001e e e right we'll go ahead and call the meeting to order before we begin tonight's meeting I'd like to take a moment to acknowledge the tragic events that recently took place at appalache High School in Georgia where two teachers and two students lost their lives in an unimaginable act of violence our hearts are with the families friends and the entire appalachi High School Community as they navigate through this time of grief and pain as Educators and Community leaders we are deeply saddened by this loss and stand in solidarity with all who are hurting in honor of the lives lost and the community impacted I ask that we join together for a moment of silence thank you we'll go ahead and get started with reports from board advisory committees um I will start with the
002diversity equity and inclusion committee that committee met for the first time last Thursday on September 5th uh Dr wessell opened the session with introduction since it was our first meeting and there were several new folks uh she explained the purpose and the goals of the committee and then I was there with christe mcnarland we're going to all of the board advisory committees um in the next month uh to talk about the Strategic plan and um make sure that all of the committee members have input on that and so we spent a little bit of time on that then Dr wessell facilitated a conversation with the committee regarding Community celebrations and observances um that we put out to our buildings who then share it in their newsletters so there was a good discussion around that and
003then finally we ended with um brainstorming topics the Comm committee might want to hear about this year um next up that was Dei so next up is the communications committee and christe mcnarland will give that report good evening again um the first meeting of the school year for the communications board advisory committee took place on September 3rd at 7:30 a.m. in the boardroom um we started with introductions because we to have additional committee members this year so we um spent some time getting to know each other and reviewed the committee's goals um for the year and I also provided an overview of our Communications team and the work that we do we also kind of went through and summarized our team summer activities and previewed some of the upcoming work um that will be seen
004in the area of communications and then uh superintendent Dr Tanya merrian shared information about the strategic planning uh process um asking also for Community input you mentioned earlier we um will be hitting all the board advisory committees so now this would be uh the second one that that we have done and uh Casey brudo presented preliminary results from the Strategic plan survey um we're able to get some nice feedback from the committee about displaying results um so we'll see um that input as part of um going forward when we um share results of the survey as we continue to to develop that um the next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday November 5th and finally finance and operations um with Kyle Hayden the finance and operations committee met on September 5th in the Board of Education
005room I welcomed committee members and then reviewed the meeting agenda and gave a General District update Jake sladik presented on Summer construction projects and the 2023 Bond Outlook related to those projects representatives from DLR group presented a virtual walkthrough of the new Middle School Jake sodnik and Jason Gillan presented the bids and contracts on the agenda for board approval this evening the next meeting is scheduled for October 10th and that is it for our board advisory committees this month all right we'll move on to reports from board members and the superintendent uh we'll start with Jody thank you um had an opportunity to attend the uh Ed Foundation breakfast which is always absolutely wonderful and many of my wonderful cohorts uh were at the breakfast um I just one of my favorite Parts is um
006the number of students um that share their talents with us uh through music um and speaking um so um it was just a really way great way to celebrate kind of the the kickoff of the year so um love that I also was able to attend the KB um board of directors meeting in Topeka a couple weeks ago um it's um incredibly valuable to talk to other board members um across the state and see what um they're doing things that have worked thing the challenges that they have um and we can share what we do and things that we think they've worked well and maybe things that haven't worked well and then we'd like like to retool so um always incredibly um rewarding experience so thank you Jim I don't have anything to uh specifically
007to go over but I do want to thank Emerson and Anaya for presenting tonight and and well job well done Jan thank you um I also as so many of us did attended the Blue Valley Ed Foundation breakfast which is amazing when you've got 900 to a thousand uh members of the community who who come there to support uh the Ed foundation and the many many things that they do uh for our schools our teachers and our students um Ed Hilton uh wellbeing uh meeting where we just sort of laid out what our topics would be for the coming year um went over to Topeka to Kansas Association of uh State School boards or school boards uh legislative committee where we finalized and outlined uh priorities for the 2025 legislative session and then last week
008attended um luncheon where it was presented to legislators from uh Johnson wot County and Douglas County and uh then went to the communications committee that Christy already covered and went to the Blue Valley Blue Valley Blue Valley North blue valley Northwest soccer game and that's all did you have a grandson playing in that game there was a Mur move on to Sonia on August the 17th um I I participated in 2024 Missouri in Kansas a Statewide equity and education Summit and basically this is an organization that um focuses on creating inclusive learning environments whereby every child feels welcomed valued and supported to ensure they are inspired to learn Thrive and dream and I was uh able to sit on a school board Bo Symposium well actually was a panel and uh there were different questions
009that was that were asked of the panelists and I more or less and the other panelists gave their personal um impression uh and the things that they felt that was valued in the school district group in the Blue Valley School District and in their perspective school districts regarding what the their districts were doing doing that was exceptional and I'm sorry and also on August the 24th I participated uh in the Kansas black leadership brunch series at the Kansas City Kansas Community Center and that was sponsored by the uh Kansas black Leadership Council and the keynote speaker was Dr Cain mon Morgan and she was she is the CEO and president president of the Kansas Leadership Center which is an internationally recognized Center of Excellence for leadership development and Civic engagement and then on August the
01028th I attended an event at the maafi Heritage Center where Governor Laura Kelly spoke about the state of uh Kansas and I also attended the uh Blue Valley educ ational Foundation breakfast the 34th annual and is actually a testament uh of the commitment and support that the community has for the Blue Valley School District I'm always blown away at that breakfast absolutely thank you Sonia Patrick I have nothing to add thank you clay um well yesterday I got to um had the privilege of attending special day at the K which is uh opportunity a picnic and a baseball game out at the coffin Stadium run by Rex and Jennifer hudler who are blue valley community members all four of the children went to Blue Valley Schools graduated including Cade who went through our 18 to
01121 program so that was an excellent opportunity a lot of Blue Valley um families there um students many Who Um take advantage of special ed programs right here in the district so that was a a very moving day it it was it was a good day um in addition I also attended the Blue Valley Ed Foundation breakfast Finance Dei and Communications committee meetings as well as a curriculum and instruction planning meeting um attended the suicide prevention Coalition of Johnson County leadership meeting um uh as well during our finance committee meeting we um had the opportunity to see uh a review of the new middle school that's going up um down south near wolf Springs Elementary um beautiful building just absolutely gorgeous but one of the questions that kept coming up they were all about safety
