BoE Regular Meeting - 5.5.25

001at this time we'll call the May 2nd 2025 school board meeting over some comments from comments patrons and system. Good. Uh, and do we have any addition to the agenda? I get a motion to approve the agenda. So move second. All in favor? We do have some personal items. Um, keep up there. We know it's going to be a long one. So, executive uh can I get a motion to approve the consent agenda? Can I have a quick question that um what's the charge for two trees technologies? Which one does that fall in? two trees is it used to be our uh tech services. So we have uh cam mane that uh support staff and students. Then we had a contract with two trees to do all of our come in and work on our

002hub routers. We cancelled that with them and went to Redtech who is a former student, Brandon Credell. But we purchase devices like routers, hubs from Two Trees, but we're no longer So, we do purchases from two trees, but we no longer have uh yearly maintenance from Okay, that's why I was confused. Thank you. Now you can make a motion. Second favor have nothing academic report. Whoever wants to go first. Good evening everyone. Um you see our numbers there. There's no changes since I typed that out. We're we're sitting about the same. Um you get a little glimpse there. kindergarten next year coming in so far as well as uh preschool numbers are up. We've got confirmed we're at 30. So you want to change that number. Um one or two new applications comes in each

003day. So those numbers are getting up a little bit. Um going well. Um we had our book fair. Spring book fair was this past Wednesday. Um nice job to Mrs. Lloyd for that. Um had a good book fair. Had a good turnout and uh made some good money on this one for them. So happy for that. Um, field trips, except for a rained out day at the farm, which we're going to make up this Friday, we've got all of our field trips in for the year. Um, the preschool is headed out on theirs, uh, tomorrow and Wednesday. They're going to the zoo, so they're each taking a day and going. Um, state testing is complete. Um, we don't get any results back because it's a new test and they're going to vet the test over

004summer. we won't get any results until next school year, which is unfortunate because I got to say, first of all, our technology worked great this year. So, rah rah to Tim and his team. Um, but also the kids work really hard. Felt like they really put effort into it. Um, it was one of one of the hardest working sessions I've seen kids work on. So, I'm real excited to see the data. I'd like to see those results. Um, and Mr. Corb has wrapped up Tigers and Cubs uh again. He's done a year of that. And so congratulations to him and the kids and the high school students that all participated in that. And Mr. Axel uh we can celebrate another year of field day in the books. We made it to the rain until the

005last two minutes of the last session and they got soaked. So it worked out. So yeah, but it was a good day. It was a fun time. Got a little bit of a late start waiting on the rain, but otherwise we got everything in and had a great time. Um otherwise you can kind of see what's there. We are just pedaling fast downhill to the end and uh doing good so far. Any questions? Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Um so we are wrapping up things for track. We have their last regular meet of the season tomorrow in Hayawa. That was the one we added to replace the home meet that we didn't get to have. Um so she'll travel to Highwatha tomorrow and then this year league is on May 13th and you know

006one of the things they didn't realize, oh we're going to be a bigger league. We probably can't have everybody at one place. So we are split on the 13th. Seventh grade will go to Royal Valley and start at three. Eighth grade will go to Sebetha and start at 1. Um our eighth grade numbers are smaller. So I will go with Mary who's going to go to eighth grade and all the other coaches will go to seventh grade. And so Mary and I will drive we'll each drive a van, load up some middle schoolers and take them to Sabella for for um league track. So I'm Mary and I are hopeful that in the future of the league we'll decide to do it on separate days at least so our kids can get four coaches. It's

007hard to be able to do the meets at league when you're trying to get league medals and not be able to get that coaching in between or that coaching before um because it'll just be Mary and I at eighth grade. So we'll see what happens. It's not ideal, but it is what it is for this time. Um we'll be wrapping up all the things. We got fifth grade band and vocal concert this week. Next week we'll have the sixth through eighth grade band and vocal and our art show. Um we'll have Renfest on the 16th. Our eighth graders will go on their field trip on the 16th. We will send them on to the high school on the 19th. Um promotion is at 7 o'clock. Let me know if you plan to attend so I

008can make sure we have all the things. We will be in air conditioning because it is at the high school. We will not sweat. Um our end of year award ceremony will be on that last day of school um at 10. So, that's all the things we'll be wrapping up. We have finished all of our spring benchmarks. I'm working on CBMing any of the students who were below benchmark and reading. So, I'm listening to the kids read and marking their scores down. Um, we will look at that data at our late start meeting on Friday. And then we're also going to celebrate Mr. Thornberg as he's going to be a dad in June. So, we're going to have a little diaper shower for him on that day. Um, one of the changes I wanted to

009point out for next school year as we're just kind of seeing middle schoolers and their skills or lack thereof in time management and organization, um, for our sixth graders, we are going to require a first semester course. So, it will take a place of their elective, but the sixth grade team and I feel that it the benefits of it outweigh the cost of losing an elective as a sixth grader for the first semester. So, they will get to choose just one, but it's going to be we're calling it Stripes, so study skills, responsibility, independence, planning, and executive skills. Um, we have a curriculum that we've looked at with Haley um, to really help dig deep into these skills. It's going to be explicitly taught by their advisory teacher. So, they'll start their morning with their

010adviser like we normally do, our interventions and things like that. And then their first hour is going to be this class to help set them up for success. We're going to be just really digging deep into, hey, how do we plan for the day? How do we make sure we're, you know, setting goals? We're studying when we should, you know, prioritizing what we need to so that we can hopefully have this carry on through seventh and eighth grade. We'll talk with our seventh and eighth grade teachers to hope to hopefully continue implementing this like, hey, these are the note-taking skills we're using in sixth grade. We want to continue taught in seventh and eighth grade to just give them a little more success with this. Um, but like I said, they do lose an elective

011for just the first semester. Um, then they'll get their two electives in the spring semester. Questions? Good evening. Numbers not didn't change a whole lot. Um the 11th grader that was out was our temporary student that was here for six weeks through a nonformal exchange program. Um so really haven't had much change there. Um like the other two buildings, we have completed our math, English, and science assessments. Um we're still completing a few of the um history, government, social studies, um writing assessment that they do. Um and then we'll need to score those. We will get our social studies scores because we score them in house. So we'll be able to to know how our students are doing there. Um the others will be waiting. Um and then we will get results to kids in

012the fall. And um the incentives if they scored a four or above a class they scored above the state average the incentive to opt out of a final. So they they like that incentive. Um, fast food screeners are 90% done and we're working on getting um the next level of testing to see um if they did flag what they specifically need or if it was just a pad testing day, which will help us know who we need um how many sections and stuff we'll need for tier support classes for reading next fall. Um on April 17th, we had 17 students sign at Washurn Tech. Um, that's exciting. And we still have a few on the wait list, so we could still have a few more get in. Um, and then we celebrated um Jill and

013Amber and Melanie on administrative assistance day. And because we don't know of a tech day, we put him in with that group and celebrated him also. We feel like he helps us make things go smooth many days and has been a great support for us. Tomorrow night, we have academic awards night. would love to see there. We have 132 kids that are going to get recognition. So, we're excited about that. The week after that, we have our fine arts. So, we have a concert um vocal and band and all the artwork will be around to view. So, we invite you to that graduation. Um we would love to see you up on the stage. If you are not coming, please let me know as soon as possible as we start to make plans. And then

014if you would like to present a diploma to any specific students, let me know that so I know ahead of time to make that plan and have you lined up in the right way. Um, we have still a need for vocal instructor and we do have some applications that Mrs. Dilly and I have started looking through and then I'm still looking for special education teacher. I know they interviewed last week but I haven't heard how that went yet. Um, and then just wanted to recognize Greg Greg Whiteer, our daytime custodian. Um, time and time again when I give people tours or new students come in, they're like, "Oh, your building's clean or your building looks nice." And I attribute a lot of that to his diligence. And so want to recognize that questions? Not yet.

015We're talking through those duties, though. Anything else? Thank you. Thank you. And Matt is able for baseball softball. So his reports. Yep. Keystone report. I take that as all of you will be at graduation. Yeah, I will be there. I would hope. Um Keystone, we've got a lot to go over. I'm going to skip through a couple things and then come back to the building at the end. Um I did want to say they're still working with the Assembly of God in Billtown to uh for a temporary spot for JBLA. Um hopefully just for the first semester next year. It looks like it's going well. There's some paperwork tax exempt stuff happening that they're having lawyers kind of work through right now to ensure that they keep their tax exempt status and ensure that the

016the wording uh is clear that they are not making any money off of this. They are donating their space. Um and then they did talk about the greenhouse and they have said that we are interested in keeping it. So that's exciting. Uh they did interview for that high school special education position. um a good candidate last week. I also haven't heard what has come from that, but I'm excited about that. Um me and Belinda handed out gift cards to our uh Keystone staff at each of the buildings last week for their staff appreciation day. So, that was fun. And then, um if you flip through, I'm going to skip over that bid page, that third page. Um one thing that Keystone provides is they do a lot of professional development for each of the districts.

