USD 112 Regular BOE January 2023 meeting

001games yeah um today oh yeah foreign got your phone specifically um [Music] thank you everybody's attention thanks for everybody for being here appreciate it uh just as a reminder this is a board meeting and to remind everybody to stay polite and cordial uh and allow us to run a meeting and get things done um if you did sign up for the public forum the same rules apply as before um five minutes time limit stay professional stay polite and those that are listening please allow them to say what they need to say agree or disagree with it they did sign up for that time and they they deserve the opportunity to speak like anyone else and so we were going to get started I'll call a meeting to order and the first on the list is

002election of officers so it starts with president if there is any nominations for that Brad I'd like to dominate you thank Brad I've done a very good job being fair and partial capacity around her difficult situations uh thank you any other nominations to Tamara doading any other nominations for president so I guess I'm not sure how to Hershey nominations you need a motion nomination cease and then you need to vote for each candidate majority gets the majority will become the next president so entertain a motion uh to receive nominations for president hello Chad sorry Josh [Laughter] [Music] better raise your hand motion passes okay so we will start out in the order of nominations so start with me so all in favor of myself being the president raise your hand that's two and Tim [Music]

003which means okay we will follow that with nominations for vice president foreign [Music] foreign [Music] excuse me Roger is clarifying that was a no okay thank you okay and moving on to approval of the Dairy Bar they're like to add item 13. second station is there any other changes to the vision evidence to approve the agenda as changed let's go second by chance on February question passes 7-0 and moving on to the resolution to establish meeting dates and places I set the normal second Monday at six o'clock and there's four I went off the last time last January so set four in Wilson for Hollywood and Ford collapse foreign States at this time and let's change by the board and there's a motion by Roger a second have I brought any further discussion in one

004location at the district office instead of moving it around times and dates um you know all right move to location so I know the reason that we did it originally to move it around was to have the opportunity for those that couldn't or didn't want to make the drive either direction to be able to with you know intended meeting and things like that just kind of spreads it around a little bit and so for me I not that I like to make the drive to different places but I think it works out pretty well because you just get a different crowd depending on where you are and so that is nice I do understand that and I do think things have changed a little bit now that we're live streaming all the movies on the

005consists and phases is there any further discussion from anybody else anymore I concur with Brad because different people in different communities yes when did we switch that maybe four years ago or five oh it has it's when Michelle was president I'd have to go back consolidated uh right time gets away from me so that's probably correct I I'd have to go back and look at them so we do have a lotion on the table on this second foreign [Music] I'd like to amend the motion to move it take it to them and so your Amendment offices thank you so there is an amendment to the current motion to change location to the district office is there a second to the amendment right okay let me see a second by chat so now we are voting

006on the amendment so on they were amending the Motions having a location as a district office here in Denver raise your hand all those opposed Amendment passes by the two so now the motion is amended to having all for meetings at The District's office on the second Monday of the month at 6 00 pm so is there any further the special s different game the record championship at the wreck or that could possibly be on the discussion depending on what would be okay is the right address the same as the district office yes it is further discussion today [Music] all those in favor of board meetings being held at the district office on the second Monday of the month at 6 pm here in favor raise your hand all those opposed explosion passes by the

007two moving on to the minutes from the regular board meeting December 12th and a special meeting on January 3rd any comments questions pages engineering [Music] medium pose is 7-0 reports so it was a farmers immersion by Brad I'll second exciting by Josh all those in favor is your name I have an approval of invoices we actually avoided a one thousand dollar check today to The Clapper golf course because we have no golf so before we get that check so it's actually a thousand lesson but it says that so it'd be 332 000. any other questions [Applause] [Music] so she passes 7-0 and Reconciliation the cash balance report should be in your paperless board meetings and the ending cash balance matched the treasures report which matches the bank so we are in reconcil reconciled yeah experience

008foreign [Music] laughs Berg and we will be I will be respectful but I will ask everybody to live here instead of five minutes online okay we will begin with Mike peshka David I'm Mike fishner y'all probably know why not and I promise that this may be the last time you hear from me it may not be last time first I'd like to thank the board members that were attentive and appeared to take notes at the last hearing Wednesday January 4th 2023. several have responded to emails from patrons but as normal a couple of them here are a few things that I took away from the meeting that hopefully most of you did also Financial numbers presented by Mr Lowry were a last-minute thing that actually had to be sent out twice via errors in the

009first set of numbers with a very limited amount of detail provided with those numbers and with all due respect to Mr Lambert I would have to question accuracy of those numbers until fully spread that have you done it and then he even stayed into some of the projections he provided were based on everything staying the same from the district and I understood that from some of the some from State averages rather than actual District members if the plan is not to remain the same the new projection should be provided and reviewed with proper planning and good management is there even a need to close any Attendance Center in the district a big question that has not been answered or even reviewed at least publicly is the impact of closing an Attendance Center to the future

010of the district both short-term and long-term to hurt yourself from several sources during the hearing that very few if any Wilson students will be attending classic if Wilson's closed have you discussed the financial impact to the district I'm sure a similar scenario would occur if platform students are transferred to Wilson should the district fail in a couple of years due to undated building closure and this is not specific where would Hollywood send their students to nobody elsewhere there was also information provided that could provide the lowest cost per student for the district than the Claflin building is the one that should be closed can anybody refute those numbers are you only interested in reducing the cost per student in a small amount instead of the greatest amount possible for the district why has there not

011been open discussion about the option of closing the Claflin building and the overall Financial impact to the district by doing so this would also result in additional savings by no longer having a need for a former grade school Community Building if you question the numbers presented then do the due diligence yourselves and publicly share that information as asked many times over the past year why is this board not seriously investigated proposals provided by the configuration study this has been done it has not been done as a transparent open forum following the Wednesday meeting at least one board member and not in a non-wilson board member requested information from a patron on how such items such as block scheduling maybe four-day work weeks would work an obvious admission to these things have not been thoroughly discussed

012as those that attended Washington live stream witnessed not a single District Patron spoken of hearing in favor of closing the Wilson School the crowd was pulled to see if anyone wanted to speak for closing Wilson and no one volunteered Mr Rogers you represent all the people in attendance at night have you had an equal amount of patrons personally talked to you to close Wilson have you pulled the people you represented are you just ignoring a large majority in the favor of the select food several deals indicated this board is not directly responsible for things that occurred in the past such as failing to apply for Grants returning grants matching funds well this argument can be made everyone on this board and passports sharing that responsibility you are not just Gatekeepers you set the directions from

013the district and the administration should work under that direction do you have or have you it's like third goals for your Administration and if those goals were not met then why were raises you you don't get to Simply pass the bucket the bug stops you finally I do not pretend to know the best decisions I I do not pretend to know what the best decisions are that need to be made for the overall benefit of the district and fortunate for me I'm not having to make that decision but I sincerely believe that no one on the board does either at least at this point in time the lack of transparency the failure to provide detailed financial information all available options the apparent dismissal of the configuration study without reasons and the lack of active open

