001And thanks to all of you who are sharing your summer with us by being here in person or uh watching us via streaming tonight. We will start with a roll call. Miss Beam, Mr. Babbot here, Mr. Boyd, Mrs. Johan, Mr. Keun here, Mrs. Reagan here, Mrs. Steel here, Dr. here. Thank you. If you would rise and join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Item 1.03 on our agenda tonight is an appointment for the 2526 school year for the clerk and deputy clerk and treasurer for the school district. I would welcome a motion. I move to appoint Barbara Beam, clerk, and Carrie Meyer, deputy clerk,
002and Cassie Osborne, treasurer of the board of education for 2025 2026. Second. Motion by Miss Steele, second by Mr. Cune. Mr. Keune, yes. Mrs. Reagan, yes. Mrs. Steel, yes. Dr. Year, yes. Mr. Babett, yes. Motion passes 50. Item 1.04, the appointment of a school attorney for the 2526 school year. Is there a motion? I move to appoint Mr. Michael G. Norris of Norris and Keplinger Hicks and Welder LLC as the 2025 2026 school attorney. Second. Motion by Mr. Babbot. Second by Miss Steele. Mr. Rabbit. Yes. Mr. Cume. Yes. Dr. Jükovich. Yes. Mrs. Steel. Yes. Mrs. Reagan. Yes. Motion passes. 50. Good evening board. Before we address item 2.01, the adoption of our agenda this evening. Um I would like to make a statement. As you know, we have an item on our agenda this evening
003which requires a vote. Item 7.04, repurposing Westview Elementary School. This topic has been the subject of public discussion by district leadership, board of education members, members of our teaching staff, and members of our community. Over the last several months, as has been shared in the presentations, for years, boundary committee members have been monitoring school size and district enrollment. This is a heavy decision, one that no one on the board of education or those in leadership have taken lightly. It has implications not only for the present but also for the future of tha public schools and decisions boards of education will be asked to make. As is evident this evening, there are five board members in attendance. I believe that a decision as significant as the one we've been asked to make should have all members
004engaged in the vote. While we represent specific areas of the THA public school district, we are elected and represent in our decisionmaking all members of the THA public school district community. Thus, I propose that we amend the agenda and remove item 7.04 04 from tonight's action and place it on the August 7th agenda when we expect to have all members present to participate in the discussion and the vote. At this time, I would open it up for discussion or would entertain a motion. My only question is if this will have any effect on the timeline um for the potential repurposing. I I want to give all the parties that are part of it to have as much time as possible too. Thank you for that question and um there has been discussion this week um
005before I made this suggestion in talking with Dr. U. Mullen McMullen and Dr. Jagger and others. This will not impact the next steps timeline um because it doesn't impact this school year directly. Obviously, there are tasks to be completed if we were to vote yes. Um but it would not impact by setting it aside for approximately 3 weeks. Okay. Thank you. Um I thank you for the suggestion and for the motion and I would just like to add to the discussion um I'm in complete um agreement that a full dis um is is important in making this important decision. Um but I also want to suggest that you know June and July aren't closely followed by our community as far as the board of education and the things that we do in the summer months.
006And I would say too, we owe it to our community to make such a big decision. Um, when we come back in August, um, we tend to have a higher viewership and more people are tuned in um, to what the board of education is doing once it's the kickoff to a new school year. So in addition to having a full DAS, I think it's the right thing to do by our community um not doing this in the month of July when um people are distracted with summertime activities and not necessarily thinking of schooltime decisions. Thank you. Any other discussion or I would welcome a motion. I am happy to make a motion. Miss Reagan, I move that the agenda be amended as follows. Action other item 7.04 rep for purposing of Westview Elementary School be
007moved from tonight's agenda and placed as an action item on the agenda for the August 7th, 2025 agenda meeting. Second motion by Miss Reagan, second by Mr. Cune. Mrs. Reagan, yes. Dr. Jükovich, yes. Mrs. Steel. Yes. Mr. Babbot, yes. Mr. Cune, yes. Motion for an amended agenda passes 50. Thank you board for the comments and the change. So, so um item 2.01, adoption of tonight's agenda as amended. I would welcome a motion. I move to adopt the agenda for uh the July 10th, 2025 board of education uh meeting as amended. Second motion by Miss Steele, second by Mr. Babbot. Mrs. Steel. Yes. Mrs. Reagan. Yes. Mr. Cun. Yes. Mr. Babbot. Yes. Dr. Jükovich. Yes. Motion to adopt the amended agenda passes 50. [Applause] Item 3.01 presentations this evening and we will start with Dr. Waters
008and a presentation regarding the open enrollment. [Applause] Good evening board. Thank you for this opportunity to share with you the numbers for our open enrollment for the 2526 school year. Um, before I get started, I did want to give a special thanks to my fellow general administration team, our communications department, definitely our executive assistants who manned a lot of the the charts and graphs um and our building leaders who helped us to navigate the process um for open enrollment. I'm going to first start by giving us just a general um overall comparison from year one to year two. This is our second year for open enrollment. And then I'll give a breakdown by level um elementary, middle school, and high school. So, starting at this first uh chart, you will see that we had 72
009applications come in our first year with open enrollment. And this year, we have 147. So, a little bit more than than doubled the amount of applications that came in to us. And now a breakdown by level. You will see at the elementary we had 55 applications come in. That is double from last year. We had 28 come in last year. So 55. I want to highlight if you take a look at the first chart grade levels that 21 of the 55 were kindergarteners that um came in. Um and then also I wanted to spotlight that 20 of the 55 applications were former public school students. And then on the middle chart you will see that there were 12 school districts represented and those were Baser Lynwood Blue Valley Bonner Springs Gardener KCK Lawrence Levvenworth Oawadami
010Piola Shauny Mission and Spring Hill with the most coming from Shauny Mission. And then the the last slide you can see there were 21 buildings that were that received applications at elementary with Madison Place at Metal Lane um having the highest amount come into us with six. The next slide is at middle school and they had 32 applications come in. Last year we had 20. So there was also an increase there. um a little bit more um laid out sixth, seventh, and eighth grade evenly. The school district represented there were eight uh that you see there. Baldwin, Blue Valley, Dodto, Gardener, Kansas City, Kansas public schools, Lewisburg, Shauny Mission, Spring Hill. All 10 middle schools did receive an application and you will see there that California Trail did have the most there with seven. And
