Board of Education Meeting June 17, 2026

001Okay. All right, Tony, we're ready. All right. Thank you. We've been in executive session. Um, and now we're back in open. Please stand for the pledge. >> I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> All right, >> slight change for everybody. Um, we have a new board member and as all of us on the board know, we had uh a meeting where we discussed her and I uh texted her this morning. I don't know what time early. probably wasn't that early, but um and I'd like her to do a quick little twominut uh elevator speech on who she is and what she does and all the good stuff. So, congratulations. Uh we're

002happy to have you here. >> Thank you. >> And you're on. >> All right. Good evening. My name is Angela Lee and I am honored to have been selected to serve on the board of education. I have been a resident of this community for nearly 26 years and both of my children attended schools in this district. As a parent, I was actively involved in their schools and activities, and I have seen firsthand the positive impact our educators have on students and families. Professionally, I'm entering my 28th year as a public school educator. Throughout my career, I have served as a classroom teacher, department chair, curriculum coordinator, and instructional leader. These experiences have given me a deep appreciation for the challenges and opportunities facing public education today. As a board member, my goal is to listen,

003learn, and work collaboratively to support students, staff, and families. I believe every decision should be guided by what is best for students while maintaining strong stewardship of district resources and preserving the trust of our community. I am grateful for this opportunity to serve and look forward to working alongside my fellow board members, district leaders, staff, families, and community members to continue the great work happening in our schools. Thank you. >> There we go. What a nice speech. Thank you. We are happy to have you here. All righty. Public comment radar. Anybody. All righty. Consent agenda. Chair will accept a motion. >> I make a motion to approve the cons consent agenda as presented. >> Second. We have a motion and a second to approve the consent agenda as presented. Any discussion? >> I do have

004a question about the hop skip contract. Can you talk me through that? >> That is our contract with our um company that provides transport for McKenna Vento or foster students. It's Hop skip drive. We use that in Everdriven. >> Any other questions? Seeing none, all in favor say I. >> I. >> All opposed. Passes. Report of the superintendent Appaliss. >> Yes, we are looking to purchase some devices uh for our students. In essence, a middle school, Mil Creek, and at Hillrest. uh trying to spread out the cost. In essence, we'll own the devices after four years. I think we pay like a dollar, so it' be $28,000. You guys should have that. We just got that today. Thank you, Dr. Arcy, for getting that on short notice. And so, um we'd like to do more,

005but we also need to be careful with resources. And so, therefore, we're going to uh spread that out a little bit. Um and so, therefore, the administration would ask the board to approve the Apple lease as presented. I make a motion that we approve the Apple lease as presented. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second to approve the Apple lease as presented. Any discussion? >> Seeing none, all in favor say I. >> I. >> All opposed. Uh for the new members, for Rusty and for Angela, no question is silly, so just stop. And if we need to slow down, we slow down and we explain. Um, so, okay. All righty. Dr. Underwood, construction update. >> Yes. So, we're going to have a pre-construction meeting on Monday the 22nd of June in regards

006to um the turf contract with ATG that we just approved at our last meeting. And so, u hope is that I believe our first game is September. It's what Mr. has planned out as far as the schedule that they will be um the field should be done by then. We'll utilize our C team field in essence for them to practice to be prepared and for some fortunate reason our first games are away. So that helps us a little bit uh in that regard. So we are working on that. Obviously, uh uh just to remind the board, we did uh approve for softball, baseball, and for uh in essence renovation of the football as the turf is now getting ready to start its 17th year, which is like 10 years past what the average life of

007turf is. So, super proud of that. We'll hope that this one will do the same, but we are starting that. We've got a few other things Michelle's going to share that we've got going on around the district. >> Uh currently, we're working on the kitchen at BMS. It was um well behind schedule terms of being uh updated and so we just got the ceiling grids put in. We have all the equipment out. We're going to put a new uh walk-in freezer in. And so we're kind of on schedule right now. We just put the lights in. The grids is up. Uh we're going to be painting the cafeteria. So this should be a really nice space. Uh we're working on getting trying to make some decisions on some appliances that we want to put back

008in there and what we want to purchase new to go inside. We've also just, if you notice the fence line, we've been working on the fence on the north north side of the football field all the way down to the practice area. So, that piece is being replaced and then next year we'll go down uh what street is this right here? Cleveland. Is this No, not Cleveland. Scott. We'll be going down Scott with uh the yellow and we'll get that part of the fence fixed and then we'll just kind of work our way around. Um the sidewalk at the middle school is also been replaced on the west side and we're getting ready to start some more concrete work right there at Bosow. That curbing uh was pretty bad. We're putting a French drain in

009across the street. We took down the broken uh fence, put a French drain in, and we are uh well underway with that. We also have uh due to all the severe storms that we had, we have uh a claim out with our insurance. Uh it's probably going to be over about $500,000 worth of claims for our all the damage that the hell caused us. Uh the skylight over at Mil Creek is look like someone just threw a thousand of marbles on top of it as well as uh a lot of our HVAC up there. So, we are looking to get that addressed. And then here pretty soon, we'll be putting a new RTU on top of Scott. So, CO's front parking lot will be kind of tied up. And then we got some new windows

010coming in at Grace to make sure that we stay in compliance uh with the with the state. Um, so we're pretty busy right now with a lot of uh projects going on around the district. and um I'll keep you updated uh throughout the summer. >> When did you say the fields were going to start? Just baseball and softball. >> We'll start later this month. We actually we'll start tomorrow with a little bit of demolition. We'll start taking down fences and uh the backing and we'll start working on some of those things. And then Monday we'll have a meeting to finish some of the logistics so that we can uh stay on schedule and be done before the end of the >> uh well before the first home uh >> they're looking pretty rough and some

011people had some questions. I like no >> yes we're not we have not been maintaining them and we have shut down all uses of the uh fields. We've reached out to Veloci and some of the other teams just said, "Hey, uh we're going to uh uh shut down while we prepare for construction." So, >> yeah. Now, is the turf going to be infield and outfield? >> Yes. >> Okay. I've had a couple of people ask actually just today at lunch, so I said I would ask tonight. >> you mentioned the um images from hail >> um Wow. When I gave it to you. >> Oh, this one's okay now. Um, when we had the power outages, did we I think the scoreboard in the gym and things were damaged, too. >> No. >> Oh, I

012thought maybe the basketball. I thought you mentioned that there when we had >> Well, we had some scoreboards cutting out during games at the middle school, but we replaced both score upstairs at >> No, we had insurance claims on those. >> No, we just replaced them. They were they were very old and had numbers dangling from the machine that needed to be >> and connectivity is >> middle school. >> Yes, >> they were probably dangling >> well and connectivity issues were a little bit of the >> but we're we're in good shape now. They are they're working well. And also, just so you know, the uh fieldhouse basketball gym uh due to a roof leak caused some damage to the floor, acne floor is working on that. So, we shut the floor down, the gym

013down for the rest of the pretty much the rest of the summer, but they still have uh Yokum and they will have the um auxiliary gym to continue to utilize. Awesome. >> Is there anything going on at the middle school this summer other than just improvements? I mean, we don't we don't have any gym shutdowns or anything like that. >> Just improvements. >> Okay. And I think the um foundation just recently discovered an issue with their roof, so we may want to have insurance take a gander at that as well. >> I don't know if it we're checking that. I don't know if it's the roof or if it was just the inside of the ceiling tile or something. I haven't been to I haven't seen it myself and we got Jason's been pretty busy

014with Steve being out right now. So, uh, but it is something that we were investigating to take a look and see how severe of damage it is >> and might be able to >> Have they done anything any work on the middle school football field? >> I know that was brought to your attention. >> We have not started on the middle school football field yet, but it is uh a part of the scope of work that we're going to be working on. We've cut it down really low right now so we can really kind of see where some of our uh areas of attention that we need to have to it. But, you know, Teresa mentioned earlier, we're a small crew and so we're looking at how do we maximize some of the things that

015we have to get done with our team and then what we have to contract out. And this is one that we want to do as a team, but we got some other things that we got to stay ahead of right now, which is cutting grass. Uh that is a a giant task force as well as uh the mulch that we got to take care of at all of the uh schools. So, we're in the process of getting some bids for mulch because mulch take up a lot of the the grounds time and we need them out cutting grass right now. >> Yes, it's raining every other day. >> I was going to say it's full-time job cutting grass already, but with all the rain, it's just non-stop. >> Yep. >> Perfect. Any other questions? >>

016I think the we have we purchased some uh chairs for the form at the middle school and we're going to be working on that as well. We're going to take out all the gray chairs. We'll probably surplus those. If we keep some in surplus most and then we will install some new purple chairs that we've purchased. We were able to uh we Teresa found some chairs for us, I believe. And uh Dr. Underwood worked his magic and we got them. We end up getting the chairs for about 10 bucks a chair. Uh that was originally about 75 or $80 a chair. Uh but they're really nice. We going to put them in. We'll clean them up, but we'll do the floor and make the lights a little brighter inside the uh form. And um of

017course we'll dress we'll address our microphones as well. >> sound lighting and chairs. >> And the chairs are purple. >> They are. They're nice purple. About about purple as these chairs we're sitting in. >> Good. Any other questions about construction volunteer report? >> Yes. So, I've included an attachment in the agenda tonight for you to follow along um with our volunteer numbers for the year. Again, this is a volunteer who has come to school to um attend a field trip, um a classroom volunteer, perhaps a tutor or reading with students, things like that. Um or field day, someone who's going to be at the school for a length of time or interacting with students on a a large scale. Um, they do have to pass a background check through our checker system, which traces their

018social security number, does a sex offender search, does a global watch list search, a national search, and the county search. So once they pass those things, they are able to volunteer in our schools. We like to give them advanced notice of events that are coming up so that they have an opport they have enough opportunity to get this through and get it approved and be on their way to volunteer. We appreciate volunteers. Each school reaches out to parents and advertises opportunities. Um you can see that um we have a lot of volunteers in the spring and that's the field day field trips when it's warmer and then we uh kindergarten events or fourth grade final walkthroughs as well as in the fall when we're taking trips to pumpkin patch with kindergarten and some of our

019first grade field trips that happen early in the year. We did have a grand total of 426 volunteers this year, which is down from last year, but we did have um more volunteers at Scott for this this year. They had more opportunities for parents to come in, which was exciting. And um like I said, we always encourage volunteers. We do know it is a time commitment and often parents have to take off work and we appreciate them coming in. >> Any questions? >> I I did notice there's about 220 less year-over-year. Has that caused us to have to not be able to do some things that we had done previously? >> I have not heard that. Sometimes field trips limit the amount of chaperones we're able to take as well. You can't just take everybody

020that maybe wants to come. Um it depends on where you're going. Um that could be a reason for it, but um I have not heard that we've had to cancel something or not have something because of that. >> Thank you. I do see that there's five denied applications for the 2526 school year and there isn't any on the 242. >> I know that wasn't listed for last year, but we we did deny people based on um a result of what came up in their application. >> That's I wonder. Okay, >> any other questions? All righty. Enrollment update. >> Yes, that's me, too. I've got three in a row here. Um, so >> yes, I'm going to So there's going to be some information that will come out about enrollment, which will be primarily online. We

021still will have opportunity for families to sign up for times to come in and enroll in person if they'd like to do that. As I said, more information will come on that in the future. Um, it will start the week of July 13th once our system has rolled over for the next year. Um, parents will access the enrollment form through my powerhub. It will not be a new app. It is something that parents already have access access to. It doesn't sound like Is this working? Hello. Hello. It says green. Okay. Is this one working? Okay. Um, so is this one working? Okay. Okay. So, um the current app is the same app that the parents have. There will not be a new app um for enrollment this year. Um we really want to make sure

022that you know we'll provide information about our free and reduced lunch forms. That is a high importance for us to get those turned in as well as for families because that waves your tech fees and allows you access to a district computer. And um we also want to make sure that parents bring in information on their shot records as well. So really read over all of the things that you'll need to do um to successfully enroll and it should be a quick and easy process. And um if you do have any questions, don't hesitate to call um our office. Miss Anita Major is our enrollment secretary and she does an outstanding job with answering questions and will enroll you as you need. Also, Miss Bza Baren will um be available for any ELLL parents needing

023some help with translation. >> I don't know if this is working, but >> it looks green. M >> mine's doing its own thing too over here. But, um quick question. I know we had talked about with the online enrollment last year possibly making it to where it was like a form that you couldn't bypass that you had to at least see and visit. Are we going to structure it that way this year to try and capture as many >> for the free and reduce? >> Yes, >> that's how we do it. >> Okay, perfect. >> They they can bypass it because we can't federally require people to fill it out. >> No, agreed. But it is right there to say, "Hey, >> and then our secretaries had did a wonderful job um after enrollment. That's

024when we got most of our forms back, contacting families. Miss Ellison did an outstanding job from Torrance's office um getting lists to teachers and having teachers and secretaries and admin recruits. So, we we really did a great job of it last year and we want to keep that up this year. >> Okay. Anything else on enrollment? >> Anyone? All right. Moving on. Discipline report. So I've included also an attachment for um the district discipline report and this is a overview um a few statistics from our K through2 suspension review um hearings. As you can see the total for the district was 152 this year and I've broken it down by K6 is kind of how we categorize them for my office's purposes and 712. So, um you can see that um just overall some things

