001I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stand indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Hey, we'll take a moment for reflection. Thank you. Okay, we'll move on to item C, approval of the agenda with the following amendments. Look them up. Additional certified and classified personnel. Actions E3 remove item F7, new business. Education is asked to consider and approve the purchase and subscription services agreement between Lap Technologies and Garden City Public Schools for employee safe suite renewal in the amount of $41,433 for one year contract. Amen. Item C3 at item I1 executive >> for consultation with an attorney for the body or agency which would be deemed privilege in an attorney client privilege. >> Mr. President, I move to approve tonight's agenda as amended. >> I
002second that >> move and second. Is there any discussion? All in favor raise your hand. Opposed? Same sign. Motion carries. Item D, delegation of public comments. No. All right. None. Okay. Item D1, election of board of education president and vice presidents. I declare that nominations for the office of the board of education presidents are in order. Any board members wish to make a motion? >> Mr. President, I um move that we elect Randy Rollson to stay in the position of president for the next year. >> I'll second. >> It's been moved and seconded. We have to close it first, right? >> This is just time for nominations and then we'll do the vote after you close nominations. >> All right. There any other discussion? I will close that motion. Okay. Okay, the board will vote
003on nominations now, right? >> Yep. >> All right. All in favor raise your hand. Opposed? Same. Motion carries. >> I will remain as the president. Okay. Now we will move on to the election of the board vice president. I declare that nominations for the office of the board of education vice president are in order. I move to nominate Markind. >> It's been moved and seconded. I will now close that nomination. Any discussion? Okay, we will vote on Mark High. All in favor raise your hand. Oppose saying. Motion carries. The president stayed the same, so there'll be no changes. But Mark, you officially take the role as of right now as vice president, just so you know. >> I mean, you switch seats. >> Um, yeah, probably should >> picture the two together as well. >>
004Yeah, let's for our newsletter that goes out. Word update. You want all the work, don't you? I know the phone's not here, so I'll just get Can we just do it right in front of the sign here? Ready? One, two, three. One more. One, two, three. For the press, too. >> She's got She's got a zoom >> trouble. Oh yeah, there we go. >> Okay, we will move on to item E, the consent agenda. >> I move to approve all consent agenda items as my Second. >> I'll second that. >> Any discussion? All in favor raise your hand. >> Same. Motion carries. >> That was a lot. >> Took like three days to do it. >> Okay. Okay. Item F, new business. F1. The board of education is asked to consider and approve the cardiac
005emergency response plan. Michelle Schaw, health services coordinator. >> Good evening everybody. Well, you all have this plan in your agenda, so I'm not going to read the whole thing, but um the legislature states that the board of education of each Kansas school district shall adopt a comprehensive cardiac emergency response plan for cardiac emergency responses for each attendance center operated by the school district. KDH is requesting the school district submit their plan by July this year. So, this is the plan that we would submit if you approve it and then they'll they'll let us know if if it has everything in it that they um expect. Um I'm just going to kind of outline some of the things that are supposed to be required in this plan. Um first of all, the response plan is a
006written document that establishes the specific steps to reduce the death from cardiac risk. That's really what we're trying to do here. Um the first step is that we have to establish our response team with a designated lead. So each school will have to have a response team of between three to five people. It depends on the size of the school. The high school we're going to have to have more than that. May do it by academy. We have to kind of talk that through with them to see what's going to work best for that big ability. Um we have to deliate the roles and responsibilities of each person on the team. And we have to have u I think already said the designated needs. We have to have somebody and for most of the schools
007it'll be the school nurse. We don't have school nurses full time in all of our buildings. So we really um are going to have to have somebody else as a backup at some of the schools where there may not be a nurse in the event something like this happens. Um then we need to obtain and place AEDs which we've already done. So last year we um desk was able through grants to get AEDs in all of our buildings. So, um we have to have an AED in our building that we can reach within three minutes. So, at the high school right now, we have um three AEDs and we just purchased two more um AEDs that are portable AEDs that can go with um coaches. Um, so out on the field, um, I usually I
008mean I know that the, uh, the trainer always has one that she takes, but at there's some events or some practices where the trainer's not there. We also purchased one for each of the middle schools, so they'll have one that they can take with them um, in the field. Um, so we have we have that part covered. We have ads in all of our our buildings, including this building. and facilities and transportation um communication this plan throughout the school district as well as organiz organizations using school property. So anybody who's going to be using property needs to have um a copy of this plan um training in CPR and AED use. We have three nurses that are certified and one of them that is a a CPR trainer. So anybody that's on the this um
009response team has to be CPR certified. So that's something that we can do, you know, free of charge for them. Along that line and even last year before we even had uh had written it in a plan, we offered CPR training to our staff free. So we had about four trainings each semester that up to 15 people. So, we'll try to increase that if we can and get as many people as we can. >> Was that was it well attended? I mean, >> well, it depend it kind of depended. We'd have 15 people sign up. We didn't always have 15 people show up, >> right? Yeah. >> But I I just had a call today from transportation and they they want to um do CPR training for their bus drivers, either the new ones or
010the uh ones that need to be reertified. So, we scheduled day for that early August. So, so we'll work on really trying to get I mean the ideal would be to get all of our staff trained in CPR but the three people that's that makes it a little more difficult to do but everybody that's on the team has to has to be CPR certified and then the AED use that's something that we do everybody gets that training in our um public school works so now it's one of the trainings that everybody gets Along that way, the nurses also do a hands-on at the beginning of school with staff just um so our ads are all the same across the board. So if you went from one school to the other, it's the same. Um they