012all about safety all about what about these windows are they bulletproof how can we protect our kids against school shootings um and it's a sad reality and it I wish it weren't so um but this year I mean in addition to the four that were killed just recently in Georgia teachers Richard Aspen Wall Christina aramy and 14-year-old students Mason shermerhorn and Christian Angulo there have been eight 218 incidents at school involving guns this year alone 50 50 people have been killed on school grounds this year alone 23 shootings have involved deaths or injuries across the country plus we've got Untold suicides by guns throughout our communities we do what we can with these schools to protect our students but I am calling on our community and on our elected leaders to help us in this
013we can only do so much to defend against attacks like this but we need a community and elected leader effort so I ask them really everyone to come together so we can stop this violence thank you clay Tanya um yeah as we there we go um have some things I also want to applaud our students for coming tonight you both did a really good job represented uh your schools very well um so thank you for being here um so we have had many really positive things happen since the start of the year for the six consecutive school year Forbes ranked Blue Valley Schools as one of the best Employers in the state not everybody is on that list and we have been on that consistently um the 34th annual community breakfast you all talked about
014that um we raised a record breaking 420,000 wow and really highlighted the impact um that every that what what happens in our schools and our students are so talented I mean music group up there is just amazing to me every year I'm Blown Away um we had 783 Blue Valley students who received an advanced placement uh scholar award for tests taken in the spring of 2024 um this is u based on the number of AP tests they've taken and their score of three four five that's phenomenal the other thing I would say is that with ap we had a record number of students take AP tests this year we had a record number of students who passed um AP test by pass we say a three four or five and that's again a testament to
015our our students and our teachers so congratulations to all of those we had 127 students who earned the Kansas seal of biliteracy for 2023 24 20 of them received the gold SE seal which demonstrates that they are proficient uh in a second language Um this can be either students who come in with a different language to begin with and so they're um getting this sometimes for them the seal uh is the hardest in English but they're able to do that and then also our students who are in our um World Language programs the Ed Foundation received a uh Grant from the Kansas City Royals foundation and waterburger and uh one of our Harmony Elementary teachers was there to accept um the award at a Kanas City Royals game some recognitions this month it is suicide
016prevention month um so there are many activities going on this month um Hispanic Heritage Month is going on from it's actually the 15th of this month to the 15th of October we had Labor Day of course grandparents day was yesterday and then National arts and education week is this week so um we absolutely love our arts and uh in all of our schools um for our staff we had two two of our staff member Adam bean and from Blue Valley High and RJ palmgren from Blue Valley Southwest who received uh an award at the ekl our league dinner um and then this is what Dr Evans was talking about at Suburban balance equity and education Summit I spoke um as well as Dr Evans was on a superintendent paddle and then here we recognized um
017OE earlier today and he is going going to speak to the State Board tomorrow as I indicated and then um Blue Valley North student Adele earned recognition as a national champion in financial statement analysis at the future Business Leaders of America National Conference um Blue Valley West both boys and girls soccer um were recognized for their academic um honors last year so uh congratulations to Blue Valley West you can see their boys GPA was through .73 and their girls was 3.94 pretty impressive um Logan Parks from Blue Valley North was named a pre-season Max Prep All-American volleyball team as first team all around and then blue valley Northwest Andrew babalola did I say that right uh was named to the 2024 preseason Max Preps All-American football team as a second team offensive line so congratulations
018to both of those students and then magdalina uh who is a graduate of blue Val Northwest earned first place in the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City's 2024 KC Superstar singing competition I think this is the second year in a row Blue Valley has won that competition so that's um very impressive uh for her and it does come with a $10,000 scholarship so that's not bad either um so that's uh the highlights um I would like to end with um something that's kind of sad but I want to recognize we have two staff members who have passed away this year already uh Heather um whipper who was a longtime par educator at prar elementary and very beloved um they celebrated her life on Saturday of this this past Saturday and it had a huge
019turnout from Prairie Star and then we learned today that Cassandra Delmont our director of special education um lost her battle that she's had over the last 5 months so um our prayers and our thoughts are going to both of those families as as well as to all of the Blue Valley staff who um those people meant so very much to thank you Tanya the only thing I have is I just want to reiterate what clay was saying about uh gun violence in our schools and challenge our state and federal legislatures to adopt policies um that come from Mom's demand action which is a nonpartisan group working to reduce gun violence in our schools um it's time to listen and we can all vote at The Ballot Box this fall uh all right we'll move on
020to approving the agenda do I have a motion I move that the Board of Education approve the September 9th 2024 regular Board of Education meeting agenda as published and second motion by Jody second by Jan all in FA do I have any discussion 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 the Board of Education approve the September 9 2024 consent agenda as published do I have a second motion by Clay second by Sonia any discussion all in favor raise your right hand motion passes 70 all right we're moving on to the approval of the stra Contra Construction Company contract so um I'm going to ask Jake soket to come up and give us a brief overview of
021what this contract is good evening this is a contract with Rob construction who you might recall went through a significant RFP process to be awarded Package C of our 2023 bond this is one of those projects you previously approved a similar project for Blue Valley North this is a weight room addition for blue valley Northwest um really good project we got good bids and and strongly recommend approval of this project happy to answer any questions I got a question Jake yes sir we're spending $4.5 million on a weight room yes sir it's a weit room there are some restroom modifications there are some entry sequence modifications that whole portion of the building is it's where you enter for the pool it's where you enter for basketball potentially for um for our our weight room and
022what I would say is when you think of a weight room sometimes you think of it as just for athletics this is really an educational space we're seeing a a significant increase in the number of students who are taking classes related to weight and and personal health training if we don't do this what we have are facilities that are undersized for the number of students that we have I would say there are safety issues in that so the other option is to reduce the number of opportunities that we afford our students so um yes this is a $4.5 million project but I think I think it's worth every penny so we're increasing the space and the number of kids that can participate we're improving the uh you said Entry Way entry sequence yeah so on
023the back side of the building it creates an entry that can be utilized for basketball utilized to access this facility from the sports fields to the north to give them better access to the weight room the other thing this does is repurposes the existing weight room into additional space that they utilize for that building if you were to go to the Blue Blue Valley West tomorrow and go any hour of the day and go into that weight room you would see it maxed out they honestly they can't they would take more students the the staff uh but we won't let them because of safety issues so it's it's absolutely they would tell you absolutely needed so it's an it's an addition correct how many square feet uh around 8,000 square fet is the new addition
