001e e e I'll give you guys a minute to clear out those who don't want to stick around for the business meeting all right we'll go ahead and call the meeting to order and we'll start with our board advisory committee reports we have two reports this evening uh first up is curriculum and instruction and Dr Katie CER will give that report good evening the curriculum instruction board advisory committee met on February 26 uh Jennifer lazinski director of curriculum and instruction was present and she sh she shared the process that the district uses to adopt instructional resources and she updated the committee on the current elementary literacy adoption process which you yourselves have heard about and she'll actually be here this evening making recommendation for your approv Ral additionally Kelly June presented information about the curriculum
002development process in Blue Valley um in anticipation for um the curriculum process that will proceed later this spring the next committee meeting is April 2nd the second committee report we have is the finance and operations from Kyle Hayden the finance and operations board advisory committee met on February 27th in the Board of Education room Jeremy mcfaden welcomed the committee and reviewed the meeting agenda Jeremy also presented the 2020 Bond final financial report and the December 31st quarterly investment report Katie Coler Kelly Jun and Scott robers provided a high school programming update Jake sodnik and Jason Gillan presented the bids and contracts uh which are on the board agenda for approval this evening the next meeting is scheduled for April 10th that concludes our committee reports and as Kyle pulls up the superintendent [Music] report we
003have several um celebrations for the month of March uh first one Blue Valley today hit mailboxes I got mine last week sometime uh it has great stories in there about a blue valley teachers using data to support the whole student uh has a blue Valley student who um is actually serving as a part-time PA that's who's on the front cover and bond progress um our next edition of our podcast BB unmuted will feature Jake slobotnik Dan Carney and Liz chop and again it talks about the progress um on the bond 2023 projects and I'm happy to say that all of those projects have are in programming um and so you'll hear a little bit more about that if you tune in to that podcast um the 13th annual Battle of the Bands um the Blue
004Valley Education Foundation we want to congratulate them on a record-breaking $137,000 to support the Performing Arts um in our district and it was a new venue and I I know that they put a ton of work into that and and so we thank them for all of that um some recognition dates and holidays it is athletic training month um our athletic trainers are so important to um our programs uh music in our schools month you heard about that this morning with all the K or this afternoon with all the kmea folks theater in our schools month youth art month uh read Across America day um School Social Work week and then spring break is coming up um everybody's probably favorite week in the month of March um Casey Engel was she's an English teacher at
005Blue Valley high school and a couple of us had the opportunity to be in her classroom last week maybe um and she is has been selected as a master teacher there are seven Master Teachers across the state of Kansas and Casey is one of those seven and will be honored at Emporia State University in April so we congratulate Casey um I was selected I thank ingrams for um that honor uh Gavin spake um you know we have a Wilderness Science Center that's tucked out behind uh Blue Valley Middle and it is a great resource for our students our elementary students and middle school students but uh do field trips there and have all kinds of of lessons out there and Gavin spake is the teacher and he has uh been recognized as the recipient of
006the Excellence in conservation and Environmental Education so congratulations to Gavin also want to congratulate several of our students in the Blue Valley North Chinese program who were celebrated for their achievements in a Chinese essay writing contest as well as a Chinese speech contest so congratulations um seven days named several Blue Valley High students um as winner or Blue Valley High School students as winners of their 2025 art and scholarship competition so congratulations to Madison Sarah parth kppa and aita uh Blue Valley North a boy swim and dive won the 6A state championship um that was their third in a row so congratulations to the Mustangs that was quite in honor five Blue Valley High School students earned one ratings at the Kansas High School Activities Association State piano Festival um we just had State wrestling
007this last weekend and both southwest and west headson state champions so congratulations to Tad Caroline and Benjamin from Blue Valley Southwest who defend or who got those titles they were down in witchta um and competed in the 5A tournament and the 6A tourn tournament for the first time was here at bluehawk and so special thanks to Matt Ortman and our a athletic directors because they was a ton of work to host that and Henry White Blue Valley West student had a perfect season at 49 and0 and was the boy 6A state champion at 126 pounds and because it was across the street from Blue Valley West he had a whole contingent of Blue Valley West fans there which was pretty cool um at the boys swim and dive state championships we also with several Blue
