001e e e anybody wants to sneak out at this point this is a great time before we call the meeting to order all right we start off evening with reports from our board advisory committees I will start us off with the diversity equity and inclusion committee which met last Thursday on November 7th uh it started with Dr Kelly wessell uh introducing this session and talking about the current teacher shortage along with colleagues from the HR department and Communications team um they talked about the work that they've done to recruit and retain teachers um our Communications team led by Casey brudo and Landon Parker um presented information about their department and how they help with telling the district's story to attract candidates how they choose stories um how that all happens and what goes out on
002social media uh we Casey also talked about the process that we use to U produce champions of learning which is a special publication that we've done and then uh Dr wessell shared how HR has used that publication to recruit prospective candidates at colleges and universities uh finally Dr wesle describ the student demographics for the 2425 school year sharing that we have 112 languages that's up from 102 last year just FYI uh she also shared the staff demographics for 2425 and uh Dr Jennifer Spencer with our human resources department shared about employee benefits and ways the school district is addressing their wellness and this committee will meet again in January uh next up is Dr Collier who I believe is going to do curriculum and instruction the curriculum instruction board advisory committee met on November 6th
003Kelly June and Adam wessell provided an overview of proposed changes to high school programming of which you will uh hear some of those recommendations for course revisions this evening as presented by Kelly June I was present and I provided an update on the use and effectiveness of the board approved Elementary teacher collaboration days Administration received positive feedback back um from those days from those in attendance at that committee meeting the committee meeting will meet again but not until January 22nd thank you next up is christe mcnarland with the communications committee good evening um the committee uh met on November 5th at 20 on 2024 7:30 a.m. in the Board of Education room um the director of communication Casey baruto she provided an update on the work of the communications team which uh included being involved
004in a diverse array of projects during the first semester ranging from education campaigns on school threats to enhancing School intendance the team is in the middle of production for the fall edition of Blue Valley today and just released a signature piece for champions of learning campaign the team has made progress in maintaining a HOA Masters homeowners association Masters list and is now actively engaging with the community community Viet next door Additionally the team has been overseeing a website redesign set to launch in summer 2025 the committee will preview the new site prior to launch um then we moved into a discussion on strategic plan uh feedback I gave an update on participation and themes evolving from the Strategic plan Community survey to date more than 5,514 people have participated sharing 3,535 thoughts about the future
005of Blue Valley in addition our community has been actively raing the thoughts of others efforts to support the attraction and retention of Educators overwhelmingly Remains the top thought with the most agreement of those participating our next meeting will be held on Tuesday January 7th and the meeting adjourned at 7:35 next up is Kyle Hayden and I think he's got several to present start with the facility planning committee uh the facil facility planning board advisory committee met for the first time this school year on October 30th Jake sodnik opened the meeting with introductions and providing an overview of the agenda Christy mcnarland presented on the update on the district's 2025 2030 strategic plan Jake reviewed the purpose of the facility planning committee and provided an overview of the facility planning process Eric palum shared the current
006enrollment Trends and the methodology used for projecting future enrollment we had a second meeting uh that occurred on November 6th I welcome the committee and reviewed the meeeting agenda Jake sodnik provided an overview of the pre previous meeting Eric palum shared the district's facility utilization guidelines and the fiveyear enrollment projections Jake and Eric then facilitated committee discussions of the enrollment projections Eric presented the proposed boundary for auy bin middle school and new wolf Springs Middle School currently under construction scheduled to open in August 2026 didn't get very deep into that and more to come at the next meeting uh on November 13 15 this Wednesday this next one is the Student Activities Committee the Student Activities board advisory committee met on October 17th the meeting started with a presentation from Blue Valley West student regarding