024then you have the renovation of the existing the new entry so yeah it's a sizable project here so so what's the size of the current White Room oh that's a great question around I'm going to throw out a number don't quote me on this around 6,000 square fet four 3,000 okay so it's tiny 3,000 square F feety small it's yeah and the not to belabor this but the challenge with the existing weight room is it's directly adjacent to an educational classroom weight rooms are noisy this removes it from that and allows us to free up that space for a less noisy use which serves the the school significantly just as a reminder this was something we promised the community in correct correct what's the ETA um we are oh my gosh you have to ask
025me this now can I answer that when I get into my presentation because then I have a cheat sheet of when this is due all right it's we you'll see we have so many projects coming up I I don't want to tell you the wrong date but I I will cover that this evening yeah any other comments about the strap contract other than when I tour the buildings I see the weight rooms the fitness centers being used all the time and they're maxed out um and did want to reiterate these are bond funds they're not coming out of operational expenses correct okay right I'll take a motion I move that the Board of Education approved the contract with stra construction company second motion by Jody second by Jan any further discussion all in favor motion
026passes 70 moving on to the approval of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City contract so I'm going to ask uh Dr Spencer Jennifer Spencer to come up uh for the next three items um these are our annual renewals and and um I'll let her take it from here here we go good evening um yes we're here to present to you the annual renewals for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City and that is a contract that is negotiated this process starts um in early March it's actually a year- round conversation with our employee benefits committee so they stay a breast of what we are able to offer our employees and the cost cost and uh through that committee process we discussed um a heavy desire to keep our plan designed the same
027so there are no plan design changes four five open plans for employees and three of which are at no cost for employee only uh that has been negotiated and we do have Holmes Murphy represented tonight by Michelle oldie and Matt wheeler who are here in the negotiation process they negotiated uh from 16.3% % to an 11% increase for us and then we are here to ask for your approval of that increase that also comes with the district subsidizing 9% of that are there any comments surrounding the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City contract um when you say no cost you mean on the premium side yes no cost for the employee only plan in three plans of the five open plans and so then um those plans though have uh are kind of
028traditional deductible and out- of pocket max type plans correct there the plans truly that we offer and we did work very hard to keep our plan design with no changes it truly offers employees great choices for what fits their families and those three plans do have strong options for for our employees and what meets their needs so there are both that higher deduct a higher deductible plan and and plans that don't fit that mold as well okay so and so like uh I'm just trying to get make sure I understand like a $1,000 deductible versus a $3,000 dedu corre dble all the options correct our lowest deductible is ,000 deductible with the spare plan okay an error netwk but a lower deductible I got a couple quick questions so um what's the average State average
029increase or national increase it's probably more for homes Murphy um I would say that I'll I'll default to Holmes Murphy to give that National cost um we discussed that in the EBC committee meetings where Matt often presents that information and data on what would be an average cost nationally increase to the increase yes percent wise just healthare inflation right now if you look at the M data on Healthcare year-over-year it's about 8 to n% is where kind of the averages are at this juncture um blue Valley's contract is self-funded you're effectively paying your claims within the contract your year-over-year increases were were beyond that um which is why it landed where the increase was at 11% but the inflationary numbers have tried to W just under 10% okay and then um I know we have
030different plans and so there's different rates but on average what what do we pay um for the employee is it um 4500 is it 85% that would be the other question is it what percentage it's an actual pay period amount in the 2025 amount per pay period is $430 so it's an $860 amount per month for that employee for each employee so if they are an employee only plan there's three of those plans that cost covers completely and then it's at no cost to the employee and then beyond that the employee is picking up that expense and for the two of those plans for employee only it's an it'll be a fee for that employee for employee only but it also comes with possible other things that they may want for example if they want
031to be in a larger Network then they may choose to pay that cost and then of course that cost increases when you add spouse or family but what's the district paying there what's the district the district contribution is that $860 is $860 M it's a $1,320 annual amount okay and that covers about how many lives um our current plan we have 30300 eligible let me double check myself on that um mhm that's accurate and uh 20 about 2700 a little over 2700 that are participating thank you so the the 11% increase that we're talking about is the uh cost the subsidized cost to the employee is that what that number represents that 11 and Matt will probably explain this in the moving parts and complexities of it where that 11% comes in Matt do you
032want to describe there are some complexities that gross expense why don't you do that and then they can pick it up on the absolutely 11% would be the total gross expense of the overall plan and so when you take the total expense of the plan portion of that is picked up the majority vast majority of that is picked up by the Blue Valley School District subsid of $860 that Dr Spencer referenced the balance between the total and that sub is picked up via payroll for employee contributions okay I got it um so the the contribution per employee is the same regardless of whether they somebody opts for an individual plan an individual spouse individual family plan correct um is are is the cost that is um is the cost the premium cost of those plans
033um is there effectively a subsidy on the family and and spouse PL or they all just rated it you know what I'm getting at I I do it is it is that same subsidy across the board so you're we're we're providing that exact amount per employee so it's and it's a you know it's that per pay period amount that we're giving each employee and then the employee is choosing the plan that is that that amount is going to subsidize question so is the math as simple as dividing 800 by 36 million and that's how many lives we're covering how do you get to 36 million do you want to go into the 36 million that would be the total gross expense so if you add the district subsidy and then you add employee contributions and
034then you add leave of absence cobras retirees who pick up their share that's how you get to the total toal amount I think the District's number I could grab my I think the district's total expense in that is somewhere around 27 million of their subsidy the balance of that it's contributions and then those former groups of folks that pay 100% of the cost of their coverage after they've left employment right so the real cost of the district is 27 million yeah and I'll verify that about right and that is a very good question because at times there's there are numbers in our contracts that really represent what the employee is paying as well so you'll see that in other contracts where it might be an employee completely paid um employee voluntary product for example but
035the cost then is the employees cost not the district's yeah the the district's subsidy exposure and and total expense year-over-year represents $2.4 million uh increasing to 28.2 million so that's the district's total subsidy exposure at $860 per those employees that are participating in the plan in 2025 thank you all right if there's no more comments can I have a motion please I move the Board of Education approved the contract of Blue Cross Blue Shield for the city of Kansas City is presented second motion by Patrick second by Jody any other discussion all in favor raise your right hand or say I motion passes 70 move on to the Delta Dental contract again this is a renewal contract with Delta dentl it does come with a 4% increase it it does not have any plan design
