USD 457 Board of Education Meeting 3/3/2025

001e e e order begin with Pledge of Allegiance good right on you alance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible liy and justice for all take a moment for a silent reflection thank you move on to item number c meeting of note uh board faculty meeting March 5th 2:30 pm at the Garden City High School for tenants have another board faculty meeting March 12th 3M at l City achieve for more board members may be in attendance and a board faculty meeting March 26th 7 45 a.m. at Charles Stones intermediate Center four of board members four or more board members may be in attendance as item D approval of agenda Mr President I move we approve the agenda tonight with the

002following amendments item D1 at item 8 new business the board of education is asked to consider an approve resolution um consenting that the ordinance of the city of Garden City Kansas pertaining to parking and trafficking regulations on city streets shall apply to all roads streets and driveways of the grounds of all USC 457 schools within the limits of the city of Garden City Kansas item D2 is to add item H5 new business Board of Education ask to consider and approve reimbursement agreement I item D3 is to add item K2 executive session matters related employee employer employee negotiations whether it were not in consultation with the representatives or representatives of the body or agency4 additional classified Personnel action items item F3 finally item B5 it K4 executive session Personnel matters for non-elected personel motion is there

003a second second it's been moved in second any discuss all in favor raise your right hand same motion carries item e uh delegations and public comments is there any NOP on to item E1 building presentation horse good Middle School Amber pot thank you for having us here tonight so I'm Amber Po's associate principal over at horse good we have a few students from from our school them introduce themselves tell you a little bit about what they're involved in my name is and I volb and basketball and I hello I'm I of the Jazz Band and um I did volleyball cross country hi I'm Macio um I do Scholars Bowl um I do band and Jazz Band my name is Jose um I do band jazz band um I did and I'm Miss Johnson I'm the

004athletic director and the admin intern at hor good middle school so the video presentation we put together just kind of to highlight uh horse good and the positive School culture we're trying to build U promoting Student Success and really just with the two years we have with our Hawks getting them prepared to be successful bus there's in eth grade social studies students leave the school and saying the Pledge of Allegiance every morning our social studies te get ready for our horse good Middle School presentation something excited we've done is we've brought the Pledge of Allegiance back every morning jlc students take on the task of hoisting the black eth grade social study students lead the school and St the Pledge of Allegiance every morning our social studies teachers are diving deep into the flag with

005monthly lessons that exam we are all in this together some things we do to help us stay together is student and athlete spotlights by Jersey your impact and of course my bow your impact we've got goals we hold early parent teacher conferences once a semester we also focus on making positive parent or Guardian we are engaged in Focus we've got the data to show we are on the right track we've got a community H donated a table slot to The Woodworking class Central planes equipment sponsored a t-shirt for all staff and students hdms students went to Garfield to cheer on students for walk to school day hdms students volunteered during the holidays media students volunteered at leave Legacy years HG staff went to F Bank to volunteer their time this year too we've got Spirit

006rallies spirit days gohawks e e future Hawk we're excited to be you in August and help you in your life Journey we have any questions for us we great are you guys each one of you in you all graders okay what's your guys' names did you introduce yourselves already how many students send where good yeah upper 560s being a larger school what challenges do you face how do you guys think if if would be there were sixth grade there too more chaotic you guys MERS come up here and get a right and all good job turn around get thank you guys all right we move on to item F consent agenda Mr President I move we approve the consent agenda we moved and seconded to approve the consent agenda any further discussion all in favor

007raise your right hand post same motion carries on to item g board reports uh G1 Ela curriculum and literacy literacy update Jos me so as we uh as we discussed at at the last board meeting I said that we would kind of share with you um our plans for the the curriculum adoption for ELA next year will be the year that we review curriculum for adoption for the 2627 school year and um Heather's got kind of a a slideshow that she'll kind of go through and and the process that we're going to use to um to put that committee together what that'll look like and kind of our plans for that and then when we get done with that um we were asked to kind of put together some information to share on the blueprint

008for literacy that um that the states that the state's organized and so we'll share some of that information with you too so kind of two pres two two presentations we try to get them into one for you all since they both kind of cover English they both kind cover Ela so it made sense to share both of them so you want me to push the buttons for you sure okay so um Kansas Department of Education as is partnering with tntp um to kind of lead high quality instructional materials adoption um across the state because it's really a focus um from KSD at this point that we've got to get higher quality materials in front of kids so um they've been leading us through this process and this was um the first product of that work

009so um go ahead and go our objectives are we have a seven-year textbook adoption cycle and this is the upcoming year for ELA adoption so you know that put it at the Forefront for us um but in addition it's a priority for us to select highquality instructional materials that are going to address structured literacy which is a weakness in our current elementary curriculum but also be U materials that will challenge all of our kids and we have a wide variety of kids kids who need enrichment down to kids who need um interventions and we need a product that's going to support all of those kids and move all of them towards being better readers and writers um why adopt Ela materials I've been in front of you multiple times to talk about our scores we

010are consistently low both on cap and on fast Bridge so we've got to get um better materials and tools in teachers hands that are going to support them in improving our student literacy rates um teachers also Express concerns that our current instructional materials are not fully aligned to science of reading nor our state standards so that's especially true I think at the elementary level we know that our balanced literacy approach that's in Benchmark is not aligned to science of reading um I would stand behind our middle school materials a little bit more on my perspectives is a strong product but I do think that they have a better version in their 2025 Edition um that'll get um better materials in teachers hands um and then our teachers need high quality engaging resources that address all

011the components of ela Reading Writing speaking and listening um especially writing we hear a lot from teachers that the current curriculum does not have strong writing support in it and that's definitely something that we've been talking to Publishers about is we've got to have writing support for our kids um our timeline and I actually have copies for you um this is our timeline of events that we want to see um happen partly to hold ourselves accountable to being done in a in a manner that we'll get materials here and in teachers hands when they need them um and also gives you guys enough time to um really get a chance to look at what our decision was and support be able to support it we have already started um some of the work we have

012a leadership team that has vetted several curriculums um we want to narrow that down to three that we'll put in front of a teacher committee starting in April so um our leadership team has met with three Publishers already and we will meet with three more this week to look at their products and kind of narrow them down to ones that we think will be good for Garden City and then we'll give teachers the opportunity to go through those materials and narrow it down to the final one that they will present to our leadership team and and then on to you guys oh curriculum Council I'm sorry goes to curriculum Council first then our leadership team and then to the board um responsibilities for the committee we um are asking for the teacher team that um

013will be in charge of uh selecting to meet with a tntp representative and ksde to get a vision for this uh high quality instructional material selection process um so that will start on April 21st which is our last District PD dat um and then we'll set a timeline that works for that committee to meet with those three Publishers and learn more about those materials um that could be in the summer it may be evenings I'm going to leave that up to the committee as to what works for their schedules and then each building has one representative that will serve on that committee you went through it so fast sorry yeah it's all right I'm losing track of what I'm supposed to say it's all right Sor it's all right um each building is going to

014have one representative that will serve on that committee that will be the primary um for getting back to the building and making sure everybody in those buildings is informed of the materials or the curriculums that we're looking at but the materials will also be available I've talked to Karen about using a classroom ape Hubert which is centrally located in the city and all teachers are available to go and review those materials any time um but if they have concerns or input we prefer that that go through their building representative do you have any questions about that I don't know if you mentioned it how will you select those people is it is it a volunteer deal or um I have asked for names from principles because we we wanted people that are knowledgeable of Standards

