3/13/2025 USD420 Board of Education Meeting

001live you ready PJ yeah all right like to uh first of all let's stand up and do the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United United States of America to the Republic for which it stands one one nation under godis indivisible liberty and justice for all ech sorry that was kind of odd yeah yeah play all right i' like to call the regular board meeting for March 2025 to order uh like to make a motion to adopt the agenda as presented I'll second L hi Ty hi Parsons hi heall hi Carson hi all right any delegations for tonight no all right uh any correspondence no not this evening no allf right any questions on the treasures report everyone had a chance to look it over yeah all right like to

002make a motion to adopt the minutes for the regular board meeting of February 19 2025 approve the treasures report uh for February 28 2025 approve the reimbursement for petty cash for the elementary school in the amount of $199 and approve the payment of bills uh and bills to be allowed in the amount of $134,700 $538 600 $538,000 $677 second Happ install hi Carson Hi l Ty hi Parsons hi all right moving right into new business elementary math series all right uh Mrs Paul has some staff here and they're going to do a presentation on yes uh we have a math committee and our math committee consists of Kaylee Hodes a first grade teacher Angela berson a third grade teacher um Susan Smith title math teacher Brian strong strongr fourth grade teacher um and Josie Garland

003uh kindergarten teacher and then Amy ler fifth grade teacher and myself and so these guys are going to talk to you about um the math series that we've Chosen and um give you some ideas and then I'm going to talk to you a little bit about the pros and cons and then you've got the quote in front of you I'll turn it over to those well first of all before we talk about the series that we chose we're going to talk a little bit about how we chose um last may we started looking for a new series and when Mrs Paul said we need to find a new math series I was like Oh yay that's that' be fun uh and I'm going to retire so I don't care what happens but I apparently I

004do care um so we started last May and we got together with our math committee and we started um with the great help of Mr strongr he ordered new series for us to look at um and um we ended up taking all those samples and looked around at them passed them around to all the all the different levels um in November there was a Green Bush textbook day at um Green Bush up by Lawrence we went to and there were a few vendors there were some two or three really nice ones and a couple of them that didn't have a whole lot of representation they just had a few things to show us but not much of a presentation uml was there which we use in our math group in our Math building all the

005time and which was really great but their math book wasn't going to be ready for another year or so and that was I think that most of us would have really really liked to have but we it was going to be a while before the new one came out and we didn't want to kind of be behind the eightball so to speak with that so we ended up um narrowing it down to three choices which were Uhl was one of them envisions by saas and math and You by Big Ideas so math committee got back together after we looked at it we decided ISL should be out because of the um no teacher samples and the the new material wasn't ready for a while um and then after they we got it in our hands

006the teachers I'm over um teachers were chose their grade had their books from their grade level and they were asked to te Teach for two weeks out of those materials and see which ones they like the best so I'm going to let Mr stronger thank you so after they taught for two weeks they came back to us and we're like okay how are we going to decide which series we're going to go with so Mrs Paul decided to send out a Google form to each one of the grade levels asking them the pros and cons of each series and then we took that information and compiled it and as a committee we looked at it and said okay here are the pros here are the cons and with that decision we decided to go with

007math and you math and you is a sister I guess of Big Ideas you say that and the advantage of going with math and you is the middle school is already using big ideas and we've heard that there's talk that perhaps the high school is possibly going to be doing the same thing so this is probably the first time that we've ever had a k through 12 math curriculum for the whole District so that's going to be interesting to see what happens to our scores whether there's a reflection on that or not so it's kind of something very positive look forward to the future especially with Kisa to see you know if that's going to be a huge influence in our scores so we're all excited about it and we think that students are going

008to have a good transition from each grade level to the next especially going from elementary to middle school because just this mooo sailing right over to it so we're excited about it and we appreciate you guys taking the time to listen to us and you know look at our needs and hopefully we can have a new series for next year thank you thank you guys so much I appreciate you guys being here Brian did do a lot of uh footwork and get getting a bunch of our series um sample series for us so we really do appreciate everything he's done took a lot of time out of his schedule I think to talk to like different companies so I do appreciate that the pros of math and you kind of like what Brian said if

009the high school does adopt it it would be the first time we'd have a k through2 math curriculum ever I think since I've been here even as a math teacher um another Pro about math and youu is um there are vocabulary cards that are provided which makes it really nice for our students because then the vocabulary is consistent from our school to middle school then hopefully High School um and that helps our students understand what they're talking about even more the materials and how to use them are listed in each lesson so that's always a plus um the online materials were really easy to navigate for our staff um there's engaging videos um we did present this to our site Council the elementary site Council the other night and um we showed him a video

010and and the way that they introduce math and you is that they show um a career and in that case I think it was a chef that was being shown and they asked her how how to use math as a chef and then she explained how she used math in as a chef and and then that Focus as a chef actually carries through in that entire chapter um and a lot of the vocabulary and the story problems are focused on the student you know a lot of times if you go into a math series you'll say Jack and Jill love ice cream cones they have this many and the kids are like well who do I care I'm not Jack and Jill but a lot of the story problems I think all of them in

011math and you um focus on you and your friends so the kids are actually part of the story problems um differentiation is provided so that was a big issue with our our staff um sometimes we find it challenging to challenge our higher level students with more challenging material and this actually breaks it down to where you have a focus group a middle group and then a kind of a high group um and different materials to go with those so it makes it nice tier grouping is very is made really easy um it actually puts the kids into actual groups according to your um what a formative test a summative test and kind of like a a pre-test mid test and then a end of chapter test um student worksheets were less wordy and clear and

012easy to answer and assess you know my K through two uh two teacher said um a lot of the series that they looked at the story problems were were really wordy well K through2 students can't really read all that well yet so for them to understand what they were supposed to do as the math problem it was going to be very challenging so the teacher would have to provide a lot of Direction so they thought math and you does a lot better job with having less words in their story problems um assessments like I said there's a premid and end of chapter so student progress can be tracked pretty easily and the workbook if I'm going to let you guys kind of look these over if you like um the workbooks very colorful so it

013is attractive for the students to actually work through the cons of math and you we didn't see a lot of them but one of the cons is that the copyright is a 2024 which I mean it's a year old already but when we looked at the other series I think most of them were 202s so it wasn't that big of a difference to us um if you look at the notebook for our younger students and even some of our older students they require a lot of space to write their work because we're really saying show your work show your work so we know what you're doing but there's not very much space in the workbooks but when we looked at all the other workbooks they were pretty much the same thing so that's one thing

014that we're just going to have to overlook a little bit um Brian made a comment you know when we're looking at third through fifth grade we look at what's on the state assessment is it being introduced to our students before the state assessment and there were a couple of Concepts that weren't actually introduced till the very end of the school year so those are just things that our staff's going to have to make sure that we move those chapters up a little bit before State assessments so our students feel a little bit more prepared for State assessments um there was a lot of material to be covered in one period so sometimes we figured that maybe there might be two periods that we'd have to utilize to cover a section um in math and you

015and uh there is more than one strategy um usually offered in a section um before Mastery is um allowed but again we feel like with our veteran teachers we feel like we can kind of Overlook that and work through that with our students so I know you guys have the big Ideas price sheet in front of you I know you look at that you're like wow that's a lot of money it it is but when you think about it over a six-year period and then you think about how many students that's serving each day that's a lot I mean it's it's a lot of students but it's MoneyWise it really turns out to be pennies to be honest with you so so it's expected to last for six years correct before it needs to be