011high school like elementary, they doubled their application amounts. They had a total of 60 this school year. Last year they had 29, I believe. Um, and also like uh kindergarten, the ninth grade, the entry level grade level did have the most applications with 24. The next chart, there were also eight uh surrounding districts that our applications came from. And you will see there's Blue Valley, Bonner Springs, Dotto, Gardener, KCK, Lewisburg, Shauny Mission, and Spring Hill. And you will also note that all five schools did receive uh applications with the East and Altha North receiving 15 a piece. I wanted to also spotlight some important dates that we have coming up. Um and that is important for our new families that on July 21st out of district families can begin enrollment at their um public school
012by calling the office and we encourage them to set an appointment with our system information specialist and registar. Um but I'm excited to also note that on July 22nd we will have the tha public schools uh registration support event. It will be held at Lake the Northwest from 11 to 8 and um it gives an opportunity not only for our new families to come in and get support but also some returning families. We'll have translators there. Um transportation will be there, food services. I think it will be a great opportunity to answer the need of our community. And then I also would like to note that on July 1st we did reopen the link for our in district and employee transfers. um if they were were wanting to at this time fill in um a
013transfer to attend a a different school than their home school. Okay. All right. Any questions board? Mr. Babbot. So, um and I don't have the numbers right in front of me. How many openings did we have versus applicants? I know obviously it's double which is awesome. How many openings did we have? we had close to um almost 3,000 is what we posted and that is a significant jump from the previous year of a thousand and I think we going into our first year we really did not know the impact that it could have on staffing our resources and so really we had to go in with a number that we felt would be unmanageable. Um but we do feel that um now that we've had a a year um to determine that there really was
014not a significant impact to our schools that we could to expand that number in that those seats. So great. Thank you. Miss Steel, I am so excited for the 147 kids, but when you think of it as a rolling number, it's really 72 plus the 147 that are now um experiencing an education here in Altha Public Schools, which is um when you know you have great opportunities and a great product and you're doing wonderful things in public education, sharing that with more feels right and feels really So awesome on the numbers. And then also I know that the timeline kind of got backed up for in district families who may want to transfer within the district because of the timeline for open enrollment. So thank you for showing that July 1st reopened that window for
015our already existing students that may have wanted. I um you know when that came around my concern was at the time period and I don't remember what month you had to do that as an indistrict transfer. You may not have known that that was something that you might want to consider. So knowing that they have another window to do that. Um thank you for making sure that that happened for our in district families too. So excited for these kids to come to THA. Yes. Mr. Rean, um for elementary, you had mentioned that like 20 some of them had been previously the students. Um are there students like that in middle and high school as well? Yes, there were not as many. So at the high school of the 602 of them were former uh students
016and and many of those were we went all the way through Chism Trail and we just moved to Spring Hill. We would like to stay within our community. So many of them were were at that point and at the middle school um I apologize for not mentioning it at those levels there were 10 of the 32 were um when I say former some were former slashcurren but they had moved to a neighboring district and would like to stay at in their ina I just I think that's a good it's a good number to have um to just know that um you know people who've been here and seen the quality the caliber had the positive experiences is um are choosing to keep their kids here if they you know they moved after fifth grade and
017they want to keep sixth grade in the you know so thank you for that detail and for all of your hard work everyone yes thank you Dr. Dr. Waters, the event on the 22nd, the enrollment assistance, if you will, how is that communicated or how are new families notified that that's an opportunity for them? Right. And again, a special shout out to our communications department. They have um sent out various communication to our families um as well as uh spotlighted it on our website. I'm looking at Becky. Um I'm happy to share. Um yeah, so we have a communication plan. It was shared in our June family newsletter. Um, and so they were able to get information in our ops insider and then, uh, it was posted on our website today. We'll be sending out
018a direct email and doing some social media posts as the event gets closer. So, we'll have some next week and then reminders the week of. Thank you. Thanks for that opportunity as well. I think that just reinforces that these families are welcome to join us in tha board. Any other questions Dr. Waters? Thank you and thank you for the continuous updates that you've provided so we kind of knew where things were. Yeah. Thanks. [Applause] Item 3.02. Um Dr. Steuart Little is with us again this evening to share some updates on what's going on in the world of funding and state and federal and the impacts. Thank you for being here. Um good evening. Happy to be here. I appreciate a little bit of time and I'll um move as quickly as you'd like for me
019to to um please feel free to interrupt questions. Um, very briefly, uh, I'm going to talk about the federal budget issues, the non-public school component of the federal issues, and then the education funding task force that's in the midst of of working on a school finance formula. Uh, sessions over, they'll be back on the 12th of January. I think the door has been kind of open on if we might ever have a special session just because of some of the changes at the federal level. There may be some action that's required at a certain point depending on whatever comes down the pipeline for next, but that's for later. Um there are it's at the looking at things at the federal level obviously watching what's happening in a lot of different areas will have an impact
020on um public education and the children that we and families that that we serve. There's not just issues in the department of education but in health and human services. A lot of things going on access to health care uh Medicaid services uh public assistance SNAP benefits those kind of things. you can see a lot of those kind of things happening in areas and all those things at some level are having a will have a a filtering impact on the on the work that uh that you all do. Um House resolution one was the big recision bill that passed and the component of that that I want to note here is that it does have a non-public school scholarship program. the tax credit. It is similar to the one that we have as a state program
021in Kansas and we've had for gez almost 10 years now I think. Um but it is uh it is uh a first a national um tax credit policy that uh will take effect on um in January of 2027. it is optional for states to uh participate and states can determine the way the the language that I've seen and of course anybody that's looked at these things it's hard to figure out exactly what's transpiring at some spots but the governor or the superintendent of schools which is probably the equivalent of our commissioner of of the department of education uh make that determination whether that we will participate or not. I wouldn't be surprised if the legislature takes a shot at it as well, but that's the nature of the process. Uh it is in general, just