015um and can will be able to commit the time to being there for each of the publisher presentations it's not really fair if they only attend two of the three and then have to make a decision so we need people that can commit to being at all three of those that will take the time to get in and really deep dive into those curriculums because there is a lot of material in those curriculums and it's a big time commitment so we want to make sure it's somebody that will be able to go in and go through all those components and get to know the curriculum well before they make the decision so so that's that's the criteria we ask for from principles and then then they submitted names to me I'm going to go face

016Toof face with each of those people within the next couple weeks just to you know see if they're willing to serve on that committee and get confirmation from them um and then hopefully we will have a committee our Target date is March 28 to have commitments from building Reps for every building how you going selecting your representes sorry too fast um we have an elementary one already um I think uh one of our committee members reached out to ask someone that they thought served on the committee before and she says no I didn't but I certainly would like to so we have an elementary parent who has committed um I don't have a high school parent that's committed yet that I know of unless Dr Duncan has solicited you know someone um we also are

017needing board representation so if any of you are interested in being on that committee we would love to have your Insight on on that as well we'd like to have two board members participate as well yeah and we actually have two committees sorry Josh you should have let me run the clicker um we have one that's Ka pre8 and one that's high school and um that's just because tntp and ksde are leading that process for high school um so we kind of kept that separate because it's going to be led by outside groups but we certainly will consider whether or not they want to be aligned to what we're doing at the prek-8 so I know I've had some of those members that ask if they could set in on the publisher meetings for the

018elementary and middle school curriculums because they want to know a little bit more about those curriculums to to see if they want to align to what we're doing at the younger grades um in the past they've used springboard at the high school springboard is a college prep program put out by act or the College Board um and it does not have middle school or Elementary curriculum so there was no way for them to align to what the younger grades were doing so um I am optimistic or positive about the fact that they want to know more about what's happening in the grades below them say you're down to three we have it at six right now we're going to narrow it to three before we put that in front of the teacher committee you get

019to the three that of the teacher committee um can they provide a letter that diversity yeah we' asked that for all of our curriculums in fact before I met with the textbook companies for our six I told them that would be a requirement before it got board approval and none of the Publishers thought that was going to be a problem any other questions good questions sorry I ran through it pretty quick yep so um just just a little background on the Kansas blueprint for literacy a little history so last year um uh during the legislative session the legislators passed the Kansas blueprint for literacy um and so in February they worked with the Kansas Board of regions to adopt that as well um it was Senate Bill uh 438 and so basically there it lays

020out some some expectations for for school districts and and requirements that we're going to have to have to meet um by by uh 2028 they um the biggest piece to that is by 2028 all of our elementary teachers all of our ELA teachers all of our ESL teachers um anybody who's basically has anything to do with um Ela will have to have the blueprint will have to have the uh till of literacy on their on their teaching license by the year 2028 in order to continue teaching and so there's a there's a few different ways to do that the biggest way to do that is um we're doing letters training with our with our staff now and so um if they've completed all the coursework in letters and and successfully passed the test then then

021that will automatically give them the the Seal of literacy to their um to their license but there are some other other other avenues that they can can go through as well um a big piece of that is working with the colleges um we're seeing that a lot of our um I feel like where we're at versus where the the teacher classes that they're taking at the colleges they're they're behind where we are a few years and so I think that was a big push to make sure that the kiddos that were coming out of out of college that they had they had the background in the science of reading to be able to teach that when they entered the classroom and so um that's going to be part of the new practices exam that's going

022to be required for teachers when they uh when they take their practice it'll have a lot of the information on the science of reading so that'll be part so when they come to us they'll already have that if they've successfully pass the the practice test um so um the objectives of the of the blueprint for literacy or to change the trajectory for literacy in Kansas to help our students um reach their potential um it establishes a frame for for increasing literacy um there's there's a structure there you know with understanding the the science of reading and and having a background in the science of reading is is really going to be the biggest component to that um the goals for it are to you know to have 100% of our our special education all of

023the teachers like I said before that we want to have that that seal of literacy on their license and to have 90% of our third grade third through e8th grade students reading at grade level um by the year so um yeah um so the Kansas border regions has established um different colleges that that are working with uh this hill of literacy and so Fort Hayes is our our um our area that our area College that's that's that uh that has a center for literacy um that's that's been established through the work with the board of regions and with the legislature um Dr Dominguez and I went to um superintendent Council early last month and um Dr um Dr Broman Miller was was there and she spoke a little bit about the center um one of

024the things that she shared with us is that um they're really not clear of what funding is going to look like um I think the funding that they were expecting from the legislature doesn't look like it's going to be fully funded and so I think all of the plans and all the the things that they had had originally intended um are going to be scaled back I think she's still planning on working with us and putting some things together uh we've actually got her coming out for the next two PD days to to work with some of our staff um and so uh there's opportunities there but it's going to be a lot a lot less than what what I think they had originally intended for us to be able to do is this me

025or you that's me okay okay so um after meeting with Dr Miller um we kind of got a little bit more of a vision of the different things that this legislation is going to offer us um they talked about community events and we didn't um get a lot lot of insight on that yet um I have a follow-up meeting with her later this week where I might be able to learn a little bit more of that we focused more on what professional development is available and instruction for our teachers that's available so um we have scheduled for our final two District PD days for Dr Miller to come and work with our letters completers which is approximately 30 to 40 teachers um it was originally 40 but with people that have moved a district I

026think we're closer to 30 now um but the letters completers will work with her on how to use the different assessments that we use within District to adjust instruction um so we've kind of focused a little bit more on that professional development piece but they do offer some additional things for community members parents things like that that may want to learn more um about dyslexia in particular um they are offering micro credentials on dyslexia um the way that they described it is that the micr credentials course that they created is the how of literacy how kids learn whereas letters is the what you do to teach it so it's kind of meant to go in hand in hand together um and so she was really encouraged by how many teachers that we have who have

027been through letters and felt like this next step piece will be really beneficial for our staff um this micr credential they do offer courses college courses that um our staff can enroll in it's equivalent to 15 hours of professional development um and at the completion of that they will have a certificate or micr credential in dyslexia um there's some stiens and some things but it's very reasonably priced I think they said $40 for the micro credential so um they definitely are wanting it to be something thing that teachers take advantage of and do you have any questions about that when I was at the uh ASP conference and kind of first heard about this they talked about the component this has it the 6K Bo schools and and in teaching students the science of reading

028um so they come out of school with with that um is there a way that we that I mean how do we of keep tabs on that uh as when these course offerings are not just so that we kind of understand as the years move on and students are graduating college and coming into our district to teach so we have a good understanding of where they're at and learning that and and what we still maybe need to work with them on as we as we hire them so I think that's going to be well two answers to that Andy I think think one long term when we get to the point when they have to have that on their license that's going to be part of part of so we'll know that they'll have that

029background because we they'll have that on their license and so that's going to be an expectation that as they come out the colleges are going to be teaching that material so that they can prepare them for the practice ex practice exam um the other thing is I think we need to do a good job of working with Drew's office to make sure that that we've got folks that are enrolling in that so letters is going to be really important continuing to push letters um and then having that follow those followup classes for them after letters I think is going to be part of that as well um and I think that really lines up with kind of what our professional development plan is moving forward I mean literacy is going to be a focus and

