001It is. Thank you. All right. Um, delegation core. Yes, sir. This is not as a board member. This is as a parent, non-board member, I suppose. Um this past fall my daughter began playing girls flag football and she carried that over to the spring. And in doing in participating in that, we found out that the uh there's an incentive through the Kansas City Chiefs to try to establish girls like football teams um in Kansas and Missouri and in which they uh there's a grant opportunity involved with that uh a money grant and then uniforms uh and equipment. And so with her persuasion, I have reached out to representative with the chiefs uh who also put me in contact with a person in Kansas in Oawadami to kind of find out how to go about this.
002Um, so I'm in the process with spoke with Natasha today and Andrew to kind of see what we could do to try to get a girls flag football team in Osage City. So, we'll see how this progresses, but I wanted to let the board be aware of it. Kind of let I guess there's public here, so let the public know about it. um and just kind of see where this goes. If it's something that uh we can do, fantastic. Um and just kind of explore the idea. Um I know the eventual goal uh with the chiefs and with the state coordinator is for Quisha to sanction it as a sport. Um there's still process for that, you know, as far as how many, you know, teams etc. uh truly are doing it um in our
003area. Uh West Franklin is going to be doing one. Oawatamy started last year um as well as Wellsville and Baldwin is in the process too of of trying to establish one. So we'll see how this kind of goes, but I just wanted to let you guys know about it. this be like an inter mural sport um or right now it would be because it's not a sanctioned quacia event it would be considered a club sport and so with that there is flexibility for practice um that way it doesn't conflict with any other you know school activities offered and uh the the season for it is the fall um and it kind of mirrors you know tackle football to that degree Uh my thought process right now is to you know if if things progress with
004Osage city then maybe next next August um do like a clinic to just see what kind of interest there would be and then you know explore that. Uh the games are seven on seven so uh you know if we if we would have any interest in that at all. So that's it. Okay. All right. That's all. Okay. No other delegation. Um, looking over the agenda. Uh, does anyone have any questions or is there any correspondence? Um, just Mrs. Dong thank the board for the staffing lunch that we had. So, she always writes a card. So, she just want to thank you for the lunch that was provided. That was all I have for you guys. Correspondence. Any questions on the treasures report? And any questions on petty cash or the payment of the bills? No.
005All right. Like to make a motion to adopt the minutes of the regular board meeting of April 9th, 2025. Um like to approve the treasures report of April 30th, 2025. approved the petty cash repayment for the elementary school of $116.73 and approved the payment of the bills and them to be allowed in the amount of $291,530.94 for May 14th, 2025 and the April 2025 payroll in the amount of $540,3982. Second Carson. Hi Parsons. Hi Blommy. Hi Ethan. Hi P. Hi Fagan. Hi Linton. Hi. All right. Moving on. New business. Uh EverG solar update. We've got a couple individuals that want to present. Yeah. Lindsay Freeman's here with EverG has asked to speak to the board about solar energy. Sure. Yeah. Where would be the best place for us to Yeah, right here. Right there. Not
006a great setup. We have So, I'm going to sit down if that's okay with you guys. Um, my name is Lindsay Freeman. I'm with Everg. And I am Brandon Sack and I'm with Everg as well. And we just appreciate your time and we just wanted to give you kind of a quick update, allow you guys to ask questions. So Brandon's going to kind of give a high level overview and then we'll go into some of the project details. Well, thank you everyone for uh allowing us to speak tonight. Uh really the things that we're working on in EverGee in in total are are a little different than they have been for the past 20 years. Um, if you read the news at all or have been watching the local news channel, you you'll see things
007like EverG's building new power plants, all kinds of power plants, natural gas plants, solar plants, wind plants. One thing that's different now than it was 10 years ago, 5 years ago, 20 years ago, is we're getting people to build stuff in our territory again, which is exciting cuz what that does is it brings it brings people, it brings families, it brings commerce, it brings it brings a lot of things with it. But in order to do that, electricity feeds everything. So EverG has been working on all of our plans on how we're going to address all of the energy needs over the future. Um so so one of the things in the in the group I work in so I'm Brandon. Um I grew up in a town called St. Mary's. So play city a
008lot in in sports. Your mother Friday night play baseball. Perfect. Uh my mom was like that's where I grew up. So, so I grew up in a town just like this. And so these things are impactful and they mean a lot. So whenever G does a project, it it can mean things to a county and it can mean things to the local school district. It's not lost on me that my school was built because there's a coal plant right at the time besides the town that I grew up in. It had new facilities. I grew up in I was very fortunate in the school system I grew up in. Um so when we do bring projects to communities, we like to let people know how it could impact them. not not just all the positives,
009there's there's negatives that go along with everything that we do as well. Um, so this this is the perfect spot because one of the biggest beneficiaries of the project we're working on is the SH City School District um for energy overall. What we're looking at is we're trying to figure out how to supply customers who come in and they demand certain things. Um, 5 years ago they could demand a lot because they were the only gig in town. It's not the case anymore. Now it's more of a you know what, you can't push us around. We have plans. We want to do plans. We have customers. We want to do things the right way. And we need to do it the right way so rates stay affordable. So the house I live in, I pay
010every rates stays affordable. So those are the things I work on with Lindsay uh as we fight work through everything we're trying to do. Average's plan over the next 20 years to address these challenges is to build an all of the above approach when it comes to power plants. We just announced three natural gas plants that we're going to build across our territory. Um we also announced two three three solar facilities that we're going to build. There's one in Wilson County, there's one in Douglas County, and there's one on the other side of the border. I can't think of the county right now. Uh but it's it's down it's not quite to Jofflin but but just north of the bayonet Missouri those will suffice for for now but as Panasonic ramps up and starts hiring
011the 4,000 employees as Google starts to build their gigawatt plant and as Meta starts to build their first facilities. We've got to build more. And it's not build more just to supply them. It's build more to supply all of us because our towns are growing too. There's a lot of factories being built in towns. There's a lot of expansions going on that you don't necessarily see in the news. There's a lot of facilities. There's a facility, another facility in Dotto, Kansas called Merc, and they do uh pet health. They're they're doubling in size and they're going to hire a lot of people. It's facilities like that, too. So that means more people to our areas and to to our counties and our cities. So all of the above means we're going to build natural gas.
012All of the above means we'll build solar. All above means we'll build land. We'll build battery if it means something. We will build nuclear if it starts to make sense. Whatever is going to keep our rates the lowest. That's our approach when we look around. So Lindsay and I focus on the clean energy part. And when I say clean energy, it just doesn't emit carbon. That's all it means. I'm not going to call it renewable. It does use the sun as its fuel source. Solar for example. Um, but it's a power plant. First and foremost, it's a power plant. I'm not going to say that it's renewable and it creates green credits and that's why we get Google or Meta. It's a power plant. So, we're very diligent when we look for our spots. Here's
013what we look for. Minimal housing. We don't want to impact residents. We don't want to tear down trees. Our environmentalists say, "Don't use grassland. Use crop land because this would actually be better for the ground than crop land." And the farmers will say, "Use the grass land cuz I need the crop land for my for my revenue." Right? Well, when we get a farm owner that's been or a land owner that's been farming forever, we all know how crops go and we know they eb and flow and they come and go. What solar provides a land owner is a stable income for 30 to 40 years. So, first the land owners. So, we have to have willing land owners and we have to have a spot that works. And then the other thing we look
014for is what would the county or the community be looking to develop in this area? The area we're looking at in this particular instance wouldn't be something that the county would expand into. It'd be very hard to get water out there. There's not a lot of water out there now and it' be one of the hardest places in the entire county to get water to. Even electricity, while you could get it there, still one of the most difficult places. So, we've got low residential areas and an area that's hard to build. So, we don't just look for that here, though. We're looking for it across all of Kansas, across Missouri, in parts of Oklahoma and in parts of Nebraska. So, we're not just looking in one spot. We're looking all over for opportunities like this.