025in general um that we do have a large number of males um with violations as well as um increasing numbers with our special education and 504 population. Um we've also had an uptake in multi-racial um involvement in incidents as well. This is something that we do monitor and make sure that we're providing um we're looking at the equity of how consequences are being handed down. Um for K6, you can see there we had 22 males and eight females with a total of 30 students that came through for hearings. And 7 through 12, we had 122 total and that was 90 males and 32 females. Um, you can also see at the sides the IEP totals as well and 504s broken down. I will share with you that our highest offenses that we had, so the

026largest number of offenses were for fighting. We had a um well of drugs was 59 fighting, 49 um threats, which could be toward another student or just in general. I'm going to do this um or against another individual. um was 15 um and our highest grade level was eighth grade for offenses and then for the lower sixth graders this year. So I definitely want to commend our principles and assistant principles who are working really hard to make sure that we have drugs out of our buildings that we are keeping tabs on things that are going on. offenses are being reported by staff and they're communicating those to the to the principal that is of highest importance because they will be the one to act on it and if it's a egregious offense it will come

027to me and I will I will make sure we have a hearing and um go from there. Um let's see any questions that you have about that. >> Are we up from last year or down? >> We are up from last year. Um last year we had um 109. Um the highest previous total that I have that I've found in my records and Dr. Jones's records were 22 23. We had about 120. Um so we've averaged around 110 I would say over the past five years for our hearings. Um, and definitely I want to remind everyone that a 504 requires um physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities um such as learning or concentrating, walking, and IEP requires a qualifying diagnosis. Yeah, I find it interesting that um you

028know a third of these are on IEP at the 7 through 12 grade level and and honestly this is just what's reported. this isn't even probably total. Um, and I kind of want to second what you were saying regarding ensuring that um that everybody is reporting them in our school system and so we can track this and provide um the correct supports to our staff and our administration each building. >> Anyone else? Are we um high on the IEP and 504s >> as compared to last year? I would say it has yes it has gone up. Um if you the percentages for that are about for the district it's 43% of the hearings are sped or 504. At the high school it's 42% sped or 504. At K through six, it's 50%. >> Okay. >>

029And Mr. Put Desi monitors that in regards to our discipline as well, and they communicate with us when there are concerns. Correct. >> We have a plan, >> Miss Prin. And the plan is and was communicated at our last admin and actually Miss Crumbly did this to reinforce that the expectation is high of our students and we are not going to tolerate uh behavior especially that harm students and harm our staff because that does obviously affect morale. So, we have an high expectation of behavior and how we expect you to act. And so, we may get dinged uh because we might have some high areas, but then again, we have to think about our staff and our students that are here that suffer some of those physical altercations that happen and we can go down

030the list of people that are concussed or broken bones or or hit. I mean, on and we're just not going to tolerate that uh type of behavior here. If they're going to be that way, they're not going to be in attendance here. They will be either in an outside placement or they will be at home or we will meet them for homebound. And that is our plan is to have that high expectation. >> Well, and I think too it's important to add that um recognizing the numbers that we're seeing here are not um we are not stigmatizing buildings based off of reports of behavior. To reiterate what you said, we want to make sure everybody feels safe. We want to make sure that, you know, retention is important here. We want to make sure students

031feel safe in the classroom. And so, the only way that we can do that is to ensure that these things are being reported and there's not a retaliatory behavior that comes in conjunction with reporting these behaviors. >> All righty. Any other questions? FY26 budget amendment. All right. So, since December, I have been providing amendments to the budget. And for Miss Lee, we have assessed valuation of 602 million. And if you look at the top far right corner, we began our balance at the beginning of uh June with well July 1st with 23 million uh in general 6 million in our debt services and then 30 million alto together total. when you look at our funds, our funds uh for revenue, and I'll talk a little bit more about where our revenue comes from. And I

032apologize the uh the scan doesn't always scan smoothly. So, I apologize that it's a little choppy there. If you want to uh print it up copy, I'll be more than happy to get you a printed up copy, but the funds have been pretty consistent since December. Um, I took these I took December off to have room for uh these three here because typically we don't necessarily do a budget uh amendment in May, but we did this year just to continue to keep the budget before everyone. So, we uh are pretty consistent in the revenues that we received around $79 million. Then our expenditures uh uh dipped a little bit here uh in June and that's just simply because we cut off uh the uh deadline for spending funds and then we have since reclaimed those

033funds back uh to the budget. Uh and you'll see uh the results of us reclaiming that budget th those dollars back which has kept us at uh 79 million $7,600 uh in our revenue but also decreasing our uh expenditures to $79,000. Now we still have some funds in cumber of around $341,000. Uh that's money that's just people had scheduled to pay something. Now, if uh so that we compare our bills, if something didn't get spent, we will pull those dollars back as well. But right now, $341,000 are uh encumbered and probably put us about dead even there with our expenditures and our revenues. Uh our funds transfer will zero out uh for our teacher funds and our capital. We've uh again, we've paid all of our salaries to teachers for the summer. So that allows

034us to close out uh May and then begin to work on our budget, our preliminary budget for June. So that's zeroed out. When you look at our fund balance, if we were to spend every single dollar out of every single account, that would leave us with a uh $31 million and a fund balance of 30.85. If you recall, our fund balance in April was uh I'm sorry, in May was 28. So, we've gone up a few percentages just because we were able to reclaim some of those dollars, which typically happens every single year. We never spend uh typically we don't spend every dollar out of our uh budget. So, it went up uh 30.8%. So, you can see pretty decent fund balance there for the 2526 budget. major revenues, local taxes is where we get

035all of our funds. Well, not all of our funds, but a big chunk of our funds. >> Torrance, do you feel comfortable that we'll stick to the 30.85 or maybe a little higher at when we're all said and done? >> Uh, I'll let him answer because it gives and floats. >> I understand. So that is difficult right now with the possibility of the governor being able to line item veto funds for this year and so that could decrease what we receive in funding from the state which could negatively affect us. So we don't know what that is until after June 30th and so go ahead. Sorry. >> So what could be the worst case scenario? >> We don't know. Governor has the ability to line item veto any item in the budget and if he

036so chooses to do that could negatively affect us uh moving forward. So we do not know as far as the ramifications of that politically would be probably very harmful in an election year. >> Okay. And so I would hope and believe that they would not um we're decreased already from 7145 as far as our state adequacy target. Last projection was 69. We're at 67. We don't know where that's going to end up. Um and I would point out that our fund balance to start this school year for 2526 was 36%. So we have deficit spent 6% of our fund balance this year. So we're not gaining in revenues. We have over spent what we've received in revenues to this point uh to the tune of 6% already and you'll see what the the plan is

037for next year which is also deficit spending uh approximately another 6% is what we will have deficit spent uh as well proposed for 2627. So we are overspending what we are pulling in in revenue. >> And I I can wait till you get to the next one if to answer that question about Senate Bill 3 >> as far as where you sit. >> Okay. >> Yep. >> One. >> All right. So basic for we get uh our revenue from local taxes 45% come from there. basic formula, we get 24 uh% from that and then grants and Prop C and then other revenues. And if you look at our budget summary here, it just kind of breaks down our pockets of money. And you can see that between about 70% of our budget uh is made

038it comes uh salaries and people are tied to 70% of our budget. So we have to take care of them. And then down below our expenditures, salaries, our uh you see our general uh fund that we have all those uh incident uh all our financial resources and everything come out of our general and then our debt services and our capital projects. And if you scroll all the way down, you'll see a good breakdown of our revenues based on our local county and state for revenues and for our expenses. So, administration asked the board to approve the 2526 budget amendment as presented. >> Motion to approve the FY26 budget amendment as presented. >> Second. Do >> have a motion and a second to approve the FY26 budget amendment as presented. Discussion. Seeing none, all in favor

039say I. I. >> All opposed? FY27 preliminary budget. >> So the FY27 budget um the approach has been prepare for the worst but hope for the best. So with this one I kind of took the liberty of kind of creating a a little bit of different format on the beginning. You'll still see the record of budget at the bottom of it. So we're going to walk through a couple things. You'll see our table of contents. I added some page numbers so we don't get lost in there. Uh I want to make sure people know who our because this this one typically goes on our website. So I just make sure I add our uh board of education and our superintendent uh cabinet here as well as a a good introduction. I won't read all these

040things to you, but there is an introduction. uh want to make sure we highlight our mission uh uh in our pirate principles and our parameters things that we've worked on our CIP that Dr. Mock talked about in our uh part of our strategic plan. I wanted to make sure those things are uh captured in one location for anyone that goes out and take a look at our budget. If you go and look at some of the other budget reports out there, you're going to see similar things and or more. So that was something new that I wanted to add to ours and I'll keep uh trying to evolve our our board packet uh in J in June. And so, you know, devel this is a comprehensive and collaborative process that I have to go through

041in terms of building the budget, working with all of our district leaders uh here in this room as well as our building leaders to get feedback and input uh as to what they need so that I can allocate funds to them uh for their budgets. And so they all have their preliminary budgets of what they are looking forward to uh for the upcoming school year. And in this process, you're going to see information that's going to cover our staffing needs, our curriculum, our facilities, technology, and professional development. So part of that, we've heard our Apple products have been mentioned earlier today. Dr. Mark, I don't know if she's presenting it today, but we'll talk a little bit about our resources uh that we'll be using for curriculum. And finally, we'll talk a little bit about

042salary, too. I I'll cover quite a quite a few things. One of the new things that I added to this as well is a budget calendar. Um I thought it would be good for you all to kind of see some of the things that I'll be hitting throughout the year. Um so you kind of know what's next if you go out and take a look at it. And then um I want to start right here on page uh eight. So on page eight at the very top uh you know our enrollment went up in 2425 which allowed for us to use that uh enrollment number uh to estimate our attendance for the basic formula. And so we we allowed it allowed us to uh to establish a worst case scenario. So for us, we could

043use that high attendance number for 25 26 and 26 27 school year. So we are right at the 2627 school year. So that means uh after this school year, we will not be able to use that high enrollment number that we received in 2024. Meaning we're going to go back and use whatever low the lowest current enrollment number that we have. Well, yes, the highest lowest number that we have at that particular time unless we have a uh spike in our enrollment. And so, as you look at this paragraph, you'll see that our 9th grade uh is the largest class with the projected enrollment of 336. Uh 11th grade with 325 and sixth grade with 322 students. Our three smallest class sizes are projected to be the eighth grade at 285. first grade with 289

044uh and then uh second grade with 290. The basic formula is influenced by uh several things. The students uh population group including the number of students qualifying for a free and reduced lunch, meal benefits and rece those receiving special education. So those students are uh those those factors are measured against our performance thresholds. uh by the state's highest performing schools. And so they look at those for uh on a two-year basis. We saw an increase in our number of students that qualify for free and reduced meal benefits. Uh for this year, we had 2352 students qualify, which was a seven student increase compared to uh 2324 where we had 2,245 students. uh special education we saw 38 student increase and our English speak uh speaking students we saw 18 student increase um so in terms

045of expenditures we talked about salary 70% of our district budget is allocated to employee salaries and benefits so this year uh we will move every uh everyone one step on the salary scale and we've added 200 to the base that salary schedule has been adjusted from the mast's column down through the doctorate So when you look at the SC salary schedule from master over and down um is uh part of that adjustment select steps moving down the salary schedule have been doubled uh providing increased opportunities for growth for our employees who continue to pursue additional education as well as those that have demonstrated long-term commitment and longevity to the district. So, we wanted to make sure we can kind of put a tourniquet on the on the bleeding that people want to run to other

046districts for more for more money. We want to take care of our people as well. Um, let's see where else I have here. >> I'm just about >> You know, one of the things I'll add while Mr. Allan's looking um what has happened over the last I want to say two to five years um there were caps and formulas that districts utilized when people moved in from one district to another. Um and I can use some of the examples of you might be able to bring in five years and then after that maybe one for every two years up to 10 they would cap you or you could bring in 10 and then start on 11 but you couldn't bring in if you were a 20-year person they would not allow you to start on

047step 20. Well, those caps started to go away. Miss Brown started to hear that at least in the last two to three years for sure. And so, we've seen some of the area districts do that, which we lifted ours this last year. So, this is our first year of lifting ours as well. Um, that it allowed those people that had all those years, it really deterred them from leaving. But now, if as people have lifted those caps, they can go. As we well know in Missouri with PSRS, your last three years matter in regards to your retirement, right? And so I think that is where part of this has come into play. And so as Mr. Allen's pointing out, um we are going to do something that we've not done for several years and that

048is to uh look at pieces of our salary schedule uh and focus on those instead of just a blanket ad because typically that's what we've done in the past. And so this is a a way in which to reward those veteran staff members that have stayed. So did I give you enough time? >> Yep. >> Awesome. >> All right. So for one of the most important things about budget is you got to take care of curriculum and instruction because that is the heart of what we do here. So I got to make sure that Dr. Mock and her team have the ability to do all the wonderful things that she uh shares with us. And so we are committed to making sure we stick close to our strategic plan uh that focus that uh keeps

049a focus on literacy, math collaboration, and student readiness for the future. And so I'm not going to read those because I know Dr. Mock will highlight those uh at the appropriate time, but they are captured here. Uh we are doing some wonderful work uh within our curriculum instruction as well as making sure we support our students through MTSS. And if we drop jump down to uh let's see what page number is that that is page 11 major changes in revenue. So, it's something that Dr. Underwood talked about. Just want to point it out to you all. Uh the legislation, they didn't pass a budget that would fully fund the basic formula. And so, uh they recommended a 7145, which is a student uh adequacy target rate. Basically, they just saying that's how much they believe