007his experience and the benefits of the astronomy club Matt Ortman spoke of the increase in business sponsorships this school year and the board of education's recent approval of the purchase and installation of video boards at the three District activities complexes the meeting concluded with athletic and activity highlight from the high school and middle school administration and then the Blue Valley Recreation staff and this is the finance and operations advisory committee they met on November 7th in the Board of Education room I welcomed the committee members then reviewed the meeting agenda Bond financial adviser Dave arterbury presented the 2024a bond refunding plan and then the mil Levy projections Jeremy mcfaden presented the quarterly investment report Jake sodnik and Jason Gillum presented the bids and contract tracks that are on the board agenda for approval this evening
008the next meeting will be on December 5th that concludes our committee reports for this evening thank you T next we have reports from board members and the superintendent we'll start with you Jody um yeah just uh you know having attended the communications board advisory committee Dei board uh advisory committee uh and the best committee um or the last month um I love how um it's a great venue to um have Community input so we really have some great great discussions best with our business Community um Communications and Dei with our patrons and and uh staff and and students in some case so it's really great um shout out to all the school plays that are going on right now in musicals uh went to the Tempest last weekend uh it was fantastic I'm not sure
009I got all of it because you know Shakespeare's kind of special so um but it was absolutely amazing I know there's a lot of great stuff going on and I think maybe is there a few this coming weekend too yeah so please remember um to uh think about maybe doing date night or night out uh with one of our high school or even Middle School uh plays um attended at Aubrey Bend I was invited to uh watch presentations for um brain injury um from students uh so we walked around um a space and and uh students uh presented their own findings it was uh fascinating um I loved um asking the students like what was the best part of this what did you learn and um they were all incredibly engaged in that project so
010it was a lot of fun uh last but not least on my list here prize Patrol uh boy that was a heck of a fun experience um my group was an hour late uh compared to everyone else's it's just because we were doing such great things I'm sure we're just a little slow um so it was it was a lot of fun but that allows I mean the District covers a lot this priz Patrol gives uh staff and teachers an opportunity to kind of think outside of the box a little bit kind of go above and beyond so we did some really great uh presentations of funding for different robotics programs um so um it was it was a a lot of fun so I think that's all I have all right move on to
011Jim uh so this morning we had um a really kind of mey presentation on uh test score assessment data and I thought I'd just tell a little story because I decided this afternoon to go and look at just one grade because I I feel like um it's something that we need to acknowledge and recognize um some of the work of our curricul team and Dr marrian um so I just looked up e8th grade math going back nine years and um their our state assessment tests are have four levels one being the lowest four being the highest and if you go back nine years um in Blue Valley which is the highest um the highest School District in the state uh we had 53% of our students in eth grade in math score at the top
012two levels okay and then you see a trend across the state across the country of declining performance that go kind of goes like this um and then it kind of bottoms out at Co and um and then depending on the school district you see it start to come back up but not back to where it was nine years ago and so I'm just going to read off these numbers so you can picture it in your mind because I think it's an amazing accomplishment actually um went from 53 this is just annual sted in 20156 53 52 48 46 Co it didn't have an assessment then the year after covid 21 30% 37% and 22 41% and 23 48 % in 24 which gets us back up to or slightly above where we were in the
01327 2018 school year um and it's a testament to a lot of the work that the that um Katie klier and Kelly Jun and Dr marrian and many others on the team have done um and um I just wanted to recognize it so I appreciate all the work that you guys have done for the students of this community I don't know how you follow that Jen yeah so we we'll have you follow it thank you madam president um I along with a couple of others uh as Jody eluded The Pride Squad it's actually a surprise Squad we distributed almost a quarter million in Grants to teachers throughout the district and I think did we get one to every school somebody in every school but if not every but pretty close uh and these are teachers
014who are going above and beyond uh just you know putting in their day's work these are extra things they want to be able to do to enhance uh the students learning experience and it it's just it's a wonderful wonderful thing to be able to do and you hand out these big checks and uh you see a lot of emotion there where they realize that they are being supported by the community and Blue Valley Ed Foundation uh went to Blue Valley wck meeting we didn't really have anything to report other than keep on keeping on although they're concerned looking down the road about funding and bond issue for their uh PTO presidents uh which Christie talked about what we did in that meeting I was a judge at at uh Deca uh Regional contest that Deca