017This is a list of the professional developments that they've provided this year. So, just as a reminder that they're also out there doing letters training and curriculum stuff and um para training, new para training. They're working with principles sometimes. Um this is just a list of what they've done so far this year. That last page with all the cute little houses shows our certified positions in each district. So, these are just certified. You can see where we've got a long-term sub at the middle school and we've got an vacancy at the high school for our certified special education position. Um so this is where what it's looking like. This is for next year. So just FYI. And then as far as the building, um, when we made a motion a couple months ago to approve

018the building of a new facility, we made the motion to approve a building not to exceed $4 million split amongst the member districts over the period of five years. I believe the bids have come in at 3.6. Um there is some discussion with the Keystone board on what do we do with that extra $400,000. Um the director would like to do some renovations to the church because as it stands there's not a meeting space at Keystone that they're building. So he would like to do some renovations to the church, fix the HVAC and build some kind of a meeting space for whatever purposes they may need it. Um, other district I think everybody is going taking it back to their boards to see how everybody feels. I would like to take the temperature in the

019room and see how you all feel about what to do with that extra 400,000. If they got a building, you know, we're going through that now. Yep. I think it would be kind. I mean, fix it. That's just me when we're battling air conditioners and Yeah. and stuff like that. I hate to have you come back and go, "Well, we need more." Yeah. But I'm just That's just me. Which church is it? The one in Austin. The one in Osir church there. They're leaving the church. They would like to renovate it and make it a meeting space. But as of right now, there's nothing. You mean no buildings or what do you mean? Or what are they going to do with it now? for now. I storage as of right now. I guess the HVAC

020doesn't really work. It doesn't work well. So, it's not really optimal for people. Had they planned on using it in the first place? They were hoping initially and then when we asked them to cut the budget, that was one of the things that got cut was that those renovations. It's a rough 3.6 million. remotely. I don't see it. Okay. And I honestly because we've already made the motion and the motion was not to exceed 4 million. I think that technically Doug could go ahead. Um but he's he's being kind and letting giving us a chance to talk to everybody and making sure everyone's comfortable. Did that mo I mean I don't care. That's why we did it. planning on being more. But did that motion say and then use every penny you don't need? No,

021that's what I thought. No, that's not a rule. No, I was just curious. But if they need it, I mean, we were cool with it. So, that's kind of how I lean, but I was just curious how everybody else they have any extra for our app. We can totally take that. I will ask. Uh it is nice to see if you look through this bid bid sheet they're using well we're local they're using Kings but they're using several companies from Jefferson County which is awesome and counties too. Yeah. And you can see the red is because um there was a mobile home parked on the property and they have sold it. Um and Kings, I believe, was going to remove it for a fee, but the owner, the one that the new owner came in

022and moved it himself, so that has saved us already 20,000. Nice. And then the playground also I think is 175,000. We are going for a grant for that and they're pretty optimistic that they will get it. Um, so that will end up hopefully saving us 175,000, too. I think a good message to take back is, yeah, we're okay with fixing it, but like Dave said, you don't need to use it. Yeah. Yeah. As long as it's reasonable items. I agree. That's my thought. Exactly. Don't waste it. Right. Okay. Is everybody comfortable? Yeah. With that, cinema, but they'll have to get all of these doors. Yes. We're going to have to Yeah, it's going to be We're going to be the easiest folks probably. That's not always the case. Not anything else. No, this next one

023I'll turn over to Brad. Uh Donna, come forward. She at least made it from the back table. So you could come up and at least sit so the owl can see you. So last month um or yeah last month I went to the state department a state board meeting where they recognized um about 10 food service directors across the state for earning earning the child nutrition and management certification. You have a handout here. If you look on the the front describes the the back of it shows the everything should be first thing on top. If not then buy by item in your stack. But that's 120 hours minimum what Madonna accomplished to earn this. She was not able to go because someone called in sick, so she had to stay here and fill in. I

024came to the high school and said I would be happy to put a hairet on and I was told that I was not qualified. So I went by myself. But the other nine people that received this recognition have been in their position for eight years, 10 years, 12 years. Ladonna's completed all 120 plus in a year and a half, which very much impressed the state board, the Kelly Cheney, the school, the school nutrition and wellness director. So, we wanted to invite Liddonna here tonight. Um, Matt and Kelly have a certificate for you and we want to thank you for all the hard work you've done, all the changes you've put in place at the since the year and a half and what you have Good job. Perfect. Good job. Amazing. It is amazing work. She's

025already made such a great difference. Um, and we have a a lot long way to go. We met this afternoon planning for the uh we're taking on a fourth building with the preschool. So Wes and Brie Williams and Ladonna are working on that. So anyway, a lot has happened, but we're also going to be meeting in the month of June to start looking at what do we need to do next year in order for a goal to the following year. Still working towards a consolidated kitchen here for the whole district. So anyway, Lana, thank you. Thank you. You can stay for the rest of the meeting or you're okay to leave, but you're more than welcome to stay. It's about ready to get excited. Well, cardiac. Yeah. Uh, next up we have school nurses for

026cardiac emergency response. Response plan. And you'll see in diligent if you have your laptop a copy of the plan that instead of reading it word for word they're just going to share this is a um receive item for you to consider and it'll be on the agenda next month for your consideration. But it is very long and very detailed and so we covered everything in there. So we're not going to read the entire thing. It's everything we already do. There's an emergency. We call the office. the teachers have a plan, but here with the new legislation, we want to make sure that we have a policy for everything we're doing. So, basically, that's it's it's everything that every single building does right now. Um, we just want to make sure that we are served. I

027think the only difference right now is going to be that we will share for like you that use the gyms and those places, they will actually have um like information about what our policy is. So, and they will have like the option for training, that kind of stuff. But side note, we have revised this plan two or three times and that has been with um like guidance from the health committee um other members of the community that are on the health committee and physicians that help with those kind of things too. Our our student health advisory committee that has different community members that have medical backgrounds have al also had the information and had time had chances to edit it or ask questions that kind of thing. I think the only one they had brought

028up at one point was the signage to make sure we had enough a AED signages like you know information above everything and we had them we just hadn't had enough yet. We've had some changes and all those are up and going now. So anybody we appreciate can you really have an a program? Yes. And you can actually even run through the middle school one if this one's being used. Um and we got we also got a grant for a recently um this year for a traveling AED too. so that some of our students with those cardiac um issues we can they can travel with them to and from sporting events. Thank you West Education Foundation for that one because that was the AAD3 and we're running the numbers and it looks like the newest AED

029that they have out um you only have to change the pads every five years and so in the long run if we gradually switched over to that AED then um it's going to save us some money because right now we buy pets pads and adult pads and the pets pads are changed out every two years and then we change the adult pads every five years. So, we're going to save some money in the long run if we start actually switching those over as they expire. Awesome. Where do we get those? Do we get those? Where do we get them? The pads in the 80. Um, we use it from first responder. He comes through about once every two years and does an audit at all of our places and make sure that we're up to

030date on everything. We And the only reason I ask is we use uh we only have one at city hall, but we've always had the fire station emergency management hook us up, right? But we only one They at one point Keith Jeffers um I want to say him and there was somebody else that was kind of like helping us do the things but it was almost kind of a pain I think for them to have to get everything for right away um and so we just started going with whatever was a little more efficient because we didn't want to put them out more basically. Did everybody read through it or glance through it enough? Do we need do we really need to put it off to next meeting? Can we just do it now? Okay.

031Does anybody want Does anybody want to make a motion to adopt this cardiac emergency response plan? It will require two drills um like mock drills that we will have like in the fall semester and then spring semester which we usually have enough enough events that happen that we don't really have to practice. We haven't practiced the drills because we've had other things that have gone on. Currently, we've had two students that um have their own AED, which is a big increase from prior. And our numbers um as far as our older ones go, we've had more kids wearing that like culture monitor and things like that. I think four in the last semester. So, I move to approve the cardiac emergency response policy as we all. So, just a reminder when I put notes in

032my Friday reports, receive items, we typically if you're going to vote on something and we have time, the goal is for you receive it, have time to think about it, but you can always approve a receive item at the time. Okay? We just try not to have you take an action on things the first time you uh next item on board budget expense training training. Okay. So, this is one where um you have a handout here that at the top says district finances overview. This is one of those you might just want to sit back, relax a minute or two, but ask questions as we go through this. I went through it with the principles today. They have good questions. So, I'm just going to, you know, there's a times I make assumptions that everybody

033when we have all of this money that you approve every month that you really know everything because we go through a lot of money here. So, I just want to walk through the different types of funds, but ask questions, stop, whatever as we go through it. So, our operating budget is our general fund and our supplemental general, sometimes called the local option budget. Our general fund this year is 8.2 million. Our supplemental is 2.7 million for just a little over $11 million. We will spend both of those down to the last dollar. If we don't, it just goes back to the state. So the types of things that we spend every month through with that 11 million, we average about 600,000 a month just in payroll because 85% of our operating is people certified classified.

