001Can you hear me? Okay, Tab. Oh, we're muted. Can you hear us now, Chrissy? Yes, I can. Okay, we can hear you. Is my air conditioner blowing really loud in it or no? No. Okay, good. Cold is blowing in here. Plenty. Missy said it's blowing in here. She thinks it's cold in here. Well, I wouldn't normally say this, but it's a little warm outside. Yeah. Yeah. Missing out. Looks like Kevin ordered pizza. All right. Thanks, sir. Appreciate tree. He Go. You ready, Dennis? Going to call the Monday, May 12th meeting to order. Welcome everybody that's in the room and those online. Adoption of the agenda. Motion to approve the agenda. Second. Move by Christie, seconded by Annie to approve the agenda. Any further discussion? All those in favor? Yes. 50. Approval of the minutes from
002the regular meeting held on April 14th, 2025. Uh motion to approve the meeting the minutes from the regular meeting on April 14th. Second. Moved by Christie, seconded by Angie to approve the regular minutes, the minutes from the regular meeting on April 14th. Any further discussion? All those in favor? Yes. 5. Approval of the minutes from the special meeting held on May 5th, 2025. Motion to approve the minutes from the special board meeting on May 5th. Been moved by Christie, seconded by Angie. Any further discussion on the special meeting minutes? All those in favor? Yes. 5. Public comment. Diana. Yes. Windsor. Want to read real quick before you start? You have five minutes. Uh written comments or materials handed to the board. Clerk. Complaints regarding students or staff shall be first addressed in the administration and
003accord policy. Complaints. If that procedure has been completed, the board will consider whether to hear such complaints. If comments pertain to an item that's on the meeting's agenda, the board president may ask superintendent or his designate to address those comments uh at the time when the item is uh up for board discussion. Generally responsive to the board members during public comment is limited to clarify questions. Okay. Okay. Welcome. Good. Thank you. Uh good evening members of the board, administration, and community members. Thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight. I come before you not only as a concerned community member, but as someone who values student voice, fairness, and responsible financial policy. I'd like to address the current policy regarding class activity funds at the high school. These funds are created and maintained through years
004of student and parentled fundraising with the goal of supporting each class's needs. So, here are a few important facts. First, every class at the high school has its own activity fund. These are used to manage receipts from fundraising and to pay for class related expenses. These funds accumulate over several years and are often the result of countless hours of work by students, parents, and volunteers. Second, from what I've been told, this activity fund must be zeroed out by graduation. What happened this year is troubling. The senior class had a specific plan for how they wanted to use their leftover funds, plans that reflected the wishes of the students. But instead they were told by administration that they had to donate a portion of the money to the underclassmen. After much much push back and frustration,
005they gave in, not because they agreed, but because they were tired of the fight. Third, this fundraising starts before high school. For example, the current eighth grade class began fundraising by running concession stands at their basketball games as well as wreck basketball games. A handful of dedicated parents provided the startup capital, handled logistics, volunteered their time, and did the heavy lifting to make it successful. This wasn't just a bake sale. It was an organized effort run independently and intended for the class's future. With that in mind, I respectfully propose the following three solutions to improve fairness, transparency, and alignment with students interests. Solution one, allow class funds to carry over past graduation. This would enable each class to use their remaining money for future reunions, memorials, or other events of their choosing. The senior class
006student council that was voted in by their peers should retain access and oversight. This honors the work they have done and the voices of those they represent. Solution two, if a class chooses to donate the remaining funds, the policy must provide clarity. Donations should never be mandated. Students should be given the choice of where and how to donate, whether to a scholarship, a cause they care about, or another class. Solution three, since 8th grade classes are expected to begin this fundraising, the school should assign them an official sponsor from the start. This would make the school responsible for the startup costs, purchasing inventory, and managing volunteers. If the school expects fundraising to be structured and accountable, then it must also provide the infrastructure infrastructure to support it fairly and equitably. In closing, this is not
007just about dollars and cents. This is about trust. These students worked hard for these funds. They organized, planned, and engaged their communities. Their money should not disappear into a system without transparency or choice. I asked the board to consider updating this policy for every future class that puts in the same effort. Let's ensure their work is honored, their voices are heard, and their choices are respected. Thank you. Thank you. The consent items. Motion to approve consent items. Moved by Christie, seconded by Angie. Any further discussion on the consent items? All those in favor? Yes. 5. Sorry, Jeff didn't have his hand up. Communication items. Focus on activities. Mr. Foley and Mr. Van will join us to give an update on activities and athletics. Sure. Who goes first? Mr. Rolley. He appointed He appointed you, Rolley.