008Valley students who won state titles uh this was over in shauny Mission again so it's fairly close uh Lincoln from Blue Valley High uh there's a North relay um John Christensen from blue valley Northwest Micah Churchill from blue valley Northwest had a couple and then a relay from Blue Valley Southwest so congratulations to each of those swimmers the um Blue Valley High Schools business Professionals of America won the 2025 state championship this was the team's fifth straight team title so congratulations to Blue Valley High BPA uh Brandon Hawks who is the offensive coordinator and quarterback coach at Blue Valley Southwest football was selected as the 2024 boals award recipient for Kansas and so we congratulate uh coach Hawks and then we have an alumni um Anna as a graduate of Blue Valley North was selected
009as the recipient of the rotary Global Grant scholarship so awarded to graduate students who are pursu who are studying abroad in one of the rotary's seven areas of focus so we congratulate her and that is it lots of uh fun things happening in Blue Valley our students and staff successes thank you Dr Maran and I know she blew right past it so nobody could see what award it was that she won but it was I do want to point out because we are really proud of her as an icon of Education award and ingrams and I mean to be called an icon in anything is like life goals right so that's great congratulations all right we'll go ahead and um approve the regular Board of Education meeting agenda I move that the Board of Education
010approve the March 3rd 2025 regular Board of Education meeting agenda as published and or amended was this was it amended it's not okay as published motion by Jody second second by Jan any discussion see none all in favor raise your right hand or say I motion passes 70 move on to our consent agenda do I have an motion I move that the Board of Education approve the March 3rd 2025 regular Board of Education meeting consent agenda as published and or amended second motion by Jan second by Clay any further discussion see none all favor raise your right hand or say I motion passes 70 all right on to new business the first item on our agenda tonight is the first read of policy 2281 and so Kyle will you pull up policy 2281 and and
011miss helman's going to come up to the microphone and we're gonna kind of tag team this so we have a new policy um before you tonight this is not a revision of a current policy um any time we we have policy uh typically we go about it in a couple of different ways one is sometimes we will have a state law that will um get passed and we'll write a policy based on that state law sometimes it'll for example the Open Enrollment policy that we had a couple years ago there was a state law on that and we came back and and put that policy together um we looked to guidance from the Kansas Association of school board um they keep us updated so every semester they send us updates to Poli policies um or
012new policies um or the Kansas State Department of Education I will say with this one um none of that um really worked in Kansas because there is no guidance from the Kansas Association of school boards and there isn't currently a state law I love hearing Senator Warren's comments earlier um about a potential state law and so we looked to some school districts outside of the state of Kansas uh in order to get um a start and bring that before you today uh once we're going to review this tonight um we'll make any changes that you give us tonight of course but then as with any of our policies it will go out to our community um we say 30 days but really it' be more than 30 days this time because we'll come back to
013you in April and share all the comments that that were received and the board can make changes at that time um the earliest it would be approved would be April but if you're ready in April we would come back in May so that's the the timeline with the policy and just a a brief overview of kind of how policy works so I don't know Melissa if there's something you want to highlight on here you got to push the button there you go I'm happy to walk through it for you um as Senator Warren kindly pointed out to us tonight we may have some state law coming uh which is great and if we do we would be back probably to amend this policy because we normally uh develop our policies around state laws and uh
014federal laws and regulations so um as Dr mgan said this was a uh kind of our first try at this we didn't have a lot to go off of um so what this says is that if uh you are on the Kansas public offender registry uh you must have uh permission of both the superintendent and the director of Safety and Security to attend an event or be at our schools um unless there's a legal requirement that you would be in the building for some reason um if the offender is uh still on on parole or has State restrictions in place there will be a presumption that attendance will not be permitted um absent extraordinary life circumstances as determined by the superintendent and the director of Safety and Security uh for others who are no longer
015under restrictions or probation or supervision the superintendent and the director of Safety and Security may deny attendance still or may Grant attendance with certain conditions in place uh this policy doesn't apply to public meetings because our patrons are entitled to attend our public meetings and address the board um and it also doesn't apply to things like facility rental because that would be outside of our control a very hard to police um we also must be mindful that we host large high school activities and events and it would be hard to police those as well um nothing in this policy is intended to pose a impose a duty upon any administrator or employee to review the Kansas Public registry to determine the presence of offenders in the community the reason why I put that in there