015So, we'll look for this for wind. We'll look for this for solar. We'll look for this for our natural gas plants. Natural gas is a little different cuz we have to have a gas line close. We have to have lots of water. And then you have to have the power lines. And the power lines are important, too. So, I'm not going to get into project specifics, but overall for energy, what we talk about here is when we talk about rates and we talk about building new power plants, it's not like we just put a new power plant in place and then rates go up. What happens is we're using more energy and we have to meet that energy demand. If we didn't build anything, we'd be buying all of our energy from someone outside of
016our territory and they'd be able to charge us whatever they want. What we want to be is in charge of our rates. We want to be the ones that control what it costs our customer to pay for energy. In order to do that, we have to build. So, we've been charged with a very difficult task of of trying to find the best place not only to just build a power plant, but to have a community partner, one that we all can respect each other in and one we can trust each other in. if we have a question, we can just ask and know that we're going to get the answer that we want. So, that's why we're doing things like this to to just allow people to ask questions and if we don't have an
017answer, we'll do our best to go find an answer. Um, what am I what am I leaving out? Anything? I was just going to hit on that. Um, Osage County checks a lot of the boxes that Brandon mentioned, and that's that's why we're here. um the closest house uh to where a panel would be is over a quarter mile away and there's just a handful that even are even in that uh even within a half a mile. So, and it really I I think of the of the residents in that county, it's less than 1% that are even in that area and we won't have to build new transmission lines. So, that's that's a big big thing for us when considering a site. The infrastructure is already in place, so we don't have to worry
018about doing that. Um, we have, like Brandon said, uh, willing land owners and, um, that's a huge, huge piece for us. We're not going to be doing imminent domain here. Um all of the people that um have agreed to potentially be a part of this project are very excited about it and excited about the opportunities that this brings for the county, for the school districts, and for their families for generations. Um and then Brandon mentioned batteries, but we have no plans to put a battery on this site. Um, right now we're just looking at solar. We're not looking at wind. Um, and we're talking about two potential phases. And the the part that we really wanted to hit on with you all today is what this means for the school district. um because you all
019in in our eyes are kind of the biggest uh you get the biggest benefit from the tax dollars that come from this project. So any um new generation whether it's wind, natural gas, solar, I guess those are the only three that are tax exempt right now. Batteries are also tax exempt in Kansas for the first 10 years. Um so we would work out a plan with a county it's called a pilot uh which is payment in lie of taxes. So we can't give you what those exact numbers are but um starting in year 11 we estimate that it would be over 100 million uh per phase. Is that what we're over the years 11 through 30? So over 20 years, one phase would generate $100 million of tax revenue for for this age group. And
020uh what that means for you all is uh roughly if we end up getting to do two phases, $4 million of additional revenue for the school district every year. Yeah. So, um just looking at your own budget, we we hope that you see that that that is a significant number and a big um could be a big impact to your district and um you're not having to build new schools because we're bringing in all these additional people. This is just more uh dollars coming in to your guys's to your budget. So that doesn't mean it's just uh okay, go build it because we're going to get some money. We have a lot of things we do when we build a power plant. There are a lot of things we have to do. She talked about
021no battery. There can't be a battery because we can't do stuff like that without an entity called Southwest Powerpool. We would have to submit requests to that and those requests take years. They take years. Currently, we have a request for solar and only solar in the area that we're looking. The area that we're looking, by the way, is is the Barklay Township. 100% of the facility in Barklay Township. There would not be any facility in any other township. No other township other than Bararklay. And I want to reiterate, there isn't a single house within a quarter wall. If you go to Douglas County where they have the strictest rules, it's a 500 foot buffer and we put panels within 500 feet of residents there because that was the county ring and that's what we did.
022There's no break here saying that we can't put these panels within 50 ft of a residence. We're not doing it. So, we don't want to do it here. We don't have to do it here. Nothing within a/4 mile and a very few houses within a half mile. A lot of people are going to talk about things like um toxicity of a panel and there are certain panels that do have some metals in it and have some some some I don't know some toxicity. I guess we're not using those panels and we wouldn't use those panels. We're what's a little different from us than others is we're energy and we have coal plants and we have nuclear and we have gas and we have hydro and we have all this and the EPA looks at us
023like a hawk. the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. We're their biggest person that they look at. Everything we do, we have to go talk to them about what we're doing. We can't just put toxic things in places and not have any ramifications. On top of that, the Corporation Commission mandates everything we do. So, when we go and we talk to the Kansas Corporation Commission, we have to lay out everything. This is what's going to cost. This is what we're impacting. This is who we're impacting. this is how it's going to impact our rates that every single thing is on the table. We just got done with the KCC going through some open trials. We put two solar farms and we and two gas plants in front of them. The solar farms didn't even make
024it to trial because everyone unanimously unanimously things are passed. They passed and let those go through rates because of the impact that they have on our rate payers and how they see they fit into our plant. They have a lot of questions about the gas. And here's the biggest reason why. Once you build either power plant with gas, I have to keep buying its input to get it to run. With solar, I've spent all the money I'm going to spend. The fuel is going to come from the sun. Now, I want to have an incremental cost of both to maintain and operate them, but the operations at a solar facility way different than at a gas plant or a coal plant or a new plant. So, when we talk about our overall resource plan and
025we talk about putting a solar facility in our resource plan, it is the cheapest form of energy for my rates at my house that we're going to put on the grid. Oh, it's going to raise rates. Average is asking for more rates. What happens is our coal plants are 70 years old. Jeffrey's 50 years old. I don't know about you, but I don't have a car that's 50 years old because it wouldn't stop working. And if I did, I guarantee you I put a lot of money into it to get it back to running and in good shape. Same thing with tractors. It's our workhorse if we've got a 50, 60, 70 year old tractor, but it's taking a lot of our time and a lot of our energy to keep it running every time
026we start it up. These things are going to stop working and we're trying to get in front of that. They've been depreciated. They're impacting rates a lot less. So, we're going to build new power plants, let those retire on out. We cannot keep maintaining them. It's cheaper to build the new power plant. Now, um solar is a good addition to our grid. We're not only looking at solar and we're not going to ever be 100% solar. We're not going to be 100% solar wind. We're going to keep that nuke plant on. We're going to build new gas plants and we're going to keep these coal plants on as long as we can. Uh we need everything to be able to serve everybody. Solar is great. We've got a lot of wind. We've got over 5
027gawatts of wind. That's 5,000 megawatts. And to put that in perspective, all of energy on our very peak day, we will serve 12,000 megawatts of load. So energy through all of our buildings, our houses, everything 12,000 megawatt. We have 5,000 megawatts of wind. Now, the reason we have 5,000 megawatts of wind is because it doesn't produce 5,000 megawatts all the time. It only produces 5,000 megawatt sometimes, right? It blows when it blows. Solar, the same thing. We've got plans to add 2 to 4,000 megawatts of solar over the next um 10 to 20 years. That's not going to cover our 14,000 megawatts of lug. We're still going to build gas. We want to build all these other things to ser serve that. Solar is great because it's there when it's hot. The sun's shining on
028that 105° day and our air conditioners are cranking as solar is working. It's not working at night. I don't need it at night. I got wind at night. Have everything else at night. But I've got free energy right here. Free incremental energy. I'm still paying for the facility. And everyone's going to say, "Oh, it's renewable. It's clean." It's a power plant. There's steel, there's glass, there's aluminum, there's a substation. It's right there in the middle of the facility. Um, that's not lost on us. We understand what we're building and we know it's a power plant and that's a reason there's property taxes. So, the one of the things we can do is we can give to the community. We will give to the community when the property taxes hit. The first 10 years, we absolutely
029will give some money to the communities. We don't have to. We want to and we will because we know that's a thing. The other thing we do is if we impact a road to get to the facility, we will build a road. Outside of that pilot, it's going to be us maintaining those roads and making sure they work. And it's not just going to be us. We've got this corporation commission that says if you don't do it, you're going to be in trouble. And we've got the courts that say you're the utility. You're going to go fix it. We've got all of these people watching us. Now, if I was someone else, an outstater, if I was an IP, I wouldn't have to tell you all that stuff because I don't have those same people