036changes and continues to offer our employees both a a base plan and a buy up option for their families and this is all paid by the employee yes correct and that's to your to the earlier point this number that you see here is employee paid any questions or comments if not I'll take a motion sorry I moveed at the Board of Education approve the contract with Delta Dental of Kansas think second motion by Jim second by Jan any further comments if not I'll take a motion or I'm sorry raise your right hand or say I motion passes 70 moving on to Standard Insurance Company contract again this is a renewal additionally we have three voluntary products that we're adding and these voluntary products are employee paid so I would point out spots to differentiate and
037that would be that the district cost is the cost you see for short-term disability and long-term disability those other products are voluntary products and again we're adding options for our employees and this was discussed in the employee benefit committee and we also uh entertained presentations to ensure that we were certain as to what we we were offering our employees and these benefits and what that what truly comes with accident Insurance Hospital insurance and critical illness um and the employee benefits committee wholeheartedly supported the addition of those voluntary products for our employees from what I recall um you know what you were um doing is trying to meet a need because what I understand uh or understood you to say was over the last year or so we've seen such a rise in in needing these
038type of products um for our for our staff it is true um that we have a number of Staff members who have dealt with um very surprising situations and put them in situations financially but also some of those ongoing situations that also increase our costs as a district so it's both very difficult for the employee um physically emotionally and financially on the families and then it at times has increased our claims so there's an opportunity here to number one support the employee if they so choose to take one of these voluntary products and they are at very reasonable price points um and then it also you know may be assisting Us in some other ways so again this is is there's no cost to the district correct on those voluntary products and do we believe
039that the products that are being offered are at a better rate than what an employee can get on their own or are we just helping giving the employee access you no um I would invite Michelle to respond to this as well if she'd like to because she also was entertained entertained the presentations um I'll give you an example one of those products that we're going to offer and isn't in this particular contract tonight but you'll see in the future it's a it's a legal volunte AR option um and our employees would then have access to some legal services at a a really really reasonable cost versus going out to elect to actually you know uh have a retainer for example for Legal Services when we're entertaining the accident Insurance Hospital Indemnity and the critical illness
040Insurance Michelle probably has a stronger background and the cost or price point in comparisons yes to answer your question directly we do believe and we've seen that buying those products on the group platform level through a group policy is always for the most part a better benefit and a lesser cost yes thank you and I'll just add on to because you had mentioned a comment about just staff members we've also heard um staff members that come to Blue Valley from other school districts have those products um at their disposal at other school districts so it was good to offer them here to because they've come over and they're asking can I enroll in these products I had them where I came from and so it's nice to be able to now meet that need now
041as well so the first year we're going to offer them brand new products for 25 correct yeah yeah and EBC um did discuss that as well just that we do have employees that have had access to some products in other places before they've joined us um so it both helps that new the new employee or it may help an employee that has been you know with with blue valley for a very long time that hasn't had access prior right and I might add this information was presented at the finance committee so it's not the first time board seen the information thank you do we have a motion I move that the Board of Education approve the contract with a standard insurance company second second MO by Sonia second by Clay any further comment or discussion
042if none all in favor raise your right hand or say I motion passes 70 we are on to the approval of the 2425 legal maximum budget and estimated tax rate yeah we're not ready for the summer projects yet um that's coming so we are here now today to um actually approve our budget so this started a couple of months ago Jeremy's presented multiple times um but I'm going to invite Jeremy up to the podium and we can ask any questions you had your hearing earlier um before the meeting started and so now it's just our opportunity to actually approve the budget yeah happy to answer any questions if the board members have any this is not the first time presented this right we've talked about this in finance and we've talked about it at a
043prior meeting right yeah it's a three-month process we first started with the intent to exceed revenue neutral in July uh get your approval to publish the notice in August and then now final approval here in September and we went through the budget in some detail at least at a previous meeting right yes nothing's changed correct uh not on our proposal all I got I'd also note um so this was a three-month process but obviously you guys have been working on this for much longer than three months to prepare to get to the start of our three-month process correct that's correct um we'll start planning for 25 26 here in the fall so you know Clay I thought he just did this in three months you're I thought he was just Superman on this he is
044Superman I just have a few questions I just go through through them and just go into whatever detail you you feel is good uh or is necessary um on reserve funds could you just give a high level overview of the reserves that we maintain in which funds they live how they're used and how they interact with the property tax dollars that come into the district through the mil yep um I'm going to read off several Reserve uh fund balances and their Associated funds and a quick summary of the the intended use uh we have 20.25 million in our contingency fund uh that is essentially trying to cover one month of payroll benefits and payroll taxes um the healthcare subsidies as well uh for all of our staff so uh that amount provides one month uh
045coverage in case of any kind of unforeseen um situation whether it's with State funding or you know other surprises that we're not prepared for um we have 8.8 million of special education uh that assists with uh funding excess cost every year um we're projecting roughly I'd say somewhere in the neighborhood of $75 million of special education cost so this would also provide uh Dr Schmidt's team some uh funds if they have some expected special education costs um arise during the year we have some funds to help him meet those needs um we have about 15.2 million of reserves in our bond and interest or our debt service fund um really the purpose of those funds is to assist us with mil ly management um if you recall I think at last month's meeting we talked
046about how our debt service last year to this year is increasing by close to $1 million it's going from 43 milli a year ago to about 54 million this year uh we are utilizing about $8 million of bond and interest interest reserves in this budget to help us uh maintain a decreasing Mill Levy so uh those are our bond and interest reserves 15.2 million uh we have approximately 7 million of Special Reserve um balances for our healthc care contract with blue KC uh and that would be for claim runout if we ever got off of the blue um Cost Plus contract uh so that $7 million would help us pay for claim run out if we were to go to a different contract or a different carrier um approximately 3 million of textbook reserves uh
047those reserves are targeted for an Ela adoption here later in 2425 um so those have a Target uh use we have about 3.6 million of atrisk reserves two things happening with those Reserves um when we had Esser monies uh during the last several years those helped support the Children's Mercy social worker contract uh as those Esser monies have been spent down we intend to use some at risk reserves to help carry some of that cost keep that cost out of our general fund um in addition at risk funding it's it's kind of hard to get our uh finger on the pulse of what's happening there um we in this budget projected a decrease in our free lunch applications but as we're getting closer to September 20th I'm not really sure that we are going to
