001Marlene, >> I'll second. >> Dis. Thanks. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. >> Motion carries. All right, we'll move on to the consent calendar. Uh the the meeting minutes are in your packet as well as the bills. Uh did you have any transfers? >> We do not have any transfers. >> No transfers. >> All right. I questions on the bills. >> Question on the bills. Page six under school lockers. Are those like new lockers or lockers that need to be repaired? Yeah, we um with moving our third graders uh I guess I'm calling third graders upstairs um you know now that we have grades three, four, five, and six all upstairs, we just don't have enough lockers to accommodate all the students that are up there anymore or at this time.
002So, we did purchase some new just standalone lockers that actually um once they are assembled, we will just have down here in this hallway for third graders to be able to have a place for their things. So, right now, I think they're just hooking them on the back of their chairs. Is that right? >> Got backpackers and coats in the classroom >> and we're running out of space. >> And as our as our months are getting colder, I'm sure the coats are going to get thicker and bigger and bigger. >> Yeah. So, yes, that's what those are. We're >> we've just we got more kids upstairs in lockers. So, >> and I think they're hoping to have them installed after by Thanksgiving is is our goal. Cool. Any other questions? If not, I'd look for
003a motion to approve the consent calendar. >> Second. >> Thanks, A. Thanks, Scott. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. >> Motion carries. We will move on to number seven. Anything from PK? I do not have anything. Okay. Um, there is Sorry, I'm like You're all right. I know you're trying to get the Zoom going too >> somewhere in my >> Slow down. >> Yeah, maybe cuz if I don't get this going, >> we can just get him on the phone if not wor. So, I did have a thank you. Thank you for your words of sympathy, uh your voice of concern, your gesture of caring, and your love that you offered [snorts] the family of Charlie Hansen. Thank you for the flowers you sent in memory of Charlie. He was proud
004to be a Cardinal alumni in the family. So, just wanted to pass that around. [clears throat] >> All right. >> Something went wrong. Yes, I know. I know. Even [laughter] the computer is telling me something went wrong. I know. I know. We're >> going. >> Yeah. Yeah. It's just >> like I'm done here. [laughter] >> It's just been one of those days. >> It has kind of been a Monday. >> All right, we will move on to reports. Uh Smoky Hill Service Center. Uh nothing new there. Our meeting is Thursday for this month. Uh but I did go to uh Smoky Hill has a uh annual legislative lunchon where they invite uh basically that any legislator that serves a district that's that's a member of Smoky Hill uh in their service area. They invite them
005to come and just have a conversation. And uh you know it's when I first started going because I've been I think I've been to everyone but uh it was a little more sometimes it got a little more contentious than it does. This last one the last couple years it's been a really good conversation like between the legislators and the people there. Uh, and it's kind of went from it used to be like a asking questions and then uh them responding. Now it's really turned into more of a conversation and uh and a lot more feedback and and uh so it's I think it's something that's uh definitely it's evolved into something I think better than what it was when it started. and there was a lot of good conversations uh and some updates from their
006perspective on the uh new finance formula and different things like that. So uh and some good connections uh for continued conversations. So anyway uh that's all I have there. Special edit co-op. So during our uh state audit um as far as IP reports uh they were compliant. So that's great news. And then the other thing um the co-op has moved to their new building. So they have desks from the previous office that are up for sale. I'm not sure how we're doing here in our school district. If we are in need for some deaths um for anybody um I'd give Sher a call because they're trying to sell what they have. That's it. All right. Thanks, Izzy. Uh any other board member reports? If not, we'll move on to principal report. >> So, our McDonald
007MC teachers night on October 30th was a success with over $1,200 in raises. We had 96% attendance for our fall parent teacher conferences last month. The PES PTO bookf fair was a great success and the group is already planning the next one in conjunction with our spring conferences. PTO will be hosting a Christmas movie night for our students on December 6th. that information will be sent home. Um, our K through six students have earned over 5,000 red tickets at this point. So, this week we're we are celebrating with a schoolwide movie on Wednesday afternoon. Our kindergarten through 6th grade winter concert will be held on December 1st at 700 p.m. And last week, Mr. Reinhardt and I attended the KPA conference in Witchaw. On Wednesday evening, Mr. Reinhardt was awarded the 2025 Elementary Principal of
008the Year for Area 4. Not a lot of people knew about that, so I thought [applause] a welldeserved honor. >> Thank you very much. Greatly appreciated. It was I I will say it was it was fun to uh it was fun to just have the whole family down and I'll remember it for sure. It's pretty cool. >> Congratulations. >> Thank you. Uh, so the high school I'm going to start off by we did our first student spotlight. Um, which is something we kind of changed over over from student of the month. We went to just trying to highlight some different things. It's not necessarily a monthly award just [snorts] like there's something that kind of gets missed in athletics and and doesn't get recognized, but something that's good. But, uh, the first one we wanted
009to recognize for that was Addison St. She's been doing great work at the library. Um, Miss Cro, you know, has kind of gushed about her and they just said she's been doing an awesome job helping read and it's in conjunction with our teaching class in the community. You know, that's that was part of the reason we did these started doing the student spotlights because some of those things kind of they just get lost in the shuffle um you know with other things. But it's it's it's a good um good honor that we got kids out in the community doing good stuff. So, we wanted to recognize her. um events, uh parent teacher conference, uh conferences. I did not ask Ron meant to ask Ron before she left today, but it was well attended. I know
010we went through the numbers right afterwards and and we had pretty good attendance um both nights. Uh we also we've got an event tomorrow. We we're taking the junior high over to NMA uh to participate in the Veterans Day um celebration they're doing over there. Just kind of checking that out. And then uh another event that we'll have coming up, we're looking at November 21st. We're going to do what's called a a digital detox day. Um it's just one of those things where we're trying to get no cell phones in the building, get off computers, and really focus on connecting with the people around you and trying to do something like that. Um as far as sports, this week we've got our buffer week uh for our transition from fall to winter sports. Uh just
011kind of wrapping everything up. High school football was three and five. We lost to Hutch Trinity in the opening week. All league voting has happened. We just cannot release until that'll be released at a later date. Um I believe once the last team is out is kind of how they do it. Um high school volleyball finished 15 and 19, advanced to substate after getting second in our in regionals. And then there uh all league has already happened. We had one um girl that that got an award. We had Lillian Garcia was honorable mention for our league in volleyball. Cross country, we had two runners make it to state, Riley Rogers and Brandon Trump. And Brandon Trump placed eighth. Girls golf, uh which I think the last uh board meeting we had, we found out that
012Avery had made state. And then she was she competed well. She made both days. Um, junior high football um went undefeated and are currently into our basketball season and are one and one and we play Philipsburg tomorrow. And then junior high volleyball was nine and three and then uh we play Philips I believe you guys and two or one >> one and one. So we're one and one. Um and that's it for me. All right. There's no questions. We'll move on to superintendent report. >> Okay. I'm going to just because I have some other things to share throughout the meeting. Uh I had some PowerPoint slides and I thought well I'm just going to go ahead and turn my report into a PowerPoint. So you have you have some slides in front of you but
013you can follow along. I know that the font's awfully small in your paper so you can also fingers crossed what the way things are working with new technology here in the last five minutes. We'll see how this works. Okay. So, um, just to kind of rewind October 8th, uh, let's see, Mrs. Crow, well, let me back up. The the building administrators, myself, Mrs. Crobe, and Mrs. Hovus, and along with Mrs. Bobc, we are, uh, I guess, you know, we've we're our core Kissa team for for the district. We were in Philisburg on October 8th and uh took part in what's called the school improvement day which um which is just a huge check mark when it comes to all of our key accreditation things that that we're required to to do. So uh we participated
014in that and then we're going to come back and I'm going to talk a little bit more uh you know about this in detail but just wanted to definitely inform the board that our fundamental our KISSA fundamental uh target we're looking at is standards alignment and then the KISSA structure is also the the professional collaboration and we were that was our focus the professional collaboration was a focus for us last year and with talking with our KISSA team you know we definitely felt that was something we wanted to you know we made a lot of good progress on and we wanted to continue that. But within that professional collaboration, we're we're just taking a slight slightly new angle with our standards alignment. So, like I said, we're going to we're going to come back and