030looking at me. I don't have the EPA calling me every single day saying, "What's this? What's that?" I do. Is asy. So, I can't just do stuff out of the blue and say, "Oh, yeah. Let's just put toxic panels there and they're going everything." No way. Are you kidding me? No way. So, we are very diligent with what we do. We have to be diligent because we will get in trouble. Things that we'll do is we'll monitor the soils around the facility throughout the life of it to make sure that nothing is happening and if it is, we'll take care of it that exact moment. It does no one any good to wait and not monitor all that stuff. So, as we do all of these things, yes, there is a lot of money. If
031we do two phases, that's $4 million a year for this school right here. $4 million a year starting in year 11. That's generational stuff right there. There's a price. There's going to be a power plant out there. You're not really going to see it, but it's going to be there. It doesn't have big old tall towers. It doesn't cause a glare that you're all going to see here in the town, but it is a thing. And that's not lost on us. um for the county. What that means is I think the county's budget property tax intake across the whole county right now I think in the 2024 budget was $9 to $9.5 million. The county is going to see from two phases if we did two phases we get an additional 6 1.5 to $7
032million a year. Not quite doubling the property tax intake that they get right now from all of you who live in this county. And that's from a facility that's going to have not a lot of employees. It will when we do construction, but when we're doing construction, we're taking everything care of everything we're using. So if we're using the road, we're taking care of it, not the county. So it's not coming down to that money that the county's getting. We're taking care of that. Once the power plant's running, we're not bringing a bunch of students. So you're not going to have to build a new wing with that $4 million. That's $4 million you get to use for your flag football team. has $4 million you get to use for your new uniforms and not
033new band instruments for the new kids. It's new band instruments for the facilities we have now. So, it's not lost on us that that that is infrastructure that adds to the tax base. But again, it's a power. It's not all awesome free stuff. There is some stuff there. So, all we can do is educate and we really wanted to let you know how it could impact the community here. uh in the positive ways and the negative ways as well. Um because because we know all of it, all of it happens and all of it occurs. Um and and really Lindsay and I just wanted you to know that we're going to give you our cell phone number. You call us with any kind of question. If something comes up, well, you know what, that makes
034a lot of sense. I bet if that's a real problem, I want I want it addressed. Call us and we'll let you know that we've probably already looked into it. And if we haven't, we will. and I spent spent 6 months looking into zinc oxide going into the groundwater and then after the 6 months it was determined that's not really a thing. Um all of those things we look into because I live in the communities too and I want to know too uh when that stuff happens. So those are all the things that we look out for when we when we're part of the community uh as I just wanted to add to a couple things uh Brandon said. So, um, we serve about 2,000 customers in the county, EverG does, and then we also
035have about 212 employees that live in the county. So, in addition to everything that Brandon said, I mean, we care about our employees, too. And, um, you know, we want to make sure that they're, uh, happy about this project as well and understand that this is a good thing for the county. Um to the Wolf Creek comment, um there has been rumors going around that this could impact Wolf Creek. Uh they just celebrated their 40-year anniversary and we just got a 20-year extension to continue um service there and uh the C our CEO yesterday said he thinks it'll probably get extended another 20 years. So Brandon talks about all the new generation that's coming into our territory. These types of projects are not um speeding up decommissioning at any of our other plants. Uh with
036the low growth that's happening, we're having to push out decommissioning on projects because there's so much demand. We just can't keep up with everything that's coming online. Um, and then I did want to let you guys know you are the only school district that would benefit from this project. So that's why with the property tax dollars. So that's why we wanted to just uh provide you guys the information that we we know as of now and um give you a chance to ask us questions. Um, and if you if you don't have any today, like Brandon said, we're we're happy to give you our cell phone numbers and feel free to to reach out to us, but I think is now a good time to open it up for questions. I'll go first if I
037can. Yeah. Um, so when will the district like in consumers see reduction in energy costs? We're talking we've been told budget like the next four years of 10% with energy and we're you know with the wind farms and things we thought we'd start seeing reduction in that when can we anticipate those or how would that work in the future as it relates just to correct energy costs for us as a district as a as a household I wish I could say that we plan on them going down but I can't say we can plan on them going down what we're trying to do is stabilize them and what we've been accomplishing over the last 5 years as ever here in the Midwest is our rates have been more stable than anyone's around us. Period. We've
038been holding here. Everyone else is up here. Um we made some investments early. So we took some pain early where others didn't. They're feeling the pain now and we're we're reaping the benefits of of what we sowed uh earlier. these projects provide a predictable energy cost for 30 years. And so that's that's the huge piece that why we're so interested in these types of projects cuz we're not relying on uh natural gas prices to remain the same for 30 years. Like we know what we're getting into here, but all of your facilities are served by the city, correct? Yes. Do you have any that are any other utility? Not that I'm aware of. Okay. So, Oage City is a little different in that they control their rate destiny where the the infrastructure that they put
039in place. Um, and I know Katie and Dale are are working hard at that. Um they just recently put in a solar project because they were excited about locking in a energy cost for 30 years. Um because all the all the offers that they're getting right now were significantly higher than the solar and it's shorter term. So it's uh that's part of the reason why they why they did that solar project. But I think that would be more so a a Dale or a Katie question. Sure, I understand. Thank you. So, did you guys do that solar farm north of town? Cuz it looks hideous. I'm just saying. I mean, plain simple. It's a mile off the road and it's terrible. I mean, it's it sticks out like a sore thumb. But um so basically
040wasn't there a no solar no wind in the county memorandum that was signed for so long there is a moratorium in place. Yes. For how long? It's permanent. So I mean it's it's 25 years. So basically it's cutting that is what would have to happen for this to move forwards. So there would be that's that's part of the education process is yeah to to talk about exactly things like that. Um again we're looking in all of Kansas and Missouri. So part of that is when we find an opportunity that could be good for the community and forever cheap is to get our information out. So then if there is an opportunity that you maybe want to reassess things like that, then we definitely want to have the discussion with the county and the stakeholders so
041we can all talk about it together. So Ted had asked about the power. So you had mentioned that the power is not going to Google or Meta or other companies that you listed. Where's the power going? Is it helping our community? Is it staying right here in Osage County or where is it going? So that was why I mentioned that we we serve 2,000 people in the county. So if those 2,000 customers aren't absorbing that energy, it will go to the our surrounding customers and surrounding counties, but it's staying local. Uh we're not selling this off to California or anything like that. That's been something that's said, but the electrons will be staying here locally. So 2,000 people within the county is what I hear. Well, it'll serve way more than 2,000 people. Yeah, in
042our county as I'm saying, but there's an average customers. There's that many average customers. So, we don't want to confuse and it's not around the clock, right? It's solar. Um, so it will serve the overall portfolio and energy is for energy customers. So, local company, local customers. Um, and think local as ever being in Kansas and a little bit of Missouri. How many customers total is in our county? 2,000 total. So, basically four rivers is where I get my electricity from. So, they will have to turn around and buy this from you to give us or what? They can if they want. We can offer 40% power off of it, but no, they don't have to. It doesn't have to impact our rates at all. If you get past the moratorum, how many uh are
043you talking two phases? Are you going to stop there? And how many how many acres is how many acres, excuse me, but how many acres is one phase? And how many land owners are we talking? So the amount of land owners we'll keep private but the amount of acres what the SP requires which is the southwest power pool if we want to put a request in we have to have 6 acres per megawatt secured in some kind of option. So that doesn't answer my question. So many good question 250 megawatts per phase. And you plan on stopping with two phases? Yeah, we Yeah, our requests are out there for two phases and that's that's all we have requests for right now. [Music] So, what happens at the end of 30 years? So, at the end
044of 30 years, there's several things that happen. Our landowner leases require us to get rid of the stuff. We have to clean it up. So, we have to clean up everything that we put out there. not only a land owner leases. If the county were to consider it, we would also have an agreement with the county of some kind of bond or some kind of uh something that we would keep in escrow or something to make sure that we have the funds available to decommission it. We also got a third person we got answered to is the can the corporation commission and they will guarantee and mandate that we absolutely have the funds to take it out. We've retired a couple coal plants, a couple gas plants and you can go visit all of them.