048see a decrease so our atrisk funding May um be level somewhat with prior year so we'll know more on September 20th um but again those reserves are in place that if free lunch applications decreased we'd have some funding there to to help us you know bridge to Future budgets um we have about 3 million uh also in the special Reserve fund for uh self-insuring our work comp claims and that would get us about 3 years down the road if history holds on roughly what we spend each year in work comp uh 2.5 million is in our career and teched fund uh again that's much like special education it assists uh Blue Valley with um funding the career and teched programming costs that exceed our funding from the state so we carry some reserves in there
049to to help with those costs and lastly by will about $1.4 million um we have growing elll contact minutes and student headcounts that we're serving every year so um we're trying to keep some reserves in there in case additional costs you know show themselves so I feel like the reserves uh for Blue Valley are um in a good position so if you added all those up you'd get about $65 million and if you're looking at how's it compared to our overall budget it's about $400 million or about6 %. um one other reminder on these reserves is they're not interchangeable so can't take reserves out of our bond and interest fund and use them for Teacher comp so um a lot of the reserves that I mentioned have specific use restrictions hey Jeremy so so for
050example on the work cop we're we're self-insured right correct and so the Department of Labor requires that we have a certain amount of Reserve in place to cover any kind of tail for example that there might be essentially right and that's dictated by the Department of Labor correct yeah and I wish Sid Cumberland were here I think you could speak a little more to what those reserve requirements are but um I'm well in excess of what Sid's uh requested in his budget so I I think we're in a good place here right but that Reserve number is essentially based on at least what we're required to have by oh absolutely and then some right okay um a related I'm going a little bit out of order of what I was thinking but um so I'm
051thinking only maybe of the contingency reserve um which we target to kind of be one month's compensation so what you do is you take that up each year uh relative to whatever our one month compensation looks like um that's that's the goal um as we go into 25 26 um we're projecting a small operating deficit um interest rates over the next 12 months we really dictate if we have that deficit or not but um if we let's say have a $3 million deficit it would you know probably come from either a special education fund or a contingency reserve okay okay so when I was looking at the budget at a glance and and I know we this budget exercise for school districts is um you you you you have to budget to a legal maximum
052so we are um projecting I don't know if this is the right word but we have identified a certain number of students that um that kind of underpin the budget of 22,8 students or sorry FTE enrollment those can be different numbers numbers but um can you talk to that as to that number is higher than what i' I'm expecting it to come in at why do we do that and what's the what what's the impact in terms of the budget and the the more uh what's it called pointed question is um are we over taxing in order to be able to meet that that budget Max yeah good question so the inputs that go into the published budget notice are um really early August is when we're uh establishing those final inputs those estimates um
053you have a reasonable range that you're trying to establish knowing that September 20th will be what your actual funding is um one reason that you may not want to be conservative on that estimate is when we publish that in August and we get to closer to September 20th and now we're in September let's say it's higher than we estimated um my 33% Lo might only end up being 32% or 31% so by using the upper end of the range we're assuring that we're going to get pretty close to the 33% estimate that we're using when we budget um now you're on a a good point in that if a district overestimates in all areas and and they exceed it well above a reasonable range that would have a detrimental impact on your l l mill
054rate so what we're trying to do is be as close to reasonable as possible but yet a little on the um high side so that when we get to this state here in September um I know with high confidence that we're going to be pretty close to a 33% Lo a year ago our Lo was actually 32.9% because we had to republish late in the year and so we couldn't access the full 33% right so the the for the benefit of those who are wondering what that 33% is that's the max that we can can effectively tax ourselves locally as an incremental it's called infusion of cash from local taxpayers into the operating and the 33% is what you can spend you can Levy more and that just simply carries over to the following year
055and when that happens you have a head start on the following year rate so we want to try to minimize the amount we carry over I gotta um but the 33% is tied to your expenditure Authority okay so so you're saying is last year we were kind of almost exact in terms of the 33 yeah it was probably the closest 33% that I've ever had usually it CS you know at 33% and we have a little bit of authority built in but last year it was pretty much on it okay um okay a couple other sorry everybody just have a couple other questions on Capital outlay um uh about five years ago before I was on the board the capital outlay fund had a large balance and then we've used those funds um on a
056couple of large projects and now the balance is down kind of 5 million or so dollars um uh can you I think I asked this last here but I can't remember how that fund got so large and um just I'm just interested to know how it got so big yeah I visited with Kyle earlier on this and I think um he and I that was before we were here at Blue Valley and I don't know if anyone on the board was um a part of building up the capital outlay balance um we'd be speculating uh don't know why there was a a capital outlay balance that exceeded 60 million the thing that makes sense to me is that was right around the same time that the state had block grant funding which was fixed funding
057for schools um I imagine if I were in Blue Valley that would have been a good way in the midst of flat funding from the state to strengthen your balance sheet locally is by having 8 Ms of capital outlay restrict spending and try to build reserves now they are restricted uh to certain spending but it would still be a logical reason why U but I can't say for sure if that's why okay I do know too that it was an intentional um it was an intentional um buildup because then they they had some intentional projects the logistics Center being the biggest one that they wanted to do out of that I was periphal then because I wasn't as involved in the finance part I was in curriculum but I do remember those discussions at the
058board meeting okay thank you T um so then I have question related to the actual the we have an eight 8 mil for capital outlay in the budget um the actuals last year came in at 7.96 n can you explain what what the difference between the budget and the actual is yeah so on the published U budget document there's some language at the top that says the estimated tax rate shown for comparative purposes is subject to slight change depending on Final assessed valuation so Johnson County um they won't have their final tax abstract their final valuation until November 1st right now this budget is built off of estimates and if approved tonight we communicate to Johnson County these are the specific dollars we need to Levy then based off of the final valuation they actually
059adjust the tax rate so that's why there's there may be some small variations in the actual tax rate and that's what happened a year ago I got it okay that's good um just a couple more so if we were going to this Revenue I was going to make this comment during the the roll call earlier but when we go Revenue when this concept of Revenue neutral it it um applies to each and every fund so if you're not if if and there's like eight fun or seven there's six there's eight there's seven funds that are subject to the revenue neutral rate evaluation right and if you are if you exceed revenue neutral on any one of those individual funds then your Revenue neutral even if we drop the mill but let's take the the what's
060call the colloquial term of Revenue neutral if we were going to raise the exact same amount this year as we did last year as opposed to this in an increase which amounts to I don't know the percent but it's several million dollarss increase um what um what would we where would we cut from the budget for this cycle it would have been a lower proposed comp rate uh Andor benefits um that's so so I I got where you're going so I'm gonna ask um get right to the point we have a few we have like I said seven funds that we control or that we can set the mill Levy and but not all of them are material there's like four or five that are material um Bond and interest is effectively paying for Capital