015talk about that a little bit more. Just kind of keep that as a mental notice for now. Uh just some other notes on progress that you know being done. BG Consultants, if you can remember, they are the uh the firm that we're working with through the uh KOT uh grant. And so they were here actually on Monday the 3 and Tuesday the 4th taking elevation measurements and um they were both out here in the front front lawn area and of course down the alley and and just shooting some of those elevation measurements and so that was exciting just to see that I mean it's a it's a small step forward but yet it's a step forward seen some some things some things done. If you can remember the last board meeting, I had mentioned that
016I was in communication with the gentleman Noah Parr with the CNC group. um he had got in touch with me here um really probably about two months ago and um CNC group they they will go through and and they look through your uh utility bills and just simply look about you know kind of what our trends are and what we've been spending in terms of things like that in terms of gas and electric and and um he will take into consideration our square footage of our buildings and things like that and so they they do studies on you know our our facilities working or functioning as energy efficiently as they possibly can be. So, we were in connection. We were talking about that. I did share with him, you know, some the information that he
017needed and of course, he did get back with me with with the with the answer that I kind of anticipated he would. Of course, he's saying that yes, there's some things we could do. However, with also the work that we are doing with um you know the all the things that we're talking about with potential other projects and potentially you know maybe where the spawn leads us. I just basically told him that maybe we just need to kind of go on hold because you know we don't know what the future may hold and you know we just we'll wait. So he perfectly understood we'll just I'll get back in touch with them later if that's something we can move forward with later on. Um Mrs. Brdman and Mr. McMillan, they attended the district football scheduling
018meeting. Um, of course, she's here. She might be able to give a little bit more detail, but just so you're aware, as it stands as of right now, for the 2627 season and the 2728 season, we are sitting with a a week three buy. Um, and that has to do a lot with just there are there's just not many schools out there to play 11man football that unless we wanted to right drive to Kansas City, I guess, right, Mrs. Rman? So, we did have a school in the Kansas City area that had we were I guess we were having communications with and talking with, but you know, neither they nor we were all that excited about doing that. So we as of right now, just so you're aware, you know, that's that's the way it
019is right now, but we obviously will continue to work towards getting a game scheduled for that week three. But it's it's just unfortunately a challenge that we're we have on our plate right now, and we have some time. We'll we'll work on getting that getting that figured out. [clears throat] >> Uh if you made it a little bit further down the hallway, you may have noticed that we did have some some progress made with the elevator project. Cameron Iikoff, of course, he is the gentleman who I've communicated with. He actually able was able to come in this past weekend. Um there's two great big pieces of plywood that are that are now in uh in place of the door. So, um I was able to just kind of take my phone light and peek through
020the little crack there. It looks like the the door had been removed and that that entryway just needed to be expanded, you know, a few more inches to accommodate the new system that's coming in. So, it looks like that work has has been done. There's another large piece of plywood then along on the east side where another maintenance entry door is going to be um installed. And so, again, we have another piece of plywood that's blocking that. But it looks like again we've we've made some progress. So, hopefully then my understanding was as soon as we got that done, then the company out of Witchaw will they're ready to bring the lift and start installing and get that done. So [clears throat] um October 30th I was able to to head to Saline. I attended
021the annual care meeting that's which cares Kansas association of rural education. This was my first opportunity to experience that. And the one thing that I took note of was you know they uh this used to be something they would meet as a group and maybe try to do a small breakfast you know at at certain times. And I mean from what I understand several years ago attendance was basically x to nothing. Um they were pretty proud to share that you know that they were somewhere around they were in that 50 plus schools you know in terms of of uh membership and this year they were up to 93. So, um, what I greatly appreciated is that, you know, we we were able to meet there at the Smoky Hill service center and they had it
022as they had us seated by region. So, I was able to sit with the North Central um group and, you know, we talked about again a lot of the things that we all are facing in terms of rural education and the challenges and and things like that. And >> so, I [snorts] would just add this is what used to be SQE, Scott, if that makes >> sense. And basically uh you know it was schools for quality education was the original uh organization and uh it was handled through KState extension uh and with some of the federal funding that went away KState uh dropped that [clears throat] funding for that position uh and the staff there. So, CARE has contracted with Smoky Hill Service Center to uh be the fiscal agent for the organization and to
023uh host meetings and that kind of stuff because that's kind of what KState did for us was they organized a lunchon or any meetings and stuff like that and they provided uh that kind of resources. And so there's also uh Car also contracts with a uh a gentleman to [cough and clears throat] do lobbying uh in Topeka and he works for he works for CARE and he also works for the Kansas school or Kansas superintendent association. Is that right? >> Or um I was USA. >> USA. >> Yeah. >> And he's a former principal but he's also a former legislator. So he was in Topeka as a legislator for several years. So he knows a lot of the legislators uh and he kind of has he's in uh La Compton somewhere in there. I don't
024remember >> somewhere around Lawrence area. So so it's easy for him to get there and he spends a lot of time uh attending the committee meetings and all that kind of stuff. So, uh, so that's kind of the information why we belong to CARE is to gain, uh, that lobbying insight from him on what's going on and and, uh, [snorts] so and then they're hoping to eventually expand services and do more, uh, for boards as well. So, anyway, that's kind of bring you up to speed on what it what care is. >> Yeah, it was it was it was a great trip down there. I felt it was I I enjoyed the time and it was good. I'll definitely I'll be attending those and stay active with that. Um, as Mrs. Dobson had mentioned, I
025was down for the KPA conference. Uh, that was just here the 5th through the 6th. And again, it was good opportunity again just to continue that professional development and and yes, get the reward uh the award and it was it was great. Um, I will be heading back down to Witchaw then later on uh this week. [clears throat] Uh I have a again I'll be meeting with my Kelly mentor and and completing the requirements of the the Kelly mentoring program and and meeting with my cohort group there. So I will be and then that will just then take me directly into the a our KSV conference then. So I'll meet you down there. I'll I'll be down there a day ahead of you and and busy with that. But I'll meet you down there. >>
026So yeah, the convention then from the 14th through the 16th. Uh we our site council scheduled to meet again uh for the second time uh Monday, November 17th. So I'll be reaching out to those folks here very quickly to remind them of that. Um and let's see then I'd also um I've been um informed there is a um an employee with the our NCKSC, the special ed cooperative uh who um has been battling a a hard hard battle with with cancer and things like that. Um her and her family live in the Smith Center area or I believe live in Smith Center and of course being as an employee of the co-op then um I had just been contacted about doing a some type of benefit um for her and her family and probably what
027better opportunity to do that was when Planeville plays Smith Center uh for our first basketball game. So that's scheduled on December 6th. So, I just wanted to um see if everybody was, you know, okay with that and see if that was something we could do. It sounds like she's been a a longtime employee of the of the co-op and you know, of course, does good things. And I know Marlene, you're obviously you you know, you know her, very close to her. >> Full full disclosure, she also is a a high school classmate of mine. So even though she lives in Smith and I we've been very good friends for a very long time. So >> if it would be okay and I totally you know >> I think that's >> aside from >> Yeah. >>
028Sure. >> Yeah. I will say our um you know the the special ed co-op of course is you know just our our second family. They take good care of us and you know >> they all do. Yep. And then uh in the spirit of awards, I guess to continue on that excitement, uh you'll notice that when you came in, right at the very top of your packet, um there was the uh kind of the image of the we have a new banner to to hang in the gym. Dr. Randy Watson uh informed us, of course, that Planeville has once again we have we will be recognized uh to receive the commissioners award with highest distinction. And so currently right now in our gym, we have two banners. Of course, we earned this in 21 and
02924. And we get to raise another banner for 2025. And so he will be here, Dr. Watson will be here on the 21st uh from one we're we're anticipating, we're told from about 1:45 to 2:45 to come and and present us with that award. And like we've done in the past, we yeah, we we've [clears throat] we've had some good practice with it. [laughter] We'll bring everybody in. We'll bring in all the students and and uh of course I believe my understanding is maybe as board members you guys were going to get in maybe an invitational email or something. So maybe if you haven't you are invited. So please please feel welcome to come and join us for that. But we're looking forward to to that as well. So I um I don't know exactly.