034The other 15% are things like utilities, insurance, instructional supplies, transportation. So when you see in the consent agenda a ton of things, that's the type of stuff that is just routine monthly. And we'll talk about consent here in a minute. Um, but that $11 million will spend down to zero because we don't want to give uh and when you that $11 million we pay as a homeowner 20 mills in general fund, 11 mills in uh supplemental. 20% of that 11 million comes from local property tax. The state makes up the 80 other 80%. So we don't want to give a dollar back. It's not going to hurt us, but at the end of the June 30th, we'll spend $11,59,740 on the dot. But that's just for educational purposes, teachers, supplies, all of that. Questions on

035that because we can always go back. Other types of funds we have, obviously a popular one is capital outlay. We will generate with our eight mills plus some state aid about [Music] $899,000. uh that goes up a little bit each year as property valuations go up, but currently that's about what that is. That is used for general upkeep of facilities, um vehicles, buses, vans, uh equipment, mowers, um things that are not general operating um uh type furniture. um just met with the principles today. We went through kind of this end of year whiteboards, you know, things that aren't your normal instructional, but student desk, cafeteria desk, um we have a pretty good list. Stage curtains, things that are on our list. We can't afford it all. So, we start going through that, but that's all

036capital outlay. um technology, a lot of our laptops, computers that can be purchased out of there. And then couple years ago, um our maintenance director salary, which is allowable, you can you can only the only salaries you can pay out of there is the people that maintain those facilities. Um the goal is to get that back out of there and back into general operating where it used to be paid, but when it got tight that was moved over. Um but that is one of our goals. So that's capital outlay. Now we don't want to spend all 899,000 because you can't build a balance for when you really need something. Um but we're spending close to that if not more each year because of just a lot of it was a cold winter. So questions on

037that? Does that so that doesn't go back to the state at the end of each year then? No. No. That actually rolls over and carry a balance over. You can't carry a balance over in the general fund. The lob will have a balance because that's kind of a levy that uh whatever's I we can only spend 2,7730. If that those mill levies generate more, it rolls into the next year and helps keep next year's mill levy down. But it's but that's the total amount um that we can spend in those two food service. So with Donna's program, we will spend about $760,000. That is predominantly food and staff. That's funded through two main sources. Whenever students pay their fees and then the federal reimbursement for free and reduced lunches. Other than that, if it's short,

038we have to supplement out of our general operating to keep it funded. Um, the food that we purchase, we purchase through, and we'll talk a little more about this, through the Keystone purchasing cooperative. But when we talk about bidding, you know, we'll spend $350,000 on food. We don't have to bid it because we purchase it through a cooperative that does the bidding on our behalf. That way we can ensure we get the quality at the lowest price. So we um so that's where we purchase it through um a food purchasing cooperative. That's uh Keystone actually uh monitors that. So questions about food service funding, special education. We will spend about $2.1 million this year on special education. About 1.4 of that used to go straight to Keystone. Then the legislature said,"Well, to make school districts

039budgets look higher, they send it to us. It comes into our general fund. We transfer it to special ed and then we send it to Keystone. The main reason they did that is our supplemental general fund is 33% of our general fund." Well, if they launder, and I know that's not the best word to use, but if they launder the money through our general, it inflates our general, that makes our supplemental general 33% higher and a portion of that's local property taxes. So, the legislature kind of put if you want more, you can raise more local. So, instead of giving us more money, they just laundered the special ed through us. So, 1.4 4 million is just to us. We transfer it to special ed and then we cut a check. So if you look

040at the uh expense budget report this month in our incent agenda, there was like 177,000. That was this month's laundered money that's really keystones. It just flowed through us. So the next portion is our contribution out of our general operating that we pay for special education services to Keystone. So of the general fund money up here at the top that 8.2 2 million $651,000 of our general operating we have to pay for services. Um that is one of the complaints that school districts have with the legislature is that money is intended for general operating. The legislature is not funding their statutory requirement and for us it's at the cost of $651,000. But that's our members and every district in the state is dealing with that. We'll talk here in a little bit about how that

041much that might go up next year. So when we talk about assessments, that's what that is. It's part of that assessment. Yeah. And that goes up. It didn't go up last year. because the state put 10 million or 70 million into it. They didn't do that this year. So for salaries increased everything else that will go up next year. Then the last part is we do get a reimbursement, but we for transporting our Keystone um early childhood students with IEPs, that's our cost, but we get um 80% reimbursement for that. But that's our cost since we provide the transportation. Will that transfer over when we open our preschool? If we do provide any sort of trans, it'll be the same thing. We're just dropping them off at a different location. The only students we're planning

042on transporting are the ones that have an IEP that require transportation services. Change. No, that won't change. Questions about special education. Again, all of this shows up in our monthly type bills. Those are district funds. We do have funds at each building, clubs and organizations, they raise money. Uh we have uh gate receipts, activity. Um thanks for Matt for coming in in case you have questions, but he's not going to want to tell you how far in the hole we are right now. But um when um students join a club or a sport, they pay a fee. Those kind of gate receipts at mall games. Th all of that money is kept at the high school or the middle school and that goes to paying officials. Um uh uniform rotations. Um we've got a list

043right now. every time we go to a track meet or a golf tournament, we pay a fee. When we host, they pay us. So, all of that. So, there's um building funds that we collect that stay at the building level to do a lot of the type of things that um that I mentioned. Um then the enrollment fees that pays for um curriculum adoptions, technology, uh some of those go to the district, some of them stay at the building. Okay. just some of your approvals because we've never really been able to talk and really what goes on consent agenda each month. Those are just routine, you know, at the beginning of the year. You approve the budget, you approve people's contracts, you appro approve, you know, just typical utilities, things like that. So, I typically

044try to put in consent just routine items and we're going to spend $11 million in there, which sounds like a lot, but that's, you know, we hire a lot of people. Regular board items is typically when I'll put on there something that is unique and not regular like fencing around a preschool, new signs for a preschool, you know, things like that. Um, but just to kind of give you an idea, um, I try not to put things in the consent. Yep. a bus, you know, things like that. Even though if you go to the next page, things that we have to bid, anything over $20,000 has to go out for bid unless it's purchased through a competitive bid pool like our food service buses. So the state now we could put out a bid but

045every school district needs buses they need vans. So, the state has a bid preferred bid pool that they do the bidding on our behalf. And Bluebird, um, Thomas, they agree to sell at a certain level to any school district. That saves us from having to go out and do the bidding. School supplies. We go through a lot of paper products. We actually do a lot through a green bush purchasing pool. That way we don't have to every month be putting out bids for copy paper, toilet paper, you know, anything paper. But there's a lot of supplies that we purchase off of a competitive bid pool. The other thing we don't have to bid are services. um attorneys, um insurance companies, uh auditing because if you put it out there, you may not get someone that's

046reputable. Services look different. So, we don't have to bid services. We just look for the people that we think will be able to provide us the type of service that's unique to Jeff West. So questions about that. Now there are several times that we will still put it out for bid even though it's under the 20,000 just to let local people just to make sure we're getting like the concrete work that we had done over spring break. Those were those were under the 20,000 but we went ahead and bid those. the fences that you know things like that. If it's something unique, we'll still try to put it out there for a bid just to make sure we're one letting local people have a shot at something or two try to save a few thousand.

047Um, just some protocols. Anytime as soon as we send out the board packet on diligent, if there is ever anything in consent that you have questions, call, let me know. Call over the weekend, call over on Monday, Friday, whenever. If you have questions on anything, just call. If we get to a board meeting and there's something that you're like, you know, I really think that ought to have more discussion. When we approve the agenda at the start of the meeting, that's a time to say, "Hey, item whatever in the consent, could we pull that?" And then it will go to the bottom of the board items and then we will have that as a standalone action item if that makes sense. something that I was like, I'm pretty sure everybody knew that and that was

048a big assumption, but we've never really had this kind of walk through. So, any consent agenda item can always be pulled, add to a regular, we'll just add it to 5.9 or whatever, and then the board can have discussion on it. And that's not uncommon. Unless you didn't know that that was It's not a common year. I don't think it's ever happened. I don't think it has since I've been here. Well, but that that's just, you know, that's always available. But normally if you have questions just call because I cuz there like I said we're going to go through $11 million of operating probably close to a million dollars of capital outlay you know $2 million of special you know there's a lot in 12 months that flows through this board and expenses have to

049be approved by you if that makes sense. That's why there's so much on there. Um, just to talk a little bit about the preschool and how it'll be funded. Um, not that everything was crystal clear up to this point, but this will be a little foggier because we don't know numbers yet. We're going to keep it in a totally separate fund for a few years until we get kind of a more of a cadence on how many we're normally getting, how many are qualifying for free, all of that. So the way it's funded is any student with an IEP is funded as a half a student, a 0.5 and one student next year receives we receive $5,615 per student. So any student with an IEP will generate $2,88. This year we have about 18 of

050those. All of those kids, now every year it goes up and down because half of those will go into kindergarten, you know, so it just ranges, but those kids will all be part of our program over at the preschool. any student that meets one of the states at risk factors. So, free lunch, they have a teenage parent, they have a single parent, you know, there there's nine risk factors to qualify for the state's preschool. If they qualify for one of those nine, they'll generate 0.5 funding. Same amount for any student that doesn't meet one of those two and they're not Well, let me back up. of those nine criteria, if you qualify for free lunch, that's an additional 0.484 of that base. So, they'll generate not only the 0.5 funding, they'll generate another $2,718. Please

051ask questions if you do. I mean this is so that they'll be the parents will not pay anything for those and none of those will pay anything because the state is picking in so that's so guess I guess I okay all right we'll go well no I well I don't I don't understand it's 5,615 for a full-time at risk but it's 7,000 if you're not I don't see the 1400 $00 difference. There there isn't. There isn't. You're um so the the at risk preschool, those are the kids that are most at risk that are going to benefit from it. And if you don't have a IEP, you don't have a risk factor. I mean because they'll generate the the state is not intending intending to cover 100% of the cost. They're going to help supplement

052your cost to open it up then for any student that doesn't any meet any risk factor then we have to charge a fee to help offset. We don't know yet whether All of this combined is going to fund a whole program in the first year. So, we've set we're going to have to we and we'll talk here in a minute about what we might have to set aside to get to that $700. We looked at what other preschools in our league area what they charged and that's about what they charge. And this is full day. This is full day. Okay. Now, if you take your kid to some preschool somewhere, you're going to spend quite a bit more. So, yeah. So, we're we're trying to keep the costs down to operate the program, but at

053the same time not outprics from other pres, you know. So, we're just that number might need a year from now to be 800. It could be 650. We're just trying to So, we base the 700 off. Now, some of the neighboring are lower, but they're going to have to increase it. Well, we didn't want to start out low and then come back. So, that's where we came up with the $700. So the state doesn't fund early education unless they qualify under one of these, right? Okay. They will supplement your program if they have an I well they the IEP the one of the nine risk factors and if one of those risk factors is free lunch then you'll get an additional at risk waiting. So it's so that's a big part of supplementing our program.