008All right, that works. Um, yeah, in the middle of senior night. Um, we jump right into it. Uh, I do have Taran Hayes here with me. Uh, I got a couple items to go through, but uh, one, I want to recognize our students. Uh, many of them that could all of them that couldn't be here, but, uh, with senior night, graduation, baseball, softball, uh, they've already graduated, things like that. So, uh, number one, our our state wrestlers, uh, Kobe Shriner took fifth place at state. Kate Osborne, Brody Bell, all state qualifiers. Um, so there's our our winner state qualifiers. Um, other events that we have, uh, state forensics, I'll give that to you. Um, Taran Hayes, our state forensics sponsor. So, we had state forensics on May 3rd. Um we took quite a few kids
009and it well not as many as we wanted to because we had an illness happen but um we had a lot of students that qualified this year. Um one of our students Liliana Roberts made it to semi-finals which is really impressive because at state you know you're against the best of the best. Um so she placed like in the top 12 state for our division which is really great. Um and then Jennifer Dolan also qualified both of her events for state. So she competed with both of those. We had a couple of freshmen that competed at festival and they got a one rating which is similar to music where you get rated on a scale of one, two, three or four on how good you did and they did well enough that they got a
010little medal as well as one of our juniors Liliana Roberts did the same with her event. And I'm really proud of all of them. So I'm happy that they were able to make it. Cool. Thank you. Thank you. State forensics. We also had um band Madricals. Um they participated in large group ensemble festival at Pratt this spring. U magical has got two if I get this right two one ratings and one two ratings. So I understand now I don't but that's okay. So it did very well there as well um there and then um in our solo music festivals u that held at Barton County and also Southeast Seline Abby Clover Lizzie Wallace representing our school are both receiving superior one ratings at the state level. So, um, many successful students that we have going
011on, not just on the athletic side of things, but also on the activity side of things. So, um, I do have these things I will help pass out. Uh, topic number two, uh, there is just here's another success that we have going on. Um, we have seven um, student athletes going on playing at the next level. Uh, they're listed there in the center. Avery, Brody, Macy, Corey, Benji, Chloe, Victoria, and I'll include Drayton. Drayton is a Norwich kid, but he plays baseball up here in Kingman. So, um, two, four, six, there's eight of them going on playing at the next level. Um, statistics say only 3% of high school graduates go on and play. We have 14 here. So, success. Um, success. And, and I say, um, I put a little narrative there. I'll read
012it here. Our athletes dedicate countless hours in the wait room both during and summer uh and throughout the school year um lays the groundwork for for them on and off the field. Um the fact that 14% of our athletes go on to compete at the next level is a testament for a successful care exceptional character of our students and dedication our coaches and teachers. Um our coaching staff, school personnel invest so much time and energy into mentoring our student athletes, building relationships, preparing them for the next level. Um, I appreciate my staff. I appreciate my coaches. Um, I appreciate my sponsors. Um, they do a tremendous amount of work. Um, they they do and summer is fast approaching. Um, so they will be ready for camps, uh, wait room. Um, there'll be activities going on
013almost year round. So, so I want to commend my staff, uh, my coaches, my sponsors, Miss Thank you for being here. um commend you for all those things. So um topic one, two, three, topic three, officials. So this is just um good news, bad news type thing. If you look on here, officials paylist um which is actually the very end the very back page. Um I think that's what you got. Yes, that is what we currently pay officials. All right, this is how we go. The Central Plains League uses this format. This is how we pay officials. Okay, we spent there it is. We spent over $30,000 on officials in high school. Okay, middle school we spend oh just over $5,000 on officials. Okay. Um it's a large chunk of our money. It is the
014things we do. Norwich, I don't know, Ross, uh your numbers probably not that high, but it's close. Um you know, with no baseball softball bet, it's close. So on the other side of the officials payment list on the top right corner it says 425.6. This is what our proposal is going to next year. Uh approved by the league. So this is the rates that we will pay. Football was raised by $10 a game. U basketball raised I think $15 a game. Um baseball's raised uh 20 or uh $15. Softball they we raised the rate across the board. And we did this back in January. FYI, the ABCTL, Ark Valley Chism Trail League, which is Maize Goddard Valley Center, all those schools where we get a lot of officials from the Witchaw area that come out
015here. Next month, they plan on proposing to pay baseball officials 200 to $225. And right now, our proposal is 150. And softball is going to go to one. They were proposing 180. and we're sitting at 125. So, hey Ry, since I can't see that page, what percent increase is that? Math. Ry math. Increase not a math teacher. I was elementary math at the time. When are you asking Christie? Just like if we look at if we were to take the new rates and based on how many officials we paid, what what do we expect to pay next year? Like is it another $5,000 overall between middle school, high school? I I would estimate I mean middle school would probably go up 500 because it's really it's just basketball and and a handful of middle school
016football games. Um high school high school I would expect a $4,000 raise. Go from 3,000 to 3400 34,000 I would guess. Okay, that's an estimate. So almost 5,000 combined. Yes, maybe 35. Probably 35. And we knew about that and that's baked into our coming up budget. Andy, that comes from uh gate receipts is primarily where officials pay comes from. So there's there's uh we don't spend general fund money on officials, correct? It usually comes from GATE and that's the reason why I started charging a year ago baseball. Okay. So we're typically revenue neutral on or neutral on that budget neutral on that. We're close. We're close. So right now it's sufficient. Um I'm just worried about next year. Worried about the future. Uh, we've been I I praise our our league commissioner, John Me. He's
017our league commissioner. He finds officials for me. 7 through 12. I put in a game tonight 4:00 J or varsity baseball softball. He finds my officials. My officials show up, okay? And I pay him. So, John Me does a tremendous job for us. And you've seen me officiate baseball out there a couple times. It's because we were either going to have one baseball official or a neighboring school was going to have one. So I stepped up and did here in Kingman so then we could move that person to another town. The ABCTL which is your which again your Mazes Goddard Valley Centers they've been cancelling JV games or or playing JV games with one official. Um like I said John's done a great job for us having two almost all the time. But I mean,
018it's just this with this pay rate, we get a lot of our officials from the Witchaw area. And so we we're going to have to reook at this pay scale to try to match them because do I want to work in Maze for 225 or drive out to Kingman for 150? So just again, I'm not not putting it I'm just putting it out there for information. No mileage, just straight fee. That's what we pay. Yes. Just straight just straight fee. We've talked about mileage, but I know I travel to Witchaw all the time. Doesn't bother me. Yeah, but they think we're in the outback. Yes, they do. I mean, if there's a rest area between here and Witchaw, then that's a long way. I get it. I get it. So, anyway, that was just more