030I should have done some more homework and looked into it, but I I from my understanding is Planeville is on a very small list of the number of districts in Kansas who've been able to get this award multiple times. So, I think there was I think I read one of four. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, we are we're something to be proud of for sure. So, the fact that we have or we will have and um Sharon thankfully jumped in and she's got the banner ordered. So, we're hoping that it will get here and be here for that day. Either we'll have it hung up in position or at least have it to display, you know, for the community to see, but we're we're excited for that. And then um I think then just to
031continue what I was going to share um as just an extension of of my soup report, one of our November um business items is to just to share or talk about uh state assessment scores from the previous year. So uh that's what I'm I'm kind of transitioning into that real quick. And so to do that, what I wanted to share with everybody, as I mentioned for our KISSA um goal this year, for our KISSA action plan, we are um as you can see there on the left side, there's the four fundamentals, structure, literacy, standards alignment, balanced assessment, quality instruction. So we are uh as a district, we are focusing on the standards alignment piece this year. And then you can see the structure. I mentioned that we're we're going to stick with the um professional
032collaboration. So when you know just talking with um talking with teachers, looking at assessment scores, you know, you will I think come the the common conversations that you know we're having of course is just yeah, we we see that there's room in improvement. We we feel like yes, we we we can and we should always be in that mindset, right? that there's always that room for improvement. But when we started just digging deeper and and talking with teachers um you know about what maybe what are some things we need to do um you know one of our one of our teachers had mentioned you know it's been quite some time since we've done anything with our our standards alignment our curriculum alignment. So, uh, we had those conversations with our DT and then October 13th,
033I believe, and like I'm looking over here at my building principles, right? October 13th is when we had our, uh, full day just in-house inservice, uh, we brought in all the teachers. Uh, we we changed up the scenery a little bit. Typically, we meet in the cafeteria and we do things in there. We took everybody into the Cardinal Commons [snorts] and were able just to have more we utilized the roundts because we knew we were going to be having those type of just round table conversations and um it really was a good day and teachers basically we just focused the entire day on giving the teachers the work time to go through their curriculums and identify you know where where they are hitting the standards and answering the question or where we're not you know
034and finding those gaps. um they were able to go through and and I felt it was just a continued day of of get good conversation. Um you know and and there were some places where you know teachers realize like you know a concept that maybe maybe they wait and hold off and and teach in March. maybe we need to pull that back in earlier part of the year and can we build on that? And things that you know again then then we start having those more vertical alignment conversations and items that teachers felt like were um you know covered, you know, the year prior. Sometimes we found some items that just simply were not. And so, you know, it was just good for those teachers to have those conversations about, you know, where what students
035need to have when they leave whatever grade level and moving into the next one. Um, you know, so again, we it's just been a while since we've been able to turn our focus and attention on that. So, you know, with that then that has then given us the um just the direction and guidance that we're going to move forward then and and now when you look at here's the now this is the ELA Um, and this is as as a district. And so you we can actually we have the 24 uh data up above and and the 25 district data um as row two. And then of course just to explain the level one, two, three, and four. Um level one um I I guess would I would say, you know, that's your that's your
036lowest level. Um what we're we aim for is we we would like to see you know ultimately yes we would love to see all kids in level four but that's that's setting the bar awfully awfully high. um you know level level two um you know is shows the kids are at are at grade level where they need to be but you know you're just able to get you know if you level three and level four I mean that's showing that they're either advanced or what they saw the college and career ready or you know you know I guess I mean setting up for the best success as they move forward >> if you and if you're interested in diving into this further like U the Department of Education has a really good uh podcast on
037their YouTube channel that they did about a week ago that really dives into the numbers and you because [clears throat] you can print uh you know our our scores. You can print those reports for multiple years or whatever, but they just do a really good job of having a conversation about what all they what they mean and what the different levels mean and stuff like that. So uh it's about an hourong conversation about it. So anyway, just a good resource. >> Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. You know, and just the thing that sticks out at, you know, you can see if you look at the 25 2025 district level one, you know, we did 39, you know, five 39.53%. The the state average was at 28.36. So, you know, we're we're above the the state average. Um,
038you know, the other thing I keep in mind though when I look at numbers like this is and you know, when you think about smaller school districts and you a little bit smaller enrollment is that, you know, one or two kids does impact percentage wise quite a bit. You know, so when you're looking at 39 compared to 28, you know, that doesn't mean that's a a ton of kids. You know, we don't um >> give or take three or four, your percentages change, you know, quite a bit there, you I think that's one of the conversations we've had is that uh you know when the teachers are looking at this you know they're really like you know in one particular grade level they're maybe only looking at >> right >> two or three students or
039one student if they can move one student out of right >> level one is a huge >> change to the percentages. So, and focusing because sometimes when you look at it, it seems a little overwhelming like like a daunting task until you think about the number of students that you're actually talking about. It's uh so anyway, but so then just real quick, I just wanted to show you that that was our ELA. Here's our math scores. You know, again, we're for the most part, you can see we're we're pretty close in comparison with with the rest of the of the state. But, you know, the reason I took all that time to share, you know, with our KISSA goal and um, you know, the standards alignment piece is that we feel like the work that
040teachers are doing with those now and and looking at their curriculum curriculums and looking at the standards, then we feel like then that that will have the impact we need to to move move students in those upper levels. And you know, so we it's obviously like anything, it's it's work in progress and we hope that we will see some of those changes and those numbers change over time, but we'll that's the work and the focus that we're taking. So I know that was a little bit more, but I kind of did two things at once there. You got a report and you got a November business calendar item there. I guess I forgot I did attend uh a multimodal the Kansas Department of Transportation's multimodal conference in Lawrence uh like a week and a half
041ago and uh so some of the people from the safe routes to school program was there and they're really excited to to see the [clears throat] to see the project moving forward. forward and and they're really excited to uh to actually get to moving dirt and building sidewalks and roads. And so they're excit they're really excited about it though at a state level. >> Uh it's one of the projects that I've been on a couple conference calls where they've specifically talked about our project and how excited they are about it. So >> uh anyway, it's good to see that moving forward. >> I'd look for a motion to approve reports. So move. >> Thanks, Harrison. >> That's okay, >> Marlene. All those in favor say I. >> Opposed? >> Motion carries. All right, we'll move
042on to number nine. Uh an update from the uh [clears throat] >> Sure. >> Yeah, can sit if you'd like. [laughter] standing. >> So Justin's part of the the committee that uh has been uh working on uh this bond issue. >> Yes. >> As that first step of the project. >> Yes. Yeah. So we uh we met uh October 15th, so a couple weeks about three weeks ago now. Four weeks ago now. Uh a group of I don't know 10, 15, 20 of us uh got together. I don't know how much you guys know about uh the bond that's uh coming off here in 2026. It was put in place in 2006. Was part in the new gym that went up there. I missed out on it. Graduated 2006, but anyways. Um but it's cool