011all work the same. So we do a training with everybody just to say this is how you this is what it looks like. This is what it sounds like if you turn it on. But you know sometimes there's groups of people like sometimes the custodians um the cooks they don't always um in order to get them training when you're doing public school it may not be showing you exactly the same 80 that we have but really across the line they all work the same they're pretty easy they really do once you turn them on they tell you what you need to do if you just listen to the next step it'll tell you what you Uh and then we do need to do a cardiac emergency response drill. We need to do one of those
012a year and then we'll evaluate that drill. Um the ideal drill would be to have um everybody respond the AED there and u within five minutes of of the drill being called. So um and then of course local emergency medical services integration within the school district plan. So they fire, EMS, department will all get copies of our our plans. Currently, as we register every AED, we're required by the state to submit something to our local EMS so they all know where our AEDs are located. So they can they know if they come they would come into a building they would know where a and then of course annually you will need to review the plan see whether the plan needs to be updated. We need to adapt or change questions. >> I I don't so
013much have a question, just more of a I know it's a you're doing a good job and and I know it's a daunting task, but yeah, I think uh the more people we can get trained and and that is is best. So, yes, keep that up. Good work. >> Has there been very many instances where there has been an actual event But it's kind of one of those things where you hope you never have >> Right. Exactly. But if you do, you have it available to you. >> No, I think it's a great idea. >> I think the only time we've ever used the AED was at the high school and we had a parent that passed out and the nurses put the AD on. They didn't it didn't shock because it won't shock you
014if you if it recognizes that you have a, you know, normal sinus rhythm. Um, and so it didn't shock the the person, but it did allow them to know both we said it was a cardiac at least at that moment with that what that person was. But it does happen schools and outside of schools and football game, you know, that kind of thing. We have big crowds. Any other questions? Oh, thank you. All right. >> Make a motion to approve the cardiac emergency response plan as presented. >> Second. >> It's been moved and second. Is there any further discussion? All in favor raise your hand. All the same. Motion carries. Item F2. The board of education has asked to consider an approved contract with the new teacher project TNTP. work with two buildings on targeted
015support for improvement. Bernardine and Sids Intermediate Center and APU Elementary. Enalpin, director of special education. >> Good evening. >> Hi. >> Um KSD provides grant opportunities for schools uh who are on improvement. We have two buildings. We have three buildings on improvement, but two of them are specifically on improvement for special education students and their state assessment scores. And so we're we've been working on increasing the student achievement for special education students across the district, but specifically in those two buildings. uh with KSDE and the grant, uh I met with the principles of those buildings to brainstorm and we had a list of acceptable um things that we could spend grant money on and they chose to um apply for the grant to work with TNTP, which we worked with in the past, uh to
016come into those buildings next school year, um work with them during PLC's, conduct observations. They're going to special education programs. What's happening in a tier one classroom when the students are receiving reading and math instruction? How can teachers effectively support special education students in that setting? And then pulling kids out into a resource setting and what those programs look like, what materials we're using, and just making sure that we're using evidence-based practices in those programs uh to try to increase the student achievement. Specifically, culminating on that state assessment. So the contract is for about $239,000. Each building was about $120,000 for the consultant to come in six times next school year. She'll provide professional development um both to teachers and the administration in those buildings as well as our special education coordinators and myself and
017then working with teachers and PLC's walkthroughs providing feedback and support looking at our materials um and whether they want to make res they'll make recommendations on whether we want to look at purchasing different materials that might be more effective in some of our special education programs. This will be fully funded through the grant. We've already been accepted for the full amount. It is um on a reimbursement basis. So, as we pay the new teacher project, we'll get reimbured with our grant. >> Any questions? Thank you. >> President move to approve the contract new teacher project work two buildings and target support for improvement for sits sits intermediate center and a neighbor elementary as presented. I'll second. >> Okay, it's a move and second to approve the TNTP work sits and a viewer. Is there any
018further discussion? All in favor, raise your hand. Post same. Motion carries. Item F3, Gene is back again. Board of Education is asked to consider and approve the updated memorandum of understanding agreement between USD457 and Compass Behavioral Health. Thisou uh allows compass staff to come into our district buildings to provide services to our students. We also uh fund a mental health liaison Kim Fischer to coordinate services between Compass and our school district. Uh they provide the mindful support program. So therapy services in our schools in the buildings that um participate in that program and then they also provide case management and care as part of their services for our students who need additional support social and emotional wellbeing. >> We've done this in the past >> and and I would say that this is thisou is
019is a requirement of the grant. So Gina will have to submit this to KSD >> or not the Kansas Department of Aging and Disabilities provides the grant that funds this program. So we have to have with Compass in order to >> be eligible for the grant. >> Jennifer's looked the agreement over it. >> It's the same agreement that we had, but >> yeah, I I think Did you send it to her? >> I think I sent it to >> Jessica. She >> Jessica sent it to her. I knew somebody had. I hadn't sent it, but I know somebody sent it to her. Yes, >> that's right. Did it. Jessica did it. Y >> questions. >> I would move that we approve the memorandum of understanding between USC 457 and Compass behavior as presented. >> Second.
