001Gosh. Okay. I'm going to call the meeting to order. Um there was an adjustment to the agenda. Uh the the WY student presentation. We'll move it out of unfinished business to right above recognitions. And then on the disposal list, we're adding a power room. And on new business e donation, that becomes donations. So with that, I need a motion to approve the agenda. Second. Jill and Ryan move and second to approve the agenda. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. All right. I need a motion to approve the consent agenda. Second. Ryan and Sean. Moved and seconded to approve the consent agenda. All those in favor say I. I opposed. All right, let's do the WY Elementary student presentation. All righty. Several years back, we came forward and made a real push with project
002based learning here in uh Hulcom. And at that time, uh people across the district brought up various different projects that have been taking place. Well, one of the red letter days as far as I'm concerned in Hulkcom is Big Truck Day. I just absolutely love Big Truck Day for a variety of reasons. Uh it's a coming up and so as you all know more quarterly we like to have uh student presentations and there's a lot of cool activities taking place within the school and it culminates no it's not by mistake that come the spring presentation at second grade to come and talk to us about big truck day. So with that miss allight if you introduce our young scholars and what's going to happen here. Okay, we have four students here, one from each second
003grade class. We have Ember, Kim, Kennedy, Eastston, and Wen. And I don't need to do any intro any other introduction because they're going to tell you everything you need to know about Big Truck Day. Okay. Good evening, members of the dome board. My name is Ember Camp and we are second grade students at We're excited to tell you about a special event that is coming up. It's called Big Truck Day. Big Truck Day is a day where we celebrate our community heroes, the people who keep us safe, healthy, and our town's running smoothly. We get to see big vehicles up close like firet trucks, tractors, bucket trucks, trailers, and more. This year, this year, big truck day will be on May 2nd from 9 to 11:00 a.m. It will take place on the bus drive
004at WY Elementary. We can't wait for everyone to see all the pool trucks and meet the people who drive them. to get ready. Our teachers assigned us to a community hero to learn more about. Right now we are doing research, writing papers, and making presentation boards to show what we're [Music] learning. Some of us have already gotten to interview our community carers and others. will be doing their interviews soon. We are asking questions to learn more about their jobs and how they help others. This is the fourth annual truck day at WY. We are so excited to be a part of it. It's a fun tradition where we get to learn about the important people and vehicles that help our community. We are excited to show everyone our projects and what we learned about at
005Big Truck Day. Thank you for letting us share about Big Truck Day. We hope you can come visit us on May 2nd and meet our amazing community [Music] heroes. They've definitely been working very hard. Some of them have got the opportunity to come down to Miss Castillo's office and call all of the um community members that are going to be coming to set up the dates for them and give them all the information. Today in Miss Ray's class, we had one of the um community workers come in and give a demonstration to the class. So, they learned a little bit more about that. Um Miss Fleming's class, I know, was working on the cattle truck haulers today. So they were digging into the research of that. So lots of hard work is going into it.
006So I'm excited to have them share their presentation. So um how many trucks do you anticipate being as a part of the event? 10. 10. Wow. Okay. And this is said the fourth annual. So all you guys are second graders obviously. So you started kindergarten one two maybe foury old. Historically what's been your favorite truck that you've experienced? Um I would say Duck in a row. I'm sorry. Duck in a row. Ducks in a row. Ducks in a row. Um, swat. Oh, yeah. Um, probably the construction worker. Um, pioneering. Remember the big huge cotton? Oh, yeah. And we usually have really bad weather for this as well. Yes, we do. It's really exciting. He has something going on on the roof or something some other Oh, the well we're drawing the well. That's what it
007was. So, we'll also have a surprise this time as well. Any other questions, board members? Good job. Very, very well done. Nicely done. You you you were not able to leave without taking a cookie or four. So, I do also want to say um the whole idea of Big Truck Day came about for Hannah Fleming when we were doing project based learning. And so she kind of brainstormed this idea and brought it to reality. And so it's been something really awesome that our second grade teachers are really great. So they did a great job of years. It's it's very well organized. I really do advocate everyone coming out to big truck day. So thank you once again. Second graders and second teachers. [Applause] You want us to go get our prison picture? Do your picture.