015is for entrepreneurship of students in areas of marketing Finance Management and Hospitality uh it's just amazing what what the students are given a case study and they've get a half hour to put together a plan in response to that case study what will they do um an example would be uh you're consultant to a retail uh clothing store and you know Trends are changing how do you how how do we reach the uh the new consumer the younger consumer and they come up with plans and it's it it's just a great experience and it gives me a lot of confidence in the future of uh um the students and the community and then uh also went to the communications committee which we heard about and that's what I did thank you Jan clay all right
016uh first I want to thank um Dr Todd Mr Billingsley Miss Weaver and Miss sheets for coming up and speaking at public comments um it's always good to have some feedback and I encourage um them and anyone who's interested if they'd like to have a sit down with members of the board to join us at a community connection and then we're that's a good opportunity for us to have dialogue so if any of you are interested in that um our next one is December 5th um at 6 PM right here in this room um over the past month since the last meeting I've attended many of the committee meet board advisory meetings that uh we went over Student Activities um facility planning curriculum and instruction and finance also attended the the um Suicide Prevention coalition's
017meeting last or yes last month um I had a date night Romeo and Juliet at Blue Valley West fantastic show encourage you this is date night time very cheap take your dates um surprise Squad fantastic I was with Jody's group and um yes we it was a long long morning morning but that was okay it was a lot of fun we actually the team there were four buses that went out across the district and it gave out $423,000 across the district um 156 individual grants and it brings the total that blue valley Ed Foundation the total grants they've given up to $9.1 million since their Inception which is a true Testament to the support this community has for our schools so I'm grateful for everyone that's here everyone that contributes um just the support you
018give our students and our Educators so thank you for that um continued my tours my visits went over to Stanley Elementary Valley Park Elementary and Blue Valley North so shout outs to the wildcast Panthers and Mustangs um and I should mention that I also attended a couple benefits for um the Tiny Tim benefit and the infant toddler Services fall ball these are two they support the be Smith Center and the Britain Development Center um and the infant toddler Services these are all services in our County in our County in our community that help parents with young children with severe um special needs develop any anything from devel devel velopmental uh delays to um really serious physical impairment so these two organizations are fantastic resources and very grateful to have them in our community so that
019wraps us thank you clay Patrick thank you madam president um I want to follow up on Jim's uh comment about the assessment scores we went through those today over the last several years another Accolade that staff should be complemented for as well that information um about math and reading over the years uh his valuable tool for staff to plan and and know where uh the needs of the individual student population is at that time the thing that remained fairly constant was the number of kids going to school college or uh two-year or four-year programs and this and the percentage of kids also graduating remained fairly constant during that same 10e period of time with uh minimal minimal dip or or none at all so that's a huge accomplishment even despite uh the uh times we
020went through for covid so staff should also be complimented and for all that hard work despite the challenges that they faced thank you Patrick Sonia like my other board members I partic participated in several committee advisory committee Endeavors uh the curriculum and instruction committee the de and also um I'm a part of the strategic planning committee as well and I have to say that our stakeholders in our community they are very involved and they're coming up with some very very good ideas and solutions for the district um and also I'd like to piggyback on uh Jodie and Jan and Clay as far as the surprise Squad that's one of the highlights of my year the surprise Squad because the kids they are surprised they don't know that we're coming in there and when we come
021in there there's a lot of excitement and they're screaming and then when their teacher gets awarded or oversized check these kids are so excited and I just love that and uh that's one of the highlights in this District I enjoy participating in and and um I did on October the 17th I visited uh Prairie Star Elementary and Stanley Elementary and I just like to give a shout out to Stacy sper Prairie Star Elementary we went through there they're getting a a vending machine where the kidos can earn tokens and they going to be books in that vending machine they earn these tokens for being nice or something that that's out of the ordinary and then they can go to the vending machine and get aook book and I thought that was awesome so I'd just