016renewed yes and the good thing of it is is that we pay this up front but then after that every summer those materials automatically come back to us so we don't have to worry about reordering everything um the only thing that they send me is an updated list of how many kindergarteners do you have next year how many first graders do you have that kind of thing but all of our online materials will be available to us and our workbooks will already be there when we come when we come back from the summer so what where did the numbers come from like kindergarten it says 50 is that just what you know is coming or is that I mean how does that how does that work for each grade right so what I do is

017I look at the grade below them and like right now we have 44 four four year olds so when I look at that I think there's probably some four year olds that don't go to preschool and so they'll come to our kindergarten so I try and allow some extras because it's challenging for my staff when we start teaching right from the get-go if I don't have enough materials for him then we have to reorder and then it just it it feels like the students kind of get behind the ones that don't have those materials in front of them so I've allowed not a lot of extras Tyler to be honest with you I've probably allowed five at most per grade level most of have probably three extra and that's it yeah have you talked to

018any other districts that use it or have you do you know of any have you talked to them we I think we did talk to some districts that used it don't don't ask me now because we talked probably to so many of them but there were districts that had used it um because we asked Stephen McDonald I think our actual person hey what ones have used it um I did not talk to them personally I don't know if you guys did or not either just three email just remember what reviews you may have received from them or well we know just talking to the Middle School teachers they absolutely love big Ideas which is our math and you so yeah they won't they won't change they love it so I think last time before we

019renewed I think they came down and tried to talk to the elementary a little bit about getting on it because they they like it so much but they they really like it when you did the Google form to pull kind of the teachers was a majority one looking into the math than you or were they leaning that way or leaning towards the envisions there were probably six people that responded to my service that gives you an idea not good six people plus the committee or six people total six plus the Comm yeah so I will say though it took us a long time to actually narrow this down um probably my K through two teachers maybe wanted to go a different route but that was a route that I knew I wasn't going to go

020to um I'll just put it as that yes that that grade one just seems low at the 35 I I mean that's why I was I mean the rest of them are higher that's why are we sure there's enough for that grade or not well right now we only have 30 in kindergarten based on capacity yeah that's just where it's at okay turn around oh sorry sorry oh you're fine when is the high school planning to look at this and make a decision yeah so I've kind of been talking about that for a while just because in the three years that I've been here when I first came in um I think some of you were on the board when we looked at some of the ELA stuff which was kind of older um and

021so last year we did science so we've kind of been focusing a little bit on math um we Kylie L did go with them in the fall to pick pick out some and she is kind of using big ideas for the most part in her algebra class um so my hope is is that there're still kind of we kind of got some other stuff too just in case to see you know and look through and peruse um but my hope would be that this next year that they would kind of solidify a decision with the adoption in 26 27 just on this out there would it save us any money if I mean you put those two together would there be a a discount on like if you we brought both of them together make

022it happen be separate CU it's secondary and Elementary I think it'd be they stand I don't know that there' be much of a price break because it's a secondary type great but our goal is to I share that instructional materials information with you guys just we collected that last year and and this summer the goal is with the new budget software to create a budget rotation for resource adoption so every 6 years like you know math is coming off so math is going to come up in six years we're ready to go through this process just like they did and we can have try to build that K12 resource and Maybe not maybe it's the same maybe it's not just depends on what it is but that's the plan moving forward so in you know

023six years even though we're kind of off on this we'll get there but you know in six years math will be back on the rotation to make sure we're having updated instructional materials in front of our kids so that's the plan we'll be building that this summer through the software program I want to to say too and I can't remember off the top of my head because I feel like I research all the time but I want to say Big Ideas was one of the ones where you could it was like through like through a curriculum list serve that I was kind of like watching and you can run it through this um I want to say portal but it's not a portal but you can type it in and it it like tells you

024like whether it matches with the standards and um whether it's standards alignment I want to say that it actually showed pretty good reviews on matching up with the standards and with student engagement stuff like that so I felt like that was one I don't remember it being like a red flag where we were like absolutely not may I add another Pro to this with the plc's coming up this is going to be great because now Elementary is going to be able to actually talk to middle school and say hey I don't understand how big Ideas is teaching this and then the Middle School can help the elementary and so forth whereas right now if we got together it' be like well I'm teaching it this way I'm teaching it that way and it's just boom

025boom boom so now we have a chance of maybe being cohesive and working together and that six year rotation is really going to help Focus those conversations consistently within that six-year span that's what typically curriculums are six year when's the last time Middle School was upgraded I mean you said they they don't have any plans to change we did a couple years ago okay so we're probably on like year three but we'll just have to work through some of those yeah I mean he said they don't have plans to change oh yeah stuff their their state assessment scores have been pretty good and they like it so I don't plan on changing it anytime soon okay now Dena I know that you taught middle school math looking over the curriculum do you think that this

026would prepare the students to be ready for that level of math moving from elementary to yeah I think so I mean it's I will say a lot of that depends on your teachers and I think that we have a great staff that you know prepares our students really well that that's I would say first um but I do feel we did our due diligence in looking through several different series and we felt most comfortable with this one so yeah I do I I and I think one of the big pluses for us is that so many of our students when they leave High School it seems like they are so focused on just a few few careers not they don't know what else is out there because we're a little low agage I think sometimes

027we feel that way but with this I think it's going to introduce our students to a lot of other different careers where math is really vital so instead of saying I don't there's no way I'm ever going to use this it specifically says where you're going to use it in their career so well and I think that for your first statement I mean I think that you can probably say that about any and every curriculum I don't think that it depends on how the teachers approach that yeah that's all they have P all right yep all right any other questions and so just to confirm we'll pay this up front now for it to go in effect it's beginning in next yeah and we can actually push it off if we feel we need to

028to after July 1 but we need to confirm that so we can get the materials here and ready to go but we could push it and we're going to be looking at that budget when we get back from spring break where we're at going to finish out so but typically they'll let you push it after July 1 into next year's budget but we need a commitment so we can get our order in to have the materials here this summer to make sure they have everything they need so so we'll monit they're flexible with us on that so all right there's no more questions like to make a motion to approve the adoption of the Big Ideas learning U elementary math curriculum a second Carson hi Parsons hi ler hi heo hi Ty hi Linton hi

029all right all right's teach some math So speaking of math um let's look at this uh 1,116 hour requirement for the 2425 school year so with our snow day days um and with the release early release that we did on Wednesday for the state tournament um the district would have been to finish out we would have finished out with 1,114 33 hours with the early release so that would put us below the requirement the requirement is 1,116 hours that we have to have that's the state requirement that districts have to meet um they feel for student contact UM that we have to do that so with the calculator that they provide you can put into a lot of different scenarios and looking at that and so in order to uh make sure we meet the

030requirement there's some options that we could do um to make up this time to make sure we're in compliance as you see there um there's a list like if we if starting on Monday the 24th when we get back from spring break we could add time to the calendar if we added 5 minutes that' put us at 1,118 Plus hours if we added 4 minutes it would be that should be 1,117 um just over that hours and then 3 minutes would put us at 1, 116.3 hours um which would make the compliance to do that so that would be starting on Monday after we get from spring break until the last day necessarily we don't I didn't put additional minutes on the last day of school because it's a half day but um but that