020It's been moved and seconded. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor raise your hand. Oppose. Same. Motion carries. Okay. Item F4. The board of education has asked to consider and approve the updated memorandum of understanding between the Finey County Jail and USD457 for special education services will be provided to 18 to 21 year olds housed at the Finey County Jail. Gina. >> All right. Uh we are obligated by law to provide services to any 18 to 21 year olds who are housed at the Penny County Jail. And so we have um anou with them. They have added questions to their intake forms asking uh if they if the incoming people, what are they called? >> Inmates are um in special education or are on an IEP. And if they are then they in
021theou it explains that they will contact me directly and arrangements to start providing those services within the jail as long as they >> we've never had that happen since this is I think what well the year that I left vet office was the year that we had to we had to draft this and we've never had that happen to But in the event that it does happen legally, we have to provide those services. >> Going into our third year. >> So would this be for someone who's 18 to 21 who's not yet graduated and still enrolled as a student in our district? >> Yeah. >> And and and on an IEP. >> And on an IEP. >> Yes, sir. >> Yes. >> Brought in from other areas. in jail. >> Yeah, because they could be
022they could be like a Finny County or they could be a a Hulcom resident, but because they're >> if they're housed at Finny County jail, >> same thing. Same thing as >> our neilar student, right? >> Okay. >> Same thing with our JDC. We get a lot of kids, the majority of the kids that we service at the JDC are not actually Garden City kids. A lot of them coming from all southwest Kansas because we're the only juvenile detention center for the area. Mr. President, I move to approve the memorandum of understanding between the Finny County Jail and USD457 for special education services that will be provided to 18 to 21 year olds housed at the Finny County Jail is presented. Second, >> it's been moved and seconded. Any further discussion? All in favor raise
023your hand. Oppose. Same. Motion carries. Last one. Jean is off the boat. I think F5. The board of education is asked to consider and approve the certified physical therapist services agreement between USD457 and Jessica King. >> Uh we do not have a physical therapist uh on staff and so we contract with Jessica who is a licensed uh physical therapist. She provides services to students who require physical therapy based on the needs in their special education IEP. So this is we've contracted with her for several years. We are asking to continue to contract with her to provide those services. >> And this was a minimum of 10 hours, maximum of 20. Is that correct? >> Correct. and she has a PTA that that we do have on staff that works under her license. So, it works
024daily. >> Mr. President, I'll move to approve the certified physical service agreement between 457 and Jess. move and seconded. Is there any further discussion? All in favor, raise your hand. Oppos same. Motion carries. Thank you, Gina. Thank you. Item F6, the board of education is asked to consider and approve continuation of read 180, an existing curriculum resource. The agreement is a one-year contract from July 2025 to July 2026 in the amount of $84,395.77. Uh, director of elementary curriculum instruction, Heather State. >> Yep. Hi. >> Read 180 is a program that we've used within the district for quite some time. Um, primarily it's used with our ESL and newcomer students, but we do have some special education students that get um, intervention services using that program. So, Read 180 is targeted for kids that are struggling
025with reading. Um, we use it for newcomers as well because there is a requirement in the newcomers program that they have a survival skills component and that this curriculum does have that in in it. So, um, we're kind of getting a progression set up so that they go through the survival skills and newcomers and then get into the code, which is a foundational reading, um, bonics, things like that, and then into the comprehension piece after that. But it covers all of those different components. It's for grades 5 through 12, so not really geared for our younger kids. I noticed the quote is for 185 students looks like in there. >> Correct. >> Do we use all those licenses or we don't use them? >> Um, you know, when I first entered this office, we were
026overpaying quite a bit. We had a lot more kids. We were paying for a lot more kids than what we're using it. Um, we cut that way back. Um, I think we are much more in line than what we were before. I think we're using almost all of the licenses. Okay. >> If you were to have a need for greater than what we're buying, we'll be able to just go out and purchase. >> We can add more. We'd have to come before the board to add it >> box or you just in other words 10, 20 or just one at a time. >> I think we can order as much as we want. I don't think that our office would want to do it by one student at a time. If there was, if there
027was that great of a need, I think we would buy like 10, 20, you know, something like that. But um there we have certain read 180 teachers in our intermediate centers at Horus Good and at the high school. So those classes are kind of set up with a cap of how many students can be in there. So 185 we shouldn't need to buy more. Do we offer any kind of similar program for younger than that or >> um that's more part of the tier one curriculum and then um with the loss of our interventionist and the pullout interventions more things that we're doing in the class in small group to address skill deficits. Okay. Anybody have any questions rather? >> Move to approve the continuation of read 180 Mifflin Hardcourt Company one-year contract from July
0282025 to July 2026 in the amount of $84,395.77. >> Seconded. >> Moved and seconded. Is there any further discussion? All in favor, raise your hand. Oppose. Same. Motion carries. And up again. F7. The board of education has asked to consider and approve the one-year contract from July 1, 2025 through June of 2026 for Inspect Plus DNA and Edu Climber in the amount of $11,640. So, I came before you last month to talk to you about Renaissance products, the fast bridge screener, um that we kind of were timesensitive on and needed to get that, you know, through a little quicker. These are the rest of our Renaissance products. Um, Educ is a program that kind of houses all of our data for all of our students. So teachers can go in and look at a specific