061expenditures that the the public has voted on principal and interest The Debt Service yes uh so it's you can't it's not like you can raid that fund to go and pay for high salaries right um we have the capital outlay fund which can be used for capital projects as it like the logistics Center um but also for some uh some some salaries right of people that are involved in maintaining the buildings um then we have supplemental um or lob fund supplemental General and cost of living two big funds which uh um are more important to Blue Valley than maybe some other districts can you just explain that real quickly and and those those all go for operating funds uh yes capital outlay is kind of a hybrid fund with um carrying certain costs that maybe
062before the capital outlay uses were approved they used to reside in the general so it's relieved the general fund from certain operating costs lob is uh 100% salaries in Blue Valley okay um the bond and interest you mentioned that one that's Debt Service cost of living yeah so that was also uh a way for Blue Valley to um invest in our compensation package so that you know we could remain competitive with our neighboring school districts in terms of hiring and retaining staff uh so we're maxing our cost of living fund maxing our local option budget uh doing everything we can to stay competitive on compensation okay just final I think one one final question we have it's not as big a number but it's I see the bond the M Levy has gone down on
063extraordinary growth facilities from 0.96 to 69 why is that and what is that used for uh that funding is eligible when a school district opens a new uh building due to overcrowding in another one so uh the specific funding you're looking at is for Aspen Grove Elementary in response to um Wolf Creek being over capacity so that funding is temporary and it sunsets over an 8-year period uh so when you see that M Levy uh decrease that is the sunsetting provisions of extraordinary growth and so then will the that one kick back in with the new middle school if we CH choose to utilize another application with the board of tax appeals okay and when would that would be next year that we would be considering um if we're opening in 26 27 we would
064probably submit it spring of 26 fall of 25 okay all right that's all my kind of tax question just one General economic question in terms of what we're experiencing as a district um because I'm I'm I'm thinking about next year at this point in some ways other than health care cost and payroll healthare cost seems to be like the never- ending you know inflationary Circle and then payroll cost which you've addressed are there other areas we are still experiencing material inflationary pressures and I'm really just thinking 3 months back 3 months forward kind of in our immediate are we currently experiencing that are we seeing it flatten what's just our experience in spending money outside of compensation the two areas that come to mind are property casualty uh insurance premiums and our transportation renewal contract
065those are the ones that really stick out as kind of having inflationary pressure on our budget other than that you you know I I think the payroll and benefits as you mentioned are the other two big ones okay all right sorry appreciate my fellow board members giving me time to ask all those questions does anybody else have any comments no I just want to make a qualitative comment I I really wrestled with the budget because it's a it's still a taxing increase in a inflationary environment we're a a high tax um area of Kansas City with a lot of property valuations and in in our community um the average um Joe and Jane are getting priced out of our market and it's concerning to me um that said um we public entities struggle to keep
066our employees well compensated relative to the private sector in the last couple of years have been um not great for if you're a Public Employee while the private sector is having you know back in 20 and 21 and 22 really big t uh um compensation increases and and we had really modest increases and so we've done a lot of catchup so and it seems to me that the um tax increase that we're we're going to um vote on here is um uh ex it it accepts a reality of where of where we live and trying to do uh make sure we have plenty of cash let's call it cash in the bank to compensate our staff um I don't know if we're going to have the same level of of flexibility next year so um
067I I do think we do a great job of man there's not not every public entity in the Kansas City area manages their books well um but I do think we do a a really good job at that and so for that reason I support I support all this um this budget as presented um Jim I just want to piggyback on what you said um and just reiterate you know our really Stellar Bond rating um that we have because of all this work um put into the budget and trying to manage that so I I think that that you know is a um a way that we're measured that everybody's measured you know with the with the same tools and and and we come out um looking very well on that so thank you yeah
068I go ofar to say we do one of the best jobs I've ever seen from a public entity standpoint so I appreciate all your guys work in your team Jeremy absolutely anybody else if not the building needs assessment and state assessments review was provided to and evaluated by the USD 229 Board of Education in determining the authority of the local option budget cost of living extraordinary growth special liability and capital outlay M levies do I have a motion to approve the 2425 legal maximum budget and estimated tax rate I move that the Board of Education approve the 2024 25 legal maximum budget and estimated tax rate including the approval of a 33% local option budget resolution motion by Jan second by Patrick any other discussion if not all in favor raise your right hand or
069say I motion pass passes 70 moving on to the design and construction update now we're ready for summer projects a yeah um long list here I won't go through it all but let me just say this is my favorite time of year um weather's cooling off football's back Nebraska's finally good Jody it feels like and every year I get to stand up here and celebrate all the hard work of our staff and let me start by saying you have have the best staff behind the scenes working on projects and they don't get to stand up here and get recognition all the time if ever but there are 81 days in a summer 81 days including Saturdays and Sundays and we executed 80 projects this summer from start to finish and those aren't that's not to
070mention like moving a tackboard here and there moving a marker board um it's major projects like tearing out an entire parking lot and putting it back recabling entire buildings to make sure that our infrastructure and our data is up to speed starting new auxiliary gymnasiums at some of our schools so this is a comprehensive list of probably almost everything I'm sure I missed a couple small projects but touched every building in The District in some way shape or form and it's just a true Testament to all the folks behind the scenes and so I wanted to make sure you saw that what we're going to focus on tonight is really all the projects related to our 2023 Bond so as as you know that Bond focuses on facilities Technology and Safety my portion tonight I'll
071focus on is facilities we'll talk about a project that completed a few projects that are underway and then a lot of projects that have what I call are in preconstruction and that's whether we're designing it we're bidding it we're going through Planning Commission which I was just at this evening um lot of work going on and you'll understand why I have a hard time keeping track of all the dates because they start to run into each other we'll kick it off with Aubrey Ben Middle School multi-purpose Edition this just completed in July opened up they were using it Dr mergan and I were out there on the first day of school and they had kids coming in and this is the first of three in in the bond we also you'll see tonight we're designing
072uh the same thing at Harmony Middle School and at Pleasant Ridge and then our intent would be in a future bond to come back and and build the same thing at all of our middle schools it's a storm shelter for the entire building um frankly in the words of a student he said it best he walked in and said whoa this is sick and that means we're doing something right when our kids love our facilities honestly so um really excited about this project and here's a view of the exterior we've got three projects that are under construction you've probably seen this Blue Valley West has an auxiliary gym that's being constructed Blue Valley North has that weight room we talked about a little bit earlier and Hilltop we're renovating the interior of the building to
