001I call the meeting to order. First thing we need to do is approve the agenda. >> Curtis Ryan Shra moved in and second to approve the agenda. All those in favor say >> I. >> Opposed. All right. I need a motion to approve the consent agenda. >> Ryan Rudy. Moved and second to approve the consent agenda. All those in favor say I. I >> opposed. All right. Recognitions. >> I say it every year. We It is uh prep time and it's just back when I was a teacher, I'd go away and magically come back in August and head school. Well, look at that. I'll be darned. How'd that happen? And it's u the yells that come in and make sure everything's ready to roll. And so, recognize all the good hard work that takes place
002during the summer. uh the maintenance staff, the transportation people, the food service, the classified people, the secretary, everybody that comes back and makes it all happen. Uh get everyone ready to roll, the janitors uh for tomorrow. It all hits tomorrow, the uh new teachers report uh here bright and early 8:00. We'll go over the schedule later during my report. Uh leading up to the first report day for the teachers is official where they have to be here is Thursday. There's a work flex day on Wednesday uh all leading up to the convocation on Friday. But anyway, the all the prep work that's taking place in preparation for the big event which leaves which the real day is next Tuesday when the students show back up for a half day of school. That's it, Mr. Jones.
003>> Thank you, sir. All right. Financials, Michael. Okay, go to page three of warrants down towards the bottom. Um, did it like last month where the big ones are right there? We have the High Plains Co-op, our first assessment payment of $121,870. Then the laptops, which you guys approved, $194,22. And then Mammoth um payment number two on the track $296,500 for a warrants this month of $854,3748. And then page five is our revenue expense um balance. And then uh page six is our expenditures for the year. And then of course we have our transfers and then high school middle school reports. So still pretty starting this fiscal year. So there's not much there. So if you have any questions, boys and girls it up a little bit. No further questions. I'll entertain a motion to
004approve the financials at $854,3748. >> Second move and second to approve the financials. All those in favor say I. >> Opposed patron administrative reports. Dr. Myers. >> A couple three or four things to talk to you about tonight. uh future of early childhood and PAT. Um Amy, well, there's no changes to early childhood yet. Amy tells me for me just to relax. Not going to be anything coming down the pike there. I personally don't have much faith in the early childhood department at the Kansas State Department of Education. Um I have zero faith in the parents as teachers portion of it. And so we did a little pushing and proddding when I was at the KSD conference this last or two weeks ago rather and then saddled up next to uh the commissioner of education
005and said the u rumor mill has it that the PAT is leaving the uh Kansas State Department of Education fact or fiction said it's a fact it's leaving the KSD uh they're going to the children's cabinet uh and you know Sean you reached out to me about that heard from that lady I need That's what she got. >> Um the uh supposedly uh so Amanda Peterson is the current queen of the early childhood department and Pat is the uh under the oposes of that as we speak. Uh I had the good fortune of hearing her speak at the uh conference and then I also saw her last week at the uh regional service center meeting and I talked with her there as well. U and she told me that the uh it'll be the same
006funding amount and the funding season. It's just under the children's cabinet. Uh I'm waiting for this shoe to drop uh so we can hear about that. Uh the amount it but the movement is moving the dollars away from consolidating it away from the smaller districts and we're 3A district and that's considered smaller. Uh for us it's uh we have $26,000 in grant funding where we have had through the years. Uh I'm a deep proponent for early childhood and PAT program. My youngest who's 27 was a member of uh to to uh was a part of PAT way way way back when. It's a it's been around for a long long time. It's a valuable valuable program. Uh we'll do everything we can to maintain the uh the program. Uh but there are changes in the
007offen as we know more. I will make sure you know more about it. So things chang things are coming. So um the housing development. I wish I knew somebody who knew something about electrical infrastructure in the area. Um, but I don't I guess I don't. The Ver Valero housing department project is on east of us. Uh, supposedly it's set up to go 100 to 109 units. Um, it's I don't know what the proper term is, but set to be good for 100 to 109 units. Three to four bedroomedroom houses, each one of them 350,000. $350,000 each or more. Uh if and when they start um construction, it'll be 8 to 10 units being built each year. Uh anyone at the table have any more information about infrastructure, you know, electricity, plumbing. >> They have not
008contacted Wheatland Electric about anything. You need to talk to the city of Hulcom. that we were being developed. >> Okay. Um, my information comes from the Eco Ecodo uh world. Uh, and I guess you gave a presentation to Finny County. Ryan, have you heard any more about that as well? >> More on the project. >> Okay. Um, so I'll check with city but not reached out to >> We have asked numerous questions and have received no answers. >> Okay. So, >> well, they're not going to be private houses. They're not going to be trailer houses on >> that rumor >> on brick foundations. U three to four >> three to four bedroomedroom houses with $200,000 price tags, you know, more far more permanent than one might have heard two years ago. Um Elcart uh shenanigans
009with High Plains Educational Co-op. uh they are withholding their assessment payments from last year uh due to uh Pearson is upset that's their provider for their virtual school uh and because their profit margin is getting dropped from six million $9 million a year no $6 million a year to $3 million a year. I could not give two hoops less about that. Uh my attitude is huh? Um, and so the I was at the meeting, High Plains meeting two weeks ago, I think it was, no, three weeks ago, and read I was in the executive meeting when they read the demand letter that the lawyer had put together. It made me scared. Uh, and so they sent that letter off to the Alcart board, uh, and the board members and the superintendent and their lawyer and
010the whole nine yards. But the word is the USC 218 BOE is supporting the superintendent and they're doubling down saying we don't care. Uh so Alexa, the new CEO of uh High Plains, yeah, High Plains had actually reached out to KST and the KD and all their wisdom said, "We're hands off at this point." Uh as long as there's just only one district involved in this. I don't know what the magic number is. I mean, because like my message to Alexa is If they're not paying now, why do you think they'll pay next year? And if they're not paying now, why do you think anybody else will pay? And so, at what point does KSD get involved? I don't know. Uh, and if other districts don't pay high plains, it's just 20 seconds before that
011firestorm goes across the state and nobody makes their payments to their sped co-ops. Now, it could be a bias against smaller districts because co-ops are made up of districts 4A and smaller. Uh, you know, Garden City takes care of their own spit. Uh, I don't know. I have no idea. But there's over, you know,und some odd districts west of Salana. So, this is a major deal. This is a big old deal. Uh, so we'll see what happens. >> What are the next steps from the command letter? >> Uh, to file suit. >> Yeah. Uh and ultimately this board might have to make a decision uh because if nothing occurs out of this, our assessment would go up to make up the difference. And so I might be coming to you and say, "You know what?