045We have we have cleaned them all up. Now coal is a little bit different cuz we have to stay there and maintain some stuff. Solar is going to be different. We're going to we're going to take care of the land while we're using it. So it's going to be like the native grasses underneath these panels. It's not going to be gravel. It's going to be grass. It's going to be grasses that absorb water. Um and then when we take the steel out and we take those panels away, it's going to be clean. It's going to be a clean site. How do grasses grow without to take you to our solar facility? Because they grow everywhere. They grow under those panels. So the panels rotate. They don't just stay stationary. You can drive out here to
046the one north of town and you can see grass growing everywhere on that facility. And that that site was a retired landfill. Um and so it's just it's pretty crazy how Yeah. all the the pollinator friendly blend has taken off and it's just going back to its natural habitat. So you're going to the at the end of 30 years essentially this crop ground is going to turn back to it'll be in the land buying it. It's going to stay with so they'll be able to use it for whatever they would like to use it for. Okay. So and I don't know if this is something you can answer but you said you know your lease is 30 years with the farmers or the land owners. um is the compensation comparable to what they would make?
047I mean, obviously you don't know um commodity rates 30 years from now, but yeah, I think like we all know a lot of farmers and they're very smart business people. So, I think they're making the decision that they think's best for their family and their and their welfare. You mentioned water. Um there's been some concerns with the wershed water runoff impact drinking water all that stuff about that. Yeah, that that's legitimate. I would ask the exact same questions. Um it's galvanized steel poles. So the same thing that we would build a bridge on. So we put these in rivers. We put them in all kinds of water first. Galvanized steel piles would be in the ground and they just get driven into the ground. There's no concrete holding them in place. They're just drowning right
048into the soil. Galvanized steel posts across the top and then the panels. And the panels is not a new technology. They've been around since the 50s. So there have been tons of reports, toxicity reports and everything. So we can actually go see toxicity reports on these panels which are mostly glass and silicone. And you can see that there is no there's nothing leeching out of these panels. There's nothing coming out of these panels. There's no heavy metals. There are some panels that do have heavy metals. Those aren't the ones we buy. We buy the ones that don't have all of that. Um, if we were taking over, say, 100% crop land, an environmentalist would say this would be cleaner because we're not fertilizing every year. There's no fertilizer runoff going into the reservoirs or anything
049like that. We're just maintaining natural prairie in these facilities. The panels are built to withstand golf ball size hail. And our racking system um is made for over 100 mph winds. So we don't anticipate them breaking. Well, and the other things we do now is they can snow. So a storm's coming, they get in a certain angle. So we don't keep them flat. So the hail would just be bombarding them. They rotate. They do some things to make sure they don't take direct hits and stuff like that. So, that technology is is growing uh all the time. It's not lost on us where we're building a solar facility as well. We all grew up in Kansas. We know what happens in Kansas. I grew up in Kansas. Um so, when we build these facilities, those
050are the things we look out for. Our insurance companies make sure we look out for this stuff. If it was uninsurable, we wouldn't build it. Um, so we make sure we look at all of these things when we when we build these things. So are they all high fence? Are there fence around all of them? So it runs the wildlife uh area. So what what we build it won't look like the one you see north of town. What we're going to build around these facilities is a game fence. It's just a it's just a woven fence. It's a little smaller at the bottom and bigger at the top of gamet. So what we don't want in there is deer running around. But all the other critters, we absolutely can get in there and start running
051around and and nesting and having their habitats. And we work with the department of uh wildlife on all of that as well. If we identify an area that is a natural habitat to something that's endangered, we won't be allowed to to work in that area. That's right. Um all of that is will be studied for sure. Yeah. So I This has been passed on to me. I don't know all the facts, but was there a school in Oklahoma that kind of went through this and got some money and then it went away after 2 years and they were in a tight spot because that money wasn't coming in. I don't I don't know. I can't speak to that. But what I can tell you is ever we're a little different than someone that's from out
052of state building a power plant as an IP or an independent power producer. We wouldn't even be allowed to do that because we're going to have the corporation commission come all over us and be be on us for something. They wouldn't allow such indiscretions to happen. So, I'm not sure that I can I'm not going to address what happens at that school district cuz I have no idea what you're you're thinking about or talking about. But it's just a different level of scrutiny when it when it comes to energy build our plan your community cuz we're not just a solar developer that's going around all over the nation building projects like we're we're looking we're building for our communities and for for my bill too. What's your time? Say the mortar mortarium gets lifted, you
053know, in a year and you guys get the green light from the the county to do this. What's your timeline from phase one to start and then phase two to start? Yeah, we're still waiting on numbers from Southwest Powerful to even tell us how much they would charge us to even connect to a spot like that. It it's possible that connecting something there, they would say, "Oh, it's going to cost this much money cuz we have to build some new line in Oklahoma." and but you have to pay for it. Um, we picked this spot because we don't think they're going to say that. We think there's room here and the first numbers we got back were positive, but we've still got they still have two more studies to do before that each study takes
054has been taking years. Um, so before we even know that, we're years away. So that's why we're starting to educate now so we can talk about what would happen if it does come back. Good. So we're we're we're a few years away from even starting what would even be thought about being construction. Um we do have due diligence that we do in the area, but that's just to understand even if the costs come back, if there's something like endangered species or cultural artifacts or or just if rocks only 1 ft deep all the way through this facility, those are things that will say, "Well, let's find a different spot." So we need to do that research as well. Um, so I can't give you definitive dates because I don't have definitive dates. What I can
055tell you is EverG's plan is to have 600 megawatts of solar come on next year and this could not be part of that. Wouldn't it be possible for it to be part of that? So when you look at our resource plan that's out there on the internet and on our website, you're going to see 150 megawatts of solar in 28, 150 and 32. You may see 300 in 2030. Those would be areas where something like this could fit in pieces of it could fit into that plan. I know that you had mentioned your guys' insurance. Do you know what this does to the insurance of our community members and especially those houses that are within that quarter mile half mile radius? Yeah. And that's an interesting question because we've done a lot of research the
056past two weeks on that. Um so our insure as you can imagine we have a lot of assets. So, our insurance team has a lot of connections and a lot of work that we have to do. Um, we talk to people all across the nation, insurance providers all over the nation. And no one has ever had their insurance increase by living next to a solar facility. Not one person. So, if you have an insurance agent telling you that they're going to increase it if you live within a certain uh area of a solar facility, you might want to talk to another agent cuz we talked all over the country and never heard of this. I'll add to that where there may have been some confusion there. Your insurance will increase if you add solar to
057your home or your business because you're adding to the value of your property. So that could be where that got confused a little bit, but um yeah, there's there is nothing showing that being a half mile away is going to increase your property insurance. What about property taxes? Cuz I know that you brought up the payment in L of taxes. Is that payment in L of taxes? I know that you said that it's going to the county. Does that is that for everyone in the county that no one's paying property taxes and you guys are paying it for us or how is that working? So, so the facility itself gets an exemption. So, if we go two phases, it's it's a it would be a major investment for average. It'd be a lot of money
058for average to invest in. And how we pay taxes is the value of that facility gets taxed by the state and it's dispersed to the counties that it's that it's in. Right? So, the first 10 years is it's exempt from that process. So the payment in lie of taxes would be something we would negotiate with everyone that's impacted in the area to make sure that there is some money coming because there's not any coming from that process. So that would be something that if the moratorum were to be considered to be lifted that we would negotiate with the county. Typically with the county they'll disperse that based on the mill levies on the land that we're building on. Sometimes it's not. And if that's the case, we'll come negotiate directly with you so you get
