001Uh, at this time we will call the Jeff West 340 Board education meeting order Wednesday, February 4th, 2026. This time, do we have any comments for patrons and guests? >> Come on, you guys. Communication. Uh, the agenda. We have an amendment to the agenda. is 57. You'll see she had added it on the on diligent uh but not till after it was published. So it is >> I don't even have a >> I don't either. I don't know. >> It's fine. >> Yeah, >> it's on it's on it's on Dylan. So uh aside that can we get a >> motion to approve the agenda? >> The amended agenda. >> Yes, the amended agenda. Sorry. I move to approve the amended agenda as presented. >> Yes. >> Second. >> I'm sorry. I'm a little [clears throat]
002quiet already still. Uh do we get a motion to approve the consent agenda? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Favor. Now we are at academic reports. Whoever wants to go first, >> one at a time. >> We do them all at the same time. >> Right. >> Hello everyone. Uh it was a busy month. As you see, you got two uh two pages. Um so I won't run through all of that. Um but I just want to talk a little bit about kindergarten preschool roundups. It's that time of year. Uh no numbers to report. It's all very building, but we're advertising the next month. There'll be two ads for kindergarten, two ads for preschool. Um, just out there promoting siblings, uh, community, talk about it at site council, just, you know, talk about it wherever
003you're at and let them know. Give us a call, get signed up. Uh, let's see. U, some new things rolling out, um, is we have our, um, uh, not touch the bus. What do I say? U bus patrol, pickup patrol. um has been a real big thing. Parents are using it well, secretaries are loving it, teachers are liking it. Um it's communicating well. We we're up to 50 messages a day of of changes and changes just lead to confusion. And this allows parents to go in and make changes without calling the school. We get a print out at 2:45. It shows everyone where everyone's going. Um, and it's it's been clean and simple and um, only a couple of instances where teachers had to call our parents like, "What do I do for this?" And
004we worked through it and it's working well. Um, >> the only school that uses that. >> We are. Yeah, we we are just finishing an 8week free trial. Um, and then they're going to bill us just for the remainder of this year and then next year we'll look at getting an entire year. Um, it's about $850 for a year. Um, but it's proving to be very reliable, very safe, very easy um, for everyone to use on both side. We've even got some dads using it. So, good luck at 245. What about the ones that are before then, like for appointments and stuff? Do they just not know about it >> for teachers? >> No, for like the office staff, >> they should know. Okay, let me be clear. At 2:30, at 2:30, you have to
005call in. just just >> but like for instance I picked my kid up early and they were like oops we forgot to check it. So is that like they only look at it once a day? >> No, they have it on their they have it on their computer now like today >> well it was like it was on fire today [clears throat] but they keep they keep it up all day long and they just check in on it every once in a while just to see. Now you know they open it up at nine o'clock. Things get busy. It's lunchtime. someone shows up at 12:30 and they hadn't looked at it for a minute. So, there's some new habits like it, but just to help them. I was just curious when you said the 2:30,
006I was like, >> "Yeah, 2:30 is it it shuts off at 2:30 for that day and you have to call in because at that point we're sending things to teachers. It is closed, but we've gone from 50 changes on on phone to a couple and everything else is happening. And you can report absences there as well. So, if there's a 4 a.m. 4:00 a.m. sickness, you don't have to get up at 9 and call us. You and your kiddo can just stay home, stay in bed, and not have to get up and then don't forget, you know, all those things. So, um it's it's helped out a lot. So, um we've been doing some Kansas Day celebrations because it's that time of year. We had 100 days. We had class pictures. Um the other thing
007coming on board is Beanstack. I think we talked about that before. Um but we're getting ready. the password situation got figured out. Um, and we are getting ready to kick that off where students, it's like AR. Um, and students instead of reading and taking a test and earning points, they read for minutes. Um, compare it to Pepsi and Coke. We're kind of doing the same thing, but it's a little bit different. But we're going to wear one of each shoe on each foot and check it out through May and then make a decision about next year. Which way do we want to go? Um, Beanstack uh is is less expensive, but it has some things we're concerned about on just um honesty of minutes is is the big one. Um, and using the reading level
008to target their reading skill. Um, but at the same time, one of our one of our drives is to create a passion of reading and not reading because I have to take a test to get a point to earn earn something, but read because I want to read because I like the magazine or I like whatever. Uh the big hook on bean stack is you earn badges. So one of the one of the first ones will be just tiger badge. You read 60 minutes, you get a tiger badge. And that reading can happen with you at home, can happen with a kindergarten teacher in a class, can happen with the student on their own. They clock their minutes, they earn a badge. Um we are going to figure out a way we have the million
009millionaires club which is a million words read from I think third through fourth grade. And how do we do that with Beanstack? I added up minutes the other day and it takes many more days than we have. So, we're working at like a million seconds of reading and then it works out to be something like 18 days of reading. I don't remember what it was. Um, no, it's 18,000 minutes. U, but we thought, well, let's start in first grade and make that a big gold ribbon to try to shoot for. Um, and then little we can have first grade, there's a principal's choice, we could have librarian's choice, we could have Christmas badges. just how much can we think of to give kids a target to want to shoot at. Kind of like Cub Scout
010badges and Girl Scout badges. So, um that's that's coming on board. Um and uh I don't know. I think that you know second grade music programs coming up, parent teacher conferences are coming. So, we have a PD day coming where we're going to do HIPS. It's level section five of our high impact instructional practices. So, that's coming up. We're all doing that together. And that's us in a short month. So, any questions? >> Thank you. Thank you. >> I'm looking at y'all. Where's my screen? >> We're weird looking. >> Just the ones on the end. >> So, we've done some celebrations. Um the month of January. We celebrated um our middle schoolers being the state champion in the ISL fall vocab bowl. Um so we did assembly, we gave some plaques to the top three
011performers at each grade level. Um booster club provided us with some cupcakes and drinks and then played some games with our school families and had a dance party. Um the kids all loved it. They had a lot of fun. They really enjoyed it. Um the spring started this week for the vocab competition and they have some goals. Mr. All's either going to shave his mustache or diet. We're not 100% sure. The top grade gets to pick. Um, but right now we are first in Kansas and we have mastered,442 words and we are 23rd in the nation for middle schoolers. So, >> pretty cool. The kids are all excited about it and they're really they enjoy getting on there and there's lots of kids who I have who work outside of school too to master those
012words. Um, because it's words mastered, not how many questions they answer. So, they're really working hard. Um, we celebrate Kansas Day. Miss Andrews and Savannah and I made 300 dirt cups for everybody. took a long time. >> The kids all they said it was the best day ever. I'm like, guys, it's just putting in Oreos, but I'm glad it was the best day. >> Say, I'll take it. >> Um, our students are working on their individual plans of study for the parent um teacher conferences for their student le conferences. Each grade level has sixth and eighth grade have a presentation that they prepare. Um, fifth grade has kind of like packet um that they'll go over, but they do um work in Zello that they share in their um presentation. and they talk about careers
013that they might be interested and things like that as well as just different goals and how they've done throughout the school year. So, we have that that they're fine-tuning and wrapping up. They do this with their advisory teachers. So, on Fridays is the day dedicated to it. But throughout the week, the advisory teachers pull them one-on-one to check in with them to see their progress and, you know, kind of have them workshop going through what this looks like. So, they're not just reading it, but they're working on those public speaking skills. Um, our the county spelling bee um is February 11th. We had Tucker McDonald who will represent our fifth and sixth grade um B winner and then Jocelyn Patton. She is representing our seventh and eighth grade um winner. So those two will go
014on to compete at Valley Falls. Um Miss Andrews is working on getting prepared for her eighth grade job shadowing. Um so she'll be working with the eighth graders to kind of see which kind of careers they'd like to go shadow. Um we're looking at a day in April and so they'll go for the morning, they come back and they I get pizza for them all. We debrief and write thank you notes to the business or whoever they went to go shadow. So, this is her big class because there was 80 of them that she has to try to match. So, it's going to take her a bit. Um, I'm starting to work on our state assessment schedules cuz it's hairy um with track meets and Easter break, all the things. So, makes it real wild
015for me to schedule every grade level to test multiple times. Um, but work on that. I will also send out my Amazon wish list because it's important. I make sure the kids are always fed um before the tests, make sure they're fueled um to do well. So, I ask for donations for that. um recognition. We're still short staff at the middle school lunchroom, but Lily and Amler are doing a great job making sure everything all the kids are getting fed and we're, you know, getting them through the lunch line and everything's taken care of. >> Yeah, that's it. >> Thank you. >> Y Um, as you can see in our notes, um, enrollment has stayed about the same. Um, one class goes up, another one goes down. We kind of bounce back and forth. Um,
016we did have a couple more students add to our the GBA virtual program. Um, several of those are doing washroom tech and they really want to get out there and work and so they can schedule their work and when they do their school work with more flexibility. Um, and so we have a a large group from our junior class that have really um delved into that and are finding success there. Um, good news from our FBLA. Um they had nine students who went to FBLA regionals and they qualified in seven events for state. State will be the end of March, beginning of April. It runs throughout that week depending on which area they um qualified in as to what day their competition will be. I know Mr. Coulson has talked about doing some trial runs
017and so you may get an invitation to come watch some of their presentations as they practice and and make it another step better to so they can compete and stay um even stronger. Um staff-wise, we've been busy reviewing all our courses, our course descriptions, adding classes, what classes do we need to take off, what classes do we need to change, and you'll get a ton more information about that as we go through the course book tonight. Um and we'll share lots of information there of wise and what's and um our philosophy and which way we're we're heading. Um upcoming we'll start doing our pre-enrollment for the 26 27th school year which is why you're going to see the course book um and start students making some selections there. Um also, um a big day for
018us is the February 16th where u 9th through 11th graders will present their individual plan of study. Um last year we started that as an electronic portfolio and we've really learned about it and been able to provide more direction for students. So I'm excited to see the next level of their portfolios this year that they'll be able to tweak and all the information that they have in there. um choosing their courses for the next five years as part of that plan, but also, you know, what employability skills are they strong at? What do they need to strengthen still? What um what are they thinking after high school? Are they thinking college? Are they thinking military? Are they thinking workforce? What skills do they currently have? What skills do they still need? They practice um creating
019a resume. Have they done community service? have they worked before? So many different aspects. They also have some flexibility to put in like if they have a hobby or an interest or service that they do. Um and we're learning. We think we'll be able to also track their postsecondary assets on there. So they'll be able to share that. So, when we get through all this, I'm hoping that um we can pick out a couple that really did a nice job with them and maybe have them come present for those of you that don't have a high school student that you can at least kind of see what an electronic portfolio looks like. >> And you start that in they start doing that in eighth grade. >> Um they start some exploration in Zello with their