050kids for uh education, the cost for education a kid for one year. Uh and there's right now as we stand we're $190 million short uh on that uh on the funding for the basic formula. So it p it paid out close to 6,900 but that doesn't mean as Dr. under here today. The governor has the ability to uh line item veto and roll things back. And so we have been preparing our budget based on a very conservative approach. Uh so we're still using the SAT of 6760. So when you look at our budget, uh we want to give you kind of the worst case scenario so that you can be prepared uh as we prepare for the worst, but again yet hope for the best as we go through that process. >> They're project >>

051correct. It they're projecting to be less than 6,900. They they can tell you you can prepare your budget at 69 or but they believe that it's going to be paying less than 6,900 but where we don't know and the governor can roll it back to what he thinks he feels is best. Uh transportation is going to be funded at about 95% which is about 15 million short but we are committed to making sure uh our kids are are taken care of and providing with reliable transportation services uh to and from school and to all of our activities and events. Um if you look at our expenses, you'll see that transportation is going to go up a little bit. Uh but that is expected. Uh, and see, >> Mr. Allen, real quick, out of that 15

052million statewide shortfall, how much does that affect us directly? >> Of the 15 million, you know, I'll I'll have to drill down on that, per se, but I'm pretty sure that it's going to impact the percentage of uh revenue that we receive. We won't be receiving that full payment that we normally get, but the exact dollar amount, I'll I'll drill down and uh get back to you on that. All right. We talked about the levy and Senate Bill 190 uh freeze assessment for seniors. We know that that uh this past year that was about a $600,000 uh hit that we took uh for those uh for that particular Senate bill. Uh right now we are in the process of reviewing what Senate Bill 3 is going to uh impact us and I'll talk a little

053bit about that here in a few minutes. But also wanted to make sure you all know that we negotiated a 6.9% increase in health insurance. I mean, the rates were they came in a little uh pretty high around 10 or 12. We got them down to 6.9, but it was definitely going to go up some. And we've probably been pretty pretty healthy this year, but you know, even with being healthy, things are still going up. So, uh, we have a really good rock star in Julie that's making sure staff understands, uh, the benefits and take most, uh, get the most bang for their buck with their insurance. And so, if you scroll down past that blank page, uh, you'll see who do we serve. Uh, you see our membership there, free and reduced. We've talked

054about that. Um, and we get our free and reduced numbers in January. We see our English language uh our numbers. We get those in October. Uh, sorry you can't see those numbers for uh English language or for special education, but as I shared with you, those numbers went up by uh 38 and 18 respectively. And then uh the membership over here to the far right uh basically membership just represents if every kid that's enrolled come to school you would see that number uh move across and then ADA is the purple is the purple line that uh 3671 for 2025 is the purple line representing uh just our daily average attendance. and then we jump down to what you normally would see uh in the budget presentation. So with Senate Bill 3, we if you notice

055the first uh assess valuation I I shared with you was 600 $62 million. Well, right now we're working with the county assessor trying to determine uh where we're going to be at with our assessed valuation for 20627. They have yet to get back with us. They can roll back to 20 4 or 25 based on the language that we received uh from legislation. But right now 540 is where uh we're going to do our budget presentation as we prepare for the worst but hope for the best. Uh that's going to give us a foot starting our uh beginning balance out at $31 million. And and keep in mind going back to 540 that is a $62 million roll back in assessed valuation and the county assessor can actually roll us back that far >> and

056that includes Senate Bill 3 to 540. >> That is the legislation. So the legislation passed says that the counties that vote in the 0% tax increase has to roll back their tax liability to 2024. Our tax liability on assessed value is 540 as of 2024. It's actually up to 611 because of uh some new construction, I believe. >> So, if we're to use current numbers, we'd be at 611. If we have to roll back, according to Senate Bill 3 to 2024 levels, we actually have to roll back to 540 because this past year, 2025 was a reassessment year. So therefore, people um in a reassessment year, which is every other year based on values and sales go up. So it's it's I've never seen it before. So here we go. We're going to collect X

057number of dollars in 25, but then in 26 we're going to have to roll back because of the stadium bill. And so that's where we're at. It does go to court again on July 29th. We don't know what's going to happen. Uh we're trying to uh as we passed a levy in April of 25 according to the law, we should be able to utilize that because it was voter approved. But our we're working with the county. That's all I'm going to say. Trying to make sure that that is the case because depending on who you are and how you read that legislation, not everybody is in agreement. which then puts us back to 540, which will cost us right at $4 million in revenue for the 2627 school year. So, with that being said, we

058also went back and used the levy at 4.3575 and we will use our SAT of 6760 to create this budget. So our beginning balance will be 31 million. Our uh projected revenue will be 75 million. Our projected funds will be 81 million or expenditures, I'm sorry. And then our uh you get down to fund balance, if we were to spend every dollar of that for the new budget, we'll be down to uh 27 million. So our projected fund balance for uh this 2627 budget will be 24.42%. >> That's a drop of 12% in two years. >> Mhm. >> Yeah. >> There's still a good balance. >> Uhhuh. >> There's still a good balance. >> Well, it's still 12% in two years. That's Yep. It is. And so that's and and we want you guys to

059see this because this can be our worst case scenario that we are rolling all the way back to what we have where we come from. Instead, we would like to be building on top of that. And and even still, if we had 611, we probably would build our budget with 602 just to be conservative and, you know, stay uh kind of we always like to get more money than we we anticipate, but at this rate, we don't know what's going to happen. And so, we just want to be safe. And I think we are in in a this will allow us to be safe and you guys to better understand where we're at. And again, we may have to we as Dr. Underwood said, we'll have to make those adjustments uh if we have to

060have $4 million uh and loss revenue coming in as a result of it. And same thing goes, you'll see the the when we go to the second page, our major revenues, our local taxes obviously has gone down. Our basic formula kind of hovered around the same uh grants, Prop C, and other revenues all stay relatively the same because those expenses and things that we still have. Nothing's really changing there in terms of our budget and our summary salaries are going to remain the uh roughly the same. Uh what we did see uh as I was looking at our transportation jumped our purchase services. Um uh I don't know if you ever really pay attention to we try to put them in order based on percentage and uh I had to do a double take. I

061was like, "Hey, are you sure transportation?" and she's like, "Yes, transportation is just, you know, they are they're they're most of our contract services build in, you know, growth over each year, but, you know, with gas and all those other things, >> it's just shooting shooting up." >> And and I think that's really it. So at this time the uh administration asked the board to uh accept the recommendation of the uh approve the recommendation of the preliminary budget for 2627. >> Motion to approve the FY27 preliminary budget as presented. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second to approve the FY27 budget as it is. for FY27. Any discussion? And if somebody hasn't got one, I >> just so I'm clear, we'll have more information June 30th, correct? >> We hope. >> Hopefully

062by then. >> Yes, that would be the hope. Um, but I also go back to the hearing on Senate Bill 3 is July July 29th. >> Okay. So those are kind of our two dates on the calendar that and after that will we see an amendment back to the budget once we have additional information? >> Probably not until August. >> Okay. >> Maybe September at the latest, but I'm thinking August. If I just think through um board of equalization, I think about um just the county and where they are um as far as numbers. Once again, we're trying to get clarity from them. um because that's separate from the legal challenge that's going on July 29th is we're trying to get clarification now and we are working with them with wording through their legal counsel

063at the county >> uh trying to get clarity on where that is. So could that happen sooner? It could happen sooner. We don't know that. there's belief that they may be waiting on the courts and so they may not want to respond to us prior to that July 29th. And just because they're there on the 29th, as we all know how court proceedings are, doesn't mean they're making a decision. So that could be pushed out uh further uh as far as that goes. So uncharted territory right now, >> but for now, those are the two target dates that are going to drastically affect the budget if they make decisions on those actual dates. >> I was just going to comment if you're between like 19 and 25% in your fund balance, we're still healthy. We're

064just lower than we would like to be. Correct? Am I correct in that? Yeah, I think that you can be considered healthy to uh 15% even. Some people feel otherwise, 10% obviously there you get on a list for the state if you're 5% or less than you're a financially stressed district. Uh I think that's challenge to be that low. Uh I would not want to be there professionally as far as for an organization. I think that's that's too low. >> We don't want to be 40 or 50%. That's belt and savings alone, right? >> Uh but then again, we don't want to be, you know, at four or 5% either. Um obviously we are well aware that 12% over two years. Um so then therefore we have to try to and it is a balance

065and I will say this as we look to to try to uh tighten the belt a little bit in regards to positions but we also want to pay salary and benefits to be competitive with our uh competing districts because >> there's still a shortage of staff in certain areas especially when it comes to teaching in the classrooms. And so that is tough uh and decisions have to be made and uh you know falls on my shoulders in that regard. But nonetheless um uh we want to be competitive. We want our people because we know uh right now the cost of living or CPI is 2.8%. And so we desire and hope to be above that uh for our staff as far as salary uh and benefits. Hence the 6.9% increase for health care still allows

066our people to have a plan that does not cost them uh anything to have. And so we strive for that piece as well. So there are items there. Uh do we have to make adjustments in as far as expenses as far as what we do with the district? You'll see that with our food prices. You'll see that with our care prices as we have to increase some of those to cover some of those costs as well. So, it is a balance and it is, you know, uh we would love to give everybody raises and decrease everybody's fees, but that math doesn't add up. >> No, I just wanted to point out that we're still in a healthy place even though we've we've uh gone down. >> See, we've been lower than that. >> Oh, yeah.

067>> I want to say we were down to 16 one year, 18. What was it? >> We proposed to be into the teens. We never got there. Okay. >> No, >> COVID happened to occur and we had an influx of money, but we were proposing to be at 17% and then we got an influx of money where we never got there and we stayed in the 20s and then we grew up into the 30s uh because of and and what I well it's not what I believe what I have seen happen is there was a large amount of I mean we got money from the county, we got money from the state, we got money from the federal government that we were not anticipating. Uh we did not add a bunch of staff in that

068regard. It did grow our fund balances. Uh we t tried to do good by our staff. We've given some decent raises and covered healthcare costs over the last few years uh to do that. But we've also had tax cuts in in our state. Uh we're looking at the income tax piece. We're looking at the property tax piece. Um and so that decreases our revenues as far as what we receive. Uh but we're increasing expenses and costs when it comes to salaries, >> benefits, staying competitive. So once again, that's why we're deficit spending. We're bringing in less, spending more. >> And so it will come a point where we don't want to get to 15% miscommings. We want to >> uh trim that, >> right, >> loss. Um so we don't have a 6% next year.

069>> Um we're not going to we're not going to do that. Our plan is to be around 20% is where we want to be because we knew that 17% projection was probably going to end somewhere around 19 or 20% anyway. >> But once again, you have to >> share if we spend every penny out of every account, we're going to give you what that is. >> Right. >> So, >> and I do want to comment, our district is different than several in the area that we have never frozen our salary schedules for our staff >> or steps. Right. >> Right. And that's something that not a lot of districts can say. And that sounds like not a big deal, but it is because you never recover those. So, the fact that we've never taken those

070away, I think says a lot for how we um appreciate our people. >> We try to listen to our staff. Uh Miss Villa is here. They shared with us about the desire to try to help uh compensate veteran staff. And so, we have listened. I think Miss Brown's going to present on that and share some detail later that I would hope that they would be happy about. They probably want uh more happiness, but we're going to give them as much happiness as we could. >> Yeah, we always want more. >> And one thing my other question is we did a survey. I can't remember the year we did that on our declining uh student population. Are we pretty close to what that survey >> that would be our demographic study? I have not looked at

071that. Uh I think that it is probably more. Um our number has is how do I want to say this? If they projected us at 10,000, we're probably at 95 or 9,000. >> Okay. >> It's it's lower than what they >> lower than what they expected. >> I'm saying it's more of a decrease. So that's kind of an oxymoron, but >> right, >> nonetheless, I think it it's decreasing >> more. But the the tenure projection had >> the last thing I was going to add is that you know while we try to take care of salary we also want to make sure that we keep our pl our district a desirable place through our facilities because that is I mean taking care of these buildings is quite a a feat to keep them looking as

072nice as they are and running as good as they are. So that is something that we got to continue to maintain as well. We deferred Rook for Brooks for a number of years. >> Yeah, >> it showed. >> All righty. The chair did I don't think we had a motion yet. So, >> We do. Motion and a second. >> Any other discussion? Seeing none. All in favor? >> I All pass. >> Transfer to capital projects. >> Well, I'm going to be talking for a little while, so uh >> you need a drink of water. I got I got a little bit of something here to catch on in between. Uh so each year Missouri school district may transfer up to 7% of the final state adequate target multiplied by the district's weighted average daily attendance

073which is our WADA. And so we can we can uh we have started we want to get permission to move funds over to uh support our facility improvements, maintenance projects and capital needs across the district. So, uh, the administration is requesting approval to transfer up to a maximum allowed amount, which is 2,126,284 to the capital funds project. >> Motion to approve the transfer to capital project funds is presented. >> Second. >> Had me nervous there for a minute. All right, we have a motion and a second. >> I think we do. >> We have a motion and a second to approve the transfer to capital project funds. Any discussion? >> Seeing that, all in favor say I. >> I. >> All oppose. >> That passes as well. >> You can't you could it'd be weird,