059some money as well with every person in the county. No. No. Okay. If I follow the mill. So, so just like your meal less on your tax bill, that's how it would be dispersed. And then are property taxes likely to increase for homeowners that are I can't speak to what property taxes would do in Oage County, but I can tell you this project would add a major bump to the overall property taxes being collected by the county. Okay. To where we [Music] how does this I don't just I don't know. How does this 4 million get funneled to our school? through the mill levies. That's it's it goes to the county as as this much and then there is a mill levy then it goes straight to the school. That's the same way it does
060with your property taxes. It [Music] Do you know why environmental say not to place it on grassland? Why are they saying that? native. They don't want anything to uh disturb native habitat. That's uh if you know the wind moratorium in the Flint Hills, it's because they don't want to disturb native habitat. So, if you can find crop land that's being heavily disturbed, they would say built there over the grassland. We That's what an environmentalist might say. Brandon, do you want to hit on um uh aggra or just anything that we're looking into there? Sure. Um if you follow our Douglas County uh at all, one of the biggest things they really pushed was agricult. Um agriculture friendly so we get lots of bees, things like that. Um it just means so many things to have
061so many people. What I can tell you is that we're looking at all these types of things. um at all of our facilities. Um first and foremost, the base is always going to be native. So, it's going to be pollinator heavy native grasses. That's where we're going to start at every facility. So, that's what's going to be under the panels. If there's an opportunity, let's say some kind of short wheat turns out can be grown in between all these panels and you can fit a small combine between these panels. seems like a good opportunity for a farmer to also get some money on still growing crops inside and in between rows, but these are all things that are all brand new. So, we're looking into them with everybody else. Would that go back to the
062landowner then? It would be their opportunity to farm that ground. They would give first look for sure. Is that included in the contracts? I don't know if that's included in the contracts. [Music] But Ever does like to look at everything as a partnership. So partnerships are a big deal to me and are a big deal to EverGy. I know that you mentioned that you're aware of what you're putting out there. So where are these panels made? Are they made in here in Kansas? Is that creating jobs here or I don't think there's any pain on manufacturers coming in Kansas. But I know a lot of people complain about terrorists and they complain a lot about a lot of things going going on. But one of the things that these are driving is the manufacturing facilities
063are starting to build in the United States and even some of the incentives and the new plans are by panels that are built in the United States. So manufacturing in the United States is small and one of the biggest manufacturers uh builds the panels that have the cadmium in them which I'm not sure all of us want those there. So the other panels that we buy aren't super large here but we're talking about years away and these guys are talking about producing domestic panels within the next couple of years. So, I can't speculate where they'll come from, but if there is an opportunity to buy them here, absolutely will be an option for us. Have you bought any of the materials? It's Yeah, it's too far away. Tuned in with too many questions. Where do
064you currently get your panels? We do get them from different spots, but all of them come from overseas right now. Okay. [Music] Any other questions? Take a lot of your time. I apologize, but thank you for listening to ask questions. All right. Just in closing kind of our our next steps. Um, we do know a general area. Like we said, we're going to be reaching out to uh the surrounding property owners, just educating them on basically the same thing we did here tonight. Um so if you don't hear from us, that means you don't have property anywhere near the site. But um again, we just thank you guys for being willing to listen. Um and we encourage any questions that you think of. um please reach out to us. I know um Mr. Hessong has
065all my contact information. So if you have any questions at all, please don't hesitate to reach out. All right. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Thank you. [Music] All right, moving on to district goals. So, I like to with the closing of school coming up and just um in May, just like to review our goals, our district goals, just kind of give you an update where we're at um as we go towards the summer and and looking into next year and just um thinking if we need to address these goals or do some updating, we can have that conversation, but just kind of want to rehash where we're at. Again, our mission statements stays the way it is as all can achieve. It really sets the tone for the district as we look to make
066sure everybody's successful whether it's staff or students. So, our vision statements been condensed that each student will have success in their life, career, and community. And we strive for that every day to help those kids be successful no matter what path they choose after they graduate from high school. So, the first goal that we list is curriculum instruction and assessment. Just some highlights of there. Our KISSA has been a big part of that as it relates to curriculum and assessment uh our curriculum and instruction and assessment. Um we're incorporating into our KISSA process. Um we've identified two fundamentals uh which is structured literacy and quality instruction. Uh structured literacy is mainly the letters training that we would be providing and and then looking as it as it works into the classroom and providing instructional resources
067for that as we learn from that with the seal of literacy for staff that obtain that. and then quality instruction um mainly through the professional learning communities, professional development that we've started that we'll speak about later. But um those are some main focus points we have going on here in the just now and and looking forward. So our action plan is approved. We've got our sixmonth check-in today with KISSA. Um it'll be approved as well and be recommended for um compliance assuming we're good with compliance, which we told we are. Um we'll be recommended for accreditation at the beginning of next school year. So as a district. So, um, good things going there. Uh, just our community partnerships. We continue, we're growing our our a program at the high school and with that comes a
068lot of partnerships that are forming and and being really supportive of that. So, there's been a for focus for that. Um, curriculum rotation. You know, we purchased a new elementary math curriculum. We're looking at other resources to do that. Um, there'll be resources in the future. We'll be putting in a resource adoption budget schedule um this summer so we know where to focus on and make sure we stay up to date current on those and then we continue to provide social emotional support for our students um throughout the day of the school year. So next goal is recruit retire recruit hire not retire recruit hire and retain highquality staff. Um, we've partnered with Educate Kansas, um, that that host the uh, job board for the Kansas teaching jobs. Um, we've created a recruitment video that'll
069be coming out shortly and help with some district marketing materials really just to help liven up our strategy for recruitment and going out there. We continue to use Handshake that gets our our employment opportunities out there to all the college and universities in the region. and we continue to go to job fairs and and be um be proactive and try to reach out to potential staff to do that. So, um we continue to be competitive uh with our with our salary. I know that's a board goal. We continue to do that and moving forward we should be able to continue with that and you can see some things we did with negotiations last year. Our professional development is relevant. Um it's building driven for the most part. um we are allowed to you know provide
070them opportunities to attend professional development opportunities and we will be increasing collaboration time for next school year with on the academic calendar with um with the incorporation of the PLC protocols. So I'm looking forward to seeing that grow with our with our professional development and then it's early childhood as a recruitment tool where we are currently exploring that continuing to do that and we'll in the future see where we're at with that. So the third goal listed is the parent and community engagement and partnerships. Um we continue to have great partnerships with support all across this community. Um it's ever wavering to be honest with you which is a great thing. Um I spoke about the A that's been kind of a focus as we've gone through but we have so many areas of support
071and this district wouldn't be as strong without those and we've recognized those. some of the comm communication strategies. We've done some new graphic design, web-based program to help with media posts and newsletters and we'll be transitioning to a new web streaming platform in over the summer. Um, just expand those opportunities and and provide that for uh our community. Um, continue with our mentor programs. We do need to kind of expand those, but uh Miss Fall has her watchd dogs, which is great. Um, great opportunity for for community to be involved, but we still look for ways to expand those. And our after school programs we do provide them but have limited participation and continue to have that. So is that considered like like after school like you know tutoring things of that green? Yeah. Yeah.