043to be part of this actually. Um, you know, when when they came up here with Gravity Works, um, they had all these pictures of things that around the campus and I know we all walk through these halls and things like that. I had no idea all the needs that need to be done. Like there's some things that are hidden. It's like, oh my gosh. You know, of course, nothing's cheap. Um, so I I know the board that that we have all put together is really excited uh about uh trying to come up with a game plan that we community members on board uh to to pass this this bond, whatever we end up deciding on. But uh just a few things we kind of kind of hit on. We are honing in on a two
044question ballot at the moment. Um that's not finalized by any means, but um uh we feel like um with the needs that we're I hate to use the word needs, but we kind of understand that um and I want to talk dollars, but basically we could almost go status quo, I guess I want to say, and not really increase anything and get some of our very important needs updated. That may not be super appealing to the community members, but so that's why we have a two-part question where the second question ask where we could kind of make some improvements here. Not major, but some that the community would see and feel like a little bit feel like they got a little skin in the game in terms of just their money, but they actually see
045like a building or something like that. Hey, we all put that up. And to be honest, we saw some of the numbers tonight and I was actually blown away by how little it actually is. Um, when you in terms of annually because I know all of us don't want to pay taxes. Um, but I was very surprised and I know we can get a little bit nut nuts and bolts of that later on, but um, we are going to have a community um, session where people can do a little Q&A, stop in at the school that's on November 20th and 28th. >> Yeah. And so we will get a little feedback from the community members then. And I feel like that's going to be really good to kind of get people on board because when
046anybody hears the word improvement, they automatically think it's going to be taxes. I don't want to do anything with that. But um, I think when people kind of see some pictures or we walk them through and see the reality of what needs to be done for the safety of our kids and and all that, I think people will get on board with that. Um, so yeah, I mean the board, we've got our little committee, I keep saying board, our little committee. We we've got a long-term vision for the school. I mean, a lot of us have a lot of vested interest here, kids, grandkids, and grown up. Of course, our dollars are being spent here. So, um, I don't know. We're looking really forward to it. I know we're on a tight timeline with with
047the way the bond is set up, but I feel like um the way the way these guys have presented everything, it's just been a really smooth three meetings and tonight we had a really good meeting again right before uh at 5:00 and um I'm not I like the direction we're headed. So, any questions for me? I'm not really going to deflect this guy, but how are you getting the how are we getting the message out for the 20th to get people? We need people, you know, we got we got to get them in. So, >> for sure, you know, what's what's the game plan to get that accomplished? >> So, I stopped for like two minutes to open up the gym for WCK basketball and I missed that portion, but I I I don't know
048if you guys discussed that portion of it or not for November 20th. >> Well, we really with us just making that decision tonight to do that. we just we haven't got to working on it. >> Can we set something up with the kids like >> and I feel like obviously using social media because that's the biggest thing USD site and then >> see the biggest the biggest my biggest issue is it's not so much >> I'm going to walk a line here. Okay. It's not going to be a lot of the younger people with kids and stuff that are going to have an issue with this. That's the people that we need to be able to draw in. So, you know, send that's that's where my issue lies is getting it to >> they're going
049to be a no most of it. Yeah. The older population. >> Yeah. And that's what I'm saying. But but trying to get them to get Yeah. to get the word. >> That's that's the part that I think needs to be the real focus is to get the ones that don't have the kids or grandkids or whatever. They're just citizens of the, you know, of the school district. We've got to have a good game plan as far as I'm concerned to try to draw them in. >> Yeah. >> Because >> they're going to be the ones to what are we doing, you know, and that's like I said until we can get that in front of them to let them see that that's that's I guess where my question lies because, >> you know, yeah, I'm
050all for you know, standing with the parent, you know, kids that we got in school getting that out, but like I said, your voting population >> Yeah. is your is your the older ones. >> I think we I mean I think we could do some flyers and >> I definitely think some flyers around town at the library stuff every week >> in the library. Jamie >> on that board. [laughter] >> I said that's my biggest concern, Justin. You know, that's, you know, it's just something that we need to look at because >> Yeah. >> that's the target. >> Yeah. And the goal and and the goal with this is to try and engage as many people as possible >> upfront before decisions are made and and in reinforcing the fact that no decision has been
051made on what's going to happen and trying to allow them to have some input >> uh at this early stage before something's even voted on. I may just to that point >> we feel it's really important that the public have an opportunity to speak to the committee >> but then then the uh the board will make a decision and on December 8th and then after that is a public more more concerted and vocal and open public engagement. Yeah, I think I mean I think >> yeah, this is is but I think as I think as many people as we can. Yeah, >> I'm just saying the more we get early even before we make any >> and that's the goal here. >> Yeah. And that's that's kind of where I'm going with that that question.
052>> And so we're hoping to have like a survey that night where they can answer a few questions and have put their you know input and feedback into it. uh instead of doing like a Q&A forum and stuff where people would have to talk in front of people, we thought it'd be better to >> just kind of walk them around uh in the lobby over there. >> Absolutely. >> And uh and then let them, you know, give us what feedback they have and what what they see uh or what they don't like about what we have and uh Yeah. So, but that's a good point though is how to how do we reach those people to get them there? Yeah. >> From five to seven. So, That's kind of that's that's where we stand right
053now. Said I thought a lot of ground made a lot of ground in a month. Um but yeah, now that we're on a straight timeline, but I feel like we get if we can get a lot of people behind it and get some positive push. I think that word of mouth is going to travel good in the small town like that. Know some other schools. I know we just passed one. I know a lot of lot to it, but there's way more than what ours was that we're going to be coming at. But um yeah, I I just feel like our kids. I mean, obviously I'm going to be here for, you know, a while hopefully with kids and things like that. And so, I don't know. I feel like PL has a lot of
054sense of pride in their community and the school is a very, very big part of that. And so, I think we really all just need to get on board and try that out. I'm I'm proud proud of to be a part of a small part of Planeville USD270 and uh yeah I mean and we're in a very good position I feel like in the county to kind of like take a firm grip on some things right here as opposed to maybe some other places. So I feel like we can't let that go. >> I appreciate your time. Yes. >> Thank you guys. >> Thank you very much. Um, also joining us, um, of course through uh, >> thanks Vince. >> Yeah. Zoom is, uh, Clayton Kelly with Piper Sandler. Clayton, are are you able to
055hear me? Okay, >> I am. Yeah. Can you guys hear me? Okay. >> Yes, we can. [laughter] >> I think Let me I was going to just turn you down just a little bit. You You're coming out loud and strong there, but yes, we we can hear you. >> Oh, it Um, and Chris, do they have any any way to visual or I can just talk through it as well if there's no visual? >> No, you you are on you are on the uh the same large screen that we had you earlier. So, if you want to do any screen sharing or anything, we're set up to see that right now. >> Okay, awesome. >> Yep. Yep. >> Let me go ahead and share my video here. just want to echo kind of all the
056thoughts uh previously previously shared. Um, so again, my name is Clayton Kelly with Piper Standler and uh we help school districts across the state of Kansas with with bond financing plans and you guys as a district are are in a really great position where your 2006 bond election, the bond financing for that matures next year. Um, so it provides an opportunity for you to layer in any bond issue without potentially increasing a milly or keeping that very minimal from where your current ones at. Um, so that's kind of the when we talk about timing and why why now why why are we looking at this right now from the finance side that's a big factor um and just your existing debt is will be paid off uh next fall um in addition to election dates.
