001We've been in executive session and now waiting and we have a guest here that is an Eagle Scout. So, he gets to lead the pledge. Are you okay with that, sir? Sorry to put you on the spot there, sir. All righty. Well, you are actually next on our agenda. I am going to bring up So, give us a second to bring that up. Um, Tony, did you discuss the microphone? Henry, tell us a little bit as far as where you're at, grade, all that stuff, so the board pretend like we don't know anything and you're talking to a bunch of strangers. Okay. Um, good evening. Where, uh, first, where would you like me to stand? Right there. Okay. Spotlight. [Music] We're gonna make you earn it, sir. Make you earn it. Uh, good evening. My
002name is Henry Lefoon. I am an eighth grade student at Belton Middle School. I am also a life scout currently serving as senior patrol leader of troop 1054. For my Eagle Scout project, I would like to design, construct, and install a 28 foot pedestrian bridge on hole two of Cleveland Lake Disc Golf Course. K. She's trying to connect up to bring your presentation up. any anytime our director of technology here is here, we it falls apart like a $2 watch. I don't I'm just saying I don't [Music] Wow. How are you at technology, sir? Uh, not very good. Okay. Well, you you are in the right room. You said eighth grader. Yes. Okay. What teacher are you on? Um I'm 81, I believe. And your teachers are uh Mr. Deitri, Mr. Mlan, Mr. Wasik, and
003Miss Kefir. Okay. I know. He's got an amazing math teacher. I bet you I bet you love math, though. Yes. Okay. Says our former math teacher. She thinks everybody should love math. I'm just saying. We're giving a little training in case he wants to be mayor someday. Yeah. Yeah. And uh school board president, whatever. Nothing. Okay. You want us to just move on? 15 seconds. Would you would you like to introduce your uh your your your your fan club? Yes. So, um this is my dad um Jamie Lefoon. This is my mom, Teresa Lefoon. Uh this is Mr. Feedback from Belton Parks and Recreation. Uh this is Mr. Gazy who is um a family friend who is also a structural engineer. And this is Josiah, his son. All righty. All right, we're getting closer. Now
004we can see how busy your schedule is. I like it when a plan works sort of. All righty. You are now on again, sir. All right. Thank you. So, the objective of this project is to create a safer, more accessible environment for users of the park and disc golf course. This will be accomplished by installing a safer bridge that will replace the current bridge, which is shown at the bottom of the slide. Some benefits of a revitalized bridge include enhanced safety and accessibility, a more durable bridge with an expected lifespan of 40 to 50 years, all while enhancing the aesthetics of the surrounding area. Safety will be enhanced because the proposed design will be vetted by a licensed engineer. It is also compliant with all current building codes. Accessibility will be enhanced because there will
005be a smooth transition from the ground to the bridge, ensuring easy access to both sides of the creek, even for people with low mobility. Henry, have do you have any pictures of the bridge you're thinking about or anything like that? Uh, yes, I have those later on in the slideshow. Sorry. Go ahead. Sorry. Go ahead. Uh so the bridge is located directly west of the technology and maintenance center on hole two of the disc golf course. I've also included a map with several locations including the location of the bridge marked for reference. I have taken several steps so far to get to this point in my present in my project. So far I presented my project idea to Mr. Feedback from Belton Parks and Recreation. Next, I created a concept drawing with computer aided design
006software. I then presented that drawing to CFS engineers, which was the engineering firm recommended by Belton Parks and Recreation. They then gave me feedback on my design. I then presented my concept drawing and design feedback to Mr. Gazy over here, a family friend, and professional structural engineer to consult on design improvements. Finally, I submitted my improved design to CFS Engineering. Tonight I am seeking approval from you, the school board, before presenting my proposal to Heart of America Council for approval. Once this phase is finished, I will consult with engineers for a final time, obtain final approvals and required permits. Now, moving on to the monetary aspect of this project. On February 17th, I estimated the total cost at around $8,000. Uh money and supplies will be fundraised by by myself with any excess being donated
007to Belton Parks and Recreation. In order to raise this money, I will acquire material donations, discounts, and sponsorships from local companies and businesses. Solicit monetary donations from friends, family, and the community. Some ideas I had for how to do that are shown below. I have secured hospitality donations for the working crew and I'll also utilize the tax exempt status of troop 1054's charter organization. Uh there are several steps that will be taken during the construction phase. These steps include creating signage and rerouting hole two temporarily pending approval from Belton Parks and Recreation so that disc golfers will avoid the construction zone for their safety. Next will be to demolish and remove the current bridge. After that, we'll construct and install the framework, decking, and handrails and perform one last final cleanup. As a note, labor
008will be provided by friends, family, and fellow scouts, both youth and adult, in coordination with Belton Parks and Recreation. So the first rendering I've included is a side view of my proposed design. And as you note, ground level is flush with the top of the footing and the top of the decking. The footings that are shown will be below ground. And the final rendering I've included is a threequarter view of my proposed design. And this view shows the footings, decking, and handrails in relation to each other. Thank you for your time and consideration. Are there any questions? I don't have a question, but I'm um I mean I don't know if you can tell I'm smiling because it amazes me how articulate you are. Thank you. And how well thought your plan has been. And
