001Oh, there it goes. Had to beat it. All right, chair. We'll call this tax rate hearing to order uh for any public uh comment on our tax rate hearing. Four people. All right. All righty. Nobody seems to be coming up. Wow, that's harsh. Alrighty. Well, we'll close the open comment of the tax rate hearing and move on to we need a motion >> and uh you are on, sir. This is your >> congratulations on the new job. You get to talk to us. >> All right. So based on a successful April 8 uh 2025 bond election, the district uh total tax levy will remain unchanged at 5.4119. Uh this is achieved by increasing the general uh fund levy from 4.054 to 4.3 while rolling back our debt services to debt service levy to 1.054 054
002and administration asked the board to accept the tax rate uh as proposed. >> Chair will accept a motion. >> I make a motion to set the district tax rate for 2025 at incidental fund 4.3575 teachers fund 0.00 debt fund 1.0544 capital fund at 0.0000 total 5.4119 as presented. We have a motion and a second to accept the tax rate hearing as presented. Any discussion? >> Seeing none, Norm? >> Yes. >> Teresa, >> yes. >> Mary, >> yes. >> Dave, >> yes. >> Karen. >> Jim, >> yes. >> And yes. Chair will accept a motion. tax rate. >> I make a motion we move from tax rate hearing to the open meeting. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second to adjourn the tax rate hearing and move to the open meeting. Any discussion?
003Being none, Jim? >> Yes. >> Karen, >> yes. >> Dave, >> yes. >> Mary, >> yes. >> Teresa, >> yes. Norm. >> Yes. >> And yes. All righty. First the chair has to be smarter than the new system. All righty. Well, welcome. We've been in executive. We've been in tax and Oh, so please stand for the pledge of the stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. radar. Any public comment? >> No, sir. >> Moving to written communications. We have a thank you note. Thank you for the beautiful flowers. She said, "After the recent loss of my sister, I'm so grateful to be part of a such a thoughtful and compassionate community." Terry Newman consent agenda. Chair will accept a motion. Motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. >> Second.
004>> Any discussion? We have a motion and a second to approve the consent agenda. Or anyone want to pull something off the consent agenda? >> I do have a question about um what's going on over at Yoga that we're investing quite a bit of funds into that building right now. Would you like to talk us through? Yes, we are doing some of our renovations toward the back where we have uh robotics, um engineering, human services. Um part of that is going to honestly be because we are hosting themies uh school districts in October and so we are sprucing some of that area because that now is something that we would want to do regardless. But we also are going to have visitors from across the country uh viewing that area and so there are some
005pieces that we are some of that Dr. pois planned on we wanted to move and vacate out a lot of that. Uh part of our long range facility plan is to try to do something with that building. We've had the architects in there, even a contractor in there as recently as just this last month. We have people in uh looking at that. So we are trying to clear up space as well. Get rid of desks that are 1975 or whenever. Um and so we are trying to fix up some of that back space as far as where they're going to come in. But then the other parts we're trying to get rid of stuff. All righty. Any other discussion? Seeing none, all in favor of accepting the consent agenda say I. I. >> I. >>
006All opposed. >> Passes. We are on to report as superintendent. Yep. There we go. No. Yep. Thank you very much, folks. All right, sir. You're on. >> Yes, we have some new faces that I believe Miss Brown is going to introduce and maybe even put them on the spot. >> I'd be happy to do so. We are just so thankful to have um four new administrators join us this year. Um, my goodness, the the year has kicked off so well and we've just been so impressed um and are so thankful to have each of you here. So, we I think I'll have each of you maybe stand up and introduce yourselves and um maybe just how things have been going thus far. >> Okay. Okay, >> good evening. So, I'm Christopher Kinzinger, uh, new high
007school principal. So, last week we welcomed all of our staff back into the building. We worked through, um, some trainings and professional development and also supported them with their efforts on getting prepared for their classrooms for the year. Uh, we welcomed all of our students in on Monday. And so, I'm proud to share that we have students in classrooms, the learning already taken place on day one. Um the administrative team we worked through we've completed uh just over 70 classroom visits over the last three days and uh we're excited to see what the year has to offer. >> Thank you. >> Welcome. >> So far they both have purple on. We're gonna we're gonna get down to one here that's going to need some purple. But go on. I am Kevin Bear, assistant principal at