030so all those things related to that are going to be be critical and I um in talking to Dr Miller you know passing a practice is not the same as what they're learning in letters or even through this micr credentials opportunity I mean if you pass a practice practice the cut score is usually around 50 60% accuracy so I mean I would stand behind the fact that somebody who's passing a practice probably doesn't have the same level of knowledge of somebody who's going through two years of PD in letters or even this which is about a semester of PD through the college and um and there's a lot of application type stuff you have to do case studies with students um what are our assessment tools how how are you using them how are you

031changing instruction for kids so I think these opportunities are going to be much more applicable to changing what's happening in classrooms versus just the practice but what you're saying from Kansas um State the school board meeting that you went to the state Schoolboard meeting I mean that's a discussion we've been having since all of this started is that it's not sustainable for us to have 120 staff members doing letters training because because they didn't get it when they were in college so I think this is a pathway to make sure that we are getting that at the college level and they come out more equipped and one of the things too that the state's doing as far as letters they're they're moving away from having presenters come to us and and and for our teachers

032to go have those days with them and it's actually we're going to train our staff to be letters facilitators within the district so we'll have that knowledge within the district and so I think it'll it'll it'll make for a little bit more continu and a little bit more followup and the ability to to support our teachers a little bit better with having those folks train within the district and also just so the board knows tntp we did work with the last four years now the state is going to be working with them so technically we're we're actually ahead of the curve on that so we're definitely doing a lot of the already the literacy things that the state will be doing we've already put in place and then I mean we'll just be seeing those

033gains and definitely getting our teachers trained um is a huge component of that teachers are they excited about this yeah SS it's a lot of work but other time consuming to take it I think the success I think they feel like it's been really quality stuff but it is very time consuming can you can we go talk back a little bit on the adoption of the do Ela curriculum the committee is going to be formed by the end of March um recommendation District come until December so kind of what's the timeline in between there what what's going to transpire through those six or eight months so during so on April 21st um we are going to use that District PD day to um have that high quality instru Cal materials training through KSD and tntp

034um after at that time I will meet with that committee and set some dates for them to meet with Publishers um and I would say to really get a good understanding of the curriculum we almost have to have half a day with each publisher and we are a big enough adoption that they will come out here face to face and meet with our teachers and really dive into those materials with them um we did like one hour Zoom Zoom meetings with Publishers on Friday and it was not enough time to really I mean they were just kind of rushing over things really fast um but when we get that teacher committee we need to have plenty of time for those Publishers to really go through show them the different components that they would normally just

035be talking to them about um so we either are going to have to commit to doing that on school days or summer and I'm going to leave that up to that committee to make that decision they know better than me what works for their time because we're here no matter what so um I'm assuming a lot of teachers don't want to do this in the fall because it's a hard time to be out of your classroom and the other thing I would say too is once once you've gone through those curriculums and looked at that then there's going to have to be you know conversations on the strains and the weaknesses and so analyz and all of those that have the committee really break down what they like and what they don't like about each

036curriculum before they make a decision so it'll take a little time we also need to give them time to go back and meet with their teacher teams and get some feedback um because people are going to want to have a voice I just can't have a committee of a hundred teachers and try to come to consensus so if we can have a building level representative from each building they can bring that feedback from their buildings or those concerns or those questions um to this committee and we can kind of work through them so during that six months we'll be doing things like that it also gives time for those representatives to get into those tools because they're going to give us lots of samples so it gives them time to go through and really look

037at those um get on the digital platforms learn more about what's available there so we just have to give them plenty of time to do that and it'll give teachers an opportunity to look at all the curriculums too because even if they're not on the committee they'll still have an opportunity to see all the all the materials and look through them themselves we kind of gave ourselves some leeway I think we were starting to have those discussions I don't have the timeline in front of me but I think it was roughly October that we wanted to have a meeting where we kind of start trying to come to consensus but we gave ourselves about two months to actually do that um because we want to go to curriculum Council in December so that we can

038come before the board um in February so again if there's questions from curriculum Council we have some time before we come to the board question thank you thank you thank you move on to item G2 YMCA Dome update through T Chief human resource officer so as a board um we talked uh a while back about the Dome and then you guys have asked kind of for an overview of uh there's been a lot of things going on with the Dome and a lot of conversation with the Dome and uh just wanted to go back and have an overview of the Dome and and the conversations that we've been having with the YMCA on the future of the Dome and the use of the Dome and and so um getting with you guys tonight to have

039that conversation um I'm just going to go through the timeline I just kind of put this timeline together just as a discussion point then after that you guys can ask any questions that you may have on the Dome Chad was hoping to be here tonight he tweaked his knee uh officiating basketball this past weekend so he said he he wasn't going to be able to make it uh just because his knee was hurting him a little too much um I did talk to Chad about this today I wanted to go through this with Chad and make sure that the YMCA kind of understood what what we'd be presenting tonight and uh walk through step by step with him just if he had something that he may want to put in there or or any anything

040he wanted uh to make sure we pointed out that that I also included that so was a a fair um timeline of of the Dome situation so in January of 2015 uh January 12th of 2015 that is when we signed the original lease on our property for the Dome uh to be to be built um October of 2018 the the first original Dome was installed uh if you guys remember that Dome was only up a few days uh and then Dome came down because of some structure failure inside the Dome uh because on that original Dome they the the new dome has two membranes an interior membrane and an exterior membrane that original Dome uh they put it up with only one of the membranes did not work came down uh and they ended up

041having to sue the company got in some litigation and had to take that Dome down and then in April of 2019 they finally had their grand opening for the YMCA Dome uh it was open a few days and then the city shut them down for a while uh because of some coding issues um and then it it finally reopened and has remained open since uh that 2019 date um one thing to note by the time it actually opened uh the 10year lease was already almost 5 years old by the time the Dome had actually opened so we were halfway into the original lease of of that original 10year lease the the only lease we've ever had um May 6 2024 um Chad knew the YMCA understood uh that the lease was coming to an end

042uh and he reached out uh hoping to uh update a new lease and come to a new lease agreement uh he said that they had financial diffic difficulties obviously due uh to the construction issues that they' had uh the lawsuit that they uh were in with the construction company of the original Dome the legal fees they had electrical problems uh they had flooring problems and then uh if you can tell that April 19 uh it opened up and then not even a year into it uh the pandemic it so they from the start uh faced a lot of lot of major issues with the Dome self uh Chad indicated that they'd raised over $1.3 million for the project uh and they were still losing on average $105,000 per year operating the Dome over those five

043years that it has been operating um at that time the YMCA offered the Dome to US USD 457 to be purchased um the desired agreement was for the district to take over their out standing debt on the Dome and for the YMCA to continue operating the Dome so we would take over the debt they would continue to operate uh the YMCA Dome and facilitate the YMCA Dome um obviously you guys declined that uh you didn't want to take on they still have $1.3 million in outstanding debt on the YMCA Dome you guys obviously didn't want to take on that outstanding debt at that time um we let chat know that uh he said that they would continue to uh seek donors uh to help um hopefully cover cover the outstanding debt cost um in June

044of 24 uh the YMCA indicated they were un unsuccessful in securing those donors and expected to default uh in August of that of last summer um they explored several options including one uh a cell agreement with the a local private school in town uh at that time we informed them that we would not be interested in any any other third party agreements uh of selling the Dome to to anybody else um in July of 24 um with default uh quickly approaching we had major concerns about what we were going to do with our activities at the YMCA Dome uh so we met with the YMCA to start discussions on a possible one-year lease agreement uh we explored um we explored this one-year lease agreement uh the YMCA came back with a one-year lease agreement uh