022like to give a shout out to uh Stacy Sperry for doing that that's very creative and ingenious thank you Sonia Dr Maran I do if you guys will put up brief presentation so we have lots of things to celebrate since the last time we met um so in your mailboxes you should have had the champions of learning uh publication uh that went out to all people who live within the Blue Valley School District so thanks to our Communications team for getting that put out um speaking of Stacy sper there she is so uh joining me on our um podcast BV unmuted was uh Leah vomhof who was a blue valley Northwest principal Stacy sper who's pictured here who was the prar elementary principal and Dr Corey Cox who's the Blue Valley North assistant principal for
023curriculum and instruction and we talked about the importance of School attendance um for all students and uh it was it was a great um 20 minutes to hear from those practitioners of why they want uh to have our students in school as absolutely much as possible it doesn't mean we want kids to come when they're sick by any means uh but really the importance of them being there and the U relationships and the help that we can give if a student is struggling so I would encourage people to listen to that um the Education Foundation here's a picture uh surprise Squad went out uh gave $423,000 worth of Grants and that money has been raised Again by from our community and businesses so thank you to our community for that uh these are our recognition
024dates in holidays um that you can see lots of different ones in here it's Veterans Day obviously today you heard about school psychology you heard about American Education um but there's some other ones in here substitute educator day and then just as a reminder we are the Blue Valley school districts are closed during the week of Thanksgiving um but that is coming up I can't believe how fast this semester's gone two weeks until Thanksgiving uh the communications department and we we will actually have them all here in person next time I think but um kbur is the Kansas Public Relations Association and they won um nine Awards in their publication contest of school districts across the state submit different Publications that they've done and I got the list of winners and I was like christe
025did anybody else enter because we had so many of them so huge congratulations to that entire team um one of our prar middle teachers was selected as the Kansas teacher Honore for the chief's VIP game day experience so uh congratulations to Natalie Blue Valley Southwest band claimed the Kansas band Masters Association open class marching band grand championship basically that's the state championship for band and so first time in school history that they've won they've I think gotten second multiple times so I know this was a goal of their so we want to congratulate the Tim wolves this past Saturday uh Blue Valley Southwest boys soccer claimed the 5A State title finishing with a perfect 21-0 um they they were dominant on Saturday let me tell you it was 7-0 I believe so congratulations to that
026group of timber wolves as well um Blue Valley West student broadcast team earned first place overall in the Kansas State Fair Scholastic press corpt video competition um so we congratulate those students pictured there and then the Blue Valley West girls soccer team was named one of 36 recipients of the United Soccer Coaches Pinnacle Award uh this honors teams across uh the the country who have achieved a a high level of fair play educational Excellence I love the educational Excellence piece attached to that and success on the pitch and Pitch is something with softb or with soccer I'm assuming right not a big soccer and then U we want to coach uh congratulations coach Terell who was named the high school coach of the week for week six which was a while ago for 2024 football
027season by the Kansas City Chiefs uh this is dead what we call dead week uh it's the week in between uh fall Sports and winter sports and so we I want to first of all thank all of our fall Sports coaches and sponsors uh for a really fabulous season we have three football teams who are still playing but other than that we are done and we've had lots of of success and then a thank you to our winter Sports who will start in Earnest next Monday also want to give a shout out tomorrow to our Blue Valley our Oxford Middle School 8th grader uh ran and ran is competing tomorrow in Washington DC for the national Civic uh B competition so he is the Kansas representative so very excited uh for ran and I'm going
028to be out bright and early tomorrow morning to go to Washington to cheer him on uh Dr Maran did not Blue Valley dominate the Civics be locally here we had all eight finalists in Johnson County and we had the top three in the state as well so very much so so lots of lots of positive things going on thank you lots of great stuff thank you all right we will go ahead and move on to approve the uh regular Board of Education meeting agenda I believe we have an amendment to add the approval of legislative priorities so can I get a motion I move that the Board of Education amend the November 11th 2024 regular Board of Education meeting agenda as published to add new business agenda item F 2025 legislative priorities motion by jod