008the high school uh over the business and technical academy. Um I'm just really excited to be part of Belton. Um the teachers have been great. The central office has been great. Uh getting to know the students the last few days has been really enjoyable. So just excited to continue the work and be here in Belton. >> My name is Dr. Terry Newman thank you card was for me. So again, thank you for that. I appreciated that. Um it's been a wonderful experience so far. We've been there since July 1st and this week obviously the students came back. Whole different atmosphere, whole different world when the kids come back. It's awesome. Um and we're just really enjoying ourselves and getting out in the building a lot and meeting teachers and meeting kids. Um and just can't
009wait for the rest of the school year. So thank you for having us here tonight. >> Carrie, what is it that you do? You didn't tell us. I did not tell you that. I'm so bad about that. I'm sorry. I am assistant principal over the human services academy at the high school. >> Good evening. My name is Chad Rooric. I'm the assistant principal at Mil Creek. I do not have purple on. I have purple tie. So, >> we will uh remedy that rather quickly. >> Yes, sir. Um this today we actually kicked off our CTS for our our school. Um and really just learning to grow with our within our building and learning from Michelle Tedman has been a blessing. And just to see coming from my old district to this district, one thing that
010I've noticed is the presence. And it's just beautiful thing to see that assistant soups coming in time after time and just making your presence known. that just speaks uh it's huge in our in my you know in my mind that's just a big thing and it's just been great to see and and that's what I aspire to be one day. So thank you guys. >> Where'd you come from? >> Uh Nevada, Missouri. >> Nevada. >> Yep. South here. Yeah. >> And doctor from the Kansas site actually. So this is my first time in Missouri. I'm from um >> Okay. We'll try not to hurt you. Okay. >> Live in. >> You live in Beldum. Okay. Okay. All right. Well, welcome. Thanks for coming. And uh we know we're we're proud of our little district. Um
011and hopefully you will grow to love it as much as all of us do. Um just so you'll know, one, two, three, four, five of us on this board are graduates. So, >> we all graduated from somewhere. But >> yeah, but we don't care. >> But >> only from Belton do we care. The rest of them, we don't care. All right. Do we get a choice? >> And of the five of us, there's only one that still has a student in the district. So, >> yes. Yeah. >> The rest of us have >> I don't remember saying no to you. And we can just get >> We don't want to photo we don't want to photobomb you. All right. >> And then uh you'll see that this board doesn't stand on a lot. So, uh
012go home. >> You guys got lots to do. >> It's a school night. >> Don't take offense to it, but we'd rather you be rested. Summer school update. >> Yes, I'm happy to report on our summer school this year. We had over 1,200 students enrolled in summer school. Um 231 at BHS, 170 at BMS, 205 Mil Creek, 355 Kentucky Trail, 29 at Grace, and 20 at Scott. And then we had 55 incoming kindergarteners come at Hillrest. We had higher attendance this year at Kentucky Trail and Scott than in previous years. So that was a celebration for us. Some highlights for our K9 um in groups were we had core instruction um each day for the kids. So they were getting reading, math, science at all areas. They also had daily clubs from a variety of
013clubs based on the grade levels. They had swimming here at our pool and Scott also went to the community center. They also ha we hosted our annual um Belton police camp for our students formerly known as the DARE camp for our fifth graders. Um you maybe saw that at Yokum. We had quite a large display of police cars. I believe there was even a helicopter there. So that was very exciting for our students. Um, we also had a crossover where the driver's ed from the high school came to Kentucky Trail and um ran a smart riders smart town clinic with our Kentucky Trail kids and the kids just really loved that so much that Dr. Wkelman did express that he wanted to keep that track on the playground um to continue that for this year
014and for next year. So, that was a really neat activity for our kids to participate in. At BHS specifically, we had um 91 kids that enrolled in driver's ed for sessions one and two. We had 193 online students who remained for the duration, so they were solely online taking online health, personal finance. Um 191 credits were recovered through Odysseyware, our computer-based curriculum. uh 63 students um came and completed their no credits and that way they earned back their credit by doing that just earning some seat time and 10 students um took and passed the in-person PE for an entire credit that is given. So that was very successful um exciting summer school year. We're already in the works planning for next year with some things we're going to refine and setting meeting dates for us
015to get together and plan with the high school, middle school, and um Mil Creek for some maybe coming changes and some exciting news for the next summer. >> You me you mentioned that you mentioned there was 1,200 kids this year. How many were LA? Is that the most we've ever had or is that >> Yeah, it's pretty common number. is pretty common. We did have a few higher at Kentucky Trail this year than we did at Cambridge last year. So that that's pretty average. >> Good. Okay. >> And I did count the online kids in that because they were there for the duration in that number, too. >> Very good. Any other question? All righty. Enrollment update. Start of school. Well, we're off to a great start of school as you might have heard from