045where they would lease it at 70 uh a little at $79,000 per month to the district um we declined due to the DraStic cost of of that lease agreement in on August 26th uh they proposed a new off offer for $745,000 for the Dome and all the equipment again we declined uh not wanting to pay that much for the for the Dome um a group uh of representatives from the district met with the YMCA leadership in November to try to come to resolution on the Dome I don't think any of us uh I think we all wanted to find a way to make make things work uh the district we did indicate that we're un unwilling to pay a significant amount for the Dome just because we obviously have our own facility issues that we

046need to deal with with aging buildings aging roofs uh and uh with the possibility of grade reconfiguration and adding sixth grade to the middle schools so our financial uh focus with facilities are on those things and not necessarily the YMCA D and we let the YMCA at that time know that uh the YMCA had previously indicated that the fabric that they could sell the fabric of the dome for what they said around $200,000 um and at the time the district leadership asked the YMCA leadership uh to come back with an offer around that number and it may be considered by the Board of Education uh shortly after the meeting uh the YMCA Dome HVAC unit failed uh and when we uh went and had people look at it uh they said it was in in

047pretty bad disrepair and that replacement cost could reach as much as $500,000 uh so knowing that uh H we obviously had grave concern about even at $200,000 if we had to syn another $500,000 into the HVAC unit uh that could be problematic uh November 22nd uh the YMCA came back with that offer uh that we asked for uh they had an offer for $421,000 uh 375,000 for the Dome 46,000 for the equipment uh the district obviously declined because it didn't fall within what we had requested and uh now we knew that there were significant issues with the HVAC system uh the HVAC system continued to go out uh in and out of operation throughout those winter months on January 7th the district offered $100,000 for the Dome Asis uh and the YMCA declined on January

04814th uh the district followed up with the YMCA who at the time suggested if the uh equipment cost were included uh the YMCA boards um the YMCA boards might the YMCA board might uh consider it um the district declined to offer any more at that time the district requested a proposal from the YMCA on what they think it should look like uh the next day they came back with a new proposal uh for 26,6 75 100,000 for the Dome 61,2 195 for the equipment uh a fabric lease that they owe for 49,4 and back payment on the utility of $6,000 uh at the time the district take over all maintenance and repair uh the YMCA would cover the cost of a preventative maintenance program for the hbac unit and the YMCA uh would have control

049from 5 o'clock in the morning till 8 o' 6 o'clock at night till 10 p.m. and on the weekends the district would have control during the school day from 8: to 3: uh p.m. um we obviously declined that as well because of the lack of control and uh the inflated price uh finally on February 6th the district determined uh that we would not pay anything uh we did not want to offer any money for the Dome any longer and we wanted to prioritize all available facility monies uh to be directed toward an addition to KH for great reconfiguration and our current projects uh Jennifer Cunningham was directed at that time to reach out to the YMCA and their board uh and tell them that uh we would take ownership of the Dome if they would

050like but we would not pay any money um and we would assume all expenses associated with the Dome at that time uh the YMCA could continue to use the dome but use it as we currently allow them in the rec to uh through filling out building use forms uh other items of note that you'll want to remember uh mid June is the deadline for the structure to be removed um if an agreement is not reached um the base and the Footers of the structure must remain unharmed during the removal process for the contract and if it is not removed uh by that mid June date um contract termination date the structure becomes the property of the district if the district desires to have that structure removed uh the YMCA we we can have it removed

051and the YMCA will cover the cost of the removal so that's a a 30,000 foot view of kind of the the long drawn out process uh that's been the YMCA Dome Dome um story I know uh the YMCA um I understand what they're trying to do they're financially uh trying to recoup recoup losses uh that they have in the investment on the Dome um and that's our side of it um some of you have been involved in the back and forth but I know not all of you have so we just wanted to get up here let you guys understand exactly everything that has happened through the entire process and then if if I can answer any of your questions if you have any questions that I can answer I'd love to at this time

052no I was asked about the parking lot and the the city put that in from what we understand is that correct correct the the parking lot and the lights uh we maintain it um the it was installed by the city and and the lighting was installed by the city clarification it goes a little bit along Nathan's so the base and the Footers of the structures must remain unharmed in the removal process does that include the parking lot and and the building in front not the building in front the parking lot the parking lot is our property not not the YMC property just so to clarify that for the lease agreement if nothing so the Y has until June 12 June or July 12th June 12th um I would have to go and count 180 days

053because I haven't done it with 31 days January 12 yes to remove the structure which is the inflated Dome and the bathroom structure all the way down to but not including the concrete slab for the footings that sits on that's the way that the agreement the lease the current lease was written that's their obligation yes their obligation per the contract is to take everything down to footer and concrete Bas level so that would be the uh the out building with the bathroom and and all that stuff and the Dome structure itself remove the HVAC units and then there's the the fencing that would also have to be removed yeah are you aware of the status of the HVAC system or so the it is currently operating uh I know that um I've heard that they've

054turned it down a little bit because of the the cost they don't want to have to pay um their normal operating cost on the building while it's not being fully used so the temperature in there is is pretty low but it is operational you speak a little bit about how the district has used that building for kind of jday activities through the course of this lease yeah um so originally when the lease was signed um we we're supposed to have the the building from 8:00 in the morning till 5:00 at night um at 4:00 the BCA can start using it in this current lease uh the problem that we've ran into and the reason why we haven't got the use out of it that we probably thought we would have is because uh with current

055school facility safety regulations um during the day they do have people come in and lift weights or jog on the track or play basketball um that we do not screen to come in and because the lease isn't overly clear on whether that can happen or not um we just decided during the school day we're not going to use it because we can't regulate uh who comes in and out so currently the only time that we use it is for activities after school so basketball practice volleyball practice um we do our baseball and softball teams will go up there and use use that back back area but uh those are really the only times that we use it like I said we would have liked to use it during the day but because of safety concerns

056we really haven't got the full use of it that that we were hoping to when I talked to uh Dr Dr Carland and Mr Hogan about the original intention we really haven't got the full use of it that we hope to because the the contract wasn't overly clear on that piece of Drew I'm sure oh go ahead John I'm sure going forward there's going to continue to be um conversations with the YMCA I'll make sure that you guys are are aware of all the conversations that are continuing to happen uh on the Dome itself they have invested signific ific amounts of money as a YMCA on that I'm I'm sure they uh do not want to see that thing come down and want to find a way to make it work you know uh us

057as a district it's had you know it's had benefits for us I I think it could have we had more use of it continue to have benefits but uh the the thing that you guys are going to have to determine is at what price um those benefits at what price are they are they valued so just to for for clarification for the leases uh relate to the the property is still owned by usd457 yes the the property is owned by usd457 the YMCA owns everything above the concrete so they own we own Footers and concrete they own everything above the [Laughter] concrete can hear you hey can you hear me yeah we can hear you okay Drew can you speak to any kind of warranty that they may have left on the HVAC system or