031would put us there um at 1,11 2016.7 three hours you see all the other stuff in there because in case we dismissed Friday we're going to have to do some other things so I just left it in there so you can kind of see it but um unfortunately we're not going to get to dismiss um Friday so if we were to just for your information um convert April 11th like one of those days that we're out in April um if we could convert that into an in session day that would put us at 1, um 121.5 hours um if we were to convert that day into a full session day if we converted just to a professional development day then we'd be at 1,1 17.7 n hours you can count half a professional development at

032student can contact time so if you had six hours of professional development or did you fall asleep I computer no no camera went dark all right so but if you um if we were to convert you can convert student or professional development half of that time into student contact time so um what we're recommending is adding three minutes to the day to meet the requirement um it's really up to the building to decide we talk back and forth you know the secondary middle school and high school would like to add it at the end of the day add a couple more minutes to their seminar time at the end of the day Elementary is kind of back and forth they you know in the morning um adding it to the morning we're 5 minutes off

033anyways technically Elementary starts at 88 and the middle school and high school starts at 8:05 but it has to be when you when the kids are in the seat ready to learn it can't be during transition time or any of that the student contact time is is when they're ready to learn and do that so it's really up to them when they decide and where they put that but the board does need to prove adding time to the day and so we're recommending the 3 minutes uh to make us in compliance and this would be effective after spring break yes the Monday starting the Monday after spring break how do that impact I know it's only three minutes but how would that impact after school activities and whatnot um any major issues I I don't

034see any major issues the bus is just going to leave a little later but I mean I don't see any major issues um with that with after school activities you think of any I don't I mean it's three minutes so I don't really see how 3 minutes is going to make a huge difference in my mind sorry I mean it's less than five so so like Elementary did eight go down before 8:00 I mean can that be considered that can't be considered part of student contact time because they're not in the classroom ready to learn that's just a transition time and that just that's just for I mean just a building management thing that happen to get the kids going and and you know with the they go in the in the gym and then

035to start transition takes a while for them to get to the classroom instead of where junior in high school or out you know we 10 puts them in the gym but um it's not going to be any different so so that day that you were talking about what what would change in that day in what like in the professional development day it just I mean we could provide PLC professional something if we chose to do that we chose to go that you know have the teachers come that day um but it would just put us over the requirement for um the 1,116 just another option to consider so April 11th is a non-school day any yeah that's smoking in the spring on there that day and so um it's traditionally been a day off but

036just that came up in the conversation cuz you know we didn't know about Friday and that early release so we're trying to figure different ways to do that so that that's why that information's included in there so I just don't see the benefit of adding 3 minutes to a day I mean from a teacher standpoint from a student standpoint I don't see the benefit of it so that's why I would question if it be more beneficial changing April 11 I mean it's one doesn't you know whatever that saying is but um it's really about being in compliance when it comes down to this when it comes to it so um the 3 minutes in seminar for the secondary gives a little extra time for a little extra help but it's really just to making sure

037that we're in compliance and this is what the academic calendar committee gave the feedback on was to add the minutes to the day was my understanding what they majority of the staff prefer to do that so you talked about getting like curriculum in before testing is April 11 before after testing has started right middle right in the middle of it so you wouldn't be able to add like lessons back from that you've lost to make that up for testing purposes they would if we had to go that day they they probably would do some stuff but would it be beneficial to your testing if you're already in the middle of it or no we would question at the high school level we would we we would not have taken our math State assessment so our

038math State assessments are the last week the 14th through the 17th yeah my crew would probably not have their reading Done Yet some of them W even have their math done yet but that first week which would be the 11th that first week we have fifth grade science and I believe third third grade math fourth fourth grade math so it's fourth grade math that first week so all of April they're going to be focused on state assessments so well will be done with Sixth and eighth grade testing already so we just or seventh and eighth grade we only have sixth grade left but if we're just adding half a day on the 11th that is just a professional development day so there would be no students in the school it would be a full professional

039development day is what I what those hours are based on a full professional development day and there's no students in the in the school that's what I'm trying to make sure yeah everyone realizes so regardless if we do a half a day on the 11th or if we add three minutes I think if we're wanting to add contact time with the students three four five minutes is your better R in half a day on the 11th yeah because you wouldn't even have students and the staff was given they were given all of these options and they wanted well we didn't talk about the professional development one on the 11th making that we talked about it in session thinking again the the worst scenario yeah and I just thought of that last night to be the

040before but that that's an option but overwhelming feedback was to add minutes to the day from the staff do we have a and I don't know this just CU I haven't been around long enough probably um do we have obviously people have plans right like they've planned for that day off or whatever do we have a specific amount of days off that we're you know contracted to give our teachers or anything like like is that something that comes into we have a certain number of contract days for the teach teachers not necessarily off they you know this is what built into the contract so so that wouldn't be impacted by us no because of the snow days and things I mean it wouldn't affect that but um but no there's not a certain number of

041days it's just a certain number of days that sure they're required to be here yeah I will say when we first thought it because we really thought our girls know tomorrow we were looking at at least 9 minutes and I think my staff was like whoa 9 minutes added to that dat that's a lot you look at three minutes that's doable 9 minutes would have been a lot I'd say if that's what the staff was willing to do then let's go for it three minutes all right i' like to make a motion to extend the school day 3 minutes starting March 24th through the end of the school year to make up and meet our 1 11628 uh requirement second T hi Carson hi epen hi Linton Hi l hi Carson hi all right uh

042speaking of school days and calendars let's talk about the 2025 2026 academic calendar so um how this is typically done when I do this is basically make a carbon copy of the current year and then kind of work from there based on ideas and thoughts and um different things as Mr strong mentioned earlier we're really looking to push plc's in the formalized process um and I just felt it was to me for early release collaboration days excuse me I still call them early collaboration days was not enough to really help provide those opportunities to teachers to get together in a formalized setting with a focus um and looking at that um the feedback we received is more time to get together um but also a more frequent time to to talk about what they're doing

043and to analyze what they've done in that month so calendar B is basically built off of adding um early release for collaboration on the first Wednesday of the month for September October November December February March April ail and May and so trying to get that consistency that's in there so parents know first Wednesday of the month is when we do that it'd be just like what we've been doing in the past um for the that release time and things of that nature but it' be based on we'll be building a collaboration timeline um we're we're also um creating a partnership with solution tree who are the kind of the guru who are the gurus of professional learning communities and we'll be working with a consultant to help guide The District in um helping us form

044those PLC processes looking to utilize our time um to build that I know PJ you know again just with the when we met was concerned with student contact time and losing that yes we're going to lose about six hours of student contact Time overall compared to the what we've been doing but I think the benefit is going to be greater by having this more often for the teachers to able to collaborate and we'll have this collaboration timeline where it could be grade level content area at the buildings 6 12 just depending on that and one of those you know one semester will be a K12 conversation where we can get together and talk about all the math teachers are getting together um even though we have three sections we'll have to work through that and