029student and see state assessment results, um any common assessments that we've created, um fastbridge results, attendance, grades, everything about a student in kind of a onetop, but it also allows us to get in and sort data. So, I can go to a teacher, to a grade, to a building, and say I want to track Fastbridge results from the beginning of the year to the end of the year, and it'll show us graphs of how many students um moved up, how many stayed the same, how many dropped, but it it allows us to do a lot of sorting of data um for grouping and tracking progress. So, um it's pretty valuable asset. I mean, it can do some pretty amazing things, actually. So um illuminate would be the DNA and inspect plus which for like our
030common assessments and things like that we put our assessments in that program and then it grades and communicates with educrimer. So those products both being from Renaissance they communicate well together. So the test that we give within illuminate the results will show up in edge climber and allows teachers to track data. >> Is any of this data available to like parents? Like do they have a login portal or anything? >> I think teachers I think parents can see could see an edge climber. I don't know if we have it set up but I know that if I was a teacher I would be pulling that up when I went to parent teacher conferences because it's got everything put together. Um but that's a great question. I don't think we've been using it that way, but
031look into it more. >> Yeah, I was just thinking it's all this great data. I'm sure the parents would want to see that, too. >> It'd be a learning process because there is so much stuff in there. You definitely have to educate parents so that they could get in there and look um and know what they were looking at. But this is a program that I think they've had for the last well, all the years that I've been in this office. I think it was at least a couple years before that that they had illuminate those products. So, it's a continuing program as well. >> I noticed on the quote our numbers for 7,000 contact student numbers with our numbers decreasing. Is that still okay or >> um at this point we're going with what
032our enrollment numbers were at the end end of the year. um you know we'll look at that again next year. If our enrollment goes down to 6,500 then yeah we definitely for next year would want to reduce that and I think we had reduced it. I think it was 7,200 before. >> Okay. >> The other thing too that I would say with this and I think this is the the program there if I'm wrong if I'm mistaken. But if we assign a kiddo to that and then they move away and we have another kiddo that comes in they can't take that seat. we have to give them another slot >> because if we do we lose all that kids data and we don't want that because a lot of our kids leave and then they
033come back >> and so you want to have a little bit of a cushion as our kids move in and out. >> Understandable. >> How does this uh this 101,000 for one year we've been using this for a long time. Is that pretty is that pricing stay fairly consistent over the years? >> Yeah. Um, Educ actually I think we've only been using it for three years, so it's a newer product, but I illuminate I think yeah, it's been pretty consistent, but I know the quotes from Renaissance have been 100,000. >> Yeah. When I wrote this memo, it didn't look out of the ordinary from last year. I mean, everything goes up a little bit, but I didn't see anything super alarming. >> Any other questions? >> Mr. Mr. President, I move to approve the one-year
034contract from July 1, 2025 through June 2026 for Inspect Plus DNA edge climber in the amount of $11,640. >> I'll second move and seconded. Is there any further discussion? Those in favor raise your hand. Oppose the same. Motion carries. Okay, it's the last bit of money we get to spend. The board of education has asked to consider and approve the renewal of Leader and me for the amount of $119,240.77 for a one-year contract. >> And I'm making these progressively larger as we go. >> So, um, leader in me is our SEAL curriculum at some of our K6 buildings or actually we added preschool this year. So, it's preK through six. Um, a a few of our schools do use capturing kids hearts, but the majority of our buildings are using um, leader and me for
035their social social emotional learning. Um, it I know you guys have had ply up here talking about some of their achievements and being recognized as lighthouse schools and and getting some awards. So, we've seen some real growth in kids and goal setting and, you know, maturing in the way that we want them to do. So, I've had a couple of conversations with um some elementary teachers that have like differing ideas on the capturing kids hearts versus leader in me and um so I like I'm just learning. of help me understand like some of them are saying like they think some of the younger kids are not equipped for the leader in me because it has skills they may or may not have. So not only are we teaching them the leader in me, we're teaching
036them some of the things that they might be learning in capturing kids hearts to start with. So, I've had a couple people present to me that maybe capturing kids hearts is a better program for like maybe preschoolers through second third graders and then leader in me is a better program once these kids have these good quality social emotional level skills to then morph those into becoming a good leader. Is that like have I been misled or is that you know what's your opinion? I guess >> I know there's a debate within the schools in general because we would like everybody to be in the same program so there's consistency and it has been brought up multiple times when we've been doing some of our workshops that we need to be consistent and have one program
037across the elementaryaries instead of some of them having one thing and others having something different because when kids move from building to building it creates confusion. Um, I don't know that I would advocate for it in the way that you're talking about, you know, K2 for one thing and then, you know, 36 for something else. Those programs are written to be K12 really. Um, and they have a scope and sequence that starts at very low-level skills. Now, our kids do come without a lot of those low-level skills, but the curriculum is set up that we would be teaching them. And you know, it may be hard for some of our kids who haven't had some of those early skills, but it's what we're doing in classrooms all the time. It's true for reading and math
038also. So, um I know we as u administrators have had discussions about where do we go with do we keep two curriculums, do we go to one, which one? I don't know that anybody's in a position to make a decision about that. But I do know that either one of those programs we're seeing good things with both capturing kids hearts and leader. We're seeing real growth with kids. And I think that as we go through this kids progress through the system, we're hopefully going to see fewer disciplinary actions because kids are going to have better social emotional skills as they get older. >> Well, I had grandkids at schools that used both of them. So I've seen, you know, a little bit of pieces here and there of what that looks like. >> Yeah. And