016some of our administrators and I heard similar remarks from the elementaryaries. Um for enrollment, we are still actively enrolling lots of kids. Um most of them are still new enrollments that have been coming through this week. Um my secretary, Anita Majors and Angel and Tracy have been working really hard downstairs to get everyone enrolled and to schedule appointments and to answer any questions or get proof of residency in. So, if anyone is still needing to enroll, please call central office to make an appointment and we will um get you set up with an appointment, especially if um you have any questions. We hope that they would call and just get those last forms completed that they need. We still have um 368 out there that we don't know if they've withdrawn. We're waiting on records
017or um they haven't enrolled yet. So, those numbers will either fall off or some of those students will trickle in as time goes on. Um, our numbers are looking pretty similar to last year, um, so far, but like I said, those numbers won't be finalized until we get the rest of those people either shaved off or enrolled. Um, we already have 1,436 free and reduced lunch forms turned in from our enrollments effort. So, that is great, but we still need more of those through September 30th, and I know we're going to be working with the secretaries and the schools to get those turned in. and that is part of the enrollment packet, but they can also fill those out independently of the enrollment if you at any time. Um, >> that's we have about um
018over 4,000 kids. So, we Oh, yes, that's true. Each form is for a family. So, those are the families filling them out. So, they don't fill out one per child. So, I'd say we're about half. Yes, I see what you're saying now. So, we have had 519 new students enroll at this time, but as you know, that mean we do have about that many that leave and transfer out every year. So, we have kind of an even exchange throughout the years, but we are excited for the new students to join us. And um we did have an increase in numbers at Kentucky Trail with the addition of the 20 39 preschoolers, the two preschool classrooms that opened up and those were going wonderfully on the first day. And um Miss Meyers and um Miss Michael
019were in there and just adjusting to the new school, making the kids feel welcome and it was a great first day for them as well. Any questions for me about that? So that Kentucky >> Kentucky Kentucky trail thing was a big deal. I mean it was talked about like >> what's going on over there? What's this about? You know, people were really talking about that, >> right? It was a change, a definite big change. But I think that um Kentucky Trail is a great school and I think that the parents and the teachers and the paras that are working over there and the the new students are going to benefit from all that school has to offer. And Dr. Dr. Wkelman's been working really hard with Miss Lovelin to make the transition uh better for
020everybody. >> Do they have a space still to handle that? What what if it gets bigger? >> They have a they have space at Kentucky Trail. >> Okay. That building has had uh at least 550 or better students in it. Um I'm trying to think even before Dr. Sidleman, what do you think number-wise? What was your largest number? Uh, I couldn't give you a number, but I know there were five sections at every single grade level at one time. >> At one time there were five sections K through four at Kentucky Trail. And right now there are three maybe four sections at each grade level. So plenty of space. Miss Crumley, you mentioned there were 300 plus students that aren't enrolled yet. Are we actively searching for those? >> The secretaries at each building are
021calling. Our secretaries at CEO are reaching out to them and we will also send SRO's out to the residents to verify residency as well in the coming week. >> Okay. secretaries have a spreadsheet that they keep really diligently of who they've contacted, who isn't answering the phones. So, >> okay, thank you for that. And then I also wanted to mention um this might might be something that Rebecca did, but I was really impressed to see the first page of the calendar was the free and reduced application. Great, great asset. >> Was a great idea. idea was actually all Anita major so she gets credit for that. That that was awesome. >> Thank you. >> All righty. We are to tuition rate. >> Summer. >> We did summer. We did We did enrollment update. Started schooling
022those summer days. >> Yeah. Yeah. And the Royals are still playing. So, we'll move on to tuition. >> All right. Uh the proposed uh tuition rate for the 2526 school year K through8 uh $15,49024 uh which equates to a daily rate of $91.65. And then grades 9 through 12, we add $1,000 uh $16,49024 for a daily rate of 9757. Uh the proposed rate uh which represents a $216 increase per student uh from last year and based on the year's prior uh student operating expenditures expenditures. So administration has board approved tuition rate as presented. Second. >> We have a motion and a second to accept the 2526 tuition rate as presented. Any discussion? >> How many kids do we have in the district that where they pay this tuition rate? >> Uh, currently we do not