057So, just a reminder, and Ben may and Chris may have already shared this, but there's only three election date options now for Kansas school districts. You only are allowed to have a March, August, or November bond election state in Kansas. Um, so because of that, um, really kind of put some emphasis on now that we've been through the November election period, getting in line to be able to conduct an election by March instead of having to wait until August can significantly save on on cost of of projects. when you just look at the cost of of doing anything year over year and even a a sixmon delay um can have a pretty big impact on on what that final cost. So, um just some background there in terms of timing and al there's also a
058part of this that every single school district in the state of Kansas when they um authorize when the board authorizes to move forward with the bond election have to submit an application to the Kansas Department of Education and receive state board approval before you an election. they require that application about three months in advance of any election date. So when I talk about a March election, why why is the deadline early December? It's due to that application process. So um just some pieces of information there that think would be helpful in terms of understanding kind of the timing of of the process of things at this point. Um, but kind of as was earlier mentioned, really good discussions uh so far and well will likely continue. What I shared uh with the the committee this
059evening was really just some information, some background information on the district. I'll just go through this pretty briefly. Um, but it is important information to to understand as you're heading into any potential bond election. Um, this page here shows the the tax base of the district, also known as the assessed valuation. So, what you can see is in 2015 the tax base of the district was about $33 million. Um, and today it's about $44 million. So, it's grown at a pretty uh moderate pace over the last decade, a little over 3% a year. We have seen that pace decline in recent years, but um when we put together a financial plan, we're very conservative on our assumptions for growth. So, we're going to probably be anywhere from assuming 0% to 1% in this growth rate
060when we factor in and basically get to our what we call bond capacity. So essentially this is the one pretty much just the main factor that goes into our financial plan to understand okay if you were to keep your and we just started a baseline of a no mill levy increase. If you have a bond outstanding that always needs to be a good baseline of what is our capacity if we don't increase our mill levy um based on what we're currently levying for bond payment today. Uh so that's right at around five mills is what your your leving and your bond interest fund to make your your bond payment that matures next year. So if you were to keep that 5 mills flat um then you would be able to fund about $4.5 million today
061without increasing your bill. Uh so again that's keeping five about five mills in your bond interest fund dedicated towards payments over the next 30 years. So it gives you a baseline of okay here's what we know we can do today without increasing our know um so that's really from the district's perspective. Uh another factor that might get discussed is is state aid which is essentially a payment from the state to help with your bond payments each year. Your your existing bond currently receives 21% of the the debt service payment on your principal and interest annually is paid by the state. So the remaining 70 79% is through local property taxes. Um there was a state law change in 2015 that basically changed the formula and how it's calculated is what it essentially means for you
062as a district is moving forward with the bond election that state aid percentage is zero. So you won't receive any state aid um as part of the um the next thing that we looked at is just historical So we went through historical tax base and then historical mill levy. And so really the the main [cough] concept when I look through this is you're going to look at your far right side in the district levy and how that fluctuates a little bit as low as 47 uh.7 mills over the last decade and as high as 59.824. Um currently right [clears throat] kind of in the middle of that 56.384 with your most updated budget. So um as you may be aware the district has four funds uh that it essentially levy mills are basically collect tax
063revenue uh for these four different funds. Two are for purely for operations. Your general fund every single school district in the state of Kansas will be 21 and your local option budget. um that's going to vary by district. Um but it's based on a percentage of uh what we call total state foundation aid um as well as a percentage of your overall revenue. So because of that and because your assessed valuation in your state aid on your prior bond um or state aid, excuse me, in general at state foundation aid fluctuates from year to year, that mill levy is going to fluctuate. Um, so you're not really in control of the fluctuations in that bill levy, which makes it pretty hard for to keep a stable overall district levy for you as a district. The
064only other fund you have available to help in managing that is your capital outlay and your bonded interest. So I think the easiest way to think about it is the general and the local option budget are purely tax revenues for operations like salaries as an example where capital outlay and bond interest are for um facility and maintenance. Um so think about whether it's school bus purchases or roofs or HVAC or utilities. Um so that's what capital outlay and bond interest are going to help with um to give you an understanding of what these mills actually mean. District one mill represents about $45,000. Um you'll see two things that are stable in this is general is 20 mills every year. That's the same for every single school district and then capital outlay is at 8 mill.
065Um you're actually as a district you're maxing out what you can bring in revenues for your capital outlay. So, that's awesome because you're getting a state aid match um of a little over 20% in that fund. In addition, um a lot of districts, even when you're trying to max out your capital outlay, it just simply is not enough to take care of your deferred maintenance. So, that's where your bond and interest fund comes in. And you have to essentially, why do we have to have a bond election? you have to have a bond election because capital outlay is simply not um they don't allow you to maximize the the levy in that high enough for you to take care of all your facilities um as well as any new projects that you're considering. It's really
066difficult for any district to get ahead, let alone save up significant cash balances in that month. So, um, this is just kind of a snapshot of the last 10 years. And as I mentioned, you're currently at 5.7 mills to make your bond payment. And if we kept that flat over the next 30 years for a 30-year financing and contributed dedicated towards bond payments, it would uh it would allow for upfront financing of about $4.5 million. Um so you as a district where do you compare so historically individually we kind of looked at this information but where do you compare to other districts based on these important metrics um what we view as your peers? similar assess valuation to you and similar student uh enrollment base as well as no state aid receiving no state. So
067these uh districts are very very similar peers as a result of that. The highest being uh USD 105 they recently had a bond election and increased their mill levy to 73 mills. Um the highest in the state is um at around 76 mill. Um so put that in perspective and you guys are at 56 mills are actually right in line of state average. So [clears throat] all 285 school districts in the state. The average is 56 mill. Now keep in mind there's a significant amount of school districts. I would say probably around a hundred that don't currently have any bond outstanding. So that we go back to that previous slide, this bond and interest one is zero for for districts. Um and unfortunately for a lot of those districts, they're trying to run bond campaigns
068right now because capital outlay is not keeping up with their needs. And as a result of that, it's a very significant tax increase for them to be able to do that and it's just really hard for them to get that um to be a successful election. So you can see here really kind of the main takeaway is for those districts that have recently invested in the last eight years or less in their facilities, it pushes their mill levy up. Um so it's not uncommon for districts of your base to see a higher mill levy just with the cost of things right now um to be able to see any type of potential bond election requiring mil levy increase. Um, but it kind of helps you put it into perspective of even if it's a even
069if you were to look at a a 10 mil increase, you're still right around 66 mills, um, which is at the higher end of it, but you've also have recently taken care of a lot of your facilities if it's successful. So, um, just to kind of put that into perspective, um, I think this is a really good slide that that helps that understanding. Um, and that's kind of what I wanted to share with you tonight. And so, um, there's kind of just historical pieces of information that I think is helpful as you start and go through this bond election process. Um, one other thing that we've talked about next steps that I think is helpful before your next December meeting is understanding that what the the bond committee will do is they'll finalize they'll hopefully