008Do your prison picture. You don't even don't take it right. Just go. Okay. Cuz Hie will get angry here if we don't. Let's go take her picture. Yep. We sure did. We know. You look You look You look Curtis. Good job. That was fast. She was in a bit of a mood. What she got? Taking after her mom, is she? Yes, exactly. Our whole house has been like that since Saturday. Yeah. You know, uh, Jenny's, [Music] huh? Kevin Kelvin Kelvin had a great band. It's pretty good. All right, let's go on now to recognitions. Yeah, just like to take the opportunity to celebrate once again. I mean, we have really great teams across the board in the district. Uh the DT district leadership team for Kissa traveled down to um Sublet uh to take part
009in the KSA bike district event uh where we worked with Sublet not Sublet with Ulysus and Houston. And honestly and truly, uh, our DT shown. It just did a nicer job than the other two. Not they were fine, I'm sure. Uh, but our team just was really on top of everything. Uh, it's the admin team, Jackie Stap, Carrie Rose, Matt Dwarf, Melanie Gford, Julie Neimichek, and Alexa Belts, who's assistant director at High Plains, soon to be the director director at High Plains. Uh, were there knew the plan, they knew what was going on, uh, added to substantively to all the conversations. in fact from my perspective led the conversations as we're you know spread out amongst the uh throughout the day. So they really did a very nice job. So we have a great a
010great team. I also want to give a shout out to Sam in that he's not here today because he got a couple surgery but uh we had a vehicle go down or a bus go down rather up in northwest Kansas last week a year ago or so we had some work done up there and we asked one of those places up there to tow the vehicle. He'll say 100 feet, but you know, probably a mile or whatever. An egregious amount of money to tell it just a little ways and then to work on it for us. So through his u network, we sent somebody up there and it was like total $1,300. And so way to be Sam, you know, way to be looking not just doing the easy thing and just, you know, hauling
011up north and say, "Okay, we'll fix it. We need to get it home." Took a little extra step and spent $1,300 instead of $8,000. So I appreciate that effort. That's a recognition of dedication and hard work. Okay, let's move to financials, Mike. Okay, nothing really to point out on page one of the warrants. On page two, High Plains Co-op, we had two different payments. one for categorical aid and one for our quarterly assessment for a total of 800 well I mean 185,654.75 when you had those two together and then wreck we had a little bit of county tax money come to us $12,770 and then imagine learning kind of the middle of the page for um our virtual classes and stuff um combined total of $30,600 $ this month. So, the total warrants uh for
012this month on the end of page four, $445,659.54. And our cash balances there on page six are all looking good. And then page seven, our year-to- date um expenditures are in line with where we expect to be. And then back behind that's our um transfers and then high school and middle school reports. So if you have any questions what's a noodle staff chair for the name of the chair. Okay. It's a regular student chair, but it has a little bit. Okay. Can I You don't know what a noodle stack is? I used to get sat in the corner for doing that. Yeah. All right. If there are no questions for Mike, I'll entertain a motion to approve the financials at $445,659.54. [Music] Second, Curtis and Ryan. Been moved and second to approve the financials. All
013those in favor say I. Opposed. Patient patron concerns. We'll move to administrative reports. And Dr. I've got a couple three or four things to talk to you about tonight. Uh number one the track uh so we u continue monitoring it continue looking to you know patch it and Garrett and his team go out and track patch it once again every every time launching a new track season but the ravages of winter came home again this year more so than what we anticipated. Uh two three new places that were causing us angst. Uh Bob Horton from Mammoth was here. I know Bob for over 20 years. He's a fellow educator in the SEMA district and now he's retired work for Mammoth. But and he was out this way, but I mentioned that I've known him for
01420 years because I was a trusted guy. He's not going to just here trying to sell. Um, and I I'm to the point now where this needs to be addressed as far as that goes. Uh, we're pulling numbers. The last time we did this, if we were just to do the track, it would be 900 somehat thousand. If we did the track and then the jumping areas, which he says they're fine, we don't need to touch them. That raises the price to 1.2. If we were to do the post tension track, which is a fancy dancy thing that lasts longer than anybody else in this room and any of those kids who are here, which I don't think we need, it's overkill. Then it rise raises the price to 1.4. So, so we're looking at,