016is the offender policy is updated every 15 minutes uh and we have very busy administrators running school buildings who just simply don't have the time to dedicate to making sure that they are reviewing the offender the offender policy every 15 minutes uh so we must rely on having direct knowledge that we have a patron who is on the offender registry okay quick question and I know we spoke about this a little bit um I guess two things um one can you just uh reiterate what the difference between policy and procedure are and then the second question is um um you know we we value parental rights so much um is there any concern that anything we've drafted so far would infringe you know especially let's say it's you know an old case 30 years ago
017um is there anything that would infringe upon a parental rights that we would be in trouble for sure um the difference between policy and procedure is that board policy is adopted by you the Board of Education a procedure is uh developed by Administration uh in an effort to um live out your policy uh so procedures are not things that are adopted by the Board of Education um infringing upon parental rights uh yeah we have rights that we have to be uh mindful of like parents have a right to meaningful participation in a child's IEP they have a right to participate in their child's education um so we have IEP meetings we have 504 meetings we have other academic meetings that uh parents have a right to participate in but Melissa we can set the conditions
018for that participation we can set conditions Dr Maran we we often host those meetings by Zoom um it can get tricky when we have parents who have various disabilities like they're hearing impaired or vision impaired but we do work through those and we try to set conditions when we can I I as a Blue Valley Parent I happen to appreciate the zoom conference Al just um one of the concerns that a couple people have mentioned to me about this draft is that if there were permission granted to somebody that's on the registry uh that there was that there's not a notification that there's not any sort of notification to families either in advance of the event or uh you know broadly uh about that person on the being on the registry yeah and I heard
019it I heard that uh brought up tonight in public comment I and it's a good point Jim um there are some limitations especially if you look at the offender registry uh you're not to access that for any way to harass a parent um I I wouldn't want the board to be accused of harassment in addition we we do have to be mindful that there are children uh too I know that everybody has children that they're worried about but this offender also has a child and it's certainly not the child's fault that the offender is on the registry the do you do you I'm sorry I'm here to take questions from the board do you um um did you look at any policies that had notification type requirements I did not see any policies that have
020notification requirements Jim the the only policies that I was able really to find are uh out of state policies and I did not see any that had notification Provisions got that you know I I don't have a specific suggestion at this point but um I have some ideas um one of the schools that one of my kids went to way back in the almost 20 years ago when there was a parent that was on that registry um all the families in the school did receive a notification I don't think that's this is a a private school and um but um I think that was appreciated by all the the family so I I think we need to at least examine what we could put into the policy in this regard I'm happy to look into
021that see if I can find policies with that kind of provision in it and and work with you further Jim yeah okay Jim did they receive notification once or every time there was an event was it was a it was a one time and it identified the individual which you know that's a diff not the bitter pill to swallow if you're the individual but you put yourself on the on the list so um and that person would have been granted permission basically to be on the campus at events um but had to be supervised by like an SRO or something like that okay thank you I have a question um I was wondering uh is there any way within the uh policy that describes or give the definition of what signifies a parent uh we
022can look into that Sonia we' we explore that as well um keep in mind that some of our larger events um even some of our Elementary Middle School events when we have musicals and so forth we could have grandparents uncles aunts who we wouldn't know to be on the offender registry as well um and those people who also come to see our events our big high school events Melissa yeah Patrick so do we have any other type of situations where notification isn't is built into our procedures for parents mean when we notify our public of an specific attendance at an event yeah I'm just the question is really is do we have any other policies that would be similarly in terms of notification or anything like that I'm not saying that we do I mean
023obviously the oh oh that well okay that's a great Point Katie yeah like infectious diseases if we're aware that we have a um contagious infectious diseases of a certain degree in our buildings and we send a notice home we don't necessarily identify the students who have the Infectious Disease though right but there's other laws that address not notifying or naming the student correct uh I I think your point is with that notification it is required by law yes correct good point thank you but just one couple more the this registry is the one that the state maintains it's not just related to sex crimes it's broader than that correct like violent crimes Etc there are certain violent crimes there certain drug crimes and there are certain sex crimes that uh qualify you for that uh