009for an eighth grader, you're you you speak extremely well. Um better than some adults. So kudos to you. Thank you very much, Mr. Leoon. Fantastic presentation, friend. Miss, she's on she's zoomed. Didn't mean didn't mean to scare you there, sir. Yeah. Okay, go on, Teresa. He jumped. I've known Mr. Lefoon for many of years and I expected no less. That was a wonderful presentation. Thank you. So you need from us a an approval. Uh yes. The chair will accept a motion. Second. We have a motion and a second to approve the Eagle Scout project as presented. Any other discussion? Seeing none, all in favor say I. I. Congratulations, sir. Thank you. Nice job. Nice job. We appreciate it. I do have one question. No, too late. No, go ahead. What is the estimated time of
010completion? Um, we're not sure. We're thinking um perhaps may anywhere from six to 10 work days really. Um, depending on how long each of the phases take. Okay. Yes. Bring him up here. Yep. had. Come on. Thank you. I'm out. [Music] All righty. That was a great presentation. And like I said, if you if you need to get somewhere, we're just going to do our standard business meeting. You are welcome to stay or you know, you won't hurt our feelings if you want to go. But technically, it's not a school night anymore. Yeah. I didn't know if you heard, but school's not in session tomorrow. We had the in. So, all righty. The consent agenda. Chair will accept a motion. I make a motion that we accept the consent agenda as presented. Second. We have
011a motion and a second to approve the consent agenda as presented. Any discussion? Seeing none, all in favor say I. I. I opposed passes report of the superintendent Dr. Underwit. Yes. Hopefully we will uh have our presentations to pop up. First off, Dr. Pearson, I have you up first for Wilkins Steam Academy. Perfect. Can you hear me? Okay. Yes. Give us just one second on putting up the slides. Dr. Pearson, can you see that? I can if you guys are ready. I think uh Mr. Adams is on here with me, too. He's going to get to experience doing this with me this year as well. So, uh to start, uh just an introduction. I think I know everyone here on the board as I've been here a long time, but I'm Dr. Pearson, the principal
012here at Wilkins. And then I have Mr. Adams joining me um and doing a couple of the slides tonight and he is our assistant here and we'll continue here next year as well. So, Mr. Adams, would you like to start with our building APR? Absolutely. Good evening. Hope everybody's staying warm and cool or warm and uh safe out there. Uh as you can see on the slide in front of you, we have our building APR for the past three years. Uh last year we took a dip of 7.9% and this is due to a lack of growth in a couple of our performance areas which will be discussed in the next slide by Dr. Pearson. As we move down into slide three with our MAP achievement. So having so many grade levels in our building
013that's map tested, it's a lot to cram on one slide. So, I'm very sorry about that. Um, I was going to go over some highlights and some areas um that we are really focusing on this year as well. So, as you're looking through our MAP scores over the last three years, we have seen consistency throughout our scores, but last year we did take a pretty big dip in our fifth grade ELA and our fifth grade science. Um, with that we were above the state and district average in all of on all of our tested areas except for those two. Um, we did see a small decline in our sixth grade math as well. With that, uh, we were still above the state and district average though, but are hoping to pull that back up a
014little bit further again this year. A big highlight for us, if you look at those fourth grade scores across the board, um they were high in ELA and in math for us, uh we have some very skilled teachers in that area that really push them forward and one of them was even the winner of the John Ferguson award this year as well, uh for those scores. Um, with that, we'll be addressing some of the things that we're doing for improvement towards the end on those uh, scores to build because they weren't where we want them to be. And really that decline in our APR score um, was due to the lack of growth for fifth grade, ELA, and science were the two biggest areas that we had um, that we need improvement in. And in
015front of you now, you have our attendance for the past three years. We're proud to say that we've continued to grow uh that overall attendance at Steam for the past three years. And last year, we we received all four of our APR points in this area. Some of the ways that we support uh students attendance in is just making sure that we have engaging projects going on throughout the grade levels including families and family school environment uh nights. We build relationships with our families, Dr. Pearson, Officer Heapner, Miss Jamie, and myself. Uh it is a effort all of us take uh pride in making sure that students are getting to school and monitoring that situation and if we have a family that we need to reach out to we have that relationship to uh have
016that conversation with them. And furthermore we offer clubs such as Lego club Lego ukulele club steam singers we have our podcast group and NEHS. So, as we move down to the next slide, um our three main focuses for school improvement. Our first is that strong focusing on literacy instruction and that's embedded throughout everything we do. One of the things we're doing this year as a district is focusing on that letters training and I know it's one of those acronyms. So, letters is language essentials for teachers of reading and spelling. So, it's really teaching teachers to dig down into our students individual needs and figure out what they need to learn to read and write and develop a plan for each of those individual students. We are doing that um here at Steam K through six.