015you know, lesser of all those different things. And I don't have the true dollar amount. He's pulling the numbers for us. Then it started looking at, well, what about how can we get it done? So, for next season, uh he said there's ways to actually do it during football season. And so, my best laid plans of my men would be we're able to actually start track season next year with the new track. So, we're not done. I'm just bringing to you as an idea this month. Uh later on, I'll be talking about the grant that we have uh received for the playground. I'll be talking through some of the fiscal realities. And we're in a better spot now than we were three months ago because more information is coming to us. And so, we'll feel
016some decisions will need to be made. I will definitely be advocating for the acceptance of the grant for the playground tonight. Then we'll be talking more and more and more about uh the track itself. But anything dad cares what he just said? Yeah, that's basically really it. Every every spring we're getting more cracks on it. Asphalt underneath the rubber is starting to just deteriorate. Rocks are coming up. It's just a matter of time. If you don't do it now, you're going to do it later. So, we're not going to go back with asphalt under underneath it, are we? No. He was thought to be concrete and then rub it right on top. Okay. Cuz it's the asphalt that's causing the problem. Yeah. Get a little water in there and it just finds a way to
017wash things away. Concrete cracks, right? Just called physics, I guess. But water will wash away a rock eventually. So nothing, no action, no nothing. Just bringing the concept tonight so that you can sit there and say, "Yeah, that's exciting." So thank you. uh insurance committee. Uh our first insurance committee meeting is tomorrow at 4 o'clock. Uh we did get a bid from Blue Cross Blue Shield. We're ready for this 50% increase. Uh they're looked us looked at us with no compunction in their face whatsoever and gave us a bid from $732 per month to $1,12 per month. Uh we don't know. We'll see what Brian brings us tomorrow. I don't want to give any kind of percentage or guesstimate. It's far far far less than that. what he's thinking at this point, but uh the
018game is brand new. So, the first insurance committee meeting is tomorrow. So, I'll have more information to write about to you by the end of the week. Uh it's made up of teachers, administration, classified staff, uh Ryan Rud represents for the board. So, that's a fun topic as well. The Cook referral program, if you remember, we launched that puppy one referral so far. I don't know where we are are sitting with that as far as possible hire or not. If you recall what it is, if employee 363 brings forward a name and the person comes gets hired and then works for us for 30 days or a month, the individual who did the referral receives $500 check. And so just an idea of bringing people to us and a person can get more than one
019referral bonus. Bring three people $1,500 check. So uh we have brought on two people which is great. not through the referral program, but we found a few people. So, uh we're hoping to continue to build the staff at the high school and middle school kitchens because it just takes people to provide the food for our kids and our people. We're switching to Skyward with our student information system. You know, we did the business one this year and get next year we're going to student information system and with our enrollment. Okay. Um, we're looking, we've reached out to Power School and trying to get a month-to-month contract with them for the enrollment and for the SIS. Um, got hold of their our rep and he said, "Well, send them an email or send, you know, use
020this portal. Send this email." I did this last week. You've not heard anything back by two days, let me know and I'll reach out to management and I'm assuming that that means something bad. Well, something will occur. Well, if I don't hear anything by the end of the day today and they're in California, then I'll send a nasty friend tomorrow and say, "I've not heard anything. What's going on?" Uh, and so I'll reach out tomorrow because I doubt why we're hear anything. Um, in speaking with Jamie Renford up at Scott County because they went through this process not from P school, but from a different uh SIS program. It's not that big a deal if we don't get the SIS rollover month because all they had to pull is a couple times an internal transcript
021type things. Our fear, Julie and my fear on this is what if there's some data point we don't know and we've got to send to the KSD in mid-occtober or something like that. So he kind of allayed my fears on that. Uh but we're still going to try to pursue it. The problem is is online enrollment and because our contract for P school dies May 26th for the online enrollment and so if they don't allow us to just kind of keep using it and it gets unplugged and Skyward has an online enrollment part of it but we're not trained in it and we there's no way we could get trained in it in time for next school year. So we're facing this we're hiatus if you will in between things. So we're working things out.