074but >> yeah. All right. Meal prices. >> All right. meal prices >> still there still be >> uh every year we raise our meal prices uh the maximum we can raise it is 10 10 cents and we we've uh done the same thing and in fact we just kind of kept with the same uh step on this 15 uh cent per item on the alla cart uh adult lunches went up I think about 38 cents and then uh uh the student lunch and reduced all went up just 10 cents and uh extra milk. So we uh administration asked uh recommend adopting the new proposed pricing for the 2627 school year. >> Okay. Motion to approve the 2627 meal prices as presented. >> Second. Have a motion and a second to approve the 2627 meal prices

075as presented. Any discussion? >> Seeing none, all in favor say I. >> I. >> All oppose. Passes. Child care fees. >> All right. So, child care fees. So, we receive Missouri child care subsidy reimbursements. Um uh and so in years past we received those reimbursements based on what the state is just going to allocate to us. Uh as of May 1st the state has uh changed their course and said that we will give you what you are charging. And so traditionally our practice have been to raise our uh child care fees uh based on the consumer price index and uh we've done that to uh ensure that childcare fees are affordable and it's always has kept uh grace in the red and that was by choice for us as a district. Uh but we've come

076to a point where we have uh allowed well we've come to a point where we're 43% behind uh our other childc care facilities in the region and uh we cannot continue to sustain our gradual increase based on the CPI and so we're making a recommendation uh to increase tuition um for sack act by 25% and CCC impact by 15%. Um, but we have to continue to gradually increase to uh continue to receive uh our subsidy uh funds that are available for us. So, if you look at the document, one of the things that we wanted to show you uh because I know a lot of times we're just we're visual people currently for SAC uh $93.50 And 50 cent a week is what we're currently charging for our families. Uh the state uh says we

077can charge up to 17455 and if we and the state will pay us up to 17455 but then we'll add additional 25% to give us 187 uh50. So right now what we would what we've been receiving since May 1st is what we're currently charging which is $93.50. So uh that in we're proposing increase of $23 that will put our uh price at $116.88 for fulltime 85.81 for part-time and 3750 for all day. Um and then if you take a look below, realizing that these numbers are much bigger, we have a smaller uh percent increase because we do we don't want to uh uh shock a parents pockets by saying 25% on that. So we uh did shoot for a lower rate. Uh but child care is 3 220 uh 223 weekly. Uh the state will

078pay up to 395 with a 25% uh quality enhancement increase for 494. Uh we're not trying to get to 395 right now, but we did uh want to add a $33 increase that will put us at 256. And again, we're still going to be probably one of the lowest child care facilities in the area. Uh but it just kind of gets us moving slowly in the right direction. Um because I think the worst thing that we can do is get to a point where we come and say we got to have a 60 70% increase and that's that's not good for anybody's household at any point in time. Um, I'm sure uh that some people may not be happy, but I would rather do it in smaller increments than than to do it uh than

079to be forced to do it by uh 60 70% increase to get us to a a place where we can uh continue to provide quality service for our children and families. >> So, what happens statewise if we don't do anything? We just continue. We just We just continue to get the minimum amount of money that we can possibly get. >> In essence, they're forcing us. >> You're not on. >> In essence, they're forcing us to increase our rates. >> That's what's happening. >> So, you either do this or not. It's kind of like whether our food uh prices, >> you increase them or you don't get paid or reimbursed. And so this is not a new thing, but it is new for this area. So they're changing the rules in essence to say you either

080do this or we're not going to pay you. So and then it this causes you to decrease your programming or or do away with it. >> Simply because I don't understand the program yet. Uh if the state's going to pay us 3.95, why aren't why are we not >> uh just because it it's it would be it would be about a 60% increase on families and we're just trying to slowly get there. >> We have to charge it to get it. >> Yeah, we have to charge it to get it. >> Okay. >> So, right now we're charging 223 >> and that's all we're going to get, but we can move we want to move up to 256 and get 256 and then next year we'll add a little bit more. But we'll we'll basically

081get there and hopefully they don't keep moving the target. >> Okay, I understand >> because in years past what they did is they just said, "Okay, there's a 100 kids. We're going to give you $300 per kid." And so it was more based on it's kind of like enrollment. And so we've got that number. Now they're going to say, "Well, we're only going to give you what you charge." And so therefore, they're able to claw back money and not give you the $300 per theund kids. We're only going to give you the 93 or the 200. >> I'm here to say this is the most ridiculous math I've ever seen in my life. Um, secondly, how many of our Grace students are children of our employees? >> I could not answer that. I I would

082say that majority are probably early childhood special education students at Grace, but I don't know that for a fact. And Miss Brown probably has an idea since she was the principal there. >> I I don't know currently, but historically the child care center and the preschool that's fee based childcare center was predominantly staff. >> Um and so that's going to be paying 50/50. >> So this is going to have a large effect on our staff. I can also tell you um $4.95 is an astronomical amount of money for anybody to pay per child. >> No, they would give us $4.90. They would give >> but we would have to I'm sorry. We would have to charge >> 3.95. Still an absurd amount of money. >> Um here's my question. The 43% that's quoted on here

083is that that's compared to who? >> Just other childcare facilities in our area. >> Are those private child care? >> Sorry, within the region. Are those um are we talking about like preschool at say some of the the churches and things that are offered? >> It's a combination of uh what some of the other schools uh districts offer and then what other facilities >> area state funding has as well. >> Okay. Um, and so the 25 and 15% that you guys have landed on, was this your attempt to try to just slowly integrate the increase? And is the goal to get to the 174 a week, the 116, the 40? Is that the goal? >> Yes. >> Do you understand Belton's demographics cannot pay those rates? So, we're trying to make it financially viable for

084us to operate the program. >> There's no way. >> So, it's not it's not easy. Um I I know I've talked to some of our parents that are paying $1,200 for private care for their kids. Um where they're paying $7,00 is is number education probably 250. >> Absolutely. Because we have a weight list because it's affordable child care, right? We are cheap. We are the cheapest ticket in town. No doubt about it. >> And they're getting an amazing education and care while they're there. Yes, they are >> 100%. There's no way >> with the increases and everything else and the fact I mean I did get some feedback from some folks in the district that are um terrified. Some of them are employees in the district and they're saying, "I've only got eight weeks notice

085to to now accommodate these increases based on how many kids they have in the program." Um, do we have any other creative solutions to my knee is yes, cut back staff would save us the cost of the increase. Can I ask a goofy question based on your questions? The 25645 is what we're going to charge say Dave Daniels as he if he has a child in there. Is the state reimbursing us 3.95? >> No. >> Reimbures 256. Whatever we charge is what we're going to get. 56 Dave Daniels and the state gives us 256 that equals 502512, right? >> So in essence we're getting we're we're charging and then we're getting that money back >> from the state. >> Yep. Absolutely. >> So we're still in essence we're getting $500 >> per student. >> Yep.

086then we're still operating in the red. >> Mhm. >> Yep. >> We operate in the red more with early childhood than any program. >> What happens if we keep the current rate? >> Um we're going to be operating more in the red. Uh we can we can do it as far as that goes. Um I would not recommend that. Uh because in the future uh as those programs get more expensive um we start to cut programming uh for kids and people are going to be saying, "Oh my god, you're cutting program for kids or you're cutting staff." They're not going to like that either. there's not a a a win. The one thing about Grace, and we've done this for years, we receive a multitude of revenue sources uh from different places, whether it be

087grants, whether it be early childhood, because like you said with 50/50 as far as our ECSE uh classes, and some of those are 100%. Obviously, when you have one staff member for four infants, the cost is significant when you're looking at and to say $500 is going to cover a full-time salary for somebody that has to go over four kids, that's not nowhere near, I mean, that's a fraction uh to cover the cost. And so, if you're looking at surely from a business perspective, which we have to look at from a multiaceted, we want to provide for our staff, we want to provide for students, we want to provide for special needs. We're required by law in essence for the early childhood special education. Hence why we have two other classes over at KT now.

088And so it's not like we have a choice there to do that. We're required to do that. And so we provide those services uh for our early learners and we want to be prepared to be successful when they hit the ground in kindergarten. So the more kids that we can have. Hence why we've talked about early childhood expansion is trying to provide more. Uh the cost is significant >> and that was my next question. >> So that's going to be the challenge. How's that going to affect us if we are going to expand like we've talked about? >> So, one of the areas that we can expand into is uh through our ADA that we have students that qualify and there's a formula that the department of education once again we have rules we had

089to follow folks and Desi tells us how many kids can we bring in through ADA. >> I think it was give me a number 180. So 170 180 kids is allowable. And so we could have looked to expand that. And so what's state adequacy target? 7,145 is what they're proposed. We think it's going to be closer to $6,700. >> Obviously that's a substantial more dollar amount than $500 if you double your $295. Say it's $600 that you receive uh monthly uh doing the math. So >> yeah, I mean >> because that is my concern is that we we bonded saying we'll ex we'll expand the grace program, we'll you know make it to where we don't have the weight list and now we're turning around and saying but we're going to increase the rates on

090those tuitions in said that we're going to get away get rid of the weight list. I think that's impossible. >> No, no, no. It was an in an effort to reduce it to be able to accommodate more families in the area for sure. Um, but do you see how perplexing that is to say we're going to expand the program, but now we're gonna raise the rates? >> I don't I don't really Well, I think the I think the concern here is >> if that's the goal, are we going to be able to fulfill the enrollment and the expansion piece? >> Yeah. So I go back to ADA students as far as SAT what we could receive in funding from the state for those 170 to I think it's 193 actually 193 students that we could

091qualify into based on their socioeconomics could help the viability of expansion uh to get those students in and those students that are low soioeconomic have needs and that we can help with and help prepare them for success. So we could help serve a population right there that's not going to be a burden uh in essence for them because we have a lot of different programs. Joe, how many different programs do we have at Grace? It's not just one that we have staff coming in for. >> Probably four to five. Yeah. >> So we have four or five. And so if we had this other that could help generate some revenue to help offset some of the cost. uh we could expand in essence by utilizing what the state allows us which they limit us obviously

092on the number of students but the students also have to qualify according to the state standards as well. >> Well and I think my other concern here is you know we've always spoke generally and just said well we're operating in the red with grace. We all know we're operating in the red with grace. This is our own fault. We should have been doing an increase just like we do our meal prices. So then the folks that are enrolling their students don't have this significant of an increase cuz 25% and I recognize we're trying to not shell shock them. That's still a lot. That's still a lot. Can we not do a smaller increase maybe over a um expanded period of time? >> We could do a smaller increase uh for the upcoming year for sure.

093Um, but we have been asked in the past honestly when we do CPI like 2.5 or 2.8 to do zero and we're like no we can't do that. >> I know I've been approached by that myself and inflation happens costs go up, right? >> I mean >> to say that I'd like to know what it is that the prices went down. Well, and again, I'm not asking anybody. I don't think it's >> on us to continue to absorb the inflation costs here with operating the facility, but >> I feel like we should have been way ahead of this because we've never seen these numbers before. >> Well, I mean, our charges are what we have. The board has approved those in the past, >> but we've never seen We've never seen this where you're comparing

094it and telling us per student what we're getting back. >> What What have we been? >> This is new as of May 1st. >> This is brand new. Yeah. >> Yes. This is as of May 1st. >> Have we been increasing every year by a certain percentage? >> Like a cost of living >> type like 2 or 3%. Uh this formula is brand new from the state May 1st. But if we are 43% behind based off your research, >> we've been significantly >> cheaper. Yeah. Right. >> We have we have significantly under. So now >> this is now being put on all the families. It's now their problem. >> Well, it is a challenge for them financially. This is a new game that we're having to play. We didn't make up the rules on this.