054Otherwise, they'd all have to pay $700. If that makes sense, but I've been working on what our expenses are going to look like. What we don't know, and I've got kind of a ballpark because Wes said we're up to 30 that have applied, but we had close to 60 that came and showed interest and took applicant. We're just it's like send it in and on the application. Do you have an I child have an IEP? Do you qualify for free lunch? Are you a teenage parent? Do you have a parent without a high school diploma? Do you have some learning challenge your child, but it doesn't negate, you know, is it a DCF referral? is it? You know, there's a lot of different homeless, a lot of those things, but without that, then you can

055attend, but then there would be some real quick, this is off kind of subject. How would a how would a these young children coming in get IEP before enrolling? I mean, how would that how does that? So we don't have it all at list. We do that right now. Okay. Yeah, we do that now. Our preschool that's here at the high school, um majority of those students have been identified through count your kid in or early childhood screeners uh around the county. And a lot of them fall under speech, but not always. Um but there can be varying levels of need and that's how they get qualified to attend the preschool now. And that continues. Um, there's three more screeners yet to happen this year. Um, and they've already identified, I want to say a

056dozen kiddos and eight of them are Jeff West kids. So, our three-year-old class is already so they they come to us every year prior to our preschool. They've been coming uh identified. Oh, very good. And that'll continue. We actually had a meeting last Thursday with the Oh, with Keystone. with Keystone, our social workers, you know, just talking about the logistics for next year and this summer's screening. Um typically um Hannah Drying our edit worked up some numbers and on average which it is higher it's been as high as 25 it's been lower but on average through the school year as kids turn to becoming three we average 18 kids identified every year. Wow. So that's we we're we're saving some slots for that growth through the school year. We don't want to just put 20

057kids in the room because tomorrow there'll be a new three-year-old identified. So, we want to leave spots so that as the year goes on, we can bring them in. And what'll be different next year is right now, if you come up to the high school and go in the classrooms, there's peer models, but um next year with the the preschool, it'll be like walking into kindergarten class. You'll have a regular ed teacher pro possibly a parent and a special ed. You know, they're just blended like our kindergarten, first grade, second grade. They'll have room to pull out and but most of it they'll be with the rest of the kids. But right now, these are just until we get full enrollment, we won't know what the total revenue is going to be. There's more floating

058out there. I know of two off the top of my head that have not signed up yet that are interested. And I'm told, sign up. Go sign up. So, questions about any of that before we go on to next year's just regular Okay. So, if you look at the last page on that and we've shared this, but this is more updated actually. Let's jump to the bottom of that page. Everybody looking at the budget outlook? Yes. So, let's go to the bottom and look at enrollment trends. Two years ago, we were up 25 students. Last year, we were up 18. This year, we were down nine. Now, we turned away about 10 kids just because here in a little bit, we're going to talk about the non-resident students and we have to set our slots.

059Um, so we're guaranteed next year the 826 students. The way the finance says you you'll be funded by prior years or next year's current year, September 20th count, whichever is higher. Well, right now we know at least what our headcount's going to be. Even if we go down more, we're funded at the 826.9. So up at the top in the middle between the general and the LOB, the supplemental added together, we're looking at $334,000 of new revenue next year. So anticipated expenses, we know that health insurance is going to go up next year about $100,000. So that's about a third of our new revenue. Special education, we talked about that 561,000. That's going to go up somewhere around $72,000 because the cost the legislature didn't put new revenue. I mean it we're going to get

060about 10,000 new revenues from the legislature. So that's not going to help. Property insurance, fuel for buses, extra duty cost. That's every time buses, building leadership, that adds up. Anytime teachers work outside the duty day. We're going to talk about a second grade aid here a little bit later. um retirement that $9,000. Remember a year ago we agreed that someone retires early, we'll pay him in the next year so we can um budget for it. Uh letters trainer um the assistant principal positions 50,000 I just put in there. We don't know yet what we will have to help support to general operating uh to fund the preschool because we don't know those numbers yet. So total expenses were already 11,000 and a whole of new revenue. some savings. You can see there with the retirements

061and hiring back their replacements, we're saving about 27,000. Now, we still need to replace music. So, that could go up or down. So, that leaves $16,000 of next year's new money here in a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it just kind of Now, I don't want to always be the glass full, but we have a neighbor not too far from the east from us. If you look at that number at the top, they're looking at around 5,000 of new revenue. So, you know, we're okay. We're going to talk about some numbers here in a minute when we get to non-resident. But if we looked at now that was based off September 20th. If we look at what we have in our classrooms today and the out of district applicants that we've already people have

062applied to come here. If you look at the top in blue, we could be at 841 students next September 20th. We don't that we don't know yet. But let's say that happened. That number would be 487,000. And down at the bottom, instead of 16,000, we'd be looking at 169,000. So this is based off the minimum what we know we will get funded off 826 kids. If that number is higher next September 20th that's different. It's always that date, right? September. It's always September 20th. That's in statute. We just don't want to spend money that we don't have. But we could have you know because the statute says your prior year. So if we think next budget year the prior year which is 826 or the current year whichever is higher. So that could only go

063up if we have more kids in seats next September 20th. So questions about that. So that or the whole thing. I know that was a lot. We just won't ever have to cover that again until there's different board members. Oh, yeah. It really is. So, yeah. Board goals. The next item, board goals, strategy. Okay. So again, bonfire at my house. Soon as the board meeting's over, you got a lot of paper stuff here. But so this is a summary. Uh and again, a lot of hard work, a lot of evenings in this room. Um can't thank everybody in the community enough that showed up. But this is a summary of all the strategies for the four board goals. Um, this is a receive item this month because I'd like you to kind of walk through

064them, see if you would like to rephrase if there's something we want to bring back to the June meeting. But from parent community engagement, you know, we we we've already got strategies, some things that we can start working on with that staff recruitment and retention. We'll have one of those items that we can address here a little bit later. uh facilities. Um I'll give a briefing on on that towards the end. Student success and preparation. But again, just any questions that you might have. I wanted you to have it all in one space, some time between now and June to call, ask questions, think about it. Um if anybody has any comments, thoughts uh about any of those right now, um we will have it on the the June to approve, but knowing it's got

065to stay flexible because we don't know what July might bring. We don't know what you know, this is just something for us to start working on. um June 10th and 11th, the week after the June board meeting, the administrators and I are going to spend two days. Each day, we're going to take two of these. We're going to start thinking about then bringing to the board. Okay, parent community engagement. What are some things that we could start as a district in the first six months, 12 months, 18 months, and we'll start categorizing those to bring to you some ideas. You'll start filling in. So, all of these, what can we do? What's some lowhanging fruit? What are some things that are going to take more planning? What are things that prioritize wise? We can't do

066it all at once. So maybe a year down the road, but we're going to spend two days in June as an administrative team trying to bring to you a strategic plan that you can then start addressing. So thoughts along non-resident numbers Okay, that's this document. Thanks to Aaron for stacking them order. So, this is the recommendation concerning non-resident student capacity. So tonight, the board just needs to approve how we go about setting these numbers and addressing out a district or non-resident. You're not actually approving numbers because that could change between now and June 1st. But on June 1st, by statute, we have to post on our website by grade level how many vacant slots we still have available. Again, that number could change between now with moveins, move outs. So, but we will do that.

067So the practice that we go about and this is identical practice that we did a year ago at this time. So you approved this practice a year ago. Just to kind of summarize it, we have goals or aspirations of where we would like grade levels to be, but if someone moves in, we have to enroll them. So, we're not setting maximum numbers at each grade because we can't because if if we had 10 eighth graders move into district, we have to educate. We'd have a class of 90, you know, but what we're doing is how we go about setting the numbers for the non-resident ones come July or June 1. So, if you look on the back, this gives you an example. If it was today, here's what it would look like. All the numbers

068of our current students are next years. So, next year we have 63 kindergarteners pre-enrolled. And then you can go first grade 67. Remember, there's four sections. Second grade 67, four sections. Oh, excuse me. Kindergarten's four sections. First grade's four sections. Second grade next year, we're already at 67, which is why over to the right there's a zero because we'll post zero because we only have three sections. We could take three more first graders or seven more kindergarteners cuz there's four sections of those. Third grade, there's only three sections. So, we've got that set at zero. Fourth grade, we could take six because we're looking at around that 60. But if some if we have people move in between, then we're going to have to adjust those between now and June 1st. So if you go

069all the way down and you think back September 20th of this year, we are at 826.9. We're sitting at 834 kids in our buildings right now. That doesn't mean we don't have a couple families move out during the summer like we had last year and some of our numbers went down. Um, right now we have non-resident applications of seven. So if they all stayed, we approved those seven. That's where that 841 came from. when we were talking about budgets just to give you an idea that if our numbers are higher it'll generate more revenue. These non-resident requests we have the number of seven for is that new ones for the upcoming they would be new for next year. So it's not Yeah, they're not attending here, but they want to but they want to next

070year. Those are not those are applicants to to come next year. If they go into that pool or whatever and then you if there's too many that's when you just Yeah. But if you look at these um sixth grade, we could take three. It's nice. have room to take all of them. Now, the high school is different and Rhonda has to work on it this month because of pre-enrollment. High school is based off programs. For example, if all freshmen are required to take freshman English and we only have three sections and kids are pre-enrolling, so we give her a little more time at each grade level because it depends on kids pre-enrolling index. Do we have enough teachers to teach certain sections? It's not based off K through 8 is grade level. High school is