020careers and stuff in eighth grade. Um maybe even seventh grade. I know you guys have been working on and improving that process. Um, so they start thinking about that. You can actually start it even lower. There's some programs there where they break it down to here's what just introducing elementary students to what what is a career and what what's out there. You know, they know the firefighters and they know um the veterinarians and everybody, you know, that loves animals wants to be a vet. But as they come up through, then you start to dig into what does that really mean? What skills do you really need? You know, you want to be a vet. Maybe you need to know about math and sciences. Oh, I don't like science. Maybe that's not the path you want
021to go. And so working through that, our seniors then will do their mock interviews. Um and so we're currently um getting hold of businesses to set up those and they'll come in and interview for a job area that they think they are currently interested in and if they know a specific job and we can get that match, we try to get that. So, they'll have to create a a letter of of interest, have references, have their resume, um they've been practicing res questions, interview questions, and then they'll come in and and do a real interview um with someone that's not a teacher, so that it makes it a little more real for them. And then they'll provide some feedback and they get to do some self-reflection. And then we'll write thank yous to their um
022whoever they interviewed with. So that gets us into do you know how to address an envelope? And it's amazing. Some of them don't because they just would they why would they? >> I remember they did it last year. They've done a bunch of years ago which is just a wonderful experience and good for them too. >> You're making a call. >> Um employee recognition wanted to recognize Mark Far. he was accepted into the field of streams um which is a professional learning cohort. I think they only accepted like 68 out across um Kansas and it's free professional development or where they want to build um a and STEM things into natural life science classes. And so he will be going um and gaining some experience there and bringing back some things he can use in
023his science classrooms um which we've really been talking about how do we get more STEM activities and help kids get that hands-on. So I'm excited to see what he can bring back from there. >> Questions? >> Um with the Keystone report coming up and I'm sure that thing that building's come along well. I know uh Brena down had down that they had she has one JDL student. How many does do you have? >> Currently I don't have any >> Wes. How many do you have JDL students? >> I don't have any. >> One up there. [clears throat] >> Very good. You remember? >> So, right now we got a lot of seasons going on and they put some of them. Uh, our Jeff West Middle School boys basketball right now their eighth grade record. They
024played a game on Monday [clears throat] night. So, that's updated. It's now two and eight. Seventh grade got a win against St. Mary's moved up to five and five. They're looking to gain some strides playing Rosville on Thursday before heading to league tournament this weekend. Um, I realized I forgot to to add the high school basketball record on there. So, the boys just beat Holton about an hour ago. So, boys are 10 and six. Girls are also 10 and six. So, very strong seasons as we prepare to move into substate here in a few weeks. For our high school wrestling, we hosted our mixer and our senior night and our senior parent night and our eighth grade parent night on Tuesday, January 27th. The high school team competed very strongly. They won 21 of 30
025matches. So, only losing nine of those. Um, two of those came from two students wrestling each other. So, something is there. Um, our middle school girls wrestling is also having a great season. Um, we've got two first, one second, and one third place at Washurn Rule. Uh, they went 13 and seven at Wigo with 12 of those wins coming from being pins. They uh competed at Cement on 31st as well and did pretty well there as well. So, middle school and the wrestling programs at the high school are doing very well. We had debate go to state competition down in Coffeeville on January 16th and 17th. Um, coach Williams felt good about their showcase. They placed 16th and 17th um, being one of the smaller schools there for debate. So, they felt good about what
026they presented competing against bigger schools. And then high school scholars also had a Big East all league team selection at their their league meet. So, they're very well represented the school. Upcoming highlights for sports postseasons here. So, middle school boys basketball, seventh grade will compete their league tournament on Saturday at Rossville. Um, opponent is TBD and Royal Valley will host the eighth grade. So, be on Saturday and Monday. Um, February 9th, our middle school girls will have their league wrestling meet. February 13th, uh, high school girls will have wrestling regionals at Tong and Oxy. February 21st, high school boys have wrestling regionals at Holton. And then February 26th, 27th, high school girls and boys fast substate will start. Um, the girls on the or boys on the 26th and girls on the 27th. Um, on
027February 13th, we host Holton again. Uh we have a shrine bowl award presentation right before the boys halftime or right before the boys game starts after the girls game. So it'll be exciting to see Stephanie. We still are looking for a middle school assistant volleyball coach. Um as of right now it's the only staff we're looking at and employee recognition. I just want to recognize Mr. Melvin Lockhart as a kind of busy time of year for for both of us changing dates and times and locations as postseason kind of uh unfolds. So, he's been great to work with and very understanding of all our dates and chime dates and time movements. >> Very good. >> I want to note something. He didn't have the last two own basketball. So, Friday and Saturday did not have
028an easy go of it. So, everyone recognized Cole because he had some extra things pop up that he handled very well. So, >> thank you. >> Appreciate you. >> Thank you. Uh Eaststone, is this your last one or is it didn't think about it until somebody following it? Uh they are about a month behind on their building and I think they're aiming for June 1st over Dave. Um I believe I remember they said they hired a special education teacher in either the middle school or high school. That sound right? Maybe not. They hired one for somewhere. Uh they are piloting they're piloting an AI program that is uh school friendly. They want to partner they not us or maybe us I don't. They want to partner with districts to try this out. And what it
029is is people already use AI for efficiency whatever. But this one basically my understanding is you basically tell it what sources to draw from. So if students were to use it, it's not going out kind of like a net nanny type thing. But there's they're piloting two of them. They're trying them out and they're going to look to partner with one or more of the district to to try it out. If we all go in, we like it, then we can get a cost savings by through the co-op. So if we do go that route. So >> um building's coming along. They're looking to do something with the church on a very limited budget that's on that property. Uh their thought right now is to make it into like a training area for when they
030hire new people and they would have a place separate where they could train. Uh that's about it. I mean there was >> Are they going to renovate it at all? I don't remember >> that. It's not on the plan, but they have allocated some of their own money for it >> depending on what they can do with that budget. So >> I think depending on how much of their building money that gets spent, if there's anything left over, depending on how much >> Yeah, I think they're taking like 200,000 out of their own >> like HVAC I think. >> Yeah, there were a couple things and I think they have to make it ADA compliant and >> things like that. But to also remember I think that the project came in under budget or and
031they gave >> I was going to say so far so far. So, they've been having conversations with us saying, "Hey, in the event of we're trying to look at what would it take to make it ADU, >> um the basement ceiling height isn't high, you know, they're just trying to I mean, you've got a facility there. Is there something they could make value of it instead of just >> storage >> dozing it over or making it a an eyesore storage unit? >> Uh, nothing else. No bond timeline with Matt >> and Senator Walker. As soon as we turn this on, it said updating. It will take 20 minutes and I was like, >> just keep talking. [laughter] So um we don't with moving [clears throat] our meetings the first Wednesday. The next time we meet
032the elections will have happened the night before. So, we thought it would be good. There will be decisions in the event that it does pass to be made that very next evening. So, we thought it'd be good just to kind of remind on some things so you get an idea of what happens that next day and what are the timelines because uh the board will have to make some decisions. the day after and the event does pass. >> Yeah. Guess Oh. Well, it wasn't my wife's telephone. [laughter] >> Yeah. have all the dance while we're waiting. >> Shadow puppet. Jesus, >> you're the president of the puppet club. So >> Oh, yes. >> Waiting for the puppets. >> Yeah. >> Got to do a bell wire. >> That's it. Oh yeah. So yeah, so watch
033it and know of the renderings. Turn it off. It was like >> Yeah. So Because we were in the past six months. [laughter] >> Yeah. Just superintendent's personal apparent >> screen. a little bit. >> I think it was coming back. >> I highly suggest a cracker jack. There we go. It's taking me back. >> We're working. >> Give you guys an update. Brad did say that I have like 55 65 minutes. >> Nope. >> The time that I just spent getting ready does not factor into that. >> We're down in three minutes or >> Yeah, sure. >> All right. So, just a quick update on the bond projects. Kind of a splash through some of the images you guys seen before. Uh each school we kind of have the same image overall like aerial plan
034showing some of the improvements have it colorcoded that should be the same across each building so it's pretty clear where we're working the preschool we got the front entries entry pieces some windows on the front got some ADA upgrades in the building HVAC some of those kind of uh upgrades every school we have some sort of HBAC project RTUs and then also voltage That's across the board at each building. >> I might Can I jump in? Just remind everybody at this point >> they don't make a lot. So all of this is just con conceptual other than the scope of work. So all the visuals are just kind of here's a conceptual >> right >> um view of what something could be. >> Yeah. Again, this is just very high level. This is not the
035final product. We're not we're not done with the design. There's plenty more input that we'll have, plenty more changes, different conversations that I'll get into a little bit uh a little bit later. We'll talk about schedule, but front entry view again showing the canopy kind of taller canopy right by the doors. Then kind of a pick up and drop off zone at the elementary school. Um again kind of a small secure entry uh renovation the canopy got the areas in blue on each end of the building. It would be classroom additions to expand um space for classroom inside the building and that would be two classrooms on each end. So be total four classrooms. Uh front entry canopy again something simple is kind of big drop off zone where you guys have the right off
036the the street. Something very simple. And again talking about the branding on the front middle school. Um this one is a little bit more of an extensive renovation because the office is inside the building. So we're pulling that from the from uh this area here and kind of extending that into the there's a classroom that's in that long skinny space. That classroom being relocated to the classroom addition to be four classrooms. We also have pretty extensive repairs that we're doing to the slab that's in there due to the drainage that's on the piece up here in between the high school and the middle school. Um so a lot of different moving parts there, but again just kind of some renovations. Got the canopy off the front and then also a thick update. Again, [clears throat]
037with all these kind of had something similar with some kind of covered area, elevated high enough, you brain off of the kids, give them a bigger area that identifies what the front door is. Again, this one has that problem where there's two doors to get into the building. of this completely identified as side as being the front door and the other was just a secondary entry. Jump to the high school. Um, same situation with the front entry canopy secure entrance. Kind of have that done here. We've we have sort of a van trap. So, we just be upgrading that a little bit with some of the pieces and parts and so make it to where people come in, they be directed into the office. We've also got some HAC upgrades. Um, the probably bigger project