095We're having to follow them as far as what they're what they've reimbursed us in the past and what they're going to do moving forward from May 1st has changed. So, they've changed. They've moved the ball on us. We're trying not to drop all the burden on them at one time. It is a significant amount. We are behind based on this formula now that's new as of May 1st. And so, if we want to do less than this, we can. will just receive less because they're going to give us less based on this new formula that started May 1st. >> And can you talk me through how this affects families that um do they receive assistance for tuition at Grace? >> I do know the parents get 50% discount. Now, I'm not sure which category they

096fall in, but I do know that they get 50% discount, and that's they're the ones get the largest discounted of district employees. >> And we have several programs at Grace, the I the kids with IEPs and such that there isn't a tuition cost for those half-day programs. So, the parents, many of them are not seeing fees to get their children into those programs. >> Okay. and Grace has lost some of their bigger their larger grants that they've received over the past several years as well. Um that also has helped them. And one of the things that we did do, we looked at Grace uh with our budget and we have increased the budget for Grace for the upcoming school year just based off of the fact that they've lost some grant funds. So we are

097trying to financially put give them more money to operate with because you know they they've kind of been in a tough spot. They they got tight space to work in and their budget was constantly withdraw uh withdrawing and the formula that we had in place to fund them was not no longer uh equitable for them based on uh the the formula that we had. So me and Amy have revised the formula to ensure that they get uh more money and dollars into their uh budget. And then we took some things out uh that we took on some responsibility or reallocated some uh funds that were coming out of their budget. For example, they had to pay for latex gloves, right? >> And that's for all the kids that they have. Well, we didn't feel like

098that that was an expense that should be out of the out of the building budget. So, we took that out uh and reallocated it uh where it probably should be most appropriate with um the nurses and we gave the nurses the money to take care of that to be able to distribute that those resources to them. So, we've done some things to help them on uh financially as well be a little bit better. Uh regardless of whether or not we're going to be in the red, >> we want to make sure we took care of them. >> So, on that 390 I'm sorry, I'm just I have a lot of questions. Um on the 395 you said the goal is to eventually get to that rate correct in what time frame? >> I mean we

099talked about uh three or four years the target I mean once again >> we're dealing with new rules in just a month. >> Yeah. And so we don't we don't know that for a fact. And you mentioned about less. Can we do less? We can do zero. We can leave it >> right where the rates are. >> That's not viable, I think, for the program for the future. >> Agreed. >> If it's an amount um and we we talked about this, I mean, we talked about the difference amounts. I mean, we talked even higher >> than this amount and said, "No, we can't do that. It's going to be too much." And so we tried to find a balance between trying to cover a cost based on some new rules that they're going to penalize

100us by not charging people. >> I mean, let's face it, that's what they're doing is they're penalizing us by not charging a higher rate >> is what it boils down to. And so based on that knowledge, we're trying to find middle ground. So we're still going to take on the cost because we're going to lose uh in essence revenue, but trying to eventually get there because I agree with Mr. We don't want to do a 70% increase. I mean, if you go from $100 to $170, you know, at one time, no, 5% or less ideal. And we've been doing two and 3% as you pointed out was not good enough. >> Mhm. >> Um that we were increasing that. Some people would say that we were increasing too much on that and it should have

101stayed zero. But gradual increases are better for people to be able to plan and be prepared for. Um, as our rules have recently changed, we're trying to find that middle ground. So, um, if someone has a recommendation or you guys want to approve something different than what's proposed in these percentages, >> it's not like that can't be done. Uh, but I think >> why the difference between 25 and 15%. What was the thought behind that? Well, when we looked at when we when we looked at the school age kids, basically school age kids, we saw 23,7 and $7.50. So, we felt like those were reasonable numbers to adjust for a family. And then we look and we tried to do 25 across the board. Well, obviously that was going to be way too much money.

102Uh, and so we looking at 33 and 22. uh dollar increase which was still kind of in within reason with with a full-time school age kid. And then uh so that's kind of where we didn't keep them. We wanted to be equitable but not equal in that regard. And you know the subsidy rates could change. They could make them higher. Doesn't mean we got to always chase as high as they go. But I don't know what that will look like in the next few years. But I think if if we give ourselves, you know, this one might this first one might be 25 and 15, but then next year we can go five and 10, right? We don't have to uh continue to go 15 20 25% increases every year to get there. >> I

103do feel like the way we do our increases with our meal benefits, it's it's an easier pill to swallow. We're doing 10-centent increases usually on the average, but this is significant, especially when you factor in it's our staff on top of that multiple children enrolled >> and there's and there's discounts for multiple children and things like that. uh >> they have them. But you see what I'm saying? But yes, I do. Exactly. >> Um and so I certainly understand that and and you know, we're not opposed to going, you know, this one may be high, the next year may be low, then we might go a little bit more on the third year, but the meal benefit is a direct result of just continuing to do it. So you just stay right there in step

104and it's consistent across the board. So, but at some point, we just got to get it to a decent spot and then slowly climb up. I I am concerned about those projected targets that we have right now, but I also recognize we have to ensure that we aren't operating in the red. I appreciate you guys um answering all of my questions. Thank you. >> Anyone else? >> Did we get a motion? >> Motion to approve the 2627 child care fee fees as presented. >> Second. We have a motion and a second to approve the 2627 school year childc care fees as presented. Any other discussion? >> Seeing none, all in favor say I. >> I passes. >> Don't have to. >> Yeah. annual bus inspections. >> It's me again. So, >> you don't want a

105sip of water, man. >> So, bus bus uh every year we get uh in bus inspection when the bus inspection happened. Uh this year we were down a few percentage points versus last year uh and compared to the and and compared to the state average. So what happens is the bus bar, the highway patrol come out, they do their inspections, they find things wrong, we can fix them on the spot, but because they found them wrong, they're still going to give us uh the appropriate uh violation and penalty in that moment. But when you go back and look at their site right now, we are 57 of our 58 buses that we have are in compliance and everything was fixed. Uh about at the time about 14% of the things that they found that day

106were fixed while they were there. Um so >> Torrence, I just want to make sure of the wording. You said us, it's the bus line that gets >> bus line. Yes. >> Yes. not Belton School District, but at this time 57 of the 58 buses in one bus is still out of commission, which is why it's not uh 58 out of 58. >> Some of those deficiencies though I thought were a little >> I was concerned. Yes. >> Yeah. >> And that's what I'm concerned with is how did they fix wheel bearings and um like the loose steering components on site? Some of those things they had to go back, >> okay? >> Well, let me let me rephrase that. Some of those things did not get fixed that day. They came back and did

107reinspection and they were fixed maybe two or three days later or a week later, >> but the vast majority of them were able to be fixed while they were, you know, they're there for several hours. Uh, looking at >> we were driving buses around town with no brake lights or turn signals. That troubles >> or parking brakes. >> Yeah. I mean that I don't know how often they have to park, but not having the proper I mean your car wouldn't pass inspection if you know if it was a personal vehicle. So we're driving around with no brake lights, no turn signals, how are we getting our kids in and out of the buses if the lifts weren't working. So those to me were not just simple things. Let's go tighten a screw. uh they seemed

108like things that should have been >> issues >> looked at on a regular basis. So what what does their routine maintenance plan look like for these buses to make sure that these deficiency aren't common and easy fixes when they somebody else finds them is my question. >> Well, we've got to obviously address the concern because we know when this is well in advance and so those buses should have been ready to pass inspection. So there's no excuse uh in that regard. And so then uh my belief is that we will set an expectation as far as percentage of what uh passes cuz I'm to say it's 100% and people walk on water. >> No, >> we're not going to ask that. But it needs to be in my opinion up in the upper 90s, mid

10990s. Low 90s, >> you know, honestly. And can a can a bulb burn out? Sure it can. Let's check them the night before because my doubt is that did not occur. >> Well, and that should be routine. What does that my point is what is their routine maintenance look like to make sure contract reading >> the bus driver's license >> and I can tell you to do that you're supposed to do like a 56 point >> inspection of your bus before you roll it off the lot. Part of it is checking the lights and the horn and all the basics uh that you would I mean it's a walkound uh that you're supposed to do. So >> I'm I'm all about traffic safety. So this one really bothered me a lot. >> When I spoke

110with Lisa, she shared that one of the uh mechanics had been out for several days. Again, should some of these things should have been done prior to the mechanic being out because they just things that should be functioning, working on there. She told me that a couple buses were not in service. Uh and they too were inspected and not passed because they were not in service. So I don't know if some of those buses were actually on the road driving. Um, but nevertheless, they failed when they showed up and uh she assured me that it wouldn't happen again because we did have a >> uh a very honest conversation cuz I needed her to explain to me the why we wasn't uh state with at least the statewide average that we were with last year.

111>> Yeah. >> Uh versus this year. >> Okay. >> And so I went out and looked at the report and found those things and of course just want to be honest with you all. These are some of the things that they actually found that were wrong with the buses. And being my first year now, I know some of the things I need to be looking for. Uh when I get that that notification that inspection is coming, that's my that's my cue to let Lisa know I want my I want my uh state average >> up. >> Whatever it is, state average is at least 90%. So, we want 90%. Uh but uh good good thing for me. I I learned something new. Um um I seen the notification come in and I'm like, "Hey, Lisa,

112you got inspection coming in, but not understanding how it was going to impact us uh being first time doing it." But now I got it. So, >> and how how far in advance are they notified that they're going to be >> almost 30 days. >> Okay. >> Yep. >> Yeah. >> That's bothering me even more now. >> So, and then do you have access to the prior years? Yes, I was able to uh log in to it and get in there and see at least this year. I don't know if I can see prior year. Yes, because I did find I did find our report from last year and then I called and I called >> we dropped from about a 94 or 93. >> Mhm. We were in the 90s. >> Yeah. >> Huh.

113>> Very high. >> We've been very high in >> It was in the 90s. >> Yes. >> And it's not like it's a new bus company. >> Yep. And I called I called the trooper that did the uh report and talked to him to get a idea what what transpired. And you know he he said even even in that he said hey you guys were quick to get things fixed and we still have buses that have not been addressed and we're toward the end of the school year. Well, we were at the end of the school year when I called because I was getting the report ready to, uh, prepare for the meeting. And so, um, that's when he told me and he walked me through the site and was like, "Hey, you had 57

114of your 58 buses. They were fixing things on the spot. Then I called Lisa and got the rest of the story to be able to share with you all tonight. But you're right. They Lisa Lisa know the what the expectation is and she assured me that she'll meet it and I got a little background knowledge now that I'll be able to help uh support that. But >> this does not take a vote. This isformational. >> Yep. >> Yes. >> Well, and the fact that they were they satisfaction with the repair >> they had satisfaction with how quickly the repairs were done. It was unsat unsatisfactory that that number of repairs needed to be done. >> Yes. >> Yeah. I From my point of view, I think you should express to them that I don't think

115anybody in this board is happy with that number. >> I will communicate that to uh DS bus lines uh because I'm going continue to work with them with some other things. So, I will definitely be communicating that to Lisa and those above. >> Yeah. I don't know what number you guys are going to come up with, but uh >> Well, again, what is our contract read? >> Well, the contract probably doesn't have it, does it? >> No, I don't think it does. But I think they need a I mean they need a professional improvement plan. >> Now certainly at the next contract we can you can make that into the contract saying you will make this inspection at this level or it's a it's a deducting the contract. Contracts can be written that way. >>

116Huh? >> hit them in the pocketbook. That'll take care of it. And maybe we want to see monthly logs of of how they're maintaining their buses instead of once a year. And look what it looks like. Or maybe not once a month, but quarterly or something more often just at the end. Cuz this is kind of like an autopsy. I mean, we we've already it's dead and this is what happened. >> You're already making me going to be driving around sometime this this fall going, "Ah, bus 42 or whatever is going to be." Yeah. I I have other things to do, but I I do a lot of driving. Wouldn't be hard for me to change my day to follow a few buses. You wouldn't like the answers, but that's going to be >> So,

117all right. That's Anyone else have a comment? >> I have a lot more, but not for tonight. This is not safe. >> You're welcome to do them tonight. >> Yeah. >> Your choice. All righty. food service. Uh, this is my last one. So, food service, we had some good feedback. We had 368 students between grades 9 through 12. Next year, we're going to expand and try to get uh sixth grade to give us some feedback. But we have uh 109 parents and 129 staff members. Uh, basically, I think you all got a chance to see it. Let's let's just jump down to the percentages here. Uh staff concerns, lack of protein, too much sugar in breakfast. Uh portion size is too small. Portion size are going to be controlled by >> basically USDA guidelines. >>

118Uh need for a variety, a better menu option, and you're going to see kind of a repetitive theme throughout it. Uh so I have met with I have met with uh SF and in my recommendations you will see uh that uh we have to we're going to uh work on increasing our protein richch meals. We're going to make sure that SF is adding more protein. Some of the challenges that you have with some of the sugary stuff is that when you go to breakfast in classroom they can't always provide some of the hot stuff and keep it hot. So kids, you know, refer to it as rubbery, cold, whatever. And so we're looking at do we need to continue BC, where we at with that status. We're just getting some feedback and gathering some information

119on that. But in the meantime, we're going to definitely continue to expand fresh fruits and vegetables. We got new uh we received a grant for new uh uh uh salad bar trays. Uh, and so we're going to be uh utilizing those prepackaged salads with with uh protein in them that kids can have. We're going to be doing some uh taste testing and then from the taste testing, we're going to add those things to the menu. Uh Steve Ste uh yes, we'll be having whole milk this year uh added and Steve clearly understands the expectations. You know, we I went over this survey with uh him and his boss. Uh that menu has to continue to evolve. We don't want the same things. Uh kids kids are pretty smart. They know that every two weeks we're

120going to get >> the same meal that you know, every other week we're going to get the same meal or three weeks. So, uh I've said I've said uh we're going to be making sure those menus evolve uh every quarter. So, uh, to some variation, we want to see some different things that are offered, uh, to the kids. And, uh, me and Rebecca will be working on a, uh, a survey that was going to kind of be a little bit more specific for, uh, our students and family. We'll also Steve uh will be conducting uh some uh conversations uh with students and with uh parents uh to just get more feedback from them as well because you know you know parents say it's too much of this but we also want to know you know

121educate them as well as get some feedback as to what they see as a a healthy meal. Uh so we have a dialogue because sometimes you know parents uh tend to just get the information from their kids because they don't always necessarily know what their kids are eating other than what the menu says and what their kids are saying. So getting some feedback from parents uh face to face and um and educating our parents and our students as about some of the guidelines and things that we have to work under. But then also just trying to uh make sure that we do our part on our side too because if lunch is at 12 10 and we are cap the food service team has food out there at 12 uh let's say 12:05. Well that

122food is sitting there for 5 minutes as they're waiting for teachers to come with students. So, there's things that we can do to try to minimize some of the uh wait time where food is getting cold and not being served as uh uh fresh as the kids would like to receive it. So, we're going to look at all those different things and those are kind of our recommendations that we have. But at at the end of the day, I thought the the feedback was really good. It was things that we really wanted to hear um from our parents, students, and our staff. These numbers are interesting. Last year, 31% of the elementary kids were eating breakfast and now 88% of the kids are eating breakfast. >> Yeah. >> Same with middle school, 20% to 60.

