you talk there about the evaluation which we do for the superintendent that's do we i think next dog this fall we'll send out that stuff i think we kind of talked about the format of how that was done if we want to come up with something that we think is better i encourage you to bring it in here those forms kind of cumbersome it's very formal though any questions or comments about the ground rules a chain command in there that's pretty everyone's got that figured out i'm going to move the status grand rules
015as presented for working with the superintendent as discussed in other than official minutes of this meeting motion passes 6-0 move on to the aforementioned board goals i think these are goals that are pretty much the same as i've seen in the past it talks about some more maintaining a long-range plan for our feet our buildings our vehicles talks about our border treats we can go see the things that need attention the things that we've been attention to and whether or not those are successes or challenges we need to move forward the future with so there's a question there about a preference on the format i'm i'm kind of hoping for anything on whenever the evenings seem to work the best for everybody board members have preferred dates for the retreats traditionally sometime in september it
016can be again august is a little longer that fifth that when we talked about we talked about a fifth monday possibly doing a fifth monday topic if anybody has a topic or in september my calendar is pretty open that far out halfway through october starts but i can make whatever words i need to maybe right and if we don't know our calendars that far out we'll wait till august and maybe figure something out because meeting's the eighth of august that's early and it's time to figure out obviously there's a time frame for getting those trees going pretty good okay would you like to do a fifth monthly topic of some sort you know we have we have discussed um you know some different things related for example the field trip and work on our fields
017i could invite them a company to spend an hour and a half with us just to talk about field turf type issues if you think that would probably be a good idea but i think we need to talk about all of that you know because we were talking you know the ball field the football i mean all of that needs to come out of the place where we're going to really kind of understand it i think the whole yeah the whole all aspects of all the fields and at least you can you can talk to the the industry people in regards to that i can see if they are available let's say on that fifth monday the 29th for let's just say a six o'clock or somewhere in that neighborhood meeting six six thirty whatever
018we could meet um i'll see what works for them we could meet out at the field we'll do dinner and like for example cli has been a topic if you'd like me to schedule stacey bruton to be here just to talk cli type related different information or any other topics just let me know i think there's a couple of well october has a fifth month that's halloween so maybe maybe not on that day and then i think there's another one in january so again we can we can look for different topics so they have definitely shoot me an email and i'll make sure you kind of get fun getting them together but i'll work on it like the fifth monday would be separate than our board retreat yes it would be it would be separate
019be it's open discussion discussion about talking maybe you said that hey i want to talk to the rest more about this and there won't be any action taken at that meeting it's just simply it's information yes okay i'll work on that thank you and there's no more sharing rules move on to budget status report christine i kind of worked on this talk now we gave her a lot of credit she turned the paragraph with a lot of information into a nice chart from my firm last year so this is a good i like charts and she does too so we think a lot a lot of like a number of things so anyway that kind of gives you an idea of like say a 10 11 year 12 year history of information that's happened in
020the district and i don't know if you have any questions about anything no like tracy again you see the chart down below of when what a possible proposed levy could look like again it's going to be in that somewhere we anticipate in that one mill or lesser we won't know for sure we won't know for sure until we actually put together our budget for the 20-23 year but we can kind of see where we stand i can use the board have done a good job of making sure that like say our middle levy has either stayed the same or dropped in the six years now year seven from years is year seven for me starting so um you guys have done a good job of overseeing our budget work well yeah i definitely appreciate the
021format of this so i can see here over here and where things are locked out of that thing the whatever form you give us every year that has all this stuff on it's kind of cumbersome any questions in regards to budget status report no i think that it looks good and i'd like we'll have james said it with uh saying we're gonna go back to that one mill when we accomplish the goals that they asked for and then going back to very honestly [Music] yes and a great reminder too is that we actually did more with that one mill for five years than we even anticipated that first grade wing renovation because at that time pricing was very very good and we didn't have the foundation issues with the high school gym which we didn't
