001Thank you. We'll go ahead and call the meeting to order. We'll start with board advisory committee reports. We have several board advisory committee reports. I'm going to start with uh Jake Slbatnik who is going to give finance and operation and student activities. Good evening. The finance and operations committee met on April 10th at 7:30 a.m. in the board of education room. I welcomed committee members and reviewed the agenda. Dr. Katie Collier, deputy superintendent, provided an update on student fees. Charles Wrathbund, director of food and nutrition services, provided an update on meal pricing, and Jason Gillum, director of business operations, presented on an update on transportation and facility rental fees. Jason Gillum and I concluded the meeting by presenting the bids and contracts. Our next meeting is May 8th at 7:30 a.m. in the Board of
002Education room. The Student Activities Committee met on April 3rd at 7:30 a.m. in the High Plains conference room. Matt Ortman, director of school administration, opened the meeting by thanking the senior students for their contribution and commitment to the committee. Matt then updated members on the status of the supplemental salary schedule for coaches and sponsors and discussed next steps. The committee members then discussed areas of focus for the next school year. The meeting concluded with athletic and activity highlights from high school, middle school, and Blue Valley recreation staff. Thanks, Jake. Um, Dr. Schmidt is going to give both the curriculum and instruction and the health and well-being reports. Good evening. Uh, the curriculum and instruction board advisory committee met on April 2nd. That evening, they were presented with an overview of the design philosophy and construction
003process for the Wolf Springs Middle School. Following, Kelly June and Jennifer Lewinsky provided draft curriculum documents to be reviewed by the board advisory committee members with the intention of seeking feedback for any potential revisions. The committee heard about proposed curriculum changes in the following areas. Uh career and technical education, math at the sixth grade level, which you've already heard about, science, AP physics, and AP chemistry, social studies, international studies, and advanced psychology, and visual arts, sixth, seventh, and eighth grade. The work all occurred under the under the guidance of board policy 4000. The board will receive drafts of these documents for review and consideration as part of your May meeting with a request to vote in the June meeting. Secondly, the health and well-being committee met on March 5th uh and were presented an overview
004of the Blue Valley nutrition services highlighting the USDA meal requirements and the neutral slice app uh which provides nutritional information with and helps with dietary uh accommodations and allergies. They also discussed the free and reduced meal program which requires annual applications based on household income and state assistance programs. Following that, Dr. Mindy Wells presented on durable skills and post-secondary preparation, emphasizing the importance of social emotional learning and its positive impact on academic performance. She addressed concerns about academic misalignment and highlighted the Kansas SECD standards which focus on creating safe and supportive learning environments. The meeting concluded with an open forum on integrating SEAL with academic skills. The next meeting is scheduled for April 23rd. Coming right up, Christy McNerlin is going to give the communications report. Good evening again. Um, the communications committee met on
005March 4th at 7:30 a.m. in the board of education room and board members Jod Deeds Clay Norori and Dr. Sonia Evans provided a district update to committee members including an overview of the superintendent search process. We then provided committee the committee with an update on the communications department's ongoing work and upcoming initiatives and shared progress from the strategic plan uh planning committee. The committee anticipates gathering community input on a pro a proposed plan um this spring actually this week and um we engaged in a conversation about key communication strategies for announcing a new superintendent. Community members individually reviewed potential strategies and engaged in a group discussion to determine the most impactful approaches for staff, students, and families and the community. So, we appreciate the input from those committee members. The meeting adjourned at 8:35 and
006the next meeting is scheduled for May 6th. U and I have the last two. So, the diversity, equity, and inclusion uh board advisory committee met on April 3rd. The meeting began with Dr. Kelly Wessle uh distributing a draft of the Blue Valley religious holidays and observances calendar for June 2025 through December 2026 and a draft of the Blue Valley School District's recognition dates and holidays um on social media. The committee had a great discussion reviewing those calendars and posts engaged in feedback and additions and deletions to both documents. Then I led the group in a discussion discussion regarding the future of the DEI board advisory committee. We talked about uh what we had gotten out of it, what the committee really valued, and really what came out of that is they uh it was more
007about community engagement than anything. Um they felt uh that that was a good avenue for many families to be engaged with our um school district. The other uh report I have is strategic planning steering committee met on March 25th. Um at that meeting we finalized many parts of the strategic plan uh of the draft of the strategic plan to bring forward. We presented that to our board earlier today. We we identified a mission statement. We identified core values um our strategic three strategic priorities and then the bulk of the meeting was spent reviewing the strategies and action steps that were included under those strategic priorities and identifying um making sure that we went back to the feedback we had gotten from our community and that there was a check and balance so that we hadn't
008forgotten anything. The committee has been fantastic. uh the students on there, the uh staff members and the patrons that the board has helped us to identify really have given us great feedback. Our next steps were to present this draft to the board this morning, which we did. Um we're getting ready, as Christie mentioned, uh tomorrow, to send it back out to our community for some final feedback. The committee meets again next week to review and incorporate that feedback. And then we'll be back in May to um update the board and perhaps give a final draft. That concludes our committee reports. Thank you, Tanya. All right, on to the superintendence report. Okay, as Kyle pulls this up, we have a lot of really uh positive celebrations throughout April. So, I first want to start with 41