023have any students and honestly we have had a handful or less that have ever paid it. Uh, kind of like what was mentioned earlier, sometimes people will hear what it is and they'll say, "Yeah, no, we're not doing that." We have actually done payments for people in the past to try to help accommodate as well and so uh we have accepted those uh but you know we look at each case but it is very rare that we have that but we do set it is based off of our ASBR which Mr. Allen and his team just uh completed the board approved that in the consent agenda. And so based on those numbers off of our previous year is how we determine what the expenditures are um for a student and that is for a regular
024ed student that is not anything extra as we well know sometimes those can uh we've been investigating they can be a lot more in that regard. So uh nonetheless it is a lot but then again inflation cost of salaries and teachers and staff. I look at HR and just all the different pieces that come into play in determining how much it costs us to educate a child. Um yes it is not cheap. >> Okay. >> Any other discussion? Seeing none, all in favor of the 2526. Didn't we do a motion? >> So moved. >> You did second. >> Yeah. >> And then we did discussion. >> Wow. Even I caught that one. All righty. So yes, sir. All in favor say I. >> I. I. >> All opposed. Passes. long range facility planning. >> So,
025as mentioned earlier, uh we're working with Insight Design Studios. They've conducted their long range uh facility plan for us uh from March to August. Uh you can see that they've completed their interviews, surveys, and uh FALY assessments. And uh they uh the demograph demographic uh review is ongoing. Uh data collection is ongoing. Uh if you look down to August through November, we're going to start working on getting some committee meetings. Uh identifying some uh people that we want to send invites to and uh start uh starting the conversation about our facilities and and our needs. And so uh they've kind of give us a little outline of uh four different meetings that they want to uh take their time and kind of walk us through the process. Um and then right around December, January, we'll
026look at uh they'll be presenting to the board uh the facilities master plan that they'll have drafted and or finalized and then we'll look to get that approved by you all before uh April. to a board January. >> Yeah. In essence, we would come in December hopefully with the finalized plan and then if we decide to move forward, obviously we would come to the board in January, >> right? Because we need to vote on it and to put it on the ballot. >> Yes. >> Okay. Questions. >> Yes. uh attended a hearing um Union Station last Wednesday night. Uh the state is sending around uh legislators, senators, and and representatives in regards to the property tax issue. Obviously, it's more prevalent of an issue in Jackson County than anywhere as you guys have seen that
027on the news over and over. Uh we've seen some substantial increases. Plaque County has recently made the news where their assessor says he's not going to reassess property values. And so the state tax commission I believe had four members there. Uh really that is what drives what happens with reassessment because I believe they said 80 of our 114 counties in the state received a letter from the state tax commission stating to them that they were behind on values and they needed to reassess and by law they should be between a 90 and 110% of what uh the current values are of properties. And so as we have often heard um even our own assessor, you know, say that um we need to look at the taxing jurisdictions and those entities. Well, really what drives it
028is state tax commission. And so they're looking at ways to try to somehow change how taxes are done, whether it's a flat tax, whether it's capped at 5%. There was conversations about ways in which to do that. Obviously, the recent legislation with the 0% counties, the 5% counties, and those that are remaining the same. There's a lot of concern around uh the legality of that legislation and whether there needs to be an alternative. And so, they're having these hearings. They had one in Lebanon already. I think they've had one in St. Charles. Now, they've been in Kansas City. And I think they're headed uh down to the Joplin area and maybe one other one. And then that committee will come back and present uh to I guess the governor and also to the legislators when
029they start the next session. Uh ironically will not be but four or five months away from now. >> And so >> so wouldn't based on that being behind and they should be at 90 to 100%. I would think we probably foresee that same situation happening that's happening in Jackson County and other counties. That big jump. >> Yeah. I think what happens if you're a county in which you have lagged behind and continue to do that um and then trying to ever play catchup, it can be substantial. I think some other examples are like Teny County and Branson that they have sometimes because they feel like they have so much uh tax generating revenue from their areas that they shouldn't or do not do it and then they get way behind. It's kind of like um