014and lengthy discussions in public on all the above clarity demonstrators whether the short-term or long-term decisions is to maintain the current District physical structure close Wilson for closed platform it cannot be made without proper and professional due diligence so I ask you not to make a rash decision decision tonight and should you choose to do so and I always respect each of you by roll calls out that vote to close Wilson demonstrate personal honesty and integrity and provide a detailed explanation of your reasoning for that vote failing to do that will confirm what many suspect this is not about finances this is not about student population this is not about speaking teachers and staff but personal agendas this is not about the kids thank you [Applause] and I suggesting okay board on Ernest daisley from

015Hollywood Kansas uh nothing pre-written that's just off top of my head I want to say that I'm here to support your vote I know it's a tough decision all the way around I know everybody in this community is far and wide but I will suggest that you have to do the proper thing as far as Finance goes and there's been many many consolidations down here and no matter how it's crying and whining went on after a while it all mellowed there's people here far and wide I can't tell you who's all here that's been to consolidations probably nobody liked it one way or another but it happened and the world did not cease because a school was closed in a town for as I know they're still on the map Lorraine Bushton Hollywood they're still

016got zip codes and mail delivery and the best you can do they're not going to linger on is maybe this will help you it reminds me of how I should look forward and I don't know the songwrite or anything but there's that country song where he says he should rip his rear mirrors rearview mirrors off so he's only looking straight ahead and I would suggest that's a pretty good attitude thank you foreign how y'all doing anybody out there [Laughter] I appreciate the gentleman that came up and and spoke um you guys remember last week frog in my throat a little bit we started off last week around leadership you guys remember that anybody are they allowed to acknowledge and Shake ahead or don't be a private response okay perfect as usual so I think the

017question comes up uh the gentleman before me was right you got to make a tough decision obviously there are some some issues whether they're Financial or whatever the issue may be and so some hard decisions need to be made not unlike probably a lot of places in Western Kansas probably in southeast Kansas as well tough decisions but I think those decisions need to be educated and by educated I mean thought through thoroughly every Avenue an option looked at waited amongst themselves in business when you have multiple locations they all have to stand on their own from a profitability standpoint unless there's some sort of investment being made um okay they're they're not easy decisions but I think the biggest question that I heard again and I'm I'm standing from afar I think the biggest question

018is why and the why that was thrown out last week and it was thrown out is really not being explained to everyone here in attendance and people that were in attendance last week I think yo to people to explain to them why and the answer why you make the decisions that you're making I think that's fair you would want that if you were in the same seat I believe we talked a little bit about bravery bravery with the kids that spoke up so be brave if you feel passionate that this is the right decision then stand up for it and say so and explain why I think most people would really appreciate it and understand it now as to the crying and whinings that was referred to foreign I guess so I just have a

019couple questions since nobody's going to respond has there been any follow-up to the questions that were raised has there been any other action any more transparency any more numbers put out are you all convinced you've done your due diligence that you can stand left and look for somebody in the face and explain to them why that's bravery so again probably a little late to the game standing up in a meeting where people are not going to be able to reply but I think those are questions you got to ask yourself again tough decisions they have to be made you're a good place to make them but I think give it to the people that you represent and that you're making decisions for them and their families that you explain to them why thank you [Applause]

020okay Roberta Meyer and Roberta Meyer I'm a retired educator and a grant writer um so I will begin first four and seven years ago there were country schools then came forced consolidation in the 60s over a short period of time most country schools disappeared Public Schools popped up in their place skip ahead to the day here we are at a Crossroads ultimately a very serious crossword still the ultimate answer the country school is public schools small schools big schools comes down to what's best for kids would you agree neighborhood schools are best for Kids Country Stores Public Schools big schools it doesn't matter if you're a big city you want neighborhood schools whether these families in a big city or a small town they want neighborhood schools you live in a small community enroll America

021by choice you want the neighborhood schools without all the chaos for the big cities so let's go farther let's explain why we should look quieter what's best for parents neighborhood would you agree neighborhood schools we all want the same things many parents still work an eight-hour day but with more flexibility over when and where the nursing profession leveraged shortages and threw out traditional schedules with the bedpan they now work longer shifts but last days similar to a four-day school week it's not Monday to Friday anymore cobit change us and the way we work schools should change too why haven't schools changed change requires a new mindset schools should change there are businesses they are businesses it should should change with the rest of the business world Mr Lowry you requested some information about four day

022school weeks and there was another board member that reached out for four day school weeks I thank you for that if you have any more questions I'd be glad to answer them either now or later there are 25 schools in Kansas mostly ruled that have saved their schools and save money at the same time the slightly longer days match on federal with parents work schedules four-day lease offer also offer flexibility you can go on with all the choices there are Hybrid models are continuing to evolve as more schools Embrace this option many schools in Missouri are considering it too Dead one too the most for the most part students are in school for four days and off for five most of your federal holidays fall on Mondays so really take that away and you're not

023missing a lot of Mondays if you take Mondays off but each 200 District should be able to choose Mondays or Fridays as the best option for them and kids and parents some schools have added to get to get their days in they've added like maybe a week at the beginning of the year and a week at the end to make sure they have all their account days taken care of I believe it's 186 for okay no we'll buy the hours you're by the hours okay so you would have to make sure you meet those hours if like Natoma and you do the proper planning and launch in four years you might be so glad you chose change over posting a school Natoma isn't experiencing a teacher recruitment problem either I've yet and I looked hard

024to find a school that went back to the old schedule the most savings come from decreasing Heating and Cooling and electrical costs transportation is another area buses last longer fuel costs are diminished still schools haven't changed very much most are still eight and three five days a week Peterson you might feel the pressure of financial concern even fear over what to do you're not alone many can relate individuals and businesses which include schools must stay in the lab usd-112 as far as I can tell is in the black the state recommends an ending cash balance of 12 to 15 percent but really how many individuals or businesses cooperate with that much cushion many businesses would be extending to have the five percent in the balance and that's your five minutes if you could also okay

025in fact the federal government can't keep in the in the black they're in the red and no one's closing them keep going step back and Rave out while reevaluate why you live here how has covet changed us it changed my three kids as Jobs most of them work from home or have conference ties where they Zoom so audience participation time how can you see your doctor everybody it's all about it yeah okay change is needed more than just Financial change change and the whole delivery system to prepare our students for the business world look how Amazon is enticed that should save money by shopping online if you cut across and save a school at the same time that's change Worth Fighting For thank you [Applause] there are three people that have yielded time to Michelle

026L brokish and she would have a total of 20 minutes all right um good evening everyone I appreciate you um letting me be here and unfortunately I think some of my talk might be repetition repetition repetition but as many of you are sports minded has given it's quaffling um you would understand that repetition is the way you learn and the way you gain experience so as you may recall I am Michelle L brokish of Wilson Kansas and I want to thank you for your time and attention to my presentation unlike Wednesday night when I was flying by the seat of my pants I have prepared my thoughts ahead of time so for tonight's entertainment so put on your seatbelts and hang on for the ride I once open by apologizing to anyone who may have

027had their feelings hurt by my presentation Wednesday night at the hearing in Wilson High School gym that wasn't my intent I felt that along with my demonstration I should provide examples of areas where money could have been saved since this is a money issue it was it may have upset some of you and I am sorry I am known by most to tell it like it is and that I don't pull any punches I believe that denying the truth no matter how painful doesn't help anyone I know sugarcoat facts or baby anyone's feelings and I'm not afraid to have the difficult discussions you can ask any of my kids those i Burns and the ones I've coached or mentored over the years as I have said numerous times every kid in that school is my