072I was the same way that um and then lastly the last uh building or district goal is the facilities alignment and resources. We spent a lot of time this year looking to update maintain our district facilities. Just some highlights. We have roof liner coming on three sections of the elementary. Just got noticed that it's going to start earlier than anticipated. So in July they'll be starting those projects. So that was good news today or yesterday, one of the days. Um we have the new activity bus coming, working through that. New intercom system will be installed this summer. Um so that will help with the safety overall of the district. Um we have the additional parking that we purchased um near that. We'll be working towards that. And then the roof and the HVAC preventative maintenance
073contracts we have. So, a lot of things going on, but a lot of good conversations coming in the future with that. Our safety plan, we continue to review that. We have a new SRO this school year who's done great. Um, but we will be adding a cardiac response protocol and then we just need to update some things um with our EOP with the start of the 2025 school year with some changes in the local community that we need to address. So, so we'll be doing that and getting ready for the school year coming in. And just some needs, just some things that keep identifying. Auditorium lighting and sound, cafeteria floor, drains around the district, um is was identified as a need. And then just some we have some large HVAC systems that we're getting towards
074end of life that we'll need to be doing some planning for. So we have the district facilities work session coming up in the near future. So we hope to gain some guidance with that and move forward. So that was June 2nd, right? June 2nd, 6:00 right here. We'll do it in here. So, um, and just some Kansas CAN outcomes. Just updated our high school graduation rate. Um, went down from 90 90 92.1 to 91.8 in 2024. We're still above the state average. We continue to grow with our post-secary success. Um I you know with our IPS system that we have going on and really helping drive that um I really believe we'll be seeing our post it's a 5-year average so we've got a long ways to go to catch up with I think we'll
075be seeing growth over the next 5 years with that and looking at postsecary success um our academically prepared you see that it's our state assessments information as we go through um it's been a focus of the district all year to really look at level one and those students in level one to help them move up um hopefully for this school here where we received results um that most of them have moved to level two. So I don't know who just deleted the ELA but he's touching things that bad. Um we continue with our social emotional learning have the growth in the districtwide uh curriculum. The counselors do a great job of working together. Kindergarten readiness is continue the same part of that making sure we have our ASQs done and provide that feedback for kids
076coming in and being prepared as we can and we you know continue to have the three-year-old classrooms and the four-year-old classrooms for preschool and then our individual plans of study really guiding our high school scheduling um which is giving that feedback directly from students and you know we have that starting in the middle school and and looking at career expiration starting 8th grade and and moving the way up. So and is lastly the middle school community day for civic engagement. So, just some highlights. Um, quick overview of our goals. Um, we'll be talking about those starting into next school year and really looking at refining those. Um, if we need to update or change, um, we'll be doing that in the future, but just wanted to kind of highlight those of where we're at with
077the closing of the school year. So, any questions? By the way, it was Mrs. Georgia. I just have to put her on here only. That version control will catch you every time. You only Tim would have to turn me. We we used to do um in high school like a community day where we were out in the community kind of doing projects and stuff helping them helping people out. Do we still do that in high school? Was it in the middle school? They do it in the middle school but sometimes like our FFA will take ownership of that. I know Mr. Smith has in the past. And so it just kind of depends. But we do recycling. Yeah. Not really our core classes. They don't really do that. I think it's more clubs that don't
078go out and do that. They used to do at least all the junior class I used to do. Oh, yeah. That's all I have on that. Any questions regarding goals? Uh on those graphics and stuff, can we get those posted up? Are we planning on putting big those? We need to we need to do some of that with our um with our copper recognition and things as academically prepared. So, we need to get some of those up. So, yeah, I'll work on that. Okay. Yeah, we have the banners that we can put up in the gyms and offices and things. So, and like our vision statements. Yeah, I have that. I have those ready to go. So, when we come back next school year, they're going to be up all over the place. So, we
079have those ready to go. All right, moving on. There's no other questions. Uh, three legs preschool. So, this is our annual OU that we do with preschool with three legs having preschool. Just a reminder, we have two classrooms that are are three legs and we have one that we host oursel. Um, basically what this this says is that we'll keep um we won't go over 50% of a ratio from identified students to nonidentified. Um, if we do, there will be an extra cost at that, but we'll do all we can to to um keep that from happening. I mean, if it's one or two kids, we, you know, we might absorb that cost just to get kids in, but we won't go much over that. But, um, but that's just really that agreement that we
080will keep it below the 50% or or we have to pay extra for that. So, and that's below 50% non I Yes. Right. Exactly. Right. Cuz those two classrooms, we don't have to worry about that in our classroom, but those two three legs classrooms. Yes. [Music] Is that both? Oh, sorry. Is that both three and four year old preschool? Yes. Okay. Yeah. The three classrooms constitute both age groups. Yes. I think that's right. Yes. Actually, as of next year, we're going to go back to three three-year-old classrooms and three four-year-old classrooms. And we don't have anybody on the waiting list. Awesome. First time that's happened in a long time. So, what's the total number on it? Yeah. Is it full? Oh gosh, you would ask. I think there's 34 four year olds and 26 3year-olds.
081Don't quote me on that number. I know that there's 34 four year olds though is kind of what I look at for the next school year. But and and that will probably increase. I mean cuz we do have people out there that probably did not know that preschool that we offer preschool or forgot to turn in their form for preschool. But um that's what we have right now. We just met last night on it. What's full capacity? Um, it would be 45 for the four year olds and then 30 for the 3-year-olds. Okay. But that 3-year-olds change because a lot of times we have 2 and 3/4 year olds coming in and we have to get them evaluated before they turn three. If they need an IEP, they have to have an IEP before they
082turn three. So sometimes that number fluctuates a little over in the three-year-old classes. And we can have maintained. Sorry, I was just going to say and we can have new students come in that semester, right? That hit that age mark too sometimes. Yeah. [Music] Any other questions? Like to make a motion to continue ourou with three lakes um at the 50% below IEP mark. Second [Music] Linton. Hi Carson. Hi Kevin Stone. Hi Bloom Meer. Hi Carson. Hi Megan. Hi T. Hi. All right. Now jumping to the opposite end of the spectrum. We're looking at Allen County's MOU. Just again annual uh for dual credit services and things u for our students. Um we are in the Allen County Community College catchment. Um but we still have to have an MOU to provide services working with
083them. So um it's just our annual agreement that we have need to put in. We have a lot of kids. Do you take advantage of that? Do a lot. I'm working on right now. Uh 40. Okay. And it's about I think last semester it's 106 classes that I enrolled kids in for one semester. Wow. Is that just junior and seniors or Yeah, typically we may have a gifted kid or two here and there but the overall majority is juniors and seniors. How much of a cost difference is that for our students per credit hour? Do we have an idea? Well, for high school students, um we they actually just this year dropped it tremendously. Okay. Um we were like for one class because racing went to school was like $400. Okay. And now um it's
084if it's taught here by like Miss Watkins, it's $50 to $60 a credit hour. Okay. So it's about 150 to 180. Okay. Um so significantly different. Yeah. And those are in person or are they online classes? It's Miss Watkins is here in person, but the majority we have are online. We have Dr. Johnson who will teach a he teaches music appreciation and then we have um they actually have Mrs. O'Keefe from Allen County comes here and teaches our students they do kind of a hybrid version where they meet with her in person like on Tuesdays when it falls on white days or we we set up an arrangement with her but she's been great to come in and work with her. Is there any other options we can take advantage of to do more of
085those? The trickier really is to have staff that have a master's degree in that particular area. And used to it didn't have to be that way. That's how if you remember probably back when we were in school, many of our teachers did that. Well, then they changed the education requirements. And typically our teachers don't go get a degree, a master's degree in their subject. Most don't get a master's degree in English. They get a master's degree in education. So then they can't teach the English, you know, Allen County version unless they what do you do with a master's degree in English usually education. So that's what they've kind of run into. I do think that they're working to loosen that again because they're feeling the same feeling that we are is difficulty finding educators to