030our say EverGy decides they're going to give us a 50% increase because they haven't given us an increase for 10 years. Well, give me 5% a year versus giving me 50 and one. Uh but sometimes these people, which they're elected, I get it. It's political. They're trying to get reelected and so they don't want to reassess and they don't want to increase people's taxes because they want to get reelected. And so it's kind of a give and take when they have the state tax commission pushing for them uh to increase uh those values and those reassessments. There were some pretty eye opening examples of businesses like down in the west bottoms and other areas that hadn't been reassessed in years and then all of a sudden it's like a thousand% increase. So those type of
031numbers are eye open. Uh so there's a concern obviously but I think a lot of it has to do with there is so much inconsistency that occurs from elected people because that person is elected in every county in this state and each elected person will handle it differently. I would agree because they need to know and understand how to handle and operate that and need training to do that because as I can point back to some previous assessors we've had in this county that has cost this school district money uh because of some of the mistakes they have made. >> Oh, that was a dark year. I remember that year. Very dark year. All righty. Any questions on the legislative update? Anyone need an aspirin? That just hold on. All right. Unfinished business. MSBA policy
0322025A. Yes. Administration would recommend uh this is a second reading of these policies that were presented um I believe a month ago. We have no changes. uh staff if anyone was involved with a certain area has reviewed that and I have not received any kind of feedback of any type of changes on our side. So they are recommended as presented. >> General accept a motion. >> Motion to approve the second reading of MSBA policy DFA DFA-2 DJ FA GBCB and IGBCA as presented. So, >> we have a motion and a second to accept the second reading of DFA, DFA 2, DJ JFA, GB CBB, and IGBCA as presented. Any discussion? Seeing none, all in favor say I. >> I. >> All opposed. Passes. SBA policy 2025B. >> Yes. And it would be the same uh
033no uh changes to 2025B either. So those policies are also recommended as presented. And this would be a second read. >> Motion to approve the MSBA policy 2025B as presented. >> Second. We have a motion and a second to approve the MSBA policy 2025B as presented for a second reading. Any discussion? Seeing none, all in favor say I. >> I. >> All opposed passes. New business. Conflict of interest policy BBFA. >> Yes, Mr. President. This is an annual uh policy that is presented and we do have I believe timing situation get this done before the end of August. So I would like to do a first and second read tonight. Um obviously all of the board members here have uh reviewed and approved this same exact policy in years past. The administration would recommend the
034approval on a first read for the conflict of interest policy BBFA. Motion to approve the first reading of MSBA policy BBFA as presented. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second to approve the first reading of policy BBFA as presented. Any discussion? Seeing none, all in favor say I. >> I. >> All opposed? Passes. Chair will accept a motion. >> Motion to approve the second reading of MSBA policy BBFA as presented. >> Second. We have a motion and a second to approve the second reading of policy BBFA as presented. Any discussion? Seeing none, all in favor say I. >> I. All opposed. >> Passes. Horizontal advancement. >> Yes. There's a few horizontal advancements this evening for you. The administration asked the board to approve horizontal advancements as presented. Motion to approve the list
035of horizontal advancements as presented. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second to approve the horizontal advancement as presented. Any discussion? Seeing none, all in favor say I. >> I. >> All opposed. Passes. Miscellaneous committee updates. Uh we'll start with MSBA Mary. >> Okay. We have our fall regional meeting next week. Uh ne um September 4th. >> That'd be scared. >> Oh, two weeks. I'm sorry. September 4th in in Liberty. I'm sorry. Um and then in October, we have our annual conference coming up. Um we have um some good speakers this time. Temple Grandon is going to be one of the keynote speakers and she um is the author of the book Thinking and Pictures My Life with Autism. We also will be seeing uh Orian Jean who's the Time Magazine's kid of
036the year will be a speaker. Uh there'll be um a lot of over 70 workshops to choose from for us to continue our professional development as board members and as well as other events that um are outside of the regular day. uh on Wednesday before the conference starts they will be having another all day workshop on AI which continues and this year uh change and that is going to be they're going to have breakout sessions so it's not going to just be sit and get for the day you'll get to choose your sessions to attend so those are the two things coming up with MSBA right now >> and that's on the AI thing is on Thursday >> on Wednesday >> Wednesday yep I don't know why they did that but because Thursday is kind