028kid and I will treat each and every one of them like they are on my own you each are in a very difficult position there is a very conditioned contentious part of me decision on tonight's agenda I hope each of you listened at the hearing and have done your due diligence in searching out the answers to many of the questions that were asked I hope each of you will take a step back and reevaluate all the possible solutions that are available to help alleviate the financial stress in our district I know several of you board members particularly Dalton have reached out and asked for more information about more inventive ways of saving money I personally appreciate your effort that is a sign of open communication and we appreciate your efforts and hope we can continue

029to collaborate on a better solution than closing the Wilson Junior Senior High School I know there is a letter communication circulating on the south end of the district here stating that the information presented at the hearing had quote factually interact in accurate irrelevant reason that this action should not be paid it also stated that quote superintendent Lowry has presented the board with financial information demonstrating the need to make immediate insignificant cuts to expenditures of usd-112 to ensure the fiscal stability of the district unquote I would like that Opera to prove his statement because I know my board representative had not seen any of this information prior to the previous votes on the matter only recently receiving any financial information regarding the need to close a school so if the information was given it wasn't provided

030to all the board members and I believe that could be a legal issue Wednesday evening we had several presentations with very valid points and recommendations I would like to acknowledge several of those I know many of the speakers presented emotionally charged please for not closing our school and that you are not really interested in the impact this is having on on the mental health of our students I know you are only interested how this will benefit Central Plains Elementary and high school so I will keep my acknowledgments to points that will harm or eventually harm the Central Plain schools and possible solutions or areas of improvement that do not include closing the Wilson Junior Senior High School I will start with Mrs Susan Phelan longtime educator parent and grandparent who presented on the logistics the

031logistical difficulties of transporting kids from Wilson to Claflin thank you for speaking Susan very few of our families work or do business in this direction except maybe with Millers and flatlin and HIV Communications this could change this distance to Classen is much greater than other options our families have to educate our children also how will it cost how much will it cost the district to transport these kids back and forth at least three times a day has anybody thought about wear and tear on buses and fuel costs has anyone done that math especially if it is only for four kids because there's only four that said that they would come this Direction that's only forty thousand dollars to vet cover that expenditure and what happens when someone is hurt or killed traveling that road I

032don't think the district can afford that lawsuit I hope you as board members understand that transporting our kids down that road and that that distance daily is a major issue for many families in Wilson and after the hearing on Wednesday night Dr Whitmer approached me and asked me if I knew how many fatalities had been on that road going south he's very concerned about that because he knows personally of two foreign policies going out on and it's something that's really bothered him after that meeting if any of you know Dr Whitmer I mean he's very passionate about things he cares about secondly I would like to acknowledge Mrs Sarah de Lobel and her financial inquiry regarding the information that has been presented to the public as an accountant she had many questions about the figures

033that have been made available to the public and has requested the raw data used to establish those figures for an external evaluation in an effort to help the district establish Financial stability she's brilliant you should let her take a look at the numbers I would like to know why she is being stonewalled in her request for information the financial documents of the district should be public record and as such we have a right to that information another person I would like to acknowledge is Mr Sean Henderson who spoke again this evening and he came forward to speak on the behalf of the Wilson School as a self-proclaimed Outsider he stated that he cannot see how closing the Wilson Junior Senior High School would benefit the district based on the financial information presented to the public

034he restated that again this evening he made an excellent valid point which I hope all of you were able to catch other than the financial information issue he said that if you presented us and us being the loss of patrons with solid financial information and undeniable proof that Wilson Junior Senior High School was a financial drain on the district and cannot be supported we wouldn't like it but we would understand your decision many of us are very logical and intelligent people who will be willing to do the right thing even if we don't like it you have not proven that Wilson Schools is a financial burden on the district you have only proven that there are inefficiencies that need to be corrected if you as a board or the superintendent have financial data to support

035Wilton's being a financial burden why not give it to us and take yourself this now I know you are saying to yourselves we have done but you have not proven that we are a financial burden the financial information provided to the public is incomplete you have given results of your calculations that support support your argument but you have not provided the data on which you have made those calculations what is used to figure costs per student what is the data used to calculate the cost per building and support those figures how do you write out Wilson Elementary for Wilson High School when they are all one building sharing utilities and staff how do you plan to save money when you must continue to maintain the unused half of a building this is information that could

036be used to convince us of the need to close us but you have yet to provide that information or prove that Wilson Schools is an issue with the district's financial help again why not give us all the records especially the data used in your calculations so we can see for ourselves or are you hiding something like your real reason for wanting to close will now I apologize for not remembering who presented the census data and the hearing that showed Wilson's population growth of over 100 people and classmates decline in population of 100 people since 2019. I feel this is critical information to address because Wilson's growth is a huge opportunity for this District in terms of increased student members at Wilson as well as improving property values which translates into more tax money for the

037district if you had a stateful future if we had a stable future for our student census could have grown at least 9 this year alone ninety thousand dollars in terms of you guys lost by not providing us with stability for people knowing that we're going to have a school next year those are the students who wanted to come to Wilton and not be transported South with the growth of the Wilson Community our school has the opportunity to grow as well there are many of us with thoughts and strategies that could improve not only the Wilson school but the entire District if we are allowed to continue promoting and building our high school we need to stop acting like two completely separate entities a host and a parasite and create a symbiotic relationship that benefits all

038areas of our district the usd-112 board hired Dr Brian Jordan of kasb to do a configuration study that was completed in June of 2021. each of you can find that on the district website if you have not have your own copy of it I feel it is an insult to Dr Jordan and all the staff and patrons who worked diligently on the study to develop options to advance this district for you to ignore the study's recommendations for district improvements you may feel you are addressing the concerns presented to you in the study but you are ignoring the fact that closing Local Schools was not one of the top rated recommendations for improving the district if you are truly looking to save the district money and improve inefficiencies then look at the data majority Force again

039this information provides data that will require tough decisions to be made if you truly want to save this District finally we come to my demonstration Wednesdays from Wednesday's hearing some of you may think it was staged or biased in some way but the follow-up presentation by the Wilson Junior High boys who by the way I'm extremely proud of for stepping up and speaking reinforce the result of my demonstration their video presentations show that only four of 71 students pulled would go to the central plains high school next year if Wilson's high school is closed how will the loss of 60 67 students which equates to well over one half million dollars one half million dollars be beneficial to this District there are some individuals from the Cleveland Holly Ruth Western area North and Mr Lowry

040and maybe or who will still believe that the kids will go to CP next year I'm sorry but you are fooling yourself if you truly believe that and you are fooling the patrons of all the communities down here if you are promoting that fact it is not going to happen the only student that will end up at CP are those who have no other choice because no other district will take them and to Mr yajik's comments I would like to state that the towns do still exist and they will continue existing but this district will not with the closing of wolves I will restate my comment s from Wednesday's night's hearing if you close the Wilson Junior Senior High Schools you will be signing the death warrant at this district is that what you want