039there there's some consistency in, you know, teaching kids what it means to be a responsible citizen. You know, that there are some consistent things between both programs. They're just taught and go about it a little bit differently. I think one of the things that I would say like with what Heather said is a big piece of social emotional curriculum is having common language that you're using. So they're using the same terms and things like that. And so if you're doing capturing kids hearts for the beginning and leader me a lot of that stuff's going to get jumbled and it that's going to cause some conflicts for kids. So I do think and that's that's a struggle I feel like that we see too. um you know if you've got staff members that are going between
040one building and another and this is the catch kids heart building and this is a leader me building for staff to be able to pick up that language and stuff for our staff that that becomes a little complicated. So I something that we're going to have to have discussions um you know I need to work with you all to kind of see get some direction on what what we think we want to do. Um I have some ideas but how long have we been using later? >> It actually got started um around what >> 20 21s. >> Yeah. >> When we had Esser's money >> same thing. They both got picked up at the same time. Around 21 20 or 21 >> and it really started in just a couple schools and then you know
041they were pretty excited about it and it kind of grew from there. I think ply and >> pimel is the first school that started leader in B. Yeah. >> And then it's just kind of grown um because t teachers and administrators were hungry for something that was going to teach kids skills that they needed and with the behaviors we were seeing and then postcoid that was a lot worse. We really need the structure of a curriculum you know to support kids in learning those social emotional skills. And is this now a state requirement to have the social this way? >> And this one is on the um approved resources for using at risk funds. >> Yeah. >> So is this a one year or two-year contract? >> It is a one-year. When I look at
042that sheet that says leader me agreement, it lists out membership uh when it says membership start date, membership end date. It has kind of an itemized list of June 30th 2025 or June 29th 2026 and then it goes down and talks about 26 to 28 and the total is it seems like this is a two-year. Did you speak to them, Josh, when they sent this? >> Okay. >> And I'm just >> Yeah, you're starting end dates, dude. >> Yeah. And if you add up rough, I mean, just do quick mental math there. It >> It is a two-year. >> It's a two-year agreement is about 58 to $59,000 per section there. >> Yeah, that might be we might need to look into that one more. because we've done historically one-year contracts on that. Is there
043a reason why they would have given us a two? >> We did a two-year contract with Garfield. I know because the grant that we got for them, >> guess could you give clarification on that? May provide us an update and put it on the percentage if you know after we got some additional. >> That's a good question. >> Uh other question I had, how is capturing kids hearts paid for? Same fund. >> Same fund because originally it was grant funded and then was there >> they were all esters funded to start. >> All funded at first. Okay. >> So now it's just paid for out of our atrisisk budget. >> Yeah. At risk per curriculum. Okay. >> Textbooks. It would either come out of our funding or our textbooks account depending on >> what feels
044the most comfortable >> financially. >> Thank you. >> I I agree. I I think there's definitely some value in getting the district on the path of one one program. I mean, as you just like you said, for staff to go to different campuses, students that move different, it's all different. And I definitely think that's whether we put a working group together or something, you know, whichever one we decide, obviously, we're going to hurt somebody's feelings. I mean, someone's not going to agree, but I do see the value of having one social emotional program for the district over multiple ones. Agree. Okay, thank you. We'll move on to item F9. Board of Education is asked to consider and approve the dual credit cooperative agreement between the Garden City Community College and Unified School District 457. Garden
045City Public Schools for enrollment secondary students for the 2526 school year. Interim assistant superintendent Steve Norton. Uh yeah, in front of you is theou for between Garden City Public Schools and Garden City Community College. This is a continuation of our relationship uh allowing them to teach community college dual credit courses on our sites. Whether it's direct instruction from a high school adjunct or a faculty member monitoring a lab of students or in very rare cases they're teaching night classes, weekend classes or something else on our in our buildings and we haven't had that for quite a while. I think the last time we had something like that was culinary. They did some evening classes in our kitchen at the high school because they didn't have a facility as of yet. So thisou kind of details
046uh those arrangements. So it's a as I said it's a continuation of of what we've been doing in the past. It's a great great relationship for our kids uh and our families. Most of our students end up that go on to postsecary end up at the community college and this is a great head start for them. And so to have this working relationship and continue that working relationship is I think good for everybody involved. >> I think it's great because I wish they would have had it back in the ancient ages. >> Doing it on our campus is really convenient for kids and families. Some classes they just we can't teach at the high school and they've got to go off-site construction things like that. But for the most part, it's that us them being
047willing to really come into the high school and and provide the services where our kids are. I think that's another benefit for everybody. >> I would agree. I think it's very valuable tool for our students. Sure. Any other questions? Mr. Press, I move to approve the dual credit cooperative agreement between Garden City Community College, Unified School District 457, Garden City Public Schools for enrollment of secondary students for the 2025 through 2026 school year. >> Second. >> It's been moved and seconded. Is there any further discussion? All >> in favor, raise your hand. Post safe. Motion carries. Thank you. Okay, we'll move on to item F10. Board of Education has asked to consider and approve the intent to exceed the revenue neutral rate for the fiscal year of 2026. Interim Deputy Superintendent Drew Tone. >> President