038here would be the the centralized kitchen. So at each one of the schools, we talked about that if they would be converting those kitchen spaces into performing kitchen and then the centralized kitchen would be at the high school. We'd add to the back of the building to make the walk-ins a little bit larger. So we can accommodate doing a centralized kitchen there and dispersed to the different schools. And then some kind of a blocker space that we walked through to get into the library here. We've also got some different ideas we've been kicking around for how to revitalize that space and make use of space that may not be be very functional with kind of how students are normally built. Again, front entry looking at the PD and this is that locker space. The bottom
039left is the that current locker space and this is kind of just again conceptual view of what happens if we take that out. What can we do with that that space and turn it into more of a useful piece of real estate for the district. One other project at the high school would be a facelift for the ACT building. There's also some other upgrades that be happening there with the electrical um some ventilation and just kind of overall facelift to the building itself. And then the other piece uh tied to the high school would be the track and they're upgrading that to the to the A-link track um doing something with the bleachers depending on how the track actually integrates with the bleachers themselves. So just a quick overview of things that we've already talked
040about. After the bond passes, that's the next question that comes up is what do we do? Um the first item that we would suggest would be hiring a construction manager and we kind of walk through that a little bit early on. So we'll talk a few talk about a few points there. That's normally 45 to 60day process and it's pretty clear how the state dictates how that should be done. Um we'd also be concurrently starting design whenever construction manager selection process starts. And then we'd have design that would go through say October. Again, just kind of run timelines. March through October and then November we have a bidding period. Typically that's three to five weeks and then we'd be awarding that contract sometime in December. So big picture, not a lot's probably going to happen
041over the summer of 26. But we have construction in 10 to 20 months, but just gives us a t timeline of when construction might happen. It depends on which projects we take on. Something that we've talked about is going to take 20 months to build. So more or less that just tells you we have that time frame of the 20 months, but then also your summer of 27 and summer of 28 would also be targets of renovations that would have to happen so the school would still operate. So that's what kind of stretches you out into more of the that kind of timeline. uh for part of the the construction manager selection committee is something that we recommend uh that you guys form some kind of group that would help in the selection process. We
042would obviously be a part of that. Um but we also recommend down the bottom two to three board members, the superintendent, building administration, whether that would be one representative of all building admin or maybe it's a couple from each each building. Um and then also somebody from facilities. So what we're looking for is a well-rounded group that represents multiple parties and they would be part of the selection process for the CM. That same group then would just kind of filter into the design committee. So they would start with the selection of the CM and then they would be part of the team that would help develop the designs and have the input for the actual process. uh some of the advantages for the we call it C CM AR CM construction manager at risk is
043what that stands for. Um really bringing them on early will help with kind of setting the overall budget early on. So we'll typically do design we run through we'll have an estimate that goes along with that. These guys dive a little bit deeper so that each phase of the design process they provide an estimate. We kind of have a running total. So whenever we started say a schematic design level we've just got bubble diagrams and we have just a written report on what we're doing for design we move into a design development phase where the we just add another layer of design each time we we go through the process the CM does an estimate based on each one of those. So as we get a little bit more refined in what we're doing they
044also provide an estimate that request so kind of keeps the process a little more fluid. Um, they can also be very helpful with uh separating out the different pieces and parts of the bid packages. So, we have a variety of things that we're looking at doing here from the canopies, HVAC, maybe just finish upgrades. We've got parking lots and just kind of different things that are kind of happening. Typical process could be to hire a contractor just to do all of that work. Since we have a lot of different players involved, the CM can kind of help balance out a little better a little more economy. How we break that up so that we can have a little better result with it. And then there's also one point of contact versus we have an HBAC
045project. We've got the kitchen edition. We start pulling different we have three, four, five different contractors that are working on it. This process allows you guys one point contact. So you in the on I think it was the previous slide it said design would start in March and then construction manager is March through June. If this were to pass, would you just do like basic design work until a CMR is is hired or what's that look like? >> Yeah. So that that would be something that we'll kind of work out. But we we say that design would start then. That doesn't mean mean mean necessarily that we're starting to put block diagrams down and we're drawing communities. That would also entail just meeting staff. So whenever we're talking about doing the kitchen edition or we
046need to talk to the kitchen staff to figure out what their needs are. We need to meet at each building and review what's at each building. So that's not something the CM necessarily has to be a part of early on. We would have those conversations in the background while the CN process is happening so that we don't we don't want to lose time by doing that. If we if we need to just bring them on on board completely, we're perfectly fine with that. That's just a way we can kind of start in the design, but not necessarily putting something down on paper. It be kind of just more conversationally. But the architects will be because of the scope of our work, they're going to be really busy because starting in um March, they will be
047scheduling meetings with the high school staff and then the middle school staff and then the elementary school staff and then the preschool staff and then maybe some Mr. Bartle and some people from you know some of the community involved with the VAG bit. So they're going to have a lot of meetings to schedule March and April while we're in the process of selecting a construction management firm. They're already meeting with staff say okay let's get into the details. That's going to take a lot of time because we have so many facilities. We also don't have a lot of good drawings on all the buildings. So that'll be part of it too is getting ourselves and also engineers into the buildings to see what is actually in place. Um one example would be like the HBAC
048units. We're taking units that are inside the building in each classroom and we want to put one large unit on the roof. That's pretty heavy. So we need to look at the structure and see where our possible options are. So what our structural engineer do we'll go in and look maybe he finds two or three different places where we could place that unit and some different ideas of how to do it. Then we would talk to the CM and say okay here's our three options. Can you price this? And would come to a conclusion of what would be the best one. So some of the early investigation would happen during that that kind of initial kind of design phase on the the process that I mentioned earlier. Um, again, it's pretty clear on how they
049want that that process to operate. Um, you have to have a notice of intent uh on the schoolboard meeting agenda and allow that for comment. So, before you even start the process, you would have to do that in the board meeting and then after that process happens. Uh, let's see. You can do that after 15 days, then you issue your RFQ. So that would be something that you send out to prospective CMS say hey we're school district we're looking for a CM to partner with and then they have some time say two to four weeks to look at that and then submit their qualifications after we get their qualifications we review that and then we select you know three to five firms to do an interview process phase two we have uh called out as
050you know additional information so that be where they actually submit their feed and they would also do the facility tour. So whenever we go through and do our own tours to see what kind of facilities we're dealing with and different design ideas, they want to do that same process so they can see what what it is we're talking about for the design. They submit a feed that gets turned into the state and then the phase three would be the actual interview process. So again that that uh CM committee would be part of that interview process wouldn't necessarily have to be the report being being involved. So tenatively that's a 35 or 45 to 60 day process. So jumping into the design again [clears throat] just high level we kind of mentioned that a little bit
051we'd have some more call programming meetings. So that would be where we'd sit down with kitchen staff or the high school or whichever parties that you know we're talking about secure entry. We need kind of how some of that process works and who who we'd be dealing with. So those kind of uh meetings would happen during the that early design phase, schematic design and design development and then we'd get into more uh construction level design where we'd actually put everything on paper and that's what the CMS will actually start bidding to different contractors and we'd also develop the different phasing or bid packages based on CM input of how we need to break this up if we wanted to do all of the canopies as one bit package and that would go to one contractor
052HBC goes to a separate one how we how we want to do that or if we do it by building and throughout the whole process we provide board updates and then once all that's done then we'd actually move into construction. So that's when shovels hit the dirt and actually start seeing what we've talked about for months and months. we actually start seeing the construction happen updates as well for whatever interval you guys would want and depending on what's happening on site with the different projects. So this is a tenative schedule of again kind of what that CM process could look like and how that integrates to through the design. The election is the 3. your next board meeting would be the 4th. So that's what we'd suggest to do your notice of intent. So as
053soon as the bond passes, go ahead and do the notice of intent the next board meeting. That [clears throat] set you uh got the ninth here for submitting to the newspaper. So it has to be advertised in the newspaper and then it would actually get published in the newspaper that that following Thursday. And then that get that hits your window for when you can release the RFQ. success 15 days after it's posted in a newspaper. RFQ gets released. We got a few weeks and then we can have the RFQS due. Everything here from down could be in flux, but those are pretty tied to specific dates of when they have to be released. But say middle of April, uh we get the RFQS due week turnaround time to review. Then we uh notify all the
054parties that are we want to be interviewed, invite them to do the interview and then we have a tenative week in the middle of May that says hey we want to interview select a day and have them come by for that interview process and probably want to have you know at least half a day or so time set aside for you know an hourong interview 45 minutes or interview and then it would miss this board meeting with interviews, then that would kick you to the next board meeting for approval of the CM unless there's a special court. >> Is there any like I don't want I mean if it does pass these are big decisions. Does it have to be I don't want to say if it feels rushed on some of this does it
055have does we have to stick to these dates or we're just not Huh? >> No, you don't have to. So the this is to do it is to get to the RFQ process as quick as possible. If you want to do it at the next board, you have to have you have to announce it at a board meeting before you can release the RFQ. So it would either be this one or there's another board meeting in March. >> Yeah, that that is not a big one. It's just, you know, coming down the line some of that stuff. I don't want it rushed, >> right? And that's fine. Yeah, it it can be catered however you want. Um, I think we I think I had submitted sent uh to Brad all this kind of lined out