041to do worst case scenario you close Wilson which will result in decreased funding due to lots of students property values may drop meaning less tax money for the district and let's take less taxes impact and Claflin has a declining population which will add to a decrease in students and thus sleep funding all of this leads to even more dire Financial State than what the district is currently receiving and as shown by Mr Peterson's comments of the hearing everyone in the surrounding area is watching what is going on within this district and there will be no one willing to rescue Cleveland again when it goes under due to poor management our best bet is to work together north and south to come up with a solution to this proposed financial problem and that and that doesn't

042require closing any of the schools we are all yeah excuse me we all will have to compromise make sacrifice and tighten our belts to make the district viable for the future people will have to be willing to change step outside of their comfort zone and do what make and to do more to make this work because it is possible it's everyone and I mean everyone teachers administrators other staff parents Studio students and Community patrons if they're willing to do their part we can find a solution that will save this District I will conclude with we are in the fight for our lives not just the Wilson Junior Senior High School but the entire District when I stand here and I say I invite for my kids I'm fighting for your kids too because your kids

043are the ones that will be adversely adversely affected and dispersed to surrounding schools if this District closes and that will be the end result if you close the Wilford Junior Senior High School thank you for your time [Applause] and Simpson um Ryan pickle same thing all right hello I'm Richard Rubin first off men's the board for the difficult job did you go to that I mean I've I've served on the board and I mentioned yes there's just a handful of people I know it's ever take you on that position and it's not easy but it's a job I'm kind of a numbers guy I mean I've done all this out on the open records website on this Kansas organization also the ksde.org all these numbers are out there but I mean just a simple simple

044analogy is comparing our district sizes and we've got Ellenwood to the south of us 458 students USD 112 458 89 students the difference is is we have 15 more teachers because we have more buildings compare a similar stool with a number of teachers that we have would be eligible they have 180 more students and the same buildings you know in the last students we have of course our students are spending for per student guitar I mean we're just at a point where how much we need to stay and we are a unified district we need to do its best for our district decision for you guys to make but we just need to be physical and keep people from holding you thank you [Applause] foreign Roger was our representative last year uh whoever his consensus

045of the board will have to have training per state statute Tamara and a long list but there's like four lists the public forum list is the list to speak the public forum list is the list to speak there's a sign up there did you sign the wrong form yeah foreign board member that is interested in our representative for negotiations each other we would need a motion for that okay you mentioned my dad and he's taking my bread any further discussion all those in favor Adrian any of those motion passes for Alice and we are born representative for negotiations uh Wilson baseball and softball Cooperative agreements this is a re repeat from last month I'd like to go over this timeline just a little bit uh last April silver Grove NASCAR Wilson athletic director about be

046interested in a Cooperative agreement the past the superintendent about it and he agreed to go ahead and negotiate that agreement they sent their head coach down to Wilson to look at all our equipment as far as I know nothing was discussed with the board until I found out toward the end of November that Sylvan had passed the negotiated agreement or the Cooperative agreement and uh I had documentation for us to sign and that was a recommendation of the Wilson athletic director and Coach I don't know about the coaches how much they were involved as you know I've been here since July I felt like if that's was what they needed I recommended it Monday after Monday's meeting received a lot of information that that they go and seem to know anything about that which I

047didn't either until two weeks before or less and uh so I did not sign that agreement yet I contacted the civil and superintendent and told him there was an issue with that and so I had the ad coach meet with our players and their our players said that we would have one player go to Sylvan if we did a Cooperative agreement at Sylvan um the address then would be 12 or so if we did it here I communicated that to the silver grow superintendent in which he said okay when you split practices and dates that I said you need to put that in writing so we can review it he put that in writing I set that up to review with the athletic director of the coaches and they met and they had 14 players

048say that they would all in play if everything was in Wilson or uh not at all they said they're okay with the girls going to Silver Grove for softball if they want to do that so I communicated that today to Sylvan care board meeting I contacted Acacia because it was due July or January 1st that's the reason it was rushed to us in December it's and so they said it'd be fine to notify after the board meeting tonight so uh at that point I just told him that probably they would just play on our own without doing a Cooperative agreement unless someone to come to Wilson for everything for baseball so the board would like to discuss that and decide whether you want to rescind it that Cooperative agreement or put some type of limitations

049on it that would be great for my direction to communicate to civil growth yes foreign ers [Music] I talked to Tony today about having a standalone baseball team and then if we have enough girls interested or if girls are interested in playing softball to co-op with Sheldon buildings out the clock Andrew Sylvan wants to come out with Wilson they can come to Wilson foreign I would suggest that uh this board rescind that the motion made last month to agree to this the documentation that I received uh last month that was brought down Sylvan had proved it and then it was provided to us both schools have to sit this in so uh this came from the Wilson school last November this documentation so and I didn't sign it because it is opposition to it it

050was about assigned it would have been as approved last month but I felt like there was enough opposition that I needed to wait and get better guidance for that field so it's up to this board to either that's the motion then that needs to be the motion so it'll be following through and it'll be determined after the they call about what they decided on where they're at so I just if that's the motion just as you stated that would be fine and then we could go from there do we need to rescind this one first or no well you need it I would go ahead and rescind the motion that was made in December I'll remove I'll move we present the motion that was made December on the co-op agreement silver Grove and then attached

051to that you have a standalone baseball tape and motion and his Co-op as children wants to co-op so we welcome that and also if the girls want to play softball they would go up with Silverman and silver man a second by Chad is there any further discussion [Music] and first of all I do support the motion made and I'm going to start with that I would like to encourage our students that want to play baseball this year that they stop and think and consider what actions they're taking and demanding and consider playing some games in Sylvan if Sylvan collaps with us it's what we would want if it was the other way around so just keep that in mind excuse me further discussion here again all those together yes okay Mr Lowry do you did

052you get an education from silver people he didn't know he would commit to today because I called I knew they had a board on the top but I think he couldn't commit one way or the other what they would do that's all you know all those in favor of reasoning motion last month and continuing with fathers stays in motion in favor raise your hand motion passes seven zero moving on to item 12 would be donations offer for a big donation that the board can accept if they wish to the district is a motion from Roger and his second from Josh there's a donation from pitt farms and I look for further discussion I would like to express our gratitude for that donation we appreciate that very much and it goes a long way then to

053help the district so all those in favor of accepting the donation raise your hand motion passes seven zero Josh [Applause] I knew Mr President I moved the board to go in and exec the session and pursued that to the Kansas open meeting Act for the purpose of this soul tissue consultation with the legal counsel which would be deemed privileged in the attorney-client relationship and to include Mr Lowry and Lori kasb attorney her from and returned to open mean in this room at there is a motion like a second by Brad all over here [Music] okay okay I think [Music] back and opening surgery now the discussion for the resolution for building closure foreign so I know that people feel that this has just been a last minute thing but I would like to remind everybody

054that in 2019 the bush and Attendance Center was closed and the board of education at that time did give a very warning that that wasn't the end and they were still going to be tough decisions that would have to be made and I realized that there have been to brands of elections since that time and you haven't really a completely new board but we don't have the luxury of starting over every time that there was a new election and actually if you remember this report did have board member boot camp Wayne Roger Allison and Dalton came onto the board and I actually attended that with you guys for a holiday and at that time we got a copy of the configuration studies my copy of the budget a copy of our goals along with other