009Blue Valley seniors were named finalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program, the most of any district in Kansas. Um those students we identified as semi-finalists early in the year. They have fulfilled all the requirements and are now finalists. So congratulations to those 41 students. Um I'm going to give a shout out to our uh podcast BV Unmuted. Uh Dr. Tyson Ostroski, the Blue Valley North principal, Scott Roberts, executive director of school administration, and Jeff Breedlove, longtime Blue Valley North teacher, uh, discussed the update to the district's personal electronic device policy, specifically at high school, and how that was going. It was a a great conversation. Um, and I would encourage you to listen to that. Many district recognition dates and holidays throughout uh the month of April. None of them happen to be this week,
010but you can see the different things that we have. um and will continue to celebrate. 75 Blue Valley retirees were recently celebrated and honored last week for their service to our community. Um there's a picture right there. It was a great celebration last week. Thanks to our HR and communications team for planning that. Um we had a great time surprising Valley Park Elementary's kindergarten teacher Courtney Tegmire and Blue Valley North's Janie Hoe. um as the 2025 recipients of the Blue Valley Education Foundation Innovative Educator Award. Special thanks to Ken Grimes and uh Ken Celzer, excuse me, and Deb Grimes for funding that award. Um they've done a long time for that. It was uh it comes with a a cash award as well for to use in their classroom. It was very cute because the
011kindergarteners thought they were all going to Disney World because the teacher had won $1,000. So, um, we said maybe not Disney World, but, um, congratulations to Bethany Walter, who was recognized at recent Royals game in the Buck O'Neal Legacy Suite. Blue Valley West Prost start team um, earned first place in restaurant management at the state competition. This is the first time in Blue Valley history we've had anybody even compete in this and they won. Um, they were pretty excited. They they called me on their way home from Witchaw and uh we're just thrilled that they won and get to go to nationals. Uh 17 Blue Valley um students in our high schools were named finalists for the 2025 Shooting Stars recognition. You can see the different areas. These are in the arts and music um
012that these programs are. And it's always a amazing um accomplishment to get to this point and to go to the awards and to see all the different um art and to listen to some of the music. Valley Park Elementary's Blair Dye earned a first place in the Heritage Language third through fifth grade group at the 2025 National Chinese Speech Contest. Um, Blue Valley Northwest, um, 2025 Kansas Association of Broadcast Student Awards, first place in the best newscast and best sports cast. And then Blue Valley High earned first place in the sports playbyplay. So, congratulations to our broadcast teams. This is just hot off the presses. Uh, Blue Valley High School chamber singers earned the overall grand champion at the 2025 Show Choir National Finals this past weekend. And so congratulations to the Tigers. Um, Kansas
013State Activities Association named five Blue Valley students as recipients of the Quesa and Capitol Federal 2025 True Blue scholarships. So we congratulate uh in bowling Blue Valley North Slade. In soccer, Blue Valley North's Jada. Swimming, Blue Valley North Sienna. Girls track and field, Blue Valley North Aubrey. and in speech and drama, Blue Valley High's Venet. Um, we just recently or got to wish Jack congratulations. So, he won that national award and will be honored this summer with that. Blue Valley North girls won the 6A state championship for the second time in three years. Um, that team has been quite impressive. And honestly, what's most impressive is if you ask them what their team GPA is, it's like a 4.3. Um, so they're good athletes, but they're also very smart girls. Uh, Blue Valley West Science
014Olympia team won first place at the state competition. So, congratulations to the Jags. Uh, Jalia Davis was also just here and you see all the different things that um, she has won and we wish her well as she goes on uh, to be a Jay-Hawk next year. We're going to watch her for years to come. I think Lakewood Middle. So, West won the high school division of Science Olympiad. Lakewood Middle won the middle school um edition of Science Olympiad. So, congratulations to them. And then congratulations to Prairie Middle Steve Essex. He was named as a male finalist for the community for coaches KC Metro Coaches of the year award. Steve is a uh coach and PE teacher at Prairie Middle. And then Anne Fritz was named the Sports and Kansas 6A girls basketball coach of
015the year. I believe this was her fifth um state title. And then I thought this was pretty cool. Blue Valley North uh student was selected to compete in the 2024 National Cricut competition or championship. And March 3rd, I didn't know this in Overland Park was uh named after him. So, and then Matt Beasler, graduate of Blue Valley West, was selected as the 2025 sporting legends inductee. And so we congratulate Matt. He does a lot of great things for our community and is a proud JAG. And then Max Crawford, a graduate of Blue Valley High School, um was featured in the National Down Syndrome Society's I Got That Extra campaign. Um so that's a great billboard with Max. And that's it. So a very productive April. So congratulations to the students and staff. Thank you. Before
016I ask for a motion for the agenda. It looks like there are a few students here attending. We always like to call you out, embarrass you, and see what you're here for. For government for government class. Okay. And government class. And you young men. Are you from North also? Government for government. Okay. Great. Well, welcome to all of you. All right. Okay, we'll go ahead and Can I have a motion to approve the regular board of education meeting agenda, please? I move that the board of education approve the April 14th, 2025 regular board of education meeting agenda as published. Motion by Jody, second by Jan. Any discussion? Seeing none, all in favor, raise your right hand or say I. Motion passes 70. Moving on to the consent agenda. Do I have a motion? I move
017that the board of education app Board of Education meeting consent agenda as published. Second. Motion by Jim, second by Jody. Any discussion? See none. All in favor, raise your right hand or say I. Motion passes. 70. On to new business. So, I'm gonna have Jake Sabbatnik come up and do the first couple here um of approvals that we are asking for. The first one is the final auxiliary gym at our high schools. This is a contract with Stro Construction for the Blue Valley Southwest Gymnasium and recommend approval of this contract. Have no concerns. Strob's done a great job on all the other projects. A clarification this morning, I said it would start this summer. It'll start this fall, complete in time for uh fall of 2026. So, can you remind me where that's actually going