058the Dome material itself um they do not and I I I want to make sure I'm not talking out of turn I believe the HVAC warranty is up so I I do not believe they have any warranty left on the HVAC unit itself okay thank you what's the life expectancy of the Dome so the the the life expectancy of the Dome is kind of a tricky question um there there are domes that have been around for 40 years um there's not domes in Western Kansas have been around 40 years so we're kind of in a unique area obviously with the wind the climate so they say they say at least 20 years um but it it's hardt telling with everything everything varies so much based on climate me speak to the discussion with the I

059know the restroom facilities are used with the soccer in the city and things like that so yeah the restroom facilities um we use those restroom facilities uh and talking with the middle school we use them about eight times a year with our soccer games that we host out there they are used much more by the city of Garden City with all the recreation stuff that happens at those fields uh almost nearly every weekend uh from here in March all the way through November there's going to be something going on on Saturdays and sunds at those fields uh and when that happens uh they open up the restroom facilities to the public uh we used to have ported potties we used to have restrooms out there um that were removed when that structure was put up

060so today maintenance on the Dome has been the responsibility of all maintenance all cost all anything associated with the Dome is the YMCA's responsibility today yes the the only thing that we have is use of it from 8 to five o'clock can use it everything is controlled by the YMCA the locks are controlled by the YMCA it is a YMCA facility that we can use from 8:00 to 5 o'clock we've got some key cards that we can key in and out with um but it is a YMCA property sitting on our property and we've mostly used it from three to five for practices that's been the majority of our uses three to five for practices but if I understood you right had things worked differently we would have maybe gotten more use out of it

061yeah had things work differently our our KH um somebody asked about size of forse good horse good I did look is at 590 KH is at like 420 that's as close as they've ever been size-wise and it is creating a a a size issue for KH and if it if things if we could have used it or if we could use it from eight to five without interruption KH would have gym class over they could use it for walking gym class all kinds of things but because of the the security that we can't control that's not that's not an option can you explain a little more I I understand but for the people about the how the use agreement like between the wreck and or on our what we do yeah so all of our

062facilities we have an agreement with um the rec the YMCA the Garden City Rec Rec commission the Garden City YMCA and ourselves where we do not charge each other for the use of our facilities uh the reason being is because um they need gym space and field space that we have an abundance of but we also need things from them the YMCA has a pool that we we're graciously use and then uh the Garden City wreck has baseball fields that we use uh from them so because of that uh we don't charge each other for for uh use of facilities just to make things easier and cleaner instead of having to Bill everybody every time we take care of our stuff we maintain our stuff we pay for our custodians they take care of their

063stuff they clean their stuff they fix their stuff at those facilities in return so that's essentially always been the agreement we we've never told any of the entities no you can't you can't use anytime the wreck has come to us and asked hey we need some some basketball court space you know it may not be the most ideal basketball court space that they that they want but we make sure that they have access uh to basketball court space the YMCA the same thing if they need Court space or if they need field space whatever it may be we make sure that they have access uh to one of our gyms or one of our fields to to be able to do their things at no cost to them and it's been an agreement for I've

064been here for 21 years it's it's at least that old I and I'm sure way older than so you speak to um avenues that our students at cage will use for volleyball and basketball if an agreement isn't breached yeah so if the Dome comes down um we'll go we another thing that you know prior to 2018 we did it for forever prior to 2018 since KH was uh was built they've always only had one gym so we've utilized most of the time uh Florence Wilson has a nice gym with a side entrance that's separate uh from the rest of the building um where we've gone over there and we've practiced and we've played games over at Florence Wilson it's a nice wide gym so we've moved bleachers in and been able to play volleyball there

065I've been able to play uh our our B level basketball B Lev volleyball games at that facility while the a level stuff or sometimes they would split it up seventh grade e8th grade um the same with practices they could practice over there uh a lot of times practices weren't done that way a lot of times practices would go in the morning you'd have a group you know maybe seventh grade in the morning 8th grade after school but we've done it for years it's it's nothing that we haven't done before been successful doing before you put their monthly operating actual operating with utility bills and yeah um so it's it's kind of varied we do have uh I do have an Excel spreadsheet with all of those uh things on there it's anywhere from on the

066lowend $7,000 a month to the highend depending on what you want to include if you're including custodial fees and all those you know on the high end it gets up to 14 15,000 a month I'm assuming that can be insured yeah I did I talked to our to iron Insurance uh they currently Ure it um and so if it were to if we were to take it over he said it's not an issue of it's not overly costly to ensure what do you expect the utility those would be monthly on average or annual utility cost would be let's say if we took position and continue to I think it would be closer to the 7 to 8,000 a month now that's not including inflation and I don't know what gas prices are going to have

067in flow or electrical prices but that's that's what we had budgeted when we when we kind of had this discussion was around $7,000 a month um obviously it's a dome with the blower that has to always blow to constantly keep the thing inflated so there's going to be as opposed to a traditional structure you don't have that in the traditional structure a traditional structure is also uh and Andy you would know this is probably has a better r value in a traditional structure I think he said this is an R16 or 18 uh if I remember right traditionally a gy would be insulated um better than that so we had talked with grade reconfiguration and all of that the conversation had been building a more permanent structure at some point there at cage right yeah

068if we were to proceed down that pathway that was the discussion and yeah and that's kind of why we put the brakes you know if you guys remember when we pulled back the offer all together and said you know we'll take it but we're not we're not paying anything for it that's really when you guys said you know if we're going to do great grade Rec configuration uh a second gym is going to have to happen at KH and and so we need to make sure that we know the cost of the classrooms you know and what we need classrooms wide with I think we talked about 16 classrooms we know we have a good idea of what that cost is going to be uh so we want we want to make sure we take

069all all capital that we have and invest it in that as opposed to a dome that maybe we don't need monthly utilities on a you know permanent Str is better than a blower that's runs 20 yeah it's it's less yes Andy had said at one time but those Footers can hold it structure potentially I I mean I I was in in all this looking into it I had seen the the foundation drawings on it and um they look very similar to what I would expect found footings to be on uh something that would support a wall a single story wall um so I mean there's a lot obviously we don't have instru you look at it but um I mean at first glance they kind of look like something that may be able to be

070repurposed we definitely have to look well it's been a process to say the least and I'm I'm sure we've got more to come it's not not over yet we've got all the way to till the middle of June until we have resolution on this so um Chad has indicated that he thinks that they'll probably take it down sometime in May when it warms up um they're kind of waiting for it to warm up a little bit before they start to make plans on how they'll take it down so that's where we're at with it thank you thanks guys thank you thanks thank you on item H new business H1 the board of education has asked to consider an approve following curriculum Council items Josh kman Deputy super so uh we have three new courses um

071for you all tonight um one thing I noticed when susette I'm gonna have to talk to susette when she typed up the the memos um we've got them for 0.5 05 credit instead of 0.5 credit they should all be a half a credit each of these classes um they're all all of these classes are to um to realign um State requirements for our CTE Pathways and so that's that's what all these courses are and so the first one is is um is business law and that's going to be for the business uh management pathway and then the second class would be um practical law which would be for the the the legal pathway so law enforcement um security um things like that and then the last one is technical drafting 2 um which would be

072um for the industrial Arts pathway so they're all um to realign our our our CTE Pathways and are these completely new or are we just renaming them they're they're not new courses so they're they're going to be um restructured restructured is my understanding for the pathways Mr Norby is that correct yeah some of them are uh like the tech drafting is one we already have it's it it's eligible as a semester course and and so we're just kind of trying to get things that we currently have in line so that's why that when when cost the district there's no fiscal note to it because it's all courses and curriculums that we already have other questions are you looking for a decision tonight or if you want to do it tonight that's fine but if not