056of the 15 days for RFQ of hitting board meeting that kind of stuff lined out so it can be it can be tailored to whatever you guys feel comfortable with. And the same with the design we've got the kind of blocks shown for design showing schematic which would be kind of that early kind of interview stage of seeing what you have at the existing buildings where you have to field measure. So, we've got some blocks shown on the floor plan that we took from scans of what Brad gave us. So, we want to make sure that the room that we have is actually built the same way that it was on the plans. So, that'll be part of that schematic design phase and design development and then we have construction documents before we're getting ready
057to be bid. you probably not even here. And that's usually the good a good time window for bidding is kind of December, November, December, January is when you want to hit the bidding market. It's going to be your your most competitive price for when contractors are looking to to get loaded up for the next year. But so on the 4th, if since it has to be at a meeting, you can do it at the 4th or you'd either have to wait till April 1st or you could have a special meeting sometime in March. Is it up there? If you go to April, then everything just moves. >> And I get we were wanting to get, you know, the real target date at the end was to to get the bids out, you know, this time
058of year, next year. Sure. I I get to add on that, but make sure we're not stuck to these dates and stuff. >> Have you guys started doing any of the mailings and stuff? I know we talked about this a while back ago, but I haven't heard or seen anything going out to the public yet. No, >> that would have to be from a community group. >> Yeah, >> I thought I was part of a package. She the female said >> that's a good question. >> The female said that they send it out in one of our meetings. >> No, they'll pro they will design and make them. But we can't use district money. >> Right. But I thought they were in charge of doing all that. They're not. >> No, it would still be
059district >> and you can't pay. I totally thought that. That's why I was thinking >> they can they can they can design something. >> Okay. >> Just like all of the stuff he showed and >> but a private member would have to mail them out, >> right? It >> Okay. I was thinking they did all of that for us. >> They they design them. >> Just like at basketball games, we can set information out to inform. >> Okay. Okay. But if you want something because that doesn't cost. >> Got you. >> If you want to pay to have a mailer. >> Oh, okay. >> That's got to be >> That was my design. >> And they have all the designs that they can share with it. >> Okay. I just thought they did all Okay,
060that makes sense. Thank you. So there's plenty of flexibility in this. Again, you could even if you jump the next day to do the announcement saying you're going to go out for an R key, you don't necessarily have to release it, but it could be like >> Well, that one's not that it's not a big it's just coming on down there. You know, any other questions on that? >> I think so. >> I think it was talked about last meeting, but not true or false. Not all projects have to go through the CM. >> True. >> Okay. Yeah. Like Yeah. Perfect example. >> Yeah. Smaller stuff. Yep. >> We don't have to Oh, let's get a bid from every company. I know restriction of price and whatnot, but um >> yeah, I think we can
061circumvent the CM on certain projects. Yeah. in and that's >> in March we'll want to have a conversation about pulling together and it could be that same group that you put together to select [clears throat] >> and interview the C CM. You can also um throughout this spring put together a similar group if not the same group to start looking at okay because we want as much of this to be bid locally. So we will make sure every whoever we select as a CM has a list of our preferred because there's a lot of concrete there's a lot of you know there's a lot of business that so we'll want to one make sure that they have the list of those people now an HVAC company locally may not bid something but at least they
062get the bid but there's a lot of stuff because of our scope of work. We may not have to even let them because we could put the bid out. >> Yeah. >> For certain projects and we'll want to have a group that goes through and decides >> and what they work on and what we could do. >> Yeah. >> Parking lots. We we might be able to do that ourselves. >> All was slow down. You forgetting the trick. I put the bra down. Excuse me for everybody. >> Oh, great. We used all of our questions. [laughter] >> Where makes sense? >> So, I guess the main thing to remember is so much of this is just inception. >> Yeah. >> It's just conceptual. It's just a place to start. gets us gets us something for
063you guys to see that you can react to and then we get to tweak it from. So again, that's the whole whole design process. There'll be a lot more meetings that we'll have. We can refine everything, go through everything in more detail, but that's a place to start. >> Get it. Thank you. Next 5.2 to as the KSB board policies that we we've presented with these last month. We kind of skimmed over them. I don't know how in depth we need to get. >> Well, if anybody had any questions on any of them because sometimes it might have been the first time we ever looked at it. But those are existing policies we already have. It's just language updates because of either change in legislation changb will send us any recommended changes that are required
064due to some legislation some court case some and those ones there I really didn't see anything that was that I' like this is upsetting Apple. >> Yeah. Nothing. >> In many of these we don't deal with a lot, >> but if you don't have the policy in place in the event you did, >> then >> I did have one terminology question. I'm glad you brought that up. Uh in a couple instances I noticed instead of saying like parents or guardians it now says parents or person acting as parents is is there some like >> you could >> legal requirement to because I don't want >> or is this like a new terminology set up? I would say it's new terminology just because there are so many in today's day. It it it could be um
065they are placed in a home with a court order >> or they could be you know so there's >> that be a temporary guardian. I guess I just my concern not to upset that part, but my concern is that like somebody we have a student and their aunt comes in and says no or or Aaron comes in for my child and says no that she ain't making decisions I haven't given her that right to make or a legal entity. We still have to have some. It doesn't change our practice. >> Okay. that we have to have and and Wes and I were having this conversation just a couple weeks ago that just saying I'm acting as you still [snorts] have to provide some form of legal okay if there's a separation if there's a you
066know the the parent get authority but without any of that um it doesn't this doesn't change our practice >> okay >> it just changes from shell shock to post-traumatic stress disorder it just changes the language of they're saying >> I just wanted to make sure because that one had me >> rest assured I don't >> no laughing Nor would I ask you like >> or would we release it to you? >> Understood. >> Any other questions on anything? We are tableabling the AI. >> Yes. >> And the only reason is it's new brand new >> and we we actually have um we're part of a grant that districts so we have some of our teachers and they're actually meeting again tomorrow working on how AI is used tools um a lot of that. So I
067took that and sent it to that group of teachers and administrators to say, "Okay, there's nothing really wrong with it and it and it looks good, but I want to make sure that or at least our teachers have looked at it and said, "Yeah, this kind of aligns with what our practices are." And if it does, then then I'll bring it back to the board. I just didn't want the board adopting it without our teachers saying and we have we have a hand well we have teachers that are really into the AI and how they're using it already. So I wanted them to look at it. >> So this will be as presented then. >> Yes. Because the AI one is not in this list today. >> Okay. >> I shared it with you last
068time but >> I move we approve the board policy recommendations as presented. Second in favor so next 5.3 jobs for American graduates Frank the Franks >> I put on the table just an information sheet so you got something visual also to look at as I talked but JK K jobs for American graduates Kansas. Um they sent out an email. Um they are now servicing Jefferson County and had sent an interest email out. So I took it to our BLT and shared a little bit about about it. And I'll share a little bit with you here about it to see if this is something we would maybe want to pursue for Jeff High School. And they um said, "Yeah, let's let's explore and move forward and see what we can So, I wanted to bring it
069to the board to share a little bit of information about it and what it um can do for Jeff West students and about the program. So, um overall, it's a nationally recognized program. I'm known like Royal Valley's had it for several years um and some of the other schools in the league and they've talked about it and I've never heard anything but positive things that it's done for their students. And so I was excited when they reached out of, hey, Jefferson County is now eligible for this also. But they work with students in our district to help them for steps after high school. um they would supply a staff person and we they want to hire someone local and they ask for a classroom in our building and they are kind of in our schedule
070so that students will have certain times that they would be there. the time that that staff member is not in a classroom with us. Um during their work hours, they would be out making connections with employers in the surrounding community because what they want to do is provide connections between a student here and next steps. Um so they may work with kids who are have a barrier to graduation or they may think are not going to graduate or even post-secary success. It's like, okay, they're going to get their diploma, but there's something that may keep them from being successful. They just haven't had enough employability training to be successful postsecary. So, that um is one of the things they do. They help with additional guidance and career planning. You know, we do our IPS, but
071there are still some students that are just I don't even know what I I want to do. And so, help work through some of those things with them. um engaging them or even just life skills. And so um it also gives that group of students that maybe are in that situation some familiarity with other students that are having some of those same concerns and a lead person to go to and helps them feel more connected to the school and to being successful. >> [clears throat] >> So, they will do career exploration, they will do employer engagement, they'll do leadership development, they'll help them with civic awareness, they'll do some mentoring, they'll be another person to help with academic support. Oh, you're struggling. Maybe I can help you with XYZ class or get you resources. Um,
072if they do have year- round services and then after they've graduated, they do a 12-month followup with them. So, it's not just while they're here at high school. Um, they kind of say there's three phases. There's exploration, exposure, and experience is what they work for as they work with their students. And then with the employers, there's different levels that they can be involved. They do an exploration which that might be um businesses come in as guest speakers or they go do a business tour or they get to um participate in just a designated event where these employers are at um they may talk about pathways. So we talk a lot about our CTE pathways. they may help with that and find hey this is an employer that would be in a CTE pathway to kind
073of bridge that difference at a level two for employers they do exposure so they might have students come out and do job shadows they might do a online training or an inerson training for students for some job skills um they might allow the students to come in for one of their industry events so they can kind of see what what it's about so the different levels there and Then you move to the experience level where they would do some conference or some training for them in those jobs. They would do information interviews. They could do an apprenticeship. They could provide volunteer opportunities. Just lots of things there. And then the ultimate goal is they would help those students earn a certification, get credentials, have that experience so that they're ready to be a qualified workforce
074participant. Some of their um demographics over the years, so this year they have 121 programs and they serve 6,500 students. um their demographics from their success from last year. Um just kind of who made up their students in 24. Um 36% of them came from single parent households. 50% of them were or 57% were students of color. 44% were students from the bottom 25% of a class standing. You know, we do rankings all the time when we talk about our our 4.0, but what are we doing for those that aren't up there? Um, and then 70% were students that were free and reduced lunch. And that's kind of in 2024 what their demographics across Kansas look like. Um, they also boast about their program. Um, which has kind of caught my attention. Um, they have