022Uh we're just not there yet. We're looking at options if if it's not possible to get the online enrollment carried over from Power School. Uh and by the way, enrollment does begin Wednesday, this Wednesday. So you have your your oldest is or youngest brother is a senior, you don't have to worry about this, Mr. Jones. Uh but anyone around this table who has little ones, uh enrollment begins on Wednesday. So uh get in there and do it while you still have Power School enrollment. So, thank you, sir. Thank you. All right, let's move to buildings and grounds. Sam's out. Sam has a rotator cuff surgery. Okay, nothing further. Monica, nothing further. Okay, Julie, I've been talking to you guys about, you know, for a couple months now. uh it's rotation year to replace the laptops
023for all the teachers and then the Chromebooks at the high school for the students and we're in the process of getting uh bids. We there for a period it's been slow getting those bids back and we weren't sure I I hate to conject much conjecture here but we were wondering why were it was it slow getting some of these u bids in. Now that adjustments have taken place at the tariff level, but way way above our heads, we're hoping that will shake free the bids. We'll see. Uh we sincerely hope to have u numbers for you in May because this everything's at the end of life and so we want to be making this purchase in May so that we can process everything be ready for the school year. So it's still a come because
024we can't buy what we don't have the numbers on. That's what I was wondering is the tariffs or Originally I maybe that's Julie talking about maybe that was it but then they got pulled from the technology side of it. So I think and maybe the companies are you know antsy about it. I don't know but anyone who's got a really good soul will provide the that for he's got the best soul for me. All right let's move to our principles and Mrs. Ty. That's right Randy. Come on down. Shaking it up tonight. People are not here in person if you could have seen the face of this time and Miss Hall. We even coordinated though this week so we didn't overlap but okay still it's kind of fun to shake things up a bit. Um
025so I wanted to share that we are excited um about an IPOS opportunity for our students um with financial literacy. I had tal I think I had brought up the bank and that it hadn't worked out for us to work with equity but um I got a name from one of uh the teachers at Hulcom Elementary about Golden Plains. So, they came out and met with us and we are really I'm really excited about this program. They have everything already set up, all the parent letters, all the the system for how the kids get prizes and golden bucks and all these things and they can open an account at Golden Plains. Um, and then we they can deposit I forget what she says. Is it $2 is the minimum? I can't I can't remember what
026she said about the minimum deposit, but um basically our timeline right now we are selecting a name of our bank. So the bank has to have golden in it or it has to have planes in it. And um so I'm sure it'll have maybe Longhorn or something. Um and then also looking at a logo. So that's due by May. Then over summer she'll work on all the you know if they open an account they get a little string bag with the logo on it and they get a few other little things for opening their account and then um the beginning of September she'll come and do an assembly for us to kind of kick everything off and then followed by training of our fifth grade tellers. So that will become one of our fifth grade
027jobs where they will learn to be a teller at the bank. Um, they'll learn to balance their cash boxes and everything whenever they get finished. Um, and I don't remember if I told you guys or not, but we have an old teller little thing, whatever. Uh, office. What are those called? Cash register. No, not a cash register. The little uh Yeah, I don't know. I can think what they call it. Um, register. Sometimes you can find things like that underneath the stands at Hulcom Elementary. It's not on the disposal list. No, we have kept that one. And even though there are some things that I think have been on the disposal list, but they're still under there. But hey, you never know when it's going to be like a little gem that you find later,
028you know, 10 years later and you use it. So anyway, we're going to use that. And so it has two little windows so we can have two tellers. Um and then midepptember we should be able to open the bank. So that's kind of what we are that's kind of our timeline for that. Um the lady that came and met with us I mean she's very I mean you can tell she's done it for quite a while. So that's pretty exciting. There are a couple of things I need a display case for the toys or the prizes that they can buy. I think um something that can lock up that but has So I'll be looking at something like that. Um, but really exciting. So, and it's the thing that's also really exciting is it's not
029more that we have to develop ourselves and figure out, well, how many of this do you have to have and we have to track it and all of that. It's something that's already done and the kids learn about saving money and all that stuff. So, we're really excited about it and we'll be moving forward with that next year. Good stuff. counter a little cash register. It's the moving bell and the whole thing. Oh, really? That's what you need for your store. I'll have to look and make sure we still have it. It actually has the conveyor belt. Yeah. I mean, you have to like that matter. That's cool. Hey, that's okay. That could be somebody's job. They just sit back there. You know, anybody works at a like electrical place? Get a hamster. All right.