123>> When you have breakfast in the classroom, that's where the numbers get screwed skewed because a teacher can say, "I have 21 kids in class." >> Well, she's ordering breakfast for 21 kids because she don't know if all 21 kids are going to come. And then we so we have some we count in those numbers because that's what we're preparing. But then can we say that 88% of those kids are actually eating the food? Probably not because we're going to have some waste because that's that's an area where we got to drill down at and say, "Hey, order for the kids." You know, we we when you when you're prepackaged for breakfast in the classroom, you can't really account for who's going to be there, who's not going to be there. or when you're cooking

124in the in the cafeteria, you can begin to scale down what you're preparing based on the number of kids that are coming through there on a consistent basis. >> I'm going to follow up with that question. Why don't we move breakfast back to the cafeteria? >> Well, one, I wanted to make sure that we had that grant was we had exhausted all the expectations for the grant. And then two, I have to give principal's time to prepare. So, getting this survey uh done toward the end of the school year. Haven't had conversations with principal yet. We may have to go one more year because the other thing is if we're going to be doing these uh remodeling to the classrooms, we don't want to continue to have food and things continue to be eaten in

125the classroom, which will then be another challenge. But I want to give principles time to come up with a plan. >> Uh Dr. is already looking at the middle school uh right now to see what he can do to um uh start moving away from breakfast in the classroom as well. >> And I've I've had a few elementary teachers comment that got carpet and we got breakfast in the classroom. That's not a good combination. >> Yep. And >> and that showed up in the serving serving >> and then we want less sugar. So if they're in the cafeteria, we don't have to have all that prepackaged stuff we just send down there. >> Yep. It's a double s word for it. If you don't do it in classroom, you got to give them what they

126can have quick to eat in class. >> So, so those are just things that were takeaways as as uh I've gone through the building sometimes when it's breakfast time and >> Yep. >> and elementary kid, well, let's face it, middle school and high school kids aren't tidy either, but the elementaryaries, the teachers are struggling sometimes to be sure they get, you know, breakfast over and and and get class started after they get all that cleaned up. So, >> yes. Do you do a salad bar now? >> We do. Uh >> uh just >> And I can tell you from running restaurants, salad bars will eat your food cost up. I mean, it's just the most expensive thing you can put out there. >> Yeah. And the kids >> lot of waste and it's just it's

127not a that's not a profitable business for a restaurant. >> Yeah. >> Nothing to I don't even I say rectangle pizza >> and I I have put uh on my cafeteria I put all the salad stuff out and I put all the stuff I put out for our breakfast and by sales I can tell you which one wins. >> Well, I think it's not super popular with kids particularly. >> All right. >> Oh, you need a motion on that one. >> Okay. Motion to approve the food service program evaluation as presented. >> Second >> by. >> We have a motion and a second to approve the food service program evaluation as presented. Any discussions we haven't already had? >> And all in favor say I. >> I. >> All opposed. Passes. Are we done with

128you, sir? >> Yes. >> Can't leave. >> Yeah. All I just wondered. meet and confirm. >> That's That's me. I won't be as long as Mr. Allen tonight. Um >> yeah, each each year I bring this to you and kind of review our meet and confer. Um we have two meetings that we have with MSTA rep and our NEA rep. And second meeting, they bring some teachers that they represent with them and it's a time for them to kind of review some asks or requests or concerns. They survey the staff and um kind of give us their big ticket items, if you will. So, this memo here just kind of outlines those. I won't read through all of them with you, but I will highlight many of them have been mentioned already in some capacity.

129So, I'll I'll highlight those. Um increase in salary, we've talked about that was obviously a request. We talked about the everyone moving one step, the 200 to the base. We did look at the master's column to the doctorate column and um depending on the step we've we've doubled some of those to really um support those who have further their education and those who have longevity with the district. So um I think they'll be pleased with that open enrollment. A request was made during our benefits enrollment that we don't have to do in person. Um they would love to have the option to do online. So, we're working with the Marife to um possibly do that next year. I can see you needing to ask a question, Mr. Daniels. >> Is there a roadblock to that?

130I mean, most companies allow you to do it online. >> Yeah, I I don't think that there will be. Um we've had our first initial meeting and um I think it it should be just fine. >> Okay. Thanks. >> Yeah. Student supports just looking for um any additional supports that they can have behaviorally or academically. Uh we did add a halftime behavior intervention this last year. Uh Miss Puit is working on a curriculum um that's um going to be adopted called sticky kids and that is really to help students with emotional um dysregulation. Um we also have mentors and uh that is going to the hours will remain the same but Dr. Mock is going to work with her time team to kind of refine that um the use of our learning mentors. technology. We've

131mentioned this already a couple times tonight. iPads are are um in some areas not charging. Um they're outdated. And so the tech department is kind of assessing which grade levels that will affect. Um Dr. Underwood mentioned earlier um that we've approved I think it was about $29,000 a four-year lease perhaps for some some iPads um to be distributed to grade levels and then taking devices that are are better and redistributing those. So I think they'll be pleased with that as well. Um, we're also we we entertained and and piloted a lockdown browser. Um, and they were very excited about that and uh would love if move we move forward with that which I think Dr. Mock's going to talk about later um which I believe we are. They're requesting professional development for that and Dr.

132Mock is prepared to do that as well. So I think that will be um very exciting for them. Our bereavement policy is currently 3 days. Um and a request was made to um extend that and so we are looking at really I think upping the uh support there. Um we are doing 5 days for immediate family, 3 days for extended and 10 days in in um the event of the death of the spouse or child. So I think that they'll be very pleased with that. coming a long ways from when >> it hasn't been that many years ago that we didn't have any brief >> you know I I did talk with Miss Fver about that and um I I wasn't even aware of that so yeah I think we have come a long way

133>> shocked in the meeting and confer that night as I remember I can't remember what year that was >> only three years ago >> then I was still a teacher then I thought this just happened >> it hadn't been that long >> no it's been six years >> okay well kudos to them for advocating So, >> um >> I'm okay with this that that that that's >> we hope no one ever has to use that. So, >> I I agree. Uh paid plan for IEP meetings. Well, we're not paying for plan time during IEP meetings. Miss Puit is has worked and is currently working with administrators and her process coordinators when when placing students in classrooms to make that as equitable as possible. So, those classroom teachers that are attending IEP meetings that is equitable

134amongst the classrooms. um maintenance in custod. We we got a list of just random concerns. Um you know, it was anything from a ceiling tile to maybe a ripple in a carpet. Um many of which Mr. Allen had already rectified by our second meeting. And so I think we've tidied most of those up and if there's any lingering ones, I know that he he is well aware. Um teacher input, always looking for teacher voice in and in decision making. Uh site team is one of our ways of doing that. Um it's a teacher leader group that every building has and Dr. Mock has worked with several principles um just really establishing um the parameters and the fidelity of how that should work, agendas, um notes that go out to staff. And so um I think

135we've we've kind of tidied that one up for next year. Um staff advisory is something that Dr. underwood host and and they wanted to see the notes um that were going out from those meetings. That's another opportunity for teacher voice. Um we were under the impression that that was happening but it it was not and so we have already taken care of that and hopefully uh next year we won't see any issues with that. Coffee and conversations is another opportunity for staff voice and teacher voice. Um the time is early. we meet very very early and so they would love for us to look at um differing t differenting times or different options for that and so we are open to that and are having discussions about that duty-free lunch I have personally chatted with

136every principal this is the time they're they're building their schedules and they are well aware they need to make sure that across buildings we're we're supplying them with that time that equitable time we did notice that some buildings were getting a little more and a little less so I believe we are on the right track for next year. Uh lower class sizes, uh Miss Creremley does a great job during enrollment monitoring those numbers. We have had to make adjustments and and move some staff around early in the year to make those those class sizes as equitable as possible. Even mid year we've had to make some adjustments and um so I think we are well within the Jessie standard. Um so we are currently reviewing that or yes uh copy machines. Uh there are there

137are lots of reports of errors and um repairs needed and um we chatted with our technology department and found that we are on our third year up for um renewal for that lease. And um so during that time, we're going to be reviewing the data, the repair history so that we can make a really good decision moving forward with copy machines. Um the tech department does encourage those that if you're having a reoccurring issue, um with the copy machine and it's not being fixed that they would like you to reach out to them. So um sick day buyback and paid days off. Um we did increase sick day buyback several years and we are not moving to do that this year and we're going to keep um our paid days off at six sick days

138and four personal days. So I think overall we were able to respond to to a lot of requests and they should be very pleased. >> I have to ask a dumb question. Sorry. I was going to make the motion second and then discussed but >> Oh, >> so motion to approve the meet and confer agreement is presented. >> Second. >> Okay. Now >> copy machines. >> Yeah. >> I'm I guess I just don't understand in today's technology. >> I I like my company that I work for, we weren't even allowed to have printers. >> Oh wow. >> You everything was done on the computer. Mhm. >> You're providing iPads. I I I guess I >> I mean there's still kids are using still use a lot of paper. >> Paper. >> Wow. It's something we've

139been actively working to reduce over the last decade. >> But there is still needs that the teachers have out there and there are some that are better and worse at >> a contract or is that >> we have a contract? contract. >> And I think with AI, um, there was a a large amount of teachers that were like, we'll just go back to paper and pencil. >> Okay. >> I just in the world of technology, it's like everything can really kind of be done online, so to speak. But >> hey, uh, how many buyback sick days do you provide now? Up to how many? >> 185. Have you been here that how many? >> Like 183 or 185. Yeah. >> Yeah. School year. and the request was to increase that. >> So depending on the

140years of service that you have, the amount um is different and so just for an example, if you've been here 11 years, it's $100. >> Um so they just like to see that amount go up and we have increased that. Um >> yeah, got it. Several years. Thank you. >> Yeah. >> The only other thing I have and I've had a couple board members point this out. Please look at page one. Oh, the bottom >> now. Okay. >> Oh, boy. >> I had already seen that. We We did, I thought. So, >> hold on. I'm not even >> That's >> remember at the bottom it had the wrong footing. I I did see that early on. I thought it was rectified. My apologies. >> Still pain. >> Actually, I will tell you Dr. Mocks out

141found out early on >> way before the board meeting. >> Well, he's not on the second or third page. >> No, I know. That's what I said. He's It's only page one, so >> I don't know. >> But Torrance isn't on any of the pages. >> Kind of silly. I >> I'll take responsibility. I put this document together. So >> Oh, now you you're a nice guy. >> All right, we have a motion and second to approve the meet and confer as presented. Any discussion other than what we have already had? >> Seeing none, all in favor say I. I >> All oppose. >> You You oppose. >> I bet you do. >> Too bad you don't get to vote, >> huh? >> You You want me to oppose for you? >> I know. I

142uploaded a new document. I don't know. We're not going to get home till 10 o'clock. >> I do I'll do a no. I'll do a no just for you. >> Yeah. >> Yes. >> It's not usually this long. They'll never die. >> Uh memorandum of understanding. >> Yes. Each year I bring this to you. So this is the me memorandum of understanding between the district and NEA to represent our classified staff. Um our NEA rep reviews this. It it covers a host of of items over time. Um salary and wages. Um there were no changes to that this year. Um I had noticed that and and so I bring that to you and um ask the board to approve theou as presented. This is not >> motion to approve the 2627 MOU as presented. >>

143Second. >> All right. So at this time we have a first and two seconds for the approval of theou as presented. Uh so any discussion? >> Seeing none all in favor say I. >> I. >> All oppose. All righty. salary schedules. >> Here presented before you are our 2026 salary schedules. There's a lot of information there, but this is every salary schedule for every employee. Um you'll see there that that the increase in salary that we talked about is represented in in those. Um you'll see our classified staff, our hourly staff, our B schedule for athletics, um any stipens, of course, our teacher certified teacher salary. So with that, I ask the board to approve the 202627 salary schedules. Motion to approve the salary schedules for 2026 27 school year as presented. >> Second. We

144have a motion and a second to approve the 26 27 salary schedules as presented. Any discussion? >> There's a couple of things here and there that are highlighted in yellow. I thought maybe that was just a computer thing, not anything that we needed to >> Oh, no. >> Like Scholar Bowl and um Oh, there was another a couple of lines on on um >> the max hourly schedule. >> Those are the max entry level. So, we always keep that on there for reference as well. >> The yellow. Okay. The scholar bowl is something that we added this year and so we just highlighted that to show um it's an addition. We had a request I believe from the middle school. There's a lot of interest. Okay. >> Um so we were adding that. Excited about

145that. Thank you for pointing that out. >> No, that would I just wondered just if it hadn't been there before. >> Any other discussion? I just like to know how close are we compared to what you're used to >> um with the certified schedule. It looks good. >> Looks okay. >> Yeah, I was I was kind of looking at myself. >> You can't be on the board and work. >> I know. >> Just wanted to clarify that. >> We don't want to go through picking somebody else. >> Yeah, we don't want to go to that process. >> You're going to get so much value here, you won't miss the difference. >> Okay. All right. >> So, I will I do want to point out, President Miller, that there will be some differences. is there may

146be some staff that get uh 2 or 3% of raise, but we're going to have other staff members that will get we we did a we pulled out a random one today and they were >> 6%. Yeah, little little over 6%. >> But I think there'll be others that are even higher than that. Um so we were just kind of in the middle uh in that regard. And once again, if you were to look at like masters in step 12 to 13, you start to see that jump. And from there down is where we started to double in essence those steps from 13 down to 25. But that did kind of ripple down through the the schedule as far as that. But some of that up above it was just a step only. >> And

147you said you added 200 to the base. >> Yeah. To the base. And then of course we have the additional that we've made permanent that we have our staff. Dr. Mock and I talked about that that we're never going to not do that. And so we have put that in in essence the schedule permanently for our new people because they do work six extra days. >> And we're even talking about, you know, the possibility of paying twice a month uh versus once a month for because that's we do it that way because schools have always done it that way. It doesn't harm us financially. Uh but >> you do that for classified already, don't you? >> We do that for classified already. So, um, so we're having that conversation about certified as as well. >>

148And still the three paychecks in June, three pay period house. >> Well, if you go to I mean, you go to payrolls, you would increase the number of payrolls because instead of paying once a month, you'd be >> twice a month. But I How would that affect the June payroll though? So, well, I mean, we close out the the year, so there'll always be June, July, August for for teachers. >> So, would they get six paychecks that month or three? >> I would say six. >> Okay. That was that was just >> Thank goodness for electronic and no more paper checks cuz then we would be needing some copy machines. >> Oh, yeah. >> Any other discussion? Seeing none, all in favor say I. >> I. I. >> All oppose. Passes. >> District paid subscriptions.