017I know the rest of the district is K through 4 is working on that, but that has been a huge help in us meeting the individual needs of our students um which was so needed in everything that we're doing. We're also implementing a new foundations program called UFly. It's with the University of Florida Literacy Institute, but with that, it's really breaking down what our students need in those foundational reading skills to make sure we're addressing those and building upon them. And then we still have our EL ed curriculum that we've used for multiple years, really focusing on that comprehension and writing piece. And by bringing all of that together in a comprehensive program, we're starting to see really large gains in our literacy with our students. Um, in addition, we're providing those real world experiences
018that integrate across the curriculum. That's something unique here at Steam that we've always done, but just keep building upon it and making it better. So really focusing on that critical thinking, how we can take some of the regular curriculum and change it into real world projects, posing those questions for our students, just like the Eagle Scout project that was just seen, we want our students develing those problems and developing a solution for it. So kudos to him. That was awesome and loved seeing that. Um, we want them to be collaborative. Um, we want that high student engagement with our students and really focused on that working together. We also do the 5e lesson planning which really focuses on the engagement, exploring the students explaining, elaborating and evaluating what they do and continuing that process. So
019they're really developing their own solutions to those problems. And then the last area we had was that positive culture and climate. So last year I think whenever we presented we already had the state school of character. We were awarded that National School of Character at the end of last school year, which is still a huge celebration, but all of that hard work that we put in there really opened up some different areas for us to work on and build upon. Mr. Adams already talked about our uh parent nights that we are doing. So, we have already had a game night, a literacy night. We're getting ready to have a career night and then a science night as well. These have been huge in bringing in our parents and having that high uh community engagement as
020well. During our game night, we had I would say at least a hundred people in here playing all of those games and working with us and just having fun together as a school community. We've also continued our video announcements, the shoutouts uh that we do to celebrate our different kids accomplishments as well as teachers. Um and just fostering that family environment for all of our students and staff throughout the school. Are there I know that was kind of quick on Zoom. It seems a lot quicker for some reason. Are there any questions that you guys have for us? I do. Oh, sorry. Go ahead, Karen. I was curious if you had any thoughts of what attributed to the decline of the fifth grade scores. I mean, even when you compare them to the prior year
021fourth grade, they did much better as fourth graders than they did as fifth graders. So, I was wondering if there is something that you felt attributed to that. There were a few things in there. Um, and I don't like to place any sort of blame or, you know, we own all of that together as a team, but with that, we did have a situation where a long-term sub, it had come into one of the classrooms a week before testing. Um, that classroom probably showed the most decline of any of them. And as we know, a sub coming in right before testing, that's a very hard situation. We do know that impacted it. We had some different um different student behaviors that played into that as well. But it's one of those in working with our
022sixth grade team because those are the same students that had that dip last year. We've shown huge growth this year in what we're doing with them with our NWA scores. We're also implementing additional um strategies and interventions for them to make sure that we are getting them up to where they need to be. Thank you. Welcome. That was also my question as well. And then I've also kind of been surveying, do we feel like behaviors are an influence at all in the classroom's ability to uh you know instruct and follow curriculum? Uh if we have bigger behaviors, yes. Uh our teachers have gotten better about if there's a bigger behavior, sending those students to Mr. Adams and I so we can address it directly. um because we do not want them to get to a
023high level within the classroom with it. We don't want it to ever be an interruption for the other students. Thank you. All righty. Anyone else? Well, thank you. Keep up the good work. Thank you guys. Next, sir, Mr. Cummins from Cambridge. Hi. We are quick, Mr. Cummings. Your your slides are already there. We're getting faster as the night goes on. Well, I'm just glad I didn't have to bat lead off. I've never batted lead off before in my life, but it's never fast enough for that. So, this is nice to go second. So, uh, good evening. Um, it's awesome to be here tonight. Um, representing Cambridge Elementary as the principal. I am lucky to go to work every day with some of the best educators I've ever been around. So, I'm very proud of that.
