001e e e are we okay you guys oh okay we're ready got the thumbs up so we'll go ahead and call the meeting to order uh the first thing that we need to do is approve the agenda for the regular Board of Education meeting have a motion I move that the Board of Education approve the agenda for the August 12th 2024 regular Board of Education meeting as published second motion by jod second by Patrick all in favor raise your right hand motion passes 70 next up is board advisory committee reports we just have one this evening uh finance and operations and Kyle Hayden will give us that report good evening the finance and operations committee met on August 8th in the Board of Education room I welcome welcome committee members and reviewed the meeting agenda
002items and gave a General District update Jeremy mcfaden presented the 2425 budget and the publication of this budget is on the agenda for board approval this evening Jason Gillum presented on the Durham school Services student transportation agreement and that is also on the agenda for B board approval this evening Jake sodnik and Jason Gill presented the bids and contracts which are on the consent agend consent agenda the next meeting will be on September 5th thank you Kyle all right next up is reports from board members and the superintendent on items not included on the agenda uh we'll start with you Jody oh you want me to start with Clay yeah okay start with clay clay Al righty then um over the last month um just last Friday we had was it Friday or Thursday don't
003remember rally in the Valley Rally in the valley is a i it's the pep rally for teachers coming back to school getting them all hyped up and it was a it was it was good and they had some great students come in and talk to the teachers that just blew my mind some of the Poise and I I I I mean I was speechless they they were fantastic so um very impressed with that also onboarding onboarding um of all the new teachers coming in what was it 220 220 this year um to me that sounded like a lot but turns out that is actually a low number which suggests we're doing a pretty good job of retaining the teachers that we have so that is that's good news um attended the finance committee as we
004just heard um also went to the annual School District update sponsored by the lewood Chamber of Commerce where our own Dr merrian did us all very proud here in Blue Valley um touting all the things that we're doing to the lewood folks um so I appreciated that spent time with Dr Schmidt learning some extra things about uh special ed services and we had a cap Network board meeting where we um appointed Dr mergan to the remainder of an unexpired term and they appointed me to my own full term after filling out uh the rest of the term from Tom Mitchell so that wraps up the last month Patrick thank you Sonia on Friday August the 2nd I was invited to an event featuring Supreme Court Justice Sonia stto Mayer sponsored by the co uh the
005in Kansas City um the Supreme Court Justice wrote A New York bestselling children's book titled just ask the cultur theater turned her children's book into a musical for children celebrating what makes each of us different which also uh included uh the scotus own experience at being diagnosed with diabetes at the age of seven the music IC cast are actual children with diabetes ADHD autism and down syndrome in the musical these children work to create a garden and in the process of creating a garden they get to know one another this musical is outstanding it debuts January the 29th 2025 through February the 23rd 2025 at the C theater they also have Muppet puppets and uh the cast members the kids I mean their voices are outstanding it's funny and it's an outstanding musical to teach
006acceptance as well as social emotional learning so I I employ teachers to take their students to see this because it's really awesome thank you thank you T Jody thank you Gina gave me a little bit of time uh except that I was with Clay on almost every one of those events so that's great it was it was a good times um I'd also like to give a a shout out to um because we're all Partners here in Johnson County with our other public school districts and um Dr mergan and and Dr uh Michael Schumacher uh presented information at the lewood um um School uh back to school update and um just wish him the best of luck starting his very first year over in sha Mission so um we're excited for him because also we
007consider him one of ours as he he was in our district for a while so I think that's all I have um I don't have anything I would just uh say thank you to Mr Mrs price for sharing your story thank you the um uh I went to an afternoon Blue Valley Ed Foundation Retreat where Dr mergan and several others uh in administration here uh presented to the to the foundation and uh I also went to a strategic planning meeting for the uh Foundation Blue Valley wreck committee uh meeting uh then also then repeating what has been said before the rally in the valley in clay talked about uh how impressed he was with the students and uh one one of the there were many parts that touched my heart but when I when Carolyn
008massman was up on the panel her mom was sitting in a section next to us and she had tears in her eye just so proud of her daughter and it just it made me feel good that we can serve children like that students like that they hardly came across as children did they um also went to the uh onboarding which was a lot of fun you see the excitement and the uh optimism of our new employees and uh then also to the chamber luncheon uh where again Dr marrian U put our best foot forward out there to the community Dr Mar I do if you guys will pull up few updates so uh first we've talked about this a couple of you have talked about this uh 200 around 220 new certified staff members to
009The District during onboarding um over the course of the last couple of weeks so we are welcoming them and very excited for them to start um Blue Valley Schools was named the best public school in Kansas City magazine's best of casc 2024 so congratulations to Blue Valley um Blue Valley schools has partnered with 810 Varsity for online video broadcast throughout the 2425 uh season uh for varsity football boys and girls basketball boys and girls soccer and volleyball events so we're excited for that partnership and we think that will give an experience for those who aren't able to attend uh two Blue Valley West students uh were recognized as national champions in the emot emot well-being challenge of the HOSA future health professionals International Leadership Conference this summer um we have three students who participated in
010the Johnson County election offices future voter sticker design contest so you can see there Lucy from Prairie Star Elementary Sophia from Timber Creek Elementary and hadel from Harmony Middle School so um we are going to recognize them I think next week at the Johnson County election office so congratulations to them um um Oxford Middle Schools ran uh is working hard because he is going to represent the state of Kansas at the national Civics spe this is the state's first time that they have competed um and so he's very excited about that that happens I think early November um Blue Valley High School's chance uh wrinkle I think I say it won the 2024 Kenneth Smith award is the top boy high school golfer in the Kansas City metro um that means that Blue Valley High
011had the top girls golfer and the top boys golfer uh this season so uh congratulations to chance a couple of our alumni were drafted so uh Blue Valley West Eli loic Blue Valley Southwest uh Anson seabert and Jackson Nicholas and alumni of Blue Valley High so congratulations to all three of those here's a couple of Blue Valley West and Blue Valley High golfers who helped team Kansas win the 2024 Kansas Nebraska Junior Cup so Kansas beat Nebraska Jody and then this is cool this is a group of 15 students uh four of them from with from four Blue Valley high schools that helped bring life uh to the white theater at the Jade's production of The Little Mermaid um so the team added a remote control drive train uh to Prince Eric's boat and automated
012Ariel's grot so it blew up so uh that was kind of fun and I think that's it a couple of other just quick things we're excited uh to start tomorrow uh so 23,000 students ready or not are coming tomorrow so we are very excited for that um I want to give a shout out to our Communications team for all their work on rallying the valley it was a great event that doesn't happen by accident so um so certainly want to thank them for all of their work on that um and then finally I just want to recognize that the Blue Valley High School Community is grieving the loss of a alumni uh who lost her life so um we will continue to keep them in our thoughts and that's it thank you the only thing
013I have is I know we didn't have any recognitions tonight so I thought it'd be nice to recognize um the staff that are here at every board meeting tonight so they for everybody who doesn't know they're here every night and all summer they're really here all the time um but without them without you know Dr CER our academics wouldn't be as excellent as they are without um Kyle Hayden our our district wouldn't run as smoothly as it does I mean I could without Melissa hman we wouldn't have hman we wouldn't be out of the news as much as we are she keeps us she keeps us on track without Dr punswick we wouldn't have this great um new class of staff that has come in and retained christe mcnarland with our annual report all of