012We probably either need to join a lawsuit or do our own lawsuit because it would be less expensive to because we've got lawyers on retainer uh to file suit versus we'd have to do the math to decide, you know, $5,000 lawsuit, you know, send our own demand letter versus we swallow up whatever the assessment increase would be." That's work to be done down the road. The meeting, the next meeting we have is next Thursday night, not Not this week, next Thursday. >> So then if we have to swallow up but they're not then do we send them Elcart a bill. >> Good. I mean all sorts of minations out of this. Absolutely. I like I wrote to you guys about this. Fun times. This will be interesting. Um and the KST is silent. I they
013know not what they do in this regard because this will go across the state of Kansas. This will be a big deal if they just sit that back and let it say, "Oh, it's Southwest Kansas." It's a matter of time before other people across the state of Kansas say they're not paying. I don't want to pay. >> We just wrote a pretty goodiz check. >> Yes, we did. Because of Honor, and we paid, we signed a contract. And by the way, that's the thing. They'd be in They are in breach of contract. They're in breach of contract as we speak. I I'm not a lawyer. only play one on TV. Uh the I don't do that either. Uh but they signed a contract and you can't just choose not to follow follow up with the
014contract and they still they have High Plains employees in their district working right now. >> Correct. Correct. Yeah. I I personally don't see how Elcart can get away with this personally. And and keep in mind, their only reason they don't want to do it is because Pearson, the evil empire in educational uh programming, isn't happy because their profit, not their expense, their profit is going is being cut in half from $6 million a year to $3 million a year. I mean, I know I Ryan, I shake my head as well. Okay, let's talk about something a little more positive. back to school time. Uh you have at your uh place uh the schedule over the next couple days. Couple things I want to uh highlight to you. Tomorrow, I already mentioned to you already, but
015I'll use the word already more than once. Back uh new teacher time is tomorrow 8:00 here. You're welcome to come on in and um experience be introduced to the new teachers, but you don't have to be here at 8. Uh we'll be feeding them over at um Wide Elementary at 11:30. Uh so come on over there if you'd like to. At 6:30 we have we're bringing back the back to school barbecue in swimming pool park. Uh Sean will have his track out there. We're cooking hamburgers and hot dogs and whatever else. Um I think he'll be firing up. Hey Sean, you want to help? Come on out. Um you're you're welcome to any event. If you want to show up for any of these things on this schedule, the next thing Germaine that you really
016want to show up for is Matt's final speech. The tier drops will be flowing as he speechifies on Friday during the convocation at 8. If you can't make that, we're providing lunch at the Golden Crow at 11 o'clock on Friday. So, show up and get your belly full if you'd like to. And this all leads up culminating to Tuesday the 19th, 8 o'clock in the morning, the first day of school, half day with students and then a half day work day and then we are up and rolling. So that's my report, Mr. Jones. >> Let's move to buildings and grounds. >> Okay. Transportation. I have guard first on Wednesday in >> Awesome. Thanks, Sam. All right, Monica. Food services >> technology. Julie, she's making a long walk. She's got >> to see if any of
017you had any questions about the updates on the Chromebook policy, the changes that we planning to make for next year. >> He bought one laptop. He bought >> a few things on the There'll be there's just a few changes to C on the fee structure and how that set up. Um previously it was first um time of damage it was $25. It'll be tiered now. So if it was a key the first time it's 30 and it's a key again because it's a smaller >> louder. just because this is going to be policy where we will be be dealing with it. >> All right. So, it's it's been leveled out according to the type of damage it was. Obviously, a screen is going to cost more to replace than keys. And so, the damage kind
018of reflects what type of place there. And then in section N, the Chromebook insurance previously um several years back I Um the district offered Chromebook insurance. Um we no longer offer that within the district. However, parents can get that insurance on their own with their own policy. So some of that wording was taken out of there as far as being offered by the school district, but they still have that option to purchase on their own. Number 11 was added. That's Google services for Google. Google has implemented something new where they have to parental consent for some of the additional items that they have. Um, some of the apps that they have, it's like Google Translate, there's a lot of them, but Google Translate, Google Maps, Google Earth, some of those things. And so each year