030set puppy up. Let's continue the shakeup and we'll go with Jerry Johnson. Oh, Amy is going to die intense over there. I'm all for it. Explode. Um, my one more thing that I was going to talk about is we did our spring fasts testing already at the high school level. We intentionally did it early this year because uh last year whenever we did our spring fast bridge testing, we waited until the end of April, beginning of May. Uh and for those of you that have high school kids, uh you know what like the end of spring and early May is trying to get kids to get out of bed for one and just want to go to school at that point. So, uh we did it early. Uh we have some really exciting news with
031that. Uh really big shout out to Mrs. Davis who put together all of our spring fasts testing uh into a little document. Uh we shared it with all of our students today. I'm really proud of our students. We've been really working with our students, talking to them about uh best is the standard, giving our best effort, becoming the best version of ourselves, uh and then trying it. Um there's nothing nothing for them except for just the the work ethic side of them to try on state assessment testing to try on spring fast testing. Nothing's held accountable over their head, right? It's not like they can't go on to graduate and they can't pass to another subject other than the fact of just a little bit of pride in the fact if we're going to do
032something, we're going to put our effort into it. Our total school growth, so uh freshman to juniors, 74% of our students that tested increased their score. Um that's a big thing for us. I mean, we were really excited just to see the amount of students that uh increased at their testing score, which is on a reading, which is their comprehension. Freshman, uh 53% of our students made benchmark. Uh 73% of them grew. That's an increase of 9% over the last two years. So 9% of our students from two years ago to this year have gained uh onto benchmark. Uh that that's a big number. Sophomores uh grew from uh to 63%. 81% of our sophomores grew. They got better on their score. So, so our sophomore class right now is our biggest growers. Um I
033don't know if it's because they're two years into the system now or what it is, but they've shown the biggest growth. They've made the biggest jump. We're 81%. And in the last two years, 16% of the class has gained benchmark. So over two years we've changed it from 16% of our students more have made benchmark which is a really really big number uh for them. The juniors have showed the least amount of growth but that's because that they had been in for about three years and they had the highest benchmark already. They they are at 72% of their class has made benchmark uh which is 15% increase over their last two years. So since they've been in high school, they've gained uh that 15%. A lot of it is the fact of they're more mature,
034they're taking it accountable. Uh we're double blocking, which we're giving means that they have an intervention class if they don't meet benchmark. Uh and Mrs. Davis has done a really good job with that uh to work on comprehension and the overall vocabulary that they're needed uh for that. So um really thankful for the board that saw a vision a couple years ago and let us chase after this. uh to say is like we want to chase after our scores uh and make a big difference with it. And um really kudos to the staff at the high school that's all bought into doing vocabulary all the time and reading more and it's made a big difference and we've seen our scores jump. Um we hope to see then um the biggest thing is now these translate
035over to state assessment scores. That's the correlation. If you can get your fast bridge scores up higher, uh, then we should see a correlation with the increase of state assessment scores, which we all know by 26 27 that's going to be the year that we're going to start being held accountable for state assessment scores. And so things that we're doing right now is in preparation for that win. So, thank you, Mr. Johnson. All right, Amy, come on. Not a crank up hat. Nothing more. Um, okay. Couple things. Debbie Tidwell wrapped up her concert season within WY and I think she done yesterday. Yes. I think all we have is Yep. And so she did a few new things with the WY concerts which I thought went over really well. So before the concert actually starts,
036you kind of have to figure out what are we going to do with 50 kindergarteners to keep them from going crazy before we want them to stand on their risers and sink. So she um brought in some different instruments and things like that that were age appropriate for that grade level and she called it a music live music museum or something like that. And so they got to go explore the different um instruments while we were waiting for everybody to arrive and to get started. So that worked out really well and the siblings came and joined and it was pretty cool. And for the second grade concert, she had Red Red Dog Museum come out. It's um local people within the community that are trying to um open up a children's museum and they came
037out and provided their services for free will donation and they brought some different drums for the students to play with and he kind of led a little group drum line thing. It was really neat. So the kids enjoyed that as well. So we'll definitely be in contact with them. I think Carrie Vampel's interested in having them do some a PAT play group, too, or a WY Elementary playg group as well. So, that was pretty cool. And Debbie always does a great job with her concerts. Um, this Wednesday at 5:30, 5:30 to 7:00, we have art night coming up for the elementary schools. It's just a comeand go event for our families to come and see their students artwork that they've been working on throughout this school year. Martika always does a great job at displaying