014our videos and the Press is always uh positive uh Jeremy mcfaden our budget I think is as best as it has been and I think Jim even said this morning that our balance sheet is so sound that um we feel so great with it with it and um that's a lot of work coming from Jeremy Jake sodnik with his facilities all of the work that goes into the facilities not just during the summer but during the school year uh Brian DA's over to the side almost missed him but the thousands of devices that they have outlaid in the last two days two business days three business days it's unbelievable that that goes out as smoothly as it does um and Jason Gillum our transportation runs more smoothly than any any District in the county and
015that's because of him and then last I don't want to miss Dr Schmidt um which we have our best-in-class uh special ed is because of him and uh and his team um and so I just want to thank all of you and of course Anna I see her over there and Alicia Graham Anna Sweeney and Alicia Graham they keep us all on task and keep all of us um doing everything on time and at our best so just thank you to everybody who's here every night and every morning and all summer and um makes the first day of school tomorrow go as smoothly as it does so thank you [Applause] all right so we'll move on to approve the consent agenda as a published do I have a motion I move that the Board of
016Education approve the consent agenda for the August 12th 2024 regular Board of Education meeting as published a motion by Jody do I have a second second by Jim all in favor raise your right hand say I motion passes 70 all right our next item is the approval of an intent to exceed revenue neutral tax rate for the 2425 budget so Jeremy mcfaden uh CFO for Blue Valley is going to go through these first two items both uh this approval as well as Item B which is the approval of notice of hearing for the 2425 budget thank you Dr mergan Board of Education wanted to uh ask for your approval tonight to post this notice of um Hearing in the Kansas City Star to exceed the revenue neutral tax rate for the 2425 school year um
017I want to draw your attention to uh three specific Mill levies within this document uh that we're going to exceed revenue neutral uh the first being the local option budget um exceeding Revenue neutral from 52.4 a year ago up to 56.5 in the proposed budget cost of living fund going from 10.6 million levied to uh just over 12 million levied and then the bond and interest Levy the 42.8 million increased to 44.3 million uh the reason I draw your attention to these three two of them are the foundation for the compensation proposal on the new business uh compensation section for approval tonight uh those provide their resources for the compensation increase for for all staff uh certainly important to to makeing the budget work for next year u in terms of bond and interest although
018it is a smaller increase I I do want to remind you that we have a pretty sizable increase in our debt service fund um we are using debt um service reserves to manage the midle levy in this budget so we have smaller increase to exceed revenue neutral but we are using existing reserves to keep that Bond mill rate on a downward trajectory moving forward um at the top of this notice you'll see that uh taxpayers will be notified of the hearing on this 9th of September at 5:30 p.m any questions on this document or intent to exceed revenue neutral in this published notice yes so as I understand it the tax rate is going down but because of increased valuation there is more Revenue coming in and $6 million roughly yeah the The Six Million
019at the bottom is subtotaling from the local option budget down to special assessment uh it does not include the general and the capital outlay above that grade line but yes um that is really what this form is getting at the mill rate is decreasing but the overall tax dollars being levied is increasing so that's what the notices communicating to taxpayers are intent to exceed revenue neutral and thus the three categories you highlighted on kind of where the increases were being applied right uh yeah there's an increase in the general fund but that is a school Finance formula it's really outside of our control right it's part of the budget so it is on this notice um the reason I drew your attention to the L and cost of living it is really the resources we
020need for the comp plan okay thank you um this the revenue neutral notification does it only apply to does it apply to every single category or is it just everything other than General yeah good question so if General was the only fund that was exceeding Revenue neutral uh we would not have to publish this notice and we' have a different timeline for Budget approval it would actually be in the month of August um but once we have one of these funds exceed revenue neutral exceed the previous year tax levy then that puts us into this new process of exceeding Revenue neutral okay are are are you going further into the budget later in in this meeting or is this your only item that you're presenting um I have one more notice to review with you
021uh it's the notice of budget hearing okay I'll save my questions okay and as a reminder this is not approval of the budget the tonight all you're doing is approving notice that we can publish this information so that the public knows that are we're we're having our hearings in September all right I'll go ahead and ask for a motion to approve the intent to exceed the revenue neutral tax rate for the 2425 budget I move to um that the Board of Education approve the publication of the intent to exceed the revenue neutral tax rate for the 202 2425 school year motion by Jan second by Patrick all in favor raise your right hand say I motion passes passes 70 next up is the approval of notice of hearing for the budget thank you Gina this
022is the second uh notice document that we're asking for your approval to publish uh much like the previous notice this uh notice at the top uh identify September 9th 5:35 p.m. uh the reason that it's 5 minutes later than the previous notice is we will have two budget hearings in September uh one will be on intent to exceed revenue neutral the second one will be on this document which is U the notice of hearing document and actually what's up on the screen we can touch on that first because it does feed into the notice of hearing document this is very busy form um but all school districts use this form to estimate their general fund Authority which is basically the school Finance form in Kansas of form 150 you'll see estimates that we make to
023establish a legal Max uh for our general fund we estimate enrollment on September 20th and we estimate several waiting on September 20th those waiting are Transportation uh students transported on 9:20 uh students eligible for free lunch on 9:20 receiving bilingual services on 920 so uh basically we're making estimates on the September 20th count date and if you work your way down on the bottom right of that form uh you'll see 85.4 million calculation now that is not going to be our funding this is an estimate our funding will be determined by the count date on sept September 20th and then subsequently what is audited by the state of Kansas um so we are trying to set a legal Max with this um also on this form at the very bottom the 33% local option budget
024Authority is calculated on a slightly higher number which is at the bottom right um that's how you calculate 33% if you're trying to uh recalculate our lb Authority so essentially this is a school Finance formula based state aid per pupil is also listed on this form at 5,378 per pupil this form is required to be published on the district website so I wanted to make sure you uh saw this form and knew about its posting and then let's move to the other notice form all right this is the the actual notice uh document um again at the top it uh notifies tax pirs of the date of the hearing and the time um all of the funds of the school district that we use are on the left side of the document uh so you
025you can see General supplemental General lob and then all the other different funds special education uh Capital outlay Etc all of the columns are trying to give you some his U historical data for the past two years um and then towards the right of the document is our proposed legal Max by fund again we cannot exceed expenditures by fund uh without going through a budget republication process so what we try to do is um reasonably estimate kind of at the high end what we think we may spend in a fund any given year and as a reminder the board has um expenditure approval Authority for anything over $20,000 so um we would not be able to exceed these budget listed amounts without you know your approval so this sets the Max by fund and then
026at the very far right you can see the proposed mill rate by fund 20 Ms for general fund 12.35 for Lo 8 Ms Capital outlay 2.63 4 cost of living 038 special liability extraordinary growth facilities 694 Bond and interest fund 9.69 and then the special assessment fund .144 for a total proposed mill rate of 53.5 550 previous year's mill rate was 53.78 so we're reducing it by approximately uh 2 Ms also at the bottom of this form it shows historical uh and current year data for assessed valuation and also our general obligation principle outstanding July 1 of 2022 2023 and 2024 so there's a lot of good information in this one-page document uh again this document will also be posted on our website um and so asking for your approval tonight uh and these were