055information [Music] to try to help bring us history as quickly as possible and whatever name board members are elected can we go to kasd training to help also help bring us up to speed as quickly as possible and I have been going through all of my past emails and all of my four inch three ring binders from before we had paperless board meetings and I found the information from when I got a message to the board so I have the information and the DCS studies and the numbers and the figures of when they were considering closing Hollywood and moving to Elementary to bushing so we have a number of hidden figures from way back then so this is not new this has been an ongoing debate and ongoing discussion a continual discussions and after the

056best shooting pain center was closed there is the formation of the Futures committee and we that group of individuals from the various towns was born to discuss the direction they would like to see this District go and many of the people on that committee were carried over onto the configuration space and we did and start the configuration community and unfortunately coven interrupted that so it didn't go quite as important however in July of 2021 we had a full day that we unpacked the report and discussed the options and the recommendations put forward and we acknowledge the difficulties that the geographic vastness of our district and impose but you could not disregard the fact that our numbers do not support two independent Junior High and High School at that time trying to come to some kind

057of middle rounds we did come up with a hybrid off because also at this time it was coming to light that there would be retirements throughout the state and their own decreased enrollments in education throughout the country so we have fewer teachers and fewer people going into the field of Education so we're trying to come up with ways of including counteract this and I also try to maybe save them of course our naive hoax what about listening challenges and it was not all one-sided it was challenges from educators on both sides and I have the emails and concerns with that information as well and with those concerns and wanting to care for not only the students but also the staff and the Educators in our districts we had to switch plans it's been an ongoing

058discussion and they're ongoing thought process it's not new we have figures that Mr Clark emailed us on the cost of bussing students down to the South End so we have discussed that we wear ears on running between buses and in transit it all depends on if there's only four things we can probably just run a Suburban so it won't be about so all of those figures do change the figures from the state report do not change at the state report from 21 22 and return that indicate that yes junior high high school students are our most expensive students and even if we consolidate a hundred percent from both the North and the South End we're a very small 1A district we cannot afford to Independent high schools and while the distance is challenging it has

059been done by districts in Western Kansas there are students that are on the bus or longer than I would have and we have discussed options I'm not and I know people have said to fight until the state tells us to stop fighting but we're here to try to grow our district not to run it into the ground and I do appreciate seeing the information about the fourth four-day weeks foreign [Music] of the district and you've heard the County Commissioners talking about daycare challenges you know that we are in a day here desert so releasing children back in to [Music] um environment that they would require care and there is none out there and I know the districts where they have done that have largely Hispanic generation with over a third of the parents stay-at-home mothers

060and that's not the case in order and I don't mean to just poke holes and everything but when we're wanting to see large savings we're not going to see it with that do you have anything to add about the people durations so one of the things that shifted from where we started with the original Futures committee and when we went to the configuration initially our distribution of Representatives on the committee were close to being distributed based on board representation or even student population so at that point the just to talk figures here so if you want to I hate to add to the divisiveness of this but if you want to talk in terms of representation of Wilson Schools and Central Plains schools the board representation of seats that are specific to a district there's

061six seats and two of those represent Wilson Thorne's area the other four is right across the central plains with maybe a little bit of bleed over into the Wilson areas so when that started your board representation if you remove the at-large seat from the discussion because that should be a representation spread across probably if you remove that seat so you're talking about six seats that's a third So based on that representation a third of the committee should be representative of Wilson and North when we initially started and I kept trying to go back through emails of people who were involved at that time I think we were just shy in that third I think Wilson had a 25 representation so they were slightly shy of that equal representation based on court seats um the final

062committee the names that are included in the published configuration study of a 50 percent Wilson school's representation but it's a significant shift um and I remember having discussions in the room at the start of the Futures committee about what was their representation and of course there's a lot of different ways that you can look at it somewhat conveniently the board seats are comparable to our student distribution So based on our current student account that Mr Lowry shared with us Wilson students represent about 31 and Central planes represent just shy of 70 percent that makes it hard to look at the configuration study and feel like that was a fair representation of the voters of the entire District and fair distribution across the representation from the board when I've talked to people from kasb about how

063you see people on the configuration committee their recommendation is that each board member essentially a point and you you pick a number and whatever that number is every board member has the same number be a three for whatever your target total is you divide that across and that's kind of how the Futures committee started but that's not what we ended up with after there were some posts that Mr Clark had asked to be put on the Facebook page trying to get more people to come at the end so some of the people that were there which I appreciate the interest and the engagement please don't get me wrong some of the people that were there at the end of the discussion had not had the conversations from the start to participate and to get some

064of that context and to build relationships across the district with the different people participating and that representation at the end of the configuration study did not reflect the representation from a board seat perspective inside but even then with that weighted um representation I will go back to the configuration study and point out that the weighted average the highest scoring selection was the one Junior Senior High School with two elementary schools where it fell apart was in discussions of which building to locate those students in so well yes the most popular to show up on people's selection which for people who didn't participate in the survey this was sent out to those who were on the committee and you had it was I think like 12 to 14 options and you had to pick your top

065five and the all the options range from something very technical like move the district office to more complex of building a brand new K-12 facility which we all know is not a simple technical solution for our district with the Dynamics that we have so if you have this huge range of options that you're being presented but you only get to pick five and so some of them obviously are kind of cherry pick options of this would be easy to do like moving the district office which that was the most selected item which is a pretty technical solution that still managed to become somewhat political based on what community it was going to be located in so you have those mixed in with a land transfer um two K-12 facilities one Junior Senior High two Elementary's

066just leaving things how they are and writing it till it dies um moving the sixth grade which again is kind of a technical solution for a really complex adaptive problem so when you start talking about what the most popular options were selected it's hard to choose in those moments of you have the simple thing that will help a little bit that's a good solution and it needs to be addressed but really should we have had to have moved the central office as one of those things for us in our top five um that should be a more simple solution to me it's it's less of what it should take a committee to come up with that solution than some of the other things but even with that the top one as far as tallies of

067how many times it appeared in the top five was move the central office with 14 times the next one under that was land transfer with 13 times and the next one after that 2K12 facilities well the next one after that one Junior Senior High was two elementaries but when you look at the weighted average of How High they scored and then how much people prioritize them even with moving the central office being an easy solution the top weighted score was one Junior Senior High and two elementary schools can you state how much savings it would be versus the two different areas of that study I would just like to hear this business studies I agree that that is on the website and I would say that those numbers will have changed by now also we'll

068have or have there's a difference they have because Everything Has Changed by now inflation has changed do you remember what year those numbers were captured from Fred you know I was trying to remember so it's probably off of the prior years thank you I would also like to bring up this configuration study just some of the stuff I never said one since Clark as soon as I came on the board we gave me all this stuff um it says it here that you know we did not a forward to run to high schools with the size that we are um building our salaries you know above 60 of this is all public budget hearing I think he gave me this them too for that not like the financials salaries are who may expenditure and I

069I feel like that needs to be reduced for the amount of kids we had in this District because it's just it's just too expensive to keep going on like we are and uh Larry gave these numbers where we've lost eight of the eight out of ten years are negative and I don't feel like we can operate off of that for much longer something Jurassic will have to be done and also like Allison touched on the little things we did do in that study so I've had a lot of emails telling you that we have done nothing we did move the central office we attempted the land transfer and then the 2K through 12 sillies like I said um does not resolve any efficiency that I pulled straight out of this study um it says in