019for information. Just let tell me no what we do. I mean, I asked a couple of my friends, hey, how much do you think we spend on officials a year? They range anywhere from 5,000 to 13,000. And when when I told him 30, it was like, "Oh my god, I can't believe it's $30,000." I mean, it just you don't comprehend that. That is just a number that you just don't think it's that large. It's pretty incredible. But with John Me doing our commissioner for our league, you know, we pay him to do that. He's done a tremendous job. Honestly, I think a lot of our officials want to come back to Kingman because the way they're treated. Um 99.5% of our fans are awesome. Um you know, so so we do a good job game
020in and game out. So, but just some information to chew on rest evening and don't. That's cool. Thank you very much. That's all I have. Any questions? Thank you for everything. Did a great job. Thank you. Great job, Mr. Foley. Thanks for having me. Um, wrapping things up these last six and a half days of school. We're busy, busy, busy, busy. Uh, we had our first ever HOPL powerlifting meet uh at the beginning of this month. Um, we had five overall league champions. Norwich. Both teams took third place. Our girls team had two girls on it. They took third place as well. They both were overall champions as powerlters. Like Raleigh said, we have a guy that's uh come down comes down here for baseball. We have five uh boys come down here actually, not
021just one that's graduating. We have three that play JV and two that are contributing to the varsity team. I think they're playing Cheni tonight, which is in their regional. Chen's the one seed and I think Kingman sitting up three seed going in the regional slate. Um they're playing pretty well. We had two uh freshman girls go out for softball this year and um they saw quite a few minutes on the junior varsity team. We had two track meets last week. Junior high on a Tuesday and high school on a on a Thursday. We had to reschedule our high school one from uh April. Um, but our new track was very well complimented and um, heard a lot of good compliments on our new track and if you haven't been out there to at least walk
022on it and and see it. It's it's it's real nice and our facilities are are great down there. So, um, our commit kids in track are compet competing very well. Uh, we have league this week. It's in South Barber. Uh we run our track meet such that we do middle school and high school the same day. So it's a long day for our athletes, but it's fun to see seven, sixth through high school or 12th grade compete. Um so that's Thursday the um the 15th. Uh our regional this year is in Iola. We're going to Ola on the 22nd. So usually we go west to Greensburg, but this year we're going east, so it'll be fine. Um, our summer schedule's ready to roll, I'm proud to say. Um, we've got our football coach, the new
023football coach was in school today. Had a meeting with the boys at 3 p.m. walked by, not to pry, not to be probably was being nosy, but I I looked in there and there was boys standing up. So, that that means there was we were out of chairs and and they're excited, which I'm excited to see. So, we had had a good meeting, a good turnout. They got their summer schedule ready to roll. Um, we're starting to shore up some coaching positions that are opening. We hopefully got one shored up today. So, things are moving in the positive and correct right direction that we wanted to. So, that's kind of where we're at finishing out this year. Um, lastly, but not leastly, we're going to have a kid on June the 7th, um, go to
024Voit to play the eightman Allstar game. Kyler Murphy, he was our saludiatoran this year. They he'll play it. They have both divisions down there for one a one and two and division two plays at 10:00 am. So if you're interested in June 7th 10 am great young man great family and proud of him for for his accomplishments. So I'll be there cheering him on. So that's uh that's my story. Is he the one that gave you the rose? Yes, he is. Yeah. That made me cry. I did I I only could see your back so I couldn't see any tears but I I did see a long embrace. So thank you. Well we don't see you again before then. Thanks for everything Ross and best of luck in your in the future. Thank you. Thank
025you. Financial report. Just a couple things kind of let you know where how we're ending up the year. Um got majority of our spring orders are completed. There are some additional ones that'll come in over the next couple weeks as we kind of finalize some of those pieces, but for the most part, we we think we have most of the teacher requests in and and like I said, there's a couple of things that we're following up on. Um we're looking at uh some requests, quotes for some of our uh on our facilities committee, our high needs list that we put together that I shared. uh I'm getting some quotes on some of the the projects on there. Uh kind of seeing where we finish up and we have a couple of capital outlay uh recommendations
026that we're going to look at tonight, but then looking to see where else can we utilize some of those funds to be able to start taking care of some of those high need areas. Uh so have some quotes out there that we're trying to gather for now. Um, and looking with wherever we whatever we have left, you know, whatever our threshold is for capital outlay, trying to do a couple more HVAC units um on our rotations um and then possibly looking at another roof project somewhere district as we're trying to move forward on those. So, uh, really looking to maximize our capital funds for this year to make sure that we're we're getting some things done, checking some things off that high needs list, um, as we continue to work on that. Uh, budgetwise, uh,
027we've been, uh, been working on our predicted numbers, uh, piecing together information for next year. Uh, we'll be working even more on those budget numbers in the coming weeks. Uh so we'll have give you some ideas where we're at probably in in July, June, July, where our budget budget will be. Uh we have our budget workshop on the 14th of June. It's actually earlier this year. Um trying they're getting on that right away. So um should be some good information we get from that, too. So things are things are moving right along. trying to wrap things up for this year and get stuff ordered for next and the money as best we can as we do it. So, anybody have any questions for me? They started the roof at Norwich or I didn't pay the
028Okay. I seen a truck in town the other day and talked to him, but I didn't He was one of the workers. I didn't know what he was doing. Yeah. I I'll I'll have to I'll get with DCS because that was one that we contracted through them to see what when their time frame is and when they'll be able to get in and get that that way after schools out or something maybe. So, yolks you're looking at, are they going to be some summer projects or are they on the road further? Uh they could be summer projects. Uh some of them I did get with uh I had a meeting with DCS um you know to look at to get some information on what some of those items some of those items are see okay