018and impacting parking? Very minor impact to parking. So, it actually goes on the lower level entrance to the athletics and it's a little offset. There's a grass area right there. And so we'll build a connection between this and the existing building, but it it's the most logical place to not cover up the existing architecture and tie into existing facilities. Yeah, I have a motion. I move that the board of education approves the Rob Construction Company, Inc. contract. Motion by Jim, second by Jan. Any discussion? See none. All in favor, raise right hand. Motion passes. 70. US food. Yeah, this is a prime food contract. And by that we mean generally food that's not what I would call specialty item, produce, milk, dairy, bread, pizza. Uh this is with US food. They've been a good partner
019of the district for years. They are the lowest responsible bidder and recommend moving this forward. Do I have a motion? I move the board of education approve the US Food Inc. contract. Second. Motion by Patrick, second by Jody. Any discussion? I see none. All in favor, raise right hand or say I. Motion passes 70. And Jake, I should have said that these food contracts are yearly. Like this is the time of year that we have them. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Uh the next one I think is Brian. Um the Envision Technology Group contract. Yes. I'm asking for approval for the Envision Group project. This will be cabling work for Blue Valley West and Blue Valley Middle. This will be to upgrade cabling to uh the current standard for all our wireless access points in those
020buildings, cameras, phones, audiovisisual, and to get us prepared to convert the new paging and intercom systems in those buildings. This is uh done through a bid RFP process utilizing bond funds. Do I have a motion? I move I move that the board of education approved the Envision technology second. Motion by Jim, second by Clay. Any discussion? Seeing none, all in favor raise your right hand or say I. Motion passes. 70. So next is CNC produce. So we should have done this in a different order. Sorry guys. That's okay. As you can imagine, this is a contract for produce with CNC Produce. Um, again, partner of ours, the lowest responsible bidder. No concerns here. Recommend approval of this contract. I move the board of education approve the CNC produce contract. Second. Motion by Patrick, second by
021Jody. Any discussion? Seeing none, all in favor, raise your right hand or say I. Motion passes 70. Now, Cintigics with Brian. Yes, this is a midterm midc contract approval for CIGICS uh that was approved back in um fall of 2022. We've had the product roughly two two plus years um asking to renew a new 5-year contract so that we can get strategics in here to upgrade us to their new crisis alert system. um a more a newer more robust technology product called the Laura system which requires much less hardware to operate. Um it even uh which is going to lessen the impact on our help desk and our ticketing system. The cost of badges will actually be able to instead of sending badges in when they go bad, the new badges allow us to replace
022the batteries within them with this new system. um with the hardware reduction again less service calls and we're wanting to time this new Loris standard um which actually gives us more pinpoint um analytics and accuracy when alerts go off on where an individual is. We're wanting to time this when Centix is in the area converting other districts and we have some firsttime districts that are going to Centiggics. Uh when we talk about Spring Hill, Shauny Mission, Casey Mo, um THAS going with this new upgraded product since Blue Valley and THAA are the ones that um installed it first a couple of years ago. What that means is since we paid upfront with the initial five-year agreement, um we'll have roughly uh three years of credit, but the installation will absorb some of that. So, what
023we'll see is a $842,900 credit upon approval, and then we won't have to make a a payment towards this contract until the third year. So basically first year, second year covered and within that first year the uh installation is also covered. Um I'm hoping to get them in with approval towards the end of May and June so we can get this um knocked out with all our facilities by school start. So So when do we pay the $2 million? So the 2 million812 is this what you're approving? Okay. Once once we do that PO, they'll immediately apply a credit of 842,900. We won't get a bill the first year, second year, and then we won't see a payment asked for until the third year. Okay? So, we won't have to do anything after approval until
024the third year. So, year one, two covered with our credit, which also includes, I believe it's a 300 plus,000 install cost. all that will be covered. And uh so if I can just yes get you to confirm that that the strategics program is part of uh a part of our layered safety and security system that we have uh in order to uh keep kiddos safe uh staff safe as well as uh medical emergencies and and all of that. Yeah. So, it's the personalized badges that employees wear or three clicks for your staff alert. Anything beyond eight is a for a staff to initiate a lockdown situation. I believe we've had roughly a little over 1,100 staff alert clicks since we've had the system over two years um for a several different reasons from medical to
025behavior to alopements um to people on the premise that maybe shouldn't be there. So yes, it's part of our safety and security layered approach. Um it's every day I see alerts on our dashboards being used constantly. um is now it's embedded as a big major part of that layered system that uh I know why I feel I believe our superintendent and our safety and security director Dan Carney believes we need to continue that it it allows any staff member anywhere in the building to um identify. So, in the past, if you were in the back of Blue Valley North, I'm thinking when I was a principal, and you saw somebody who wasn't supposed to be there, you had to run and tell you could find a classroom, get a phone, now I could just immediately
026push that button and I would have help there immediately. And it's not just in your building. If a teacher transient throughout the district from one building goes to Hilltop or here, that still follows that individual. They're still able to utilize that system. Um, and I think because of Blue Valley and OA, they're proving its its value. That's why you see some of these other districts on boarding with it. So, I know I get plenty of calls monthly uh throughout the school year from other districts um asking many questions about it prior to them uh purchasing. So, do I do I have a motion? I move that the board of education approve the Centiggics contract. Motion by Jody, second by Patrick. Any further discussion? See none. All in favor, raise your right hand or say I.