070finalize a plan before December 4 and then what we will do is we will come back with what we call a bond election resolution at that meeting that has the uh scope of the project included within the ballot question. So, what voters are going to see when they vote for or against uh the bond election, it'll be drafted in these bond election documents. They'll have the financial plan. Um and then we'll also include any potential uh if they decide to move forward with a a mill levy increase, what that tax impact looks like in the future. So, um there's just several different pieces of information that will if they move forward will likely be presented at your next board meeting um that will will require the board to take action and approve if you were
071to move forward with the March election. So, I just want to make sure that um you know all that information was understood so that when we come forward with a potential election resolution at the December meeting that you guys aren't caught off guard by kind of what that looks like and we can share once we have the really the project and the plan finalized by the committee, then we can share what all the documents look like and if there's any questions prior to that meeting uh we can help with answering Yeah, that'll be the goal will be you'll you won't read it the first time that night. So, we'll get the information to you so you have time to review it and send questions or ask questions >> ahead of time to try and [clears
072throat] any other questions or anything for Titan while we have them or Clayton, it doesn't look like I'm seeing or hearing any more questions. So, greatly appreciate your time. Thank you very much for hanging on with us and joining us and giving us the information and I greatly appreciate it. >> No problem. Thank >> you. Thank you. All right. Any other questions? If not, uh we'll move on to item number 10, approval of DT bylaws. Uh so in your packet there's this is just kind of a pretty annual thing. Um really the only changes we had to make of course is we just updates uh on our you know our dates on page three you'll notice up at the top it says that the the bylaws were approved by the DT on October 15th and
073then of course we're bringing them to the US as the board on today on the 10th or tonight on the 10th. Um we have of course Mandy Dobson joining us in our administrator um team or portion. Let's see. We also added um Adam Flax is a recent new addition. Um Garrett Smith, Leona Breeden. These were all individuals. Um Jill Wells was one that you know she retired of course and so she she had served on this for us for a number of years. So really other than that it's just a matter of just making sure we had the right dates and the right people. But other than that, the bylaws are all the same. >> All right, I move to approve those. >> Thanks, Marlene. A second. Second. Thanks, Harrison. All those in favor say
074I. >> I. >> Opposed? Motion carries. And now we'll move on to uh the discussion that on uh classified staff uh snow days. This was an item that um a you had you had asked or you had brought last month. And so what I did, I just wanted to of course provide you with with some information so we can discuss this. I I went through um you know we would have uh 26 um classified individuals and you can see of course I I just wanted to give the most accurate give the most accurate number I could. So just based on current hourly rates and you know a seven and a half hour workday, you know what what that could potentially total up to um each time. So there's that column there that's just simply says
075total at the top. Those would be for individuals who I I guess it would just say again that they would just be getting their standard hourly rate. There's other individuals as you can see one two three there's about six individuals that um you know even on a snow day um they would be coming here and still working. I mean these would be the ones that would be pushing snow or scooping sidewalks and doing all those things. We probably would have some secretarial positions that would be coming in and still putting in hours. And so it was just the idea with those individuals still still having to come in. um you know I not that it would have to be but I guess it for me it kind of made sense that maybe they would get
076you know time and a half you know for for being here. So I kind of wanted to see in terms of what that would look like in cost too. So you know it it adds up quickly. Uh when you look at just simply one day I mean you're looking roughly $3,500 you know just one day. And then I the reason I put two and three was just last winter we had we had a three-day snow day event and so you know if you look at potentially if we would end up having three snow days it it adds up quickly I guess. So anyway I just wanted to simply share that with you and guess you as a board can >> so at this time we have 26 personnel that are classified. Is that okay? on
077those extra the ones for the time and a half. Does that include um I know it's obviously you don't list the position or anything, but like the kitchen um the d the director like sometimes they have to unload trucks that come and >> know if that included from whoever you put over there. >> Um I believe so. >> Okay. >> Yep. I believe so because you're right that was I had that mind that potentially the truck could show up on that day and >> um you know I that [snorts] >> normally it would probably >> you could about bank on it that that's what that is exactly when it would be and we would need the other you know person to scoop the scoop the alley out first and so >> I mean and that's
078the thing is you know I guess the other thing to keep in mind is that you know I put everybody down as a a seven and a half hour day. I mean, there's there's some people I would say this is a high-end, you know, number. Not that not that it's too terribly off, but you know, there's there's some um classified staff where, you know, maybe it wouldn't be I mean, they don't work a full seven and a half hour day normally, you know. So, I mean it, you know, they might be down around the the six hours, you know, range. So, >> but for for my purposes, I just wanted to >> I wanted to think on the high end, but at the same time that >> 3,400, you know, roughly 7,000, I mean, those
079those numbers really wouldn't be that far off really. Yeah. And I think part of the question um that the uh pair brought up was that you know if the co-op has paid for snow days >> you know why not them? >> Sure. My understanding is we pay the co-op anyway, right? Or the money that comes in federally. >> Yeah. >> Basically flow through. Yeah. [snorts] >> That is I mean that is quite a bit of >> change there. I mean I [clears throat] you know don't get me wrong I mean I We we can't do the things we do here without those people, you know, for sure. I mean, they are truly a big piece of what we do here every single day. And I greatly appreciate every single one of them. And >> um
080you know, I obviously just even in my short time of being in the position I am in and being in in the budget and things like that. I mean, yes, I I would love to do more, you know, but I don't know. the these kind of numbers just kind of they catch my attention very quickly and I you know I wonder if there's something that even if we didn't go like this route exactly like I don't know like something you know how we did with like the substitute like if a teacher was >> going to be doing two classes like like a flat rate kind of thing. I don't know if there would be >> a different >> Sure. >> option. >> Sure. I mean, I'm the other thing I was thinking about that I
081didn't I didn't put on here, you know, but you know, from what I understand, you of course I've just got the one year under my belt in terms of of looking at the the budget and things like that, but you know, from what from what I've gathered, you know, we have done pretty well with classified, you know, raises in the last couple years. I'm looking over here at Don because [laughter] of course you know she's been she helps me with with some of that conversation of course but >> you know I that was just another factor I was keeping in mind is that you know maybe if it's and like what you're saying if this isn't the route it's definitely just keeping in that mind of you know what we what we've done what we
082maybe can continue to do to provide you know you know again I don't know what that raise may look like for next year but it's just knowing that we know we want to >> I mean if you don't have any snow days, that amount of money is already really in your budget because they would be working that full day, >> right? >> So, uh, >> kind of >> how many snow days how many snow days we average? Just out of curiosity, >> last year we had quite a >> I know last year we did. Yeah. >> And it seemed like the year before we had >> we've [clears throat] The thing of it is, well, we I guess still their snow days. I we've we've had what the year before maybe our our snow accumulation
083wasn't necessarily big, but we hit those cold temps where >> we had negative temps and we just knew it wasn't good for those kids to be getting out and >> thinking about the number of kids that we had that walk or bike or whatever. >> So, I guess really that doesn't change anything. We still weren't at school, you know, that day. I mean, that is true, Marlene's point. >> Mhm. >> It's already if if we don't have a snow day, they're here and getting paid anyway, >> except for we'll be paying some people a lot more. >> Mhm. >> Based on their hour hourly wages, you know. >> Yeah. And then and that's the that's the hard part where I >> struggled with I'd love to yeah those that already have to be here and
084if a person wants to use a leave time they're they can >> that's what I was ask like can I mean they >> that just stinks they're >> and I do it all the time if I stay home I use >> sick leave or vacation. How many have um >> they all have leave, >> right? You know, like when you have young kids and you have to take them for sick days, doctors and stuff like do we have any that typically don't like they go through their >> and I don't know classified handbook. How many classified days did they >> It's a day a month or the number of hours you work a month. Like if you're an eight hour employee, you get eight hours a month sick and an eight hours a month vacation.