029second by Patrick any further discussion if not all in favor raise your right hand or say I motion pass passes 70 all right our next item is the is the consent agenda do I have a motion I move that the Board of Education approve the November 11 2024 regular Board of Education meeting consent agenda as published second motion by Jan second by Clay any discussion I think we're supposed to approve the agenda before we do that I think it's number two did approve the amendment of the agenda we have to approve the agenda has published adding oh okay okay I'm just saying Jim you want to do that you want to do that okay I move that the Board of Education approve the November 11 2024 regular Board of Education agenda as amended second motion
030by Jim second by Patrick any discussion yeah he got it sorry Jody I'll get you next time um all in favor raise your right hand or say I motion passes 70 consent agenda do I have a motion okay I got I move the Board of Education approved the November 11 2024 regular Board of Education meeting consent agenda as published okay second motion by Jim second by Jody any discussion if not all in favor raise your right hand or say I motion passes 70 I believe we are on to new business so Kelly June executive director of curriculum and instruction is on her way to the podium and she this is a something she does every November um which is to present to you uh course changes for the following school year nothing to be approved
031this evening this is a a first read so Kelly I turned it to you good evening my name is Kelly June and I am here to share the proposed course changes for the 2526 school year so we do this every year in November I just want to remind everyone of the process and where we're at uh tonight's items were uh the origin started in September uh when teachers or teams of teachers put forth proposals to change programming for our students um this year here um we have a few in the high school and a few in middle school which I'll share um they've been vetted by our assistant principles for uh curriculum instruction and our counselors uh and they've been discussed at the uh cni advisory committee uh two times so they're we're coming in
032for a landing here you can see where we are in the process tonight's informational and then we would ask for your um consideration in December for the changes so I'm going to head straight into them um this is an ad we're asking to add three classes honors chamber singers honors Wind Ensemble or Wind Ensemble I don't know why it says Orchestra it should say Ensemble and honors chamber Symphony um these are three uh weighted credit courses and teachers in each of these three disciplines choir band and Orchestra are proposing a semester long honors course for students interested in pursuing a career or College coursework in music uh many programs at College require students to submit a repertoire Vita and this course would be nested um in the regular course and then students would have the
033added coursework to build their repertoire vaita and they would fully participate in in their Ensemble group um and have that additional work unique would be this course is not repeatable but uh and teachers anticipate interested students would take advantage of this opportunity in the spring of their junior year so it gives them an extra extra time to get those ready for um application process the following year the uh next one on the the screen is peer tutor um this course proposal is just a name change nothing of the content will change staff have asked that the peer tutor name be changed up your mentor to better reflect the course and the activities that happen in these classes uh this is a great class and it pairs uh students with and without IEPs For mentorship assistance
034with homework uh courses and SM relationship building so it's just a name change uh CTE is interesting this year and the next ones I'm going to share with you are um all in the area of CTE and this year is really unique each year the state department reviews and changes the requirements for CTE courses uh change changes are usually communicated sometime in late summer however this year we just recently got those changes so we're working through what all that means um bottom line is to remain compliant with the state and continue to receive the funding we're required to align our courses so teachers are meeting this week so after tonight uh to with Adam wessell to work and determine what the next steps are so for now I'm going to share our best estimate of
035what the changes will be um and we'll communicate uh the FI the teachers final proposals in an Insider article soon I don't anticipate um a lot of change from here but we will see what they have to say um after you receive that information don't uh hesitate to reach out to me or Adam if you have any questions about these um so for these course changes that this is the best information that I have right now the first of these three courses are relate to our Woods courses at the state level there's been some changes that EXP expand the umbrella under which the wood program fits and the proposals here reflect this in all cases the new course names are names provided by ksde so for this first one this changes the introductory level course
036from Woods one to a more of a survey course called introduction to skills skilled traits uh this course adds an additional learning on Career exploration in the construction industry and a blueprint reading and it continues to have a strong emphasis on safety and proper equipment use the next one is Woods 2 um this propose proposed change title would be to woodworking principles another title provided to us by the state uh this one the content remains much the same uh and aligned to current course number three Woods three they have something on Woods this year um the updated State title would be Advanced Materials and Fabrication and it the competencies remain um very very similar broadens the the scope a little bit but the title obviously is new next um we have the uh the architecture