075a 98% graduation rate with the students that they they serve. They have a 90% positive outcome. Um, so when they go and visit with them, they get 90% give them a positive feedback. 78% employment. Um 87% full-time employment. Um 67% of their students go on to do some type of further education. That might be technical, that might be college, and then they have a 99% connectivity rate. So um what that would look like for us is um it there would be some cost to the district. It's uh approximately they sent you know an idea for us so I could share information with you on that but it be around 156,000 um and then they have business sponsorships that help them with their other costs. Um there's everything on here from United Way to Walmart to
076Washboard Tech the US Bank. So they have different levels of sponsors that also help so they can um do all the pieces for their for their program. Um I can't tell you I have all the answers on it. Um but I have a connection that I could reach out to. Um I know Dr. Newens's also been familiar with the program before. So questions just of as an introduction of what we might be looking at. Um would like to consider it. Would love to have it for next year. That may be too fast. I understand that. But something that if if it's not for next year, I definitely will probably bring back for >> hey, when can we consider this and um get this in place to help some of our students? >> Was that for
077a school year then? Is it like a whole school year process? You have to redo it every year? >> I believe so. That's a great question though, but I would assume that >> you have to hire someone or they they already have a person. um they want us to provide some suggestions and I my understanding is we would set in on the interviews or help with the interviews so that they want it to be a good fit. They don't want to bring someone that we know nothing about >> our employee. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Yeah. And then we contribute to that. >> Got they will try to hire someone local. >> Yeah. >> But they want us >> but they make sure they're hitting all the requirements >> potentials. Yeah. they have the needed
078skills to do the job. like 20 hours >> that sounds right >> a week that they're in the high school working with the kids and you know they've been in Kansas for 10 12 years and examples of some of the people that they found is like you have that youth minister that has some availability Monday through Friday and has a really good re or that you know we we get ruled 10 coaches. >> They're looking for that type of person that would want to >> um the previous principal at Holton was the Jag coordinator for Royal Valley for a while. >> So that maybe someone that's retired and not looking for that full-time income. local. >> Do we know of any other schools aside from Valley that we kind of compare our demographic to? >>
079Um I believe Neaha Central. Um Mary'sville, they have a girl on here that's a quote about it. So Mary'sville probably pretty similar to us demographic wise and size-wise. >> There's a list on the website, too. >> Yeah. >> You want to do our own research? You mentioned um they require a classroom. >> Yes. >> Do do you have the room up here for that or >> We would we would um do something different with the way we have our conference room right now. That is our classroom. It's nice to have that as conference room, but we could we've done several things to have a conference room. So we we figure that piece out and that one time we shared the esports room as a conference room which works okay. We can do the conferences during
080the day and esports and after school. So there's strategic ways to make it happen. >> In your opinion, um I'm always blown away whenever I attend graduations and each student stands up and said, "I'm going to this college or I'm going to the military, whatever. How in your opinion or maybe you do have hard data on that." Um how many students do you think this would touch in terms of a student maybe not necessarily like graduation that doesn't know what their path is? We work really hard with the IPS to try to make them choose, but there's still a lot that say I don't know. So, I would guess >> to really get away from that. Well, I'm going to put this down because I want it to look >> like I don't I have
081some decision made. >> Um, >> but to have them have a stronger hold on that and the skills, I 15%. >> Okay. Um, >> so I was at a high school five years ago. They have a Jag program and I would say they are demographically a lot like us student wise and everything and for three four years I would go within their signing day and they would have 100% of their seniors lined up in the gym and every one of them had someone whether it was pit a Walmart some diesel whatever standing behind them and it was a signing day. >> Wow. >> They actually signed her commitment letter >> to go on to that next. even the the special needs student that was signing on to the local Walmart to be able to, >>
082you know, and it's it's that 15% of the kids that will say yes >> because they had to put something down. >> This is that group of kids. >> That's cool. >> It seems cruel though because you're leaving something you've been doing 12 years and signing up for something you're going to do the next 40. >> [laughter] >> They don't know that. >> It was the kid that >> had their dad standing behind him >> that they were taking over the family farm. >> Making a commit. >> I love that. >> And >> that's something I think generally as a society. >> Yeah, we need that. Well, this is >> a discussion item. Do we >> Is there a deadline or >> um >> Yeah. How do you have sign up for it so they
083can prepare? >> They of course want to know yesterday. >> Oh, I mean, >> but we, you know, we felt you guys needed time to learn about it, >> process it, answer questions. >> And I think it's great. The only, you know, we probably need to know uh more about the and this is even saying this, the financial breakdown of them. >> Yeah. >> So we're not like caught off guard that we're like, oh yeah, you're on the hook for 30, you know,%. >> Yeah. They have actually sent that paperwork. I didn't bring that this evening because I didn't feel we were probably at that stage, >> but I can share that next month and we'll and then Brad can prepare it and tell us what fund it comes out of that comes out. >>
084They said you could use funding but I don't know where our atrisisk funding is budgeted and how much of it is already spoken for that how much we have you know that type of thing. We can't come out facilities. So we'll go there. >> Jesus board salaries. >> I will also >> I knew you were getting >> um at the March board meeting. I will have like we did last year in March. I will have a preliminary >> because we just are finishing up our audit. >> I will have a preliminary. Here's new revenue next year >> because next year's budget will at least will be based on at least our enrollment this year because next year we get a count this year >> or if it's more students. So I'll at least have a
085baseline that I will present at the March meeting >> if we did it next month. Would they give them time to get it ready for next year? >> I believe so. Um I will reach out and ask um questions. >> I mean if we have to have a meeting if it's a I mean >> I don't think anybody lives far away from here. >> No. >> Yeah. >> And we do and we do have we will have a a meeting in between. We'll have our community engagement that Can we have a quick meeting before that if we had to? >> You can. >> We had to. >> Let's Yeah, let's check with Bev. >> Yeah. the the person running this was former superintendent at Concordia. She retired and she's been part of this >> for
086the last 10 12 years. I know they're trying just like everybody thinking about their budget moving forward. Uh I think we would have time at the March board meeting, but we'll >> Yeah, I'll verify. Yeah. >> Next thing we got on there going to 54 uh new date for the community meeting. the last one got too cold or snowed or >> really I think the Bible options and I put in my notes the 22nd or 29th but then I realized um Cole's missing his Cole is only six years old >> because this year we don't have a 29. Oh, >> yeah. >> Let's schedule it for then. >> It would be the first. >> So, we have the Wednesday night community meeting on the 25th. So, it would either be the Sunday before or the
087Sunday after. And the only reason is I thought the message for this Sunday would be too fast for the community. >> Yeah. But yeah, >> I'm hoping either Pick one. You're open. >> Yep. >> Whatever. >> You're the 22nd or the first. >> My only concern with the first is that's like backing right up against voting day. Like not enough time for folks to digest it. >> And maybe after the Wednesday meeting there'll be enough scuzzle that don't want to show up. >> Yeah. for the second devil's advocate either way. >> Well, no. I maybe maybe it'll encourage him to come when it's fresh. >> I'm good with either. >> 20 seconds. >> I say we just go with the 20 second. That gives people >> Yeah. >> And if we have to smack one
088more in because people are saying, >> "I didn't get it. I wasn't going to able." Okay, then we'll we'll squeeze another one in. It just gives people an extra few days to if they have any questions. >> Say we didn't get that. >> Are we doing what was it? Three or >> it was like three. >> It was 3:30. >> Yeah. >> and then that Wednesday evening will be 6:00 here in the library. in we not that I'm good to remember name but send us reminders everybody [clears throat and laughter] >> okay >> so we will start getting that out >> this next one is uh five.5 discussion discussing meeting with the city council on the track project. >> So, the city council meeting is next Tuesday, the 10th of the Meridan City meeting. Last
089month, the board thought it to be wise to send >> we feel that >> a couple people to the meeting to ask, which I I will send along with, but this request to see if they have interest in partnering with the next community grant to partner with us on the track renovation. This is the same one that the library is utilizing. >> And just to make so everybody knows in the bond issue, we have to ask for the authority to to do it, the the the funds to do the track. that if we get the city and we get some community partnership, then that >> just relieves, >> but what if >> yeah, >> the city says yes, but we don't get the grant. Well, we can't then not do what we promised in the
090bond. So we still have to ask for the authority to do the project. But everything that we can do with the the the community, then that just relieves that much that we have and 650,000 is a big chunk of that, >> right? If and if if it were to if they were to say yes um government assisted services is who we've been using at the city level um to write these grants. I would have had like a Brett here to explain lay it out. And um it's pretty simple, but it is it's not. So, >> and if and if the grant were to come about, we talked about a project that we would not have to have this the construction manager involved with. We can then with the grant, we can then send out all
091the specs. I mean because it's not a complicated eight lanes with a complete you know we can then send that out and not have to involve the architects or the construction management and there's 12% that we don't have to pay someone to oversee it when we can send it out because we would be working through a grant. And and one other thing to clarify why it's the track is because that's open to the public. Makes sense. >> Gates open all the time. >> Yeah, >> that's how we did sidewalks u before >> um they are libraries are eligible. There's certain things that are eligible outside of >> but because this would be something that is open to the public, it should qualify or it should >> but we need two or three people minus me
092that night. I'm not on the school board. an employee. >> The 10th. >> It's next Tuesday. >> They're riveting. Good times. >> Well, I mean, we'd be first on the agenda, right? >> I would see what I could do. >> Okay. >> Yeah. They say that all the time. >> You're going to present this first. >> It start They're at seven, right? >> Yeah. >> They start at seven. >> 7 o'clock. [laughter] Anybody really want to go bad? You ready? >> I'll do it. Write it down. What's one? I already have my husband. >> $50 for one. >> What day did you say? >> Did they o next Tuesday? >> And I can sure pop in too if needed. >> It won't take you long. >> Do they have snacks over this meeting? They have
093no snacks. That's horrible. >> Can speak. >> I don't have snacks. >> You two? >> Yep. >> Kelly >> and Brad and Brad speak, right? I don't have to say anything. >> No, >> I'll speak if we have >> you write down. You just write down what you want me to say. I'll talk. >> And if any of the others are available and you want to stop by, join us. >> Yeah. But it sounds like I'm going to end up doing the talking. >> Yep. It's a pretty informal one. Uh, next one. Next 956 is the 20 26 2027 high school board book. [laughter] >> Mrs. Jensen has been busy. Um, last year was her first year. she made some organizational adjustments like for bold or whatever. This year she took it a step further
094and has done some color coding, put it with our career tech areas. So many of the things in here are the same, but she has made it more appealing, easier to follow, given some little signals um like is it a this a pathway course? Is this a weighted course? Um, so the list of changes looks long. Um, really it's not as overwhelming as what maybe the the two pages summary is there. Um, there are some courses that have been added and deleted. And to make that a little simpler, I added this sheet. um just handed it out tonight just so you can kind of see what classes um what's a new class maybe the rationale as to why like for example intermediate college algebra we're getting rid of because highland is no longer offering that