019they have required that parental consent for anybody under 18 for those. So questions on any of that. >> Thank you, Julie. Like I said, will be later in the in the agenda the um new business Chromebook policy update this all comes back up again. So, but she gave me a preview. >> Thank you. >> All right, we'll move to principles and Tyler. One of these days, Amy, >> just a few things to for the new year that we're excited about. First, I guess off um our open house will be next Monday, uh 6:30 to 8. It does it a little later. We're staggering it with the elementary schools so that if you have kids in both buildings, you can go there first, hopefully, and then come up to the middle school. So, we'll be 6:30
020to 8 uh next Monday for open house, so kids can come and uh find their classes, check out their lockers, all that fun stuff. Um, couple things we're really excited about for this school year. Uh, one, we will start our math interventions. So, we've had reading in place now for two years, but we'll now have a chance for some of our students that are really struggling with with their math scores. They'll have a chance to get that uh direct attention with the math their math teachers that extra 30 minutes uh daily uh four times a week. So, that'll be great for them hopefully to help them. And then the other thing I wanted to make sure I mentioned, oh my goodness, I lost my mind. That was the big one. That was one of Oh,
021Unhooked. um unhooked. Uh I had mentioned in the spring uh that we would be kind of lining up more with CT pathways. Uh so sorry kids a little less ultimate frisbee a little more uh maybe doing lifetime or looking at physical training things like that. So they'll still be you know uh tailored to kids interests uh but they'll get a chance to team up with a teacher that has a similar interest and do some fun projects like that. So, we're excited where we're going with Unhooked and we're excited to get our NTSS interventions working for math as it's been doing for excited to get here going. Thank you. >> Thanks, Tyler. All right, Amy. >> Um, okay. We also have our back to school night on Monday. And like Tyler said, our times are kind
022of staggered. The elementary schools um will be from 5:30 to 7. So, we hope to see all of our families come and take the opportunity to bring their school supplies and meet their teacher next Monday. Um, we had our some of our flooring project completed over this summer. So, we had an additional seven classrooms who were able to get new flooring for. It looks great. They did a nice job. Um, and hopefully we can get the rest of it completed and have all new flooring and white. So, everything's looking good. >> Thank you. All right. Randy. >> Okay. Um, first of all, just want to highlight a few things. Um, obviously the playground is looking great. Um, our surface was put in over the summer and then, um, also we were able to get Garrett
023and his crew were able to do the bonded mulch. So, in the areas that we had to leave open, um that has mulch, but it's just glued. So, hopefully we that will keep it from blowing around and having to be replaced often. Um we will we have some new picnic tables. The picnic tables there, um, I think they're repaired annually because they've broken in the middle long ago and the, uh, grounds crew, you know, reinforces it and we get through a little bit longer. But I did order metal ones this time. So the I think those should last um quite a while. I think they should be pretty sturdy. So excited about that. The the gazebo's got a fresh coat of paint. Um, so you'll notice that they match the school. Looks very nice. We're
024working um Garrett's been uh working with someone on the roof of each gazebo because they don't look so good. Um they look like, you know, they came from, I guess, what did you say they came from? >> Um from either high school or middle school. >> So reused, you know, years ago whenever those were built. Um we're trying to I think Garrett has found someone that would be able to paint them, you know, so that they'll look like the rest of it. But, um, all of that looks really great. Couple of the things I'm excited about inside. We have a couple of new bottle fillers. Um, and Garrett has worked and his crew have worked hard to get electrical whatever over there so that we can put those in. But it keeps the place that
025the kids go to fill their bottles in the area where their classrooms are as opposed to having to go oops around the corner and be out of the sight of teachers. And so we usually have lots of things go on at those bottle fillers that are around the corner um by the bathroom. So very excited about those two things inside. Also a window over here in the third grade hallway um has been replaced. There was some where water would get in. It was starting to kind of eat away at the frame. So really excited that that is new. Um, also Rebecca and her crew have done a lot of work as you guys know. Hulkcom Elementary, some and probably every school's like this, but we find lots of stuff. Um, I think we are decluttering
026some areas there by the North Gym and Mary was able to find something from one of her kids classes. They graduated 20 plus years ago. So, it was an assignment that was laminated and probably had been put up. So, it was one of in one of the drawers back there. Um, but lots of PTO stuff. So, slowly we just try to So, when those the um disposal list comes out and there's stuff on Hulcom Elementary, I do not know where it comes from, but we continue to find it. Um, the garage looks great. So, we had lots of stuff in there. Just as things get cleaned up, it ends up in there. And you know, Rebecca did a really nice job reorganizing that. We just got rid of some stuff from Odyssey of the Mind.