038it in different ways. Um, Wley's will mainly be set up in the gym and Hogam Elementary, I believe, is down through their hallways by their grade levels. We also have two food trucks coming to the bus drive at WY for that event and um, Dirty Dough Cookies as well. So, come on if you can. Thank you. All right, Dr. Hilton. Um, we've had Miss Leonard here a few times. Um, talked about IPS and all the phenomenal things she's doing with it. Uh, she met with me month and month, two months ago, and said, uh, you know, we're doing good things with field trips and things like that, but she really wants to refine it, do a better job and and see how we can make the better, which is awesome. Um, Wednesday, May, April 30th,
039um, 2 to 3:30, our seventh graders will have a career fair at the gym in the gym at the middle school. Uh, but it won't just be a exhibition gallery where you just go to all the booths and get some pencils and stuff and go back to class. They they've uh the kids have identified three areas that they're most interested in and they will actually spend time with these um with with guest speakers on these different careers in three rotations about 10 15 minutes each. So we get to meet with kids or these presenters uh in a more interimate setting, talk about the career path and things and they'll rotate the next one. So it's kind of like what we do with our field trips except we're bringing the field trip to the school. Um
040so and then hoping to use that information um to make the field trips better next year for them too. Uh so uh I'll give another shout out to her and Miss Reynolds. Really going to miss Reynolds next year. she's done a lot uh to to help um our IPS um the path we're leading with that. They're doing a great job. Um but I'm excited for that. Um and excited to continue building that in the future. But um Wednesday, April 30th is when we'll do that. So, thank you. All right, let's move to unfinished business and Kissa like district day. All righty. I I mentioned this ear. Well, I alluded to this earlier when I was giving the kudos to the DLT, the district leadership team. Uh, this is a more of that information. Went down
041to sublet and we had that dayong event. And so, uh, out of that, uh, the idea is we need to build our year one plan of action. And so, our goal is to build or our plan is rather a year-long or we will have built by the end of next year a year-long professional learning plan. and ultimately it will lead to a teacher playbook. So that's what our goal is for the year. Uh it's due to the state uh and our our beginning uh response to that day is due by June 13. It's the just the beginning action the rough rough draft of few of that lays out what what the work will be done. We're looking to turn that in on April 28th. So there's no reason to wait about it. In fact, this
042week we'll have a work session during our admin meeting uh to get draft number three on it. Uh then we'll send it to DT, let them take a look at it and work with the BLTs, business building leadership teams and staffs get it back to us and we'll get it submitted. So, uh that is what that checks the box with the state department that here's our plan, here's where we're working. And then by October, we have we will have had 50% of the plan created because there's a six-month uh check-in date and then a year-long check-in date which happens in April. So by the end and by April 9, I think it is of next year, we'll have the plan done. And so next year we launch into implementing that plan in the you know
043the five-year process what we're doing. And like Jerry alluded to, the name of the game is state assessments. U and so that's where this whole thing is be gearing towards. We've been working down this path for quite a while now, a systemic approach. I'm very pleased and proud of the admin team and the DTS uh of the BLTs rather all drinking from the same cup. But now this puts it in onto into a codified plan. Uh so we will have a very systemic approach and so we'll one of the first things that will come out of us is a district-wide professional learning calendar because right now we do a lot of the same things but you know at middle school it might look like this on November 5th and at Hulcom Elementary it might look
044like this. It's not really as structured as we want it to be. It will be. So that's what's happening. The first set deadline, and you'll hear about this in May, is June 13, but we will once again I'm looking to submit it April 28th. There's no reason to wait around because we're ran out of school, so we need to go ahead and get them. So that's in the works, Mrs. Jones and the board. All right, we will move to educational materials fees for 2526. With enrollment beginning uh two days from now, it's important for us to set the educational material fees. Uh I'm proposing no increase from last year. uh you have a second page. You have page one that says, "Hey, we need to do this." And so, and I promote uh I recommend