024in addition there are um people who have qualify for registration on the offender registry who are not public on there because a judge can order that private Melissa I think I saw on there that at one point maybe it was amended that juvenile offenders if uh they ended up becoming being on the registry as a juvenile and they go on becoming adults that they also could be on the um offender registry is that correct if the offense happen while they were a juvenile so somebody who's convicted or pleads guilty as a juvenile can still remain on that list as an adult correct correct okay so I I believe them I'm not a criminal uh lawyer so I'm a school lawyer but I believe the minimum uh time duration for registration on there is 15 years
025and it's B based upon level of crime committed and I believe um we've had a fender registry in some form in Kansas for over 30 years correct I think the first one was in 1993 you're asking me a question I can't answer but I'm very happy to research it for you that that would be good um so I do welcome the fact that we right now we have this registry there are no state laws as I understand limiting um folks that might be on that registry as where they could live what schools they could go to their interactions at all there's nothing in state law is that correct that's correct in Kansas there was a bill proposed in 2017 uh and it died in committee okay um but I I will tell you that typically
026if an offender is still under supervision or probation has restrictions in place very typically those restrictions involve contact with miners uh not necessarily does it involve limitation on where you can live near a school building but they do restrict contact with minors and that was eye opening for me I just kind of figured there were these restrictions in place so I'd also welcome some action by the Kansas legislature to bring some laws and put them in place so me too if I could just add so well I was a probation officer and I supervised individuals um you know you you could for a certain period of time while they were under supervision you could determine where they could be so you know we could say things like you know you're not supposed to go to
027any of these programs and just put you know restrictions depending upon the crime right um but yeah I mean you know after supervision it's it's pretty open I think even Missouri has a restriction on where you can live um for some reason we don't the other thing I'd like to um that that uh draft of a bill that we heard a little bit earlier um it doesn't take into consideration what clay was kind of talking about with with a younger person who has um maybe been on the list let's say you know indecent exposure whatever um and so you know we have an obligation to serve and educate students so I think that's a little problematic and I don't know I hope they're think thinking of that but I don't know we we could not
028prohibit a student from attending school in Blue Valley as long as they meet uh residency requirements and we also have an 18 to 21 year old program uh so we have some students here until age 21 what I'm sorry just one more question in the second paragraph it refers to just individual and I um note that our exist the current guideline is limited by like your a parent a guardian a aunt Uncle grandparent that kind of thing so what what's the thinking in terms of having to it be just identified as a quote individual uh that um was an issue that we um address because of other relatives Aunts Uncles grandparents um who may be present like at a football game on Friday night or programs broader is what we're saying for yes well but
029it uh as I read the the current guidelines if you're not a basically a blood relative or legal guardian you're not permitted you you wouldn't be permitted to even make the request if you're on the registry I think you're right Jim um I wanted to draft this in a way that any person who's on the offender registry needs to ask seek permission yeah okay for example you could have um your emergency contact not be a relative maybe your emergency contact is a friend and that friend is on the registry and so um can they come and pick up that child from school um that that would be an one example thank you anything else so a quick question so what's the next what's the process for this next so the process is that tomorrow um
030in a couple of different ways uh we'll go out to our community and we take them to a web page where they can see the policy as well as give feedback give written feedback and all of that feedback will be shared with the board we'll be back in April with that feedback and you may decide based on that feedback that you want this revised and we will revise it and it the earliest it would be approved would be April if we're not ready in April we'll come back in May but I would say no later than May something needs to be approved would be my suggestion thank you so so so if there are changes then it then it's another month right right okay right because the process is that you present it as has
031uh proposed comment if any changes are made that goes back out through that process right thank you okay all right we're ready to move on to uh approve the amplify education Incorporated agreement I believe we have Jennifer luzinski and Jason Gillum are going to tag team this a little bit but we have before you a contract for um English Lang Arts resources yes good evening we have um the amplify purchase and then there's a second purchase related to that from the 95% group um I would want you to know these are for our elementary students grades K through five and in looking at our state standards and in looking at our state policies specifically that requiring structured literacy as the approach for teaching reading in Kansas we are proposing that we would adopt a co-curricular