029what can we the high needs what can we pick off you know what might we be able to do some of some of the items on the list we know they're pretty pretty pricey but there are some things that we can work in and try to get as many of those done as possible So, for one, we're looking at I'm getting a quote for the the hoods in the fax room in Norwich. That was one that was on on one of the quotes. Um, and then there's another one that I've got out there that is escaping me right now. my desk is becoming over her own. But yeah, that and that's and that's really where I'm where I'm looking first, you know, as we talk about any of those those high need areas, you know,
030things that we're going to try to check off that list first, you know, as we kind of prioritize those. So, and that'll be more of the work we'll do with that with facilities committee. probably have a meeting um here in June or July to go over some of that information and start prioritizing some of that, sharing some of that information. There's there's a lot of good information. There's a lot of things that we can do. It's there's some things that are going to be pretty pricey, but we can figure out how to do some stages of things as well. So, we'll say a few things that can be finished in the summer time frame, not be disruptive, right school year next year. Yeah. Good. Thank you. Superintendent report. All right. So, a couple things. Uh,
031first of all, just one final congratulations to the class of 2025. I know we graduated them this week and I thought those ceremonies were uh were were exceptionally well done. Um, uh, always love to see the kids walking across the stage and and sort of, uh, finishing here and beginning this new chapter. So, that those were, um, I thought both amazing ceremonies. Um both Kingman High School and Norwich High School we will be recognized at the Kansas Board of Regents meeting um on May 14th as All-Star High Schools. And so um this will be the second time that Norwich has been recognized um and it'll be the first for Kingman High School. And really, Allstar High Schools was a program started um to recognize schools that do a a um uh do a good job
032of uh creating uh college readiness, college preparedness, and getting kids off into the workforce. Um and so those that meeting is actually streamed if you're interested. The Kansas Board of Regions meeting will be streamed. It's be about 1:45 I think on the 14th. They'll be recognizing Kingman High School and Norwich High School as um all-star high schools. Um we um now Amy will be here next month uh to to give a full report but uh but we have had an initial meeting with the um with Kingman uh with Kingman Healthcare Center with Kingman County Healthcare and with the clinic and uh with Karen retiring uh we wanted to talk about some possibilities for partnership with them to to help us um if we were unable to to fill a registered nurse position. Um, so we
033believe we're going to go ahead and fill that with a health aid and the uh clinic will have uh desk nurses on call during the day for our health aids to call them. They're also going to provide them with training um which um so they will uh we'll create a checklist basically that says how to take a temperature, how to take a blood pressure, recognizing critical issues. um they're going to do some training for our health aids, also allow them to do some um observation in the clinic. Um and additionally, uh the healthcare center would offer us uh two physicians that would help with things like um uh health related courses, health related training in the schools. Uh they had some great ideas. We're really excited. Annual will give you all the specifics about that.
034Um, so I think um it's going to be a great partnership with our with our local healthcare center and um be a great way for us to to be able to to fulfill the needs at the at the school level. So like I said, Amy will be here, but I wanted to to talk to to introduce that to you first here. Um, and we'll start getting those. We already have a health at the high school and a health in Norwich, and we will hire one for King Elementary, and then we'll start getting them trained by the hospital. Um just want to encourage uh everyone as you know um the next three days there'll be superintendent candidates here. There'll be community forums at the high school. I hope people will take advantage of that. Come up,
035meet those folks, ask some questions, um get to know who your next superintendent might be. And so the public is here. I hope you'll do it. If you have friends in the public, Bob, I hope you're encouraging them to come and and do those things at the high school. I do think it's important that they um that they that they meet those folks. Um and then uh finally uh we have a meeting. So our instructional leadership team will be meeting May 19th um with the literacy specialists and principles and really be talking about transition planning for curriculum instruction and assessment. A lot of the work we've been doing over the last four years. And so, uh, May 19th, we're going to all get together, talk about making sure they have all the documents and all
036the things that they need so that when the new superintendent comes on board, they'll be prepared to be able to bring them up to speed on those things that that um that we've been working so hard on in the areas of curriculum instruction assessment. Um, so we'll sort of pass the torch on to those folks to to to keep that ball rolling. And with that, I conclude my superintendent report. Um, couple questions. Sorry. Go ahead. No, you're good. That's what I was going to ask. Go ahead. So, on the Kansas Board of Regents, is there something we can put out to the public so they um some sort of graphic and or the link to the meeting or something so that we can recognize Norwich and Kingman High School for their for their work and
037efforts they put into it to be able to be recognized. I think it's important for the community to see that. So, I know there's a lot on social with school in school ending of the year stuff, but I think it's important that they be recognized publicly that way. Yes. And I I think both principles received I'll check with them. I think both principles received press releases. They also have a banner that they'll display um uh in the in the front entry at the building. They should have gotten press releases from Kore um that have all that social media on there. I'll make sure they get that that posted there, but they do have it. If they haven't gotten it up there yet, they will be in the very near future. Okay. And then on the
038the nurse role with the health aids, um it is my understanding, so correct me if I'm wrong, that if any medically complex children that we have in the district, my assumption was is going to be that they are probably also on an IEP. So has there been communication with the special education um department, the co-op, that we're not going to have an RN, so they will need to make sure that their um medically complex children are serviced by their RN. So yeah, so so students that that require that have um nursing services written in their IEP, their their services are already provided by a uh SEK SEC nurse. Um okay, they have a nurse that that visits to provide them with the things that they need. Um they already Okay. But then they also know
039that there's there is no backup at this point with a an RN at this point that we're just going to have health aids. maybe just reiterate that Karen's always been kind of a great backup, but and not that the health aids won't be, but I think it's important for them to know. Yes, it'll be. So, they have they have written health plans that say here's what you do, people that are any student that's medically fragile. And so like even in the cases I would guess the students that have spirologies things like that there'll be a health plan on file that would include both the health aid but then also again the health the health um the the nurses at the clinic the desk nurses being able to help and advise on those as well. Okay.