070the top five that Allison talked about and a main thing that was in this was the group did not feel group milk and maintaining the current configuration was not a Bible option for the next 20 to 25 years I want this District to be around forever I want migrant kids to come to this District I was in this District I feel I personally want every child in this District to have the best education that we could possibly give them and I mean that from the bottom of my heart hold on I'm sorry I I know that I'm not running this meeting and I appreciate the the passion but please keep those High comments and and we'll make this through this we have two board members up here that will make points and I promise you

071we will make the points that you for trying to make another concern is enrollment I've talked to some people in Wilson that agree that these low-cost numbers are not beneficial I know it's probably great dealing with your best friends about some diversity and getting out into the world going from four to 150 in a class any tough um I was at the graduation of Wilson I'm sure there were some more kids there and I just I would love for there to be more kids in the seats and uh like looking at the numbers now they have come up some there's a couple eights nine ten there's a 22 class of soft boards for juniors if that's you guys um but we enrollment is plays a huge key into this [Music] um our numbers are better

072this would this would not be a decision if if we don't have any kids here um I would like to touch on Roberta's emails for your four day I did read through that and I appreciate the information you guys have sent my two hold UPS on that is daycare um everybody in my family worked five days a week or seven more likely but I'm afraid that the turning these kids out of school on a day I'm nervous to go where are they going to go and um I'm also nervous that some kids may only get that meal at school and I'm afraid that they will not give that as my two major holdups I don't think that is the best direction to go in um but I do like the outside thinking of different things

073like that so I was also going to say that eating Zoo the central office the district office and one of the reasons I know there's been questioned why we couldn't move that but at the same time that we were discussing moving the district office it was also when we were discussing the land transfer and so we didn't want to move the district office only to have to move it again in a year um and I was actually one of the board members that was at the meeting with three of the Southern Lucas board members as well and it is a little bit irritating to be quite quite Frank that we were so willing to lose your high school and so where Lucas would have taken taken you but it's the end of the world to

074remain in this District and that's foreign it is but we're here I'm trying to make the best of it and we're trying to move on and we're moving forward with steps to safeguard our district and to be as efficient as we can and to be beneficial for every student and to provide quality education so we're trying to proceed and be respectful so that plans can be made for next year and Beyond that was the question I had was why was it okay to pursue a land transfer to Sylvan Lucas which proposed the same building configuration from my understanding um as to what is being proposed here keeping the elementary and Wilson closing the Junior Senior High there's a difference in miles is proposed uh pretty much a wash total um if you guys would like

075to hear a bright discussion from the school board do you need to keep your comments [Music] um I do have some other comments but I do want to address some things that you guys have said um so one we've talked a lot about the configuration study um in the last couple of days and we've talked about it before um and I feel like the configuration study uh has been a tool for an argument on both sides of this story um and it's it's one of the reasons that Tamara you you had said um was the reason that we needed to take action uh is that we needed to do something that was on the on the list um and that's when we just started started discussion on the closing of the Wilson Junior Senior higher

076um but the quick like quickly addressing the soul then Lucas issued um is for me my being against closing the high school in junior high and transferring the kids down to Central Plains High School has never been anything to do with Central Plains uh any single person or a group of people from any of these communities on this side of the district it has everything to do with distance and it has everything to do with that road and of course I don't I don't want to see any part of our school as opposable I would rather all of them be open and to be frank I would definitely rather Wilson be open but that's a personal issue and not a board member issue is the distance if we look at numbers and the configuration study

077if we look at numbers back from the discussions when the motion facility was closed closing the Wilson building or buildings has never been the largest saving option there are other bigger savings options especially with only half the building and the reason that I've never suggested that we close a different building a different High School in its place is for the same reasons that I don't want Wilson clothes and that's the distance that's asking any of our district kids to drive on that road foreign I do agree that as a board we are asked a lot very quickly uh when we get on on the board and you do have to learn very quickly um but that those those trainings don't talk about these numbers and I feel like that we had not as a board

078including myself in that I looked at these options and looked at the consequences of these decisions enough to make a financially Sound Decision and one of those things is our federal and state aid and the loss of students from this District going somewhere else we don't know what that number is the surveys have said four or fewer and I completely respect those surveys and I you know I don't know if that number is the correct number I don't know what that number is and there's nobody sitting in this room and at this table they can say what that number is but it it's a large portion would be my assumption and we struggle if we lose a few students let alone 60 70s and that's just High School now does the elementary school follow if

079you have a high school kid that goes to Sylvan goes to Ellsworth and you have an elementary student that's going to do the same thing when they get to Junior High are they staying so they can finish out Elementary and then move or do they move with their older civil we don't know that anymore either but we do know that that threat is there that that possibility is better and I don't feel like we have as a board looked at the consequences of that and that is concerning uh as most of you know I was on the board when you made the decision to close the ocean facility um it's not a decision that I wanted to make and I certainly didn't ever want to make it again but the one thing that we did

080as a board is we looked at those numbers every different direction seven different ways Mr Clark was ready to tie us all and tape our mouths because he was tired of us asking for information asking for numbers this way and that way what if we do this what if we do that what if we do this and we were up against the wall where we were even told that we didn't know if the district was going to survive another six months with the way that the configuration was but we still went through those numbers every way that we could to see if there was a better option if there was a more feasible option to keep that building open and I don't feel like we've done that as a board at all actually I know

081we have one of the things is that on the day that we voted on that resolution to close that facility Mr Clark handed us a new packet of information there's not new information it was just a new packet of information it was just presented in a different way but it was the same numbers that we had been looking at for ever and the outrage that existed and you know towards the board that we made that decision being provided new numbers that day that's including publicly uh statements made by members of this board I just need everybody to keep that in mind that this decision should not be made lightly it should be it should not be made as a first choice I I agree that we did move the district office unfortunately it cost us

082money to do it when we did have other options I do understand the possibility that that you know we may have had to move it again in a year but it wouldn't have cost us money to do that because we already had the space we already had the facility of course it would have caused something to move but the and I I've said this in multiple times both in a meeting and to anybody that will listen because you look at those numbers of the number of students we have in this District and you compare it to other districts you're right it would be better if we had one high school but the problem is is that we have a very large district and that space just doesn't make sense it doesn't I do not want

083my children specifically especially and or any other children to have to drive that road every day especially that 16 and 17 year old kid I drive that road every day to work and I don't want to drive it and I would ask if we looked at the other direction which according to the configuration study that was that we've discussed both as a Pro and a con is that the savings provided by closing classroom and having the Claflin students come to Wilson provides more savings than to go in the other direction would you want your kid to drive that way and obviously I would assume the answer is no is it's not the best Road but also it's because the numbers we're looking at closing half a building instead of a full building because you don't

084want your kids to have to drive that way I know I'm putting words in your mouth and that was just an assumption but that's the way that it looks the I do totally get the daycare issue with the four days uh that is a concern I would like to point out that both Claflin and Wilson I work hard to open daycares I the amount of money that has been donated from both communities have because in their towns is astonishing and very welcoming and so I think that there's opportunities there to be able to do that and to find daycare and to provide those options for parents that need it because of that four day and I think it's a viable option to look at because of the size of our district as an alternative to