032uh set of resources for teaching our elementary students one being new the amplify and then continuing with our 95% group resources so the amplify purchase is for their CK Third Edition of knowledge strand um and this would be one of our two U resources for teaching Ela to our elementary students of note um this is a seven-year purchase of student and teach teacher resources there's a combination of digital and print and in the the print there are some consumable pieces as well as some more durable um books as well um this was a selection that was the result of over a year-long process of vetting potential resources and um this February our teachers overwhelmingly expressed a preference for these products to be um the resource we would utilize for teaching the the knowledge the language
033comprehension strand um at writing um also uh Ela in our elementary schools so um I was happy to partner with Jason and there are some um discounts and payment terms that he can speak to thank you Jennifer I I had the uh honor to uh to work with uh amplify on the contract terms uh a couple things that we we heard from the Board of Education and previous adoptions was the desire to um have a structured payment plan so not pay for the entire adop seven-year adoption up front uh that is something I had a lot of conversation with amplify on and they were agreeable to a three payment structure for the first time this year they for as a company they had um set up a three payment structure with another District so they
034were willing to uh extend that to Blue Valley so we were able to structure a payment in July of 25 a second payment in July of 26 and then a third in July of 27 uh the amounts aren't equal because the majority of the resources are being delivered UPF front so that would be all the teacher resources mainly um and a lot of the professional development so there is a little bit of a upfront loading of those costs um they were U very open and receptive to conversations about saving money as well um one of the areas we saved money was on the logistics of receiving these products we saved over $113,000 by having a logistics Center to be able to receive all the deliveries to one location and be able to deliver it out
035to our schools instead of having them stop at every one of our schools to drop it off that was significant uh give them credit for working with us on that um the other another concern that we brought up with them was that there you me you heard Jennifer mentioned there are some consumables with this adoption um we have workbooks that the students will be using as part of this adoption and one of the concerns that we had was getting to the end of the adoption and having unused workbooks left over we'd like to prevent that from happening um so we came up with a kind of a a hybrid solution it wasn't exactly what we' asked for it wasn't what they didn't want to do but um they're going to provide those yearbooks for the
036first excuse me those workbooks for the first five years the remaining sixth and seventh year we have the digital rights to those workbooks and can produce the exact number that we need thus ensuring we don't get to the end and having waste and leftover materials so that kind of met my my concern of having leftover materials and waste um they didn't want to give up all the printing of the books so we we found a way to to meet somewhere um that we both could agree on so I think that's going to save us a fair amount of money as well and uh we can produce the books cheaper than they can or at least what they're charging us uh so that uh that was a win those are some of the the highlights that
037I like to share with you this was presented uh to the finance committee last Thursday as well Jennifer is the amplify in kind of a grammar and syntax and all those aspects or is it more reading comprehension or both so the um we know that that grammar syntax is best taught in combination with writing and writing is a big piece of the amplify um it will hit the the um informational and narrative text types all the comprehension skills um the the foundational skills the phonics um will live in the 95% group morphology will bleed across both any other questions for Jason or Jennifer on yeah not really a question I just want to recognize I I've I've sat through on the finance committee and listened to the presentation and the process the team approach you
038all took as well I think there was another um presentation that I sat through as well and finance was really detailed um I just want to recognize and show appreciation for how hard you guys worked and the great team that you built to review and vet and ultimately select something to recommend so I think you guys did a great thorough job at this recognizing what our students need what our teachers need and something that's good for them so I want to thank I just want to make sure that that is acknowledg thank you very much for that thank you I will pass that along appreciate it all right do I have a motion to approve I move that the Board of Education approve the agreement with amplify Education Inc and I want to Second too