045what that looks like but that's just something we'll have to grow and learn based on our configuration and and our our um sections we have per grade level but I really believe that that by having this consistency and having to formalize focus process with the assistance of of solution tree we'll be able to show great benefit in the long run even though we're going to lose some student contact time with adding these collaboration days so I'm recommending calendar B um no increase in student contact days no increase in student teacher contact days or contract days um but it would just be adding those early releases um on the first Wednesday for the months mentioned what what is it uh average is it considered an 8 hour day what what is a class hour technically it's

046420 minutes is what our um no sorry 405 minutes from 8:05 to to 320 that's basically the secondary schedule so that's 405 minutes um no sorry divided by 16 so that's six it's like 6 and 3/4 hours 6.75 hours is what a day is for students and those collaboration days count as half half of that time because we have focused professional learning during that time so half of that time is counted towards student contact time so adding however many collaboration days you said Cuts about 6 hours six hours of student contact compared to the previous count is that like cutting a snow day then essentially it it basically is yeah basically it's cutting we'll be down one less snow day is what we would be looking at yeah that's a good analogy yeah we'd go

047from I think it's it's just over seven to just over six yeah okay Mr H yes ma'am yeah um for our Master contract it does say that we're supposed to give that as a vote oh I I thought you had sorry no oh you had given it back to us to look at to see if there was any corrections but we did not turn it out for a vote Oh I thought you had okay well then I guess I can't recommend that s you an email saying that we had no no I just I thought from the calendar committee that that was this is the early releases were good to go is my understanding after we met it says the calendar committee will put together options for the certified staff to vote on so that

048has not taking place that has not happened yet we don't know how St yet if you would like for me to do that I will go ahead and do that sir that'd be great yeah then okay absolutely so I just went to the calendar committee to take vote on it then well then the board still has action so we'll have to we'll have to wait they'll just have to hear what the feedback is U from the staff on that so but any questions about calendar a versus calendar B and the thought process on that is there any schools around us that does this I know Emporia did it for a while I think the first Wednesday um uh I don't know it is Lyon Tim yeah there there's is more during the school day um

049already built in in more early release days but so they build in more days but they release no they don't do like they don't do like an early release just built in their day so they move some things around within their schedule to accommodate it for like grade level PLC time some play time and just Mo I don't know for certain I know a little bit from what I was listen to from my wife but I was kind of in and out of those conversations I I know you got to be a resource yeah what typically has happened from I've seen in a lot of the southeast Kansas schools in my experience is they'll start with the once a month and then then they the teachers like it so much we they try to do

050it more frequently where um like I know couple districts down there went to once a week for like an hour so they have that Focus time but right now we need to really just build that time and see what that looks like and having the consistency to do that so so if we get this many snow days next year then we'll have to revisit it anyway yeah right yeah it's just something that we'll have to deal with and um in that but I'm not sure about this area I know there's they all have different kind of looks at at Team time or collaboration time or PLC time whatever you call it so well we'll wait see how the boat comes back yeah then I'll bring it to you but like Brian mentioned earlier that that

051that just that with Kissa this you know can really help us in that time as our action plan to work help towards that too so but I see more schools doing this because of the push for instruction coming from the state and that plc's really helped focus on instruction okay coming so so what's the difference between a collaboration day and the teacher professional development day it's um not much really just depending on how you it how you define it within your like building a collaboration timeline we haven't necessarily done that but it's just been the expectation and the building principles of just like here's what I want you to focus on but we're going to be more systematic in that where it's it is about learning and evaluating data and learning from that to make

052adjustments Based on data that's coming out of that so we're hoping to formalize that but if we have it spelled out if it's not just to get together and talk about kids we couldn't count that but it's more focused of analyzing data looking at curriculum looking at assessments and learning from that and then making adjustments to your instruction based on what you're learning so and collaboration basically means say like Middle School Math with high school math yeah that's kind of how we kind of getting together as a little group yeah 6 through 12 would be that kind of but then there would be a time like or Ela or science you kind of make sure that they're from start to finish kind of working on the same yeah same thing so what's the teacher professional

053development I would say professional development would be just it could initiatives things that we do um U we have our mandatory things we have to do at the beginning of the year like um um our um requirements for fitech yes infinitech all those tests they have to do to show that they're we had like an AI guide come in and basically show show us like how to use AI effectively basically so he was showing teachers how to use bring in we're going to bring in the consultant he's going to be here the first day to to talk to the whole staff um about profession you know professional learning communities have that conversation we're going to meet with him in May with just our district leadership team and then we're going to kind of see where

054that goes and then we'll build our professional development days based on needs and and whether it's districtwide or per building and it could be like Natasha brought in Ai and that was good for everybody so it's an opportunity to do those things one more question so we don't spend too much time but are we doing it the same as other districts are we going by hours and other districts are going by days I mean is it is it my understanding you have the option of going I don't know how many days it is that you have to meet those days but if you miss then you have to make up those days so most most districts do hours so it gives them that flexibility in there um to do that so it just depends on

055how you're configured in your District but my understanding the majority of districts do the one follow the 1,116 hour requirement instead of the day requirement so there is some like I know Lyndon has it in their calendar where they designate snow days so if they miss the snow day then they're going to go like this Friday before spring break they have to go so everybody just knows I I like the flexibility like building in snow days that's what I've always done just to have that flexibility and occasionally you have to do things like this to add minutes but it it does happen but not very often but it does happen that answer looking from a perspective of a parent I I like the idea of being on a consistent basis that like I can plan

056my schedule for to when the kids are getting out so I was just surprised to see think two professional develop or yeah profession teacher professional development development days still sprinkled in mhm that are still feel like random so I don't know if we can get any consistency with those I don't know that I don't know that how we would do that just sitting here off the top of my head but but it's just that's just kind of way they've been built into the calendar based on holidays and things and to do that so but that the admin team would agree that understanding with the parents just that consistency of knowing the first Wednesday of the month is when that's going to happen so right now like what the heck yeah so yeah so that's yeah

057what it's Hodge pod in yeah for sure all right that's all I have PJ then okay so we won't take action on this until we hear back from the uh the teachers calendar team I'll share that information with you guys thank you all right looking at Southwest Dairy Grant so Jimmy's obtained this grant uh for the track program um $1,500 to buy chocolate milk chocolate milk is a good recovery U drink to have that's what when I was coaching I encourag my girls to do that when they got done so we just need to accept this Grant and so he can use that for chocolate milk for the kids this southwest are they our supplier our milk supplier no we use Highland I don't know how he got in touch with these people I don't

058know but Highland is who our milk will come from I actually think cat works like she works Dairy Farmer I think I think yeah I think maybe it's just something I mean they throw those things out there up in Jimmy where he buys it buys that chocolate meal get it from Highland or he's going to get it from our supplier from Highland yeah does he have a suitable space to store or is Betsy going to help him out with that yeah Betsy's going to help us out with that we're just going to order it I think Betsy said the truck comes sometimes uh twice a week it does okay is it twice okay so Mr Bellinger's just going to work with Betsy and she has some cooler space that she can store it too that's

059good do they have a plan for transporting it to meats and stuff I don't think they're going to worry about Meats I think they're just going to focus on like after practice Yeah I think he's all right cooler so perfect I can't see anyone so I don't know when anyone's talking so I apologize if I step on anyone's feet um I'd like to make a motion to approve and accept the Grant from Southwest dairy uh for $1,500 to the track program for chocolate milk second Carson hi heall hi Carson hi Ty hi Clinton hi BL wire hi all right Chromebooks so yeah caused some confusion with PJ and and Corey on this at our agenda meeting so I had the quote for the cases and was only like 20 $200 I'm like what what is