071based off programs. These students that came in during the school year if they have IEPs or anything? We don't. Do do we get that? I mean, does that start when they get here or is it 920? Yeah. So, they come in that other school. They show up after 9:20. Nothing. Well, we don't get any funding, but we still have to serve. Yeah, we take on everything for that student, but they're not here by 9:20. We get nothing. So, that 834, we got funded for 826.9. The rest of them, we didn't get funding. Someone else did. But at the same time, we've had some of ours that we got funding moved to another district. We don't send them anymore. So, our numbers, kids move in and out, but it's all based on September 20th, and we

072never want to have PD day without kids on September 20th because they got to be enrolled in attending on September 20th. Keep them healthy that day. Yeah. Well, I think it's pretty important if there's ever discussion about ways to finance growth here like a bond. But I mean, we can take 38 kids, which is under the amount of kids that have been enrolled in the school district in prior years. Now, you got to go back a ways, but elementary school is probably like the most important time to get them. We can not take kids in two of the classes. We don't have a big number. Why would people choose here if they have kids across like like my situation or many people's situation where you have kids at every building where soon will be I

073am not coming here if you cannot take my young. So we we don't have any more room. We have kids learning in a basement. So, I would focus on that because we want to attract new people and we're doing all this and new teachers and all that, but what if that teacher's got a third grade? Maybe she'll take that other job. Yeah, we we got ourselves here. Well, we had to take 38 kids. We had two families last year that had both of them had four kids. Two of the kids were in classes where they were zero. So we told them we can take two of them. Well, yeah. I mean, it's not I'm not wasn't meaning that to be like we have to change that, but we're in this situation and there is no

074way out of it. So, we can talk growth all we want, but okay. So we do need a motion to approve basically the process that we go about setting them. Not the number but just the process. It's the same process that we did last year. I will move that we approve the non-resident student members. What we want to call that process process as presented for 2025 second favor. Now can this is this is this somewhere where people can find these things on our website now? I mean since we approved it we should post that. Yes, we have a non. So if you go to enrollment non-resident, it has our policy on there. This is just for the board on the process we go about, right? But the whole policy you approved last year that explains

075all the um student in good standing, all that is and it's required. Yeah. Now the numbers, these are just as what if it was today, right? But the numbers have to be posted. So on June one, you go out on our website, go to enrollment non-resident, it'll it'll have these numbers on there. That way if someone in June wants to apply, they can go and look and say, "Oh, they have slots open in these grades." Now, we only had one applicant during the month of June. For us, like all of these, they're already applying. They're not waiting till June. But by law, we have to post it on June one. We had one family apply last year and accepted uh second grade support for 2025 2026. So if you remember last year we added a

076fourth section of first graders. Next year those kids will move into second grade with three sections. So comes to the board the consideration do you go four sections? That's something that it's not for me to decide but something that the board ought to have some discussion. Um looking at finances and classroom spaces. So, an average teacher with benefits to add one is about $80,000. And to do that, kneecap will be moving out. So, there would be a classroom for that, but that means title one for the next several years would have to remain in the basement. So, We do have one other option and that is instead of a teacher full-time teacher we could provide them some additional free classrooms but provide them like with a parah someone that could move from class to class

077and pro another adult move throughout the day into those three classrooms. Outside of that, um, those are really the two most viable options. Well, I personally reached out to the second grade teachers and they would like to have a parah move around. that's what they think can can work then they support us as opposed to adding on 45 for 80 grand that we don't have with the teachers why why was that so unique because that's been the case many years where we got the money we're adding classes I mean I would love to add another class but I just find it second grade said, "Well, we don't have They didn't say that. They're just saying with negotiations coming up." Yeah. They weren't like, "No, I don't want you. No, we want 15 kids in each

078classroom." No, they're saying that because they want per negotiations not to take pot, you know, which this could help them. I currently have a second grader going into third grade next year and I saw you know, he didn't get that fourth first grade class and that hurt them and that put a lot on those second grade teachers. You know, it's a benefit now, but it's just going to continue to be a problem. That's why last year I was like I was the only one that voted no on that. So, because I knew this was going to So, we have to do something whether that be Yes. How would we swing pay for another teacher? How would that could we even make that work? because I mean from what you just showed us you can't well

079um go back to the budget you would have to look the other expenses and the hard thing is you don't have a lot of control Most of us. Yeah, we don't. That's the worst part of it. I know. That's what I'm saying. That's my point. Luckily, we have three veteran well machine second grade teachers that just right now they currently have zero coming in and help, you know. So, if that will help and maybe there's times they don't, they can go to third grade, they can go to fourth grade. some just having that extra help in the building that's a paid employee, not a random parent coming in to make copies for them to help them out. So if you look in those expenses, the second grade aid, yeah, would be about 20,000. So I

080went ahead and just stuck it in as a placeholder so you had an idea of the effects of that. What what's the difference between an aid and a parent? Same. Okay. Yeah. I think sometimes para is uh referred to as special ed as they call it paras. So this would just be dedicated to second. Yeah. This Yeah. this. So yeah, when I say PAR, I refer to ones that are employed by Keystone. Aid is someone that's employed, even though they So what's what's the second grade? What's the current class size? Is that the 62? That would Yes. It would put them at about 23 per grade. So they they would go from like 17 because there's four sections first. They go from 17 to 23. What's this next thing we talk about is that so

081that so the next item which is the registered teacher apprentice could be a solution to this instead of just advertising for an aid the registered teacher apprenticeship program which when you look at our board strategies under teacher recruitment retention trying to look for alternative ways kind of grow our own. That's the next item. If the board would like to move to that one, why don't we move to that one? What? Because this one doesn't need any action right now. That's right. That was just a discussion. Anybody want to move to the next one, please? Yeah. under either way on uh registered teacher apprentice program. So the state department supports what's called a registered teacher apprenticeship program where you have a student that's enrolled in KU wash teacher prep program Fort Hayes and they do their

082courses online but you hire them like as an aid but you hire them as an apprentice or typically like their junior senior year and they're getting hands-on experience in the classroom while they're doing their coursework through the university. And it kind of gives you one of those try before you buy. I like it. I do that a lot. I mean, it's But you get the one kind of groom someone. Yeah. There's no guarantee by the time they graduate, but you hope they like it enough and you have retirements coming, you know. So, exactly what we talked about. We actually have someone and and that would be at that cost of about $20,000 in the first year. That's like $14 an hour. It's an hourly. It's an hourly. It's it's kind of like a full-time sub,

083but it's it's a registered apprentice that's getting their coursework, their hands-on experience, and we get to know them, they get to know us, we get to kind of groom them with the hopes that when they graduate, they just move right into our system. We could do this with that person in second grade. We get a pilot it if we like it in the out years. We could look at that worked really well. What about middle school? What about high school? What about, you know, I'm talking about giving them their own class or just being an aid? They would they would have to be an aid to a teacher, but we could put them in the second grade moving from teacher to teacher to provide that support for the larger class site. Would that look different

084than what an aid or a parah does or would the job description be very similar? Um, I'll let Wes chime in on it a little bit. similar to begin with because of where a candidate is at sophomore year just getting started in the program. Now when you start to approach your student teaching semester now you're in the classroom and the teacher like see you see you at lunch you know and so in this window of time one year two year three years um it that this person would grow so initially to start you're a parent yeah you're you're assisting the teachers and whatever um I mean even and I don't want to minimize this even running copies because then the teacher is working on teacher work while the aid is running copies Now in year

085two or three when they're student teaching they need to be doing the teacher work and we get a parent volunteer to run the cops. So over time responsibility for the candidate grows. How come I like that? I think this is exactly what we talked about for the goal setting. Yeah. It's bulleted on there. Exactly. It says it says it in internship at all levels prek through 12. And we discussed the fact that when people come here, they often stay here. So to your point, yeah, and it is he he said like, will there be a retirement in two or three years? Will they like us? Will we like them? I mean, there's all the variables. All the variables. And no one knows where it's going to end, but we'll never know unless we try. Exactly.