022hit the highlights. Um it was very expensive in the beginning and we heard about super high levels of contributions and those kind of things. Part of the reductions that got it that kept it in this bill were attempts to reduce the cost and then also when they made it voluntary for states that was the thing that got it was gut cart in a parliamentary process where that kind of a mandate the parliamentarian and the senate said no. So basically the it's up to a $1,700 tax credit. You get a 100% federal tax credit. There's no cap on the number of credits that um that could be s. So, if there's 10 million people that apply for the $1,700 tax credit, there could be 20 million, there could be 30 million. That will drive up the
023cost. Uh, the recipients of the scholarship are individuals that are eligible if they are less than 30% of the local median income in a community. I don't know if that's a school district, that's a county, if that's in a city. I'm I'm not aware of this the specific distinctions are, but that's a reasonably high level in in certain I think median parts of the country that's somewhere about $300,000 a year, something like that. Um the amount and size of awards that would be granted for someone to apply are are determined by the amount of of uh credits that a a scholarship granting agency would get. And so it could they could be large if there's a lot of revenue and and not a lot of families applying or it could be different. It is uh
024I I think this is still somewhat in question but it's likely going to apply and be available to homechoolers as well and it's also uh authorized to work in conjunction with states that have a scholarship program. So that's coming. There'll be discussion about it in the next legislative session. I'm sure I think we'll probably have a little bit of a back and forth conversation about who gets to join and when and those kind of things. The the other issue that's kind of more immediate uh has to do with obviously the um the issues that are in uh the hands of the Department of Education and the the $7 billion nationwide. I know I I conclude this section by noting that the district did a great job of of sharing with everyone how those impact the
025uh the school district in particular in the significant areas. Uh statewide it's about $43 million. Um they are targeted in the same ways that you saw reflected in that chart. After school program, migrant programs, um um English learners. So that's part of a broader movement. other school districts. I think we're beginning to see the how this impacts other school districts as well. Um I don't know, you know, at a certain point they're going to be uh building the new I think they've kind of already begun the next budget process. So I'll be curious to see if these reductions that come out are part of what is kind of not included in the next round of the federal budget. I'm I can pause here and see if anybody has questions about this. Then I'll move on
026to the education funding task force real quick. Board, any questions? Go on, Dr. Okay, this is longer than you want and it's detailed, but you can certainly uh dig into it if you want. I'm happy to discuss this with anyone. Uh very briefly, um the current school finance formally expires at the end of June 2027. In 2024, the legislature created a school funding task force to look at this, come up with a new school review school finance formula, and uh they had they they began gathering in the spring. They talked about getting a bill done by the end of this year and taking it to the 2026 legislature and then seeing if they can get that passed and then if they didn't, there'd be another year. Uh they started meeting and they've announced kind of
027at this point that they're not going to do that. I think they figured out who's sitting in the governor's office in January 2027 will have an impact on the likelihood of what mayor may not pass. So, we're likely going to hold off on getting a a bill until the next year. Um, I will the charge is kind of important. I feel like here that they're they're uh required to submit a something to the governor before the 11th of January. Um the language on what they're supposed to do is for the formula and it's the second bullet point there is meeting or exceeding the ROS capacity. So we're a very specific set of broad range of the academics citizenship. There's a whole variety of that are there's I think six of them in there that uh
028that that's the goal that was put in statute about 10 years ago and that's our goal and that's important because when everybody starts having conversations about test scores or how we measure everything that's not what the formula is supposed to be getting at so just psychologically I think that's something to keep in mind. Uh it also people say the school f the special education formula is not in there. It is. It's not part of the school finance formula, but it's included in the charge to the committee. Uh these are the members of the committee. I think there are three Johnson Countians on here. I know Representative McDonald, uh Superintendent Gibson from Up the Road, and then uh Pat Petty who's at the border. Um and then there are four non- voting members. Okay. Basically, I'm
029trying to do one of those word mapping things where, you know, someone listens and then they say the important words bigger in the middle. I don't know how to do that. So, these are basically me putting them into a bullet list. Um, the general, this is kind of after we've gone through these committee meetings. Did I skip the meetings? Oh, yeah. Here, let me do this real quick. So they had some small meetings January, February, March looked at surrounding states and then May when the session was over they started digging into special education uh interlocals, co-ops, deep dive into special ed. June they looked at high enrollment, low enrollment, transl uh transportation, bilingual. July last week they looked at at risk. They'll come back and revisit and maybe make some decisions about special ed. in
030August and September they'll look kind of look at everything all anything else that they wanted to talk about and we have dates booked the rest of the year but the available if we decide if they decide to do something else so I mean that's kind of where we are in the process in general the belief of this committee and I'm going to talk in the most part because it's a thing based on votes the majority party in this committee and some of the conversations uh are talking about the that um their their need to be some changes. There is an argument that the formula is currently not satisfactory financially or generating the academic outcomes that they would like to see. They're very much focused on the waitings and and how they got here, how they
031do they serve their purpose anymore and do they uh which is a mantra of many of them. Does it increase uh student performance? Does it increase assessments? um they are modeling waiting on what they might want to do with it. So uh at risk is a good example which is generated through a certain way. So they're wanting to they're making thoughts cons which is all 286 school districts and how it impacts every single one of them. And um in and in the political world when you're doing something in a committee, that's the first thing that everybody grabs because everybody every legislator wants to know how their districts are being impacted. So they're making those runs on everything. I think we've probably had over 250 runs on different parts of the formula as we're going through.