060so so I got that squared up so these are um a quote from Luke to replace um some uh computers that are aging out um this would be our only major purchase of of a quantity of computers um to help replace the ones that are dying out we did a larger one last year because we had a bunch of batteries and different things that were going out so um but this is what he's recommending right now is the Hun quantity to replace aged out computers that price guaranteed yes because the Three Lakes are they replacing some laptops and they have to get the order in immediately or the tffs were going to kick in oh yeah well I he didn't mention any of that so but we'll get it in with the approval tonight so

061is there any warranty on these I um I think there is a one-year warranty um if I remember correct correctly it's uh pretty standard no I don't see it on here I'll get that to you that's my fault J was the price comparable to what Three Links was getting I don't remember were those were laptops though not Chromebooks different machine what did we spend last year how many did we buy DM remember what it was I think we get a I thought we got 100 I thought it was like 140 or something but I don't remember is was it through the same company or through some a different vendor a different vendor he's getting to know different vendors and um this was the best quote he had so all right well I like to make

062a motion to approve the purchase of 100 uh Chromebooks from Business Solutions uh Missouri and Kanas for replacement of grades I'll second Ty hi BL hi Parsons hi Linton hi he hi Carson just a question do we when we get these on in our in our our hands do we does our insurance do we have a policy that would cover yeah we we cover all these mean they're just automatic you know like even we get a new vehicle they're just part of the package it goes it's just part of that of our overall Insurance part of that so yeah good question all right Elementary roofs okay with our recent leaks from the snow and everything um we had um Midwest coding come and and look at our our sections the elementary section that main section

063about first and second grade and all that and then the fourth and fifth grade section these were um going on 15 plus years Dan went for sure really wi they were last done um so we've got some quotes based on mainly the leaks but in that conversation and I got some samples there for you guys to look at that um Midwest coding is recommending put hardboard down underneath the the mill layer that they they would be putting on um mainly in that Elementary section because there's a lot of traffic that goes on that's where Jeff would get up on the roof and walk back to the other sections and there's just a lot of traffic and they're also saying it would help with some ponding by making it level and help maybe get the water

064he's not guaranteeing it's going to get to the drains but it's going to help with that because it'd be less ponding with that hardboard on there um so when they first provided the quote um he provided two quotes with the hardboard and without out in that Main Elementary section um about the first grade area and second grade all that there um but then when he provided the quote for the fourth and fifth grade section he did it without the hardboard and I asked him to provide one for with the hardboard is there's not a lot of traffic in that area there's not a lot of ponding it was just time that was one of the older roofs that needed to be replaced in that so um so we have it there for either um they're

065not really recommending it but it is an option for the board to consider um in doing that so um in my opinion that we would accept the bid for the hardboard in thee Main Elementary section but not with the fourth grade section but it's I'm not married to that either way so so on this the with the hardboard does it make any more of a warranty it helps with it helps with the hail ha rating actually like we're like at a 1 to two with that out without it it takes it to a four and it does increases its sum but it's it's it's better than what we would typically we have without it so it does help with that hell rating as it relates to that so it is a little better protection compared

066to what if we did it without it um so something to consider on that thanks for bringing that up would that be able to decrease insurance cost no I don't it would it it just helps us in in having less opportunity for replacement yeah I guess so it's how I understand that hail rating this could come out of capital approv yes yeah for sure we could do some of it one out of supplemental depending on where we're at and one out of capital there's plenty that we don't have any other major big projects the cars is not built the way it is you walk you don't get yeah we're walking on now but yeah not typically no there won't they don't do any of the drainage at like they're not going to do gutters or

067anything like that none of that's included right like right it would just be to what it is right now to with the hardboard is going to help kind of they're going to try to guide it that way but then the the mill will go down into the gutter so but with our our maintenance preventive maintenance they be coming managing those gutter things when when we do that preventative mten okay so it's like a when they put it on it's like a membrane and it fits tight around everything and then any pipe that's coming up is it it's like a another patch that goes around it so it's like doubled it's they do our Ro too and it's we've had ours out at um the warehouse where it's 29 years old and knock on wood we

068haven't had any problems on our offices does it have no we do not have that board but ours is not built the way that the school is so and the main thing is to keep the water off of it because because the more weight that's on there it'll stretch that membrane if there's a pooling or something and you want to get the water off there as fast as possible it's about a $23,000 difference um with and without the hardboard Dan just texted me said he doesn't believe the fourth grade section needs the hardboard so so he thinks it has it or he doesn't he doesn't need it he doesn't need it based on the setup so it doesn't get the traffic as as the main building does do we know if there's any damage internally

069from the water leaking like is there mold is Jeff's going to do some checking over spring break I mean that's obviously not part of it yeah deep cleaning just to double check some of that stuff so I know I think it's on his list to do but we'll make sure I'll make sure he does some of that checking so okay and like infrastructure when they pull off what's up there MH we'll just be prepared if there's anything else that that they find that has to be fixed before we go back with that Ro right yeah I mean p did you say 23,000 or 70 it's about 23,000 difference between the uh the hardboard and without the hardboard just for fourth and fifth grade not the whole just for fourth and yeah just the yeah for

070the fourth and fth grade yep so fourth and fifth we'd look at just a membrane yeah and there's 20-year warranty on that with um twoe something I can't remember what he called it I think I think you can I mean don't quote me straight up but I think towards the end of it you can have it reinspected and you can extend the warranty yeah there's a two-year workmanship warranty uh for that as well so and that's who we have our maintenance contract with right for the roof yes correct so they're gonna they're going to keep on top of it you know with their handywork so yeah cuz if they don't do a good job it's going to cost them more in the end to take care of it yeah right and it would be that

071white roof that they recommend right yes so I would recommend the hard board in the main Elementary SE I would I would I would recommend going and and not with in the fourth grade section what other are we looking at any other gring issues um that's what I hope to with the maintenance contract with Midwest that they can lay that out for us as they do that and start saying oh this is where we need to focus on as we go through there so that's I'm and that's part of it is they should be letting us know hey you probably ought to keep an eye on this so with the preventive maintenance contract that's what we' be looking at so this what's the timeline if we give the go ahead is this something they will

072do this spring and summer before next year we we had a talk timeline and we didn't but they're pretty busy but as soon as we can get them going we we're waiting on them I I don't know about it probably better without the kids there it's a lot of noise especially State assessment time I don't think Miss Paul would want them up there doing their thing we could we could send a whole CL up there and help them out yeah we can do that I would say this would be phase one of our preventative maintenance yeah big one it's a big and I mean really we've already okayed that contract the only problem is is we paid that money for the contract but then now we're doing this so they're not going to have anything

073you know it seems like we ought to be able to negotiate some of some of the maintenance contract just because we're taking care of a large majority of the issues with this right here yeah weren't they giving us a discount um for any kind of work that that they would have to do Under the maintenance contract yes is that included on this quote no no yeah that's PJ that was what I was basically saying is I mean they ought to take some off that maintenance contract because we're taking care of the issues right here if we go with this ruing yeah if I remember right I think it was a 10% discount um I think don't quote me on that a 10% discount on any kind of roof in uh maintenance that had to be