027So, if you guys remember how long ago it was that we did that, that room was full of stuff that they used to just create their things. So, just got rid of all that. So, really excited about just lots of the work that took place this summer. Um, and just helps us be ready to go for kids. as far as learning goes. Um both elementaryaries will be focusing on uh spelling instruction this year and not only you know about being able to spell but being able to understand those phonics rules and be able to teach them to kids is really important. So we will be doing some professional learning here at the beginning of the year getting those in line um and may see just a little bit of changes to what spelling assessment looks
028like. So, we will definitely keep you um informed on that as we go down that road. >> Thank you, Randy. >> All right, Jerry Johnson. [Music] I'm glad Randy found all the stuff that we secretly from the high school have been stashing in her building for the last year and a half. We uh work really hard in our seminars to covertly bring it down there. >> It's been a like a >> like a what do they call it? Kind of a you hide things if you go look forward. >> Yeah, like a scavenger hunt. >> Scavenger hunt. Yeah, scavenger hunt. Yeah, something like that. >> But we don't try to find them. We just leave them. No. Um getting back to school. Really excited. our BLT um our building leadership team went on a retreat
029last Wednesday and Thursday that already always marks our getting back into it. It's um a really good retreat where we look at our data from the previous year. Uh we look at um like discipline referrals, we look at our attendance, we look at our chronic absenteeism and we try to set a culture goal around that side of it. And then we look at our testing wise and grades and we try to set an academic goal. So every year we walk into the school with an academic goal and the culture goal. So really excited this year. Academic goal is going to be focused on uh assessment and are we assessing at the depth of knowledge that the standards actually asking us to assess at. Um I think we're doing the teaching the right things. I I
030know we're teaching the right things when it comes to standards. We've aligned our standards to what the the assessments are. But are we asking them at the level that the standards actually asking us um to ask it at? And uh we saw some really good stuff at the KG KSD conference that the state's finally going to put out some performance level indicators for us uh along with the standards to let us know exactly on this standard this is what they're asking for for a level four and a level three and a level two. And it's something that we've been looking for for a while because when you look at the standards you just kind of look at them and say, "Well, this is what it's asking." But like it's such a vague way to say
031it. uh they're going to come out with more pinpointed to say is um the example they gave is if you have to use parentheses for like a math problem. If you can use two or more parentheses that would be a three. If you can use less than two parentheses that would be a two. So that's going to be more pinpointed that we know exactly what that depth of knowledge is that we're have to ask for. So we're excited about that. Uh our culture goal is going to be uh focused around on um like work ethic and how to persevere and and um to keep working through uh with some of the data that we saw about the number of kids that are consecutively on um our eligible list for 13 and 14 weeks. A lot
032of it is u when you take a look at why are they on there uh failure to go in to reassess and reapply and do some of that stuff. And so it's um developing an advisory system more where the teachers are checking in with the students weekly uh and setting up communication with them and parents uh to be able to say, "Hey, your kids here, you know, what is it that we can do all together and try to get it off?" So excited about that. Uh excited about kids being back in the building and people being back in the building. I think my secretaries are getting tired of me because I'm a social person. uh when nobody's in the building, then I just talk to them a lot and I think they're tired of me
033being in the office uh because they always ask me to go do things around the school. So, uh I'm ready for other people to be in the building. >> Thank you, Jerry. All right, let's move to unfinished business and strategic plan focus area. >> All righty. This is the uh culminating uh final step in the year-long process of creating the uh strategic plan. Uh, as you well know, uh, we're only as good as our people. I don't care what the scenario is, you're only as good as your people. Uh, and so what last month the board uh, codified the strategic plan. You know, we went through the entire process at all the community uh, focus groups after the surveys had gone out. We came back with the pillars and the areas of concentration and I
034brought back to you uh, well then the board approved it said here you go. And so the challenge was for this month to bring back to you the admin had looked at you know ad nauseium time and again you know the focus areas. And so I led off with were only as good as our people. And so the focus areas that we we brought back to you uh three of the focus areas center on the strength and strengthening of our people. uh two of them are specifically around special learning uh plans uh and then the mentoring plan and those came out loud and clear in the various pillars of the strategic plan. Uh and we're really in a really good spot on each one of these areas. By the way, uh the 2526 plan is
035created. I mean, the calendar is set and we know what's going on on a given day. Uh because we always work two years ahead on the calendar. I mean, I don't have those information in front of me to say to you on November 15th, we're doing this. I don't think you really care about that. Uh what you do need to know is it's done. It's it's it's put together. Uh the 26 27 plan is been developed and ready for finalization. There's a few little final steps to put together on that as far as you know like we do have the topics are put together but we need to really put the fine point to it and then we also need to put together who the speakers are for it. Uh but we're really in a