073expand Early Childhood this is actually a slightly outdated photo all the walls at Blue Valley West are up now on their new auxiliary gymnasium again a storm shelter we started that in May this is how far we got with the with the rest of the walls going up this summer and we're hoping to be done in April 2025 and this is an interior rendering of of what that'll look like when we're complete I believe like North we started that weit room Steel's going up um we started that again in May and we're looking at a completion of March of 2025 and so when you ask about you know what does that what do those dollars go to it goes towards a facility it goes towards even at Blue Valley North that entrance sequence as you
074access the pool and you access um that Athletics Corridor this is a fantastic project and and all of these are um and and this is one of those where Dr Dr Maran said you see tons of kids utilizing this all day every day and we can't be more excited about this project for them at Hilltop like I said we are expanding um their Early Childhood that project started in June of 24 Looking to be complete in December of 24 um not necessarily a beautiful rendering to show you but I wanted to show a floor plan that tells you how we're expanding into uh portions of the conference center without losing conference space but we're adding three additional classrooms and additional support sta space for all of our staff okay those are the ones that were
075started on construction now we're going to talk about all the projects in preconstruction so every major project of the 2023 Bond initiative has started in some way shape or form with the exception of the Blue Valley Southwest auxiliary gym which is going to start design processes in October so we are full Boots full steam ahead we're running um kick it off with what you guys approved tonight the blue valley Northwest rate room we'll start that in October Jody your question and we will hope to be done by August of 25 uh a fantastic project very similar to North and what you'll see at Blue Valley High Harmony Middle School multi-purpose Edition you guys I think approved this um last month we'll start that project in October be done in in August of 25 lewood Elementary
076School we're getting rid of that mobile uh we're building a classroom Edition we're enhancing the site for both lewood Elementary and lewood Middle with additional parking at this facility which is much needed it is a small space so that we we ended up actually changing the road just a little bit put a bend in that road and add additional parking um neighbors are thrilled about this it gets cars off city streets during events uh Planning Commission was extremely supportive of this project at lewood this is the one where I went to the lewood elementary PTO to present about the bond and they stood up and started cheering about a parking lot that's parking lots get people excited I mean that when you have to park in a neighborhood and walk across a busy street this
077is this is really important Cedar Hills there are two mobils at Cedar Hills that we'll get rid of and to do that we're going to build two building additions on the end of two pods so they'll get an additional six classrooms and additional Flex space uh very similar to the lewood project only we're trying to eliminate multiple mobiles here that project will start in November be complete in August of 25 Blue Valley North is getting a Performing Arts Edition it's really a band classroom that project is in design we're hoping to start that in January of 25 and be complete in July of 25 Pleasant Ridge is one of the other middle schools that's getting a multi-purpose Edition well underway in Design This was actually approved by Planning Commission right before this meeting so we're
078full steam ahead here the anticipated start April 25 and complete in January of 26 Blue Valley High wait room anticipated start in December of 2025 completion in August of 26 very similar to the other two that you've seen at Northwest and at North at all of our high schools including the academy we're renovating all of our fa spaces to turn them into more of an upscale introductory to culinary arts uh We've toured Johnson County Community College where some of our students actually take classes now uh We've toured other school districts it still allows them to do all the things they've done in the past but it allows them to learn how do you work in a more commercialized kitchen if you will more so than just at a at your house kitchen if you will
079and then the last project I'll talk about is one that you all saw that 3D walkthrough this morning it's been an awesome project um I I share this because I think it's really important to reiterate it's not me it's not even our Architects helping or they help design the building it's our students it's our staff we've had a number of of student engagement sessions where they talk about how do they want this building to feel feel honestly we would hire some of these kids tomorrow because they're so thoughtful of well how do I get to a restroom from my classroom how much time will I have how do I get from point A to point B talk about safety I mean they're asking the questions that as Architects and as designers that we have to
080ask and it's just been an extremely eye openening process again this will open in the fall of 2026 relieves Aubrey Ben Middle School addresses growth in the southern portion of the District we haven't set boundaries yet that's something that we'll start this fall uh with our facility planning committee and it gives me chills when I go down there because this is just North of wolf Springs and it's always been farmland and we're already moving dirt and getting ready to go vertical hopefully in a few months so you can see why I lose track of dates and we have a lot going on and and again all credit to our staffs and all of our departments business operations facilities it um even food service has input in this all of our maintenance staff have input in
081these facilities so kudos to all them more than anything and thank you for your support and thank our community for their support happy to answer any questions if there are any I have one small question about uh first of all there's so many projects going on I can't even keep track of them um lewood W Elementary School yes I noticed that there was a on the slide of a million projects this summer there's a PTO project and I did actually get a question about that PTO project so is it complete the sun shade it's not complete I think it's still underway we wanted to make sure that we got through Planning Commission got our project approved we didn't want to slow things down and over complicate by submitting separate projects and we really had to
082keep our timeline on the building project so we did put a little bit of a pause on that um Caleb Clemens is running that in our grounds department and I know that it is moving forward now okay so it's still on the radar y great thank you you're welcome any other questions Jake I Jake I don't think Jake's busy enough I I mean I don't have to sleep we can just give us more there we go we'll take it no it's it's truly an honor I have the best job in the world um to have the support that we have and to be able to do these fantastic things so we're busy but I love it my team loves it we're just thankful for the opportunities so like take the weight room for example and
083so able toze of same drawings not necessarily some of the same drawings only in that how they attack attached to buildings is unique at every site we are able to utilize similar Square footages similar amenities to make sure that we have Equity Equity among all of our high schools the drawing piece I mean other than yes it's roughly this size box they're completely different um if you're looking for kind of economical value the expertise that the team brings repeatedly there's tons of value there but they do have to do a completely new set of drawings with every project yeah yes very similar time and effort to do yeah I would say so yeah if we were to bring in a new architect with each one of these it's how do we get them the institutional
084knowledge with what we just learned on the last one as we build this next one I think that's part of the advantage of doing the um hiring The Architects hiring the construction managers and putting packages together absolutely and and our construction manager gives us bid numbers all the way through the process so we understand what can we afford how can we meet the programmatic needs while staying within our budget within the bond and and our Architects help us with that as well Hey Jake um one thing that this is a little bit more broad but as you've been in all the you go to these buildings a lot but are you seeing that we have any um unmet deferred maintenance needs in our business in our buildings that we are not addressing or we don't