095as a college course um they are now um working them and many of the state schools have looked at what do students in college really need for math math class and they've come up with um their college algebra, their contemporary math and then elementary statistics. And so they have gone through and marked for this career path you need this math, for this career path you need this math. So not every student like we had been kind of funneling all our kids that were thinking about college into college algebra. You know, this is something you're going to need. So now we need to take a look at what math will you need? what area are you thinking about um majoring in in college? So, we would like to add the college contemporary math. So, for some
096of our students that aren't going to need college algebra, we can provide that first college math through the contemporary math. >> So, some adjustments like that. The essentials of algebra 2, um we hope to be a short term. We just have some students that um are on the other end of the spectrum, struggle with math. They have done math lab, they've done essentials, but they're just not ready yet for algebra. So, we want to have that piece in there to help them be successful versus throwing them into algebra, they aren't successful, and then now what do we do? as we take algebra over again and then they never get past past that. So, um working in that area with the math um for business um and family and consumer sciences with adding a couple classes
097with things we already had. We can add two new pathways, a restaurant and event event management pathway and a travel and tourism pathway by adding just a couple classes. Um, each year CTE revises and revamps and this year Kansas is matching up with national CTE work. And so there were several classes that had name changes where they split one class into two and change split the competencies. So like with family and consumer science, we used to have nutrition and wellness. Now they have nutrition and dietetics and dimensions of wellness. >> And so um having to take our nutrition and wellness out but add those in to meet the pathway requirements. >> Um relationships and personal development. The name has changed to foundations of mental and behavioral health. So things like that so that we can
098match up with the state. Um some changes have been the teaching pathway is a brand new pathway. Um we have added the majority of the classes that the pathway has there so that we have them as offerings. We already had some because um within the fax pathway some of the classes in the teaching pathway were already taught in the fax program. So we didn't have to add I think three maybe four that were already taught in the pathway. We will probably not teach every one of these classes every semester. Um but for pathway you need to offer them and then what we will look at at pre-enrollment is how what the enrollment is which classes can we offer which classes not. um we may need to work out some things like um teaching as a
099career is going to be offered on even years and technology for teachers on odd years so students can kind of plan. So we'll we'll work with that um to get the most um benefit for students that are most interested. Um we had our first advisory council meeting last night which is required for us to submit for a pathway and we had representatives from preschool, elementary, um middle school and high school there and so they are excited for that. So we're hoping that this will go through. Media and technology had to replace a course. The 21st century journalism was a technical course and we really didn't have many technical offerings. So we looked at what else would meet similar to those standards and that's the media and public relations a education. He wanted to get an
100intro class at the high school level. Previously we've offered it at the middle school level and we haven't taken that out. It's called a expirations down there and we're working to maybe get something like we have with Mrs. Abbott where she teaches middle school kids during the advisory time. Maybe um we've been in talks. Can we do something like that with the exploration of a um but also to have that intro to a if some high school students, you know, I would like to pick that. Our intro classes don't help us with funding, so we usually put those in the spring and keep our enrollments with our funded classes in the fall just to help with the waitings and the funding piece. >> Um and then we've added a class like EMS first responder to
101our course book. We are not going to be teaching that. Um, it's like our CNA class. Washurn Tech teaches it. But for us, for students to be able to have it on their transcript to be considered a completer in that pathway, we have to have it on our transcript. So, we want it in our course book. It's there. Students can know that, but they'll have to take it through Washurn Tech or their CNA program. Like we have one student that's driving up to Aerson to take it through Highlands um Tech in the the evenings. And so, um, just having those opportunities for students to become a completer in a pathway. So, that's the the courses. The rest of it is tweaks of words, changes, those types of things. Um, assistance, I don't think there's any
102like policy changes we made. Um, we did do some clarification on the um, graduation honors. The kids kids were like, "So, I have to do this and this." So, we tried to just print that out a little clearer. It's this or this and this, this, and this. Yeah. >> Um, so I know you guys have had a little bit of time with it, but I didn't know if we had questions we could answer for you. >> Um, when it says teaching internship class, >> is that a way we could get kids to help with elementary classrooms or preschool classrooms? Yes. >> So, that would be an application level. And there's two different um classes there. But the educational leadership is also like that. One is a year long and one is a semester long. >>
103Okay. >> And we wanted to do both in case we do have some students which we have had in the past that are really ambitious and they want to be done in December and start college or whatever the next. So we wanted them to be able to get be able to do a semester of getting out and being in a classroom and and doing that teaching piece. >> Um this year we currently I don't know if you guys are aware Mrs. Abbott has a student from Seaman in their class like that that is here working with her. >> That's been a really neat and we've been talking to their instructor over there and she's like I'll be happy to share you know all my resources that I'm using. So >> um >> that was one
104of the >> um strategies >> Yes. >> that the board that you have on your >> Yeah. goals for >> staff recruitment. So, I'm excited about >> the teacher pathway. >> Yeah, that's cool. I love that. >> Get them excited about it. Yeah. >> I think we have four seniors this week interested in the teaching field. So, I was like, you know, what can we do to help? I mean, >> four, I think, right now. >> This looks so good. It It really does. Yeah. I mean, >> yeah. When I pulled it up, >> it's not as intimidating by having the It's not near as intimidating. >> Does anybody have any question? >> No. >> Well, I would say this is the fastest we went through. >> Thanks, whoever did it. >> Okay. Yep. You
105want to watch Tech um recently came out and the state CT funding that we've received for our washroom tech kids at least for their tuition um they will not be funding tuition for business technology, cosmetology, culinary arts, or graphics technology. Um, they haven't decided yet if they're going to grandfather in the students that were first year students this year because next year they've already got a year down. So, they haven't decided what they're doing with those students, but I try to make that pretty clear in the course book so that students would know that they can still take those classes, but they'll be responsible for the tuition for those four programs. I'd say our cosmology is one of our bigger um appealing courses for our major. So that's kind of a bummer that they're not
106offering tuition. >> And that's not a Washburn Tech decision. That came from the SB 155 and what they >> No tuition not even reduced or anything. >> No, not for business tech, cosmetology, coordinator or graphics. That's something that's that's >> well the reason >> the reason behind it >> is every couple years they look at all the high demand high pay highskilled jobs they have a pot of money to go towards tuition reimbursement. So if those fields fall out of those high demand, high pay, high, you know, because they want their tuition money to go >> to where the you know, I was talking to Mark Far earlier this week. You know, it's like one of the highest job demands Kansas is teaching, which is why We want to get those pathways. Um, but >>
107is that where that funding's going? >> Well, the but the tuition reimbursement, they always re-evaluate it to make sure it's going to those highest demand, higher pay because they want more kids pursuing it. And when you can get your tuition reimbursement, >> you incentivize more kids to go. >> Yeah. >> That's why it's not that they don't value it, right? It just fell out of >> that bang for your buck situation. >> Yeah. >> Getting more kids into the aerrow space, the >> the health care, the >> or the high demands. >> Yeah. it. >> Yeah. So, it's not because it's not valued. It just fell out of that. >> Yeah. >> Makes sense. >> Well, it looks great. Thank you for putting all the time in and making changes. It looks amazing. Anybody have
108any other questions or >> are we comfortable with the motion? >> I move we approve the changes to the Jeff West High School course book as presented. >> Second. One thing to note, we are still having some math discussions. So, we may come back yet with, hey, we'd like to add another math class or as we figure out >> with those changes what we may need for our students. So, be like, well, why all of a sudden now that we're working through some of our I get it, Carl. >> All right. The next item up is the request for additional high school softball coach. Um >> we don't have anything on that. Was there >> that was in the Friday notes? >> Yeah. But the letter wasn't >> uh so we had what three graduate
109three players graduate. Oh, there you go. Here we go. I got >> Okay. I was going to say there's no proposal. Yeah, that's the story. another thing. Tell them what we doing. >> So, softball um has come to Mrs. Preston and I and we have some discussions about adding a fourth coach to their program. Um so, I kind of broke it down in two different talking points. One is the game day coverage and supervision part and the other is kind of how they hope practice efficiency and more program support for the JB level programs. So, just some emphasis or some background knowledge. Softball right now has three coaches. um they play varsity on different JV or on the same night, sorry, as their JV at the same time in two different facilities. So there's two
110varsity coaches up the field and one coach at the JB games um unlike baseball which has three coaches but they play on different nights so that all coaches are able to be at every game. That's how they want to run their program. Um so right now the three coaches they coverage is stretched pretty thin on those game nights um for the fact that JB's got the one coach and that involves um using fielding, pitching and defensive calls. Well, if it's if a athlete is injured or if they got subbing issues, that takes the coach away from that perspective of the game because they have to deal with the student who's injured and now there's nobody calling pitching calls or fielding calls for that game. And just provide some overall additional support for those JV games,
111more coverage for subbing rotations and all the different things that game time strategy calls for. >> And in like this past year where they didn't have that, those things fell off the plate. So there weren't as much. Um so you know the coaches can only do what they can do and they can't do all those things as one person >> and the games are not they're across town. >> Yeah. >> One at Lacy Field and one's here. >> Well, remember last year there were how many games canled because they couldn't it just didn't work. There was no coach. So >> I don't think it was because of coach. It was because of players. Like there wasn't enough players from another team. >> Yeah. Oh yeah, I know there were a couple games canceled because they
112didn't have a coach or something and then parents were like at us cuz their kids weren't getting to play. So that's pay for something there's no coaches. >> It it but it wasn't a coach thing last year. It was they sometimes and you'll find it in high schools sometimes they don't have enough players. For example, the other night we couldn't get a C team game in because they didn't have enough players landing. are like we have 8,000 aid printers,000. >> So sometimes they make it work. But >> yeah, >> it's like right now Coach Parker like they're using student managers to coach for space. >> Yeah. >> While she's or their JV coach is doing everything else they can at the time. Um for practice wise, they use their practice time for station based coaching.