022know if we were we weren't going to have so what that means that we got a lot of bang for her buck with that one mil for five years and it's helped us if we were to try to do those same projects now we wouldn't be one mill for five years it'd be more yeah so kudos to you guys for letting us accomplish those things yes as well as the public sure yes okay any other questions or comments more status report now we can move on to personnel there's a i'll go ahead and move to recess in an executive session for 15 minutes to discuss personnel pursuant to god and often personal exemption under coma and to return to opposition in this room at the end of that time then we can build our meters
023motion passes next item on there is except with regret the retirement request of many counts bus driver effectively july 1 20 22 thank you for 29 years of service yes same motion and second we can all vote on our ears for the retirement move on to contract approvals and appointments for activity bus hourly rates looks like we have we are adjusting our hourly rates to meet the labor force yes very very much so we did some checking uh christy brad griffin nicole laflin our hr person and myself we have gone through some just their researching what we found is our regular route price as far as salary goes our regular route salary has been very very good it's very competitive within the state our special education routes pay as well per hour is very good
024and then our votech or flynn hills tech college route has been like i say one of the things that we need to look to increase as well as our activity rate comparing us ourselves to other districts it's willfully low so with that being said we're looking to make some adjustments so our tech college rate goes from again 14 40 an hour to 16 an hour that would be a proposal and the activity rate goes from 14 40 to 16 an hour now we also have a chart in there that shows about non-air brake certification versus air brake certification so like for example our activity bus has air brakes there's a certification piece that you have to have it's not impossible to do and it's something rad griffin can work with our drivers to have air
025brake certification and we we anticipated talking with the different people in the industry brad and myself uh have talked that there's probably going to be more more buses in the future that will have air brakes um just just because it's a trend and especially with activity type buses since they're configured a little differently those brakes are a little bit safer than the hydraulic brakes so having said that brad can work with our drivers to get air brake certified it's a test type scenario and a practice driving piece but he can do that and with that being said since it's an additional piece we would want to pay for the cost of air brake certification but also increase the pay for our drivers and you can kind of see that it's built in there like for
026what years one to two years three to five years six to eight nine to eleven twelve to fourteen fifteen to seventeen and eighteen and above what your pay would be so it's kind of an indexing incentive piece most all of our bus drivers right now i don't know if we've got anybody that's even in that six to eight year column now since peggy has retired all of our bus drivers are in the one to two and three to five year range so it might be an incentive for them to stick with us and again this is just for our tech college wrap as well as our activity route as well any questions on this throughout the state is the sped always that much higher than the regular yes and i'm gonna say we are we
027are maybe on the upper end of that but the special education routes there's some different things so for example could be first aid or cpr training there could be like some additional training that does occur or against students maybe with the escalation type scenario so there's some additional with special education routes that you have some additional responsibilities because because we are responsible for the transportation of our students question other questions on this we're hoping for longevity drivers like peggy and others that we can hopefully have in the future what are we doing now on bus drivers uh we are we're okay but we could probably use again one or two others that could maybe be on a sub list okay right now i think we're okay with our routes to start the year if i'm
028not mistaken maybe one short but i don't i have to ask yeah we have to ask brad and she was driving at floyd hills technical college route as well as activity routes so we don't we definitely need to find a new tech college route driver and then some for activities yes and i i just talked with him a few days ago and i know he's interested in driving you know it's very possible so good question comments or questions anybody anybody else no i think kind of the line here that drives at home is that these rates haven't changed since you said you started you're starting your seventh year and so the low tech driving activity right that's so if you've got people that are one two three four years of service it would be nice
029to show them that you're appreciating what you're doing because that was a big deal for us to get our kids safe with wherever they need it is most improved hourly rates for activity most drivers for the 2022-23 school year motion to approve the area rights bus drivers promotion passes 6-0 moving on to the position of governmental relations network of point e network representative for the 2022-2023 school yes motion passes 6-0 move on to a maintenance truck bid so this is something that we've kind of had in our capital outlet plan at some point in time um just feel like there's kind of a rush or an urgency to do something with this because again we're looking at a 25 year old truck that would require margaritaville that doesn't have his truck tomorrow there's a lot