073it'll be on the consent agenda for March I've kind of told curriculum Council that that's kind of the way that we're going to do that so that I would share this with you all then it will just go on the consent agenda for the following meeting so I'm fine with that Randy if you guys are okay thank you thank you item H2 the board of education has asked to consider an approve bids for vir Walker Elementary School and ply Elementary School roof repairs back in the fall um we discussed and and we're discussing that ply ml was actually in the long range plan to get a new roof and the gerchard Walker was up the next year uh in 26 to get a new roof uh but with those two campuses also in the conversation

074uh that's still ongoing and kind of waiting um through the process and and still unsure sure where that was the board's discussion and our decision and and kind of thought process moving forward was to look for a 3 to fiveyear fix uh with the roof problems that we've got on those those two properties and so what we did after instruction or or guidance from the board is uh pull together all of the three roofing companies locally um and that's the three that bid on this particular project and we all met up uh at these two Ro and tour of those two sites discussed what would you know if we were looking at a 5-year fix what we would do uh if they were their buildings and so they all gave some input um I designed

075then an RFP uh that was sent out for each of those properties that RFP is included uh one thing that I want to point out on the RFP for both of these is that items four and five in the middle part of the page I did ask for uh the contractor to provide a minimum threeyear material warranty um from the contractor or or by the manufacturer and the contractor to provide a three-year labor warranty at a minimum as well so with that said we got three proposals back U one of them um was substantially higher than the other two um and that was the diamond bid um so then the other two that we had to look at were DV Douglas and weathercraft companies uh weathercraft specifically put on theirs but this this does not

076include any warranty they were the low vid um I think the the one at uh ply ml totals I think that's right around um 14 right around 14,000 is where that bid ends up $4,050 uh DV Douglas's bid on that particular property um stick into the other is 16,27 so a little over 2,000 higher but they have a 5year warranty um for for both of those material and labor um and then weather Craft's bid for gerud Walker was 38350 with no warranty um Stevie Douglas's was 42,500 with the 5year material and labor so as I look at them uh and the recommendation I put in the memo that yall had was to utilize DB Douglas because of of the 5year warranty that's included it is a little higher um but I'd recommend that we we

077do that U kind of like the same agenda item you can certainly wait um and approve this at next meeting uh if that's what you would like to do but also the quicker if we can approve this the quicker that we can make sure we get it on their um work schedule as well well long time comeing we've been talking about this for I I think it's time to move on for a motion I'll make the motion on the recommendation of using DV Douglas for the two Ro projects at pill and grard Walker it's been moved in seconded to approve the bids dbws for both roof at kch Walker and five elementary any discussion all in favor raise your right hand same motion carries item AG three the board of education has to consider improve

078training products and services quote from Avid center for the amount of 12 $7,450 for September September the quote that we have and I've got Mr nor up here in case there's any questions specific to the high school but um this for all of our secondary um schools for both middle schools and Garden City High School um have it as one of our board goals and we put that on a three-year cycle and so um our PD schedule that's one of the one of the dates we have those two days in in September that we've allotted for specifically for it and so that's what that would be any questions for that one so for those of us that are newer what exactly does this do like what what is the training boort so go ahead Steve

079well um Abid stands for advancement via individual determination we've been in our district using Avid strategies at the the high school at least for well over a decade probably close to 20 years um and it's a a program that provides Professional Resources and training to teachers to uh Target first generation college students which we have a lot of and students that uh need support in taking honors AP dual credit courses that they may not usually have qualified for providing extra tutorial classes and things for them um they provide training for our staff during this um and so in the past we used to send 02 or so of our teachers off to Dallas or to Denver every summer rotate them through to get them trained in these techniques um and when it became a board

080goal quite a while ago um they made the commitment let's make sure all of our teachers or as many as possible get trained in these techniques and so we started putting them on the three-year rotation uh this would be the third time that we've that we've kind of dedicated that in our in our calendar to do um so part of this they provide us more professional development than just this every three years we get uh monthly resource from them uh we are certified through them as one of their Avid Avid schools we have Gard City High School is certified Abid schoolwide um and their professional development and their certification process really helps us with things that lead towards uh well the same kind of goals as postsecondary or postsecondary success rating we get from ksde

081a lot of those things are all align so what we do for Avid helps us in those post-secondary success uh star ratings and things that you get from from the state department so it's uh you know just part of part of our journey and trying to get kids ready for what's next past high school I'm gonna say probably 2010 or before I started here in 2007 and avid in the district uh in the central office and I think Avid Deb jarmer uh former career and tech ed uh coordinator brought that into the district between that time and probably 2010 at the old high school yeah and like I said at that time in order to get your teachers trained in these techniques and things you had to go to Denver every summer and quite prohibitive

082for a lot of teachers to take off for a few days and go there or Dallas um and Avid Avid is really big and started really in Texas and in California so um it's just something that uh has been a been a good thing for our Center teachers and we've kind of just grown with it through the years the package shows that we use like seven different parts of avid and that has a unit price and then times the classroom I assum to get our total cost so have we added any components this year compared to last year are we using the same and then how does this cost compared to having in the past I don't know how it compared I looked it up um and I meant to write it down and I

083didn't John so I can't give you the exact number but I believe it was like 1 114 or 115 um the last time we did it so it's a little bit higher but I mean with inflation over the last three years I don't would it be about the same number as of um seats yeah yeah and and then the the course offerings and so those are all those are all different course offerings and so um teachers can take a different course like if if I'm a returning teacher they may take one course this this time and then in three years they may take a different one so they have the opportunity to take more than more than one they have a lot of different strands they have some for administrators some for language arts teachers

084some for elective teachers uh math teachers so you get your training kind of specified to to what you're doing and what your specialty is and and then if you've done like like Josh said if you've done level one then there's a level two and you mve forward it I do U Avid really helps uh helps us as a building kind of keep focused on secondary postsecondary what's what's happening next having those discussions with uh with kids with with families um and the types of activities that they're doing with teachers are really good uh to promote student engagement and so it it's pretty good targeted professional development for have it is a is have it a program that students are enrolling in are they participate in some some students are enrolled in the Avid elective class

085uh those are the students as I said that might be targeted to need more support uh if they want to try to take uh honors AP or dual credit but they may not necessarily be automatically or qualified to be able to take them they uh we encourage those kids to enroll in that upper level course and then we have them enroll in the have an elective which gives them an extra tutorial to kind of help them handle the cour work can you put a number to or approximation to the amount of students at our high school that are involved in the AVID program in some capacity we generally run two sections of the elective per grade up until seniors once they get to be seniors they tend to want to take whether it's a a

086college extra College dual credit courses or things like that or sometimes they take a short of schedule so we we usually run one section of senior habit so you know if if there are 20 so kids per section that may be 40 or so per grade level y questions okay thank you thank you Steve Page four the item the board of education has consider approve a resolution consenting to the ordinances of the city of Garden City Kansas pertaining to parking and traffic regulations on city streets shall apply to all of the roads streets and driveways the grounds of all usd457 schools within the corporate limits of the city of Garden City Kansas so this um this resolution actually Jennifer drafted quite some time ago and for whatever reason um it it never made its way