149Okay, passing the torch around here. So, I have um in front of you a document that we've created and we've made it a little bit more detailed uh this year so that our new board members can kind of follow along of the resources that we use um for student learning. So to understand this a little bit, we have uh all of our district paid subscriptions are in one column. You'll see the grade level um the budget and the budget code. So lots of different budget or lots of different piles of money that um some of these are taken out of. And then I just did a quick little synopsis so you kind of understand a little bit about what that subscription entails. How we get to this point is quite a a process. We talk

150with um our principles. We have um a survey that we sent out. It's our annual survey. We do it in in April. We had 252 staff members give us feedback. So we look at those requests for um resources, but then we also sometimes we don't like to give up anything, but we also look at the usage. So, is what we're saying that yes is important and in our in our usage matching. So, with that being said, uh I just want to highlight a few of these that are new because some of these are pretty standard issue that we've used consecutively over the years. The eighth one down is been mentioned a couple times already. It's our lockdown browser. We had an AI committee this year. um teachers from secondary were really concerned about um AI

151and the ability to get answers pretty quickly and this allows them not to open another browser and stay on um in Canvas um for an assessment or a quiz or an assign they can even lock it down. So um they are very excited. 100% of the teachers that piloted it this spring would like to continue with that and yes we will have training for that as well. Then the other new is um actually it's a miraceted we were using NWA for our foundational assessment. So this is phonics um or fluency. This is been approved by DESIE. So NWA for our foundation like dyslexia screening that was not that was taken off the list. So we did have to change because that wasn't approved any longer and in fact it's been a really good thing um

152because we had about 20 teachers K12 pilot Amira. It is an AI. Um, it listens to students read uh and do sounds. Um, so it's very simple to more complex as they get more comfortable. They even does comprehension. Um, we will be using it for K2 for our screeners. We have to screen three times a year. And I'll talk more about this in our assessment plan come the fall, but we also will use it for three for grades three for the assessment purposes. And then anyone any of our students that are on a reading success plan. So this is going to give us really good progress monitoring. And in fact on just the short pilot um the differences between the two programs we NWA was overidentifying kids that were on that needed a reading success

153plan when the teachers are like I don't see it but we have to according to Desessie we have to if they have those scores below the 25th percentile we have to put them on there. So, we actually were using a mirror for a really good identification of really kids that needed a reading success and it's less work for the teachers as well. It's a 20 minute assessment. Um, it's in English and Spanish and um it also is connected which is really good to our UFly which is our foundational reading curriculum. So, the kids are not going to see something different. They're going to hear the same. And of course, this doesn't replace the teacher. This is an assessment. It gives the teacher um some very specific instruction goals for each student. And then we'll never

154ever replace a teacher. I'll stand by that firmly. Um but this is an easier tool for teachers because they were spending quite a bit of time outside the teaching day grading these to try to hear the kids read. So the next one I would like to um mention is Savas. We had English three. Their textbooks were on their last leg. They looked at a few series and have chosen to use um SAS and it's been chosen by the English department. We are purchasing class sets of the textbook. Again, they're finding kids are more engaged sometimes with a textbook versus um a device. >> I agree. I agree. >> As she looks, >> Miss not always. Everything's in a balance. You can't be all or one, you know. I think it really is. And we want

155kids to continue to have those conversations and dialogue those. >> So, that's another conversation at another time. The other one I want to highlight is mystery science is not new, but mystery writing is. So, we're very proud to have all of our teachers be trained in letters one and letters two. It's been a two-year process for our elementary. So, now we're into writing and that's the next phase with the science of reading. And again, this was a teacher resource that was requested. Teachers piloted and they would really prefer to have this as our rating, our writing curriculum. And it's more uh topics on social studies and science, which again helps teachers um versus just your traditional books. But okay. And then uh the next one is Everway but it is uh called read and write

156but the vendor is called Everway. This is a Google Chrome extension and this is an accessibility um opportunity for all of our kids to be able to have text to speech. They even do talk and type. So a student could talk and then it will type for them to help for those that need it. Um, it also does any kind of vocabulary. It can screenshot a particular passage and it will read it to them. They can annotate. Uh, it will also make it a little bit lower lexile for kids that are really reading some pretty complex text. So, we got a grant um through Desi and it'll pay $7,000 of this and then the rest of it um Miss Puit and I are going to go in half on that. So, we're really excited for

157um this opportunity for all of our kids to have. And then my last one, probably the the biggest um piece of the of the um time that we have this year has been spent on looking at a math curriculum. So we had about 30 teachers all year. They piloted three different math curriculums. They had opportunities to have Zooms. We did less uh lesson um opportunities for them to go in and serve other lessons. We had vendors come in and even um give them feedback on how they were doing with some of the the um curriculums and resources. And the interesting thing is they had picked or chosen all 30 of these teachers. There's 60% of them wanted to go with Eureka Math Squared. We even had new teachers be part of this pilot because we

158find that all of our new teachers coming in might not have the mathematical background that some of our veteran teachers and it's so teacher friendly to find the lesson to be able to project it to go through the slides that are all that's been given to them. It also gives um student workbooks with this curriculum and it also gives them um manipulatives. So every class in K8 would also be given a brand new set of manipulatives to be able to demonstrate their mathematical practices at that time. Um it has improved. So we do currently use what's called New York Engage and this is the 2.0 0 version and it's Eureka squared. So teachers are already very familiar with the pace of it, how the lessons are set up. Um so even the lift is not

159going to be really really hard for our teachers to be able to implement this. Um I had a couple of the teachers had shared with me that it's it's similar but it is more rigorous in that it has got some mathematical stories that go along with it. So and they've improved the students activities and what they provided for the activities. So it's kind of like you've had a a resource for we've had this since 2015. We haven't looked at math since 2015 as is working for us is it not? We know that that New York engage has been successful in those master teachers because we have some examples of that at Kentucky Trail with they've gotten the prime award for multiple years and they're using this resource. So, we know it is highly effective. Um,

160so I'm really excited to put this together. The other thing, it is a cost obviously. Um, I worked with u Mr. Allen and and the vendor and they're going to let us pay over the time period, not just one year all at once. So, that's good. And also, the teachers didn't even know the price of any of these and they chose the one that was least expensive. some of these that were a million dollars for some were for one of the resources. So, it's pretty incredible of the range of >> million dollar. >> They did they did the pilot of the million-dollar one and we didn't have that one be the top dog. So, >> okay. >> So, with all of that, I um ask the board for your recommendation, approval of the district subscriptions

161for 2026 27. >> Okay. Motion to approve the district paid subscriptions as presented. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second to approve the district paid subscriptions for 2627 as presented. Any discussion? >> I have a question for NWA. You only have that listed under math. So is that the only component we're using on the chart? We're not doing the other two >> on that final chart. The final chart at the end. >> Yeah. NWA was only listed under math. So are we only using that component? >> No, we are using it in both math and ELA. >> Okay. >> Missed that. Thank you. >> Yeah. I just I just thought maybe we were >> Yeah. and the the chart below there. I just want you all to see the resources that every

162teacher has for them. A lot of these are free too. >> So that doesn't mean that they have a cost associated with it. >> Yeah, >> I was just curious about that. I thought maybe I didn't know if you could get it in sections, but >> yeah. No, I just missed it. Thank you. >> No worries. >> And I do recog I see that there's a um quite a plethora of options available under ELA. Are these all working like collaboratively? Are any of these duplicates that um is that part of your screening process to ensure that we are only purchasing products that are >> you know what I mean? >> Yep. So, for example, we were doing at K12 last year and it was about $80,000. We looked at usage. We looked at teacher input.

163So we're shoring that up from fourth grade to 11th grade because that's where the most usage was. And we also have a mira now and that support. So yes, we we do make adjustments based upon usage. So it's, you know, $20,000 cheaper. >> Okay. And on these price points, are these annual and automatically renewed? >> Not the math. >> Last one. No. And most of them are. Yes. You've you'll probably have seen some from the past that we we do. It's versus a textbook versus a subscription >> through their device. >> Yeah. All of these um like our Lexia reading, those are our tier 2 supports for kids that are reading success plans and those are online. But it also gives teachers lessons that they can do individually handon in small group with those students.

164So it's a combination and that adjusts based on how many kids we have on reading success plans. >> Okay. >> So they're per license as well. >> Any other discussion? >> Seeing that all in favor say I. I. All >> oppose. That passes. board meeting schedule. >> Yes, we put together a schedule based on what the policy is and so the administration recommends the polic or the uh schedule as presented. >> Oh, you read your >> Well, I didn't know if that was part of what was on here. Okay. Um my thoughts are that we would go back to two meetings a month um for a multitude of reasons. One, I just feel like we were more connected when we had two meetings a month. And another thing I wanted to propose, I've had a

165lot of feedback from our elementary and middle school parents that we do a really nice job um with the awards and recognition for our high school students every year for the different activities and athletics. And so they're like, is there a way that our elementary kids and our middle school kids could get recognized? And so my thought was that we continue with the schedule that's presented tonight, but then we add that second meeting in a month and go back to the old way where you went to a building and when at whatever building we were in rather than the principal speaking at the end of the night to talk about what their building's doing, they could have some little program at the beginning, not a big major thing, but just something so the kids could

166speak about what's going on at their school. kind of like a modified version of our student rep for the high school and um maybe that would get parents more involved in uh knowing what's going on in our schools and and we're just doing a better outreach. So those were just my thoughts. Um I have other ideas you know what we could do during that time but just basically um adding that and I know there was a concern that if we go into the buildings and Tony this isn't targeted at you but we couldn't do the Zoom at the the other buildings like we do here but maybe one meeting a month that they can watch more business and then that second meeting a month we still do our business but we it's more to highlight

167our community and our kids and stuff like that And I know we're a governance board, but I still think that that outreach is important for our community. So that's all I got to say. >> Okay. So if you want to Well, one, we don't have a motion. So if if if the board would like to do to punt this until you get dates, um I'm just looking for a consensus. >> Yeah. uh right now or we could just vote on this one and be done with it or we because it's going to take a little time to >> right, you know, do you go back to our old policy of the second and last? Is it still going to be on Wednesday? Is it still going to be on Thursday? There are things here that

168we need to think about. Um I am okay with that's not Zoom. >> Uh but I doesn't I want a consensus from the board. Um, and if you want it the way it is, then we'll vote motions and move on. Is there anything stopping us from not having to vote on this tonight? >> No. No, there's nothing stopping us uh e either way uh as far as that goes. The only thing I would say is I think perception of community is when we have some meetings broadcast and some meetings not broadcast that doesn't necessarily look transparent. So I think consistency as far as doing them all or none >> would probably be best. Um but the board can so choose to as we have in the past do some and not do some. So but

169that's that's >> yeah I didn't have a solution for that. That was just >> so um I'm okay with a a consensus talk before we do a motion. U so we'll start with the newbie. What do you think? Oh my gosh. >> That's different. >> Path. Just pass. >> Can I wait? Hold on. >> You were ready to talk about it. So, why don't we >> I I never wanted to move to one meeting anyway. I think everybody kind of knew that. So, I I like the two meeting. I feel more connected. >> Okay. >> Um that's just my opinion. And I was in I I know you have that later the summer summit thing, but one of the things they talked about in the workshop that I was in was um a lot of