032Um they are looking at rolling waitings into the base and just distributing it based on that. um they are looking at modified versions of all kinds of things. For example, ELLL a good one they have learned that in many other states they frontload resources in ELLL in that first year and attempt to build a bigger base so you don't have to maybe spend as much over time. Uh there's uh instead of high of having high and low enrollment waitings a sparcity wake waiting factor that's used in some states. Don't ask me to explain it as math. um at risk special ed and ELLL are the primary focus what we're looking at it's two of the three are the most money and they're also um the most significant um they're getting information from the primarily the
033legislative staff and there is a tremendous amount as anyone would know of a feeling of complexity and uh the absence of clarity in the formula and everybody wants to make it simpler and then you try to put it together and there's No simple way to do it. All right. In general, in the best case, there has been an emphasis thus far, spoken and demonstrated. For the most part, it's very student focused. Looking at some of these key early childhood, student achievement, trying to get measurable outcomes, reading, mental health, important, designed to have something that's more flexible and responsive over time, not locked in. Um the things that kind of uh I'm watching and engaging f folks on is that the assumption that the current formula does not work academically to accomplish uh what they want
034to do and that it's not financially sustainable. And you can look at some scores on the chiefs of testing in some models and people make arguments that way. We're in the midst of having all those kinds of discussions about how student achievement is measured and a formula does of change and the distribution of dollars impact that uh there the at risk the ELLL u changing those waitings is a big deal. It's incredibly dramatic when you make those kind of changes and um it's becoming more apparent some of the conversations is that um waitings should not be in the formula unless they increase student achievement and that and there's a tendency to try to like isolate some of these components and to the extent that some of them believe even that like for example at risk
035dollars none of it should go for administration it can only be on a student in a classroom and that the that that that's some of the those are some of the barriers here that are part of this conversation. Um again the only measure that's being discussed of student achievement uh is uh uh our are our assessments. Uh there is a growing emphasis of the state board of education and other folks on graduation rates and the broader concept of the rose capacities. There is we're also beginning as you begin to chop things up like this, you talk start having conversations about rating and scoring schools or teachers or districts and those kind of things. Uh and uh special education is still um obviously a big component in this and I'm not sure that anybody has a
036very coherent idea about what they want to do with that. So that it's a bunch of nothing in terms of a conclusion, but that's kind of where they are in the process, if that makes sense. Board, are there questions? I I just have a quick one. I wanted to go back to the federal policy. I had a question right after we went past it. Sorry. all the numbers for so KSD said 42.9 million has been been withheld how much of that is usually our portion of that's about a million30,000 so 1.3 million just what no 1 million 30,000 1 million 30,000 yes not here correct yeah okay thank you and as if you saw our graphic online you know one of the things that's a challenge about that is, you know, we're already contracted obviously
037for with our staff for next year. So about 570,000 of that is, you know, contracts and and benefits and things for our staff that obviously we wouldn't have the ability, nor would we do it, but not have the ability to pay that. So the timing of that is is challenging for us as we go into the next fiscal year. And that's because we don't hold back a lot of we don't have a huge reserve just sitting of we we don't yeah our reserves are pretty slim in tha correct because we spend it on our teachers. Thank you Miss Reagan. Um hi Dr. Little. It's good to see you. I um was just curious. Um I know you mentioned uh the you know revenue projections being up which is great. Um but I guess any more
038thoughts or insight? I mean that's $249 $250 million. It's that's not nothing and it could help. I just wonder I did some basic you know reading on it. Some of it I know went into the state's rainy day fund. I just, you know, all the hem and hine that happens during session about how little they're going to give to like the excess cost of special education. I just don't know if habitual like is there a a h like a traditional way they handle these revenue excess that you know well um the bigger picture at the end of the fiscal year June 30th the state ended up getting over two about a quarter of a billion dollars more than they anticipated by the revenue estimates and and part of what makes that interesting that also factors
039in the tax cuts were passed the year before so even with that we still had um high revenue Um and at the same time the legislature cut about $300 million out of budgets at the state level. So and we and um and we end up with that revenue. So that rolls in and becomes the base for the governor to make the budget for the next year. Part of the conversation is the the the tax the additional tax cuts that were passed this year when you factor them into the model show um um falling state revenue in the outy years like two years out, right? Um and so that's what people are cautious of. I will say as someone who used to do that in an old job, you will always and unless there's a recession,
040which you know, I don't know I'd say anything where we're headed right now, but that in general that gets filled up in the upcoming years because there is some level of of growth. But when there's not, you've got a lot of different issues. But that's going to form the basis for the budget that the governor will recommend. But again, and the changed budget process, it won't mean anything because the legislature will make their own budget. And leaving out last session, I think they're going to come into this session saying this is where we can cut more property taxes. Thank you, Miss Steel. So, Dr. Little, if I had to pick a word, federally and statewide, would uncertainty be fair? I I I don't think it's uncertainty of a scale of of um of of profound
041measure. I mean, things are different. We're in the midst of things being different and changing and a different bit of emphasis and and it's really significant for some people. And I want to don't want to minimize that, but um this the state system, we're not going to radically change our school finance formula. It is it will it's going to be changed. I don't think we're going to get something incredibly new because it is unbelievably hard and when you try to tweak one little thing and it has an impact on lob and nobody even thought about that and you've got all kinds of crazy. So we're not going to be able to do radical things with the school finance formula. number one, uh, the votes aren't there to do that. And, um, so it's uncertain what
042it's going to look like, but it's not, you know, close your eyes and don't see what's coming. It's paying attention and being engaged, I feel like. Does that make sense? Good. Yeah. No, thank you for that. I appreciate it. And on that note, um, just a question. the education funding task force committee was charged with returning a funding bill at some point or right now I I watched every minute of every meeting so far and it's a lot of of educating and looking to states around us and how is it done in other places and where is it working and even to the point of looking at academic success in other states and what is their funding formula look like so it's It's a lot of learning at this point and in discussion. Could this
043task force return the responsibility of a bill to one of the the education committees or are they charged with coming up with the funding formula for a bill for when it sunsets? The formula is designed to carry out the guidance of the governing words which are the statute. So they're going to write a statute that will have um how this is how we want to do special education, this is how we want to do at risk, those kinds of things. And so they're they they will have to produce a bill that accomplishes that and is uh the reality though is that the outcome of all of that is a spreadsheet. And so you've got to have the words right to accomplish what you want to put into your your your formula and have the formula
044generate the outcomes you're looking at. And that took two years in 1991 and 1992 and took changing it for the next four years after every time to fix things that they didn't catch the first time. It is super hard. It will be statutoily driven by legislation that has to be introduced, have hearings, get passed, but it's going to be governed by and evaluated by how those dollars are distributed. And um so to that point, the people on this list are the people that are going to be developing that um as it stands now. Um yes. So it's very important to be engaged and to understand what's happening in the room. And we have two voting members, right? Representative McDonald and then I think you met Senator Goss and and Yeah. And and Senator Petty's on
045on the line. So that's fair enough. And then a non voting member which is the superintendent from Dodto. Is he a voting member? Okay. So we've got good representation and and people that should know. Can you tell me who's been in the room during these meetings that's monitoring kind of the conversations and um and and in an engaged way even though it's observatory. I think there's some really important um you know representatives that should be there watching and to that point to our community I'm planning to go in August that's the sped conversation correct so I have room for four more in my car if anybody wants to ride along to Topeka I'm planning to go to those August meetings in person but can you tell me who's been in the room and represented um
046putting all these things on YouTube I haven't gone back and looked at the the view accounts of those kind of things because it may be a thousand people. But um I so there are a lot of people engaged watching um you know um those of us that are are responsible for you know keeping an eye on this and and and working were there the the associations uh are are there the superintendents K&A US and KSB. So, and and we're engaging all the time with uh with members of the commission. And then the the most important people there, frankly, are the people that are writing the bills and staff. And so, um in general, public doesn't show up. There's not a big crowd. It's uh not the most exciting thing to sit through unless you're really
047interested in it. So, but it is it is less than a regular committee meeting. Okay. I'm just going to jump in. One of the things is that people should probably be know more about what's going on. Yeah. Because there are agree there are things that are being presented that are um really bad and they're bad enough no one thinks we're ever going to do them. But it's bad to see them. I mean, if you think about putting at risk dollars instead of distributing them the way they're they are currently and you just do it on a per pupil basis, you've got 250 school districts that lose money, right? And I know because there's a spreadsheet that shows that shows that there's a run that shows that. There are really bad ways of dividing things up
048and and they're pretty obvious, too. And that's that's something point that's got to get out to a wider audience. Great. Well, the information you bring us as always, thank you. It's very important and appreciate your work. Dr. A question and then a couple of things I I want to mention. Do you have a sense because I don't believe it's happened yet, but other either at the August meeting or the September meeting with the task force, will they hear testimony from people? There has been no um no um statement that there's going to be public testimony here. I think the general understanding and informal conversations that I've had with the chair is there's going to be a bill at some point and it's going to have a hearing and it's going to go through the process.