045the board set the education material fees for 2526 as presented. They're the same fee. It's the same fee structure as last year. Uh but what is not inherent, we'll be bringing these forward throughout the rest of the spring and then into the summer. The meal prices, athletic fees, library fees, admin admission prices. I don't anticipate any major adjustments, but I didn't want to just throw it at you without having really looked at looked at it and come forward with a true proposal. But for tonight, educational materials fees, uh, no adjustment from last year and I recommend the board accept those. [Music] Ryan and Sean been moved and second to approve the educational materials fees for the 2526 school year as presented. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. All right. Back to the disposal
046list. For the 14th time in my tenure in USC 363, we come forward with a list of items to dispose of. You'd think after the third or fourth time there'd be nothing, but it's amazing. And Randy keeps finding things under the stairs, I guess. There's some cool stuff. There's some cool stuff. I forget about it and then I find it again a couple years later. There you go. Uh, so you have a attachment with And now if you go way back, go back if you for giggles, you want to go back to year one or two. All sorts of cool things on those lists. Hundreds of items on those lists. Not so much anymore. Uh, and so there's a process that we we run. You know, we don't just dispose of them tonight. They go
047in the trash. There Robin follows a process where we put it out to the staff, say, "Anybody need this to use this for some educational purpose, grab it, use it. I've got stuff in my office that came from this, my frog, my tree." Uh, and if that doesn't take, then some group looks to sell something. I know Tyler's got a plan to sell the kiln. We're not going to throw the kiln away. We have people who might want to buy this kil. Uh, the power brand that we added to the disposal, we're not just throw it away. We're going to put it on Purple Wave and auction it off. So, we'll be making some money. It's not going to pay our rent, but it, you know, better than just putting it in the dump. So,
048proposal list is there. I recommend the board approve of the proposal list. Power breed. No, it goes on the back. It goes on a coyote. It's poorly engineered to the point it tips. It won't It won't. They did not make this thing right. And then they won't give us any money back on it. It's a sore piece of junk. It's a sore spot. No, it's not a piece of junk. Someone out there on purple wave needs this. Yes. It's not a piece of junk. No, it's a great thing. Motion to get rid of treasures and been moved and second to dispose of the stuff. All those favor all those in favor say I. I. Opposed. All right. New business. HS playground grant and Randy deserted received a sticker from me for a tenacious well if
049you ever worked with Randy she's nothing else if she's not tenacious uh she kept u putting in for the grant and we kept hearing the word no she kept writing in and put it in again uh this is the same grant that Dena had had submitted I don't know five years ago uh that did our resurfacing at at why elementary school aesthetically pleasing safer it's just it's a good product is what it Uh the place over here at WY is just bigger. So uh Randy submitted for two grants. We received one for $64,000. The total project is $256,000. So our out of pocket be $192,000 is what that would cost you. Um the um I'm comfortable doing this. In fact, I advocate for this because last year's roll out at 14%. We've already taken advantage
050take advantage. We've already made the adjustments and we know Mike and I talk to we talk all the time. Where are we sitting? where we're sitting, where we're sitting. We still anticipate a six to 7% roll out this year. So, that because we've made the absorption, we've already made all the things we needed to do to make this happen. Um, we talking with Garrett, we got a plan to reuse the mulch and the barrier underneath it, put it out into the ditches out in front of the high school. That'll help with draining. So, we're not just going to discard that puppy. Uh, the return on investment on this is a long time, but we spend about $10,000 a year on mulch and whatnot. So, that does chip away at the return on investment as far
051as that goes. Uh I advocate for it because it's safer. It's it's aesthetically pleasing. Uh we are sitting with $2.1 million sitting in the capital budget right now. We have a $700,000 roll out and we'll generate another 900 800 900 for next year. It's 1.6. Uh we can do this fiscally. We can and how many times we tried to write this thing Randy? Three three or four times. And it's not because how long have we put in for it? Yeah. We've been told at least three or four times. Yeah. And so the grant is going to cover how much? All of it. It will cover I mean 64,000. Yeah. As far as the the cost of it. Yeah. It'll $64,000 of the $256,000 price tag. So our out of pocket only 192. Yeah. She got
052a sticker for it. A sticker. Yeah, she got a sticker. Bottle of wine. So anyway, I recommend the board accept the uh KS Kate Health Ksh should be KDH. Sorry about the title. I was wondering what that Yeah, sorry about that. Want to read these things seven times before you turn to waste tire grant program. [Music] Good job, Randy. Yeah, we should say good job. Like a fire thing or thing like tires. I don't know what kind of tires they are, but they they are refurbished tires. I mean torto. Is there any way you can start applying for a grant for a track? Yeah, Jerry, I don't know. I mean, we can look into it and then in about six years get a Firestone track or whatever. [Music] All right. It's been moved and seconded