030of problems obviously he's converting into a makeshift vehicle of some sort it could be really a challenge so anyway with that being said um and the status of situation vehicles right now with the yes just absolute uncertainty i felt like we needed to push forward with this as soon as possible so um we did receive one bid from kromani and that will again replace that 1997 ford truck it will uh be a trade in and in the amount of 77 443 that will be the truck but also the shock box type work you know the it has the the work boxes if you will the locking work boxes and the rails for the the ladder the ladders that he puts on there as well as he can carry pipe and things like that so it
031has all the it has all the truck pieces that he needs it'll be very similar to his truck with the shop boxes and and stuff and we traded it in we've traded we'll trade in this 1997 thank you the 1997 ford truck when it gets here okay or do we have to trade there we go we could sell it on sealed biz yes we could do that we're sure it either way would be fine i don't know uh it'll be a chevy silverado 2022 chevy silverado i just didn't we put the bids out for information on the website as well as in the newspaper uh but we did hear the video [Music] chevy silverado 350. um it's a single wheel truck so it would be actually down and then they will have 6.6 liter gas
032engine these are all questions that i ask is he towing with it is he hauling you know thousands of pounds that he needs um it is uh not necessarily no he wouldn't necessarily not he could be like pulling trailers at times at times but not not not a lot not really long distance no not real long distance no it is to double check and make sure i want to make sure there's a three quarter ton versus a one ton i mean i drive a one-ton every day but i haul a very heavy trailer with it that's why i needed he does have a lot of things in there at times just thinks he does haul but and i say pulls trailers at different times but not not a lot uh this is going to have
033snowplow for a moment no because we'll use that with our other truck and that's that's all we notice all we need is one it's a regular cap it's not an extended cap or a fork or portal yeah there is a possibility that we might have it before the end of the year which is which is amazing right now it is amazing um i guess my own question is if you think that what he's asking for is appropriate for his position and that's fine he was involved in the in the specs of the truck yeah i think selling it though selling the 97 and getting bids on it instead of trading it we should consider that everybody's 23 thousand plus on the work box yeah two thirty thousand six fifty eight on the workbox so the
034truck the truck itself was yeah yeah and we sure can see we can sell it we can sell it privately the truck is 46 775 the upgrade for the truck box 3658 for 77 443. so are you ordering chassis and frame only from chevy then uh no that would come with the tread the trailer actually it'll come with the back bed and then they will work too we'll probably get a i'm going to say a a kick or a rebate or a kickback to sell that bed they'll sell the bed the truck bed separate but to order the truckee order the truck with the truck bed and then the bed and then they replace it with the nap heidi um a couple years ago i specked out trucks for us and you can order cab
035chassis by itself without a lid then you have to worry about selling now but we it sounds like you got everything yeah and they're gonna work out taking it off yes so this number the second 443 [Music] and then there are a few things that are i mean it's nothing major not done right now but it has an oil leak that we've been on on and off with and we're trying to fix it and it's one thing and it's the next thing so it's going to be cool it's not going to be that big so it sounds like we're gonna we'd like to not trade and collect we'll try to sell that separately so that's i guess that's not even more so okay so i'll move to approve the manuscript from chrome audio in the
036amount of 77 443 dollars motion passes 6-0 move on to more policies and that talks about what our meeting schedule is moving throughout the year different linkage times and i think this is pretty much the same year over here right correct anybody have any questions or comments about it you know our results monitoring stuff our linkage nothing really for uh motion just click updates we'll do those in august we weren't exactly sure how long this meeting would go but we and it's been quite busy for us here so we will do those in august on the new year policies okay we want closing items good conversation about truck and tech stuff i like that always um next month we'll welcome a couple brand new participants yes we will uh jody and taylor will be with
037us and uh i had my first work day with them here in july at the time that you guys approved with me and we had a really productive day today and it was good they got moved in their houses they are all moved in they're raring to go and i kind of almost turned over the keys to i i am happy not to be a high school interim administration any longer uh that was a as i said now after this meeting i'm going to send an email to the high school staff saying here's your email for jody and taylor talk to them they're excited they really are excited to get going and i'd say ready to go okay we'll enjoy the meeting and there is dessert missing our burger made dessert the butterfinger cheesecake desserts
038you are in charge of serving the dessert please