040Do we have some sort of will there have to be some sort of non-disclosure agreement or confident confidential? I mean, I know there's the nurses at the hospital are subject to HIPPA, but and we're not because we're not a medical facility, but as long as they don't just is there any sort of documents going to be in place for that just as a CYA for us? Yeah. And Amy like Amy will be presenting the specifics. We work with KSB. Um it's a very simple data sharing agreement which I think we actually already have um that we'll just tweak a little bit to apply it to this situation. Um, okay. But yeah, their their um their level of confidentiality is actually more stringent than greater than ours. Yes. Yeah. But it never hurts to cover your
041backside. Okay, that's all I have. Any more questions for Mr. Hansford? Thank you. Everybody got the written reports from the principles and directors? Anything you had on that, you reach out to them, I guess. So, let's go to discussion items. Discussion on the current contract status for the sale of the district office building. Hey, as we're as we're starting the conversation for privacy of the the individuals of purchasing, we'll refer to as buyers and sellers for a conversation. Just keep in mind of the privacy for them. what I'm handing out here. Had the uh fortunate opportunity to to meet two individuals who have spent the last 18 years uh working on buildings such as ours, old brick buildings and doing repairs. and um they just happened to be in town and um they were they
042were looking at another building and they came over and looked at ours and um asked if they could give us a proposal on repair, you know. So, we've we had a from the uh from the buyers, they had an engineering report which I had emailed you about in the Friday notes. um you know didn't have don't have the official report uh you know that we can show but from talking with these these two individuals um they felt that the the proposal that they gave was very in line with what they've done in other very similar type situations um you know so I think it's important kind of you having this information as we kind of talk about what our next steps for um you know because that's how you're dealing with um because this is
043this kind of gives you an idea of what a repair would actually take because up to this point we had a lot of guesses. Didn't have anything really concrete, no pun intended, you know, but not really having much to go off of. Um, you know, so I guess the the probably the best way to to talk about the contract would be kind of it's in a stalled position right now. Um, you know, with after the engineering report, it's we're kind of kind of in a waiting mode. Um, but we do have some ideas of moving forward. Um, and I guess I can share that you can present those now. They'll be you'll be able to have you'll discuss it now and then have action on it before Christy. Did I email you this one for
044the uh the recommended actions? I sent you. Oh, sorry. Still sitting there. I thought I I sent you to one. So, you should get that. You should get that other one. So, in in looking at the information, you know, from where we were originally at in the accepted offer and then looking at what the proposed repair comes down to. We've had a lot of conversations between Kevin, Mike Floyd, with our realer and kind of thinking about what do we do moving forward. Um and the recommendation to uh go with that new offer subject to the property in current condition as is uh with no repairs being made um including any from the facility inspection or the structural report. uh giving the buyer 24 hours to accept the offer. And if they do not accept the
045offer, then they would be released from the contract. And that would require board um a board action to be able to do that. And then um when we release them, it would be suggested that the earnest money go back to the buyer. Um, and if the buyer is released from the contract, moving forward with the property being available at that contract price is listed on that sheet. Anyone? Yeah. So, offer back to the current buyer. Correct. Yes. Christy, you still there? Yeah, that was me. user error. All this has to be discussed in open session. It does have to be an open session. Anything anything that we discuss on real estate, there's there's no there's no proprietary. There's nothing there's no trade secrets. All this is all this is out in the open. I mean,
046so the only thing that that really should not be made public are the names of the prospecting buyers. Yes. Okay. So Andy, in your opinion, I already know my opinion. Um, what would your And if you said it, I apologize that you have to repeat it. I I believe this is it's making an investment in a property we're going to get rid of that we won't ever get back. Is that what is that? What is that your opinion? What what is your after speaking with Mike? Um yeah, correct. We're I mean we are we are still looking to move forward to sell the building, you know. So if we're if we make the if we make the repair, you know, we're coming out with a different cost, but that's we're that's us making the repair.