049Okay. I at some point they may feel compelled to open it up and take testimony or have input but they haven't solicited it and there's no nothing built into the schedule that says that's going to happen. Okay. Thank you. Two other things I'd mention. One is uh related to the task force. Um if you just Google Kansas Education Funding Task Force and you go to their legislative page, all the runs that Dr. pol is talking about are actually within the agendas and the minutes. So that's not necessarily I think where things like that typically maybe are housed, but you can find them there and and you can actually look pretty quickly because it's if it's a positive impact, it's black. If it's a negative impact, it's red. So you can get a pretty good sense
050pretty quickly of just the different ways that the conversation has gone related to the runs and also see, you know, which district it's impacting in positive ways and which ones it's negative. And and as Dr. a little mentioned. You'll see ones that are all red, ones that are all black, and ones that are, you know, both and and what have you. But a lot of information um on those runs that that have been done that way. The other thing I wanted to mention also, and this goes actually to the federal part, is I think it was last week, the ESSER money was released from the federal government. So Kansas had about $22 million worth of ESR money that was being used to help schools uh you know help our staff uh get the seal of
051literacy and some of the things that are being required and letters training and some leadership training and things that KSD had been working on and that money I think was last week was was reinstated. Um so so that has um started flowing again from the department of education to our our state agencies. board. Anything else? Dr. Little, as always, we appreciate you, your time, your expertise coming here um during our meetings to share information. So, thank you. Thank you very much. Steel. At each regular meeting, the board of education reserves limited time for individuals to address the board. We ask that your comments be gerine, that is related to the business this board effectuates. Non-compliance may result in the president interrupting to redirect. We request that individual speakers limit their comments to 5 minutes. The
052clerk will monitor the time and notify the speaker when the five minute time limit has expired. Please direct your comments to the board and not the guests or staff. If a response is appropriate, the president will respond to refer to another individual. In an effort to respect privacy, we ask that speakers refrain from discussing personal complaints involving individual staff members or students. Audience disruption is also not permitted. Those speaking are advised that public comments are videotape recorded for broadcast on the district's educational access channel and audio tape recorded as a matter of public record. Individuals addressing the board should come to the podium at the front of the room and state your name, city, and state, and your relationship to the district. Thank you. Thank you. Our first speaker this evening is Megan Brics. Good
053evening, Board of Education. My name is Megan Brics and I'm a proud elementary music teacher here in our THA public schools and I'm a resident of Dodto. Tonight, I'm here to uplift public education, especially here in THA. We need our public schools. We need our community skills. We need to provide a free and public education for all students. We must stand together to share the positives and successes that we have in Rala public schools despite federal funding cuts that are impacting public education. As someone who works directly within public education, I know the importance of recruiting and retaining certified and classified staff who are here to help our students grow as our future is their future. Public education is the heartbeat of our communities and we must remind ourselves, our neighbors, and our community members
054the importance and value that public education has on our future generations. With all of the information coming out related to funding cuts, we must all come together to focus on the most important aspect of public education, our students, specifically our public school students. As we get closer to the back to school season, we must remind ourselves of ways that we can support our THA students. One incredible way to give back is supporting the THA public schools foundation backpack and supply drive. This summer, OPSF will be filling over 2500 backpacks to help every student be prepared for the start of the school year. Ways that community members can support include making a monetary donation towards school supplies, dropping off school supplies and backpack donations, shopping online from one of the OPSF wish lists, hoping hosting your
055own school supply drive, and of course by helping to spread the word. I am personally looking forward to helping later this month with delivering those backpacks to sites across our school district. Again, I want to emphasize the importance of recruiting and retaining high quality, classified, and certified staff to provide the best possible public education to our tha students. I hope that our staff, families, students, and community find ways to enjoy the remainder of our summer. Thank you for all that you do as our board of education, and thank you for always putting our students and all of our staff first. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker is Nick Crley. Hello. Um, it's July, so I don't have a lot of super exciting stuff to share, but I did think that it would be uh
056uplifting to hear about some of the successes from Mil Creek Summer School. Um, because it ended the last Thursday in June. Um, and I was working it and so I was like, why not share some good news? Um, we had a total of 35 credits recovered over the course of the four uh over the uh sorry, 35 half credits recovered over the over the course of the four weeks, which uh is a pretty good number for um our records. And then I do also have one kid right now who has continued working into July and is monitoring I'm monitoring my email pretty regularly because it's her last elective for her to get a diploma. Um, so she didn't quite make the May deadline, but putting in the time and effort to make sure that she
057still gets something before um she would have to roll over and become a uh and go into the adult education program. So, um, that's been kind of cool to see. Um, that sort of stuff is like I I like it and I really enjoy working the summer. Uh, I was just telling Dr. Jagger that last month. Um, because I don't like unstructured time. Um, which is also why I show up here every Thursday or the first Thursday of every month. Um, but uh, one of the things that I really value is I actually get to see a lot of the classified staff that I don't normally get to see. Um, because our night custodians are working during the day, which is kind of cool. Um, and so being able to see them, um, and just
058a reminder that like, you know, like the teachers go home, but there are a lot of people, uh, secretaries, custodians, um, sometimes even food managers and stuff like that that stay and are doing stuff throughout our district. And I do really value them, and it's always good to be reminded of that. Um, I was really disappointed to see the news about the money. Um, because going back to the the way that contracts are allotted in Kansas, like I do know that like that is that that um classified staff and and things like that are one of the one of the places that might end up getting hit um whenever we're not given money that we are owed. So, I appreciate you guys continuing to ask hard questions and fight for that. and I appreciate your