113So one coach takes pitchers and catchers out the other coach takes outfielders, infielders, you know, are position based. um with only three coaches, she's not able to go around to each position group and really work with all the students and kind of identify the needs of different JB players and even varsity players. Um and even then some of her student managers are running stations because they just don't have the coverage to do all the stations for that day. >> Uh so she just her main concern is she wants to be able to get around to all stations really to develop those players to help those players with strategies and she notices something in a game situation that they can work on the next day so she can actually get to all those stations. Um her
114belief is that you know it's going to strengthen the JV program. It's also her future of her varsity program. So it just feeds right into her following varsity years. Um it becomes hard to develop those players if she's personally not able to observe them all throughout that practice time. Help develop those young girls into that could be for Jeff West softball. So the fourth coach also helps with practice, more consistent player development, more efficient use of practice time as coaches able to spend more time with their opposition groups and better preparation for JV players to step into that varsity role when they're needed. >> And coming off of the success from last year, she wants to continue to grow that. She doesn't want to stabilize. She wants to be able to continue to elevate their
115play and their skill and would like to use that success as a springboard versus we're happy with status quo where we're at. >> Yeah. You know, one of our goals was, you know, be the best. [clears throat] I know it it >> Building a culture and it and it sucks. I mean, I it's not they these poor coaches don't make money. >> They It mean But it depends on >> the way our structure set up. >> If it's an assistant first year, I think this assistant softball is around 2,800. If they're five, six, seven years, it might be 3,200. So it's but the way our structure is set up >> it all depends on >> who their candidate is. >> Do they have a candidate yet or >> I think she has some people in
116mind but we haven't tried that bridge yet because we weren't there >> sure that makes sense. >> Can we discuss this in executive session? >> You can only discuss a person if you're talking about a person. Yes, >> I I do have some questions on the Well, normally when we talk about things like this, we are in >> Well, we're we're talking about the position. We're talking about if we're going to open the position up. We just know we're not >> I do have some questions surrounding like current existing coaches, what the plan is like that's what I I have some questions surrounding that. >> Yeah. No, this is this is for >> as a board. Are we going to vote yes or no or whatever to add the fourth coach? >> I get that.
117I'm just saying I think there's some things I'd like to know about existing >> before making a decision on >> on a board. >> I just would like >> Yeah. >> Okay. Y that is a yes. >> Okay. >> So >> I don't not support that. >> I just asked some questions this then and >> can we talk about it when we get back from exec? >> Okay. I guess what >> or you could go into executive session to back >> on the grounds of I guess employee >> or personnel >> personel. >> Yeah, it is. >> I just have a few minutes. So, five minutes. >> Five minutes. >> Motion girl. >> Um, do you have the paper? >> I don't have the chair. >> Include. >> Yes. Admin. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not getting
118the answers. [laughter] Mr. President, I move to enter executive session for KSA75-4319 for a period of five minutes at 8:14 p.m. to discuss personnel issues of non-elected personnel under coma exception, including Dr. Newan Swander and the admin with the open meeting to resume in the board room at 8:19 p.m. >> Second now someone passed away and there's a lot of bargains. >> I just saw board member that had their email hacked. >> I just saw Kelly and I'm like that sound like this brand. Yeah. >> And Brandon Rodell >> and Brandon actually got it as well. So >> as soon as I saw the money thing that's I was like this is >> on it. >> Perfect. >> Okay. So um I guess I guess we are back to uh 5.7 edition of the high
119school softball coach. >> Um Nope. >> Do you want me to move? >> Nope. I'll play devil's advocate again. Lay it on us, John. We keep adding to all of our extracurriculars and we and I don't know where it's at on the agenda. Negotiation, you know, we're still negotiating in February and and no matter what we come to, they're not going to get a raise. But we keep adding coaches. And I will say this is this is no reflection of you guys because this is the best presentation we've had for one thus far. and and I hate it, you know, but I still feel like that we're adding at some point we have to make the decision that we're going to get our budget right and not continue to make it worse. And that's we're
120punishing students by doing this. By nothing. >> Yeah. We're punishing students in the classroom by doing >> by not giving the teachers more money. >> Yeah. They they should their wages should not reflect on teaching. Well, and just to clarify, they're not getting a raise in addition to step and movement for the year. >> So, I just want to make sure we're super clear that they are getting something even remember that it's not our money. >> No, I Yeah. >> And we're just saying you get a coach, you get a coach, you get a coach. I feel like this though is a concern of like if something were to happen >> safety >> it is a big liability someone >> additional >> how old was the manager last year >> she was an eighth grader
121we had eighth grader >> could absolutely have all of this I mean I just wanted to speak to my >> I know in a perfect world all of our Doug wouldn't you like to have a raise every year you would like to have a I would like to have a raise every I get where they're coming from, but I also get >> I'm not saying that. I'm saying that we're now we're going to the community asking for 17.5 million and we're just saying, you know, oh, it's only $3,000 for this coach and now we've done it three times and >> I get it. I I come from a place of trying to always think of students first >> and I know that teacher salaries absolutely does impact that. I get that completely. No, it's not
122their salary so much, but I mean for 9,000, could we have hired a pair even part-time responsibility? >> It I mean it's not their their raises, but I'm tell we're telling them that that there's no money for the education side of it, but we're I mean just on a high level look, there's no money on the education side. We do have a little money for the athletics though. Should we take extra just blame that as gift? >> Should we take extracurriculars away from our school? >> Do you think do you think it would help the kids? All these kids that this is all they have. This is this keeps kids out of trouble. This keeps kids like >> the studies studies show you have to keep good grades to continue to play. >> I understand.
123I mean for basketball and they all have to meet. Let's take away all the computers and phones and everything else >> because studies show that those are bad for them for their education, their cognitive learning, their emotional >> well being used to be. We they're not supposed to use phones in school, but yeah, >> we can play devil's advocate, but we're here >> for one purpose and it's to educate them. And I get it. I mean, I was an athlete in high school. I get it. And I'm not suggesting we take it away, but we keep adding to it. >> Yeah. >> I'm I'm just playing devil's advocate. I know. >> So would this be question if we were able to give them a raise this year? Would you be okay? >> Oh, I absolutely
124would. I'm I'm not even basing. >> See, we can't freeze our operating because we can't give teachers a raise. You know what I mean? >> No, I understand that. >> And I >> What I'm saying is is from their point of view, they're saying we we don't have money and and it's like I I get it and I'm not even I'm not even fighting. >> We don't have $500,000 of requests, >> right? But we've got But how much have we paid into athletics this year? >> We still got to add >> We've still got to be paying some money to operate. >> No, let me put it this way. How much have we paid into extra career >> like clubs? Everything. >> Everything. That's extra care. >> So that goes into music, theater, all of
125them. >> We'd have to get that. No, no, I'm just asking. All of those is where we would have to come up with push back though that motivates >> these kids to do well in school so that they can participate. >> Now we're getting into the socioeconomic aspect. I would say um our additive schedule all coaches sponsors that includes debate forensics because it's all in one is around 280,000 >> and that's just the the like oh for the salary and so >> and then from that you could you know what do We pay uniforms, officials, fees, and and I mean it our job is to educate them, not raise them. And I understand that that's motivating for a lot of >> Definitely. >> But we also have to look at to your to your point,
126you're saying our job is to educate them, not raise them. But not everybody is sending >> I don't know. No, not everybody has that outlook or and not everybody in our community has that opportunity to give them that. And I feel like part of the entire >> educational experience for our young >> students is to include these extracurriculars that are going to motivate them and get them excited. And I understand what you're saying about the cost of it, but when I look at the overall picture, >> to me, it is worth it to have somebody to avoid the liability of us not having an extra adult down there to protect these students. But also as somebody who played softball when I was younger, as somebody who knows the sport, the all the it's playing >>
127that there's an >> that there's a young >> young individual who's a student who could get a line drive right at her >> and she's just >> over chatting away to the people sitting in the dugout or something. There's just a lot of liability with it by not having an extra adult there. my eighth grade son right now doing that. Oh my god. >> I also would argue that we don't have the luxury of having a myopic view just from one perspective. Like from the teacher's eyes, we don't get that luxury. We've got to look at the bigger picture. Um part of our board goals was preparing students for what's next. >> And I would argue that extracurriculars and all those activities do that. And I think they're equally important um in addition to educating.