085Now, if you're a part-time and don't work in December, you don't get vacation days, though. >> Okay? >> You just get sick. And if you work six hours a month, you get six hours of sick leave that month. You don't get eight because you don't work, right? You know, it's a day a month. >> And how does the pay work? Do they get paid only during the school year or can you break it up and get paid throughout the school? >> No, they would get paid the hours that they work during the school year. >> Okay. So, once summer vacation comes and they're off work, >> they'll get their last check in June for May. >> That's how the co-op would work. That's how the co-op works. >> And I really don't want to go
086that other direction. [laughter] No, >> I would second that person >> because there's some districts that allow the teachers to get their pay. >> Yeah. The teachers teachers teachers do a salary by 12. >> If you're a classified hourly to work in the summer, you get paid your last check will be in June for your hours worked in May. >> Okay. >> Yeah. I mean, that's I I that's another thought, you know, again, as I was doing this and processing this, I mean, that and other conversations I've had, I mean, there's there's pros to being certified and there's pros to being classified. I mean both both have their pros. I mean there's there's two things about you know but the thing about is like if you're certified then sorry you can't have the advantages of
087a classified. If you're classified sorry you >> you don't get those advantages. I mean you're you're one or the other you know >> you know and I >> I guess that's the other thing I I think about too. I mean, >> you know, I there's there's been many nights where I've I know I've gone past my seven and a half hour days, but I'm, you know, my >> I don't get to put in those extra hours or I'm not turning in the time card to die. So, I'm not getting the overtime. I mean, my >> Well, and other businesses, I mean, if they don't open, their employees take a PTO day or no pay, >> right? >> And I kind of figure when you And this is just me and people are going to hate
088me. [laughter] Let >> him throw the apples at you. >> And I know you >> because I am a classified. >> My view honestly of it. If I wanted to be paid like a teacher, I would have went and got my teaching degree. I'm a classified employee. If I want paid, I'll use a leave time. If I don't, I get docked. Um, like he said, we have perks that teachers don't. If I want to take off the day before a break, I can say, "Chris, can I have a day off?" I don't have to come and get your guys approval >> like a certified does. I mean, there's just different ways of looking at it, you know? >> Yeah. And that's just that's one of >> when you take a position classified, you kind of
089know that's >> what gonna happen, >> right? I just wanted to and my Yeah. My big thing when I when Chris and I talked about putting it on the agenda was I was like I want to >> right >> see some >> numbers so at least we know what we're talking about if we >> you showed this to me. >> That's a lot bigger than I would have guessed actually. >> So whether we >> but it's a big deal to me. No, I thank you for taking the time to putting this on paper because um >> I mean it is a eye openener and >> um I'm glad that I don't think I don't believe every since I've been on the board we've never said nay to a raise since I've been here. So [snorts]
090but appreciate it. Yeah, absolutely. All right. If there's no more discussion or nobody wants to make a motion, we'll move on to number 12. So, I do believe in your packet you should have another um spreadsheet. This came from Jamie. Oh, let's see. Um, you'll notice that I'm trying to think back to some of the things that, you know, when her and I, you know, were talking about this. I mean there's these are these are not just for this year alone. Um these are some of these have been on here you know for for quite some time you know and then you know some of these you know for instance like the old class dofies um you know from my understanding I mean there's there's some of those been on this report for several several
091years of course you know once they get up to be once a senior I mean they they got to pay their dues before they get their diploma. So, um I don't know. Jamie had pointed out to me that there really wasn't necessarily anything out significant or much different than maybe what we typically seem but looks like it's considerably less. Mhm. >> Mhm. And she even made that comment too that um there very well even could be some of these that are have or have been taken care of. She just hasn't got them processed yet too. So that's another comment I remember making too. >> Yeah. I think last time we she presented I think she said as the you know as the school year progresses gradually some of them get >> y >> get caught
092up. up. This was something that she had I think that she had put together fairly early and like you said, we've been in school now for for a while and some of them have been taken care of. So, >> all right. That was again that was just another November business calendar item. So, we're checking things off. All right, we will move on to number 13. uh continued discussion about the HOSA chapter. >> Um I just wanted to really give you guys an update. Um so after Stephanie had come and shared with us last month as far as the details with that, um Casey Becker had also been reaching out to me, you know, she's she's got some connections. you know, she's just very interested in, you know, what she can do to to maybe even
093be a part of helping with that or she's also got a connection down in the Lindberg um school district where students are um it's built into their schedule where they they go from the school to the I don't know what county Lindberg in whatever that is, but they go to the Lindsburg hospital and they participate and it's not just within the healthc care um profession. I mean it they're they've got kids going to work in the business office. They they go and work in the whole realms of everything that you might find in a hospital. So um it [clears throat] was just kind of interesting how you know she had come to me and visit to me about that and then of course we've had the conversation with Stephanie so about the hostess. So, we
094we're we're going to go we're going to take a visit down there to uh Lindberg here before too long and just go scope it out and see what see what it looks like and um maybe brainstorm again maybe how that and the host of piece can can work together. But it's just more just an update to let you know that we're we've got some things in motion. We're kind of see where it leads us and take take us and um you know I think Stephanie, myself and of course Mrs. Rubman was a part of that conversation too. just it'll be interesting to see maybe what opportunities we can find for the kids and our continued working connection if possible in the school. So that really was was pretty much it. I I just wanted to
095bring you the update with that. >> Yeah. Yeah. And I think the timing I mean, you know, to do something this year, you know, with our schedules are already set and the kids have picked their classes and and all that stuff is pretty much done, but it's a great time between now and spring to have these conversations and try to come up with a plan that can be brought back to the board. Uh, and then, you know, we can figure out see how some of these other schools are doing it. So, the nice thing is we have a little bit of time to work before we start doing our line schedule for classes next year. And so, hopefully we can figure out uh a way to to work it in there and find somebody that
096wants to take it on and all those things. So, uh anyway, so yeah, I think just keep the board updated and >> Yep. I I guess also too I probably I did reach out to um Philipsburg, Mr. Gower up there is the superintendent of Philipsburg I think my notes are anyway Philipsburg has it and so I was able to visit with him and that you know there are he currently right now Philsburg has um he said right now they just have three kids but they've had more in it in previous years but you know he said um you know it's been a good thing. It's it's not anything that's breaking the bank, so to speak. You know, he said it's very affordable and, you know, it is just giving kids opportunity to get that get
097that experience. So, it was good to visit with him. Um, he had also reached out to the way it works in Phillisburg is that there's a a science teacher who um is the host a chapter sponsor sponsor. And so, it works out well, you know, for that for that individual to do that. And then those kids have that built in their schedule. So it very much what he described is I think is very much kind of what we potentially kind of had a vision for it for us as well. It's just a matter of you know making it fit us and fit our system and things like that. >> And I think it's like kind of like any other uh CTE pathway we have. >> It es and flows. There's more kids, you know, interested
098these couple years and maybe a few less the next. So, but yeah, I think just working through how it could how we could do it and how it could work. Cool. Okay. Any questions on that? If not, we'll move on to number 14. Okay. So, what I want to first the in your in your packet there, you've got the the graphics. Uh, if you can recall, this was something I Gosh, I don't know. It's it's been a little while, but the these this is the tier um packaging pricing. So, the tier one you can see up at the top um in the ballpark of 13,300, tier 2 19,750, tier three 24750, and then of course when you get up to tier four, you're looking at, you know, 30,000 potentially maybe more. So, I wanted to
099bring that back to your attention just so you had those numbers in mind. And then what I had asked then um for that design team to do is for me to to give me a couple different designs and um I hope you're okay. I told them give me a tier two and a tier three and we'll So I do have those. I'll I'll share those with you and then we we can I'll let I'll turn it over for you guys then to discuss. I just had a full question real quick because I don't remember if you when you were listing off the prices the difference between the DXL and the SE >> number 102 number. >> I was reading the S. Yeah, sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. >> I just didn't know which. >> You're correct.