085closing a high school and through through this when motions have been made again the number of students that would be attending Central claims after a move like this has been used for both sides of the argument and which is awful and I'm part of that is that we're using we're using our students and their their ability to learn and their ability to have a school to go to as a negotiation device for a building and we we use it both ways so we're saying only four students are going so that's a loss of Revenue and then you say well we'll save money on Transportation because there's only four students that statement right there is obviously very concerning for me because it looks at the way it comes across is that we don't care about the

086students but we're only getting four so it'll be cheap obviously not your words but that's how it sounds then okay what if we have eight students and that's one more student that men can fit in a smaller vehicle what do we have ten we don't know those numbers we don't know what that's going to cost with those discussions haven't been made and they need to even if this ends the same way those things need to be discussed it is our responsibility as a school board to have those discussions and look at those numbers and I feel that we haven't done enough the configuration setting obviously the numbers have changed the but they're not going to be drastically different but looking at what the configurations that the study says so Closing one junior senior having one

087Junior Senior High with two elementaries which is moving Wilson high school and junior high students too far from is a total Savings of 336 000. the same configuration with closing McLaughlin building and having those students attend Wilson [Music] because the savings of 815. it's five hundred thousand dollars now I can say those numbers are right today which is a problem but I can't say that one way or the other but I can tell you that those numbers haven't changed that much now logistically are there other reasons to go in to that absolutely there are other reasons why we should consider Closing one building to the other other than financial those are also things that we haven't discussed thoroughly I've looked at a bunch of stuff I know all about that road the crazy thing is

088back when I was in high school there were kids driving that road and it wasn't a problem when they drove it every day um he got accidents everywhere along the fire department here we have accidents left and right over by the plant and there is multi-kids that drive that road there's kids that are on that road for 23 minutes 21 miles my butt my on a bus and there is accidents on every Road you can't change that we've been told many many times many many years from the state coming back to the same scenario we can't run to high schools between Junior High and you never know if you're closing a building how many kids are going to stay how many kids can go because I guarantee you you guys didn't realize how many people

089would be believing when you close the bush of the building and I guarantee you that we didn't save there is some other schools that travel the distance I know Ransom and Zine are 26.9 miles apart uh I believe from Wilson to Claflin is 26 27 miles there is kids that are on a bus from this end of the district that are on a bus for an hour some or more and some are young some are older so we can't say hey I don't want my kid foreign because our district is spread apart and it has been thought of for the last three to four years since bush has been closed that we've got to keep on moving on uh we can't stand still and there is some hard decisions whether it's closing a building or

090moving us or trying a different scenario I I do agree that that as a school board we definitely canceled I I agree with that I think that we always need to be looking at these things that sort of job look at these numbers um because again I just don't feel like we've done that I think we've looked at we need to close Wilson and we've not impaired those numbers okay and to be fair I don't know if there's anybody on this board including Roger or I who's asked our current superintendent for those members what those numbers look like which is a failure on all seven days all right but because of that that failure we have not looked at every option we don't know what the consequences of this is and we don't know if

091there's a better option you guys can sit here at these tables and think it is a better option because it's not your school and it may be it may be the best option I don't know that we've not looked at those numbers but that reason to be the better options cannot be in any circumstance because it's not my school it cannot be because it's that school I don't know if that's the case for an and I don't and I'm not certainly putting those words in your mouth I'm just saying it cannot be that it cannot be that barrager and I and it can't do that for the five of you we have to have good and sound reasons and we have to look at every option well this is the first time we've had a

092discussion and that's that's what we should have been doing for 10 months so I appreciate the input of all the public because without that difficult to make decisions and it takes a lot to get up and talk into public forum and I I understand that Tyson from both ends and I think Dalton said it best we need more students we had more students we wouldn't be and to address what Chad asked about going south or in our situation of going north which was talked about last summer and fall the silver our community at Wilson they go east and west and I'm including silver in that because of the sale barn mainly don't we go to Ellsworth Russell Hayes Salina I think the majority of people here go the great bad lie and touch so it's

093not anything against it's becoming that unfortunately but and initially it's an east west of the north south and I'm not sold on the road being horrible either actually it's not a bad road but accidents do happen you can't disagree with anything that's been said at high on either side but the point that I keep coming back to we've been talking about this for 10 months and this is the first time we've had a discussion openly and that's Troublesome and I blame myself and the board for not pushing out harder and we do need numbers and they should be provided not at the 11th Hour and I don't mean General know that I mean specific numbers broken down in the spreadsheet how many teachers and what's the utilities books that you can help the whole nine

094yards the decision still may be the same but then there's no no question look at them if the numbers are in front of you that's where it supports they don't have much to argue but until that happens it leaves doubt that decisions are made not in public so we've had vote four votes to close to go through this process we're still here and all those were made without discussion in open form that's what's trouble so what we are doing tonight is a positive thing don't like it obviously but our situation we're vested but if that's the decision and it can be supported notice as well to make plans and I understand that and I wouldn't want this to drag on a whole lot longer is very stressful for everyone involved but the discussion tonight is

095the best thing that we've done yet another thought sorry I did I did want to talk about the numbers a little bit that we did get on Wednesday um I I don't know the exact breakdown of those those numbers I don't know um exactly what goes into each line item I know generally just from being on the board and working with school Finance um but I do have to say that I believe that the numbers are fair and accurate in general uh there was a question how things are divided between the elementary school and the high school whether it be in one building um the things that are definitive that went to one side or the other of course are tagged that way um and things that are separated between the two buildings and that's

096how we reported into the state um so I am comfortable with those numbers are accurate um but I agree with Roger that we need to specifically look at those numbers and know what line items to go into them um so we can take a look at those numbers specifically as where can we save money and what is saving us and knowing the cost per pupil in a building does not tell us how much we're going to be safe there are a thousand other factors that go I think that we need to look at those numbers when we on our agenda we had three options that fraudger on your bill Mr Lowry um suggested that we can say those three options were to table this forever and keep keeping on keeping on and figure out how

097it works the other option was to label it with specific instructions to look at these numbers specifically look at other options look at what this will do to the district and then the third one was of course to approve the resolution positive as much as I would like the first one I don't think it's viable Josh said we've got to keep looking we've got to keep doing things as a board to make sure that this District exists and losing any portion of students is not the way to do that so I don't think that the third option is so for that I would like to make a motion that we table this to take the time to look at the numbers to find look at the different options and make sure that as a board

098we are doing what's right for the district and right questions foreign motion on the table is there a second we have a motion by Brad it's a table that I just the decision and a second timer sorry all those in favor actually sorry we will do this by roll home Josh no I don't know Brad yes dad Allison amazing sales I would like to continue the discussion foreign [Music] August 6th of 2021 we did have numbers of savings with from philosophy scheduling and sharing teachers which I realized was before four electrons at that time and those were firms to Clark but then we did also have numbers from March 25th of 2022 from this uh some options for Mr park with additional numbers and those numbers are not always discussed in open Forum because sometimes

099they are sensitive information information but it did discuss blessing we don't have a salary spelled out for us but that was emailed on Friday notice so you should have had that doctor so these are new discussions about competition foreign between buildings I infect myself when through the ledgers and wrote down building bills yeah it's electricity and water for an entire year just to see it wouldn't equal love to do so I mean that's all information that we have every month I'd like to make a comment on the bus saying I haven't really talked to the super General but I for one advocate for busing for everybody even the entire news um I don't know sorry that but unless I was a senior in high school let me drive okay every day and the coach wouldn't

