001i was going to leave it that way just oh is there a log in just to get past the windows screen so you don't see i'm not going to say and you should have to vote any other additions to the anything agenda or anything we move on to the consent agenda motion to approve the agenda as presented exactly motion a second for consent agenda everyone vote on your computer motion passes 6-0 move on the public comment excited to see anybody signing into letters or anything so we'll move on to written communications thank you letter everyone move on to administrative reports start with pds more kindergarteners sign up for the jumpstart after uh yeah we are we start tomorrow and i want to say we are at uh any other questions or comments move on to
002brooklyn middle school i would say enrollment worked really well um talking to debbie we missed about 30 30 30 kids that are not in normal some are on vacation they've already been in contact so that was a little bit different move on to mr reed for rolex high school uh same thing that uh i said things are moving along up there uh i've heard a lot of the staffs they said thank you uh from the elementary to middle school to high school on the uh detention uh i did notice that last year's freshman in this year's sophomore there was a minus 12 business that i don't know it seemed like that was the biggest one throughout the district is that something that has watched your number preliminary numbers too so i don't know if there's
003something you lost last year um last year was 80 in this year's 68 yesterday that that group came in a lot lower than that uh that's what they had in junior high about i was like i remember writers somewhere around march or april or something they dropped a little bit at that time but we still kept kept it so it's almost like yeah remember but i expect that number to be because it you know that group was pretty small it's a sophomore group that's pretty good size i'm sorry yeah i'm expecting the numbers to be right kind of where i thought unless uh something changes i think we had new students celebrate high school you want a special ed report my biggest thing i feel like i always talk about staffing good news is certified
004staff we have all positions filled creatively fulfilled paris staff i think i put in it started at like 21 openings down to i don't know 6 8 somewhere in there but i have a couple up north that are gonna test run by um subbing first but are getting in there i had nicole set up three interviews for me down here today so i really feel like that's a number we can whittle away at we're at 21 i was like i don't see how this is going to happen so we've made some progress the biggest issue is that our sub pool district wide is already minimal and i keep hiring full-time employees which only makes it more minimal so that's a fear across the board is how we're going to do that so we're looking at
005some creative ways to try to help with that because people are going to be gone or need to be gone and i would never forget so but one step at a time i guess okay move on to educational technology report you guys any questions uh we're kind of getting the pinch on chips or freshman laptops yeah we uh we happen to buy refurbished under under the emergency connectivity fund ester type money we had bought new laptops for the eighth graders those are temporarily going to be freshman laptops and then as soon as these other devices come in which we expect sometime in early september then we'll go through a transition period and get the get the freshman their laptops and then we'll rotate those back to the middle school so that was the best we
006expected a june 5th delivery and just like everything else we've sat and waited is the um blue interactive playground is that installed it is it is installed we got a couple of pieces left to figure to get a couple pieces we've got to figure out now that they've got it installed but they did a little bit with it last week and i don't know darla may have had a crash party up there i'm not sure but yes that's going to be really exciting both for physical education and uh the after school program another way to tie those two together see if we can get a demonstration when we do our we do the two retreats yeah because it's uh it was it was pretty impressive when they were doing the install yeah it's pretty cool
007and the only other thing we did i think i don't know if i put that in there nikki kelly uh who many of you may know nikki is going to be our new assistive technology para at the elementary school and so she was in enrollment and so we threw her right in the deep end and she got started she's been real involved she was at the elementary school this past year and got involved with showbie and so forth and so i think she'll be a natural fit we're looking forward to having her join the team any other questions or comments for educational technology report very good information go to superintendents report and these numbers again the enrollment chart there again these numbers i just was i was able to get the information from our building
008um office staff uh this morning so i wasn't able to get these uh over the weekend uh added enrollment i'll echo the same sentiment with enrollment the first two hours was just chaos i mean it was massive busy and everybody handled it terrific i mean i might say chaos that's not right it was just busy i'll just say it's busy but they handled it terrific and uh it just like i said people if you wanted to get in and get out you had a little land in your first two hours and then after that it was i i timed people regularly if you wanted to just go in and do your you know had your work done ahead of time you were out in 10 minutes so it was really a good a good situation