100We are looking at the DXL numbers. Okay. >> My fault. I was I was reading the SC 102. Sorry. Pay attention to the DXL. We are getting a DXL. >> Okay. So, if that makes it even a little bit more easier, your tier 2 DXL is 185 and your tier 3 DXL is 23 250. Yes, thank you for pointing that out. I I had my eyes on the other number. So, [laughter] okay. So, here we So, here I believe is the tier 2 option. They went with uh the lettering of Planeville along the side and they did on this one they um incorporated that the new the brand label kind of that we adopted here uh last year. So that if you'll notice the difference just by quick look of tier two to tier three
101is they're not doing anything with the cargo bay you know areas down below really those will just remain plain and all the the wrap and everything of course is from the cargo up and it does cover the windows and and things like that. There is some of course some things there on the back, but that's the tier two. And then there's our tier three. >> I like the bigger cardinal. I think the logo kind of looks I love it, but it looks kind of goofy, I think, on the bus. [laughter] >> I don't I don't like that. >> I was thinking that should that's not intimidating in the >> [laughter] >> Yeah. I don't know about I think I'm I think what you're saying is exactly where I was. I I love this one right
102here to be honest with you. I think just the bigger cardinal and I I do think the wrapping that goes on down through the to the base of it beyond the cargo. I think really for whatever reason that adds a lot more to towards me as well. >> I still don't like the logo on the glass on the back >> the cardinal. >> Yep. And they said you didn't think Yeah. >> Yeah. They said almost [laughter] brand on shirts. >> Yeah, that makes sense. But yeah, on the school bus. >> Yeah. [clears throat] >> So, while we're also talking about this, >> um they they mailed this to me. I'll pass this around. So, this is evidently this is the material that they will be printing on. Um, and then they of course then the
103next step is for us to it even says like take it outside into the sunlight so that you feel like you're definitely getting the the colors that you want. But this is the color palette that they shared. So I'll just pass that around and you can kind of feel what that I mean it Julie is a big sticker. It's pretty amazing that they can get that stuff. >> I would hate to try to get the bubbles out of [laughter] >> right. So, um, you know, you're looking at a a price difference of, you know, 23 250 and the other one what you dropped down to 185. So, you know, you're >> I know, but >> to get 5,000 >> less than 5,000. >> Yeah, it looks great though. >> It really It really truly does.
104If you do fix that logo on the back, >> put the cardinal. >> You can see on the hood they put the cardinal on the hood. >> That looks too weird to me. [snorts] I don't know that on the bus it looks darker like maroon other than the cardinal that red for >> all of it, not just the cardinal. I I think see if you're referring to are you referring to like right let me go like right down here. >> Yeah, that looks more like the color. >> Yeah. So I think this will because what you're see you're seeing like a blending of the of the red and the black together. So I do feel like down here you'll see a darker maroon color. I think here >> is going to be more of the
105vibrant red. Yeah. >> So I really don't think it's a matter of changing it. I think that's the design is going to give us that effect there for sure. I guess that's the question if you're if you like the more darker >> Yeah. the cardinal red. It looks more cardinal red like that. >> Yeah. >> I think that looks really good. >> Yeah. With the I was Yeah. >> And then like you said that cardinal that's on the hood goes on the back window. >> Put that right here. Right. [laughter] >> And we keep this one here. >> Yeah. I think that looks good. >> Yep. >> I don't have a problem with that. >> I can't really looks like Oh, yeah. Yeah. Okay. >> Yeah. And I don't think >> wait I want to
106take >> and with our color scheme upgrading to the last tier they just paint the bumpers it looks like but our white our color scheme it looks cool without it painted I'd rather white >> yeah the tier four there's nothing that isn't wrapped like they wrapped the entire bus I think I think it looks really good like that >> I like the way the the black on the cab and >> Yeahardinal Yeah, >> we have an ETA on anything yet. >> They're telling us April. >> April. >> Yeah. Yeah, we got an April date. So, >> but part of picking this out is the finance company is working on starting the paperwork to to get everything. >> No, I was just curious. >> So, >> yeah, that was exactly Chris. Thank you. That was really
107the reason why I wanted to bring this to you tonight because if then that will be the the very next thing I'll do in the morning is I'll be getting back in contact with the uh government capital is the um is who will be doing our financing through and I'll just be letting them know that you know I this will be need to be included in that financing cost you know the the wrap piece they've sent me paperwork and they're they were ready for me to get the ball rolling but after looking and noticing that this wrap wasn't included I I wanted to make sure that this was >> I'd make a motion to let's go with tier three keeping that color scheme but putting the cardinal on the back instead of the the logo.
108>> I'll second that. >> All right. >> Harrison and Scott, all those in favor say I. >> Opposed. >> Motion carries. >> I had to do it. [laughter] >> Okay. So, >> number three. It definitely won't. It won't look like a person bus. [laughter] >> They'll be excited. >> I tell you what, when that thing rolls in on April, it's gonna >> They better win some some games. >> Yeah, [laughter] >> they better take care of it. >> That's right. That too. >> Well, you're exactly right. >> I think they will. >> Yeah, I think so. >> I think a probably an assembly. I can already vision assembly in the auditorium talking about >> bus etiquette. Get those uh those doctor booties when you get off. [laughter] >> Maybe even just bodysuits. Can we just
109>> Okay, awesome. That's That is That's exciting. Very good. >> Yeah, that looks nice. [cough] >> Okay. >> I want to ride on it, too. >> That'll be the first ride, right? >> Yeah. board trip around town. >> Yeah, there we go. >> All right, we'll move on to number 15. Executive session for personnel. >> You guys think 10 minutes is enough. >> Yeah, I don't think >> Okay, it's pretty bang bang. >> Yeah, I think it's all pretty >> saved on some steps, [laughter] >> right? >> The last time we've discussed some of this right about you. I move we go into executive session with superintendent Chris Reinhardt, high school principal John Han, and high school athletic director Risa Rudman to review staff positions pursuant to non-elected personnel exemptions under coma. The open meeting
110will resume in the boardroom. Let's do 15 minutes. >> Sorry. All those in favor say I. I. We are in executive session. 16 approval of uh janitorial position. Uh Hunter Hoser for position of janitor. >> I'll make a motion. >> Second. >> Thanks, Cassie. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion carries. All right. And then number 17, uh, is these two. >> I make that motion for Elizabeth Deutscher and Kinder Arab for, um, after school daycare. Second nest. >> Cassie Myers. Uh, all those in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion carries. And then lastly, number 18, uh, the approval of Justin Prader as high school boys head golf coach. So Harrison >> second >> Scott. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion carries. All right. Number 19.
111Uh, I think 10 minutes is enough. >> Yeah, probably. So, >> yeah. >> Okay. Uh, I move we go into executive session with Superintendent Chris Reinhardt to review staff pursuant to non-elected personnel exemptions under KOMA. The open meeting will resume in the boardroom in at uh 900 p.m. >> All those in favor say I. >> Opposed. Motion carries. for the good of the districts. >> I would just like to just say congratulations to you, Chris, and the two new coming on. Um, also like to thank all the people that did run for the position. It was good seeing a turnout for uh people wanted to step up and to serve uh the the school, the kids and stuff like that. So, uh, I was very, it was very good. Uh, I was impressed. >> Well,
112and I'm figuring that you two will be here in December, but barring that, >> just in case, thank you for your years of running. And thank you, Scott, for your years of service to the board, too, >> because it's >> Yes. >> It's been a pleasure having you guys to work with you. >> Likewise. I plan on being here. >> Okay. Right. >> All right. >> At least probably would have brought cookies or something. So, just [laughter] >> she would right. [laughter] >> Not tonight. Maybe in December. >> I'm getting he's got a month to make cupcakes. [laughter] >> Heather may watching at home. >> She's watching us. [laughter] substitute. >> I don't know. >> We never really >> discussion about uh activity passes for substitutes, >> right? I did not get that on there.
113>> Well, make a note for >> or what do we what are we doing? >> I don't know. Make >> Do we have to make that an actual >> Yeah, just substitute teachers getting passes for activities. >> I mean, that was Yes, that was >> that was a discussion we had last >> You're right. I think so. >> But I did not >> I think they could just do it. >> I I would just >> Yeah. >> Athletic passes. I mean, and set the criteria, whatever you think's appropriate. >> Yep. >> You know, can't just do it one time and get pass, but >> yeah. >> Give them a punch. >> People that are in the regular rotation, they can do pass. >> Yeah. [laughter] >> Yeah. >> That's not a bad idea. Don't lose
114it. Don't lose that cont. Just kidding. >> All right. My apologies for not having that on there. I missed that one. All right. >> Make a motion to adjourn. >> Thanks, Scott. >> Second. >> Thanks, Cassie. All those in favor say I. >> We are ajourned. Thank you. Thanks, everyone. >> Thanks, everybody.