036good spot. Uh going along handinhand with professional learning piece of of this came back uh from the work with the uh community was u shoring up and fixing not fixing making sure our mentor u plan was u doing all it's supposed to be doing. And so our mentor committee is getting ready to be activated. Tyler's going to be leading that. Uh we've got representatives from each one of the buildings. Uh we've got a mentor uh plan, but it hadn't been looked at since 2021. Uh so we're dusting it off and we're going to make sure that it's a viable living breathing document that does reflect what we want it to reflect. We utilize the Kansas mentor induction center out of state uh called uh to train up our mentors. And so that's a licensing um
037portion or licensing function if you will. Uh but we need to merge it with our handbook to make sure that at home then we're making sure we're you know spending the time with our people as we want them to take place. Uh, another area that's come through with the admin and and looking at how important it is and I continue to talk anytime I talk before a group of people the importance of the individual plans of of study as a continual focus prek12. Uh, the state requires uh districts to have an 8 through 12 program uh approach. We are prek12 uh and we are at this point moving down the path of creating or what's been created now we have to put it together the electronic platform uh so that will be put together so
038when a kid comes into us he or she will have that as they metriculate all the way through the uh the system and you know that that's built on individual students um aptitudes and learning styles and you know they're where they want to be when they move down move beyond the land of the Longhorns. And the last uh area is engaging with the multiple I've been engaging with multiple groups consulting groups rather to help us build a comprehensive plan towards facilities and grounds. So these are the particular uh tips of the spear if you will coming out of the strategic plan. The work to focus on which to focus moving forward over the next 12 months. you know, next year we'll take a look at it and say, "Okay, where are we sitting?" Because, and
039you've heard me say it before, it's impossible to eat an elephant all in one bite. So, it we'd get nothing done if we tried to do it all at once. Everything from the strategic plan. So, the admin group said, "Well, what is it's all important, but what is the most important?" You know, to quote George Orwell, "All pigs are equal, but some pigs are more equal." Well, these are the more equal pigs. And so that's our opinion, but I brought this back to you not for uh any sort of action whatsoever, but any sort of feedback. So our focus is we're only as good as our people. So three of these things deal specifically with our people. One is a uh continuation on the indiv in importance of the individual plans of study and then
040we are really think it's important to have a systemic approach to and build this plan toward long-term uh improvement of torto facilities and our grounds. So that's what I've got for you Mr. Jones. >> Okay. >> All right. Any questions? All right. Let's move to building needs assessment summary budget response. >> All right. This came into play a couple years back um where the individual buildings uh the principles with their BLTs uh assess the needs of their buildings and their students. The whole idea behind this is to get 100% of their students who are tested and state assessments uh to levels three and four on the state assessments. And all the buildings have to do this even if they don't take the state assessments. So although the students at Y elementary uh who are you
041know prek through 2 grade who don't take the state assessments still have to engage in this work. And so Amy very dutifully leads her people through this and try to figure out, you know, how do we get our people to levels three and four? Well, first of all, get them into third grade. But she doesn't do that. You know, they very carefully look at that at their data and try to figure out, well, what can we do? Uh, and so the three factors we have to look at are barriers, then budgetary adjustments that we possibly need to consider, and then the time horizon for when it would before we would get them there. Okay. So then how this works, how this we make this magic work is all of the buildings do their work individually.
042Then it comes to the central office and then I pull it together and you know every district of any size whatsoever does this and so like in Garden City I don't know how many buildings they have uh but they do this and then they pull it together and then they take a look at it and then they are doing this presentation tonight I'm assuming or well yeah it's tonight because this fuels in theory the budget that will ultimately be created in each district. Okay. So you have a handout uh with the results from the 2526 building needs assessment district summary. I'm not going to just read the entire thing to you, but I will highlight a couple different things to you. The under barriers, the lack of pre preK12 centralized professional learning plan uh is
043a perceived barrier that came out of the work from all four buildings. I just got through talking about that's part of strategic plan. It's also built into our KISSA plan. So, we're addressing this. We're working on it. So, we're not just sitting around saying, "Oh, too bad. Nothing we can do about it." No, we're working on it. Second one I'll talk to you about is you go down, I don't know, two twothirds of the way through the bullets there. Family and student trauma, it exists. Uh I don't know that we can ever eradicate, no we can't really ever eradicate family to student trauma, but through our council, we have a really dynamic, really caring group of uh counselors uh and they lead the efforts uh in our buildings to work with our students and we
044have all sorts of of um um lessons and activities engaging with the students around the social and emotional learning efforts. And so we just we don't turn a blind eye to the needs of family or student trauma. You know, we work on it as best we can. And then the uh final one I want to mention to you is need needing to improve the individual plans of study. Well, I just got through talking about that as well. So these are truly important pieces of work that we're doing and those so those are the barriers that we're addressing. The bud possible budgetary adjustments. First one to talk to you about is dedicate monies to needed professional learning areas. Well, that's taking place specifically uh through our MTSS uh efforts. You know, Jerry or one of the