100let me ride that bike plus you drive me home for football I'm a art advocate for busing if anybody wants to bring that in because I've been asked multiple times and I will I don't know anybody else thinks but I'll advocate for us an entire history I just forgot earlier um foreign [Music] questions I can wait um just to follow through with what was started in April and then to improve the following resolution whereas Kansas long KSA 721431 authorizes the Board of Education as any Unified School District close any school building by majority vote of the board and whereas Unified School District number 112 Ellsworth County Kansas Highway Publishers notice of how the public hearing on the fourth day of January 2023 to hear and consider testimony and evidence on the proposed building closure closure

101and whereas the board of education has Unified School District number 112 in Ellsworth County Kansas has found and determined the proposing a Wilson attendance building grades 7 through 12 would improve the school system of the Unified School District by the Board of Education of Unified School District number 112 Ellsworth County Kansas and meeting locally assembled this ninth day of January 2023 about the Wilson tennis building grades 7 through 12 shall be closed at the end of the 2022 2023 school year there is a motion on the table there is a second by Josh is there any further in this session here again we will move to our votes gosh yes [Music] forever no Chad foreign presentations and substitute teachers to protect the privacy and individuals to be discuss with Mr Larry and Mr Sherman president

102to open the session in this room at yeah at 8 50. to review the one position that's the reason I wouldn't have the exact location either one of the position okay there's a motion on the table by Josh from the second time so all those in favor thank you we are back in Open Session move to prove the resignation of Megan Cook personal science effective today and also to improve the resignation of Indiana Metro excuse their educator independent of their Art School leader okay photos in favor as your name [Music] I'm sorry okay sorry I'll make a motion to move to improve Pamela and Decker as I think he did both of them moved to approve Pamela Decker as substitute teacher [Music] classes the administrative report s yes our bank statements equal what we have

103in our activity account prior to Christmas break I took eight kids out to eat earning 100 points it would take McKenna Adeline hamburger Chloe cook Ashton Roble Kenny zinc Zoe Schneider Auto bowener and will root we'll have our local spelling bee this Wednesday in our gymnasium our fourth through sixth graders participate in that and then we'll take the top 10 to the Ellsworth County Spelling Bee in February within service on the 16th and we're planning to meet with our building level teams to look at data and start looking at the next year next five-year cycle of our keysa process on the 19th our first grade we'll go to the Claflin Community Center and then we also have talked about legion about bringing our kids down to the legion as well so we'll make a visit

104to both those places on the 19th on the 24th the Great Van Wetland presentation pertaining to Kansas State they'll come out and work with our students that day on the sixth I'll have a psych council meeting here at seven o'clock and then on the eighth we have our ovt visit and then the Kansas Learning Center for Health will come out and present three programs for our kids and that's all funded through the Dane Hansen Foundation Pre-K kindergarten and first will be Dental second and third respiratory system and the fourth nutrition and then we're already February 9th teacher conferences already and then the 10th will have an end service any questions right now I have five parents trying to recruit more thank you a Reconciliation Report in bank statement all matched Before Christmas our leadership class

105sponsored The Giving Tree our students provided a toy and a game or a game and a gift of clothing for 29 elementary students here in Hollywood so a total of 58 gifts we've had our winter royalty last Friday it went great uh the 16th is an in-service work day for our teachers we'll meet with our building leadership uh Team first with our district leadership team meeting second and we'll be working on Kisa accreditation and planning for our next cycle our accreditation visit is February the 8th our boys and girls will be playing in the Saint John midwinter classic next week on the 25th of January we're planning to take our eighth graders to Larned for reality uh what that is is a personal finance day they teach them they give them a a budget what

106they want to do when they grow up and how much money they'll make and if they're married and how many kids are going to have and so they have to have a budget they go around and pay rent and but get a vehicle and buy groceries and pay bills and all that stuff and they have to come out on the plus that's that's the hope and there'll also be six breakout sessions for them to attend that's in Larned our Junior High basketball will have the tournament on January 28th 30th and February 2nd and that'll be the end of their season already that will be in Lacrosse High School CPL Scholars Bowl on January 30th in this city and in our Hall of Fame inductions will be held on February 10th at halftime of the Varsity

107Boys game I believe that is Gary Bittner and Denise uh Gary Bitner and Denise kinky are the Hall of Fame recipients this year I believe that's correct and then we're gonna we're also gonna do Betty Dorman she didn't wasn't able to attend last year so we're going to do her this year any questions thank you okay I'm going to talk a little bit about January 16th our in-service so we will complete our final work with our OBT which is outside visitation team uh they will be doing our fifth year for accreditation after their report it goes to the army of the state accreditation Review Committee they make a recommendation to the State Board of Education accreditation partial accreditation no accreditation okay I will tell you that there's been about 30 40 percent of the districts

108receiving conditional accreditation this year so that process is coming up on the 16th we will conduct our building leadership team meetings and then our district leadership team meetings we've had several meetings to input the data and information in so that we and start the report and they'll be on site on February the 8th the district office and the district leadership team will present we're going to finalize that schedule on the 16th also I would like to review a couple items that I included in here the singular security report and I have to commend our tech people we'll reduce our vulnerable Wireless sites and emails to zero to December the January which is a big deal because cyber security is getting to be a very large problem with people fishing emails and they can click on

109it they able to come in and access it either Ransom your information or change your information so very pleased about that uh again thank people have done a great job to prepare us in that site by Central Plains childhood network was established when we asked for tax credits to fund day cares in our district we received 175 000 worth of tax credits uh the tax credits are 70 percent for adult any donation even 70 tax credit now it is for the fiscal year 2023. in 2022 we had donations of 149 thousand dollars and we used up a hundred four thousand three hundred dollars in tax credits we have 70 700 past credits remaining for the 2023 here we put some we had some donors we've seen a picture of the paper we said thank you

110to everyone that's donated appreciate all those people we'll continue to look for sources of income uh representative way Master called me and talked to me a little bit Friday yeah Friday and talk about the improved money thank you and I think that our projects are probably close enough that we might qualify we want to keep expanding that to all of our sites so that we have daycare in all of our sites so that we can give parents and opportunities to meet students or kids in our districts like a lot of history for daycare okay hopefully it'll stay in our district for school uh this is kind of appropriate January is important appreciation month it's pretty tough on you guys conversations appreciate you I want to thank the board for their dedication to students as we

111go through this year coming up okay thank you very much for everything you do that's all I have the flower the flowers are for you the one sitting in front of you from the PTM from the PTO okay thank you very much [Music] thank you PTO we appreciate that and it's very nice for you to think of us and recognize what appreciation month you thank you administrators um are there any board member reports okay items for the next month some items that will be on next month's agenda ksab policy updates Administration contracts investor three you know so this is I just might make a comment since we changed the resolution for locations what you have there's now obsolete so we're going to have the meeting in Claflin at the district office depending on if there's

112a crowd then we'll move it to the high school for the February so we'll have to find out about that we have to get that appears back before it has the ability to change place and time of any meeting dissipated so at this time I would entertain a movie theater where we can measure second grade um foreign