027Motion passes 70. Okay, I have the next three, I believe. Um, so the next one we have up is the educ contract. Educ is through Renaissance Education. Um, Educ Climber is a data dashboard of sorts uh that allows us to have student data all in one space uh looking at math and reading um in particular data for that um student and we are asking for approval. We've had this now this would be the second of a three-year deal that we have with them. We talked about this this morning but if you have other questions I'm happy to answer. I I don't have any other questions. I just might say that I had I had asked Dr. Marrian to pull these from the consent agenda just because I had some questions around data collection and what
028was done with that data which um for this contract and for the next two that we're going to that uh Dr. American will go over and that allayed my concerns, but primarily I just wanted to understand the extent to which we were collecting data and if to the extent we were what what we were doing with that data and the extent to which we were sharing it and it's it's pretty limited. Um and really it sounds like correct me if I'm wrong that we're only providing what we're um obligated to under the Department of Education. Correct. Kansas Department of Education. Correct. Okay. And no behavior data, just to be very clear, no behavior data is collected and stored there. So, so anyway, that allayed my concerns, so I don't have any other questions. Have a
029motion. I move that the board of education approve the Renaissance Education Educ. Second. Motion by Jim, second by Clay. Any further discussion? See none. All in favor raise your right hand or say I. Motion passes 70. Uh the next one is the FastBridge contract. FastBridge is used as our dyslexia screening exam. Um also can be used for other um math screening tools at the high school level but mainly used as our dyslex dyslexia screening exam which uh we are required by law to have. Do I have a motion? I move that the board of education approve the Renaissance Education Path Bridge contract. Second. Motion by Jim, second by Jody. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all in favor raise your right hand or say I. Motion passes 70. And then the final one that I have
030here is the Zello contract, which is um with Southeast Kansas Education Service Center, which is Greenbush. We purchase it through a state contract. This is what's used for the individual plan of study online tool. Um again that's a part of our accreditation. We are um AC across the state um required to do an an individual plan of study with students. And so this is the tool that we are using. We would be in year two of a three-year deal with them as well. Do I have a motion? I move that the board of education approve the Southeast Kansas Education Service Center Zello contract. Second motion by Jim, second by Jan. Any further discussion? Seeing none, raise your right hand or say I for approval. The motion passes 70. I appreciate Jim. Did you raise your
031hand? Uh I appreciate Jim raising the questions earlier. It was a great discussion this morning uh for all of us to uh engage in. So, thank you. Absolutely. All right. I don't think we quite need a break. Not yet. Okay. Um so, we'll move on to approval of non-resident student enrollment. Okay. Thank you. This should be pretty brief. Um, as generally speaking, the policy has not changed from what you approved last year. Although Eric reminded me there there is one difference. On January 1st, we did have to open up applications for non-resident enrollment. So, we are actively receiving u applications. But just a reminder that Kansas law requires the board to allow non-resident students to enroll if the district has capacity based on board policy and there are open seats for such students. So on
032or before May 1st, so that's why we're presenting tonight, the administration will present the recommendations concerning capacity and pupil toteer ratios to the board for adoption. We you Eric sent out his enrollment report in January. So you've seen capacity, you've seen the number of students expected to attend school district. Tonight, Eric and I will talk about the number of open seats potentially available to non-residents at each school. classroom pupil toteer ratios. Eric will get into those numbers exactly. Uh projected enrollment shifts which include an adjustment for anticipated growth or decline based on documented enrollment trends, anticipated demand for particular courses or programming that might impact staffing, capacity of classroom activity in common spaces. Those are all components in determining whether or not we have capacity in our buildings. as are a couple of um datadriven
033numbers. So in our 9 through 12 schools, a current and projected enrollment which indicates the capacity is below 75% may qualify as a school open to non-resident transfers and consideration will be given to the impact of grade level and class side class size. You'll note that no high schools currently meet these qualifications this year at K through 8. a school with a current and projected enrollment which indicates the capacity is below 75% as well as grade level enrollment which indicates the capacity is below 75% may qualify as a school open to transfers. You'll note that Aspen Grove Elementary is the only school that meets these qualifications. There are some priorities that the board uh put into place last year. Any sibling of a non-resident student attending school in the district. A student who is a
034military student. Any child who's in the custody of the department for children and families and living at home with a non-resident student. Any student who has a parent or person acting as a parent employed by the district. Any students residing outside the district but who attended school in the district in the prior year. And any child who is experiencing homelessness. With that, I'm going to turn it over to Eric Poll. He is our assistant director of planning and operations. He's our numbers guy and he's going to talk about the numbers for you. Thank you very much. Good evening. Uh so these are the people toteer ratios that we apply when we look at staffing uh for how many sections we're going to need for every grade. Uh that also plays into our capacity evaluations as
035it pertains to this non-resident transfer portion. Uh these are the same as they were last year and in recent years. Um and you can see uh there is kind of a sliding scale based upon the grade level. Just to give you some statistics now that we have a year of doing this uh behind us uh for what we saw coming into this school year as we started this process last year. And so you can see we published 86 seats. We had seats at Aspen Grove Elementary and seats at Blue Valley Southwest High School. uh and we published a total of 86 seats. We got applications for 48 seats and we currently have enrolled as of last week 23 students in Blue Valley that ultimately um accepted those offers for those open seats. And then as
036we apply the formula to Aspen Grove for this year, um the main line are those highlighted numbers, the total non-resident seats. You can see there are a total of 63 uh in grades K through five at Aspen Grove that we've identified. Applying the formula across the top, you see the number of sections anticipated at every grade level. uh you take that and multiply it by the maximum number of students uh per classroom at that grade level and you get the capacity of those expected staffed sections. And then we apply a calculation to say okay um within that grade level how many students could we rise to total and remain below 75% and the difference between the projected resident enrollment and that number is how we determine how many open seats we have at that grade