086to fill those spots. So, I do think they're working to be more flexible, but if you're wondering why we've got a decrease from how it used to be, that's why they changed the rules. And going back up one time, I know that they mentioned like your a student's first 12 to 15 credit hours. Um, they were going to try to find a way for them to be free. Uh, but I haven't heard anything else on that topic. So, Are we still allowing some students to go over? Well, I guess they close the campus right. [Music] All right. Any other questions? Okay. All right. To make a motion to continue theou with Allen County Community College. I'll second it. Par, excuse me. Parsons. Hi. Epento. Hi. Carson. Hi. Tyson. Hi. Hi, Lyn. Hi, Wilmer. Hi. All
087right. Uh, moving on to wrestling wrestling cooperative agreement. So, the high schools received two requests from two two different districts on co-oping for wrestling for next school year. Um, Lyndon has requested to form a co-op with us. Um, they have nine males and 11 females uh that by their numbers um to that would be participating in the co-op. Um, Lebo is the other district um that would have one male and one female. Um, with our, you know, 20 kids is a lot to take on in my opinion. Um, with the space, lack of space we have, it's not great for the wrestling practice of things and just the management of 20 additional, which is great. You know, you know, the numbers are great, but they're not our numbers. They're another district's numbers. So there could
088be some competition in there that might not necessary as opposed to one male and one female. Easier to manage. Um a lot less, you know, I don't have to worry about safety. Supervision is is better. Um so with that, um we're recommending the cooperative agreement with Lebo uh for high school wrestling uh for the 25 26 school year. How many wrestlers do we have? Uh he has his interest meeting sometime. Yeah, I don't remember. I think he had it last week, but I want to say last year we had about 18 to 20 and I think that was a big senior class. A lot of them wrestled and so I think it's going to be a little bit less, but I mean we don't know with the incoming freshman. So, so, so on this with
089do we have a coach that comes with them like baseball? Yeah, not that few with just two students. We wouldn't ask for another person to do that. So, we had that third coach in position that we could work with them on that, but we have the three coaches and if if we had an opening, we might work with them if they had somebody they wanted to do, but um but we won't ask for a coach for that for the supervision with the three in place. So, we can charge them a fee to do that. Um but we haven't discussed that, but um but we can do that um as part of that. So, um, but they would be required to get to themselves here and and we wouldn't we wouldn't go get them and they'd
090have to meet us for trips and things unless we're going that way. We could pick them up. But, um, but could it be something that I mean with as many as we got? I mean, it's too many for a bus. I negotiate uh transportation that they do it some, too. I mean, because they're getting into the program. I mean, yeah, we can I mean, we can deal with those daily things and work with him on that. So, there's some options to do. So, what's our coach's opinion? Uh, he's for it. He's kind of back and forth like he'd like the numbers, but again, you know, the competition that goes back in there, but either way, he was good either way with either. He didn't have a preference of which I, like I said, either way
091is what it was. He, you know, he understands the numbers would be helpful, but um, again, the safety part of that issue and the supervision part of that issue came into play. So, um, he he was either way he was good as well. Did Lynon say they had a coach that they could send over? No, they don't. That's why they're looking to do that. So, do they currently have wrestling? N they're trying to get it started. So, these would be Well, they may may have been doing some club wrestling or something. Yeah. I don't know. So, basically, he would be training some rookies. Could be. Yeah. Well, and at those numbers for Lynen, I mean, that's that's pretty high. Yeah. I mean, They probably start their own team. Right. Right. Do we make them very
092Yeah. They wrestle for Oage except for like regionally postseason and they'll represent their school. Interesting. They'll have to if it's happen at the same time, they would have to provide the coach or sponsor to go with if it's in a different location. I don't know if it would be, but they would need to provide that. But and their own uniform, too. Yeah. So, but they would represent their school at regionals, but during the season it would be obviously city. Any other questions? I like to make a motion to approve the cooperative with Lebo for the wrestling team for 2526 school year. I'll second [Music] Linton. Hi, Ty. Hi, Parsons. Hi, Fagan. Hi, Kevin. Hi, Carson. Hi. All right, report. Uh, I went to the meeting on Monday and it was a long one. It's mostly
093generated around the budget uh their budget and um Ted has talked to him several times since then. So I'm going to let him take it from here. Yeah. So just in her initial numbers looking at local contributions for next school year um if I mean worst case scenario um the number that we're that we were given would would basically double our contribution going from 750,000 that we do to 1.4 million. um that's I mean that's not doable without m without taking some cuts. So we're we're not sure where these numbers are coming from. So we tabled that uh they did not approve it, right? What they did approve is a fifth assessment. So they could pay do payroll. It's going to be about 70,000 for us around there as a district to pay this fifth
094assessment. We have four assessments that we do throughout the year, but if they need funds, then we they can issue a fifth assessment. So it's like $350,000 is what the board approved and that's we do 20% of that. So around 70 some,000 is what we'll be doing for the fifth assessment. But as far as for local contributions um we're having a superintendent meeting next Tuesday um to really have an open discussion cuz we're not sure if we're not getting the revenue. our expenses look like they're traditionally this, you know, in the three years they're they're they're pretty comparables, but our revenue is looking a little off. So, there's just some things um they actually is getting a second opinion on the budget from Greenbush is going to come support and look at get some eyes
095on it and give some feedback on that cuz we have to come up with a better plan than just doubling our local contribution, which is possible based on the numbers we are being provided. So, so we're not sure where that's going, but we're not going to rush into a decision until we really look it over and go from there. So, they tabled all new hires as well, right? Um with the Lakeside um program that they'll be implementing at Scranton until we can get a grasp on what this looks like for expenditures. Um it looks like about 90% of their budget is salaries. And so, um, we're just there just something seems a little off that we need to really look into as it relates revenue is going down somewhat for, um, Medicaid that it's not
096a lot overall from the district, but it does it has gone down over the time. Uh, but it was shouldn't be that much. But just, um, reimbursements uh, for CAT aid have been staying pretty pretty much the same. there's possibility it could go down, but they're telling us the budget flat. So, um there's just some districts really worried that they would have to cut staff to make their contributions next year, general ed staff, and uh so we're tableabling that and going to continue to work on that as a group to hopefully come up with the resolution. So, we haven't lost any teachers or anything through the three legs, have we? We're losing one. We're not replacing Mitch, but that's based on our numbers. we, you know, our overall case load numbers. Um, as far as
097pairs, they are moving a pair to the high school. We've been told we're not going to lose that spot. So, uh, Mr. Reman is making sure that stays open to fill that. So, we're not losing because they'll need that support still. Um, but she is going to move to to the high school. Um, so I don't know if there's any others that were that locally that were losing, but they didn't add any new at the meeting on Monday. So, how does that impact our plan for that like that classroom setup that we talked about last month? Oh, the functional. Yeah. No, that's that won't affect any of that. So, we'll do a lot of that locally cuz it's just our kids with the you know materials and things, but and just the philosophy of that
098will be still in place. But, um but it's really the Lakeside program and Scranton is where that's been tabled. So, if we could afford 1.4 million, we'd have our own department. Yeah. if we if special ed was fully funded at that point at 92% that's something we would consider doing but it's um it's there's pros and cons being part of the cooperative but um but until we're fully funded in special ed um we just can't do it without the support of the co-op that was the gist of the meeting took a lot it's a tough one building reports See Mrs. Paul turned in her assignment late. So she chang all technology and I did it all by myself with Kathy. Now I we just got everyone. It's kind of crazy once we get through state
099assessment testing and able to try and get these done um because we have kids leaving for appointments and stuff, but we finally got them done, but I was not able to submit it in my building report Friday. So, I apologize for that, but it does show some really good growth in our building. Um we kind of celebrated that today during our faculty meeting. So, we showed this during the faculty meeting and um kind of congratulated all the grade levels on their accomplishment this year. There's some great improvements. Yeah, you see that red triangle is really great. [Music] Looks like a lot of the larger games were reading. I mean, they all look great, but um is the letters training kicking in? I would say that that is is starting to have some really good effects.