039they did an outstanding job because I set in on the curriculum and instruction me meeting they went through the whole process it was mindboggling it was awesome second motion by son second by Patrick any further discussion see none all in favor raise your right hand say I motion passes 70 so we'll move on to the 95% group is there I guess is there anything else that we need to discuss related to the 95% group it's like the phonics arm of this reading you know literacy curriculum right I will add that the um this is an annual purchase um this year there there is more in the ask um when we first purchased this product and only went through third grade our teachers overwhelmingly told us that they thought every Elementary student deserved or needed the
040foundational skills experience and so we found a way to do that using several products in a hybrid way uh since then the company has published a fourth and fifth grade edition of the phonics core program and so we're asking for for um the addition of those products this is very overwhelmingly supported by our teachers and then there's one more durable component here and that is um for kindergarten through second grade students class sets of um decodable text that allow for application practice fluency building with the phonics patterns that they have just studied and learned and so there's a little bit more to the ask this year um and that is why I move the Board of Education approv the 95% Group Inc agreement motion by Clay second by Jody any further discussion see none all
041in favor raise your right hand or say I motion passes 7 zero okay Brian Daly is going to make his way up um we have a conference Technologies Inc agreement which is a bond funded project and I'll let him give you the brief overview good evening uh this proposal is to um get approval um for our um it's going to involve five high schools this is another example of our bond dollars at work for upgrading and refreshing our performing art centers our little theaters and our blackbox spaces in a lot of instances these spaces are 10 to 12 years old already and so this is a much needed Improvement uh we went out for a RFP um for this work to be done with Architects Hollis and Miller and CTI was chosen as the uh
042uh as the vendor of choice uh for this project that'll take place over a two summer period so we'll do two schools this summer which will be north and west and then we will take care of Hilltop Conference Center which hasn't had AV upgrade or refresh done I believe since the property was purchased so it's much needed and they will round out the rest of our schools um this next the following summer um which will be high Northwest and Southwest so total of about five high schools um and our Hilltop Learning Center um this summer winter break and then summer 2026 total amount we had in there just a little over 2 million but going out for RFP this these are unique spaces um which require some design to them um so coming into it
043we estimated that we'd be close to around the $3 million Mark so we came in close to a million dollars less than we thought that we would when we added this as a a budget line item in our bond um so we had substantial savings there by going out for a national RFP any questions for Brian so is this an upgrade yes it includes anything electronic from our lighting or control panels speakers um anything that controls um any of the projection any of the panels some of for instance Hilltop Conference Center we're not going to go back in with projection per se we're going with more of the 98 inch panels um instead of going with traditional projections so upgrading to 2025 from a decade ago um and they're all about that same time period
044with 10 to 12 years and the longer that you go the more obviously expensive it becomes so this was planned again with that last Bond and um we're excited that we're in that that place where we can start to accommodate those refreshes in those spaces they're becoming I'm starting to get more and more tickets more and more calls from our high schools on um spending money to have vendors such as harvest come out and start to fix things things are starting to break more frequently just taking up more manpower in our technology department more downtime a lot of times they'll call right before they have a production and something's not functioning correctly so we're running out after hours or calling a vendor in so much needed in in almost all of those spaces it's it's
045it's time so it's the next Evolution and it'll be done by over the summer and be ready for the fall yeah so we'll have so be done this summer and the other three the following summer right with Hilltop this winter so we'll have uh we'll have north and west up final completion should be August 8th so when we sign off on it so did you determine oldest first is that how you went just chronologically oldest and then second oldest and correct forward we went with what we felt had a uh the most need based on the the tickets and some of the demand we'd be getting from sites to go out and Patchwork things together um and so that sounds a little different than oldest you're you're going off of tickets so you're going off
046of what what seems to be broken more or who's putting in more tickets than you are off of yeah well North's going to be North is the oldest oldest system okay great and it broke during their musical y West broke during one of their Productions so I I think they've picked the right two schools for my unbiased uh opinion maybe I am biased because I've been there and we also we're looking at not just Pac space we're looking at the little theaters Black Box spaces so that's all inclusive in this um and during the school year uh like over when a break Hilltop is the is that's the one to do because if you go a little late you can still do that and then we also it came in about 1.9 33 million we