086I love it. And if you think the braidings came here because they didn't have anything better hang out with you. They actually have a daughter that we are we would consider to be our first pilot and that's who Yeah. So um we have this as a somewhat action item. So we I get a motion for somebody to uh that up. Yeah. Before we do it, we Is there stuff that we have to work out ourselves? Like if they let's let's say in two years they're fully qualified to stay on. Is that what way they would start teaching? So the previous two years wouldn't count as on the salary schedule. So they are hourly until they complete. Now there are other routes to the classroom than the teacher registered teacher apprentice that we have hired people

087that were close to completing. Right. Right. And let's say two years from now they're now at that point that Wes has talked about. They're doing their student teaching. We were at that point and we had an opening cuz we've had teachers in the elementary that we hired put them in the classroom that wasn't this could turn into that but it's designed to get them to graduation. But we could, if needed on our side and willing on their side, change that a few years down the road before they got their actual diploma, but it's contingent on them getting their diploma, right? And let's say we needed someone left and we needed that person two years down the road. We have options at that point, but they're an hourly employee. Well, I just my thought is 10

088years down the road and we're looking at the salary schedule. Well, I've been here 12 years. Well, you've been a teacher for 10 and that I was just trying to get ahead of that. Well, this has been something that has been talked about in the preliminary conversations for a couple years with the JWA during negotiations because the the hiring pool is almost in almost doesn't exist on some positions. So, this would be a way to like we have more control over it. It's actually been a conversation between between them and negotiation team for a couple years. So, knowing that they wouldn't come out and be on the salary schedule until they got to a certain point. Okay, that's all. No, it's a great but it is and it's a good point because So, um Cooper

089is enrolled at Fort Hayes. Now, Fort Hayes has to follow the states regulations around teacher apprenticeships. they're not going to let us take advantage of her and make her all of a sudden throw in her class. So there's guidelines we have to meet with that. But as we pilot it with our teachers association, we get to then start thinking, okay, what are some of our protocols at our level that and we get to pilot this, right? So it's a good question. I'll make a motion that we approve the registered teacher apprenticeship program as presented. Second favor. Welcome back. Started at that. So you can now you can get your paperwork done with Fort Hayes and work with Wes and I or whatever. Yep. They're going back. We voted. So count the next one. Yes. All

090right. I owe $5. With this one, I did a lot of a lot of brainstorming with this money. I know that it it creep it creeps up so fast and people are like, "Oh my gosh, I took $30 on the hole." I think it was it could have been Mrs. Douly maybe. Someone helped me realize there's an auto replenish button. Never did I ever know that. And I've actually told a lot of parents that recently and they didn't know that either. So, we need to push this to help that because brace and gan and pain are never in the hole anymore. Just wait for it because we'll get to the next point. That was my my biggest. So, they we need to promote this. So we part of what might have led to this is

091a year ago when we updated and rightfully that any kid going through the line won't get like a peanut butter and jelly so they get fed the same meal. We have several that and and we send letters instructions on multiple ways you can go through examples of that. Yeah, see it. Um that's just one that's going out again. um some that you know we will include the free lunch application just in ca you know anything we can do to try to help but we have of the ones that the biggest about 5,000 of it they don't qualify for free or reduced it might be separated parents it might be you know it's just a whole conglomerate it. But we're getting towards the end of the year here. Some will pay, but we have some that

092we we've got one that carries over a,000. So, what are the rules if they don't pay? Like, are they is there? We just keep trying. Okay. We just keep trying. We don't have policy. For example, you owe $500 in your account, but you just paid $40 to be part of this team. We don't have anything that says that here. She can't hear. So this is just um we're getting close to the end of the year. So any suggestions any it just if they end up not we have some that we carry into the next year and then at some point I just have to use general operating to plug food service. I actually have been thinking about this a lot. I know in our state it's not covered by um by state or federal fund

093and that's a lot of states it is. I wish it was but it's not. Um but what if I know I brought it up to you last year we could partner with local businesses and see if anybody's interested in donating to those lunch accounts. We have Methodist church every now and then will stop by [Music] with local businesses or just local individuals that might be interested in helping out or I know that's more work for in charge of that. But all those parents that volunteer and raise us money for a parent that just doesn't want to pay and we're not for we don't know that what the reason is. We don't know. Like some of them may be, but some of them may surely be struggling. And then fill out the form. That's where I'm

094at. You're only hurting your school district. I don't think it's to fill out the I think it's embarrassing. No. There's this thing called pride. Asking for help is not easy. Then vote for a bomb. I mean, we're losing money out of this because you won't pay your kids balance. That's just I don't know who it is, but if I had to guess some I think it's just and part of it is also that the food service staff need your guidance and help that you don't want when a kid comes. It's not their fault and and say you can't or you're in the hole. you're and then you're putting the kid in front of their peers out and and part of the challenge and this is something that Ladonna's working on. We'll sit down with the

095building administrator. sometimes will give kids too many options because about 1,500 of the debt is kids that qualify for free lunch. And for us to get federal free lunch reimbursement, someone at the end of the line has to look at the tray and make sure there's at least three options. If a kid goes up and says, "I just want the chicken sandwich and fries," or, "I just want whatever," that's not reimburseable. So the kid has to pay or charge it because that's not a reimburseable meal. So kids start gener and and they're like you can have it but you've got to take a juice and some fruit. I don't want the juice but you what's going on your so it's just it's a lot all a cart might as well be concession stand. It's totally

096separate, but a kid comes up and wants to get be or whatever and they're on free lunch and they, you know, so it's just so there's some protocols we we're going to work on, but at the same time, we're coming up on the end of the year and this is just more so you're aware, you know, um you can your phone buzz and it's we just have a group that just will block will whatever and just and we just so I guess this is just more of an awareness. If you if you think about some things, let me know. Um but we're just getting um we're and this is the worst year we've had. Part of it might be because the parents know that they're going to get a full meal and not a peanut

097butter and jelly sandwich, which is was the right decision. But this is part of the tell me. So when that stuff when that stuff rolls over to the next year and they go through enrollment, are they required to pay that before they enroll just like they're required to pay certain fees before maybe on certain things? I don't know how. So we have where if can't play in a sport, whatever, but obviously but but to deny a kid breakfast or lunch, we've never done that. So if they're behind, they can't play in a sport. No, they can play in a sport as long as they play pay the sport fee. Yeah. Mhm. If I just didn't know if you guys when they enroll and you get that final amount to pay and you're enrolling, is that

098added in there too? Not this not the food service just because you'll keep feeding them. Wish we could do like but I mean it would be to your point though it would be really difficult to do that because I know the beginning of the school year your enrollment fees etc. like yeah on top of everything supplies well if you have ideas otherwise that is another part that comes out that general operating at some point Lana comes to me and says how am I going to balance my budget when I'm still seven then yeah it's we have to transfer it's not her and it's no that's a stretch you shouldn't think about yes is there an average what's the average amount that behind outside the account? It just varies so much. 7,000 currently right now the

099highest it's ever been as far as like that's a lot. Yeah, I'm mind blown over that. It's horrible. Times haven't gotten any easier. No, they haven't. But parents probably too. So get something productive. Why not? So this is a next one is a receive item. Again, that's just means in June we plan, but that doesn't mean you can't prove it any time. I'm actually gonna turn this over to Aaron because this Aaron Aaron had couple heads turned pretty quick over here just to talk about um and you know if if I go to the county and renew my tags and use a credit card charge fee they'll charge you a fee. If I withdraw cash at Dillards and say, "Do you want cash back?" I agree to a one and a half% s you know

100like that. We eat it as a district. When we implemented online payment, it come. It's about 4% and it's costing us about 15,000 a year to allow parents to pay online. And again, 7,000 here, 15,000 here. So, the ladies have been looking at an alternative option and um we found e funds um kind of what you're looking at something different. So, we rev tracked that up all janky um and it's just awful and messy on the back end. So, we looked into e funds and then we realized that it's cheaper. Um, it's a onetime payment of 350 instead of monthly payments. Um, also the monthly credit card processing fee is currently 4.19% per transaction. Whereas if we go down to the bottom of this spreadsheet, um you can see that if there's an option to

101do like a per transaction charge, whether the district pays 75 cents per transaction or we have the parents pay $1.50. And we kind of went and we looked and it's about $25 is the average payment, which is 3%. So, even if we were to do that 75 cents per transaction, it's still cheaper than what we're paying per transaction now. So, we're already saving money in that aspect. Um, that's for a checking account, which you can set up on autopay. Same with credit card. You can set that up on autopay as well. But then you get a second choice if they're paying by credit card. Um, the one that we liked the most was a school choice where the school pays 2.9% plus a dollar per transaction. However, you can defer that dollar, $2, $3, whatever

102you want to the parent to help pay for that person for something that addition as an option. Yes. So, there's different options for each way to pay. Um, E funds actually also offers a student wallet. So, if your kids go to a football game, you can roll up their name on the kiosk and you can load it or if you're at home, you know, $10 and a soda. I was saying by all you can go all cashless. They do actually offer a point of sale for them as well. So regardless, we're getting charged even if they're using their bank not bank card. So I put in my routing number and check number and you're still getting charged. It's per transaction. Normally it's debit or credit card. AC is charging you and it will on this

103other one too. Please don't do that. I know. Well, instead of processing, I say that's how they get their money back. Crazy. Let's say it's it's um we can't eat anymore. We can't we just kind of chip away. Uh and honestly, when it comes down to it, we kind of thought we're like we don't know if it's going to save $5,000, but we know it's going to be less like you know, and yeah. Did you guys have um Tim look at it like for his point of view from a tech scene or I'm just curious like with that we're getting iPads involved for them checking in or utilizing a wallet at games and stuff. Is this something he's comfortable helping set up or do they I did talk to him about it. So, we currently

104use Apple products but you they're one time whereas this is you rent them. Um, so we would have to compare that and you don't have to sign up for it's not like an all-in-one sign up for it. So we could choose to do that at a later time. Um, but this one is more strictly for like lunch curriculum textbooks. Cool. And again, we don't know. We know we can save, we just don't know how. for that. But before we wanted to move forward with this, we wanted you to be aware because the first time a parent goes to enroll and they says, "Hey, they changed or what? Here's why." Because it's it costs us if we could go from 15,000 expense to 8,000. and on the the parent says, "Well, I had it set up

105and now it's an hey, if we could save some money, that's why we wanted to run this by because it would be a change from a parent perspective, but we're, you know, is it just as either pregnant?" I'm sorry. Oh, it is extremely user friendly. Yeah, I got to play with it from I think from parent side. Yeah. No, for sure. I played with it on the parent side of things. Um, and I don't know, there's so many different variables. It was hard. We sat and we did the math for like two days. So hard because like you could do that school choice with the credit card, but then you go up, you tell them, you know, it's only $1.50 to use your checking account, but that's going to be more expensive if you only