048uh Rston and the board tonight, I bring forward our annual request to the board to approve the intent to exceed the revenue neutral rate for fiscal year 26. Uh, as you may recall, the state canvas requires school districts to notify the county clerk if they plan to exceed the exceed the RNR. That notice must be submitted by July 20th of 2025. Uh, included in that notice uh in the notice that you guys have in front of you is the proposed tax rate for the upcoming fiscal year as well as the date of required uh required public hearing for the rate. Uh we are proposing to hold the RNR hearing on August 26, 2025 immediately prior to our board's regularly scheduled meeting. Uh this will be held in conjunction with our annual budget hearing. As required
049by law, the public notice of a hearing will be published in the Garden City Telegram at least 10 days in advance. Uh by approve by approving this intent to exceed the RNR, it does not lock us into any financial tax rate. It simply gives us legal authority to set the rate higher than the revenue neutral rate should that be necessary once budgeting is finalized. Like last year, the proposed rate is slightly higher than we anticipate needing just to give us some flexibility. Again, this is the same approach we used last year. To be clear, there is no financial impact tonight. This is just the first step in the process. Any final decision about the tax rate will come after we adopt the fall budget. With that, I recommend the board approve the notice of intent
050to exceed the revenue neutral rate for fiscal year 26. We are asking action tonight. Are there any questions? See, I wrote that all down >> because I can't mess that up or Jessica's going to have my >> The one thing I would say is it's not August 26th, it's August 28th. >> August 28th. That was a glitch that we had. So, uh, again, we're not increasing. Um, we don't anticipate increasing. It just gives us the ability, uh, to increase if we have to. Uh, Jessica, uh, when Jessica and I and Josh and Steve talked, we don't anticipate the need to increase. We, we plan on keeping mill levy flat. Uh but it does give us that leeway to increase if we have to. But all of that will be set at your guys's budget hearing
051uh there on the 28th. So tonight we just need uh the authorization to send that to the county clerk and then we'll come back on the 28th and give you uh the f what we project the final mill levy to be as well as the budget hearing. And we do ask for action tonight. I'd entertain a motion to authorize Jessica Ner CFO to notify Grafini County Clerk of intent to exceed the revenue neutral rate for the fiscal year 2026 and the proposed mill levy rate shall be no more than 50.0. The date of hearing shall be August 28th at 5:00 p.m. in the board meeting room of the educational support center here at 125 Fleming Street Garden City campus. >> Mr. President, I move the board of education authorize Jessica Northern CFO to notify Fenny
052County Clerk of a 10 to exceed the revenue neutral rate for fiscal year 26 with a proposed no levy rate of no more than 50.0. Second. >> Okay, it's been moved and seconded. Is there any further discussion? All in favor, raise your hand. Opposed same motion carries. Authorizing Jess to notify the Fing County Court. Okay. Item F11. Board of Education is asked to consider and approve the following board of education policy changes. And these are our first read. Uh Drew, you're up again. >> Uh President Rston, first I'll ask you guys, would you prefer me go through uh all of these and then ask questions at the end or do you guys want to go through these one by one? one by one work. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Let's go through one by one. Um
053BBC uh board committees. So what this uh what this change to BBC is moving forward anytime the board directs us to to uh create a committee. that committee falls under open records under Kora um because of the new state law that requires uh anytime a board develop a committee those meetings be uh open meetings and uh open coma requests. So uh all we're doing is we're changing BBC to match House Bill 213. Um it's pretty we had this discussion last year. It's just to match law. Uh the next one is CN public records. Uh this is a revision. Uh the reason we're doing the revision was again house bill 2134. Um on this um the only thing that changes, the only reason for this is furnishing public records. This is just the way that we
054bill for coma requests for open records request. How we can bill for open records request and and what we will do moving forward. And it's just a change in our billing to match uh again house bill 2134 uh investment of funds DFE. This is uh to match House Bill 2152. Uh the purpose behind this uh is to allow uh in smaller communities to allow banks in smaller communities uh to be more involved in investing. This allows for two uh a 2% leeway in the investment of funds. Uh so those small community banks that may not be able to be as competitive as bigger city banks uh can be involved with uh investing those funds into those uh into those local community >> uh DFH fundraising activities. This is just uh a revision to the fundraising
055activities and how activity uh activities funds work. Um the language just does some clarification. The biggest thing is clarify clarifying on personal business of school employees and them not being able to raise funds at school for their private businesses. And again, if you guys have questions, please don't hesitate to ask. Uh GAE complaints. Um what this does is this is for classified employees. This is just aligning uh our policy really with our practice more than anything. But it is also a KSB recommendation and it cleans up dramatically our K AE policy. Our KE policy was very long wordy policy. This condenses that policy and is in line with actually what we do with the 10 days within 10 days of a complaint. They have to file the complaint notice with their supervisor. supervisor has 10
056days to follow up with the complaint. It's our practice. This just follows along with what we're doing. Uh GACB uh employee whistleblower, we have a similar policy. What this uh has done with House Bill 2160 is it says that policy has to be an independent policy separate from other policies. So, this pulls this policy out of a different policy and creates a standalone whistleblower policy uh that we follow. IB uh school site councils. This is a revision um on this. Currently, the board of education, you guys do not appoint our site councils at our schools. Uh our our principles and administrators appoint those. If you were to appoint those site councils as a board of education, those site councils are now open to coma. They're open to open records, open meetings. We have to keep