087in front of you all and so um she she got with me one of the issues that we're having um we're seeing it a lot right now at edah charman uh the road right in front of edah charman we actually own a portion of that road and so we're seeing a lot of um a lot of cars a lot of drivers that are going by and passing buses when they've got the the arm out we're seeing a lot of traffic violations and safety concerns there and then and and other schools as well um and so this would allow um Garden City Police Department to um to enforce traffic laws on on our private property on our private roads um if so is to allow them to be able to enforce traffic laws on all the

088roads that belong to Garden City T usd457 so it wouldn't be just the road at e Sharman it would be the loop at Garden City High School um trying to think where else we would see that um a lot of the times when you look at like like AG um Garfield was a good example when I was at Garfield we always had um we always had people that would park in the handicap zones and and and park in places or no parking zones and slow up traffic that would allow the police department to come and enforce traffic laws on our on our private property most of our schools designed with the buses to be able to drop students curb side um yeah I think I think uh I think most of them try to try

089to drop them away from where the main flow of traffic is uh Jenny Wilson for instance their buses go behind the school there's a there's actually a an Alleyway back there where the the only the only traffic that's allowed to drive through there are buses um vo and and Kenneth Henderson a lot of those schools they pull into the a separate parking lot versus the main parking lot and they'll load and unload um there with the kiddos Gard City High School I think is the only the only one that I could think of where the buses load up actually at the front of the um the front of the school A Better Way ask my question would be we don't have any schools where the kids are getting off the bus and having to cross

090the street to get to the no front of the my knowledge no but well the issue with that is is is on return so a lot of our schools are bus stops for other schools and so I may go to school at bernady and sits and so I get on the bus at Bernard and sits and I'm getting dropped off at at e Sharman is a good example and Mom and Dad are across the street and so I have to go across the street to get get out of the car with them there so that would be I think that's where you see it it's not necessarily where we're where we're picking up on unloading kiddos they're on on one side but they will cross the street to get to their parents if a dismissal

091if they're coming and that's a bus stop we have designated crosswalks and cross or kids just cross the street um we should have crosswalks in in most of the areas yes this doesn't extend into the parking lots so it would be the roadways the loop around the high school it does not go past correct Edge that's my understanding it would just be the roadways yes D does it say it allows yeah because it says yep you're right I just want to get clear all Road streets and driveways on the grounds of usd457 yeah and we've we've allowed it we just have never had a memorandum of understanding for it yeah so like a Garden City High School we we are doing this with the city yeah we had a kid not too long ago drive

092backwards around the loot to get away from treny and that cost him about $486 from what I understand um so they'll at them even though because we we invite them in to do it this just gives them the ability not to have to be invited to serve the ticket I had a I had a child at my house that got ticketed on the loop when he was in high school so I can I can attest to that a motion tonight or if we could that would be great yeah so private property it's kind of a gray area but there are some laws that can be enforced on private property without this handicap violations fire zones reckless driving those can be enforced on any private property but everything else is as a noo running stop sign

093speeding without this the police have no authority to do anything with that um other than those few violations I you know it's a formally it's it would be nice to have the ability because a lot of violations are seen But the police can't they know they they don't have any authority to take action so a lot of safety violations occur especially on the loop and you know you've driven it I've watched people blow off past people on the road and dve in the grass there's really nothing that can be done with it without the authority from the district to to allow that so it didn't runs yeah so if it pertains to parking do the police officers have to search Vehicles no that's that's a tra that's searching different we if we invite them to

094if they're if they're parked on our property we can ask for the vehicle to be searched the is that that your expense though but we don't get charged anything yeah I mean like that's how it is on my property would be at my expense it just seems like it makes it cleaner yeah this my opinion but I would be opposed to allowing you know to come on the private property I think it's I think from the questions I asked Josh I mean I think if we're have crosswalks if we're doing the things that we need I mean safety is obviously concern but if we're doing everything that we need to do safety wise I mean I don't I don't see the need for this Improvement I guess I I I differ and then I mean

095I guess not knowing that we already do some things in the high school to me when I read this my first thought was the high school and I think about um you know students know that they can get a ticket for speeding they can get a ticket for um you know any valuation on campus uh I would hope it would incentivize them to drive safer follow the speed Li signs that sort of thing then knowing also that we have an elementary school where I guess we're technically it's a private road and so people violate the the bus uh sign there's really nothing that can be done about it yeah so Jan's called the police department and that's what they've told him that there's it's private property so there's not a lot they can do and

096kind of what you brought about searching cars th this doesn't have to do with that this is traffic um the search is still even if the school district calls and can you search that car the police still can't search it unless there's Reasonable Suspicion of of some sort they still have to follow the law the school doesn't have the authority to give the police a right to search someone's property I mean the officer still has to follow the laws as they you know it just allows the police to enforce the traffic violations that occur that right now they can't do nothing with if it's not was driving parking in a fire lane or handicapp or D DUI is enforc walls proper so would running a stop sign on a school bus out be considered reckless

097driving no it's not no no has separate statue now I mean it could if they blew by 0 mil hour if they blew by the bus at 85 miles an hour yeah you could probably push the reckless driver there but I I I agree with Andy I think I mean obviously I'm a little biased in my profession but I think it's given the police the authority to enforce the safety for the children that I think it's it's worth it so like if there were an accident typically on private property police won't issue a citation they don't they don't even work so like I know someone whose vehicle got total on the that road and there was no citation so it's like then they had to sue the other people surej how many WS do you

098think happen up there a year are you talking the loop I would hate to guess a lot 20 50 oh I would say more than 50 on our probably closer to 100 yeah with kids backing into each other and things like that you guys willing to make a motion Mr President move to approve the resolution as presented to move and seconded to approve the resolution as presented any further discussion all in favor raise your right hand oppose same sign motion carries thank you item H5 board of education is asked to consider improve of parents as teachers training reimbursement agreement yeah so I'm gonna L on this one um par as teachers in order to parent teachers uh person that goes out into homes for us you have to go through a fairly expensive training it

099cost us $1,700 in order to train somebody that is a parent is a teacher person to go out in into a house before they can go out into the house um the state requires the training one issue that we've been running into is uh we'll get a person trained for parents as teachers to go out into the house and then uh a month two months later they quit us and they decide they no longer want to do parents as teachers one of the problems that that causes is we've just invested $1,700 into their training for them to come in and do this profession uh and then they leave us and that's coming straight out of our parents's teachers GR budget and it it's taking a significant amount of money out of that budget for these

100trainings uh and we we've had individuals quit us uh after going through the training so what we're asking is just a OU a memorandum of understanding that has a repayment stair step like we do for our tuition reimbursement however this one just goes over the course of the year uh where you can see it's stair stepped based on each month that they stay with the district uh it reduces the amount that they would have to to repay back to the district for that parents's teachers training uh again you have to have this training uh in order to go out to the house it's required by the state of Kansas there are getting to be more and more requirements put on our individuals that do parents as teachers uh so we're going to continue to see

101more and more requirements of these individuals um but those things all come at a cost and we have to make sure that we protect ourselves uh with the money that we're investing in these individuals certified or classified it classified yeah uh this is just a first R it doesn't need to be uh any board action tonight we can come back uh at the next board meeting if you have questions between now and then we uh have training reimbursements for other stuff we do yeah this is one of the more significant training costs that we have be honest have we been successful with the agreement yeah we I mean the majority of the time like the the I would equate the the tuition reimbursement as a training is is the same thing we don't have a