027the extent of the the budget documents I wanted to review so if you had any other questions on budget I'm happy to answer those now okay so you might bear with me I just have a few um um actually I'm going to make a few comments and then correct me if I'm making incorrect um summaries um our tax uh what's called our tax Hall increased by 20 million from 20 from 2022 to 20 in 20 in year 2022 to 2023 is that is am I reading that right 220 to 240 correct yes okay and then proposed I guess this is a legal Max is isn't additional $1 million from 23 to 24 about 3 million of that is the rec commission so if you wanted to go up um I don't know if you can
028see total USD taxes levied on 115 I forgot to point that out the rec commission was included in those amounts you were reading so okay 28.9 227.7202 morning but it's uh the we have two ways that we can let's call it uh spend money one is on Capital effectively buildings and and and like type of long-term assets and the other is on operations and the funds that we have flexibility in terms of spending on operations are Cola which is cost of living which is to account for difference between the cost of living here versus somewhere else in the State uh local option budget is what we can as a community can tax ourselves and allocate towards the operations of the school district yes Capital outlay which is a blend between um actual Capital expenditures and
029compensation for personnel who maintain our facilities so it's kind of a it's kind of a blended fund and we are maxing out those the proposed budget is maxing out those three funds which um allows us um sufficient operating flexibility to entertain and approve uh salary inre increases for teachers classified staff Etc correct okay um overall kind of tax increase tax increase may not be the right way to say it uh revenue from taxes uh that are levied is about a 4% increase last year to this year kind on an average basis you went over a document this morning that showed kind of the average tax increase on uh a a homeowner let's call it a half million dollar home where the average tax increase for the School portion of their County tax bill is about
0303.7% for someone who's in a house let's call it 300,000 that might be something like two and a half% and someone in maybe a million dollar home would be more like five and five five or so percent tax increase kind of accurate yes okay just um because a lot of this Nuance is is uh it's hard to extract from just one document but what we what what you're proposing is on the bond and interest fund is to reduce the growth in that M ly or maybe you're reducing the mil ly you're reducing the mil ly yeah reduce yeah the M Levy a year ago was 9973 we're proposing to reduce it to 9 69 and right next to both of those numbers last year our debt service payments was 43.1 Million this year we have
031a Debt Service payment of 54.1 million okay so reducing the mill Levy increasing Revenue uh pulled by because the valuation increases but reducing the mill Levy but coupled with that is a decision that the Administration has made which is to um probably not have the district go out for a subsequent Bond until 2027 which gives you some mayic see stretching out some of the money the bond money that we've already had approved by the by the community that's correct yes right so we by state law you can't really like pull from one capital budget or Capital bucket and put it into operations bucket but in some ways you have a little bit of flexibility to do that if you're meeting your if you feel like you're still keeping up with your Capital needs so so
032sorry that was long-winded but uh I just wanted to lay the foundation for the questions we're approving a um or we have a we have on the agenda here uh the increase in the um compensation across the board of 7 plus perc which is a is a big salary increase um and I'm supportive of it um I'm supportive of it um so long as I understand that we as a district aren't um kind of getting out over our skes and reaching too much and also not over taxing our our citizens those are my kind of caveats um so to to that end um you're pulling out of reserves on the bond and interest side yes so so tell me about the health of our operating budgets and reserves great question um on the consent battery
033thank you Jody on the consent agenda um 3D on tonight's um uh consent materials we had our cash balances as of June 30th um we are sufficiently reserved uh reserved in terms of U having one month of payroll taxes Health Care subsidies and compensation um essentially um in our contingency reserve fund so we have one month payroll we also have um about 8.8 million in special education Reserves about 2.4 million in career and Tech uh fund reserves we have about 1 4 million in bilingual reserves we also have about 7 to10 million of reserves in our uh special Reser Healthcare Reserve fund and uh we are sufficiently reserved in our workc comp Special Reserve fund to about 3.3 million so our cash balances are a really healthy place in terms of a balance sheet um
034we do have a balance sheet you know our Auditors present that for your approval every year um that gap-based balance sheet does have a lot of confusing things in it like deferred tax assets and net pension liabilities but I would say if I were a board member I would want to focus on this cash balance by fund document making sure that you know you see uh um increasing reserves so we're in a a position of strength when we ask you to approve um a compensation package Like We Are Tonight We do have estimates built into our operating budget a lot of those estimates will be determined this fall some will even be determined in the spring um we also have legislative session in 2025 which will provide us a lot of um good information on
035you know what to peek up plans to do with school funding um we have an idea of Base state aid per pupil a year from now we're thinking it's going to be the neighborhood increase of about 4% um we're going to keep an eye on Market interest rates on our Reserve funds we have a lot of things that we're going to monitor over the next 12 months so um I think your concern is a valid concern I think with this proposed uh plan we're going to get 12 months down the road and reassess um I think the reserves gives us plenty of cushion to get aggressive on compensation to potentially have a small deficit in our operating funds if if that materializes so um I have no concerns of making this recommendation you know to
036the board for their approval um we're in a really good place with our cash balance just couple two more uh maybe two more points the always the risk that I see um is a recessionary RIS risk in the general economy because the the budget of the state is is so in so so much of it is K12 education that if they um if they have a shortfall then they kind of do these across the board cut T I mean budget cuts and um so do I mean it's been a long time since the the 2008 2009 recession I'm just wondering what kind of impact that was a pretty bad recession you were around Tanya do you do you guys have do you know what was the the impact just you know how severe the cuts
037were yeah so that was actually my first year in school Finance I was welcomed into K12 with a midyear budget cut which um I think at the time it ended up being like $150 cut in base state aid per pupil and forgive me the the amount might not be exactly that but um that's where District reserves obviously come into play um if there are cash short shortages at the state level and if a midyear cut were ever to occur um that's why we have to have these Reserve balances in terms of just being you know conservative and not being overly aggressive with the comp proposal um we have looked at well what would a cut how deep of a cut you know could we take you know before we you know kind of have an
038emergency on our hands and I just don't see any scenario where there would be a midyear cut of up to $1,000 per pupil which is really what we're reserved for we have U we have Strong Reserve balance and I think our reserves should reflect the risk tolerance of the board uh we're trying to present um reserves that put you in a position of not approving a raise like this but then in tend to 12 months talking about how you're going to cut the budget if we felt like that was the conditions surrounding our financial state ments in the proposed comp we wouldn't make it so um I hope that answers your question so a couple things um when I was here when we had the midyear um reduction and Blue Valley because they had strong
039Reserves at that time as well didn't have to do a big mid-year reduction now we did have to get in line and make reductions for the following year um but our reserves were healthy I don't know what they were cuz I wasn't at this level I was at a building as an administrator um and that's where our reserves aren't as well here and um we we feel strongly that we could we can do this because Jeremy would not I know him well enough to know he he would have been sounding the alarm in my office a long time ago um if this was not a good plan in his mind that's why my crisis badel for um the the project Ed Reserve draw down in our operating reserves is about 10% um so if that
040gives you a gauge of what our proposal my my experience in observing public entities versus private entities over my career has been that private entities have they can move more quickly to implement uh compensation increases and then the public entities have to catch up um and so there's this lag effect and then you know then a recession comes and and then things can change but um so sometimes what happens is you you you you're steady especially when we've had this weird low interest rate environment for all this period of time um and um you have like flat wages and then we have a lot of catchup to do to be able to kind of retain and recruit Talent so um so my final question is just where part of part of our objective here with