037strand there's lots of changes here um one number the first one here is to add a course named drafted and print reading um it's in the Construction and design pathway and the design strand we have proposed this because it is now the new required introductory course for that pathway and it includes not only Drafting and some print reading but also additional career exploration so that would be a new course because of that new introductory course it kind of shifts all the other ones um so the next one is this uh this is another change related to the construction design pathway it's that's needed to maintain our alignment to kstd e um so we would add Drafting and architecture one and it would replace drafting 2 architecture I know it's really really technical but it's a
038one of the states thing and it would follow the drafting print reading I just mentioned it's essentially a name change for us our content is already uh really aligned to this new course title last in this strand you can see a them here finally the third in the series is drafting architecture 2 um this course would be would complete the pathway changes for the design strand uh the course content will change to some degree from our Pro our previous drafting three um and it'll be very much more of an application Level class uh they'll use what they've learned in the two previous courses and apply their learning in architecture projects so those are the high school ones I'll stop there if there's any questions on any of those I also just want to make a
039note that uh if you looked in what's posted um what Kelly presented is just slightly different and we'll get this updated one posted in there as well but things changed today so she wanted to present the most accurate information to you thank you any questions great all right on to Middle School programming I do have some proposed changes for middle school math programming um these changes are honestly really exciting uh because they represent evidence that are student students continue success our ma in math and our teachers leaning into the rigor as a strategy to improve outcomes for all I say all the credit goes to our teachers uh on the success that has happened over the last couple years they are not 100% satisfied and they continue to look for ways to improve and this
040is one of their suggestions so in the course of just routinely every year we we go through adoptions and this year we're looking at 8th grade algebra 1 um teachers in that process um are recommending an an adjustment to the approach to se sixth and seventh grade advanced math to better prepare students for the rigors of Algebra 1 um additionally they are recommending course title changes uh the teachers are proposing that we make five course CH course changes um first is to change the onlevel courses from integrated math 6 7th and 8th to just math 6th 7th and 8th uh we've received feedback that the integrated can be somewhat confusing and has some maybe unhelpful connotations and they're also proposing that the cont the advanced classes change also it has changed since I've turned this
041one in so instead of advanced integrated math 6 which is a mouthful where the teachers are proposing it to be accelerated math 6 No7 just accelerated math 6 and accelerated math seven no changes to the um algebra and course why they have identified that there are some um they want to change the approach So currently if when students take the advanced track they skip content and they are advocating to change to a compacting model um if the graph up there kind of explains it a little bit so there are math standards for sixth grade seventh grade grade and eighth grade standards in your onlevel classes you will do the rigorous sixth grade work the rigorous seventh grade and the rigorous eth their proposal is to change the upper level the advanced classes to do three
042years worth of content six seven and eight in two years so compacting so for next year which would be the first year that this would happen in MA accelerated math 6 they would do all of sixth grade standards and half of seven and then the following year they'd finish up seven do all of eight and be really Prime for Algebra 1 so not only is it a name change but there there would be some content it's really an approach change instead a skip content it's compact content so we're working through all those ideas and and what people think but that that is what they're proposing any questions on that it's pretty exciting stuffff just to clarify um up on the screen on the it says sl7 sl8 we're getting rid of that right yep yep
043it would just say accelerated math 6 accelerated math 7 yep yep that we originally started here and the teachers actually um proposed the Slash and then we came and got more feedback mainly from parents and Board of Ed cni and principles and they recommended removing the slash to make it very clear For Whom the class like it's a sixth grade math class but it's accelerated so is e8th grade just algebra one for the upper level yes on the onlevel track it would be math 8 which would cover 8th grade Kansas standards correct Yep this is exciting cuz um this really would it R we say riger up it really rigers up our advanced classes and it's only possible because what of the work that everybody's done in the onlevel classes so this actually isn't time