047You know, in this case, we recognize we have a we have a proposal from from someone that uh has a lot of experience in this type of work and they were pretty confident in in uh what they were what they were proposing, you know. So, in this case, we would not be undertaking the repairs and that would be up to the buyer, right? So, basic what I'm saying is that this is not this is a nonvalue added repair, right? So, it's not adding any significant value to the building. It's just simply making a repair to get it to I mean, right, I don't even know a word I'm looking for, but it's not going to add any value to if we put $60,000 into it, 70,000, 80,000, whatever the number is, you put that number
048into, you're not automatically going to go and say, "Oh, yeah, like that's like remodeling your house." You're not going to get that back. That's a sunk cost, right? then we would be going back to where we were at price before. Yeah. So it if we countered with a net of less the repair, we're coming out the same whether we fix it and go back to the original sale price or try to put it back on the market if they choose not to. Um the net the net's the same either way you look at it. Right. Correct. Correct. What's our plan for the expenses on the new place? We don't have that money coming in obviously from the proceeds of the sale because we've already exceeded. Yeah, we would be I mean the the board approved
049the the 150 the last meeting or the meeting before that was before we knew this before we knew this, you know. Right. What we approved was to start to make repairs in like a like we're we're facil we're pulling money transferring money in a trunch. Right. So what that all that is is that like let's make the repairs that are absolutely necessary that we would have to make regardless if we moved up there. HVAC has to be fixed. Correct. Right. And so either I I I I don't have any history in Kingman long enough to know why we even took a board office out of where it was and moved it downtown. I'm going to guess space was probably still not an issue however many years ago we got moved. I'm just you can either
050you can either fix it and still have carrying there's still carrying costs associated with having a building. So everyone's stuck on this money and this money putting towards the repairs that we won't get from the sale of building which I completely understand but there's still money that costs to carry that facility any like just to just to exist in there. So if we're going to but if we're going to have to put the money into it either the money is going to go towards the elementary school to fix it for the board office or that move is going to have to get squashed and then we're going to have to put this money into a building that we're stuck with still again. So either way, money is going to get spent. You just got to
051pick where you're going to use it. Yeah, that is correct. And I think to Angie's point, that would definitely it would definitely cost us more out of capital outlay to complete the project at Kingman Elementary. Um the I think you know my our recommendation is really based on doing the improvements to a building that will be part of our footprint forever as opposed to hanging. So this building right it doesn't there's no there is no benefit to to um to investing in this particular building. Um it won't ever make money for us. It will only cost us money. Um and so the the idea is that long term for the long-term of the district it makes far more sense to have us in an existing space that will be a part of the footprint forever.
052um as opposed to trying to maintain this building which as you can see will require you know the 64,000 is really just to ensure structural stability here. Um that's not doing anything in terms of the not considering any other repairs that might be made long term. And so again it really is about investing in the future in a space that will always be a part of the district's footprint. I think we've spent money on stuff in the past that that didn't I mean I'll go back to January or last July. We give $75,000 to buy down an insurance policy. You know, we've we've beat this old dead horse a long time. I think that I think our staff I visited with our staff a little bit here. I think that the unknowns uh this what
053we're going to do. We're not, you know, and I think it's a busy time of year. I don't know. I mean, it seems like it is listening to you guys. I I just think we need to make a decision and move forward, you know, whatever that is. That 64,000 is going to fix it up, but it ain't going to put new AC or none of that stuff in it, right? I mean, you know, and you said 40,000 I think is the number that we talked about it kind of takes to maintain this building with insurance and and all the things. Uh it's I want to say what our number was around 25 20. I would say annually about 30ish. Okay. Okay. So 30 to maintain our building. So, and again, we we do have a
054healthy capital outlay fund that can carry the cost of the of of that for the renovation and move to King Elementary. Um, again, we we could use that same money to to invest in this building. There really is no long-term gain on that investment. you know, for a for a business who can come in and and perhaps make money on the space makes sense to invest, but for a school district, there really is no there is no gain to be made from this investment in our opinion. But certainly the board has the the authority to make the ultimate decision. But that is our recommendations that we would that uh Mike would go back with this lower offer as a final asis 24 hours and then we proceed either with the sale with our current buyers
055or offer that sale price as the new sale price of the building with all the other things being still go back to the June what was June 20th or something was that the close believe that what is today the 8th or 12th or something 12th of time still put that as closing. I mean, if we decide to go this route, I think we could still make it happen. It'd be Diana's looking at me. You don't have anything. D can't see Diana's face, but I'm gonna guess that that was not a pleasant look. Diana's looking at me, but we we figured out. We We've actually done some ground work. Like, I think we're Doesn't seem like it, but we're actually probably more prepared than you might think. I mean, the upstairs was literally filled with stuff.
056Um, we've made a huge dent in that. Um, it looks kind of empty. When we met last Monday, we went up there and we ran up there and looked really clean in that. Um, and so, um, I I think I'm just investing $60,000 and plus a $30,000 a year carrying cost of a building that houses seven people and a bunch of stuff upstairs seems asinine to me, but I'm one of seven. So, is that a motion? Well, this is not actually this. No, it's just a discussion item. That's next. Yeah, I I think this would make sense. You know, we won't have as much roof to ensure and building to ensure and air conditioning units to go out to take care of. So, we got the funds. I think makes sense to me. Like funding
057continues to decrease. You know, I think your footprint, we've talked about it, especially at SEK, SEC. I think they're they're going to have to look at I mean, you know, I don't know how you have to reduce the footprint somehow. Yeah. I I just think that the the more buildings you maintain that don't have students in them, I mean, it just is really hard to justify when if you have space, right? I think there are places that maybe don't um but but we do. Um and so uh you know in in certainly in my opinion and that's why this is a recommendation I just think for the long term investing money in that space where we will be some a building has been on that corner for I think a pretty long time in Kingman.