045principles, I'm sorry, talked about the um ELA and then I believe it was Tyler uh math uh initiatives uh to meet the needs of the individual kids. Well, that's growing out of the MTSS professional learning that we've been doing. And so it's the dedicating the monies if nothing else for subs you because we have we bring in the TASM group to help us with the professional learning but the teachers you know we don't just leave the kids alone in the classrooms we put subs there. Okay. So we're dedicating monies to address this. Uh we also have the letters training the science of reading uh that's taking place and we've got a whole slew of elementary teachers uh taking part in this some middle school teachers taking part in it. Uh very proud of Jerry and
046his leadership the high school English teachers are taking part in this and also we are having two of our trainers uh Jackie St. two of our teachers rather Jackie Stap and Carrie Roth are being uh trained up to be local letters trainers here in house. Uh so that's wonderful as well. So we will down the road be uh able to provide these trainings inhouse. Well down the road uh final piece of this is the time horizon. Uh last year I told you eight years so this year I'll tell you seven years. The real truth of it is it's infinity plus one. Uh the statistics are there's never 100% of anything. The law of halves is it never ever ever ever ever ends. Uh but ultimately this magic perfect mouse trap that the KPI has created
047that the KST has bought into uh though will be a penance to be paid ultimately. Uh, I'm saying seven years. Some point in time, this will have to be reported to somebody and then the KPI Kansas Policy Institute will say, "Aha, I thought you guys said it was all fixed by them." And we'll say, "Huh, that's why I keep telling you the truth is infinity plus one." Because we're never going to fix trauma. We will always have unfortunately people who come to us, students who come to us with situations at home and we there will always have students who come to us who have real real real difficulties learning how to read and we will do all we can and help them as best we can. But there you go, Mr. Jones. That is a
048statutory requirement to have shared that with you and we take it very seriously. I get a little glib about the time horizon, but the work previous me talking about the time horizon, we take it very seriously and we're taking we're rolling ourselves up and getting after it. There you go. That's it. >> All right. Thank you, Dr. Myers. Uh, let's move to track update. >> All righty. I brought Eric to the table just in case you have questions that go beyond my limited scope of expertise. Uh, as you well know, the uh track is well under construction. If you've not ventured out there, please do. Go drive around out there. Uh, progress continues to be ahead of schedule. Um, the uh we're pushing the I continue to push the importance, the desire, the need to
049play our games at home. Uh, the first uh home game is September 4th. It's a middle school game. Followed up by September 5th. It's a high school game. Uh and so we like I said, we are to the concrete curb uh section of it. It's a 14-day project. They started was supposed to have begun today. Started last week, I think it was. >> So, um I don't know how many days ahead they are, but they are ahead of schedule, which is great. Uh anytime you get ahead in construction, yay, way to be, >> but I've been at this long enough to know it's usually 10% overage and or 10 or 20% overage in time and money. Um but we're on it. And Garrett's does a really nice job of saying, "Keep going. Keep going. Let's
050go. Let's go." Uh, we have every other Tuesday, Thursday, I'm sorry, meetings where Garrett, myself, Jerry, Kent, Bri, uh, Amy's invited. Amy, um, well, you're welcome to be there, Amy, if you'd like to. Uh, and Wickware is the female women's track coach is invited. We get out there and say, "Where are we? What's going on? How's it doing?" Uh and um I mean I'm pleased at this point by vast majority of them pleased. That said, there's always, you know, four steps forward and two steps back. Uh they're needing to fix a few things for us. A few lines got broken or at least a line got broken. Some heads have been broken. Uh they're getting to fix them. They said, "Well, you need to get your have your irrigation have your crew come out and
051fix it." And Garrett said, "That's me." Uh so no, that's not how it's going to fly. uh you need to drench trench it and Gary will come out and fix it because he knows how to do it and do it quickly. Uh but you need to be on the business end of the shovel and or bring a trencher out. We don't care how you do it, but you you get on it. So any updates on that? Push the button so you can >> Yeah, it's still on with tomorrow and we're going to talk with Mitch over it and get everything figured out at all. >> Okay. >> We've not been able to water the outside of the football field for two weeks. Luckily, we've had rain, so that's a good thing. And we've grown the
052gr grass longer, so that keeps the water there as well. Um the but we are impressing whomever wants to listen to us. Uh we want we need to get the water back on the field. And so we want this fixed yesterday as far as the lines go or line goes. Just one, right? How many lines it? >> I think just one, maybe two. >> But it's multiple heads. >> Multiple heads. >> I mean, it's construction. It happens. Didn't they a riser or something like that, too? >> No, they had a valve box that we had over the valve box. >> That's been fixed. >> That one's been fixed already. >> Okay. >> Uh and then >> work on Saturdays. I was impressed. They were in the track on Saturday. >> Well, and they're looking to
053work at night time, which great. >> Do it. That's great. Uh the one more last thing that we need well at some point we need to do is the the gray has been chosen and that's beautiful nice dark gray. We're looking to um choose the orange for the exchange zones. So I I would like I choose I tend to go more toward vibrant colors like my >> my tie. >> Yeah, we need burnt orange. >> We will we will edit that out of this portion of the No, >> there will not be any burnt No. >> It'll be a vibrant orange. No burnt orange. >> No, they are trying to be funny and they're not. Be a vibrant. What? What do you call it? No. Pumpkin or it's pumpkin orange. >> Pumpkin orange, baby. That's
054what it is. >> You can name the Crayola crayons. You know, you can submit names for the colors. You remember that? >> Pumpkin orange. It's not one corn. No, >> it's not burnt orange though. >> No. >> Anyway, we're choosing the orange soon. Um, just so you remember, uh, according to their schedule, their schedule is like Captain Bard, uh, their final cleanup walkound is my son's birthday, November 21st. The drop dead date, like they start owing us more money is March 20th. So, I mean, they've built a lot of time in this puppy. Uh, so we'll see. We'll see how it goes. Uh, but with that, I keep impressing upon Mitch and whomever will listen to me from Mammoth. I'd rather roll the dice of winter than say move a football game. Nope. Not wanting