059commitment to our students and to our staff, which again I will continue to trump it is better here than almost anywhere else in the city. And so, um, that is at least one comfort. Um, when people text me and it's like, "Ah, is this affecting you?" I'm like, "Listen, like we're in better hands than we possibly could be anywhere else." So, I do appreciate that. Um, but yeah, um, I mostly just wanted to, you know, share some positive stuff. if I could talk about some of the things that I'm sure we're all feeling right now about uncertainty and frustration, but you know, I have a total of like I don't know like seven kids that that got like a ton of stuff done. Um, and that was a really big meaningful thing for those families
060and so I'm just going to choose to focus on that. So, um, I appreciate you guys. Um, and I hope you have a wonderful rest of your summer. Thank you. Thanks to Mr. Crley and Miss Brics for being here in the summer and for all that you continue to do for Altha Public Schools. Okay board, we are ready for action consent items and I would accept a motion for items 5.01 to 5.13. [Music] I move to approve items 5.01 01 through 5.13 is presented. Second. Motion by Mr. Babbot. Second by Miss Steel. Mrs. Reagan. Yes. Mr. Cune. Yes. Mr. Babbot. Yes. Dr. Ericovich. Yes. Mrs. Steel. Yes. Motion passes. 50. Action bids. Contracts and agreements. Item 6.01 to 6.16. Is there a motion? I move to approve action items, bids, contracts, and agreements 6.01 through
0616.16 as presented. Second motion by Mr. Cune, second by Miss Reagan. Before we take a vote on that um board, there are a number of um change uh items uh costs and related to construction and and fixtures and additional purposes. And Mr. Pangi is going to make some just general comments um about that because there are a number of items which equals a lot of money. I I do think if you're comfortable with it, we'll have Mr. free talk about 6.13 which is the esports one. Great. Yeah. Great. So do you want me to identify which ones or are you okay? Um so this would be um the change requests were related to um 6.07 6.09 and 6.12. Okay. And then Mr. Umpre is going to talk about 6.13. So I'll first uh discuss first
062of all good good evening. Thank you for letting me uh visit and speak. Um I'll bring up 6.06 first which is the Yes, I overlooked that. Thank you. You're welcome. The the purchase of our furniture fixture equipment for our new public schools innovation campus. Uh the purpose of that is for purchasing multiple categories of of items um which includes appliances, student furniture, staff furniture, um specialized equipment that will go in each of the uh uh programs that are there or um the operation service center portion of the project as well. Um ancillary furnishings, um exterior furnishings, seating and storage space that's not necessarily built in as well. Um and that also aligns with 6.07 which is the um uh program equipment for uh the innovation campus as well which includes more of the the specialized
063supplies and equipments for each of the uh programs in there. So for example that would be um uh our culinary kitchen uh supplies. Uh each of the programs that are going into the new facility is increasing in capacity. And so right now we need to to supply the the programs with the equipment and furnishings that they need when we move in there. So again, both those action items are similar budgets that what we had on New Santa Fe Trail Middle School as well, and we budget for those on any of our larger um new construction and renovation projects. [Music] Um 6.09, let me bring that up here real quick. Um that's a a change order for our new Santa Fe Trail Middle School. Um as we have finally completed phase two of the project with
064our track and field and removal of the uh original building that was there. Um we had a cost that was incurred to install some uh additional um equipment and measures for the per perimeter drain around the track uh that was accidentally omitted from the project. So that's what the cost is for on that one. Um 6.112 is additional construction management services on the THAA innovation campus project through our partners at Macau and Gordon Construction. Um the construction manager fees as part of any project basically consists of three things. It's um general condition costs, general requirement costs, and their fees. uh back in um um May uh approval. This is for the three-month delay that we've currently had on the project and there are additional services for that. Back in May, the board approved um the
065general requirements additional service portion of it. What's being presented tonight is the general conditions services and fees. What that equates to is the um staffing uh for Mac Gordon um and also includes their office supplies item to to support the construction management of that 3month uh delay. Um and then the general requirements that were approved back in May is more of the non-management indirect costs as well. So the reason why we split it up is the time because we're getting close to finishing the project. We wanted to make sure we didn't have any other delays that were on the project. So, we're we're able to present that to you tonight and we were able to negotiate that with with the group from Mac Gordon. Thank you for that clarification. Mr. Umprey. Yeah. Again, good evening
066and it's always a pleasure to follow Mr. Pangi. So, he articulates that stuff so well. But, um, I get to talk a little bit about the esports program and kind of the vision behind what that is and what it's meant for and what it's going to mean for our district. First and foremost, this is something that we've been really passionate about over the last couple years. Um, we've kind of had the foresight to know that this was coming. Um, we were anticipating Quesa to eventually approve esports as an officially sanctioned Quaca um, activity across the state. And, um, you know, our teams, our technology team, our facilities team, our SLT as as a whole, um, has really started to kind of look at ways that we can position ourselves to be ready for when that
067time comes. So, we're excited to bring this opportunity for our schools. Um, in anticipation of that, over the last year, we've kind of piloted a esports club across all five of our high schools where we've utilized our CAD labs in each of those high schools to um kind of just test the waters, see where kids are in terms of wanting to get involved and and what esports will bring. I'll talk about that here in just a second, but we've been overwhelmed by that response by our students to to get involved in um something like esports across our schools. Uh this last year, our students competed in games like Rocket League, uh chess, and officially sanctioned league league matches across the state. Um one of our goals, and this is kind of the the highlight of
068all this, right? You know, one of our goals in in LA is ensure that all students have a place within our buildings. And we immediately noticed that some of those more non-traditional students that don't historically get involved in our buildings were showing up to those esports uh meetings and clubs and and getting involved. And that's hats off to those sponsors, those administrators in those buildings for uh presenting those opportunities, making sure students were aware. And um you know, I think when this gets off the ground and we have this esports arena, which I'll talk about here in a minute um up and rolling, it'd be great to hear from some of those students who are directly involved because they're your atypical. They're not your star quarterback or your um cheerleader. They might be, but they're
069also those kids that maybe historically didn't have a place in our building. So, we're really excited for that. Um which brings us to the arena that we're really excited to to showcase and kind of let um our district see first and foremost. And again, hats off to Travis and his team for um kind of coming up with some design. I will say uh technology was heavily involved because we obviously have a vested interest in that. And we also have a worldranked Halo player on our team who has uh been a part of these um esports events for her entire life. And uh having her as a resource has been truly invaluable to best create an environment that replicates what a student would see in an esports arena. Um so we envision our esports arena to