037level. Uh and so you can see those numbers there. Uh I can tell you right now since we've been gathering um applications since January, uh we've got about 44 applications K through five that have come in. Um just kind of one here, one there. Uh but over 30 of those are for kindergarten. So it's almost entirely kindergarten. Uh last year when we ran this process, the only grade level, and we had high school and elementary, the only grade level where we had to do a random uh selection was in kindergarten. Everywhere else we had fewer applicants than we had published open seats. So this is the recommended um number of open seats that we would publish for next school year that uh we are bringing to you tonight for approval. Any questions? Do you know
038about how many applications we've received this year just in general? Yeah, we've gotten about 44 applications as of uh this morning. Quick question. So, um, of the applications we received last year and the ones that that got in, how many actually ended up attending? So, that's that number where I said we have 23 now. We actually had 26 earlier in the year. It's a small little D. It's a it's a small number. Um, just to kind of characterize it. Uh some I think looked at the logistics of coming from where they were applying from um and decided maybe that wasn't going to work out for them or um some um looked at the Quesacia guidelines. We had some that were applying to come to Blue Valley Southwest as seniors uh who were good athletes and
039upon realizing that there was a rule that says they can't compete for a year uh then they said, "Okay, we don't want that open seat after all." And we've done a good job at every step in this process of application. We make that crystal clear of what the requirements are. In fact, I'm sure they roll their eyes at having to acknowledge over and over again this list of qualifications and and conditions uh for non-resident transfers. The the 44 applications you've got are all for Aspen Grove. Yes. Okay. And that's because we know that's the only school. We already knew that was the only school based on the projections that was going to meet the policy. So when you go to in to apply online that's the only option you get. Anything else? Do I have
040a motion? I move that the board of education approve the pupil toteer ratio and number of open seats available for non-resident students at each school as presented. Motion by Jody, second by Sonia. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all in favor raise your right hand or say I. Motion passes 70. Policy 2281. Anna, are we gonna need a break for the captioner? Okay. Um Okay. before us today. Um, Miss Hillman and I are going to kind of tag team this. Uh, we have policy 2281. So, what I want to give a little bit of of background since we were here last month, um, the Kansas legislature did entertain a bill around a registered um, offender. If you're on the registered offender list and your access to schools, um, that ultimately, my understanding is, went through the
041Senate but did not make it through the House. And so we were kind of waiting around last week seeing if that was going to happen because we would need to tie our policy to a law. Um but that did not happen this session. Um so we have a proposed policy here. U the other thing that I would say is that just what we said last time is that we're going to get this right. So we'll discuss again this evening and if uh the board has other revisions we'll come back in May uh and do this. We did give it um out to our community for feedback. We had very limited feedback, but the feedback we received um was that they did not want exceptions um for people who were on that list, adults who were
042on that list um to be allowed into schools. So, you will see that feedback uh represented in this policy. So, Kyle, can you pull up um what's in the um diligent website? Okay. And then the the third thing I would say is that I believe um Miss Hillman uh spoke today with the district attorney's office. I did I spoke with Steve How this morning uh discussed our proposed policy as you're going to see it in a minute. He was supportive of the policy as it's prepared as it was drafted. Do we have any insight as to why uh the House was not able to process this during this session? I I don't know if it was just too late in this session and okay um I I didn't get the sense because I talked to
043um several folks in DIA. I didn't get the sense that anybody was opposed to it. I just think it perhaps was too late in this session. I believe it will come back next year is what I've been told. Da thinks that it will come back next year and likely pass next year. Yeah, no pressure. We're all just waiting on you. Hey Melissa, maybe maybe if you read it to us if you read the policy. I can read it. I thought it would be Yep. more meaningful for you if you could see it, but I'll go ahead and read it for you if you like. Um, currently is drafted. It says, "No person 18 or older who is registered on the Kansas Public Offender Registry as a result of the commission of a sex crime against
044a minor child shall be allowed on any school district property or attend any school sponsored activity, event, or program except for those adults who are current Blue Valley students. For purposes of this policy, sex crimes are defined in KSA2-551. ETS sec. Any Blue Valley student who is on the offender registry with a legal right to attend school will require a safety plan that has been approved by the director of safety and security and the superintendent before beginning. Nothing in this policy is intended to impose a duty upon any district administrator, employee, or board member to review the Kansas public offender registry to determine the presence of offenders in the community. This policy shall apply when district or school administrators have direct knowledge that a person in question is on the registry. I have received a
045handful of comments today from board members suggesting some further revisions to this. So if that is the case, I would suggest that we continue talking about the policy. We can introduce it in workshop again in May and bring it back to the board in the evening meeting in May. Can I just ask a question, Melissa? Um this the additional we we looked at a a version of this this morning and we've added after our discussion you guys added a couple of of qualification or one qualification right which was the phrase as a result of the commission of a sex crime against a minor child to qualify that class of people that are on the Kansas public offender registry. So my question is, does the phrase um commission of a sex crime against a minor child,
046is that uh comprehensive enough to pick up uh trafficking in child pornography? Those are included within 21-51 at SEC, that section of statutes. So that was my purpose of the phone call to Steve how today was to make sure that we were very inclusive of any sex crimes against minor children. Okay. Okay. I'm good. Any other discussion? So are we tableabling this till May? That's up to That's up to the board. table today. Okay. Um I would prefer to table it to May. I have some concerns about um potential interpretations of putting any uh um unintended duty on employees, volunteers, um staff members, um and putting the onus on those folks instead of on the offender, um him or herself. So, I do have some concerns regarding that that haven't been completely resolved that I