009again the enrollment numbers are there i compare i didn't have a chance to dive into individual grade levels but i did check last year our preliminary account was 8 15. so it's very similar and again who knows with a few ins and outs so but i didn't get a chance to look at the specific grade levels but 815 was our preliminary number last year so first day of school again is coming up here quick for kids on the 19th but we did have the 16th uh uh 60 we have 16 scheduled for um you know the beginning kickoff in service dr watson is going to be here to do a kind of keynote to dress which is going to be wonderful then he's going to host that community event the kansas can community event board
010members are welcome anybody in the community is welcome that wants to come and just give their input it's really going to be like a community town hall type event that he's going to give some information but he really wants to have input from patrons um again just local people here they are shooting for at least 100 that's the ideas for hopefully to have at least 100 people there and hopefully we'll have even more so um staff i've indicated to staff that they can join us for this event if they would like to if they want to uh they've got some trainings that they can do via video online trainings i've given them the trainings ahead of time if they want to do it on their own they can do it they want to do it
011during that nine o'clock to 11 o'clock time frame they can or if they want to join us for the community town hall type meeting with dr watson they can so anyway uh and we did have new teachers today first day with new teachers uh that went really well we had nine in attendance and we had five that have connections locally to us here uh and four that are just we brought them in from outside of coffee county so that's a good a good group to have and first day went well the second day they'll be with uh doug and craig and courtney uh for some training and then we'll have him here for lunch downtown at venue sisters i have gene mary and jim stooky do a little bit of local knowledge information from those
012two uh veteran coffee county uh natives here and we'll take them on a little tour downtown and show them some places that they may want to be aware of so anyway so that's new staff again tomorrow for their second day so um and then i guess the last thing on my report i i've shared with you information and again these are these are suggestions recommendations from dr jeff's lawyer and lindsay payer of the health department for just some things to consider they are not mandates again school boards still retain local control over decision making but they did share some some thoughts and some ideas as we move forward for our plans again related to health related scenarios in the district so having said that i don't know if you have any questions or comments on
013that first document there the coffee county school plans document um i'll read over it it all looks fine i do have a question over there maybe the wording in the vaccination section says students age 12 and over are encouraged to speak with their physician about receiving the code 19 vaccine and i'll ask matt if you encourage a 12 year old to talk to their physician do they know what you're talking about yeah that doesn't make sense to me either maybe they should talk to their parents about it but having a 12 year old or 13 year old 14 year old would be encouraged to talk to their physician doesn't make sense to me b i mean they should and i don't think we should be telling students to talk to their physicians i mean if
014i talk to parents first anyway i think they should talk to their parents about what they think is best for them and go forward so i kind of like to change that line a little bit i don't know how anybody else feels about it i would encourage everyone to get the vaccine but everyone's opinion about that is their own and they can move forward with how they want to do that that's not our board's decision to tell people to do it but it's out there right another question i have is about vaccine clinics in the school i've seen some school down southeast kansas at the vaccine clinic i don't know if that says it that's not going to happen in school at this time i don't know if that's been something that's been optioned in
015the future or we haven't talked about it or i think we should do better for our kids in our district um to try to get them accessibility to that vaccine if they want it and traveling to lebo twice with a 12 year old can be difficult um i don't want to say too much and over promise but so coffee helps us in the hospital in the clinic has discussed offering that vaccine and specifically it has to be pfizer because that's what's approved for 12 and up the rest have to be 18. so once our construction is under control the clinic ccmc is moving in that direction to be able to start offering that vaccine so hopefully it won't be quite as long of a jaunt to go and get that vaccine and of course there
016could be open discussion about potentially coming to the schools to give that vaccine you need parental consent there are some things in the emergency use authorization as far as having emergency equipment immediately available if there is a reaction when the vaccine's administered so those are just some hurdles to talk through and work work through but um i think it could be a potential moving forward that's something that the school would like to do as well and i don't want to speak for lori herman but i felt like she was more in favor of going no so one of one of the things with the construction piece in the clinic you'll see our registration area is completely remodeled but there's also a vaccination room that's right off the waiting area um so we're just waiting to