106choose to defer $1. So typically most districts are doing the um $150 on the checking account to entice lower fees across the board for everybody, the district, the parent. So just something to think about. How long has the other district been using this? The one specifically um it's actually where are they at? She's in Silver Lake. She's I think she's been on it for like five years. That's a lot. How much that saved them? No, because I don't know if they've done rev track. I don't know what they have to compare it to. That's a good district to Yeah. Yeah. She's actually our um peer model. Like she's good, too. you uh we want more info or to do that. Well, the earlier we do it gives our staff the transitional accounts. Yeah, like I

107said, Rev Track is a disaster on the back end. And this is actually going to allow us to set up the account, the activity accounts at the school level to actually receive the money straight to their bank accounts versus the way it is now, it's coming all to the district and we're having to divvy it up. Oh my, it's awful. It needs to be paid through this, too. Yes, you can set up fundraisers, donations, things like that. It does so much which honestly Yeah. Really? I mean the thing though is what fees would you want to implement with it because we'd have to get that. Can we do that with a different motion? We can approve move and then maybe a little more time on the details. So I will amend my motion to approving

108the usage of the online payment tool as presented buttons or EFS school agreement. No with specific details come at a later date. Second all favor. But what I might suggest is the funds and all of that. We can work that out between and staff and administration and then I will provide that as an update to the board. I love it. Thanks because they'll probably look at you and go. That'll give us Well, again, that's why I put the options down here. give us the opportunity to provide a recommendation of what we think. Next item, staff discount for preschool. So again, there's an unknown to how many preschoolers will have, how many of them qualify for state, how many. But if we go back to one of the board strategies on staff recruitment and retention, making

109preschool for staff um as a recruiting tool or even as a um a bonus for already working here. uh to consider doing something at a reduced rate or right now I can think of two. There could be more two for sure more right now. Well, I mean I'm talking about next year. You got a little No, I have a three-year-old. Oh, okay. I can make a three. really leaning into it. I and it would just be preschool the discount. So the $700, right? So let's say they didn't meet one of the criteria. Um so they would be part of the paying a fee. Would we consider giving staff members that have a three or four year old enrolled a discount? from 700 to something. I mean, they're gonna qualify. Well, and if they qualify, then

110there's no additional charge because the states could, right? And we may have, you know, a we may have one that would qualify for one. I have no idea what the Ner come. But if they didn't qualify and there was the tuition, that's what Are you asking if we are in favor of staff discounts? And if so, what would it what would it look like? I am in favor very much of staff discounts for preschool. I don't know how much. Yeah, I am too very much, but we still don't know like a number, right? Yeah, because do we other districts are doing. Are they doing something like that? And what does it look like? I don't I'd like to hear from Barry and Valley and Holton, I think, just opened one, right? They're smaller percentage. It

111was like a 10 or 20% and I just I picked it up here and there. I couldn't quote what I just were competing. All right. And this is just a discussion item tonight. So these are good, right? But yes, I very much think staff should get I I know it's important on the money side, but um staff recruitment side, I would encourage you to think, right? I agree. I just I mean I I just coming from a person that could care less about the budget So, we don't really know quite yet what our I mean, we going to we don't know where we're going to land. Well, I am hoping going into June by mid June hopefully people fill those applications out. Yes. And we're talking three that you can think of and that number

112will, you know, constantly change. That's three next year. But I'm we do literally have a future tab made where we've got two and three and four months old and one of our staff members babies on there. Not not her to be three-year-old who was actually on there just as a 2-year-old. Um but there's a baby baby that we're just was waiting. So, I mean there's another one, too. So, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, um it goes everywhere from from not born to newborn to a year out to three of them active right now for next year. That's just you're looking at Keystone and there's Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Just we got like baby showers just So I will see what other districts are doing. Sounds like there's pretty much support for me to look at some other

113options. Just figuring out Yeah. in our goals. Yeah. This is one once we're looking and I I I mean once we have better number we could Yeah. And number-wise on my I I I do this because we have a spreadsheet with tabs and we're we're moving people over as they fill out the application, which is where I can tell you 30. I've got another 25 that right behind showed up to they've shown interest. They've been to meetings. They they filled out early registration just like name, phone number kind of thing. Um and now I'm trying to get them to oh here here's the application. Jump over. Um, I talked to a mom with two kiddos today, a three and a four. Um, already has one in the elementary and wants to bring the other two.

114Call and ask questions and she's not on either one of my list. So, there's there's still new ones out there and I'm I'm going to actually have on my to-do list to start calling about five every day and just say, "Hey, you know, I mean, you've come this far. Let's one more." I'm with you. The steepest discount we could afford. Yeah, I agree. 000% whatever we're comfortable with. Okay. We will do some work on our end and hopefully have something more tangible uh for you to discuss in June. Okay. Thanks. How exciting. Uh amendment amended the 20 2526 district calendar. Any questions on that? a motion on that one. I move that we amend the 202526 calendar as presented. Second. Okay, this shouldn't take long, but um we didn't suggest increasing any lunch fees as

115I mean regular breakfast, lunch um you will see uh here in a minute um all a cart but first um weightlifting at the middle school they currently don't pay one well we don't they don't have it weightlifting at the middle school we don't and you're not talking about all I'd be having a much higher bill. And the only reason is the high school phase 20 and that goes to upgrading equipment just to make it match um high school uh ceramics and 3D art just with the cost of supplies going from 15 to 20. Culinary Essentials $11 for chef hat one on Amazon. They I'm sure they can, but they I think they like the ones that get purchased for them and they can just do it withd you got to pull your I understand saying

116that's going to be a part of the cost of the class. Now it's 56,000. It's been 45. It's just add that. Do we already charge them for the hat? No, we probably already add that into the 15. It just wasn't included in the fees. Okay. And that's So that is any of the enrollment fees or anything else after changes last year. We're trying to keep everything one more year. the allart on the last page you can see the changes the first section going from 50 to 75 is this year's on the back chips checks mix 75 to a dollar I love dollar25 um a$150 stays the same breakfast entree [Music] um is added. Well, that's and then lunch entree is 50 cents and that's mainly because all the cart the cost of items and everything

117has gone up. Actually, most of those match what's in the vending machine. Exactly. Yeah. That's that's a receive item. We'll have it. We'll conquer that in our next meeting. Well, if I can make that one longer, if we could just vote for it now, are we going to change anything? ask question. I was thinking credit would probably change last year that we put in questions throughout that time because a lot of those students who end up taking credit in public classes struggles financially and it was just another hurdle and I was thinking we drop that point. I don't have that number. We can wait till next meeting. Yeah, so here's the thing. credit recovery would be $40 or less based on we can charge them less. Okay. But I think that's a conversation you and

118I might have had and so if we can if if we lower that to 20 that'll be lower than the 40. Anybody want to make a motion on that? I kind of want to hold I want to correct next item classified handbook changes. The only real changes in the classified um I mean some tapers updates and indexes which we didn't include all but the main is um when earlier this year the board approved on inclement weather days that someone's at home they're going to pay their normal. So that's reflected in here. Yep. This was posted, but we could have read up on it before. Yes. Um, did everybody read up on it before? Yes. Yes. Everybody good with it? Anybody want to make a motion on it then? I move to approve specified handbook as

119presented for 2526. Second in favor. So the last item is if the board would consider um just a special meeting. There's questions sometimes about we have 185 days in the teacher contract. 72 days where students are there that difference. So the professional development days, the late starts, the So there's a lot of detail that's already worked now to prepare for next year. If the board would want at some point, Haley, the administrators, we'd talk about what goes into all of that, what that full 185, how we use those, why they're spread out through the year instead of all. And um but we would be happy to schedule a time, maybe an hour, if the board would want to come together. It take more than you'd probably want to do on a regular board meeting night.

120If the board would like to have a time, you know, recently they presented, it was Allan and Carrie Carrie presented I'm trying to thank the standing behind me presented about our accreditation kisa plan, our action plan that will get implemented throughout. So, it just be a followup to um all the work that's already being scheduled, how it ties in to the board goal on student success, but it just gives you a better idea of what all those days are intended for. Every meeting we've had with that group has been good. Yes. Appreciate it. Mhm. I learned so much about doing it. Really do. I'm fine with that, too. And you could do it at the June meeting, but that's going to You don't even know what June's already. Yeah. There's a lot to do in

121June. February 30th. So, yeah. So, if if so, then when? I'm pretty if Aaron and I have to try to schedule it, we'll never I know May is not ideal. June is not a whole lot better. I would imagine I can never get John here. So yeah, I can come in the middle of the night if you want me to. Shaker. John, would you be able even on a You probably couldn't even on a Zoom. What's that? dur if it was like during the day like at 8 in the morning. I could probably just depends what's going on. My days I never know what's going to happen on an hour, but I probably could. Why don't you get a handful of dates? You see, do you want evenings or would you take a day? What's

122that? I'm more flexible in the daytime. Yeah. So, if we threw out some 8:00s to where come in, we could schedule a Zoom. We could throw out a few work with Haley's and we could just do like from an 8 to 9. Yeah. Okay. No student issues. votes for school signage. So, we sent out three um bids to companies. Um received one of them back. You have it here in front of you. This is This would be a five foot tall. I mean, once you get it on the up high on the building, it would look smaller. So, this would be just put me on a building if this is how tall it is. Could you guys hold her up against somewhere just to the left of the front entrance, the tiger cub would be

1234' 6 in. and down low to where kids could come in, stand next to the cub, get their picture taken. They would have it to where the screws would be behind so someone every one of them's like, "Well, you know, someone's going to steal it." Well, if they precautionary and then this would be the banner across the top of the front doors. And I do like the Jefferson. It looks really There you go. So, that's what the bid is. Now for the tiger because the building is spread out. Do we want all three of these right where you walk in? This is where we want your ideas. Drive by. If you look at these renderings, you've got all this real estate. We could actually put the big just ahead like over here. So it spreads