057minutes the same way you guys keep meeting uh meeting minutes here for the board of education. IC uh IC educational programs. Um so what IC educational programs is we have changed the negotiated agreement with regards to the professional development committee and the curriculum council. This change in policy just aligns our board policy with our ne new negotiated agreement uh creating both a curriculum council and a professional development council. Uh JBC enrollment uh again this is to comply with uh um state law. All we did uh was we added a section regarding military students. Uh the state of Kansas uh passed bill 21102 and what that did was it allows people that are in the military moving into a Kansas school. They don't have to have proof of residency to move into that school. Um so
058it we don't deal with it a whole lot here. Junction City, Levvenworth, Manhattan, um Derby with the Air Force base, they deal with it. We never really deal with it. But if you have somebody transferring in from a different Air Force base, they don't have to have proof of residency to transfer into your district if they're in the military because they haven't established residency yet. So, it allows them to go ahead and get their student enrolled and ready to go before they get transferred into that base is is what that does. Uh BC or excuse me, JBCD enrollment of military students that corresponds with JBC. It's all tied together. uh into the same policy. JBCDA indistrict transfers. Uh there were a few minor changes to our industry transfer policy. Uh one was changing um the
059open enrollment for industry transfers from January to April. Um only some a few small slight changes uh that help us align with uh policy KSB. So, it's all it's all just aligning our policies. Uh JGFGB, supervision of medications. Um this falls in line. We we put this in place for it's a revision uh to our current policy, but really it's based around uh Senate Bill 63. Um and this has a lot to do with uh transgender activities um for students transitioning. It allows um it prevents our our nurses and our employees from handling transition medicine for students that are are transitioning uh due to ST KBC uh media relations and usage. Um, so House Bill 2134, basically what this does is anytime that we live stream uh a board meeting or something that that we
060plan on live streaming, we can't live stream only part of it, we have to live stream the whole thing. So tonight, if we're having trouble starting the live stream, we have to wait to get the live stream going and then and then get started. We can't start part part of the way through the live stream. We either broadcast the whole thing or we don't broadcast any of it. Uh and Hulk for instance, they just audio theirs as opposed to audio and video. If you're going to audio it, you have to audio the whole thing, not just partial uh board meetings or open meetings that are are live streamed or broadcast. >> Um you skipped 11 the provision of medications. >> Uh that was the end. He's activ student activities. Okay. Sorry. Uh >> I had
061my thing on my highlight on the wrong thing, but yeah. >> Okay. So, student activities JH uh is to align with Senate Bill 114. Uh what this is doing uh is just uh changing our JH to align. We currently have JH is a revision to JH for those students that are homeschooled homeschooled virtual schooled or go to a non-public school uh allowing them to to participate. They can already participate in the activities but this allows them to participate in things like ceremonies that are associated with the activities. Uh there's been a lot of constrination back and forth um over things like uh like postseason celebrations. If they're not a student, do they get to go to the postseason celebration or are they only a part of the team during the team uh during the team
062activities? So JH what it says is as long as that student is participating in everything that is required of another student. Um, so if debate is a good example, um, one of the requirements is they take a debate class. So even if they're a virtual student or homeschool student, if they go and take that debate class and fill all the requirements of any other debate student, they can participate in the debate ceremony at the end of the season. Um, where this is eventually leading, just so you guys know, are things like graduation, prom, those sorts of things is where this eventually is going to. Does that make sense? And that one's eventually going to get complicated for everybody. You >> say this that policy is to align with current new legislation. >> Yeah. So, Senate
063Bill 114 and all they did was Senate Bill 114. Uh if you guys remember a couple years back they opened up allowing homeschool kids to participate in activities in their boundaries. It's started to clean up some of how that's all operating. Um we did midear relations uh KGB concealed uh observations. Um so this goes back to KBC that we talked about before with live streaming. Um again um it basically says that any meeting uh if there is a meeting that the board requests that that board meeting if it's live streamed again it's open to uh Kora KOMO all those other things that any other meeting would be open to KM visitors to school uh this has to do with bill uh 202 and This is the possession of firearms in school. Uh what the and
064this has been a little controversial um just in the roll out of how it's going to work. But what this does is a um a police officer, FBI agent, those sorts of people. They do not have to disclose that they're caring when they come into a school. Um they don't have to disclose that. We can't ask >> have to identify themselves. they don't have to identify themselves as one of those folks that have are doing that. The reason for that is um and Randy can probably speak to this more eloquent eloquently than I can, but u some police officers felt like they were being targeted in larger districts uh when they would identify themselves coming into schools >> for events bracelets >> if they were if they would consider Karen which they thought in some
065larger districts that would be problematic. In Garden City people probably appreciate it. Some places don't appreciate it. Um, Ken and complaints. I haven't skipped any others. Kay and complaints. The only thing that changes, this is just a slight change. Um, in um a complaint made against a superintendent. Um, when a complaint is currently made against a a superintendent, uh the the current or the current verbiage says uh the board shall investigate. This changes it from shall to may. Uh and the reason being is because uh oftent times there are superintendents that have complaints made against them. You guys as the board get with legal counsel and review the complaint and there's not much there to the complaint other than somebody being disgruntled. So this allows you guys as board members not to have to go