074performed um so I'd like to see that included with this I think this quote came out after we approved them as a maintenance contract too right well we right in the process of all that so and um I think they were working on it prior to us approving that because we're having all those issues yeah have they come to do an inspection yet or have they at least scheduled something no not yet we haven't I haven't heard from them on that that we've just got the agreement signed and that taken care of so we have not talked schedule on that yet so should we I don't know what you guys think should we re talk about that before we do this or should we go ahead and accept it if anything not to exceed I

075mean you could do not to exceed you know because if we can get I can talk to him and and Get It Down based on this preventive maintenance and if that 10% comes into the play or something something but you can just say not to exceed that okay but I will work with them on that and that you said Capital Outlet is what that the yeah Capital Improvement yeah and I mean we haven't done anything major for a while well we did locker rooms last year but that some of that came out supplemental and we debut it up a little bit we're good there would be a drop in the bucket of what we have for that at that desk collector for the oh I'll give you an update on that okay so looking looking

076at the two options so with the with the hardboard for the elementary and without the hardboard in the fourth and fifth we're looking at $289 $800 uh pending um discount due to our maintenance contract second lire hi Lenton hi Ty hi Parsons hi keall hi Carson hi all right no more trash cans in the elementary school to catch water we got to make it through this spring first yeah absolutely okay uh KB membership renewal so this is the annual renewal provided for you the contract there is provided um for their services um there's two quotes on there there's just the renewal for the membership um we do not do not do the season pass um so that would be $1,750 less um because we just don't we don't use that but we use their other

077services that relates to being a member and then the legal uh is the other um that we provide that's 2750 um we can call up there anytime we have an issue and get help whether it's building admin you as board members could call and and talk to them um as they would provide advice about policies about procedures and things of that nature if we were an employment issue they would help to a certain point um but through their Legal Services fund to do that so um but this is just the annual renewal for their being a member of ksb okay so we go option one then yes option one yes okay I like to make a motion to um continue our membership and renew our membership uh under option one with ksb for the amount

078of 93555 and renew our legal assistance contract with KB in the amount of 2 ,750 $2,750 second hi Clinton hi Carson Hi l hi Ty hi Parson all right building capacity so we talked a little bit about this last month um we have to have in place um our non-resident capacity non-resident enrollment part of that policy is to have to have our capacity um posted on our district website so people understand you know what we have to identify two things on there one is capacity of a grade level and then how many seats are available based on that capacity and so we just had a one-page form that showed that information uh for families to consider so we have to have that in place in May one um May 1st it has to be on

079our website and then we start accepting applications on on June 1st U for uh non-resident enrollment into our district so I have last year's capacity on there in that tab at the bottom um what we had last year um and then and then I just create just created a new tab so it all stays together so you can look at comparison the only major changes to this is uh I don't major is not the right word but last year I think fourth grade was at 48 students and so we we just bumped it up with that you know the third grade coming to fourth grade uh for next year to move it to 54 um that was the only real change that was on there we're projecting uh 49 for kindergarten we have 44 or

080something I think in power school of fourth graders or four year olds so just kind of basing that projection on there because we don't again like Miss Paul said earlier we don't know how many are going to show up that didn't go to preschool we're not sure who those are out there so so um uh with the primary grades you know looking to keep them at a lower level um and of a capacity um to keep that student teacher ratio down so but if you look on the far right based on the capacity and based on project project enrollment is is enrollment based on at the beginning of March just what it said and so I just use that as our projected enrollment um because it just fluctuates it it stays pretty flat um considering

081um we lose about as many kids as we gain typically so um I just use use the March uh Power School enrollment for the grade levels in that so so just to clarify once we accept an out of out of District student they're with us for as long as they want to go here right one a calendar they have we have to keep them for a calendar year One calendar year if they're found not to be in good standing you're not holding up to our our expectations we can at we can let them know that they're they they can't return as a non-resident student but we have to keep them for one through one school year and if they're but if they do something egregious or something we can get rid of them then but

082and just to clarify so if we take one out of family we got to take them all if there's capacity no we have to take them all right yeah yes so and we only had one request last year that I remember I have one in high school yeah I think that's all we received last year was one request so on the negatives that means we're not accepting any we're already over capacity with just our own kids if that's what we choose to do next month we could you know but according to this that would show we have no capacity in there to accept kids so if you're a second grader and or whatever that's you know thir going to be third grader then then if if they applied we' just say we don't have the

083capacity to take you on based on our numbers but if they were here last year yeah yeah once you're in you're in okay it only you can only be dismissed from the program if from either academic failure or some other type of just not meeting expectations so they're on probation basically is what they are U each year and so if they're but you have you can't get rid of them in at any time you have to they have to be able to attend through the school year but once the school year that doesn't mean that you get to let them back in the OR is is if they're a sibling of another student that can be accepted but but still if they if they if they if we you know we take them yeah but

084if that sibling's not cutting the mustard we can tell them not to come back I I understand the behavior part but I'm I'm more focused on the capacity part yeah sure if you have a fifth grader that is good and they have a third grade sibling yeah even though we're still over capacity we're we're taking both of them right so what about in the event of a kindergarten or you've got somebody that's got a second grade sibling the kindergartener isn't grandfathered in cuz they haven't started before but they're grandfathered in because they have a sibling or we can say no because sorry we're already part of that they have a sibling that that cuz if we have more people apply for like let's say U fifth grade we get five kids apply that want to

085come in then we just draw them out of a hat the first three they're in if that one of those kids has a kindergarten that's requested to come that kid gets to come because they were selected so so is this something we ought to take into consideration with new housing coming in to keep it kind of tight I mean we we still have some um I guess authority to manage those they I you know if they're going to be bad we're not taking other people's problem if they're on suspensions and things of that nature we can deny them enrollment because the legislature changed that some of that policy in there so um I'm not too worried we can just do what we've always done but by law by the legal we have to have this

086in place so we lost PJ yeah he still here oh he's still I'm here went to sleep must be lights out in the military hey it's getting to be that time so we we're not taking any action on this it's just kind of where we're at and just you know any thoughts or concerns about this um but we'll have it for recommendation next month so we just have to have it in place by May 1 to go there so not sure what to anticipate how many requests we'll have like I said I was thinking we have quite a few and we had just one that's all that came through last year so but we have to have it on our website um as part of their policy requirement we do fluctuate quite a bit from

087September 20th to now yeah I don't I think it's a lot more during the school year parents or kids move around than it is from Spring to Fall yeah and we have it in ours that that we don't take them after the window closes for applications so we don't take out of District kids so and that's kind of been typical procedures is not take them after the September count so but all right any other questions or thoughts all right moving on to building reports any questions on those on oh on the middle school report under staff it talks about evaluations are finished and then there's a list of Staff members is that just the evaluations that you did or is that it's just a the newer staff okay I do want to throw it out