044for a public comment I apologize um but thank you for the question and please be sure to email them to ask absolutely um one question is I know currently in the middle schools you can be in seventh grade and maybe you didn't take accelerated math in sixth grade but in seventh grade you say I I think I can do that you know and so the kid can move in seventh grade to accelerated math do you have to in this model do you have to get into honors math or accelerated math in sixth grade now we will continue to offer kind of a jump up we do that now during the summer we have if a kiddo wants to go from the onlevel class to the the advanced class which would be accelerated we will continue
045to offer that opportunity um the jump will be higher but we'll continue to off offer that you know I we would never want to um have a kid make a decision in the spring of fifth grade year that locks them in somewhere so I don't want to predetermine any of that yep it's a great question thank you do you have many students in seventh grade who are in will be taking Al one seventh grade yes we have a handful that they would be we consider them double accelerated so you just move them up to the eighth grade alra one class they would just take the next class we would wave this in so this would take effect for the sixth grade class only next year and then we would fill some gaps that we've identified
046for that one year and then the next year we'd bring on accelerated math 7 so we'd kind of wave through over two years yep so thank you anything else this is pretty cool all right um yep just contact me if you have any questions and we'll make sure to get you the the information on the CTE courses um as soon as we have a final proposal thanks you thank you troop 222 all right so next up um we have policy 3122 and so I'm going to let Kyle uh talk through those so pretty much repeating what we talked about this morning but um for the sake of those here and watching uh so uh policy 3122 is I'm bringing back to you for an amendment due to uh action at the LA last uh State
047legislative session so um the original policy was created in response to a legislation that required school districts to uh create a policy to uh go through a process of accepting non-resident students if uh seats were available so last year um was the first year for that process and we published 86 seats um about half of those were at Blue Valley Southwest the other half were at Aspen Grove Elementary uh um during that process we received 48 applications and then offered up 35 of those seats for enrollment and only 30 of those students actually ended up attending as part of the amendment uh to that statute from the last legislative sess session there's several pieces in this uh document that have needed to be revised um primarily um key dates and then some um language around
048uh good standing quotee good standing um and also an appeal process uh for that so just some of the key dates first of all um a change would be that uh we start allowing uh enrollment or allowing applications to be presented or uh brought forward in January on January 1st and they would be accepted through June 15th um still on May 1st or by May first we would um bring to you guys a approval of how many seats we would have available or offer up and then beginning June 1st um we would we could begin looking at those applications but don't make decisions on those applications until uh July 15 as part of that process of reviewing applications uh we do get the have the ability uh with the modifications to look at the criteria
049for whether a student is in good standing at their current school um and so there's several criteria those criteria remain unchanged from our previous policy include things like attendance um and also disciplinary records um but not academic performance and then by uh July 30th uh we would need to provi be providing um uh parents with explanation as to whether they their child is going to be accepted or not and then the reason why and then uh the last piece of that is uh if they were not accepted U then they have an ability to appeal that to the board of education so all those different steps would still need to take place prior to the start of the school year any questions about the changes so with this appeal process it goes straight to the
050board or does it go through another level of of appeal vetting like superintendent level or something like that straight to the board okay y oh yeah there you go yeah everything I'm giving you is statute driven and um recreated basically through policy from kasb any other questions for Kyle if not I believe we need to approve this tonight so if I can get a motion for approval I move the Board of Education approve uh policy 3122 is presented second by Patrick second by Clay any further discussion if not all in favor raise your right hand or say I motion passes 70 next item on our agenda is the first Macau and Gordon contract wolf Springs Middle yeah I've got the next three good evening this is something that we've been working on for years honestly