017be able to utilize that and and if we need to we sure can look to we'd be happy to partner with university school if needed um i know the rec center started out as a vaccine place and then the burlington go visit the baptist christian christian church thank you christian church just uh just west of the high school was a vaccination spot as well so thanks sam i'll be reaching out to you guys sure everything else in there looks it looks good i mean it looks like masks are going to be required there's some information about transportation that is kind of under our control with grant funding and being on school transportation looks like a mask will be required at that time but that on goes right now through september 18th is that right so
018but like the continuation with cleaning and following the routine protocol with the diseases we have one question on the other quarantine if they test how does that work for the kids it says that they can take the test and uh still go to school during their quarantine who's uh providing that test and what's that down i want to say i know we are not doing antigen testing here in the school district and also that would probably be through the health department or through the hospital is what uh i would i guess i would expect yeah that's right so have the last sentence that i quarantined so cdhc will provide the test consent forms and training school personnel to perform alongside antigen testing so we may end up getting asked to do some some some some
019testing on site testing possibly that was the other thing lori's only hesitation she's not overseen by a physician so she's nervous too but i don't want to ask anybody to do something i think that's a good option if that kid is in close contact with this typical school as long as he um the best work environments in school and what the thing we can do with you and theirs yeah i read the house so yeah we'll need some clarification on who's going to be providing that training and administration there because i mean a lot of the stuff touch you with administrative tests and vaccines and stuff correct i don't want to speak on her behalf completely but i think that it's something that's more a lot more conversation absolutely when we got this information did
020you have rory hermann join us with administrators and directors for a discussion on this information and quite honestly this this information from dr sawyer and lindsay payer about is pretty much i guess what we were hoping we were hoping was going to transpire for the most part um you know again we feel like pretty fortunate that we are not in a real hot spot right now i think the last information we have is that there's 10 active cases we've heard 10 active cases right now out of a county of approximately around 8 500 if i'm not mistaken so that's i mean that's really i say we're very fortunate so the things that we're doing here or basically they suggested or recommended for the most part are kind of those things again that we're looking to
021do and what we were doing all along uh i don't know if you have any questions we can talk a little bit more about the transportation piece uh because i said we got that information thursday at 12 30 administrative director said it wasn't he asked you if they wrote this before yes so it's not left up to the locals the transportation piece that is correct that became a federal mandate so that we got this information from dr sawyer and lindsay payer on tuesday afternoon had our meeting wednesday and then we got an email i got an email from dr watson saying there's a special zoo meeting on thursday please attend and so that's when i got all the administrators together and directors together to to have to share what was coming down the pipe and
022then that's when we were told about the business situation or transportation it's transportation in any school vehicle it has become a federal mandate to wear masks is what they're telling us have you had a chance to talk to any other districts i know it was a little short notice and visited today what would they say talk to don bloom in anderson county and don and his board um well i could say that they're mask optional as well like we are um except for that yes and i would say all of us when we heard this i don't know if i'm speaking for you guys but i would say we were surprised and we're like okay this is not what we were expecting because again we felt like local control would be in place for this
023this was this was a surprise to everybody and while we feel like again we feel like we can be mass optional in our schools and again whether we feel like transportation that's optional or not this is a federal mandate uh in the in the zoom meeting it was made clear to us that there is the possibility that we could lose federal funds if we do not fall follow that federal mandate okay that's what i was going to ask you so do you remember back when trump was president and he threatened to pull federal funds from schools if they didn't open and they they said he couldn't do it it takes congress to do that so i'm thinking to myself congress is for the most part dysfunctional they're not polar funding if we decide not to
024completely enforce a mandatory mass mandate they don't have the authority they just i don't see it happening but what i do see happening is just morphing into the same thing that we had last year i just i just see that happening in what way and that was for logistics i mean once the decision got to our local board to wear mass or not we as a board made a decision to wait a week so we could logistically figure it out and then we removed the max so i'd say that's not the way that happened you put on a mandatory mask for several months because i left the meeting when you did that that's because we there was a mandate out there from the state that said that when you were on school buildings in the