037of a down day And then, ironically, as I mentioned about Belton hosting the academy network, we will be hosting the school districts that Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Uh, ironically, and so, and I would just like to point out that Mr. Crumbley and Dr. Mock, everybody has been working very hard to make sure, uh, that we have everything eyes dotted, tees crossed, and have a great experience for uh, people. and they are coming from Akran, Nashville, Jackson, Mississippi, Anchorage, Alaska. I mean, people coming from everywhere. So, >> please, if you need me, please send me. I was telling Radar, my my October is jam-packed. So, uh, I'll put that on my calendar. Um, and my wife will be a a widow for most of the month of October. That's going to be >> uh where the
038one >> right before the MSBA conference. >> Okay. Okay. The workshop >> superintendent typically come in on the Monday Tuesday and then there will be like uh academy coaches uh directors team leads are there on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and so uh so yeah there's a lot that goes on uh kind of packed in those days. Uh Dr. Mach and I attended the superintendent piece uh where were we last year? Norfolk, Virginia is where we were last year. And so, uh, so yeah, we've been in different places. They want to obviously share and see what other school districts are doing. Uh, Mr. Cro and I were just talking today about, uh, some of our staff in essence. Uh, uh, we were talking about distributed leadership that in Nashville. Uh, obviously Akran, Ohio is pushed down into
039elementary to middle school and so we're talking about some people attending there. Uh, that was one of the things Dr. Mock and I hope to see it AC or at Norfolk last year and we really didn't see it at the elementary level and so that is still really new. Uh some people are saying they're doing it but you know I can say that I'm 7 foot tall but that doesn't mean I am. So um nonetheless uh we are obviously working toward that as I look at Dr. Sidleman to try to integrate that down into our lower levels and to try to get those type of activities. And I want to also commend the idea of our our staff with um our people with our little um group u presentation at our back to school convocation.
040And so to share about those experiences from the student perspective from somebody that's not in education who he said he doesn't or didn't want to stick his hand in people's mouths and so it changed his trajectory. But nonetheless, I think those were pretty powerful uh uh pieces of information that uh all of our staff got to hear about how this can truly affect and help people. So, >> very good. Um on MSBA the board of directors front uh MSBA did close on the property for the uh CES uh the center for educational service uh safety anyway. So they're they're going to they're going to it's probably going to be a a several year project but they're going to build a uh a center for that. um similar. You can look up the one for Coline
041area and it's going to be something similar uh but different on that. Um and then uh for those of you want may or may not want to know um next year's summer summit is not in Branson. We are back at Margaritavville because a lot of people were liking it being in the middle of the state. So there there is that. Okay. Belt and cares. >> Belt and cares did not have a meeting in July and we did have the Troy Shaw golf tournament and I think it was really successful. I don't know what kind of >> We had more golfers this year than we did last year. Uh the final numbers are rolling in, but it's it was a successful year. So, we'll still be able to donate um to the police department towards our
042K9 unit and to our band and then uh be able to continue um offering uh staff scholarship to someone who wants to continue their education. And the student scholarship is already um there every year without the tournament. So, um the cards that were on the table um at the breakfast that had all the data on there, those were uh a lot of people looked at those and it was good information. So, if you didn't get a chance, I've got some extra cards. Um, and we meet tomorrow. >> And you, Matter Belton, I don't know if we do have another matter coming up in September at at the middle school and high school. >> All righty. Educational foundation. >> Yes. So, um Sonia actually sent all of our new teachers a presentation on the Belton Educational
043Foundation. Um who we are, what we do, what supports we provide. Um and in that presentation, uh she included obviously we gave 43 new teachers $100 grants. Um so that was exciting. Uh, also included in that was um we supplied $89,000 to teacher grants. Um, and that does not include the non-monetary things that we provide for our students and staff as well. Uh, whether it's pantry items, clothing, things of that nature. Um, also very important piece that I want everybody to pay attention to. If you have a conversation with the teacher this year, tell them to apply for the Belton Educational uh foundation grant. Every single application that was submitted last year was approved. They actually had money left over. So, we don't want anybody thinking, "Oh, I'll never get it. It's too competitive. There's