041the compensation increases is to make sure that we are um at a great spot competitively to both the private sector but more importantly to other school districts with whom we are competing for talent so I just would like to understand where we think where you know where where we are after we do this and and do it there's always room for improvement I suppose in the future but just kind of give us broad assessment so U we've we're making progress but we have not narrowed the Gap far enough in my opinion so we will have the highest starting wage in Johnson County um we will have the highest ending wage um by that I mean uh all the way to the right column doctorate you know 30 years of experience um we've made up ground
042in the middle there but there are still some cells in the middle um where our neighbors are higher than us and and we have to continue to um navigate that and but this makes ground so this was the largest raise in Johnson County this year if this goes through um the but the others have given really good raises as well um so we're making I would say we're we're pushing towards it uh but we have more ground to continue to go but this is as far as we felt administratively comfortable pushing the envelope uh so that we did not do what you're talking about Jim is put the The District in financial straight I don't know if this is the right time to mention this but you know we're talking about a 7.4% increase for
043for all staff um but but also um and maybe Eric can correct me a little bit the compensation packages um what was it N 9 point something per increase that we saw um with with insurance so this isn't just a 7.4 this is a 7.4 plus 9 whatever um that that we're offering our our staff and still offering the three package options that are no cost to staff so I guess I didn't know where to throw that in because I I think that's incredibly relevant to um how important I think you know our board um believes that our staff are all of our staff so point of information Jeremy what we're really talking about is publication a notification of a hearing when would that hearing be uh September 9th uh to start the meeting we'll
044have two hearings that's the only motion we're really looking at right now is Right publish this so that we could have a hearing right correct and then you know just mechanically how it would work is if the board chose to reduce a M Levy you could but you could not increase it from what is published I follow up so Dr Maran put shine a little more light on the strategy that this increase is designed to um achieve and what's the problem we're trying to solve and how does this fill in to solve that problem and where are we add in solving it overall so I would say that um the overall strategy is to uh compensate our employees um at the at a rate so that uh they can afford to work here um we
045know that they every one of them have a choice every single person who comes into our schools has a choice because there are lots of jobs out there so whether it's our classified whether it's administrative or whether it's certified uh we want to make sure that we are compensating our employees uh in a manner uh that um meets the needs of our Johnson County area so we have as far as the certified staff we have um looked at the salary schedule and the problem we're trying to solve is we're trying to catch our neighbors and we have made again we have made some improvement we still have areas to go uh we're not the highest across the board by any means um but we have made Improvement and that's that's the problem we're trying to
046solve we're trying to catch our neighbors um and for classified staff we're trying to pay them so that they they don't go work in the private sector because many of them could a custodial job you could go somewhere else and get that food service um our office staff PA professionals um all of those they can work in the private sector so those are the the things that we're trying to do so the data shows that we're having um retention issues on our staff and that this is designed based on the data to help solve some of those I I would say that um again if you look at our retention to other schools in the area I wouldn't say that we're worse by any means we're we're all working to do that um but it
047is a concern for sure U because there are not again when I applied for jobs when I graduated from college there were lots of teaching jobs and um there were not very many teaching jobs and lots of candidates it's the exact opposite now we have lots of jobs and not very many candidates so we need to entice those newbies to come in that's the highest starting pay in Johnson County but we need to keep our people once they're here too right and when you started the issue was the legislative allocation is not kept pace with current inflation is essentially what happened right right and and we're very appreciative to the um the money we've gotten from the state this year and we got a a little bit of extra special education funding and we want
048to put all of that into our staff right but fundamentally the reason it was inverse in terms of jobs is that it hasn't kept pace and that's why we're having more problems attracting people overall and that's why this strategy comes in and attempts to keep Pace with where we should be even though we're not really close yet right we we have to work with what we have in our budget um there are some things our neighbors get that we don't get so we have to work with what we have allowable to us thank you all right are we ready for a motion I have a motion I move the Board of Education approve the publication of notice of hearing for the 2024 2025 budget moot motion by Jody second by Jan all in favor raise
049your right hand say I motion passes 70 we're on to item C which is the approval of Durham school Services contract so Jason Gillum is uh going to present this topic uh and we'll let him take over good evening Board of Education uh we uh been talking about the bus contract for several months back in the spring uh we engaged uh the transpar group to do a study for us to uh help uh um help us understand better the market condition and the performance of our of our contractor and provided a recommendation uh to you all on uh modifying the existing agreements to help um improve improve some services and um uh put some remedies in place quicker uh for us so what we have before you this month is the result of that work
050so I'm going to kind of walk through um the pillars of kind of discussion that we had um if you could Advance the slide formula thank you so in your packet you had a recommendation from the transpar group that of the results of this work and also a letter a letter from Durham I'm really going to talk more about U the collaborative approach that we took to to work on this opportunity um really kind of came down to four pillars that we that we focused on um compensation was a big part of that uh of that proposal or of this proposal and then and it's really wanting to keep the district competitive for a bus driver pay uh currently we have a 20-step program that step that program is being shrunk down to a nine-step
051program um and to more closely uh match our neighbors and what we're seeing as the norm uh in other communities around around the country um also two that we recognize that the majority almost all of our bus drivers reside in other communities and come to work here so um needing to be competitive on that pay uh on every step of that plan is really really important um in this past uh summer we've seen a couple of our neighbors uh surpass our pay we were the leading the market we're not currently uh these modifications will allow us to react quickly and be able to um make those changes for this current school year for our bus drivers so it it is a goal that we lead the lead the market to help keep the number of
052drivers here that we need uh we also looked at the office positions and the support position positions to make sure those salaries were um uh supporting the needs of the district uh so we spent uh a fair fair amount of time making sure that they would attract quality talent to provide the level of service that we're looking for part of the discussions led to uh three additional positions being added to the Durham support team one is a full-time retention and staff recognition position we think this is really really important as we look at the histor IAL norms for Blue Valley um we we see a 25% turnover of bus drivers in a typical year this past year we saw that number Spike to close to 35% and when we look at what some other Industries
053uh that look for part-time and hourly employees are doing and this this is something that really stood out in like the hospitality industry that uh they are they are they are employing somebody that is creating fun family activities and opportunities for the the uh Durham staff and their employees to attend and it's almost creates this nexting effect where they are thinking about attending that next opportunity the next fun event and so guess what between now and those events they show up to work and they show up to drive the bus every day and we we want to make sure that our our staff or the Durham staff are being uh recognized and supported provided that type of culture because that's what sets us apart makes us different and why we believe being a bus driver