088there Natasha said it in hers but I do want to congratulate the girls uh basketball team for doing you know making it State that's awesome and then also the uh wrestling team for going to State they you know both both teams have done awesome this year and couldn't be more proud of how they represented the school and we also have forensics and yeah we'll have quite a few forensics qualified for that's greata too right and FBLA yes oh yeah congrats to all those teams some group or some organization there's a lot of them but yeah there is a lot of them congrats to everyone and you just shows uh you know the hard work of our students and staff and keep it up all right if there's nothing else let's move on to the superintendent

089report all right so um still trying to work on a date with Dr hars um a lot of stuff going on in the spring a lot of ball games and I know you guys want to attend so we're trying to narrow that down to get a work session we every time everyone who throws at me so far has been somebody's got something that they'd have to deal with so so I'll get with you as soon as we can get that squared away um to follow up on uh the information that he had gathered um to put that together for um for the board to have a work session just to focus on future facilities in that conversation so um do want to mention that the I I I put to you guys about a a

090opportunity for u a grant from uh Within in the Jones Foundation um that s offer has been pulled because they're working on some procedures and things of that nature so it's it will be available to us at some point down the road but we we talk Cory um and PJ and I like you know we haven't made a commitment it's hard to commit to those funds when we haven't made a commitment as the board you know and so but then the next day we got an email saying that it was a little premature and offering those out because they need to work on some things with their proced procedures with these funds as it relates to that so um they're looking forward to our presentation they know it's coming you know at some point or

091they're assuming it's coming U for the Jones foundation so uh but they understand where we're at and finalizing the commitment from the board and see where the direction is so so but that offered has been taken aback and just it's just not available at this time so is that Grant separate from yeah it's within the umbrella it's it's within the understanding the umbrella of the Jones Foundation but um I don't know if it's a newer one so they have to work out some of those procedural things that do that but it is under the umbrella of the found the Jones Foundation what about the other um Jones Foundation like work I I heard that uh they have reached out asking when we're going to apply and because they're trying to plan yeah no that's we've

092been i' very close you know transparent about that like the board has to have the work to session to if once we make this commitment as a board or wherever that is that then we will be going to the Jones Foundation to see but that's separate from that Grant you're talking about yeah that's yeah though that would be that's the bigger big foundation just the Jones Foundation the other grants within that umbrella that is my understanding but yeah no they're they understand what our projects could be and and and again that just waiting for us to decide and then come hear a presentation I'll go present to them so okay so but still working with Dr har to get a work session day um and so it's just tough in the springtime but uh the

093back house unit is going to be delivered um on Tuesday so Josh is coordinating that I'll be kind of nice CU there won't be any cars gone with spring break and things of that nature so our local people are going to be I think they're going to be there going to try to be there um but Josh is coordinating all that for that delivery it'll come in it was supposed to come in pieces but it's going to come in one unit or one in and they're just going to have to set it up so Josh has taking care of all that to do that but the anticipated delivery well it is we're doing it next Tuesday and then we'll start getting it connected and going through that the electrical um Ryan's been talking to the

094the electrical engineer um and then just getting the drawings and things to get that installed and I we're hoping to go somewhat seamless but I'm sure there's always going to be Kinks to it but U but it'll be delivered next Tuesday and not sure on the timeline for actual installation all right Three Lakes report um Jimmy we had the meeting Monday um anything I mean there's a couple things we want to talk about but anything else other than those oh they went through their they had their yearly audit got through it in flying colors it said it came out clean um and they most of the meeting was was on this Lakeside yeah so the Three Lakes has been talking to the superintendent and and looking at going into some specialized programming for kids based

095on needs and one of the one that they're focusing on you know we have Frameworks right now for Behavior kids and we have the next step uh for the 18 to 21 program um for those kids and that's being housed at Burling game right now but we're trying to create an a high needs Autistic Program um which is which a dubbed at Lakeside just kind of kind of coming off the Three Lakes to Lakeside is what this is so um in the presentation it was looking at Scranton the district office in Scranton has some space that they could utilize this program for high needs autistic kids and and they would go there um to to get their services based on their need there so um at the Santa Fe Trail board meeting they approved anou

096for them to use that space and so plans will be going U to put this program in place at the Scranton district office for high needs autistic kids there's two groups there's those High needs that are Behavior you know just really not you functioning within the classroom real well and then there's the ones that you know um might struggle a little bit academically but they have those so we're going to build a different program for those so um but with that comes some staffing that will need to happen and um we'll look at increasing our amount that we are are paying in and my my message in Mantra has been like if we're moving kids people should move with those kids we can't just assume we need all new people to run this program but

097like you know they're calling them Behavior texts and I call them Paras but you know if that kid moves that those Paras as support should move with them because they work with those kids that's where the the needs are going to be and so we won't have that to deal with in in the main building so we won't probably need as many Paris I mean we're going to need Paras but we probably won't need as many because of all the the support that those kids need because of their disability and so that would be focused so so um we're working through that on the Staffing part of that um that could lead to an issue in our building to be honest with you with Mitch resigning um they're looking at going to three sped teachers

098in the secondary um and making that recommendation we've met as a group we've met with them we have some concerns obviously um our numbers don't really con I mean our case loads are pretty low I think there's 17 um at the middle school is that right and 24 at the high school I have 24 at the high school yes yes I think there were 17 overall which are not large case loads but you know Tim's been through that where they've had the large case loads and and um in previous years and just what that works what that looks like is is we're having that conversation of maybe having three three teachers at the secondary level one of those teachers would be um in a kind of a functional classroom those kids who struggle in you

099know academically um but we can build some life and career skills for them in half a day um and a focus of what that is based on whatever we put in place to do that you know just general housekeeping things um you know work skills um just personal hygiene all those things that could go into life skills where they spend half a day in that functional classroom and the other half a day they'll be an elective or something out in in the regular Ed to do that the vision for me was that would be a district a co-op wide program and so they're looking to start that within because we have eight kids that would qualify to be in that functional program right now who we think could have you know be successful they'd be

100earning their math and English credits in there could be earning their science credits and and justifying that instead of being in a classroom that they might not be getting things out of it but we're building life skills with them in this functional classroom um so we're still working through that um with that fourth position again you know case are what it are but we haven't really worked out the details of what that looked like because of scheduling is an issue um Tim schedule is different than the high school schedule and what does that look like is there enough support for that division of of um you know if one person has all those kids and 17 kids it's not a lot but it's still it's just going to take some effort and things to work

101through um but again those par support would be in those functional classrooms with those kids kids they would have to go out and support and when they go to the electives so um but in that then basically they would take our position and transfer it to the Lakeside if that's were to happen so just to let you know where we're at in those conversations so um we still got to work out those details um I'm not sure where it's going to land on as we go through that did you guys put a timeline or have an idea well there were the main thing was to wait for the Santa Fe Trail if they were going to approve access to to their the district office so so we'll be yeah so now we can move forward

102need to be done on the building too yeah so there's some things that need restroom and some doors need to be installed so it's it's going to take a little toit so we would pay 20% of whatever that is that's our contribution to that we our anything that we do is 20% of the overall cost our district pays towards because of our numbers overall enrollment numbers so um but mine is the long-term recurring cost of staff and really you know just just not add staff because we're adding a program we need to really evaluate that because those are the long-term costs so so we're working through that but now that it's been approved we're going to really get into that conversation and obviously planning for next year we need to know what that's going to