047have some in there for some unforeseen circumstances over a year period you're not sure what you're going to get into as you get in there um and you have things such as additional costs we don't know what's going to happen here in the future with things such as tariffs and things like that on electronics a lot of that Electronics comes from overseas some of that's already been happening so want to make sure we're covered and don't have to come back and ask for additional approvals for some of those unforeseen instances Brian does this include I know some of the high schools have AV that's not necessarily in the PAC but maybe in the lunchroom the common area and um perhaps the screens and projectors are getting a little old there but they use them a
048lot for for General um presentations does that include these types of like one-off areas now this bid was specifically for the uh forming art centers small theaters and black box bace those common areas where we may come in and do something like this or replenish a lot of that comes up with individual build requests from P principles or maybe athletic directors and such that make a separate request and we do have AV line items budgeted also in our in our bond where we'll go out and do one-off projects with those individuals so this is going to be a specific RFP just for those three types of spaces at all six of those locations thank you do I have a motion I move that the Board of Education approve the conference Tech Inc agreement second motion
049by Joy second by Clay any further discussion see none all in favor raise your right hand say I motion passes 7 Z thank you all right moving on we have uh the appointment of the Kansas Association of school boards region 11 legislative committee board Leon which I believe we are keeping Mr Jan k as our legislative committee we on if he if it passes tonight do I have a do I have a motion I move that the Board of Education reappoint Jan kessinger to a one-year appointment as bardly is on for the Kanas Association of school boards region 11 legislative committee second motion by Jim second by Jody uh any discussion oh we need to have a big discussion why is it only one year should be longer than one year should it make a
050lifetime all right seeing no further discussion all in favor raise your right hand or say I motion passes 70 you're on to our legislative update and this will just be really brief um we have not testified on any Bill since the last um board meeting so have that up there um they've they're halfway through they're on turnaround now and so they are kind of um going back and forth with bills and so we're watching those carefully um to see kind of what is coming out of that I also want to uh thank the board for those of you who can come um our original day in Pica got canceled because of weather one of those days and so we have rescheduled that till March 25th I believe the Tuesday after spring break so thank you
051to the board members who are able to attend that and we will have much more on legislative in April uh because we will almost or we should be done by the time we meet so that's it for that right thank you uh superintendent search update we also be brief because we are um right after this going into executive session to um review the first look at candidates for the superintendent position um so we'll be having that discussion tonight we met with Hazard young and AA our search firm uh in February to go over the leadership profile that came about from meeting with members of the community um key members of the executive cabinet and teachers administrators people throughout the community um and so we will find out more about that but we do plan to
052um have a superintendent selected by the next board meeting so lot to lot coming in the next month that's seems yeah that seems like a lot of work in the next month but um we are getting there so that's all I have as far as a superintendent search unless anybody else wants to provide any additional information I just just remind everybody on the board here we've got some great plays and musicals coming up so uh attend it's it's great date night is that superintendent search related oh sorry I thought you were I thought we moved along sorry I can I can turn it into superintendent search related if you want to I'm just teasing you yes yeah absolutely yeah Jody that's section 5A yeah Jody we're we're not on to the section five yet Jody
053um okay please attend plays um we're going to go on to Executive session and I will tell the folks who are here um observing that we are going to be an executive session for two hours um we will not be conducting business when we get back it'll just be a simple adjournment so if you want to wait you are certainly welcome to wait um but I just wanted you to be aware of that um before you sit here for two hours so uh do I have a motion to go into executive session I moved to we go to Executive session or do I have to read that whole thing I think you have to read the whole thing okay sorry I moveed that the Board of Education along with Consultants from Hazard young and AA
054Associates enter into an executive session for two hours at 755 6:55 p.m. to review the candidates for the superintendent position as allowed under KSA 75 4319 B1 to discuss personal matters of non Ed Personnel the Board of Education will resume the open meeting in the Board of Education room at 8:55 p.m. second motion by Jim second by Clay any discussion see none all in favor raise your right hand say I motion passes 7 Z okay great here e e e any board member comments knew are we Jan do you have any board member comments do you have any board member comments Sonia do you have any board member comments Sonia no I'm sorry um okay we'll put that on the agenda for next time clay do you have all good does anybody have any other
055business tonight for the board all right we are adjourned all right for