025institution you had to wear a mask okay mandate at that time what i'm saying is when the mass mandate came to local control at the board meeting that we had up at the middle school or the high school we listened to the concerns of our students and we removed that mandate after we had a little logistical time in there so i think whatever president said that we've looked at what we've done here we've only enforced either what was forced on us or what made sense at the time and i don't i don't think we're going to match fight into that unless you can't trust people that don't read the signs well i'm trusting dr sawyer he's giving us this information that says we don't think we're just i don't think he pushed our mandatory school
026mass deal last year well i don't think we're going to just ignore the rules that are put upon us either well i don't know why we can't well i don't know i mean we have rules that we won't have as those rules that sooner or later when they don't make sense i you have to stand up a little bit i think right if they tell you to jump off a cliff because there's a billion dollars at the bottom are you going to do that i think you're right i don't think that's no i don't think that they'll take our funding away i would be surprised if they did but regardless it's a risk that i'm not willing to take because i think that would be more detrimental to our students than just having them wear
027a mask on the bus i read you another recent article from the cdc and this is just mind-boggling cdfc admits covet vaccines don't work and they did this at a roundabout way their updated testing guidance if a fully vaccinated person has known exposure to someone that's conferred with coping 19 they have to be tested over the next three to five days and they've got to remain in quarantine for 14 days so that leads you to believe that did they not trust the copa vaccine to work why would you have to start testing an individual that's been exposed they're supposed to work well i guess that we're lucky that we have control of those decisions here right now that needs to be left up to the individual but why would the cdc recommend tests if these
028vaccines are supposed to work and that gets back to why do they recommend masks i mean the whole thing is just so upside down i think the part again for me is in regards to the funding piece and that i kind of feel like stacey mentioned it's it's hard because we've got we have an s or two funds 372 000 approximately that we've got allocated towards doing some really good things for students and technology and our staff and utilizing money that's federal government money that we wouldn't have to necessarily utilize from local funds and our local taxpayers and then we've got a sec a third wave after three money of over 876 thousand somewhere in that nato and setback 72 000 somewhere in that neighborhood that we can do like for example work from big
029bigger project standpoint like maybe some hvac upgrades because they're now allowing us to do that instead of buying like these in-room air purifiers that are like 100 purifiers or 200 purifiers that won't last and hold the standard test of time they're allowing us potentially to look at larger projects that would make bigger sense to bring in fresh air with better like hvac systems and if we utilize those funds then we may not have to utilize our capital outlet funds for those types of projects which then you can do even more from so what you're saying yeah it's hard it's hard to have a scenario where we have over a million dollars potentially that could i'm not saying they will or they won't i don't know i don't know if they will or they won't but
030it's like stacy mentioned how do you how do you run that risk well i just i feel like we're being held hostage because of money i don't want what they're asking us to do and is it reasonable and are we doing a good job for students or not by following up there might become a point where following them is detrimental to our students and at that time we'll cross that bridge but i think this is a small price to pay to keep our federal funding coming us routes are maybe 30 minutes to an hour coming in and back i mean out of an eight-hour day that's pretty minimal i really like that we're staying optional in our in the schools so it's a small price to pay but i do think you have to constantly
031evaluate what's coming down from news outlets the cdc and that kind of things evaluate whether it's promoting what we want to promote for our kids again i think we feel very comfortable what's happening again in coffee county we feel comfortable about doing the mass optional kind of like you know what dr forbes mentioning give the people the choice you either wear a nasty you don't wear a mask you either get a vaccine or you don't get a vaccine you're kind of back to that personal choice but when they do a federal federal law you want to be respectful of those in power whether you agree or you don't agree you kind of have to kind of have to follow along especially when there are some serious funds attached that's that's hard to say no i'm
032hopeful that with that september 13 i'm hoping that that's a month after that there will be and maybe we can share our information with the state saying listen we are still in a very you know we're not in the hot spot we're in very good position with our coveted situation can we maybe i don't know if there's a way to petition federal government in some way shape or form or if they remove that if they remove it all together so september 13th they're going to remove it from the business well they say that that is a vape that's in place here now will they continue as we know with certain scenarios they put a date in place and then it just continues i can't guarantee that september 13 is going to be a we don't