054in Blue Valley is the best bus driving job in the Metro because we're we're spending time focusing on on the culture the uh the facilities they have but also the compensation um the next position is an additional operations manager position to kind of help with customer service and Communications but also just looking at the long hours that we have currently a general manager and an operations manager trying to cover we need to balance that team out a little bit more and really focus on the team development of that office staff so having more time to be intentional on on those things is really important um our district is um a little bit unique in terms of the am amount of midday shuttle activity that we have for our special needs students um we have seen
055that climb considerably in the last couple years from about 55 trips a day to about 78 trips a day um and that uh coupled with uh just the demand of um our special needs programs and students that are moving in throughout the year it's not just a start of the Year challenge uh that we we've identified a need for a router shuttle dispatcher um and looking at the Norms of our account it kind of puts us more in balance with what other accounts are size across the district uh across the country um um used for Staffing models we also made a couple recommendations uh for our SLA our service level agreement kind of like our scorecard for our transportation provider how are they doing and providing service for us it's a measurement card that's that's
056measured every month uh two additional measurements uh are are going to recommended to be added for that uh scorecard one is on making sure that the 15 positions that we've identified in the office as key to uh the operation are filled and if they are not filled uh if if it become vacant they need to be posted immediately um and then they have 90 days to have either a temporary person or a permanent person in those positions otherwise there is a liquidated damage of financial penalty they would owe back to the district uh the the second SLA measurement is on their timely processing of trip requests for our Athletics and activities um another pillar that was uh big part of our discussions is capital Investments uh two main areas of um discussion there new a
057new bus radio system that's digital in nature that reaches all even the low-lying areas within the district but then allows uh dispatch to be able to communicate with those bus drivers even when they leave Blue Valley and they go to Kansas City or Lawrence in the greater metro area so that's really important for safety and communication uh but new buses really was the big the big dollar item here uh we've got about eight new buses newer buses 2021 models coming in from California this year but next year we have about 70 buses that are aging out uh so brand 70 brand new buses coming in at a tune of about $10 million reinvestment into the fleet for our community um that is that was a big part of the conversations I mentioned the service level
058agreements additions already um kind of getting down to the contract structure um we have the 2425 school year would have been the last year with durm school Services um what we're proposing is that we modify this 2425 school year uh contract to um about a 177% increase it's Blended between 144 and nearly 20% depending on which alicart line item of their their U fees and then 2526 would see a 20.9% increase remember that's the year that we're adding in 70 new buses and then 26 27 27 28 and 28 29 can normalize at 5% each of those years um the benefit and in this agreement a couple benefits uh um one actually I should back up um these increases were expected these were within range of what we um were told from transpar we should
059expect um in a in a renegotiation but also significantly less than if we were have gone out to RFP and hired um another firm to provide the the same Services um but it allows us to take take action immediately to react to our neighbors uh in in terms of the increased wages for bus drivers we can get those changes in place uh this school year so that way we don't begin losing our our drivers to our neighbors uh we can get those addition at least two of the additional Staffing positions in place this school year the routering position we would wait for the the next school year and we have the accountability of the new SLA measurements and addition to being able to start moving on the bus radios and bus Replacements um with that
060I will pause for any questions so so based on the new contract obviously there's a increase in cost are we having an increase in performance and accountability I I think we have a really solid SLA agreement in place that uh we probably are a leader in the market in terms of how we hold our account our contractor accountable so so have we increased those requirements or just the the contracts more expensive or using the same uh We've added added two more measurements to to that SLA but the remain remainder still remain in force okay yeah our our contract um is a pay for service model so the contractor is motivated there's no minimum guaranteed payment that they are uh afforded just by having the contract they actually perform to get paid so about what's the
061cost increase roughly approximate from the last contract to this new contract uh the current school year would be about a 17% increase uh over the previous year that answers your question yeah in part What's the total contract amount total contract amount roughly uh I'd have to look back at in around the $10 million range okay so so basically 177% of roughly $10 million is the approximate increase MH and part of that was planned what's the um what was the last time we signed a contract with Durham what was the duration of that contract we did a three three-year extension that this year would have been the third year of that three-year extension and um anticipating the next question um year one of that agreement was a 19% increase year two was three year three was
062three I'm just when when I guess they were originally Peterman when they when when we originally contracted with um um with Peterman was about 12 years ago actually a little longer than that U 14 years ago um and the initial contract was a six-year with a six-year option fairly common for a new cont contractor to ask for a 10 to 12 year commitment to justify the cost of starting up and and moving into your area so that original option was their option not our option uh Mutual option Mutual option so um what was the lever that you pulled to get them to commit to $10 million of new buses I believe that uh Durham wants to wants to have success here in Blue Valley I think they they see this as um it has been
063a challenge um but I think they they want to uh see this as a success story for us all so I think they credit to them for being willing to put that money out for only a fouryear extension right and and what's your since you do you're on the front lines here what's uh your impression of Durham qualitatively uh their its performance compared to where it was say two years ago when it was really difficult you were in a difficult spot um it's almost like they're a different company today than they were two years ago um I I could say from our level from a from general manager all the way up to CEO of the company has all changed in the last couple years and I think for the positive um so um that
064is that gives me some some comfort and some hope too and I I really see their their efforts into trying to um meet our expectations can I just uh can you talk to us a little bit about our our friends um around the county and the challenges that they come across this is nothing yes new and kind of where we're at with that so dri driver shortage is a national issue um it's we're not immune to it in Johnson County um and really what we've what we've seen is a consolidation in bus companies that are even out there and available uh to consider doing business with and we're all competing for the same resources um typically what we see is that if if a district makes a change and a new contractor comes in they're
065still competing in the same jobs market for the same people to fill those positions um so I am seeing some changes from our neighbors in terms of trying to become more efficient kind of where we were a couple years ago Jody in terms of uh really studying route efficiencies and looking at belt times and things like that I applaud that because it's going to take all of us getting more efficient to help the the number of opportunities and the number of employees balance out so I I I think that's what we're starting to see from our neighbors so Jason do do we reasonably believe that this is gon this contract is going to solve our issues over the next five years we believe that this gives blue valley and our contractor the best opportunity to
066solve our ER issues absolutely um we we are putting him in the game so one comment about the service level agreement if I recall from this morning that I thought was great and I wanted to point out because I know you were asking about was um the addition of a caveat about retaining um was it a transportation coordinator or some position that makes all of this all of this run better and making it a requirement that they will be docked if they do not fill that absolutely our current contract we only have the say in who the general manager is um what we have attempted to do and I believe we've done is to add some teeth to um 15 key positions uh within the office to make sure those positions are filled regardless of