047would want to get tightened up. But doesn't it state that nothing is intended to impose a duty? It's and then it's qualified. The duty is only to there's no duty to look at the offender policy to determine if there are members in our community on the registry. I don't understand. I don't understand what you're saying. It's quality. Thank you. Sure. It says [Music] um there's nothing intended to impose a duty on a district administrator or employee to review the Kansas public offender registry to determine the presence of offenders in the community. So to me that means there's no duty to go out and look for offenders every day to see if they they live around. Correct. Um but is there a duty at some other time to pull up and review this? Is there a
048duty to um affirmatively remove a person who might be on um the property, a teacher, an administrator? I would like to I would like to see it qualified that a law enforcement or director of safety and security would be in charge of that and not any parent, teacher, student. I think that goes along with any so we have all kinds of policies and if and laws quite honestly um and if we see that a law or a policy is being violated um that it's a safety issue this would be a safety issue always would involve our campus police or SRO's we would call 911 if if if that's what we needed um I I don't know if I don't know it just we don't qualify that in all of our policies. That'd be more of
049a procedural issue underneath this policy is my understanding. I was going to say that would probably be appropriately incorporated into a management guideline. You you I mean we can add it. We certainly can add it. I don't think it's it's harmful. Um but I also don't think that I I think that's what we would do anyway. We would always involve law enforcement our standard procedure correct for anything like this. Yeah. I don't to me I don't think we generally put in how we handle a violation of a policy in the policy. I would hate to start adding it and perhaps it goes into a guideline. Um that might be the solution here but this is definitely a heated I don't I would hate to see someone use this policy to take their own vigilante justice
050to remove someone they find in at a football game at a performing arts center. Um, I think with this type of policy, we we should make it crystal clear that it is not those administrators or teachers or parents duty that we get law enforcement or an SRO or some kind of security person involved in this type of thing. That's what my concern is because this is such a uh this is definitely a hot topic. Um, and I want to make sure that's clear. So to just to make sure I understand, you're you're not opposed to the first part where we um eliminate entrance to our schools and our buildings. Um that part makes sense. It's the third paragraph. You just want more clarification about what we would do if we believe somebody is violating that
051or that that is yes that is part of it. The other part is the first part is I would rather it say that no offender as defined um shall enter onto or remain on the property that it is up that is the onus is on them. It is not on a teacher or administrator to allow or disallow. It is on the offender themselves that they may not come onto our property. And if in that way they are the violator of the policy and it that makes it crystal clear that they are violating the pro the policy or they attend a an event and it's not that the teacher is the violator of the policy for somehow inadvertently allowing somehow someone I don't want that interpretation to go against a staff member number. I want to
052make it sure this is crystal clear. It's the offender that's violating this policy. What language would you add to it? I would change it to shall um where it says be allowed. Removed those two words and replace enter onto or remain. and then remove the two the word to after or and it spells out the things that the offender cannot do. you you are um trying to eliminate the passive voice essentially because I do not want it in any way in any time um interpreted in a way that a staff member or an employee um could be violating this policy because it is on the offender's it's the offender's duty not to come onto the property or attend an event. I will say these board policies are um intended to help govern the school district
053and its employees on how to act and handle certain situations. They're not necessarily directed at the community, but are to assist our staff. And then following up on that, if it's to assist the staff, if there's a violation, it goes back to the last part that I said, this is what you do. You contact law enforcement or department or a director of safety and security or an SRO to handle it who then can be trained and have the guidelines of what to do in that type of situation. Are there other issues that other members have other than this? I can appreciate the prec precise language that um Clay is seeking. I I I read it a lot this afternoon and I and I think it accomplishes what we're setting out to to achieve. So, I'm
054I'm okay with the language. But I I can appreciate though, you know, your your stab at at improving the the lingo, but I think it's I think it works. Couldn't we pass the policy with the caveat to make sure that clarification is integrated into the procedures? We we can do a couple things. We can bring it back next month. We can write an administrative guideline to go with it. Um that includes some of that verbiage. Um I guess those are the two options I I see because I want to alleviate Clay's you all are taking you all want this uh to be crystal clear for our community and I agree it it has a lot of um people who are interested in this and we want to make sure that we're clear. So I would
055say two options. One is we table it. We we work over the course of the next month bring it back or you pass it as is and we bring an administrative guideline back next month to show you. Either way, we come back next month with something to show you. I would suggest the latter option that you just presented. Make a motion. I agree. I would like to I'd like to put it to bed and have an administrative guideline to to flush it out further. Well, I'll move that the board of education approve policy 2281 as presented with administrative guidelines to follow. Second. Thank you. Motion by Jan, second by Jim. Any further discussion? Um, well, I'll state because I do want this to be uh we do need a policy in place. I will be
056voting to approve this policy because it does something. It's better than nothing. I still think um I don't think the concerns are my concerns are allayed. Perhaps we can I can work with Melissa, get some more um clarification on that, but for the next 30 days, I would rather have this than nothing. And I would just appreciate all the work that's been put in on this. Um I think this kind of all took us off guard um a little bit that I mean even me having uh worked in corrections I I did not realize that that after a person was off of supervision that you know it was uh there was nothing there was no parameter uh that that the state of Kansas didn't put anything out there. And I appreciate Melissa's, you know, diligence
057in um, you know, all the research you've done and the word smithing and reaching out to our local DA um to also get their um, read on it, too. So, thank you. Thank you for that acknowledgement, Jody. It's appreciated. All right. Um, all in favor, raise your right hand or say I. Motion passes 70. Okay, next up we have another policy, but you are not voting on this. This is a first draft. Uh Dr. Schmidt is coming up for policy 3611.2, which is the administration of medication. Okay. Um we just made a couple of changes or recommended recommended changes to the administration of medication. Uh recently there's been a change in the state law that expands the medications that can be used within a school district in an emergency. Uh these are all life- saving