102whole lot of a lot of people that back out of those agreements um and it it is a good a good thing to keep them kind of locked in uh from getting the training and going somewhere else you parents as teachers isn't just a Garden City thing the same with tuition reimbursement I mean the second somebody gets tuition reimbursement they're they're more marketable on our dime so I guess kind of answer my question but it was going to be you think that this training improvment would deter people from taking the job we' had good success filling your parents as teachers yeah yeah we've got a few few folks in there that have been there for a long time okay thank you board open discussions John hero um yeah I appreciate all the information we had

103tonight thought we had some good things on the agenda and some talk about um our winter sports are kind of wrapping up um like congratulations wrestling teams and our individual state state champion those teams um that was pretty awesome by those two teams and then I'd like to wish our basketball our boys and girls basketball teams good luck this week as as they continue on um also congratulate wrestling um we did go and watch and it was there was a group of parents behind us from a different school and they were talking about how they're always impressed how Garden City comes with good sportsmanship and not one of our kids I have ever seen throw a tempered tantrum like some of those I don't think we'd have wrestlers if that happened but um the wise

104stuff um I kind of stand from day one I I don't believe we have to pay for their mismanagement of funds and for disservice to their donors good to have a recap that but that's where I'm at and I don't think I'm moving I want to also congratulate our wrestling teams and all the individual wrestlers and uh just all the hard work and they put in all season long to see them uh see it culminate with state championship and a state runner up is just is really great I think just speaks to dedication work of the coaches and and all of the student athletes um I also um you know Josh to J say thank you to Josh and Heather for for the presentations tonight uh I think the what we do as a as

105a district and adopting our new Ela curriculum for the next seven years I think is really critical and in setting course for for improving Student Success uh moving um from balanced literacy program to structured literacy getting it right picking the right curriculum is is really critical and um I was really pleased to hear that this is not a fast process and that this is going to take several months um I just want to say thank you in advance to all those committee members that are going to be on that committee and taking the time to get that right so um just appreciate people's time and willingness to to Ure we're doing the very best we can for our students yeah I first off I don't know this is my first meeting I've been here with

106the mics but I can tell you being on the last two meetings on Zoom it was great I could actually hear the board you always hear the presenter but you could never hear the board now at the mic when I was I could hear it was who made that decis it's a good one um I I agree that Athletics I'm always impressed with our Athletics no matter what sport they always seem to represent and and represent Garden City well so I'm proud of them um you know the the Dome is a very sticky subject I I do see value in it for the district but I just don't know I guess at what cost you know so and we have a lot of irons in the fire as a district and money is always tied

107and we just have to try to be frugal with with the money and make make the best decision it Nathan uh definitely appreciate horse good coming and presenting today as well and not able to attend the wrestling day but I heard tournament but I heard it as well and just did want to add to that list the bowling I know they're getting ready to go for the state championship as well here in the next week or two I want to just wish them luck and uh might seem a little weird but the other day I was driving behind a school bus and uh they did everything right and I was just like you know we often don't recognize when people do things right and so I just want to do a shout out to everybody

108that's doing things right and uh that just often we get calls about all the negatives and all those things and so I just want to say I appreciate all those best drivers doing everything right and and just keeping the kids safe and uh just all those good things that are happening that way so just want to say thanks to them and uh appreciate I know the Dome is an issue that coming in from the outside in the community uh coming in it's an interesting perspective what's going on and I know we're trying our best to come to resolution and appreciate the overview but definitely have to be smart with taxpayer dollars and so that's kind of where I stand on that as well so that's all I've got to say Mark are you still on

109do you have anything uh can you hear me yeah hey Brandy you're correct on the on the microphones when you use those microphones from this Viewpoint here you you can hear very well uh the presenters you can always hear well so I appreciate those microphones that help uh doing this I'd much rather be there but I can't be there tonight I I like the presentation coming from from horse good always good to hear from the schools and see the students and get their get their uh input their interaction and have them present to uh to us uh congrat and hey congratulations to the to the wrestling teams the girls uh Championship the boys Runners up and all the individuals where they placed uh and we got a lot of other students doing a lot of

110other things that that don't get the recognition uh publicly and and a shout out to all them as well that that hey when they're doing stuff that that uh extracurricular activity that's always a good thing for for Garden City usd457 for them for their families and uh the Dome I'm kind of with Jackie on that I know you know still have an open mind I I I think but uh got a real problem with some of the things that have gone on and and some of the things that um they're asking us to do or would like for us to do and and there's a lot of unknowns I believe in the cost that that we don't know so that with that that's all thank you robt um I would like to Echo what everyone

111said about the wrestling um the boys and the girls wrestling um there's a reason Paul was a coach of the year he did a great job um and like Mark said there are a lot of other kids that sometimes don't get as much recognition we have a great theater program that we don't probably talk about near enough so kudos to all of those people um appreciated the um Ela presentation I would be interested to reach out to me I might be willing to some time um work Robin uh well it's important and you know you're looking at something that's a seven-year investment you want to make sure you do it right so um it should be a good learning experience also um every day when we come to these meetings I I pretty much figure

112out there's one thing I didn't know until I got here today so I'm expecting to learn a lot this year that's all got Dr yes for thank you for's good thank you for the presentation it's always good to see students present and represent their school will on the literacy the ELA and just making sure everybody knows on the curriculum adoption that's for the 26 25 26 selection and then that implementation will be 26 27 that will be a big one it is important um Andy has touched on it we're moving to structured literacy which is different we did as good as we could for as long as we could and it didn't uh serve every student so we're trying to do a better job with that it's going to be important and uh the literacy

113the literacy blueprint is important uh it's going to really change a lot for Garden City but for the state so that's going to be important um moving forward and like I said we've already had the tntp trainings state is going to get on board with that and so we're ahead of the curve on that thank you for looking at the GC courses we already have them just got keep moving forward with the academic side because we got to tend to our mind um thank you for the roofs my G True Barker and plel uh definitely the facilities we any kind of facilities that we have which we have 1.5 million square feet of roofs so we're going to have to service them and take care of them the Avid academic side is is the high

114yield strategies for our people for our uh teachers and our students so anytime you can train people and prepare people that's great and parents as teachers when we have that early childhood um component and development that's always good anytime we can get some growth as when we're talking about parents and teachers we're talking about babies we're talking little bitty children so uh developmentally trying to move people for uh State wrestling Champs that's humongous uh to when anything uh design configuration implementation follow through the hard work from the students the staff the community support it's it's huge so the girls winning the State title boys finishing second that's amazing bowling uh is this weekend correct Josh or I mean Drew weekend good luck those bowling individuals as thir Z basketball still in the hunt and we're

115just going to keep moving and and Sports on the athletic side that is our part we get to see that we get to go cheer that we get to support that so anytime we can win at all three of the A's academics the Arts and Athletics that just shows Garden City's doing well so thank you item J the next board meeting will be take place on Thursday March 27th 2025 at 5:00 pm in the board meeting room at the educational Support Center here at 125 Fleming Street on to item K executive session Mr President I move we go into executive session for 10 minutes for the purpose of having prary discussions about the acquisation real property in order to protect the district's financial interest and bargaining position beginning at8 8m the the of Education reconvening

116Open session at 8:10 p.m in the board meeting room I'd like to invite Dr Dominguez Josh Gman and Drew toone to join us in executive session second move seconded any discussion all in favor raise your right hand