055to do it. Not willing to do it. So, we will move cheerleaders. Uh, we'll put out the thing to allow us to walk across it. We'll figure it out. Play football at home if if Scott gets his way. Uh, >> we'll have the curbing done by then. >> Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's all about the thing called the track grading AB3 which I don't know what that is. So, what did they what did they do for ground stabilization on the on the base >> or have they done that? >> They did that. >> That's done. They did something, Curtis. >> So, did they like incorporate concrete? >> Yeah, they took Portland >> and put it on there and then rotated in water. >> And it's it's and I mean I was I was walking on
056it and said it's harder. You can feel it. It's harder than it ever was before. I mean, >> so the disposal of all of that stuff that they hauled out here north of the state. Was that part of the scope for them to dispose of that somewhere else? >> No. No. If they had taken it to a a dump or something like that, would have that would have been an add-on. I'm okay with where they put it because we have a plan. We're looking around for a plan. Well, we have a we have an idea uh to where we're going to turn that into millings and ultimately fix that road, the the farm road. That's the plan. And we're going to take the concrete. Originally, we just thought we' take the >> How was that
057not part of the scope? >> I don't know. I don't know. So, it wasn't not part of it was gonna be offsite dumpage. So, yeah. Our lawyer talked thing about the I don't think I talk to you about it. But, uh the uh something bond uh they originally said that was on us and the lawyer said, "Why would they why would you pay for that?" I said, "Yeah, you're right. Why should they? There's going to be what percentage of it? >> It's like for >> Yeah, like $30,000 or something like that." So I said we shouldn't pay for that. So in the end we argued back and forth and in the end they took it. >> What were they going to do with it if they didn't dump it on us? >> Find a spot
058>> take to the dump be charged to us. >> So it was I think it's a good thing where it is and so and ultimately like I said we found a use for it and we fixed two two kill two birds with one stone. >> Surely there's a lot of rebar in it. >> No rear. I didn't see >> so you had a Didn't you say there's >> And you're talking to somebody you talking to somebody about how to mill it up? >> Yeah. Matt Lee with Lee Construction. They've already got a plan. So we're just waiting. >> Oh, they want the concrete. >> Yeah. They'll probably come set their kneel up here and crush it right here. >> I say everything I own is for sale. So, let's get tire. >> Well, they told
059us it would be us paying for it for the >> hauling it off. No, >> so it won't work. Like, no, we >> But if we can fix that road, crush it and whatever. See, originally I thought we just use the top. >> I can't believe they did that without having a price in there for all that. That's a ton of money. >> Oh yeah. >> To dispose of that. >> That's why this is a good idea. A good thing. This is a good thing. So, there you go, Matt. Okay. >> All right. Let's move to LO resolution. >> All righty. this uh recent interpretation that has in the last three years from the KSC that even though we originally did the Loves LOB resolution current and continuing forever uh interpretation law dealing with the
060LOB uh local option budget resolution that needs to be redone on a yearly basis. So, I'm asking for the board to um redo the uh LOD resolution to keep it at 33%. Um the as we've had it in order to maintain our budget and keep our budget where it needs to be, uh I really need for the board to do this. So, the uh it's a little over 2.8 million in in the LB is what will generate for us. [Music] recommend the board adopt 256 >> for the LO >> for the L. Sean moved and second to adopt the lob resolution for the 2526 school year. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. >> All right. KASB policy recommendations. Second read. >> This is a second read to make this final. Uh
061if you you know twice a year KB comes out with recommendations to get things in line with their own interpreted you bouncing ball changes. Uh then also the uh changing federal andor state laws and re and policies. Uh last month we looked through these five uh pretty simple ones. The investment of vital funds basically allows two business days for the groups to produce something for us. Employee whistleblower. It's a new law. It needs to be a standalone policy and we have to post the um the protections for employers employees I'm sorry who want to report any illegal action of the district. Uh the next one is student activities. just basically aligns with allows home school, virtual school and non-public students to participate in case activities. Uh concealed observation for anybody out there, I'm talking to
062you Sam. Anybody out there who wants to uh legally record our board meetings and then post them. Um you you get to uh stay. The last one is visitors to the school. Uh Offduty law enforcement officers do not, and this is the law, this is in the law, do not have to provide information, personal information, email address, home address, phone number, or any notification that they are armed uh to the school and this is in the law. And so these policies would get us in line with what law says. So I recommend the board approve the KB those policy adjustments. Casey >> second. >> Ryan Shre been moved and seconded to approve the KASB proposed policy adjustments. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. All right. Transfer of property should be called
063donation but it's not. Uh this brings this whole fiasco to a close. It's a three or four year policy of the uh district accepting the don donation of the message board from the uh city of Hulcom. But it's not a donation. It's a transfer of property. Uh silly, but I recommend the board accept the transfer of property of the digital message board from the city of Hulkcom to USD 363. >> Put it down. Put it down. Those lawyers, they got >> they got paid. >> It's been moved and second to accept the transfer of property of the digital messaging board from the city of Hulcom to USD 363. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. All right. Handbook update. >> Uh yeah, this is merely cleaning up our our work, ensuring we