067who the management might be in the future what we don't want to have happen is management change and a position become a vacant and they choose to leave that position vacant for the rest of the year as we know those 15 positions are really important to providing the uh communication standard that we expect the customer service standard that we expect and I think the SLA penalty that we have is um would be effective in um avoiding those situations of leaving a transportation or a trip coordinator position vacant uh when I did the math on it I think it equates to about $250 or $260 a day for leaving that position vacant you might as well have position filled they they don't want to pay us that so I got one more quick question so the
068bottom line is is we think this solves our problem but we could take this in-house but we believe it would cost a lot more than what we're paying for this contract right oh tremendous tremendous more expense because we don't have the resources that they have is there any more questions on the Durham contract or comments I'll take a motion I believe we have two agree agreements to approve here one's lease and maintenance and one's operations so we'll start with lease and maintenance okay I move that the Board of Education approve the lease and maintenance agreement with Peterman STS LLC second motion by Jim second by Jan do I have any further discussion Peterman is Durham I'm assuming yes correct okay I will take uh vote all in favor motion passes passes 70 we have a
069motion on operations agreement I move that the Board of Education approve the operations agreement with Peterman STS LLC second motion by Jim second by Jody any further discussion all in favor raise your right hand Mo passes 7 to zero I want to thank Jason uh Gillum for taking the lead on this he has worked worked um a lot over the course of the last couple months uh to bring this to the finish line and uh we appreciate all that you've done with that thank you thanks okay next up we have a couple of contracts so I'm going to ask Jake if he can come up and give us just a really uh brief um next one is the approval of the St Construction Company contract and this is a bond purchase thank you this is
070a bond purchase with a contract with stob construction for construction of a new multi-purpose Edition at Harmony Middle School includes a storm shelter which the entire multi-purpose space is and a new Access Road hopefully improving our parent drop off and pickup at this school and this is a fantastic project we're really excited about this one do I have a motion yes sir tell me about the access road having dropped my kids off at that school for years so you've been you've lived through a little bit of the pain so what we're going to do on the east side of the the school we're connecting an access road to 143rd Street we will and we're splitting the main parking lot into two we'll have a dedicated lot and loop for buses and a dedicated lot and
071loop for parents so it should be significantly improved at that site that's good yeah how many other schools do we have that need for we probably have a few others that have that need as well we just need the site space we're lucky at this site to have the room to be able to do this and the support from the city for their and that makes sense there's a there's a little more space there in some of the other schools absolutely this is easier to do right yeah okay yep so it's taking the pressure off 140 41st correct all right do I have a motion to approve the contract I move the Board of Education approve the St Construction Company Inc contract motion by Clay second by Patrick any further discussion all in favor raise
072your right hand or say I motion passes 7 to zero Jake you want to go on with hollison Miller that's next one would love to do another exciting project for the district so as part of the 2023 Bond our our community supported CTE improvements for the district we didn't really know what that was but we've spent a lot of time investigating into what where that best fits within our district we're going to Target all five of our high schools and our Blue Valley Academy we're going to renovate the existing fact spaces and some adjacent spaces and turn that into a more commercial culinary type space an introduction to commercial culinary skills and and this is what our students have asked for and whatever our our staff have asked for so this is the Design Services
073to get us to bid documents to bring forward a construction agreement with you in the future do I have a motion I move that the Board of Education approve the Hollis and Miller Architects Inc contract second motion by Jim second by Clay any further discussion all in favor raise your right hand motion passes 70 thank you Jake um next up is a health care staffing agency a mar marriages is that how you say it yes I believe that's correct um this is actually a contract that we're expanding for to be able to fill some hard to fill par positions uh this year right now we have quite a few openings uh we're hoping that the raise that you're going to be uh considering a little bit later on we'll make this unnecessary but uh right
074now kids show up tomorrow so I'm just trying to secure the funds to address those needs it's an increase of uh 450,000 above what you approved earlier and this is a maximum right yes the amerus is the new maximum they changed names same company different name all right do I have a motion I know that the Board of Education approved the America's healthc care Staffing Inc contract second motion by Sonia second by Patrick further any further discussion all in favor raise your right hand motion passes 70 thank you Dr Schmidt approval of a few new policies right Dr CER has several policies or not several a few policies to bring before you for consideration uh these policies are ones that we um reviewed this morning in Workshop um the first one that I bring I'll
075bring to your attention this evening is board policy 4921 so 4921 is just a statement regarding our accreditation process and so um in that language you see the reference to the four fundamentals structured literacy balanced assessment standards alignment and high quality instruction um the metrics that we are measured on during that process are also in your policy resource allocation educator evaluation professional learning tiered systems of support that's the TSS work that you've heard about family community and business Partnerships the policy you had previous to this had language um that was really quite outdated from a previous accreditation process in the state so this is just the updated language from the state in this policy next there's um recommendations related this related to the cell phone policy so with the cell phone policy and and uh
076first we start with I refer to it kind of as the parent policy if you will 3518 uh the policy recommendation is uh with your input an expanded definition of what we mean by communication Technologies or personal electronic devices um and you will see those defined there in policy 3518 we also indicated those Technologies um that the district has uh jurisdiction over those Technologies when they're in our classrooms whether District owned or not and to this policy 3518 we add a cross reference to um particularly student discipline here and then also um the new policy 351 18.2 so in 351 18.2 um I would like to thank you for the thoughtfulness that you've uh given to this process and allowing us also to talk with our building principles get their input um and bring that
077back to you over the last couple months so we appreciate those discussions uh the policy language here first emphasizes uh what clearly has been your goal which is the goal of our staff and administrators as well is to reduce interruptions to the learning environment at school and also to um make sure that we have areas within the school um in the policy new policy language here peed personal electronic Dei device free zones essentially sections of time throughout the day where students went beyond their devices so that's in the first part of the policy language the second part of the policy language again it defines um a personal electronic device and you will see uh the mer devices there um often times when we talk to our teachers as we discussed um at board Workshop there's
078the personal cell phone the headphones the earbuds and the smartw Smartwatch um Technologies um that enter our classrooms most predominantly and have created some of those distractions that you are uh seeking to decrease tonight in the related um administrative guideline to 351 18.2 um in our communication we would be prepared to communicate this information this is just a visual representation of what is sitting um in board docs this evening and that is clearly um you can see a graduated um list a graduated scale here of student use of those devices so you see at elementary essentially those devices aren't on and used uh while on campus at the middle school you see that that's graduated Bell to Bell it indicates that students may use those after 300 p.m. to check text messages Etc uh throughout
079the day both levels uh communicate to parents how they can get information to their students throughout the day and then uh we graduate there at the high school level to uh utilization of those personal devices during non-instructional times so class period begin class period ending um students would not be on those personal electronic U devices and then while they're at lunch or if they are um as they're traversing through the Halls between classes uh that is when they can check those personal devices for text messages or or other Communications the only times that they would be utilized in a classroom would be for Teacher directed instructional purposes um and that's also defined there in your policy the administrative guideline as well one of the things that is in the administrative guideline is some encouragement that