058medications. Uh we just recently added albuterol uh as being available. And so the policy's been rewritten to expand the availability of nasal nlloxxone. So that's always been available. We wrote it originally uh to only be available in the secondary schools. Now, we want to make sure it's available in all buildings uh with with students in them or with staff or students in them. Uh added albuterol TBS is an emergency med and reorganized some of the language based on KASB recommendations. Uh are there any questions? Seeing none, uh the next we will bring it back in May for uh board action and then we'll buy supplies and train staff and it will be ready to go beginning of next year. Thank this policy is available for comment to from the community for the next month as
059well. Okay. So the next agenda item for tonight is our board of education committees. Um we are currently looking at restructuring our committees. We will still be accepting applications for our finance and operations committee uh since that one will remain largely the same and it continues operating throughout the summer. Um but we are looking at consolidating some committees and especially with the um executive order requiring us to um get rid of our DEI committee. We are dissolving that. Um and so we do not have committees to present tonight for approval. Uh so we will be discussing that further in May. Is there any comments on that? Well, just to further clarify, you know, we've got a new um strategic plan um that we're really excited about and um we're just going to take a really
060close look and make for sure that our strategic plan and our board advisory committees um aligns well. We do this every few years anyhow. Um some committees we can we can be more efficient with um but still cover the important topics um and advocate in important ways for our um students and families. Absolutely. All right. Our final item for the evening or near final item for the evening is legislative update, the last one of the year. Right. As Kyle pulls this up, um I am going to give a kind of an update of of what happened in Topeka as it relates to schools. Not as it relates to maybe other areas of the community, but as it relates to schools. And I want to give a caveat on this. They just finished their session on
061Friday, and I believe I caught most of it. Um I I tried uh but it was kind of coming and going really quickly towards the end, but I believe I've caught um all of the significant information for Blue Valley. So here was the calendar. Um they adjourned on April 11th, last Friday for the year. So this session is officially done. And I want to applaud our uh people who are elected and who go and who serve our community um because I know that it's fast and furious for them um during those couple of months. Um, our just as a reminder, these are our five adopted priority positions. Fund special education, oppose tax credits and vouchers, establish fair and equitable school finance formula, enhance student mental health, and support recruitment, retention, and alternative teacher certification. I'm
062really happy to say that there are no additional tax credits or vouchers. Um, so that was a positive out of this session. There is some additional money for special education, not as much as we wanted, but there is some more. So we we appreciate that. So here are the bills that um passed the section session that affect Blue Valley. House Bill 21102 permitting the advanced enrollment of military students whose parent or persons acting as parent will be stationed in the state prior to physical residency. So typical if if a parent walks into our schools, you have to have a a lease or a contract, something to show that you're moving here. What this is saying is that if they are military family, we need to enroll them without that. Uh Senate Bill 44 concerning anti-semitism,
063declaring anti-semitism to be against public policy, defining anti-semitism and anti-semitic for purposes of state law. Um, this is something we would not tolerate anyway. That's a a part of our non-discrimination policy. Uh, Senate Bill 45 uh is a way of calculating um graduation, an alternative way of calculating graduation, excluding those students who transfer to home schools or nonacredited private schools or enroll in a school credit deficient from the alternative calculation of graduation rates. They still I still need to see exactly how they're going to do this. Basically, what happens with a student is if I'm a Blue Valley North student and I transfer to home school, if I say I'm going to be homeschooled now, and we don't get proof that they ever graduated, even though they may have, um, we they count against us
064as a dropout. So, that's what that is trying to um leave. I believe the other one is the virtual school enrollment that it started out just being a virtual program and it ended up being for everybody. Um, Senate Bill 114 authorizing non-public and virtual school students to participate in the ancillary public school activities making it unlawful for school districts to discriminate against them. So what this means is if we have a homeschool student and we have um many of our schools do have a homeschool student or private school student who comes and plays a sports volleyball is on the debate team. Say they're on the volleyball team at Blue Valley West and they have a pep assembly for the volleyball team. What that's saying is that those students should be allowed to come to the
065pep assembly. They have an end of the year banquet. Those students should be allowed to come to the end of the year banquet. We already did that. We never would exclude a student from that. Obviously, somebody didn't or they wouldn't have done this bill. Um, this one affects all of us. Jake and his team especially. Um, House Bill 2022 requires that any special election, that would be a bond election for us, has to be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in April. I think that's March actually. I think it's March. I don't know why I put April. Or on the same day as the general or primary election. So, we have three different dates we could do a bond election on. We could do it on the um primary election in August,
066on the general election in November, or on the first Monday or first Tuesday after the first Monday in March, not April. My bad there. So, likely you'll see a lot of people doing those in March because we get a better turnout. Um, House Bill 2069 allows school psychologists to obtain license to provide school psychology services in any member state. That's similar to the reciprocity agreement we have for teachers. So, if you're licensed in Missouri, for example, you can come across to Kansas. Um, House Bill 2134 amending the Kansas Open Records Act um, regarding charges for records. Um, they have some specific, you can read in their requirements on that. We'll still have to review that, but that will affect us. Senate Bill 35, discontinuing the state property tax levies for the Kansas Educational Building Fund
067and the state institutions building fund and providing for finance financing therefore from the state general fund. This doesn't affect our budget, but I'm putting it in there because it talks specifically about um Kansas educational building fund. Um, so it's it was a one and a half mills I believe that they charged to do. Uh, like the Kansas School for the Blind or Deaf I think is impacted in that, but it it is tax relief. That's the tax relief they gave. It doesn't necessarily impact us, but it does talk about education. So, and then, um, this last one happened pretty late in the session, but the Senate Bill 275 or the Senate sub for House Bill 2382 requires school districts to include a fetal development presentation as a part of the curriculum for any course that