070you know be utilized similar to like our district activity centers you something where our uh teams can go to there experience more of an industry level uh experience best prepare them for um you know those highle competitions. We see it as a place where sponsors are or can bring their teams to practice. Uh we can create district and state level uh different competitions. We have a space designed right now at 20 gaming stations, 10 that kind of serve within a practice, maybe a preliminary round environment, and then it would transition more to uh 10 spaces that truly are in in an in an arena where there would be spectators and people that could watch their friends watch their sons and daughters uh play games where you can actually see the game play. You know, I
071mean, some of the technology that we'd have in that space. And then also, you know, there's a camera that shows those kids who are kind of intense uh playing those games. And I think that would be just really cool for um parents and for uh friends to be able to see that. You know, I think no esports arena is complete without some broadcasting commentary. That's a big part of the esports um kind of environment and something that, you know, our teams have gotten to see just across the board like what it looks like. You know, we we didn't grow up playing games like this. why I might have a little bit but um ultimately you know being able to see that there's a broadcast there's people who commentate on these uh games as they're being
072played and they call out you mean things that are happening you know in those games so that people can get excited about what's happening just like you'd see at a basketball game just like you'd see at a football game. It really um you know gives those same vibes that you see there. And then the space is also designed and this is one thing that we really passionate about. It's designed to be flexible. Um, so yes, it it does accommodate events like esports, but it also can accommodate events outside of esports. Um, think of things like TED talks, professional developments, uh, classroom sessions, um, things that the classroom space uh, can be used for outside of just the gaming arena. That's kind of a unique space for our kids to uh, showcase what they're learning at
073the CT campus as well as, you know, other places around the district. It's also worth noting, I think this is another reason like why esports, why this is so important. Um there's over 200 US colleges. This is as of actually 2020 2021 the last time this was really reported um accurately I would say but as of that time there were about 200 colleges and universities that had varsity esports programs and offered scholarships to players. And roughly uh $16 million was given out in scholarships to those players uh during that time frame. And we're seeing that number increase exponentially. And again, it's a way for some of those maybe uh historically unrecognized players to find a home uh to find opportunities, you know, post high school and and really get connected. So, I think for us,
074we're incredibly excited to bring this uh to tha. I think we're incredibly excited to kind of be a pioneer in this area to the state and um I think when it's all said and done, you know, it's going to be a great place for our kids to uh showcase talents. Great. Thank you. Did you mention that there's a world ranked Yeah, Kendall Blevens is her name. She'll be very embarrassed that I mention it, but she was a worldranked Halo player and uh it's Yeah, she's pretty amazing and been great for us. Great. Great. Thank you, Board. Any questions before we take a vote? Dr. I may just add a couple of quick comments. Um, the first one is, you know, I I I so appreciate Josh and Travis walking through, you know, the scope of
075things happening. You know, I also just wanted to take a second to recognize that when our board sold our bonds in 2022, um, it was a really wise decision to do it the way that it was done because it's allowed us uh for our bond dollars to go much farther than we anticipated they would. So, you know, we see um you know, extra furniture for classrooms being purchased out of our bond dollars. Uh we see Travis's uh list of uh just maintenance items going farther than they they would have all those kinds of things. But it's also allowed us, especially at OPSIC, to do some unique things like talk about having an esports arena and really benefiting from doing that while our construction partners are still on site rather than waiting when we have another
076bond at some point and then coming back in and setting up again on the same site to try to do the same kind of work. So, I just, you know, I didn't want the moment to pass without obviously first thanking our community for the the successful bond in 2022, but also to really give kudos to our board at the time for selling the bonds. that's allowed us to use it really efficiently to um have good interest earnings off of the bonds that have really given us the opportunity to expand the scope of work um that won't require us to have a bond in the future to do that work because we're getting it done um as part of the 22 2022 bond project. So, it's been pretty fun to see. I would also I wasn't
077on the board at that time. I think a couple of people were, but also Mr. Hutcherson and Miss Osborne because Knowing how the board works, I I don't want to short change those members, but doubtful that they said, "Hey, let's sell those bonds." There probably was some guidance related to that. So, thanks. Thanks all the way around with that. Okay, board. There is a motion uh to to um support actions, bids, contracts, agreements 6.01 to 6.16 um by Mr. and a second by Miss Reagan. Miss Beam. Mr. Babett. Yes. Mr. Keune. Yes. Mrs. Reagan. Yes. Mrs. Steel. Yes. Dr. Jükovich. Yes. Miss Reagan, did you have something you needed to say? Oh, no. That's okay. I just didn't want to overlook. We are um at the July meeting we um have a number of approvals
078for a variety of things and 7.01 is an example with regular board meeting dates, times and locations for the 2526 school year. So is there a motion to adopt those that have been uh published? I move to adopt a resolution to establish the 202526 regular meeting dates, times, and locations per Kansas statute as presented. Second. Motion by Miss Steel. Second by Mr. Keune. Mrs. Reagan. Yes. Dr. Jükovich. Yes. Mr. Babbot. Yes. Mrs. Steel. Yes. Mr. Keun. Yes. Motion passes. 50 item 7.02 again are appointments of board representatives uh to several organizations within at the state level. Um, I would just share that the individuals who are being appointed have either volunteered or there's been conversation prior to tonight, so it's not a surprise um to them. And would also mention in regard to the KASB
079legislative committee, that's a three-year term, and Miss Steele has been serving on that committee along with the KASB board of directors. She's resigning from the committee um for to give herself more time but more importantly to give other board members opportunity for uh leadership. So is there a motion um in regard to those appointments? Miss Steel. I move to appoint Miss Becky Johan to the Head Start Policy Council for the school year. To appoint Miss Claire Reagan to the THAA public schools foundation board for the 202526 year. To appoint Mr. Will Babbot to the diversity engagement advisory council for the year and to appoint Mr. Rob to the KASB legislative committee for the year. Second. A motion by Miss Steele, second by Mr. Babbot. So if we weren't here, would none of us be on?