080even during their free time that we want to encourage students that they're engaged in person-to-person uh communication that we are teaching them um really good responsibility in terms of use and really again trying to encourage that connection with peers eye to eye voice to Voice versus device to viice if you will so again the policy and administrative guideline uh reflect the previous discussions that we've had and then in board policy 3500 uh which was sitting in the consent agenda then that outlines more clearly um those consequences that might be associated with student misuse of the devices um our building principles and our teachers are teed up and positioned to begin um communicating this to students um this evening um following the board meeting and approval of new policy we're prepared to communicate out to our
081Administration our staff and our parents um about this as you are aware we've previously communicated to those groups letting them know that you were considering uh this policy this evening and we are also prepared to communicate directly with students tomorrow in canvas will have a universal U message through their school issued devices that they will Al uh see those there as well um so I'm happy to answer um any questions for you this evening thank you just to clarify what we discussed this morning when we talk about stowed away that does not include putting the phone in your pocket or your peed in your pocket correct so what we know is that we're saying that these devices should not be seen and they should not be heard so teachers will be encouraged to have those
082students take those devices off put them in a backpack put them somewhere else but we should not we we should not see those devices what that looks like in a classroom could vary they could walk into a classroom and a teacher has a a chart a chart a pocket chart and the students drop their devices there Etc but I then I could put it in my pocket because I thought this morning we said no no no so if it is in a student's pocket it is off it is not a distraction to a class it is still and it it is silence if it's if it's vibrating and causing A disruption the teacher would address that with that student um but so that that's how we would manage that uh there's a something in the
083administrative guidelines about not taking it into the restroom yes okay but in a passing period it's unrealistic IC you know you're going to go between class to class every kid's going to have it in their pocket so when we've talked with um building principles what they know is they're talking with teachers to make sure that those devices don't leave the classrooms so the other thing that we know is all of our building all of our buildings have um procedures in place for using the restroom monitoring those restrooms Etc uh we know that when we talk with principles they have are talking to their teachers about about making sure those are put away we've talked to our teacher we're talking to our teachers in those first few workshops back about those devices being put up put
084away and talked about the fact that if they're on your person then that creates a potential Temptation if you will so you'll hear teachers one you know collecting them putting those in a pocket chart or something or those are in backpacks Etc where they're where they're out of the way okay um just the structure of this the really the the let's call it the rules are baked into the administrative guidelines so if you evaluated this and you wanted to change them that would kind of be an administrative decision is that how this would operate so one thing that we know is that we are going to monitor this gym and we'll get be working um with our Teachers Association with our principles to say how's it going out there in all the buildings what do
085we know about the implementation and if we see and get feedback from our teachers or administrators that we need to make some changes or tighten up Etc we would come back to you and say okay we've lived this now here's some things that we uh would recommend to you that we we go back and add to the administrative guideline or potentially the policies we discussed also this morning we're waiting to see what actions the State Board takes around cell phones so that in and of itself May necessitate that we come back back to you and I um volunteered myself to be on that state task force um so I and I am am on it so we will I will update the board and administration throughout and and as Dr ker said we will monitor
086this we won't wait until next August uh to come back to you uh if this is not working and we need to revise it we can revise it at any point throughout the year so since we sent that lead information out to our families about this I would want you to know that we have not received um really communication from parents of concern where we have received communication certainly there's support for this because parents as well are trying to help their students learn a healthy balance if you will digital Wellness if you will around utilization of those devices and the parents are sending their students to school and seek to have them in classrooms without distraction I I noticed that there's kind of this exception um where teachers could uh I guess instruct their students
087to take their phones out for some classroom project or something like that so that what's the what's the actual is that is that permissible it is permissible however what we anticipate in talking with our teachers principes talking with teachers is that they will default to those Solutions Etc that we have already purchased and on our student District uh provided devices we think there will be more default to those there may be some teachers who have a unique course if I'm a teacher at caps I may have a need for something for particular objective or unit um that maybe they are utilizing um but again I think that's something that we'll have to monitor and one thing principles have talked to teachers about is avoiding setting the stage for use and setting uh setting the students
088up for really that creating a distraction after they've used it ETA try to avoid kind of that struggle if you will with students if that makes sense I mean I don't probably well over 90% of the kids that have cell phones when they're in high school but that number is going down not up that percentage you know I don't know the exact statistics so I couldn't you know confirm that or say higher or lower quite frankly it's just my this is a my uh McMullan scientific observations yeah yeah so I would tell you it's not to me it's it's it's an unfair you're talking Equity issue yes it's unfair to students who don't have a cell phone if teachers are using that so I think caps is the is the perfect example if you do
089a a blanket absolutely not no time nowhere um you may be at caps and they may need to get their cell phones out to contact their uh client that they're working with so I I think we have to be careful that we don't do a blanket one siiz fits-all and I think that's what that's in there for but as Dr ker said I sat in and listen to our our I would listen to the high school I didn't listen to elementary middle talk about the need to be very very tight on that and that is not just because I feel like uh I want kids to play games for 10 minutes no it's it it just will be tight to start and we have teachers that certainly are appreciative that this is going to sit
090in policy it supports their efforts that uh many have already been taking in their classrooms um and to know that there are also uh board defined disciplinary consequences associated with that helps support their efforts with students and cell phones thank you Dr CER any other questions about the cell phone policy are we ready for a motion I move that the Board of Education approve policies 4921 3518 and 351 18.2 I second it motion by Clay second by Sonia any further discussion I just want to note that I although that elementary middle and high school umart chart is part of the administrative guidelines it's really part of the policy I think the record should reflect that sure certainly uh anytime we have administrative guideline those are the details associated with the policy so one and the
091same if you will Jim so we can um make sure we achieve that it's also referenced in your policy the guidelines will be referenced in your policy as well Jim did you want to modify the motion to add the chart into the policy yeah I think it would be advisable to do that just to be to be clear but or cross I don't care it's cross reference it I mean I just trying to make sure we're all on the same page that um what we're approving is kind of what we're is the PO is what the practice and policy is and it comes back to the board that's all that I I don't care really where it sticks where goes in the book or wherever but as long as it's there and clearly understood that's
092really easy for us to do and it wouldn't be the only place in policy where you have exact language and policy and that again that exact same language sitting in admin guidelines so we could easily do that and Dr Collier I think um you sent me 351 18.2 administrative guidelines this afternoon I don't know if I saw saw that pop up on the slide and because that was the written encapsulation of the chart it is was it up there on the screen no I I chose to use the visual the visual to help any of our public kind of see that graduation but that 3551 18.2 guideline is sitting in board docs this evening okay written written out as discussed after Workshop today okay so we're talking about 351 18.2 yes so administrative guideline compared