058Um and I would guess there's going to be one there for a while and so I think that makes the most sense for us long term if we're going to invest in something that's invest Yeah. I don't I mean I don't have any I'm not saying that that's that we shouldn't. I'm just saying that I think that the 150 to bring it up to what You know what I'm saying? I mean, right from where we were at at sale, what Yeah. Yeah. that. But I mean, are we are we using our money smartly? Do we need 150 now that we've decreased the sale price? Do we need 150, I guess, is what I'm saying. I mean, is that still you're still thinking that what what you're what you're looking at um you know, and I
059I believe I shared the scope of the project at one of our prior meetings, but we're looking at HVAC secure entrances. We're looking at some electrical that we need to add to have some more um outlets included. Um, we need to have the two the walls built to separate uh from the district office and the um student access, you know, so you have those points in there. Um, being able to being able to put some additional walls in some of those classrooms. We can have more office, smaller offices, but have more because we we don't have we we don't have everybody in their own office. We don't have enough rooms for that and we don't want that. Um, but there's those are those are the pieces that we're putting in. You know, nothing's frivolous, nothing.
060I mean, there's nothing there was nothing fancy. There's nothing really. That's just what I want to make sure that if it's I mean, yeah. No, it doesn't make sense to have this building. I mean, I would agree with that, especially with the long term. But what my point is is when you move up there, let's just make sure we spend the money smartly and we don't someone walking in and going, "Wow." Yeah. There is no there is no excess. could have had an air conditioner. There there is no excess that like you would kind of go boy look we built the Taj Mahal here on the front of of Kingdom Elementary. Yeah. No, that it really is just about because we have to separate the space obviously because we'll have public who will enter the
061building. Um so you can't have you can't have egress to the they can't have access to student areas without controlled access or walls um in that case. But yeah, other than aside from those things, um, I'd be happy to sit down with you and show you the proposed plan, there is a little bit of electrical because of the way the classrooms are designed. They don't really have a lot of electrical outlets. There's some drops because everything runs now like phones and everything are run off of internet. So, you need um some Ethernet drops and so those things are they're more expensive than you think. Um, but so there is no excess. It really is just about getting it operational as an office. Are solid walls dividing the big spaces but more economical than like cubicle
062walls with some of the conversations that need to be having able to go all the way to the top and you know that way to have to ensure privacy have those conversations. We're good on that. Thank you. Thanks. Review of handbook revisions for the school year 2526. This will serve as an initial review of the revisions with the final approval to occur at the June meeting. it'll be the 2526 Keman Elementary handbook summary for the changes for and so what I asked them to do was to put the changes in and then summarize them so it's easier for you to find them. Um, I as I I forgot to remind in the email and I did remind Jeff, focus more on content as opposed to formatting because once you put it in diligent, it does
063all sorts of things to the formatting. And so if things look wonky, if the words look like they read right, just know they'll be correct when the final copy is done. But when you upload it to Diligent, for some reason, it does crazy things and puts spaces in where they shouldn't be. Um, just keep in mind the principles will be here next month. All principles will be here. So, if you have any specific questions about the handbook before we do approvals, you'll be able to ask them specifically. Um, but this should give you an opportunity to uh read through and review those um for the changes. Uh, and if you have any questions in the meantime, feel free to email them to me. I'll have the the directors or principles get back with you and
064answer whatever we can in the meantime, but you will have access to them at the at the June meeting prior to um approving the handbook changes. So, that's what you have there. there. There's not a ton of handbook changes, but it certainly comes out to be a lot of pages in the agenda. Action item seeking approval of theou with sec for early childhood education. So our so our prek programs we use uh what they would call braided funding. So we get some funding from special education and some from uh grant money from the state of Kansas uh Kansas preschool pilot and other things and we braid those things together. Um SCC manages that program. They hire the teachers and um take care of the training and the paras. And so that's just anou that says
065we will pay them the difference of what our funding doesn't pay for. We we'll share that we'll share that expense. Motion to approve theou with South Central Kansas Special Education Co-op. Second. Been moved by Christie, seconded by Angie. Any further discussion on this? All those in favor? Yes. 50. Seeking approval to replace the KES fire detection and notification system. They emailed you all a proposal. So, any questions on that? Um just to a clarifying question for Andy that these um did DCS look at these? No, this was an RFP that I put out. Uh I did get consultation with DCS on the RFP. So the request for proposal as well as another additional company to make sure that we had all of our elements that we needed to have a turnkey detection and notification system.
066that's up to current code, building code, and current fire code. Um, and so they're all apples to apples because there's quite a difference between Davis and electrical. I mean, there's even Pinnacle who's generally expensive anyways, but so the the requirements for the RFP were to have a to build a system that would would pass through the fire marshall fire marshall um they say an audit, but fire marshall check to make sure that it met everything through the fire marshall's office. um that uh it would include everything that we would need to be up and running by the time school started next fall. Um whatever system they chose to use, that's what they chose to use. Uh ECC uses Seammens, which is proprietary. So there there is a much higher price notification system that does the
067same thing as the Honeywell system that Davis Fire proposed. It's just a more expensive system, you know, and so they they all met the requirements of the RFP to be up to the build up to the building code and up to the fire code that we asked our city uh city fire chief what we needed to have. So, and does Davis service Honeywell? Because from my past, Honeywell can be a pain to deal with sometimes. So, I want to make sure that we, you know, you get our explicit warranty in writing and that is Davis going to facilitate any repairs or any issues with anything that might happen and we're not going to be on the hook for it because like I said, I've dealt with Honeywell in the past and sometimes it's not pleasant.