128That's where I'm trying to come from. Anyway, I appreciate where you're spoken my piece. >> I mean, that's why I got on negotiations so I could help fight and see what it is. And let me tell you, when you're in that seat, it's it's eye opening. It truly is. It's like, you know, when you're not in it, you think all you ever hear is they don't make any money, they don't get this, and then you get in there, you're like, oh my god, some of them make a lot of money. A lot of money that >> Well, we don't, you know, it's things like that. So, that's what I'm saying. So, it's like it's playing devil's advocate. I went into that because it was like they don't have anything. Then you get there, you're like,
129"Oh, maybe we're there's a misconception there." >> We don't have much more that. >> Yep. This and >> I have a question before you move on that unless you unless you Yeah. Just um and this is probably for Cole from a logistic standpoint and um I'm just thinking dollar and cents. What drove the decision to schedule games on the same day? And do we treat that as well with away games? So when we travel, do all the girls travel together and the bus drops off at one field then goes to another field and drops off? What does all that look like? >> Yes, that's our league bylaws that softball plays on the same nights really leaguewide. >> Yes. >> It was like that when I play up with varsity and it's really hard because you
130can't move kids up like >> girls running on the lacy field at the fourth inning >> because people got hurt and there weren't enough to play. It's like it was like that when I was in school, too. I asked last year when we had to do this >> back in like 2009 when we had all the budget cuts. They would have ways to make things more economical. >> They would have done baseball, but most um towns did not have do baseball fields with mounds. Yeah. >> So, they weren't able to do it for baseball. But we looked at a lot of that of how do we just you know reduce the number of times a bus is going and >> that's where mine mine was going >> I asked that last year why can't we
131want nights >> so then they could do that but last year that was my question >> okay um anyone make a motion if >> I would move the board approve adding a a third assistant coach to Jeff West High School softball >> fourth >> third assist. >> Okay. >> Yeah, that's where I went from. >> Are we all comfortable with that? >> Second. Yes. >> All in favor? >> Five or five. 51. [laughter] >> How do I forget you down there? You're throwing them off with us. >> The next item up we have is student issues 61. And this will have to be an executive session. How much I need? >> We really only need Rhonda. >> It's Cole. We wouldn't need any more tonight unless he's >> neither Casey. >> Thank you, Casey. >>
132Thank you both. Unless >> Rhonda, would you like to have AC in executive session? >> She could add to our >> Oh, never mind. You can't leave. You can't run, but run. >> How long do we know? How much time? 15. >> Oh, I think that would be plenty. >> Okay, >> Mr. President, I move to enter executive session per ASA 75-4319 for a period of 15 minutes at 8:33 p.m. to discuss personnel issues of non-elected personnel under PUMA issues. [clears throat] >> Oh, darn it. >> There we go. uh for a period of 15 minutes to discuss matters relating to actions adversely or favorably affecting a student under the coma exception including Dr. Newan Swander and admin with the open meeting to resume in boardroom at 8:48 p.m. >> Casey wasn't >> oh I
133thought she was part of admin sorry and Casey Jensen Mrs. second before we all go rushing in >> we have been called lately >> great meetings >> I didn't think you were getting your kid back the other night Oh, >> I know, right? >> Yes, I know. >> Uh, we do not have >> on. >> Are we back in? Good. You're back on. We do not have anything for facility equipment planning. Uh, we do have a personal item. Uh, 8- 8.1 contract that we need executive session for. Oh, >> five minutes. >> Well, I knew you would. Do you have anything you need to really >> for our assistant? >> This is high school baseball. >> Replacing. >> No, I don't think so. Unless there's questions I could straight to that. >> Is there anybody?
134>> This is replacing when Terry Stevie moved. >> Not a new It's not new. just filling >> replacing his former position. >> Uh >> no. >> Do we need do we have exe we have any questions on it? >> Yes. >> Then executive session. >> Okay. >> Uh 10 minutes. >> 10. Let's do 10. 10. >> I'm glad. I actually do have some question. >> Okay. Mr. Mr. President, I move to enter executive session for KSA75-4319 for a period of 10 minutes at 8:50 p.m. to discuss personnel issues of non-elected personnel under coma exception including Dr. Newan Swander with open meeting to resume in the boardroom at 9:00 p.m. administrators including >> Oh, and administer I'm sorry I cut you much and Rhonda. >> Oh, sorry. >> Sorry about that. I don't know if you
135feel like you need some sweets on Do you have a number out there that says call me for issues? >> I don't get it. >> I hear you. >> Did something get reset on our emails? >> Yes. Everybody needs to reset their >> Okay. Okay. I just got it memorized. >> Anyway, >> Willy Wonka. Dang it. >> Okay, >> we have another one. Negotiations, right? >> Well, we got No, we got we got to do this first. We got to >> change. Um, we have a contract that we need to >> um I move to approve the Jet Hupless as the assistant baseball coach or high school. Second. >> All in favor? >> 51. [laughter] Donna, >> my email closed, but >> we got uh an executive session for negotiation. Update on negotiations. How long?
136>> 10 minutes. >> Mr. President, I move to enter executive session per KSA75-4319 for a period of 10 minutes at 9:02 p.m. to discuss employer employee negotiations under coma exception including Dr. Newan Swander with the open meeting to resume in the boardroom at 9:12 p.m. Second picked up. I found I brought it for you. >> Thank you. >> 10% being >> super [laughter] settle in. The the only update I have and because I provide so many updates on Friday not goats and stuff. >> I appreciate it's been a a joy working with this student leadership team. We meet again on the 19th at 11:30. I gave them the task of because this is part of the board's goal on parent community, the whole communication. How do we broadcast anytime we have a student engaged in
137activities because the community wants to see our kids? >> They don't want to see us. They want to see our kids. And um I have four a senior, junior, sophomore, freshman, two eighth graders, two sixth graders, and they've just been a joy to work with. Um they looked at okay you know in the event the bond passes how do we do you know even this concept out here how do we share highlights of things from you know it's wide open and I'll take them on tours of places but they're really trying to think creatively even how that might fit into a pathway because there's a lot of careers and get involved with that kind of stuff. Um, but they've just been really fun to to work with and and just listening to them think outside
138of the box. How do we get students lead it? How do we get, you know, it's just Oh, >> you said February 19th. >> Uh, February 19th at um 11:30 they meet in this corner uh classroom. Um, they're going to start bringing in community people that have experience with, you know, just, you know, >> have they come up with any ideas yet or >> Oh, there there tons of ideas. But what they're really to look at is going to other school districts that >> maybe have broadcasting, maybe have studentled, maybe have >> been long overdue. I can't wait to hear what they come up with. where it's not just, you know, >> the adults doing playbyplay on, you know, >> I was so mad at the huddle app the other night that I've thrown it.
139I'm so >> It just cut off and didn't come back. So, >> which district was it though that used to have the students that did >> I think was it was a really good program. >> I got one question for you. on the mental health committee. Where are we at on that? >> So, if if one of these three want to update, I didn't put it on the agenda for the update because they met once and you're meet were meeting again. >> I couldn't be there. >> Yeah. Aaron wasn't able to make it. Me and Bo were there. It was all three of our counselors. It was our psychologist. It was social worker. Uh nurses >> Hannah people [laughter] from >> Jesus makes sense everybody. It was a really really good group. They spent a
140lot of time kind of explaining what everybody's role was and exactly what they do because I had explained to Bo, we have this group of people that they're from three different entities between >> oh Kayla guidance center >> um between the guidance center Keystone and Jeff West. We've got three different employers, three different entities. They need to come together and work together. Um bottom line is we've got some needs not being met in our general ed population. Um, so we're going to be discussing that further and going into, for instance, our social worker from Keystone's case load is 50 students. I think the next highest in our co-op is 20. What' she say? 27 28. >> Yeah. Yeah. She said a normal considered one is like 25 like >> and that's not even counting the
141general ed students who come see her just because they need a friendly face for five minutes. So, she is um she's got a huge job right now and could really use a little relief somehow, whatever that looks like. >> And we meet again next Wednesday at that >> one. So, then we can have >> Yeah, we're going to dive into that a little bit, but it was a lot of time just kind of explaining what everybody did to start with, what exactly it looks like. It it's really it's putting a you know we talk about what everybody does but putting a face to whatever what everybody's >> position is. Case Kelly and I met with Casey one day >> and she just started spouting off people and we're >> we're like who? >> Yeah. >>
142But it's good that you see you see them in school and then you know what they do. >> And what I found is you didn't have to listen to these ladies talk for five minutes. You go okay you do this and then you do this and then you do this. And what I thought is you don't see a lot of overlap, but you see a lot of gaps in between what each focus is. And it's like we need to find a way to fill these gaps. >> Well, and when you look at or then you can do >> Oh, I brought it up. But when you uh think about the JAG K program and it's you don't want to label but there's a percent you know it was my half of the graduating class in
143high school that made the top half possible. So I was there there's a percent but you know JAG targets a percent. Well, in those is also some of those kids that are being discussed. So, it's just you're looking at ways to fill gaps with kids. >> Yeah. Okay. >> Anything else? >> Ajourned.