093to the policy itself they both have the same number yeah I would suggest just a one sense at the end of that I'm looking at what you sent Katie I would just at the end just cross reference the uh whatever the chart the chart is or administrative guidelines whatever you want to however you want to phrase it I sure so in that um I guess it says here for purposes of this policy it's related administrative guidelines regarding implementation and other relevant rules and regulations blah blah blah it's kind of wordy but um so we have the text of that chart that exact text that's in the chart is in the guideline I can pull it over and we can use that exact text in the policy it'll sit in both places and accessible okay and
094parents and community members can easily access it you bet and that's going to so your board policy 3500 board policy 3500 administrative guideline is is the student Cod of conduct and so that um is going to be forward- facing as it was last year and everything that we've discussed tonight will also sit in that forward-facing student code of conduct for parents so it'll be there they'll have mult multiple ways to um um access that gym do we need to amend the motion to for the it's already in there okay all right thank you all in favor raise your right hand motion passes 70 move on to thank you Dr CER for all of your work on um organizing that I appreciate that ready to move on yep um okay so the next three um are
095around uh compensation so the first one is the bvea BV Nea professional negotiated agreement I would like to personally thank our HR team um for all of their work throughout the school year with both of our associations uh so our professional uh Teachers Association Blue Valley Education Association as well as our Blue Valley Nea RSP group that represents our RS PS um really negotiations happened we all kind of come in at the end and we sit in there for one one half of a day and it looks like oh this is really easy uh but Eric and his team and Jeremy have been working behind the scenes with um our association to make sure that that happens um I happy to to report that bvea uh put this out to their uh members and that
096that um agreement passed at 98% uh which is I believe the highest approval ever and the RSP if you think it could get any better it really does the RSP group passed it at 100% so um I think it would be fair to say that there is support uh for this agreement and so U Administration recommends approval of the professional negotiated agreement with both um the Blue Valley Education Association and the Blue Valley Education Association related service professionals I move that the Board of Education approve the professional negotiated agreements pnas with the blue valley Education Association bvea and the Blue Valley National Education Association related service professionals BV Nea RSP effective from July 1st 2024 through June 30th 202 5 which provides an increase of 7.4% to the professional employee salary schedule second motion by
097Jody second by Jan is there any discussion all in favor raise your right hand or say I motion passes 70 um next once we've approved the classified agreements um excuse me the certified agreements we come to you with class classified compensation increases and it's administration's recommendation that we mirror what we did with our professional employees and uh provide an increase of 7.4% to the classified salary schedule as well do I have a motion I move that the Board of Education approv classified staff compensation affected from July 1 2024 through June 30th 202 5 which provides an increase of 7.4% to the classified salary schedule second motion by Jan second by Clay any discussion all in favor raise your right hand or say I motion passes 70 and finally um we would recommend approval of administrator
098compensation also uh with an increase of 7.4% to that salary schedule do I have a motion theard of Education approve compensation effective from July 1 2024 through June 30th 2025 which provides an increase of 7.4% to the Administrator salary schedule second motion by Jim second by Jody any discussion all in favor raise your right hand or say I I want to publicly thank the board for the support of this I think it's going to go a long way uh to the Recruitment and the retention of all of our staff do we want to take a break for the captioner to catch up or continue I think we're good yeah we're good a couple left okay all right on to appointments the first one is our strategic planning committee do I have a motion I move
099that the Board of Education approve the following strategic planning appointments for a one-year term Scott Bronson David Brown Ann gisler Mike Huer pad sarof Lindsay Weiss and Emily uretsky motion by jod second by Jan any further discussion I just want to say for the record that this is our strategic plan um community members that we're adding to the committee along with students teachers and other staff um that will'll be working on it for the next year for the following fiveyear yep plan um all in favor raise your right hand or say motion passes Jan thank you all right on to board advisory committee appointments we'll start with there's a whole bunch of these so we'll move quickly um we'll start with Student Activities do I have a motion I move that the Board of Education
100appoint the following patrons to the Student Activities board advisory committee for a new two-year term David Brown Matt wle do I have a second motion by Clay second by Patrick any discussion all in favor motion pass 70 reappoint I have a motion I move the Board of Education reappoint the following patrons to the Student Activities board advisory committee for a second two-year term Amy Thomas and Kim grust Didier second motion by Clay second by Patrick any discussion all in favor rise your right hand motion passes 70 health and wellbeing I move that the Board of Education to appoint the following patrons to the health and well-being board advisory committee for a new two-year term Colleen Cunningham Anna kuster Singh Natalie SAR Rich Renee MIRS Jennifer Nook farer second motion by Jim second by Jan any
101discussion all in favor raise your right hand motion passes 70 reappointments I move that the Board of Education reappoint the following Patron to the health and well-being board advisory committee for a one-year term Joanne bramlet motion by Jan second by Patrick any discussion all in favor raise your right hand motion passes 70 Communications committee appointments I move that the board of education appoint the following patrons to the communications board advisory committee for a new 2-year term Renee Bartholome Julia Bernard Jonathan freden Kelly Beck Josh Heisman McKenna oldson yes second motion by Jody second by Clay any discussion all in favor raise your right hand motion passes 70 reappointments or I'm sorry sorry new yes reappointments I move the Board of Education reappoint the following patrons to the communications board advisory committee for a one-year term
102Kristen gambala Pam sherck and Lisa Marie Sears second motion by Clay second by Jody any discussion all in favor raise your right hand motion pass to 70 EI appointments I believe that the Board of Education appoint the following patrons to the diversity equity and inclusion board advisory committee for a new 2-year term Kelly Peterson January Prince Courtney Carlson Caroline jaabo Wendy cononley second motion by Sonia second by Jody any discussion all in favor raise your right hand motion passes 70 reappointments I move that the Board of Education reappoint the following patrons to the diversity equity and inclusion board advisory committee for a one-year term Kanani ducen Angela Mosby nefari pross Celia buers and Shelly bachara second motion by Jody second by Sonia any discussion all in favor raise your right hand motion passes 70 facility
103planning appointments I move with the Board of Education appoint the following patrons to the facility planning board advisory committee for a new two-year term Matt Adams Kelly Harrison Aaron rimple and Cassie B second motion by Patrick second by Sonia any discussion all in favor raise your right hand motion passes 70 reappointments I move the Board of Education reappoint the following patrons to the facility planning board advisory committee for a one-year term Travis Barta Sayad husan Kevin Nunley Erica sheets and Paul Taylor second motion by Patrick second by Clay any discussion U all in favor raise your right hand got out of my groove curriculum and instruction appointments I move the Board of Education appoint the following patrons to the curriculum and instruction board advisory committee for new one-year terms Christy pra and Dennis snik second
104motion by Clay second by Sonia any discussion all in favor raise your right hand motion passes 70 I move go ahead I move the Board of Education appoint the following patrons to the curriculum and instruction board advisory committee for new twoyear terms Bara Bidwell Caitlyn haberger Patty Heron Ryan husk and Kellen Lutz motion by Clay second by Sonia discussion all in favor raise your right hand motion passes 70 reappointments I move the Board of Education reappoint Kristen mariac to the curriculum and instruction board advisory committee for a one-year term second motion by Clay second by Sonia any discussion all in favor raise your right hand should passes 70 we are adjourned did you have something else CL e