068addresses human growth, human development, or human sexuality. And it also allows the state board to determine their own pay based um the the state board pay based received by board members. So they get to that was the original part of that bill and then they added in the other part it got yeah it was a gut and go um KSD is working on guidance for us on that because we um talk about human growth as early as kindergarten. So it would just have to be what that looks like um and age appropriate of course. And then the school finance bills, there were really two of them. Uh Senate Bill 125, which included House Bill 2007. I'm just giving you some highlights on this. The consumer price index was added to the base. That's a positive
069for us. 5 million um has to come out of the increase to the base, however, for safe and um secure schools grants. They did add an additional 10 million to special education. Um they deleted funding for professional development for mentor teachers and teachers of excellence. The teachers of excellence is the stipen that teachers who have national board certification received. So that has been eliminated from next year's budget. They did include CTE transportation funding um included. They added uh 10 million in fiscal year 25 for the attorney general's office for two-year fire arm detection software program for public schools. After two years, you would have to continue it with district funds. Added language encouraging expenditure from existing funds to be used to expand current efforts to train both elementary and middle school teachers in the area
070of the science of reading uh for fiscal year 26. So that is um that all children can read act. Um we they want us to continue to train our teachers. Uh several requirements of Kansas State Department of Education out of existing funds. Um there were four or five different things that they have to to purchase out of their existing funds. Um included language allowing foreign exchange students who reside in the district to be permitted to enroll and not be subject to open seat lottery. We didn't do that anyway. We already allowed that. Add language requiring a percentage to be included with the districts district level excess cost calculations. We still need to know exactly what that means. And then um KSDE will have a 1.5% lapse or reduction in their operating funds for 26 and
07127. And then the second bill um that they did on the last day was the Senate sub for House Bill 2125 which they had to approve the continuation of the 20 mil statewide levy for school finance. They hadn't done that yet and so that was required of them and that's it. They all passed. Yeah. All of those passed um and were either signed by the governor or they were had a veto override. Yeah. All of those passed. And I I'm sketchy on when they become law. If it's immediate or July July one. Yeah. There was a couple I thought were immediate, but most of them I think are July one. Okay. Yeah. So, there's u more information on our website bluevalk12.org legislative. Also includes all the testimony uh that we submitted throughout the year. also
072a list of all of our legislators. That's it. Thank you, Tanya. All right, we are on to board member comments. We'll start with Mr. Nori. Thank you, Madame President. Um, first I just want to thank our open forum speakers tonight. Uh, student um, uh, Sean, thank you for coming out. And then we also had Kim McGee and Jane Goodwin. Thank you for speaking tonight. Um, thank you to the Blue Valley North and Blue Valley Southwest students that have stuck it out all the way through the entire meeting. Thank you for being here. Good job. Um, special thanks to the strategic planning committee for putting all that work in and presenting us with a a good foundation. Um, so really those are the big highlights. Um, I'll be interested to see the uh special special ed
073shortfall, special ed funding shortfall that we're going to have next year because of the significant um reduction and how much we were receiving we're going to receive this year compared to what we got last year. And I think we were already at $15 million um unfunded underfunded last year. So, I imagine that's just going to keep growing and will affect our general fund. So, we'll have to watch that. Um, and that's just one comment. I don't know for those of you who were here last week, uh, we selected a new superintendent for the next school year, but I'll let my other board members talk more about that. Please bear with me. I have allergies. U I'd like to say congratulations to the two teachers that was chosen for the Kansas teacher of the year awards.
074There was a banquet and Jodie and Jan and I we attended that banquet. Uh Alex Munager Mager and Ken Vel. Alex is from Cottonwood Point Elementary and Kim Vel is from Aubry Ben and uh actually Alex made the semifinals and we would like to join their prospective schools in celebrating them. They did an outstanding job and it was a wonderful event. I mean, we are so happy that we have exemplary educators in the Blue Valley School District and they are worth celebrating and I was just ecstatic and goosebumps and everything. Thank you, Jody. Just like to uh give a shout out to the women's giving circle with the Blue Valley Ed Foundation. Um they're doing amazing things. Um they did vote uh to grant a $15,000 um uh grant to uh Blue Valley Caps program
075to save the bees. So it's pretty exciting. Um Kelly Tulle, one of our wonderful CAPS professionals, got all decked out in her beekeeping outfit. And so um it's exciting and it's going to it's going to touch a lot of kids. um there many are going to be able to participate and learn more about you know our ecosystem and and the importance of bees and kind of uh supporting that. So Jim Jan thank you. you know, talking about well, the first thing is we're very excited. We have a new superintendent hired who will start July 1st. Gileian Chapman from Jackson, Wyoming. Uh she was she's going to be outstanding. The National Search uh did us did us well and she's also she's got her roots here. Uh and she's coming back home. Um, also when we
076went down to the National School Board Association uh convention in Atlanta couple weeks ago, uh it was so clear in talking to other uh school districts, other school board members how fortunate we are. We do not have the the the problems that other many other school boards have of not support from the community. So, it made me help appreciate the community support that we have more, but also the outstanding educators and administrators that we have in the school district. And that's all I have. I was settling in. No, I'm just kidding. I can go on. No, I just want to um I'd be remiss if I didn't thank Senator Warren for introducing the bill um this session regarding the sex offender policy. Were um grateful that she took action in that. Um and I do
077wonder why the House majority leader didn't bring it up for a vote. Um otherwise, we're really excited for Dr. Chapman uh to start July 1. That was a very exciting um time for us last week and um looking forward to what she can do. I also want to add my congratulations to Dr. Chapman. I've known her for a long time and I think the board did their job very well. Uh, and she is going to be a welcome addition and do a lot of really great things in Blue Valley. So, welcome Dr. Chapman. Does anybody have anything else? If not, we are adjourned.