085have the budget to address no I I I would say unmet entirely no um this district has done a really good job of taking care of our facilities are there things that we need absolutely if we didn't have those things we wouldn't come back for another Bond we wouldn't need 8 Ms in capital outlay which helped to support some of those efforts um there will always be work you know our our oldest building was built in the ' 50s and and our average age of our buildings is 30 years that doesn't mean we have deficiencies across the board though I think in totality our buildings are in great shape but that that's in part by the design process and the materials we use yeah going forward because they're not going to be just lasting 10
086years they're going to be lasting 50 years yeah we're very intentional with the materials that we select not only in what's the initial cost how do we maintain it how long will it last uh we had questions today around our new Middle School you know what are the materials and you heard the Architects talk about we think about mowers throwing rocks at the building and what will that mean for the longevity of the building again kudos to our staff because that's their expertise I think we have experts in our in our district that maybe not every school district has and I would say that this is longrange planning that Kyle and and Jake Jeremy's a part of that that we really look out into the future to ensure that we're not just all of a
087sudden coming to you with a bond that says we need to tear these five schools down and build new ones um because we haven't taken care of them it's it's important um that we have that running list all the time cheaper in the long yeah for sure yeah not everything on this what's the orientation on the um weit room at Northwest like where's it at are those windows facing like the tennis courts and Northwest it fa the tenis court so they primarily face North are there any um is there any parking being added around that area yeah there's a little parking Plaza we're not adding a ton cuz frankly we don't invite a lot of visitors to access from back there what we want to make sure is we have an entry so that athletes
088who are using the tennis cour the soccer fields uh practice football field can access that facility um but not trying to invite tons there is Ada parking back there for access to the basketball courts though okay well I was thinking like weights in the summer weights they would used to park back there to go in right to the weight room but there's not really room there's still some I I there aren't 50 stalls back there yeah all right if there's no more questions we can move on to okay move on to the approval of the name for middle school 11 yeah so there's another presentation if you guys can pull that up for me um historically in Blue Valley we have named our buildings well after a building has been designed and constructed that works
089okay um where we struggle is that as you design we have to pick colors we have to pick materials um so we came up with this idea and it really stems back to how did we start the Middle School process well it was student involvement so we had a call to action call for inspiration to our students at Aubrey Bend in Blue Valley Southwest and we said help us Inspire the name help us inspire the mascot help us find the identity of this building early in the process so we can incorporate those colors that brand into the building we created a uh an internet location for them to get online learn about how this might be utilized we gave them a form that they could fill out we had 20 entries um honestly it it
090was an incredible process and today we're we're excited to recommend to you that we have the wolf Springs Middle School um tonight you will vote to approve uh the the name but not the mascot that's an administrative decision but I want to talk a little bit about why we believe this is the best name for the for this school number one the adjacency to Wolf Springs Elementary School makes a lot of sense the student who submitted this they talked about how Community among among two sites we have a precedent of that throughout our district at Harmony at Lakewood at lewood Overland Trail Prairie Star it makes sense it starts to build that Community within a community then we started talking and we had some great submissions um Carl the cwad is not up here but
091it was one of my favorite submissions um the coyotes was the lead Runner here and Dr Maran I know that's your college mascot it it it makes a lot of sense here is it coyotes or coyote I honestly had to go on the internet and say how do you pronounce this it's coyotes according to Mariam Webster I would say coyotes but I I I don't know how we'll decide that so I'm going to tell you the formal it's coyotes uh but you can see all the all the mascots here and then the color scheme that we're recommending is that blue silver and green it ties into almost all of our other schools in the Blue Valley Southwest feeder we will partner with the LR group to create this um brand identity the colors the mascot
092logo will partner with our Communications team they'll be involved in that process again you're not voting on The the mascot but I did want you to see that so Scott Roberts did share too that coyotes was one of the finalists for uh Blue Valley Southwest so coyotes is the proper way to proun at the University of South Dakota you are the University of South Dakota Coyotes go yotes right there we go yeah go yotis doesn't quite roll off the tongue so yeah I think I would say coyotes yeah not coyot it's not Wy coyote I I can we do a survey on that so there is a motion before you tonight for the name of the middle school and happy to answer any questions so what were some of the other name options a lot
093of them Coffee Creek was one of them we had to be mind I mean we did some extensive research Kyle helped with this as well we had some great names we don't ever want to name our school after a nearby development so in some ways developers beat us to the punch um I can't recall all of them off the top of my head Kyle I it was Wolf Creek which Creek was one W in Spring Hill yeah um we had the Greenland wolves was a mascot that was proposed I I can get you a list I I don't have them all top my head but this was certainly one that we all thought was great well I would like to make a motion because I think this is a great name I mooved that the
094Board of Education approve wolf Springs Middle School as the name of blue Valley's newest Middle School motion by second motion by Jody second by Clay any further discussion if not all in favor raise your right hand say I motion pass passes 7 to zero we have wolf Springs Middle School all right we'll move on to board advisory committee appointments I think we have three committees that have additional appointments we'll start with cni I I move the Board of Education appoint Sheila alur to the curriculum and instruction board advisory committee for a new two-year term second motion by Clay second by Patrick any further discussion see none we'll take um um all in favor raise your right hand say I motion passes 70 facility planning I move the Board of Education appoint Lindsay G to the
095facility planning board advisory committee for a new two-year term second motion by Clay second by Patrick any further discussion all in favor raise your right hand or say I motion passes 70 Communications I move that the Board of Education reappoint Mary Joe tinland to the communications board advisory committee for a one-year term second motion by Jody second by Jan um any further discussion if not all in favor raise your right hand motion passes 70 I move that the Board of Education appoint Jennifer glanzer to the communications board advisory committee for a two-year term second motion by Jody second by Patrick for any further discussion seeing none all in favor raise your right hand motion passes 70 and finally we have the Kansas Association of school boards delegate assembly appointments which we appoint these every year
096two members to serve as a delegate for the Kansas Association of school boards uh do I have a motion I move that the Board of Education appoint jod Deets as the delegate to the Kansas Association of school Award of delegate assembly and Jan kessinger to serve as an alternate delegate second motion by Jim second by Clay any discussion on this one see none all in favor raise your right hand motion passes 70 is there any further business this evening of the board I that's it one comment again I want to thank Emerson for speaking tonight and I want to commend him for sticking it out with us through the entire meeting nice job Emerson anything else if not we're adjourned for