064have are documenting our practices. This came out when we're transferring from P school to Skyward. uh we discovered we needed to adjust our grading scale um within work habits and social skills at WES and HS uh it's nothing substantive uh from outstanding for citizenship from well outstanding from 95 to 90 and from satisfactory from 80 to 89 and then doing away with the various grades down below in physical education music and and computer elementary this is what's been in practice practice for a while. We just need to make sure what's written, you know, follows suit with what we've been doing. So, I recommend the board accept the adjustments to the new to the two elementary handbooks as presented. They don't. >> All right. Sean moved and Ryan second and moved and seconded to accept the
065adjustments to the two elementary handbooks as presented. All those in favor say I. >> I. opposed. All right, new business. Chromebook policy update. >> All righty. Uh Julie stole my thunder. She covered all this earlier. Uh so Chromebook policy update. Uh it's just need to get this updated because we need to have students students and their parents who they have their students accepted Chromebook need to sign off on the fact they've read the handbook. Uh just there's some minor things. We're going from um Skyward, I'm sorry, going from Power School to Skyward. But there's three substitive things in here. Uh the fee structure for making repairs when damages occur. Unfortunately, damages occur. Remember couple meetings back Ryan, you talked about asked Tyler if he'd fix the middle school kids were shoving the paper clips into
066the ports, you know, uh that kind of thing, right? Our old structure was not as um plan one or not one as dynamic as it was being uh proposed. Uh so now there's levels one, two and three of damage and within the three levels there's first incident, second incident, third incident and the charges accelerate with or graduated rather with the number of of instances. Uh and then if it goes beyond the third, we would you know just continue it on. go keep going to a fourth, a fifth, a sixth, uh or maybe jump to level two. Now you you've gone further. We would hope at this point in time, you know, at some point in time the family would say, "Stop doing these things, young." Uh at some point in time, it gets to be
067pretty expensive, 100% of the repair cost to the family with a minimum of $320. By the time you're level three, do we have a level for like tick tock damage? >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And also some other things that are being done just by practice. Uh when Casey goes into ninth grade, she's assigned a Chromebook. And so let's say by in 10th grade, her screen falls off and we get into it, we dig into it, and on the back of the motherboard, somebody's drawn something naughty on the back of the motherboard. And say, and so Casey's parents say, "Well, can you prove that she did it?" We'll say, "She's had the same Chromebook for two years." It Yeah. this was a real case that happened to us this last year and so we had to
068say we couldn't no we couldn't really prove it you know and so and the track record of that individual situation we had to back off and say all right so now Curtis gets his Chromebook when it comes as a ninth grader it's his if you loaned it for Ryan Ruda and he did something weird with it you shouldn't have loaned it for Ryan Ruda that's all I can say uh that was a mistake on your part uh so this is a better approach as far as our fee structure goes uh the insurance. Like uh Julie alluded to, uh we've not offered insurance for a while. Uh but now this is in line with our practice that we don't but we want to make sure people know insurance does exist. You want to go out there
069and get insurance, please do go get it. Uh because unfortunately people do drop Chromebooks uh and or they do things when the screen falls off their computer. And then the Google services uh this is we are a Google school. Google requires that as a Google school that we have parents sign off on the fact that if we choose to turn on Google Maps or Google Translate or YouTube or whatever uh that the parents know we might do that. We are going to do that very frugally. We're not going to just turn on a lot of stuff, but the parents need to know that this could occur if the kids are under the age of 18. So um that's the update to the Google policy I recommend and Julie and her her group work very very
070closely or very carefully very didactically through this to bring forth a policy across the board on this thing that reflects and will be what we need it to be moving forward. And then a year from now I'll have other recommendations for you because we'll find Oops, that didn't work. I recommend uh approval of the updates to the Chromebook use policy as presented. >> So Curtis and Ryan Travel moved and seconded to approve the updates to the Chromebook use policy as presented. All those in favor say I. All right. Delegate delegate assembly representative. >> All righty. Every year there at the KSB PA conference uh they have a delicate assembly uh and because they you know they make changes and and but in order for a person to represent a district in order to cast votes
071that local district has to assign someone. It's normal to assign the board president with the remaining uh naming the remainder of the board as alternates in case the board president is not able to attend. So I recommend the board appoint the board president to serve as a delegate assembly with the remaining members as alternates and move second to appoint the board president to serve as the delegate assembly representative of the KASB annual conference with all other board members named as alternates. All those in favor say I. opposed. All right. Personnel 20 minutes. >> 20 minutes. >> Okay. Who with Dr. Meyers? Any Just Dr. Myers? >> Yes, ma'am. >> All right. So, let's go in at 8:05 for 20 minutes with Dr. Myers. >> Does that work? Ryan and Casey moved to go into executive
072session at 8:05 for 20 minutes including Dr. Myers. All those in favor say I. >> Opposed You're not funny. >> Funny looking, funny smelling. You forgot your second grade teacher. >> I mean, principal. Funny looking, funny smelling. All right. All right. We are back in session. I need a motion to hire Jessica Blay's Ballets as a full-time cook. >> Curtis been moved and second to hire Jessica as a full-time cook. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. I need a motion to approve the supplementals as presented. It's been moved and second to approve the supplementals as presented. All those in favor say I. >> Opposed. >> That's it. Mr. >> I need a motion to adjurnn. >> Curtis and Shoot and second to adjurnn. All those in favor say I. I.