100Yeah, definitely. So, I think a common vocabulary among our faculty is making a difference with the students. Um, I still feel and I think our faculty feels this way that we still are kind of different in the way that we're teaching our phonics program, but I think with one more year of letters training, which a lot of us are going to be going through, and then possibly adopting an actual phonics curriculum next school year, I think we'll be right on track. I I really feel like it's making a big difference in our students right now. So, a question on that letters training. Um, a local school district uh reached out to me and said that they're doing away with letters already. They're they're they're doing away with uh the plan for KSD was to provide
101funding for training for facilitators. Like we talked about the repro is going to be a facilitator for us. That's been put on pause because of what's going on at the federal government. We had told that money would not be available, but they're it's going to court over that. So us and some other states are doing that. So it's just they're just calling calling it a pause right now. We'll still have the funding for what we currently are doing, but no new initiatives like facilitator training would would be able to to so like start new teachers like our plan like you know Tabitha any new teachers come in don't have it that they could work with her like we do with the cohorts that Miss Paul has going on currently but but right now that's on
102pause for her to get that training and her to provide that training as a facilitator. our cohort still for letters training volume two is still in effect. So nothing changes with those that are in letters um from this last year. So it'll still be a go. It's just the new ones um and getting our facilitator trained is going to be put on hold till July 1st. But evidently Dr. Watson's really pushing our state federal funds to try and get things done. Yeah. Yeah. I just heard that. So that's what I feel that's what's going on. So the three new ones that you put in here, Dana, that are going to be starting in August, it's up in the air. It's up in the air right now. They have other options like to go through the
103university, you know, like summer things and do that to get that seal of literacy. There will be other options for them, but we're trying to, you know, provide it locally within the system, but there will be other options. They can probably go to another cohort. The bad thing about that is is that a lot of the other cohorts are going to be filled already because they work. They're just like our cohort, you know, we've already started them up. Um so, yeah, that would be a disadvantage if if the funding doesn't continue, that will be a disadvantage to all of the teachers. They'd have to go pay for it through the university um as a possibility, you know, just to get that seal of literacy added to their license. So, [Music] anything else? Well, congratulations on
104making it through the school year. Almost almost there. We are a couple days away. Thank you for all your hard work. Uh superintendent report. Yeah, that leads into last week we had it was teacher appreciation week, but we did a lot more than just teachers. We recognized all staff with our lunchon and thanks to Patty and Pam who put that together um and feeding the staff and it was very appreciative by our staff, but we appreciate what they do. You know, we had nurses day last Wednesday, food service hero day was the Friday before, you know, so we try to do some things to recognize them and just everybody. It's not just about the teachers, it's about everybody that, you know, from when they get on that bus to when they get off. We kids
105interact with so many people. So, we just appreciate what they do. Um, and we can't thank them enough and do enough for them sometimes, I feel like, to to do that. So, little things like feeding them seems to help pretty well, though. So, just want to thank everybody and and just appreciate them for all they do for our kids. So, yeah, just a reminder, our work session is going to be June 2nd. U Dr. Hart will be here um to go over the feedback we received in our community meetings um looking at facilities and making some decisions of long range planning and giving me some guidance on where we need to head. So, I'm looking forward to that. Hopefully, you can make it. Uh we just need to get it done, guys. I know you
106got a lot going on and Jared's got to be gone and ball games and things, but we we'll meet up with you, Jared, so we you can get in the loop when you get a chance, but um but we just need to get that going. So, people are asking, we need to get done. I just know it's hard time of year to do it. So, so have that on your calendars for this the January or June June June 2nd. So, um January second might work. Great. Um Monday we met with our PLC consultant for professional learning consultant. Um we partner with Solution Tree and Joe Kadmi is his name. Um he's a retired administrator. He lives in Colorado now. Um, but he's uh he's lived the PLC life as an administrator and and is facilitating
107us and other districts, but he's working with us specifically. It was a good day. It's not a great time of the year. you know, it's May and we got into the school and lot of focus elsewhere, but I think overall it was was a pretty good start to kind of work what these what this is and it's not a program, it's a process and really having that conversation and what those conversations will be like when we meet during collaboration time um and helping guide that. There's some I I'm not say resistance, but just some some concern from the district leadership team about they're feeling like they have to be the experts. We don't I don't I don't want him, you know, eventually everybody's going to be the experts, but we just all got to go
108through this together. So, my overall is a good great first meeting. We'll be doing some follow-ups with him um via Zoom here before August. Um but he will be back August 12th to meet with the whole staff and provide PD on that day to do an introduction and based on what he's learned from us and the information that he had that we can really talk about what it's like to meet when we collaborate, have a different type of conversation. So, it was a good start. um to this process and really looking forward to it. Really fits into our KISSA plan. Um looking at our our curriculum, instruction, and assessment. That's really what it's about with PLC's. Um they have the three big ideas. You focus on learning through a collaborative environment, which then focuses on
109results. If we keep that the focus, those three things, we're going to see, you know, strides and have a different type of conversation. So, um that's where it's coming from. So, a good first start. So, anything to add about that PLC? All right, summer maintenance. So, we're putting the plan together. Um going to meet with staff on Monday, custodial staff, and kind of lay out that plan and work through that. Uh but um got a few things to do, but other than our general cleaning and waxing and and things of that nature and working around summer school and camps and leagues and um all that going on. So, uh, we're going to be getting that plan together, um, starting on Monday and be ready to roll. So, we'll be hiring a few st few extra
110staff to help out with some things. So, it just be temporary summer stuff. So, um, but, uh, that just kind of helps with people taking vacations, too, and things of that nature. But, we'll be working on getting that plan together starting next week. So, uh, just want to give you a heads up on the June board meeting. I'm not going to be able to be here physically. Um my the oldest grandson, my nephew is getting married in Jersey. Um that and we're kind of doing a vacation slash wedding that weekend all week. So with my family so um talk to PJ and Cory the board meeting, huh? We'll bring the board meeting. Oh well, you can do that as well. So yeah, for that. So um they're going to be close to the beach. So
111it be kind of fun. But um but but just like PJ zoomed in, I'll be able to zoom in and participate in the meeting that way. um we thought that would work fine instead of trying to reschedule the meeting, we just keep it that day and but I'll be here virtually um at that time. So just want to kind of give you a heads up on that about the June move. So just a couple other things. Um 8:30 promotion is is Monday. Um if you're able to attend, we'd love to have you there for the promotion. Starts at 7:00, be here ready to go at 6:45. And uh Mr. agreement. I don't know if he'll beat the high school time, but what was the high school time? 38. 43. 38. We'll be You had like
112half You have like There's like 40 kids. 44. Yeah, we had 12 more kids. Excuses. So 7:00 um in the gym uh Monday on the 19th and then just our end of the year lunchon um going to start around noon. Cory and uh Jim are going to help grill. PJ's going to float in and help and do that. So I appreciate you guys doing that. So we'll do that. We about to invited the retirees again. So looking for a good turnout with that. We'll just be recognizing some staff and and finishing the year off with the lunchon and then teachers go finish off their stuff and be done for the year. So hopefully you can attend and join us. Um it's it's a good day. It's a good it's a good lunch. It's been a
113nice nice feature. So and just lastly, we've had a great school year. We've seen a lot of growth and we've had some pains, but um but overall um I just it just continues to show like O City is a strong community and a strong school. Um we're always looking to get better and do better things and and I just appreciate everybody's work. I appreciate the board support. the conversations you had tonight just really just reinforces to me that you guys are in it and understanding what's going on and I appreciate that. But um so just wrapping up a good school year. I only have five more days of morning bus supervision. So, you know, looking forward to that. But um but we'll be winding down the year and then starting getting ready gearing up for
114next school year. So just want to thank everybody for a great school year. So all right, any questions? Jesse, I know that we have community members that came here tonight. Are we able to open it up for comments? We can have public We can have public comments. That's kind of what delegation is. Okay. And so there's have to sign up and there's a time limit to do that. So if they show up next board meeting, we'll have that for them and do that. If they want to get on the agenda, they need to notify us 5 days ahead and then we can place them on the agenda approve, you know, we will go through that to see if that's something we want to add to the agenda. But um but they need to notify the
115district office 5 days prior to the meeting for us to determine that. So perfect. But but but yeah, we have that's what delegation is. That's what it's always been called here. So um but that is considered public comments. So perfect. I appreciate it. Thank you. Yep. All right. If there's nothing else, I move that we go into executive session to discuss supplemental positions, certified positions, and classified positions pursuant to the non-elect personnel uh exception. And the open meeting will resume here in the board in the boardroom at we'll say 8:55 with superintendent and building principles present please [Music] second stall. Hi Ban. Hi Clintinton. Hi Carson. Hi Lwire. Hi Ty. Hi Carson. Hi [Music] Will you give her a time? She don't come back. I I gave us a 2 minute buffer. So, she's got
1162 minutes. She's got two minutes. Should be fine. Oh, Jim. I did have a question about procreation. All right, we are back in open session. Like to make a motion to approve the resignations of Natasha Jenkins as high school principal and Evan Falner as assistant cross country and make the recommendations to approve the certified staff as recommended. Um, the board approved Danny Rice as part-time A FFA teacher, Fred Plesi as maintenance director, Amy Linton as a high school dance sponsor, Evan Falner as middle school assistant football coach, and Tammy Cerna as the middle school assistant basketball coach. Second. Second, Cory. Yeah. Carson. Hi, Carson. I will. I He [Music] Clinton. I All right. Like to make a motion to go into executive session to discuss formal complaint filed by parent pursuant to the non-elected personnel
117exception under coma. And the open meeting will resume here in this boardroom at we'll say 9:30. Uh with superintendent present, please. Second. Fan. Hi. Ty. Hi Carson. Hi Keep. Hi Linton. Hi Lmire. Hi Carson. Hi All right, we are back in open session. Um, uh, in regards to the complaintant, we are going to contact KSB, um, for one of their individuals to conduct the investigation into the matter. That's all we're going to do with that for now. Motion to adjurnn. Second Clinton. I Carson. Hi. Epento. Hi Carson.