053to uh accept the KDH waste tire grant program grant as presented. All those in favor say I. Opposed. All right. Use of school equipment during summer camps and clinics. Uh this is just an annual occurrence. We have a variety of kids go off to various different camps throughout the summer. And so in order for them to utilize our materials, you know, pull vault or you know, whatever else they want to use a ukulele or whatever. I know that's one of the things they use. Uh it takes more action to allow them to do so. So to my knowledge, never had any issues. Uh so I urge that the board approve of students using specialized district equipment during summer camps andor clinics. Ryan second and Casey moved and seconded to approve the use of students using
054specialized district equipment for summer camps and clinics. All those in favor say I. opposed. All right. KB dues and legal fees. This is the time of year when uh we it's time to reup for stay a part of KSB. They're not stupid. They know what they're doing. We utilize the legal assistance fee far more than we use the rest of the KSB services. But in order to have that, you've got to be a member. So, um the price this year of doing business is $10,990.17 to be a member. then $2,750 for the legal uh assistance fee. It's a increase of $16 from last year. Um I promote I recommend the board approved the fees the KSB membership and legal fees for 2526. I use the legal fee legal services minimally monthly probably about every two
055weeks. So So 2750 is pretty cheap for Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. All right. Sean and Ryan moved and seconded to approve the fees for KSB membership and legal fees. All those in favor say I. I particularly when you're dealing with University of Texas. Yes. Why can't they make it a full number? It's a percentage. Tariffs. Beautiful tariffs. It's about the soul. It's got a beautiful soul. All right. Let's move to handbooks for WY Elementary and high school course catalog. All right, Amy is a winner. Way to be Amy. She got a sticker. Um, so the WY handbook, there's not much. I mean, it's substitive, but update the teaching assignments, updated dates, change the Skyward. Um, another typo from Power School new school calendar. I recommend you accept her updates. And then the high school catalog.
056Melanie Gford, first time going as the high school counselor. did a very nice job of making the adjustments within the the course catalog. It's important to get this done now because enrollment begins. And so they're students are going to start to choose the classes they take. And so what you'll find on there just the adjustments to pathways uh individual classes which are fulfill fine arts requirements, new graduation requirements are listed and some classes that don't exist anymore have been taken out. Um, I recommend the board approve the handbooks as presented in May and June and July. We'll have a few more handbooks coming to you next year. I'll make the motion to approve. Casey moved and seconded to approve the handbooks as presented. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Skype word. I know.
057Okay, let's move to trust me I got donations plural. Yes. Uh we continue to have uh great support from our patrons. Uh so going prior to today, well yeah late last week we had one donation u to the district uh presented this year from Midwest Energy for $500 and then last week blue Bob Lavine also donated $500 to the district. So I recommend the board accept the two donations that we have received. Curtis and Ryan. It's been moved and second to approve to accept the donations as presented. All those in favor say I. Opposed. All right. Personnel 15 minutes. Really? Yeah. All right. That's if you're telling jokes, let's let's go into executive session for 15 minutes starting at 755 to include Dr. Meyers and any Do we need any principles? Nope. Okay. Anyone? Ryan
058and Curtis. It's moved and seconded to go into executive session at 7:55 for 15 minutes with Dr. Myers. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Sorry, I could Yeah. In a good soul. A really good soul. Got less than 10,000 miles on them. Yeah. All right. We are back in session. I need a motion to hire Holly Meyers as in the role of middle school counselor. Sean Sean and Ryan. It's been moved and seconded to hire Holly Meyers. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. All right. I need a motion to hire Anamarie Halama as a part-time food service. Second. Ryan. Curtis moved and seconded to hire Anna Marie. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. I need a motion to hire Theo Philill Halama as a part-time food service. Second, Ryan
059and Curtis again. Been moved and seconded to hire Theophil. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. All right. I need a motion to hire John Holmes for grounds and maintenance. Grounds and maintenance. Thank you. So moved. Second. Ryan and Curtis. Been moved and seconded to hire John Holmes. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. I need a motion to hire Matt Oliver for grounds and maintenance. Second. Sean and Curtis. It's been moved and second to hire Matt Oliver. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. All right. Dr. Myers. Do we need to do the uh summer? Oh, yes. Okay. I need a motion to hire the uh summer employees um as presented. Second. Ryan and Curtis. Been moved and seconded to hire the summer employees as presented. All those in favor say
060I. I. Opposed. All right. No supplementals. New supplements. All right. Need a motion to adjurnn. I'll make that motion. Ryan and Curtis. Been moved and second to adjurnn. All those in favor say I. I.