170districts have a meeting a month, but they also have a workshop. >> Yeah, that's what >> every month. a workshop meaning we're in budget season and we have the workshop to talk about the budget or we're in some time other time of season that we the workshop specific to that. So >> that's what we used to have and we switched to two meetings because if Mr. Amelia and uh Mr. Miller remember we did not do uh budgetary items on the workshop meeting. Correct. >> So we did not pass bills. Well, then we were getting people upset that, oh, I'm not getting paid fast enough. Oh, I need money. Um, and so we turned the workshop meeting into a regular board meeting. So, we had a workshop meeting and a regular meeting, but we did not

171do budgetary items at the workshop meeting. Is that correct? >> Yeah. >> So, in a sense, one meeting a month, so to speak, >> in which you're doing now? >> One for budget. >> Yeah. But if you weren't doing budgetary things on a workshop, >> you were you're doing one meeting a month, so to speak, for budgetary items. Yeah. >> I like the idea of uh going into the buildings, but I do also understand that transparency is pretty good. We could honor uh schools here once a month. >> We could and still have a a Z whatever we do a Zoom and then everybody can stay upfront with what we're trying to do. Yeah, >> this was just my brainstorm ideas. So, I'm, you know, the two meetings a month was kind of where I

172really thought we needed to go back to. >> Okay, I saved you for a minute, Angela. >> Thank you. >> All right. What What would you go for you, Teresa? >> Um, I also feel like two meetings a month. I'm glad that we did try the one meeting a month to see how that went, but I do I think there was there there's something missing. there's a divide whenever we only do the one meeting a month. I do like the Wednesday nights. Um, and I do agree that I think we do need to be consistent with videoing all of our meetings and that might even be a neat opportunity for the kids if they come here and we're doing something for the middle school, the elementary, prek, whatever it is that then there is a

173recorded meeting for them to to have and share with family or whatever. Um, that's where I'm at with it. Rusty, >> I think I'm too new to really uh decide whether it's one or month, but I would ask why did you go to from 2 to one in the first place if if I it just made sense. Our our second meeting when we were doing a regular business meeting uh one night was 13 minutes long. Um I I didn't think it was worth us coming here >> for 13 minutes. >> So my thing is what and I'm okay you I'm getting ready to retire. What um what changed that now all of a sudden it seems like majority of the people want to go back to two. >> I don't think it was sudden for

174Dave and I. We like the two meetings all the whole time. >> I like the I liked the two meetings because I felt more connected. No, I get that. But some reason we went to one. >> Well, the reason was >> it was just to be more um efficient >> efficient with our operations. >> Yeah, because it was it was I mean I know for a fact that one of them was 13 minutes. >> Mhm. >> And those >> No, it's it's pretty short. And when one of the things that we could look at I mean December to November we're one meeting a month. >> Um July we're typically one meeting. >> One meeting a month. Mhm. I >> mean, we could look at some select months as far as that goes. Cuz >> let's

175face it, November, December is not going to change because of holidays, >> right? But the one meeting a month, this is why tonight is so long. >> Well, this meeting is always long. >> I But that's what I'm saying. >> But >> June June's a heavy hitter. >> Shutting down, starting up two things. >> Live meeting traditionally is >> right. Right. Right. But if we look at those second meetings we add and that's where we're going to honor our elementarymentaries or whatever, then it's never going to be like a super short meeting. And we can base our what's on our agendas for the first meeting of the month as opposed to the second meeting of the month or or however that might work out. Um what >> Sorry, I want to say something. >> Don't

176steal his mug. Yeah, >> mine doesn't work. >> You know what I'm saying is we could look at certain months. So maybe we do two in January. >> Um October is another one when we have uh MSBA fall conference. That's typically at the end of the month. We'll knock out a meeting unless we set a special date and next thing you know >> and parent conferences are then too. So >> So I mean there could be some months there where we are singles and maybe we do a double one in January because then we would honor the kids from the first semester. >> Uh >> we typically only do one in May. um because we have graduation early and so we don't have the meeting there and we do so there are some that are

177still singles but there could be some that are doubles to honor what you're talking about as far as >> what if we approve this tonight like it is and then whoever up with a okay on these months we need to do and then improve that one >> next meeting or >> it's there's nothing drafted this doesn't matter this is a a schedule so it's not So >> Schedules change. If if you don't want to do it, fine. You want to punt it. I'm good with whatever this board would like to do. >> I think it would be best to make a decision then put out one single comprehensive list of our meetings. So then there's not, oh, I didn't know we updated that there was revision. We are making a change. We are adding meetings.

178I think it'd be best to just put one final edit out. So if we put a together a good schedule and then approve it next month rather than to try to rush something tonight. >> Yeah, I'm that. >> So I would just ask that we approve the July 15th board meeting date uh for next month for the meeting. >> We do have some items with our construction management bid and all that coincides with that date anyway. >> So if we could do July and then come up with a plan for the remainder of that would be Great. >> Dr. Underwood, you will do the second class in session. >> Your guys thought, the cabinet thought, >> we were just sitting here talking right now about trying to figure out a game plan. and all those.

179>> Leave me alone. It passes. All right. New business. MSBA policy 26 22. It's late, folks. 2026A. First reading. >> Yes. Administration recommend approve first reading on the policies uh listed. I have not read all these myself, but they are mainly governance uh for the board of education. We'll review them over the next 30 days if there is any kind of issues or discrepancies because policy should reflect our practice and practice should determine our policy and so they need to make sure and coincide and so we'll look at those and of course if the board has any changes because these truly are more about the governance and the uh of the board uh itself. So, >> so for for Rusty and Angela, it's a this is first reading gives us 30 days to look at

180it and then we can either take them down pat we can pass them as is or we can discuss it. >> This is just a three. >> Yeah. And the video link was sent to all of us as well. >> I'm sorry. >> Wasn't there a video link sent? Yeah. Um, okay. >> Motion to approve the first reading of MSBA policy 2026A to include AD, AF, BBA, BCCA, BCE, B, DDG, BF, BI, BJ, and I A. All righty. Well, we have a motion and second to do the first reading of the policies as Dave Fred. I am I am too old to do that. So, >> any other discussion? Seeing not, all in favor say I. >> I. >> All opposed. That passes. >> Horizontal advancement. >> Yes. Just a few for you this evening.

181The administration asked the board to approve horizontal advancements as presented. Make a motion to approve the list of horizontal advancements as presented. >> Second. >> We have a motion and second to approve the horizontal advancement as presented. Any discussion? Seeing none, all in favor say I. >> I. >> Miscellaneous. >> We'll start with now there is a spot for the summer summer. >> I saw that. >> So, anything from the MSBA side. >> Okay. All righty. Um, we had and well, what I'm going to report out is from the summer summit, but it's the the legislative piece where um the we have new officers this year. Kesha Lee from Leoo is our new president for Missouri um school boards. Riley Hartwell from Joplain is the president-elect and Angie Reid from Liberty is our vice president.

182She's from our region. Um, uh, Brandy Woodley is our board of directors representative and she's from Park Hill. There was a suggested amendment change for amendment three, section 4, but there was no change and it's in here if anybody would like to see what it was. It was just a change in language. Um, region 4 meeting will be at for will be at Fort Sage on September 9th. The fall conference I reminded everybody October 22nd to 24th in Kansas City. Cosba March 12th through the 14th in Dallas for 26. Cosba March 17 through the 19th of 27 is in Columbus, Ohio. Advocacy day is March 9th in Jeff City. Uh we have a new um interim uh commissioner for the uh state and her name and I probably won't say it right um is um

183this is Prius and she's um not seeking election for that position. She's not applying. She's just here for the interim. Uh we do have one person who has uh put in their name as being interested in the position and that's um Senate Pro Tim uh Cindy Olaf. She she has um and to quote her, I'm always available if education if the education establishment wants to take advantage of my willingness to work with them to make education better. She also uh acknowledged that she may not fit with what some of the board members are looking for. So that's >> um yeah, I'm trying to be good. Um >> I'm not >> So um that's um um the information for her and the rest of this is the summit. So I'm done. >> Okay. Belton Cares >>

184big item on Belton Cares is the Troy Shaw Golf Tournament August 8th and we haven't had a meeting for a couple of months. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Had an email meeting today. >> Belton Educational Foundation. >> Um yeah, so Gayla planning is in full swing this year. It is a night in Las Vegas. Mark your calendars for Saturday, September 19th. Um, just know there is going to be a VIP ticket option. And this is not going to be like the Gayla you're used to going to, guys, okay? We're kicking it up a notch. We're doing things different. It's going to be a really fun time. So, I really would make sure you get an outfit ready and mark your calendars and buy your ticket. >> Yeah, that ain't got to happen. Alrighty. City of

185Belton. Uh, >> unfortunately, I've missed a few meetings notifications. Sorry. >> From what I've been reading, we could be missing a few of those for a while. >> All righty. Well, now to the MSBA Summer Summit recap. >> Whoever would like to start. >> Mary, we went to all the same classes. So, uh, Bill person this that >> uh I it started at 8 and I got out of there at about five. >> Well, when I started that was >> three days. That was harsh. >> Well, we had to 18 hours you had to do online. >> Yeah. >> And 10 hours all that, >> Mr. President. >> All righty, >> Mr. President. Yes. >> I would like to present Mr. Sullivan with his certificate. >> Okay. >> To me today, >> thank you. >>

186You are official. Congratulations. All righty. Who else? >> Okay. Rusty and I went to all the same workshops. Not intentionally because some of them you would get there and they would announce if you're attending da d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d you don't want to be here right now. So we would pick the second one or whatever and we'd end up in the same place. So uh but they did have some good workshops. They had some to talk about APR that was really fun. Uh Janet Tilly came out of retirement to present um uh a research center resources workshop and I

187have tons of resources for us as a board but I've not had enough time to process through those but I will get those um to you. Um we went to from Tinker to Tik Tok which was really interesting about first rights amendment. I happened to sit by a lady who um at their graduation this year when she went to hand the student his diploma, he ripped it out of her hands that it was all filmed, ripped it out of her hands and ran off the stage. And then they made this really less than flattering Tik Tok video about this school board member. And so she was at this meeting just to see what her choices are in the future here for things. So there were a lot there was a lot of discussion about um

188rights. They did a lot of legal cases. I was feeling pretty good because some of the ones they brought up there that's how we handled them here and that was the right way to do it. So that was a really good one. Um so that was um and then we the big one we had a nice lunch and for four years in a row Bolton school board has won the team has been awarded the team governance award for the way we handle our business professional development all the things that MSBA recognizes as a quality school board. So that fourth plaque will go up on the wall soon. So um that's my takeaways. >> Perfect. Who else when >> I attended the board president workshop and there was three pieces to it. The first one was

189on board meetings and thank you guys for the way we handle ourselves because some of the conversation in there like what is wrong with you people? I mean >> scary isn't it? Well, one lady even admitted, "Yeah, I called somebody out and called them a name in the meeting." Like a per like not a good name. And she I apologized after, but it's like I just get shocked at some of the things I hear the questions. The second part was about First Amendment and law and things like that. There's a new lady um that took um Susan Goldhammer's >> Yes. >> job. I think is her last name Madden I think or >> I think it is. >> And she did a pretty good job. And then the last part was on by Miss Harris,

190Ms. Haristen on superintendent evaluations, which I thought was interesting about different ways different school districts do things on that. So that was it. >> Perfectly. Did you go? >> I was at my daughter's graduation >> more important. >> Did you go, sir? >> Intended to, but I had a >> Okay. And Miss Radar, >> sorry, >> I did. I did. I attended the board secretary workshop and um always great information, always good refreshers and um catching up with other districts and telling them how much I appreciate my board and my superintendent because Mr. Daniels is correct. They have some crazy stories. >> And sir, I don't know. Perfect already. >> Wait, Torrance. >> Oh, Torrance. Okay. >> I I thought I thought I was looking for Bob. >> He hasn't used all of his words

191yet tonight. >> I will say ditto to what Dr. Underwood said. We We got a chance to sit there and listen to uh Linda uh Quinley and also learn a little bit about um what was the name of the organization? >> Balance. balance Q and the software that they use. Uh we thought it was pretty interesting and we'll we'll learn a little bit more about it. Um >> very good software. >> Yeah. >> Um I think I thought it would help especially your new person. >> Yep. Uh and we kind of talked about it today. We we seen an opportunity where it may be beneficial to us. So we're going to uh do a little bit more research and try to get a a pilot going with the balance HQ. And then uh unfortunately two

192of the workshops that I were going to attend were uh cancelled because they were some things competing with Desi and they didn't want to be competing with Desi. Uh so they are rescheduled and I will plan to attend one of them in July. >> Okay, perfect. All righty. Well, good. I do um I want to shout out to Tricesa. I've been to hundreds of conferences over the time and and that was probably the smoothest uh conference at eating and registrations and all that stuff. So, thanks. It was very good. >> Yeah, that's why we call her radar. See? >> Yeah. >> Be here at this time. See, I I describe it as she she's uh hurting wet taxes. I think that's how you put it. So >> she's scattered. >> No. All right. Miscellaneous dates.

193July 18th through the 19th, no summer school classics. July 9th, the last day of summer school. August 8th is the Troy Shaw Memorial Golf Tournament. Any dates that the chair missed? Seeing none, the chair will accept a motion. >> I make a motion. We adjourn. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second to adjurnn. Big shock. Any discussion? Seeing none, Angela, would you like to go home? >> Yes. >> Teresa? >> Yes. >> Rusty, what are you about to you? All right. And Dave? >> Yes. >> Man, I'm done. >> There are some sandwiches and stuff in the back.