103look like for specially secondary special ed services so I missed anything oh the the fourth position is the one that they're considering moving to left side it's been open and and we were just informed yesterday that there was an applicant a non-certified applicant um because she told us there wasn't an applicant but she did wasn't aware of this other one so but so we currently have four here for our secondary students yeah two at the high school and two at the at the middle school okay currently yes so we're working through that I don't did I miss anything Jim um you get her all but I I believe in specialized programming I believe it's what's best for kids the overall philosophy in the past has been full inclusion for the co-op which I get but

104are they really getting what they need to be successful for Life After High School even no matter what age they are and so by having this High needs Autistic Program we're going to have specialized people that have training to deal with these work with these kids to help them manage and grow and be able to hopefully contribute function successfully down the road whether it's in the building or outs you know when they graduate High School you just never know so is that K through 12 um it yes it is but they'll be separate so um I don't know what the numbers are sitting here now would they that'sand to be separate though keep secondary for the three that we have are currently three Lake are Three Lakes employees yes so would they if no one

105applies for this Lakeside position that that could fill the job could they then force one of those potentially to go to that and then that would trim us from four to two actual staff people is that no we we need three we need three I know that we need three but would would three legs potentially move one of those three people to side and then plug in someone different here I mean that's potential but we would have the third person yeah I I don't see that happening but yeah but you see but if somebody wanted to go there and do that job then yeah we'd have to fill that to keep at least our three but that's a possibility I don't see that but I mean I I don't know if that's something that they

106would do but we really need need to I mean we were just presented it with this Monday kind of having a real conversation about it and um we really don't know what that functional classroom is going to look like I mean there's things we need to do to those classrooms down there to make that happen for them to get those skills but but I believe and again it's just been that overall philosophy of full inclusion which is not I'm not saying this wrong but kids have different needs and and we don't want to put us them in a situation where they're going to be where they're not going to be successful because our biggest dropout rate is spe special education students because they're so frustrated in the situation that they're in because they're not being

107successful because they they're struggling Learners and that's when we get the dropouts but we have a program designed for them more than likely they're going to stay and graduate and build some skills so just on us out here did they not look at moving in into I mean in Burling game was there not those it's it's not it's not their setup is not as good as what it would be at Scranton because the rooms are across the way they're across the hall from each other because currently we send a student there that has some high needs and it's just not a great setup and it would take a lot to really make that setup work and it'd kind of be pushing the limits to what capacity they have at Berling game right now to put

108that program there and um so that's why decided to put it at scram because there there's some you know with Frameworks is expanded the next steps there and they're using IF Berlin game's using for some of their just general education too so so but that conversation was had okay I was just thinking if we're spending 20% yeah in that building and we're spending 20% that building it just yeah it just wouldn't work and there's not much more to I think upgrade out there Frameworks J Jen do you know is there I think they're about where they want to be right now so but it just would would work based on the configuration cuz right now the two when we have our high needs kid there it's like the rooms are across the hall and it's

109just not ideal based on their needs but that conversation was had yeah and the L side would be all day that the students would be it might be a modified day but yeah it' be a full day you know would we be able to talk if this were to come to fruition about like bus needs and stuff yeah we Transportation would have to be consideration of that so um they they bought we bought one vehicle I think or two two so they maybe Three Lakes could do that you know kind of a loop thing but it'll be something we'll have to deal with to transport them and to there back so but we'll have to manage that at the time so so a lot going on I believe in programming I think it's the direction

110we need to go um uh it just it just takes a lot to do that changes hard too so that's all I have for Three Lakes anything else Jim no you're good okay um software unlimited our fund accounting system um so we rolled it out to the staff in February had some hiccups but we're working through that still just living and learning through it um but we're now we're doing leave requests through that and the requisitions are coming through there um so we're still learning through that Patty and I went to negotiations training module uh Tuesday um so we're trying to build that within the package so like we can see how much 1% increase is going to be 2% we certified classified and we can have some really good numbers based on what's in

111the system within the software unlimited payroll system so it's it's going to be really nice we could do that for supplementals so we'll have some accurate numbers as we go that so so we did that training um over break Patty's going to clean up our budget numbers they there's some little bit hiccup on there so um she's going to get those cleaned up it shouldn't be too much and then when we get back from break then Pam and I are going to start projecting out based on those budget numbers to see exactly where we're at but overall we're about I don't remember what that number was but we haven't used over half of our budget um for general fund let's just say general fund but we should have better accurate numbers when Patty gets those

112budget numbers cleaned up so um so still working through that on progress um we have an HR module that we'll have to do we're not going to do the fixed assets inventory one it's just too much work to Pam systems is good enough to keep our information that we have for insurance and things of that nature so so we're not going to do this the fixed assets so we have HR and one other one what was it is there another one I just have budget nature left so yeah but we're working through that in the long run it's we're looking to add K12 docs too which can put a lot of documents in there and just make it seamless um we could send contracts out and force Dena to sign one digitally see how that

113goes for her so uh so but we'll be looking to add that at some point but we're still working through that so um negotiation team members I sent you that training um we don't typically start till after School's Out negotiations so first of May if you just have that done and completed that would be great if you need assistance let me know um and then just to follow up on PJ just do want to congratulate our coaches and our our kids and um just all the support um from our community for all our kids um it's just great to see the the number of fans in the stands whether we're at home on the road and just the support that they receive and just it's just been a great season for AC Athletics and academic

114extracurricular activities and um it just continues to impress me that the number of kids we have involved and the willingness to put the work in to be successful and I appreciate our coaches our sponsors cheer all the way down I mean all of them it's just it's just great to see the community that we have together in that it makes a big difference in our everyday life at school so just want to congratulate them on a great winter sports and wish them our spring Sports best of luck so that's all I have all right I move that we go into executive session to discuss supplemental positions and certified position i s pursuant to the non-elected Personnel exception under coma the open meeting will resume uh in the boardroom at we'll say 8:45 I would like

115to have superintendent Miss Paul present second sorry I stared at you Carson hi Carson Hi l hi ke hi T did she say I hi coughing sorry all e e e back live all right we're back in Open Session um I like to make a motion to approve the resignation of Marian Smith as High School a high school science a teacher and High School Scholars bowl at the conclusion of the 2024 2025 school year as well as approve the resignation of Debbie Shoemaker as the high school dance sponsor for the 20 concluding at the 2024 2025 school year also like to make a recommendation of approving Mark Brewer to the first grade teaching position Jordan Middleton to the fourth grade teaching position hie Tyson to the fifth grade ELA teaching position and the ocms steam

116Academy approval for Brock Baxter and Dustin sticky second Megan oh he's not here Ty hi Carson hi ke hi Linton hi hi pars hi all right I move that we go into executive session to discuss negotiations topics pursuant to the exception for employee employer uh negotiations under coma and the open meeting will resume in the library boardroom um at we'll say 9:05 with the superintendent President we don't need that long PJ probably just 9 : are be right 9:00 perfect second Linton hi Carson hi keall hi BL hi Carson hi he hi ball game hasn't started yet either so e e e all right we're back she's all right we are back in Open Session and I'd like to make a motion to adjourn second persons yeah sorry Hi Carson hi T hi lit hi

117hi stinking second why all right thank you everyone appreciate itj see you guys where's he at Mississippi Mississippi something like that hey Mr H can I be prate this oh man the speaker no for