033have to wear masks on in school transportation is this what requires you to wear masks on airplanes it's kind of the same or yeah it was actually put into a place if i'm not mistaken if i look at the document it was may in may where this was in place um a tsa the tsa that says effective date was may 12 2021 and expiration date september 13th 2021. so it's been in place but again we haven't had to deal with the school-type event in session so um and and they just i guess they just shared this with us as of this past thursday but not not not a lie and again this this has been brought to our attention thursday and so it was not it was not on our radar until thursday it was
034local control at least what we thought in schools and then it was brought to our attention on the transportation piece i think it's because it just got closer to actually you're transporting you know a larger you're going to transport 30 40 50 kids in the bus potentially and you know your your airflow in there is not great you're seating sometime in there sometimes when there's not great as far as three foot to six foot spacing and airflow that's i think the biggest issue and there's nothing here but conversations were great i appreciate everyone or anything else there any other parts of this that we'd like to talk about there's spacing indoors with you know less than six feet or three feet no temperature screening washing hands disgusting generic hiding i think we need to kind
035of answer the question about antigen testing that wrong habits and then maybe change to add some information we got about i don't know how does everyone else feel about the language of encouraging vaccinations for 12 year olds to talk to their physicians i think encourage them to talk to their parents about it i think [Music] any other questions about school reopening plans are they where is this going to be published then we're going to work on getting i want to get information out after the board meeting here i want to obviously you know discuss the business piece because that's the biggest information that we want to get out to parents parents may decide that they will bring kids into school rather than have kids wear masks and that's possible or at least they'll have to
036be prepared we do have masks that will provide most people have their own masks and probably i'm sure they've kept them just in case and so but we'll still have those available if needed but we're going to get this information out as soon as possible to parents so we'll do the website we'll probably do an ever bridge as well and get it out too for via twitter social media as much as possible as fast as possible so good question thank you okay we'll move on to board reports anybody has any other information to share at this time is there any topics that you would like to have for the administrative retreat just send them to myself and christy and we'll work on getting that prepared for those two evenings move on to contract approvals and
037appointments approval substitute bus driver classified today this just ties into our change changing minutes earlier move them into july 2012 2021 substitute bus driver pay them out of 2038 34 and approve substitute bus driver pay an amount of 20 and 38 cents [Music] okay um motion passes 6-0 handbook approvals there's five handbooks there lots of information i think the changes were marked in red most of them very few changes look like anybody have any questions or comments regarding handbooks oh my god motion a second to approve handbooks has presented everybody vote on computers motion pass is six zero next item is the enrollment fees and meal prices some of these are two a line is that correct with recovery monies yes um with the free meals pieces and we again the enrollment fees and the
038meal prices we had to wait until we actually got the official information from what is it the fda or yeah the fda on the information there and so we did get that information you see a chart there for uh for prices and chrissy i don't know if you have anything else you want the main thing here is that the adult meal prices went up we're getting a larger reimbursement on the kids meals and if we didn't meet the minimum of the adult food price for example and we kept it lower we would have to make up those the difference out of our general fund and we often not to do that it's under five dollars did we finally end up last year on the link with accounts was it those got paid off by somebody
039is that right we had help from uh some local groups that did help us out with the delinquent accounts yes because of the meal situation you guys have seen this in the financial piece because we are able to feed kids free again this year there were a number of families that had really substantial amounts built up in their accounts we ended up doing petty cash check payments back to them because we oh i needed to that's their money and they had put that money in last year and they don't need it last year they don't need it this year so we made payments back to them to get their balances back to zero the parents can add they can put money on their kids account if they want additional like the dollar card items they
040can do that and add to their account but we felt like we needed to get those back to zero because there were some there were some you know parents accounts that had hundreds of dollars in there so we went ahead and did that but yes it has to do with the you know the adult meal prices you have to charge a certain amount or we have to reimburse that through the general fund and still again like christy mentioned the lunch for the adult is still under five dollars and it's a good meal and the breakfast is again 265 which is under three dollars for breakfast and it's a very good you know diana hess and her crew did a wonderful job and we were able to reduce the the enrollment fees uh just because we