066through a full investigation anytime a complaint against the superintendent. >> All right. on the BBC question. >> BBC subcommittee or a subordinate group. It's it cannot exist any longer than one year. Are we talking a calendar year? >> Uh yeah. Yeah. when you got the discussion we had last year is when we formed that subcommittee for the boundary study and then that opened us up to making sure all of those was open meetings and uh if we broadcasted you know all those things uh were accessible through comor and all the links this is just a first be a silly question but when you talk about live streaming the entire meeting or we talked about like when I mean I've been here when have executive sessions for >> Yeah. So, executive sessions are obviously excluded, >>
067right? But after the meeting or we may take action on something >> unless you're going to take action after executive session. Yeah. >> Yeah. When we come back, we have to turn it back. >> We would have to live stream that. >> Correct. >> Well, I mean, we probably have to bring it back on because we take that's by even voting to close meeting. We're taking action. Well, like the county today for theirs, they just put a little wire up that said >> Yeah. >> executive session in progress and that's all that they had on there. When the meeting closes, we come back on. Turn it on. You guys close the meeting when we >> Thanks, sir. >> It'll be on consent at the next meeting unless you guys have questions. >> Move on to
068item G, board open discussions. Mark, you're up. >> No saying I, but I do want to give a thanks and appreciation to the the administrative team for what y'all are doing in preparation for the upcoming school year is going to be here before you know it. I was reading on Facebook. Enrollment starts tomorrow. Yeah. It's like, wow, we're already there. Be here before you know it. So, again, thank you for what you're all doing and everybody else behind the scenes that's sitting here tonight doing what what they're doing to get ready for it. Uh looking forward to the new year. Uh things are coming together. Seen some of the buildings getting their their final touches and fixups and appreciate all the hard workers that are making that happen and everything come together to do that.
069I've seen a few awards that have come out since we the end of the school year. So congratulate all those students who have uh worked hard and represented the school system well. And that's all I've got. John's not here. Jackie, >> Mr. First of many meetings. >> Yeah. >> And just kind of what Mark Nathan already said, thank you to everybody that's all administration getting into new school year. Uh, just want to say thank you to Randy and and to you Mark to Randy for being willing to continue to serve as our board president. You've done a great job this last year and looking forward to having you continue in that role and and Mark, thank you for willing to serve as board vice president. >> Um, I I'm I agree. Thank you. I I
070really appreciate everybody's support and and willingness to let me fill this role and enjoy it and I appreciate it. Thank you very much and again thank you for stepping up and thank you for everything that you did too. I know how hard you work so appreciate it. Um also give a shout out. I've had some compliments on the the new high school football coach. had some people reach out to me and were their students are middle school students and we're thoroughly impressed with the the camp he did with the middle school and that the coaches and that. So hopefully we're getting off to the right start. I think we are getting off to a good start. So and then I agree with what everybody said already about everybody's hard work and it's it'll be here
071before you know it. It just it's like it's like Groundhog Day again, you know. So Bob, >> um yeah, I agree with what everyone said. Um thanks to the staff, um for sharing their vacation summers with the hardest couple of months that you guys have to deal with before the nitty-gritty of school gets here. >> Um yeah, I I I want to thank Andy for for your time as vice president. You did a great job. Um, and Mark, welcome. I'm excited for you to take on this new role and and Randy, I I appreciate you taking that leadership role again for us for the next year. Um, just like you all said, uh, school summer's about over. Our principles are back to work next week. So, Monday, principles all return to work. Uh, we'll have
072new principal training on Monday and Tuesday and admin retreat on Wednesday and Thursday. And so, there'll be a lot of training for our principles getting them ready to go for the for the upcoming year. um uh letters um letters training is going to be we're going to have uh four people that are going to be trained to be letters facilitators for our district and so that training is happening next next week too. So I'm excited about that to have experts in the district that are going to be able to continue that that training and and keep the direction um of of what we're doing with our literacy initiative. So that's exciting for us as well. So uh while everybody else is home resting this is the busy time for us and so we really started
073cranking it out. I think Steve and his his crew uh and in the instruction office have got a really good plan for the admin retreat for the for next week. And so I'm excited to get everybody back and see everybody and get started. >> Hey, Adam H. The next board meeting, the next meeting of the board of education take place on Thursday, July 24th at 5:00 pm in the board meeting room at the educational support center here at 12:05 Living Street. I forgot to put in there the special the it's not a special meeting but the board retreat on Tuesday the 22nd. I probably should have put that in there as well. Okay. All right. I item I executive session. Mr. President, I move we go to executive session for 15 minutes to discuss a
074matter with an attorney pursuant to the exception matters which would be deemed privilege in the attorney client relationship under comment beginning at 7 came at 7:10 let's do 7:15 >> 7:15 and the open meeting will resume the board board meeting room at 7 7:30m would like to invite Josh Gman Brandon Anderson and Jennifer Cunningham to join us in executive session. >> Second move and seconded. We move to executive session. Is there any further discussion? All in favor raise your hand. All the same. Motion carries.