080Everybody that got nominated is here tonight. Well, I I know that's why Julie made the motion, right? But you still would have been appointed even if you had missed the meeting. Just real quick just to clarify the appointment for KSB just want to clarify that's to fulfill the term through April of 2027. Correct. Correct. Okay. Correct. Thank you, Dr. Jükovich. Yes. Mr. Babbot. Yes. Mrs. Steel. Yes. Mrs. Reagan. Yes. Mr. Cune. Yes. Uh motion passes. 50-0. Board policy updates. Uh again, that information was presented um to us prior to this evening, so we've had opportunity to review. Is there a motion? Uh, I move to approve 7.03 as presented. Second. Motion by Mr. Keun. Second by Miss Reagan. Mr. Babage. Yes. Mr. Q. Yes. Dr. Jükovich. Yes. Mrs. Steel. Yes. Mrs. Reagan. Yes. Motion passes
0815-0. Uh board, as is typical, we have a number of future action items that we will act on in August. Again, um thanks to Mr. Palangi for the written information and updates regarding the 2022 bond issue. And at this time then board we are to topics for discussion. Miss Reagan, thank you. Um I was very glad to see Dr. Little here tonight just going over um you know the federal implica implications of federal funding pauses and um what's going on with the education task force. Um I also appreciate the intentional shifting of the Westview action item to make sure we did have a full dis um because it is a big it's a big decision and it's a big vote and having all of us duly elected board members here um I do think that
082is important so let's not let anybody get sick before the next meeting. Um, I did also, you know, in the conversations around the school vouchers that are in the federal bill that was passed last week, um, those are concerning because now there's no cap for how much money the federal government could be on the hook for. Um, I read one story that said it could be, you know, $51 billion where the original cap was 5 billion, then it was 4 billion. I mean that's with a B and that's the whole country. And um you know we I think as a state and as a community have voiced our concern with programs that divert money from private from public schools to private schools. And this isn't an indictment at all on private schools. I think that
083you know they have a place in our community in our country and in our state. Um, but I take issue with tax dollars um being taken away from the public good. And so I just I think it's important we all keep um paying attention to what's happening with um the implementation of those types of policies, especially since it is unclear who actually decides if Kansas can opt in or opt out. Um it's it's crazy. I think the word uncertainty goes right along with the lack of clarity of how we move forward during this time. Um I, you know, I was relieved to see that $22 million um getting released back to the state of Kansas. Um but that was, you know, that started March 28th and it's July 8th when that was announced. you know,
084the time that we have as a district to plan and to allocate and to be intentional with the resources we have. We take our responsibility as a, you know, an entity that takes in tax dollars very seriously. I I just I'm I'm very disappointed that, you know, we're having these weird pauses. you know, the hope is that we'll get that $1 million back um and have it be dispersed the way that it was allocated by Congress, but it would just be difficult if it was, you know, waiting three and a half months to see if that's going to happen. So, um but I think using our voices is a way to do that. And, um I yeah, it's a an interesting time. Um, but I know that we all can use um our voices to
085our neighbors in our community about issues that maybe the average resident in our district may not be fully aware of. On a lighter note, um, my family and I just we went on vacation. We go to Colorado every year and we were at the Denver Zoo and because I'm me and no one will be surprised about this, I talked to strangers at public places and so we were in um one of the exhibits and um just striking up a conversation how we have like freerange you know kangaroos at the Kansas City Zoo and one of the employees was like Kansas City I'm from Kansas like you're from Kansas she's like yeah I'm like where are you from? She's like, "OH." I'm like, "I'm from THA." And we got to talking a little bit. Um, and
086she's like, "Yeah, and I attended THA public schools." And first of all, my children think that it's just the funniest thing that I talk to strangers all the time when we, you know, tell them be careful about strangers. But the joy in this young person's face when we made that connection to the Altha Public School District, it it was palatable. We took a selfie. It was great. Um, and so when I'm feeling most disheartened about the things that are occurring outside of our district, I really try to root myself in the good I know that's happening within the district. And I am so proud of the professionals we have here who are advocating for what we as a district need and what we have already been, you know, congressionally afforded that we should be having
087for our students and our staff. I am so proud to be serving on a board with these individuals who will run through fire for our district. Um and just you know in those dark moments finding the light I mean whatever force is at work put that person on my path. It's exactly what I needed. Um, our tha public schools is built on full connection and in these moments where we are uncertain, I'm finding my grounding there. And if if you need someone to chat with to help find your grounding, I'm always um the staff summer and we talked about I'm off staff. get time off. Uh I would like to all of those in this building who are working throughout the summer to be prepared for the 2526 school year. I know um administrators are
088returning I think maybe some yesterday. Is that right? And um it's an exciting time of the year in the buildings to to get ready for that school year. I hope that the people who have taken time off, our teaching staff have had time to rejuvenate um and come back with that excitement as well. And and by the next meeting, our new educators um to public schools will have started. And that's kind of crazy the you know that early in August but it it's where we are in our lives. So thanks to all of our senior leadership team who have worked throughout the summer as well and um I see others here tonight Miss and Mr. Flu Dr. Fluke and others here um who are I do know your names. I'm just not going to call
089everybody in the room. So thank you. Thank you, Dr. Jagger. Well, you know, I I often joke that you all take many of the things I'm going to talk about, but tonight you literally took every single thing I was going to talk about. So, I will just uh just add on my thanks for our staff who has done a tremendous amount of work this summer. You know, credit recovery, ESY camps across the district every day to support uh students in 50,000 different ways. I mean, we we obviously usually think about like our athletic camps and things, but you know, we have culinary camps and just all kinds of things happening across our system in the summer, but um I will say with the principles returning as as Dr. Jükovich um mentioned, you know, we've started
090to hear from them a little bit this week as they've started to trickle back, but it's always kind of the the first start to what the excitement is with the beginning of a new school year. So, lots to come obviously in the next several weeks as we start the school year, but um you know, outside of some uncertainty in our world and some challenges, it's always good to be in the tha public schools and have the enthusiasm and the excitement that comes with uh thinking about and preparing for a new school year. So, thank you. Okay, board. We are at item 12.01, executive session. Um, so I would welcome a motion to adjourn to executive session and we will need one hour, but it's only 7:00. I move to discuss matters relating to actions adversely
091or favor favorably affecting a person as a student under coma and that the board return to the regular meeting at 8:05 p.m. in this room. Second. Motion by Miss Steel, second by Mr. Keune. Mrs. Steel. Yes. Mrs. Reagan. Yes. Mr. Keune. Yes. Mr. Babbett. Yep. Dr. Jükovich. Yes. Motion passes. 5-0.