124things out. But that's Yeah. where we'd want your thoughts or advice. Stickers for us to go up there and put on otherwise building otherwise the cub will be down here. I mean the door's not quite but anyway it'll all be over here unless you wanted to maybe put the big head over here somewhere to spread the joy. But the bid for those is 4,440. Um, can I ask who else we reached out to? Shirley. Shirley. No. Yes. No. No. Fast. All right. I'm just gonna yell out. Who's your sign guy? We got favorites. Charlie gave us three companies that and it was Star Lumino. Lumino. Lumino. Yeah. Shirley and Star. Star. I I don't know how much signs are supposed to cost, but that seems reasonable. It is. It is. No, never sign. And then

125Aaron, that gives you because we do have, you know, the marquee out along the highway. We have had someone offer to update because of the colors fading. It's old to update the uh sign out there. So, we can reach out to them and see. Oh, by the clinic. Yes. have permits to use. You don't Well, it depends on what permit for every It does depending on the um type of equipment they have to use to install it, etc. But a lot of sign companies will do that. It's not I mean installation included, that's not bad at all. [Music] I know that's what I'm saying. Exactly. We just They did their due diligence and did tried to get bids. Perfect. I like it. Uh bids for preschool fence. Yeah. Fence playground. We need a motion to

126approve this 4,000. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Motion we approve the preschool signage as presented. Second. All in favor? And then we did get two bids for the fencing and they actually came in in time to have them in diligent. Um in Kansas fencing had the um low bid for 50. Yes. Yeah. And that'll be black coated all the way around. Nice. Those guys have done a lot of our stuff. They have Oh, they've done and not get sidetracked, but they they've done a lot at the city for that baseball. They did. Yeah. They've really not under the same. No. Okay. because obviously they're abstaining from No, it was it sold a few months ago. That's what I've heard, but I needed to confirm that verification. Oh my gosh. I did reach out. It did to uh

127the prior owner and he said it's the same number, same Yeah. Yes, we did. I was appropriate for me to vote or not, but It's sold, but I can't. Yeah, today for sure. Oh, we would entertain a motion for Kansas. We've been reading the other ones. Both of these, so I Oh, I'll do it. Motion to approve the Candace Winston contract as presented. Second. All in favor? I have no idea who uh 10 minutes for Yes. going for like three hours. So we'll do five minutes. Yeah. And then 10. Yes. For personal personnel. This is personal. Who has the reader? Oh, gentlemen, I can't believe. Okay, Mr. President, I move to enter executive session for ASA 75-4319 for a period of 10 minutes at 8:50 p.m. to discuss personnel issues of non-elected personnel under KOMA

128exception including Dr. Afternoon and admin as yes and admin with the open meeting to resume at the board meeting at 9:00 p.m. Okay. Hold on to that. Is this Yeah, that'll be for this online We have I haven't posted anything. Are you watching? Could you hear [Laughter] like funny boy? You got to make life. I love it. all that because you didn't bring me a diet coke. I mean, I didn't ask for read mine like I did with pistachios and cutting. Yes, I know. It's just like those pistachios up. No, too long. Too long. You're way over, bro. We're at 911. $5 bag of pistachios. slightly self. I can still Yeah. Go ahead. Yeah. Okay. I move that the board terminate the contract with Dallas Davis as groundskeeper. Second. In favor? 7. Um I move

129to accept the resignation from Mayor rights breaks as elementary school elementary school custodian and the resignation from Alan Dick as esports coach. Second favor. A motion that the board appoint Phil Corbus Elementary School assistant principal beginning with the 202526 school year. Second. Don't know. How long for negotiation? 15. 15. Mr. President, I move to enter executive session per KSA75-4319 for a period of how long 15 minutes at 9:02 p.m. to discuss employer employee negotiations under the KOMA exception including Brad Dr. Brad Newan uh with the opening open meeting to resume in the board room at 9:17 9:17. Sorry. John, is that you? Sure. Give it to Johnny Boy. Right. [Music] I'm not doing a very good job repeat myself. Yeah. That got me stick something. I will Another one. I'm sure you're in the same

130boat. Uh, very little. I offer suggestions on YouTube and then they go on. Yeah. Are you going back in? No. trash. Okay. Everybody ready? Yeah. Superintendent report. Okay. These are just a few updates. So, the therapy dog, I know that I don't know if this board liability, but boards in the past have considered looking into a therapy dog. Um, we we now have a therapy dog. There's a picture um will be named by the elementary students. It'll be love it. It'll be tiger. I don't know. We had a princess Elsa hamster. Jamie Dimple Wolf will be the the owner trainer. She has to go through all that. The handler um be taken to all three buildings, but I've had experience in the last two districts. It's amazing for those. We've had one. So, we did

131elementary school one Does he still go? No, he needs his own therapy dog. I bet it is actually hard on it was Well, there it's just constant like Well, he loves the attention. Yeah, but how often does that dog be pretty much daily? It's crazy what they do. So, just wanted to share that with you. Um excited. um for Rover Rover Princess Elsa just Oh, thank you. So, just some other updates um with some of our struggles with maintenance, custodial, just the staffing. I talked to him, Roberts, visited with Rhonda. We're going to try and find in a couple areas, but to start, if we have any high school kids that are dependable, if we could get a couple of them every Monday morning, they show up to maintenance. They get their list for the

132week or at least they may be in the middle school moving chairs out. Um, getting that just summer workers for maintenance. Is this something we could offer to parents? We we do. Okay. I didn't know if we did or not. Summer workers. Uh we have bus drivers, we have Paris, we have Brian Axel is going to take over mowing. I love that. you know, just keep, you know, we get staff, but we also, if we can get a couple high school kids that can do some of the things that maybe you don't need, you should be an adult. Yeah. But high schoolers that, you know, it's not just sports, but they're the only ones I know their summers are, if they're involved in multiple sports, they can't get a full time. No. And this is

133like I mean not every high school kid has the same expectation at home. So not all are very not all of them are ones you'd want. But like I bet there'd be several. I've got one that would love to have a job that worked around that but then able to work because they're they're hard to hire. So they are some of them, you know, because I had a couple also that so summer weights they report and they come and they get, you know, we can get six hours a day. There will be a week where they have basketball camp and they got to leave. We'll work around that. Yeah, but there's a lot of things that just when you if you come in here during the summer, you'll see all furniture out in the hallways

134cuz they're working on cleaning. They can do cleaning. They can scrape gum off the bottom. I mean, there's a lot of things you can get a high school. The second thing we would like to do, and I don't know if we can get it by this summer, but we would like to get two adults, eras, teachers, someone that they're good at painting. They hate they put claws down. They know, you know, and then get a couple high school kids on a painting crew. And then we walk through and we say, "Okay, we're starting at the elementary this summer and we're going to go down these hallways and these CL and we just every summer we just keep a crew busy getting black marks, painting, keeping things fresh. So, just wanted to update you that, you

135know, there's there's things that you could contract out, but it costs too much, but then things how quickly some of those things can get neglected. So, just an update on that. community work days we're going to work on for the preschool. Try to find a time where we can get some volunteers in the community as soon as the JDLA kids are out. As soon as we get supplies, we pick a Friday. We pick a a Thursday Friday. We get volunteers. We pull everything out. We scrub. We clean. We paint. and we get it ready for Tim and his crew to come in and redo the floors and everything. So, maybe a day or two where we get some volunteers to come in and help at the preschool. We would also like to look at a

136day where if you look at the middle school in Ozaki, those pictures look really nice where every one of those wooden posts with the cable looks like it was when it was original. You go by the middle school, there's posts laying over, there's cables, but a work day. We've got the post, but just a community day where we can get some volunteers to come and help us drill new posts, set new ones, run new cables. So, we're going to look for this summer for some of those types of things uh to advertise, get some volunteers to help us um do those. The last thing, uh, back to school bash. Melanie Hayner was in charge of that. She's relinquishing u the back to school. She's starting to back, you know, trying to unrelquish some of her

137responsibilities. She's taking on more. Well, I think she she's been doing after prom. She has been doing a lot of those things that was not in her job description. There was just things that she did. She's starting to back out of some of that. Some ideas. What if back to school bash was aborted? So, we're just going out. Yeah. I'm trying to look at is there a group or is there Melanie is going to give us all this stuff. Are there some people that you could think of that instead of just going you need you know just well like I look at the agenda and that's like if one responsibility do we know any event planners? I'd be I'm just saying, you know, I'd be happy to help. I have always wish that at the

138back to school event, I've gone many times and I wish I saw more um teachers there at the event. And I get it. They're doing their own things during the summer stuff, but my my reasoning behind that is is there is that the kids get excited to see them before they're in the classroom. So, I'm fully on board. I'm happy to help. Um, but I would like to us to also think of ways we can get teachers involved there. We had now again want to take away from those and that was that we had quite a few staff that supervised out on the play out on the football field and stuff, but I only have one year to compare it to. Yeah. Will a lot of people there last year more there last year one

139year I didn't do I was going to say the year before that was a rough year for the shack but I just looking for some ideas of some people that would like to help coordinate. We have all the stuff from Melanie. He's like I'll help transition. It's just she's done it. She's this. She's done that. None of us borrow. We got We got the grill now. Grill is concession standard grill the only options or is there something else I could do? We Oh, I'll figure something out, too. Don't you put me ins. All righty. There you go. Thank you. Too bad.