044not enough money." Apply. Apply. Apply. Apply. That is what they are there for, and that is why we do the work that we do. Um, on top of that, we serve over 4,000 students again with shoes, food, hygiene, clothing, and more. Um, we offer mental health supports as well through school-based therapy, you matter, uh, things of that nature. Uh, special projects that we also provide throughout the year is the pavilion out there. Um, holiday kits, robotics, we support esports, teachers, and things. Um, what is that? Support staff of the year. Um, always looking for new sponsors, sponsorships. Uh, employee giving was really great last year as well. We gave out some awards um, back to school breakfast for that. Um, and also to end that presentation, she made sure to note that every single dollar
045raised um, stays right here in Belton. We give right back to our own community. It does not leave this town. It does not leave our district. Um so also friendly reminder the gayla is coming up. Um we will be opening that online auction on the 22nd. Um so if you are unable to attend you are welcome to go on there and bid. There is a couple of uh auction items that will go into the live auction but you can still call and embid as well on those. Um so they will have people doing that trip raffle. Get in on it. $100 could get you a variety of different trips or cash. Um, and yeah, the silent auction, one more note on that, it is open to everybody. You don't have to buy a ticket to
046do that. Anybody can get on there, log in, and start bidding. So, yeah, that's right. Bling and boots. >> Perfect. All right, Mr. >> President, I would like to add one item. >> Yes. >> Uh, obviously talking about themies and putting a plug in. Um we are working to have a uh night out dinner as an auction item with 501 Maine which used to be enroll. And so uh in order our goal is to get our kids involved. And so in doing that have our kids be servers and work the you know logistic piece and hostess and that type of experience. They they're not going to go in their kitchen and start cooking their food. Obviously those people will do that. But we're looking to try to do a night out dinner and so people
047would bid on for like two people be a value of are we at 100 or 125 or do we ever get that? >> Okay. So it'll be somewhere about there. And so you know you could win that or bid on that and say it's $50 and so you're to the good or you know you could give value and to up to the 100 125 whatever it's going to be um or less. But nonetheless, people would the win for him is that he would have people show up at his establishment. The win for us is that we'll have kids that can be a part of like our ProStart kids that are culinary and have that experience and have it right here uh in town. And obviously it's fundraiser for the foundation. So the foundation monetarily benefits.
048So it's it's not just win-win, it's win-winwin. So that is will be out there on that night uh as well. So looking forward to that. always trying to find ways to get our kids active and involved with their desired career field. >> All righty. Anything for the city? >> Uh I I did attend the meeting, but there wasn't anything specific towards the district. >> Okay. All righty. Um, I would like to uh thank uh Vice President uh Fletcher for attending a president's workshop that I was uh my my job that pays me has been keeping me a little busy and so uh I appreciate you taking care of that and going through that and she took some notes and one of the things that came through the notes and I know that through MSBA they're
049working on uh board norms. I believe that this board has norms. we just don't have them on paper. So, if that's something this board would like to talk about at a future date, we certainly can. But, uh, that's just wanted to finish that up and I appreciate you covering for me at the last second. >> Happy to do it. >> All righty. Some miscellaneous dates. No school for Labor Day. September 1. September 4th, region 4 falling in Liberty at 5:45. How many people do we have registered? Radar, >> five. >> And I believe we have uh at least four district admin that will be in attendance as well. >> All right, perfect. All righty. Uh September 25th is the Belton Chamber Globe Golf Tournament at 5:30. October 2nd is the homecoming parade at 400 pm.
050my daughter is uh detailing the T-Ird right prior to that. Um so there you have that. October 23rd through the 25th is the MSBA conference down at the Crown Center. Um and I don't see a date for the gala. What is that date again? >> That is on September 6th. Correct? >> September 6th. Any other dates that the chair is missing? Chair will accept a motion. >> I make a motion we adjourn. >> Second. We have a motion and a second to adjurnn the meeting. Any discussion? Seeing none, all in favor say nope. Roll call. I don't want to do a roll call. I'm not in the mood. Jim, >> yes. >> Dave, >> yes. Mary, >> yes. >> Teresa, >> yes. >> And Norm, >> and I'm going to say no just because I'm
051not in the mood to go home yet. We're ajour, folks. Thanks.