068Yeah, they they have a their standard warranty. Everybody had a one-year warranty. Um, and they will come out service that. Uh we have currently we have Pinnacle that comes out to Norwich to provide our service at Norwich. So Pinnacle is also able to come out and service and Pinnacle quoted a Honeywell system as well. Okay. Yeah. Pinnacle likes their bees. Okay. Well, I make a motion to approve um the Davis Fire Systems uh quote to replace the KS fire detection system for 8362765. Second move by Christy, seconded by Angie to approve fire systems. Any further discussion? All those in favor? Yes. 5. seeking approval for action on the sale of the district office. And so for clarity, the recommendation would be to uh make the uh new offer to the current potential buyer uh for
069asis and current condition um with no additional repairs um to be made. They would have 24 hours to accept that offer. If they do not, then uh we would uh allow the contract to be um weight listed and the artist money uh returned. And if we do release them from the contract, then we would list the property at $50,000 as the new sale price. That is the recommendation as it stands written there as Amy wrote out there for you. Listing would be asis again. Correct. You waiting on me or something? No, not really. Sorry, I was waiting for them to shoot the gun. I can't tell if you guys can hear it from here or not. So, um, as as much as it pains me to do this, I make a motion to approve the,
070um, recommendation for the action on the sale of the district office as presented. I'll second moved by Christie, seconded by Jeff. Any further discussion? All those in favor? Yes. Four opposed? Joan one. You get that, Dina? Okay. Seeking approval for HBAC repairs for KES for the BOE rooms. H K BOE I didn't schools are schools are they're good. They're famous. You know they are you know this is the alphabets. This is the scope of the project. back in. Welcome. So that that's the scope of the project and what the two clear what was the amount because I can't open my email and have Zoom up apparently at the same time. It kicks me out. Uh the amount was uh $30,920 with Dixon. That was Dixon's LLC's proposal. Okay. Um and those are repairs just to
071for clarity for both the community and us. Those are repairs that will need to be made regardless if we were to have moved there or not. Correct. Correct. Okay. Motion to approve the HVAC repairs at K as presented. I'll second. Moved by Christie, seconded by Angie. Any further discussion on the HBAC at Kees from BOE room? I just want to say one more time. I think we got it. Any further discussion? If not, all those in favor? Yes. 50. I'll look at the next one. It's got Uber one. Keep an FBLA request to travel to Anaheim, California to attend the national conference. And this is just a request to travel out of state. So that the board is aware they'll be traveling out of state. The money is already covered by the school fund. So
072just need approval for the students to travel out of state. And you have motion to approve the FBA request to travel out of state. Second move by Christy, seconded by Andy to approve the FBLA to go to Anaheim, California. Sounds like fun. One question before you. Okay. Is there going to be two chap rooms or just one? Said two. I believe there's two on the proposal. Two on the proposal in their money. They had just one one listed. I thought I don't have those documents right now. I don't let me and I actually she may have had to rec I saw the two shepherds listed down below but they have their their money covers correct the fundraising and what they have down there covers you know you add another 125 Right. Okay. That's registration. See
073that stuff? Send it so these guys have a heads up so they can look. I should have didn't bring in line at all. But they have like what they have 13 going 13. So it's probably two. Yeah, they definitely I do see they have two chevron. Oh yeah, they have two names down there. only one listed in the price. Maybe one was free. Yeah. You know what? I wonder that's I bet that's right, Missy. One's free. I bet your main one is free in any addition. That's You bet. I bet you're right. I bet I bet that's correct. I bet that's correct. So many kids or something. We have a motion by Christie, seconded by Andy. Any further discussion? All those in favor? Yes. 50. Gibson grants memorial donation from the Kinsler family to KHS
074FFA in the amount of $2,60. I make a motion to accept the donation from the Kinster family to KHS FFA for 2016. Second. and moved by Christy seconded or but moved by Angie seconded by Christie. That'll throw you to accept cage uh the Kinsler family cage FFA donation in the amount of $260. Any further discussion? All those in favor? Yes. 5. Fiscal 2026 innovative learning grants have been awarded. Total is 40,000. 20 to Norwood's teachers, 20 to Kingman teachers. Motion to approve IIL learning grants as presented. Second. Moved by Christie, seconded by Angie. Any further discussion? All those in favor? Yes. 50. Anonymous donation of 2500 for Kingman Middle High School. Motion to accept the $2,500 for King Middle School for the Fairchild Fund. A second. Move by Christie, seconded by Angie for the $2,500
075donation for the Fairchild Fund. Any further discussion? All those in favor? Yes. 50. Donation to Kingman FA for summer national conference expense in the amount of $1,000 from Richard James. Motion to approve $1,000 to Kingman FBA for Richard James. been moved by Christie, seconded by Missy to accept $1,000 donation from Richard James. Any further discussion? All those in favor? Yes. Thank you to all for the donations. That's very nice. Executive session. I recommend that the board meet in executive session to discuss matters related to negotiations pursuant to the exception for employer employee negotiations under coma and that we invite the superintendent and the assistant superintendent um in to reconvene at 7:20 after a fivem minute break. Perfect. Second move by Tristy, second by Angie to go into executive session till 7:20 for negotiations after a
0765m minute break. Any further discussion? All those in favor? 5. Yep. We're back in regular session. [Music] You on Christie? Yes. Okay, we're back in regular session. Okay. Uh, I recommend that the board meet in executive session to discuss matters related to non-elected personnel pursuant to the non-elected personnel exception under coma and to meet back in the main boardroom at 7:45. A second. Then moved by Christie, seconded by Angie to go into executive session to discuss non-elected personnel. Any further discussion? All those in favor? Return to the regular board. Return to the regular board at 7:45. elementary school back on going to be back in regular session. No other actions is required. Uh next meeting will be June 9th at 5:00. Note the time at 5:00 at the district office. Meeting adjourned.