041feel like that our current cash balance in the in is good enough and we give our parents and families a break it's not a lot it's five dollars less but if you have two or three kids it's a little bit of something so we try to obviously look to do that and that that's helpful for our fans a motion to approve enrollment fees and meal prices for the 2021-2022 school year as presented okay everybody zero [Music] correct we currently right now we share this information with you we have three cars in our fleet right now i'm not talking about vans but cars uh 2012 2012 chevy impala has 92 302 miles that's a car that's usually down here at the central office that we use when we go to different trainings and stuff like that
042or the bus barn they need it for different trips they they come down and get it as well the 2017 ford fusion we bought a couple of years ago a really nice vehicle 30 707 miles and then 2018 chevy malibu uh has 24 805 miles those are the three cars that we have in our fleet right now again that are not vans um so we really are short on on cars that are in our fleet right now i'm talking with brad griffin uh all three of these cars were used for driver's education this summer again we had some staff that were going for trainings or for you know in-services and stuff like that that one or two staff members they were taking a van because we didn't have any cars to send them in so
043that's not the ideal situation is to send a van with one or two people in there so this is a vehicle that's kind of in between in a car and a van it has a capability to seat seven i don't know if i want to be the seventh passenger in that vehicle because it's gonna be a little tight in there but i think it has the comfort and the ability to see comfortably five to six people and it's a good it's a real good vehicle it's a one-owner car that promotes on a lot that they did um they were the only we received one bit and that was the only bid we received um and this i'd say this car will help meet some needs with like i say that auto piece but also with
044uh um if we need to send five maybe six people potentially it would be able to be used for that as well it'll help us with the driver's education during the summer and we can use some of our capital outlook funds as well as driver's head money to purchase this vehicle so and with the vehicle shorting right now we would like to actually would like to acquire another transit van uh a 10 passenger van but we don't know um everybody has told us that you really can't even put in a a purchase for a new van until 2022 and he said i don't know when yeah that's going to happen and that's kind of anybody in the dealers just around here so um a little fearful that again our fleet is a little bit lacking
045as well as we're careful we don't know when we're going to get the possibility of the autos that we would like to you know potentially have like a 10 passenger program so anyway with that i don't know if you have any questions so was this budget for this year it was it was it was yes um we had a car budget or a vehicle budgeted at about right under twenty thousand dollars this is a little bit more uh but the reason being again cars have taken a jump um ever to indicate to me that this one he bit was probably about three or four thousand dollars less maybe 10 12 months ago you're looking again cars used cars and new cars have just taken a job what's the mileage on this car it has about
04665 000 miles one arm and it stickered for i think if i remember right about 46 47 000 brand new other questions that you may have are these other three vehicles um we feel these three that we have now are are very reliable and we can send these out of town to at any point in time all three all these vehicles matter effective administrators directors they want to drive them out over the fusion probably more so than the apollo because it has some nicer memories it has a usb plug-in it has just a little bit it drives a little nicer it gets better gas knowledge too but anyway so those are those are three that are very reliable responsible trustworthy vehicles the two that we did we ended up selling this at the summer they
047wouldn't pass inspection we had two vehicles i just don't feel comfortable having those in our fleet if somehow some way they end up getting sent out and we have a staff member stranded on the road i don't so we got rid of anything uh that we would not pass inspection and would would only be a like an adult type a driver if you will we wanted the vehicle to be able to carry not only adults but also kids safely motion to approve the bid from chromebody chevy for 2016 to chevy traverse in the amount of 26-198 all in favor opposed on your computer do you remember what caused the other ones not to pass inspection they had mechanical issues that were going to cost too much to repair like for example we had a 2010
048chevy impala 134 000 miles it was showing an engine check engine light soon to be able to fix that with the dashboard and the technology piece it was going to push over like over 1500 i'm just curious good good question motion passes 6-0 look out for those kids no issues for executive session move on to closing items for debriefing i want to thank everybody for their discussion on things that are very important to our district and our school and our kids and every opinion is very much appreciated for the discussion so i appreciate that the kids any other questions comments before we go okay thank you the dioramas here from the summer school groups they did some different projects with some books they read so