051I'm excited to bring forward tonight our final GMP for our new Middle School wolf Springs Middle School this is a contract with maau Gordon construction for a little over $62 million for this GMP um you've seen the designs we've done the virtual walk through the renderings this is in line with costs we've seen for similar type facilities uh from our peers in neighboring districts had good bids um really happy with the number here and recommend this for approval happy to answer any questions thank you Jake do I have a I I just had one question um because I asked this question this morning but I just wanted to drill down just one so this locks in our price correct up or down whether the actual cost to the to the underlying contractor is goes up
052if they over under bid it overbid correct unless there are errors or omissions and okay right so um if there's a lot of depreciation in terms of material cost the contractor reaps the benefit of that they would okay and on the flip side if it were to go the other direction we've locked in our price for the project okay I just wanted to uh confirm is this how is this fall is this in line with other projects in the area that you've seen yeah absolutely yeah we compared this to middle schools at Lee Summit and OA and we're right in the middle frankly so we're feeling really good about the number all right do I have a motion I move that the Board of Education approve the Macau Gordon Construction LLC contract for construction services
053for the new wolf Springs Middle School motion by Jody second by Jan any further discussion see none all in favor raise your right hand or say I motion passes 70 okay I'll take off into the next one this is another GMP Amendment for the project at Blue Valley North for a band room edition part of our 2023 Bond again we had good bids we're comfortable with this number and recommend this project for approval do I have a motion sorry I move the Board of Education approve the mcau Gordon Construction LLC contract for construction services at Blue Valley North High School and this is the band room right correct do you want to second that Jody motion by Patrick second by jod the band fan band fan girl Jody um any further discussion other than other
054than to say U we just tour Blue Valley North and this is a very um uh welcomed addition they're really looking forward to it they've all been squished into one room and this is going to be this going be great for the students piggy back on Clay because we were touring the same time and yeah this is a big deal for for North so really excited great motion by Patrick by Jodie um all in favor raise your right hand or say I motion passes 70 okay the last one I have is the lewood elementary mobile Demolition and classroom Edition you've seen this previously we found when we were creating our purchase order that we had a clerical error that had omitted our owner contingency which is something that we definitely want to have on this
055project uh you've approved the project previously bringing it back forward for you to approve with a modified amount of $5.3 million and we have rescinded the other one the other contract that you previously approved with that happy to answer any questions my guess is you're bringing this just because we get so excited to get rid of those mobile classrooms the more I can get that in front you better absolutely close we're getting close do I have a motion I move that the Board of Education approve maow Gordon Construction LLC contract for construction services at Le lewood elementary school second motion by Clay second by Jim any further discussion see none all in favor raise your right hand motion passes 70 thank you Jake okay our last item tonight which we added is to approve our
0562025 legislative positions so if they will pull those up thank you guys for doing that uh so this evening uh we've been talking about these for the last couple of months are 2025 uh legislative positions um this first page is similar to what we've done in the past with updated numbers gives just some information about Blue Valley can I Advance this um then the second page there has our priority positions uh we again have five priority positions to fund special education uh fully fund special education oppose tax credits and vouchers for private schools um we know that they're going to start working on the school Finance formula because that's up in 2027 so establish fair and Equitable School Finance formula uh establish again enhance student Mental Health Services support recruitment retention and and alternative teacher
057certification everything you heard about our assessment result or direct result of the teachers that we can have in our class classrooms and then we have those are priority positions that we really going to focus on but then we have some standing positions as well um that are uh listed here I don't have to read them all to you but again very similar to what we've done in the past um we will use these with our legislative delegation from Johnson County and um next session in in January when we toeka starts uh up again uh if there are bills this will uh allow us to know what to enter testimony into quickly um and what we shouldn't speak into so happy to answer questions see no questions we are looking to approve this tonight so I
058will look for a motion I move the Board of Education approve the 2025 legislative positions as presented motion by Patrick second by Sonia discussion see none all in favor raise your right hand or say I motion passes 70 does anybody have any further for this evening's meeting no then the meeting is adjourned for