024Um, as we review the data tonight and go through this and I just want to shout out all the hardworking staff, the teachers, um, pair professionals, um, the custodial and the maintenance team for getting the school ready. I know it's been a tough week, so we appreciate them. All right. As we reviewed the current status of the APR, it's clear that while the data has remained stagnant over the last three years, um it's not a full reflection of the efforts of the staff who work tirelessly every day to support kids and and grow them academically and socially, emotionally. At Cambridge, we do see daily victories in the classroom that cannot always be measured by a single metric such as the APR. Our focus now has got to be on the future. Uh we are committed
025to identifying strategies that ensure progress that not only felt that is felt in the hallways but also reflected in the data that you'll see tonight. Oh, I like this. I don't even have to say go to the next one. This is good. All right. The MAP achievement math map test results as you can see over the last few years um give us valuable insights to areas of strength um such as growth in ELA fourth grade slight growth there um but also shines a light on areas that we can grow in academically and instructionally and to do that uh we'll we'll leverage this data to develop uh strategic targeted interventions refine our instructional practices and set personalized goals for student growth. Um, with this strategic approach, MAC testing will continue to guide our efforts in fostering
026academic excellence and ensuring that every student reaches their full potential. Um, we we understand the data where it's at and it is what it is and we've got work to do and and our focus will be on the future starting this year. Our APR uh increase was due to our attendance. Um last year we did earn three three points on the APR out of four um with over a 6% uh attendance increase and so we're we're going to build off of that this year and continue to grow. I will tell you as of today or this week we're at 93% attendance um for the year right now. So looking forward to those four points. So the focus is on now. on this year and in the future and and we have three areas that we're
027going to focus on. One is increasing attendance. Um I think there is a saying out there that says you can't they that students won't learn if they're not at school. And I I wholeheartedly believe that. Um to increase attendance, our focus is on um creating a sense of belonging at school for kids, for staff, for families, making sure that they're welcomed and and warm receive warm um wishes as they come in the building. Um, we want a a school to be a place for them to beat down the doors to want to be at every single day. Um, we celebrate attendance through 95% club. Kids that have been uh at school 95% or more are put in a drawing to win its free t-shirt that says 95% club. You can see many kids throughout Cambridge
028wearing those proudly. They're bright yellow. Um, they're proud of those. We have uh monthly epic assemblies that that I lead virtually um that kids love. We shout them out. Teachers write in shout outs. We shout them out. We have a really good time with that. Um, but mostly we need to bring the joy and the fun back to Cambridge. Enjoying each other's company. Um, smiling, having fun, greeting kids, high-fiving kids, and celebrating their hard work. Student achievement, like Dr. Pearson alluded to earlier, it starts with uh we we know any sort of achievement, student achievement increases start with adults. Um, and that's what we're focused on this year. We're we're increasing our knowledge base around the science of reading through our our letters work. Um, we have teachers with that are in letters year one,
029letters year two, and applied letters. I have graduated out of the two years of letters. I myself am in letters. Um, training for administrators with Dr. Underwood and Dr. Sidleman. Um, as well as utilizing UFly, that University of Florida literacy institute that phonics phenemic awareness basic reading foundational reading program that we're using with Fidelity at Cambridge. Um, we're in the midst of fidelity walkthroughs and making sure that we're doing that with um with laser-like intention and our kids are moving. There's nothing like going into a kindergarten classroom and seeing five-year-olds starting to read. It just makes the hair on your arm stick up. It's phenomenal to watch. In the area of math, we're working on a buildingwide scaffolding model. It's called the redraw right starting in second grade. Kids are are attacking word problems and
030math situations with that redraw right model. It's a way for them to show their work. Um, and we're building from that from second grade all the way to fourth grade. So, they're having a common way to attack word problems and situations. And we're starting to see some really phenomenal thinking by kids. um and and they're putting it down on paper which helps teachers guide that instruction, adjust their instruction as they move forward through lessons. The last one area of focus is increasing family involvement. Um Cambridge is is blessed with a great fantastic family involvement. Um our PTO events are are really well attended. Um earlier this year we had grandparents day and I think over 700 families attended that. Um trunk or treat we ran out of candy. Um, so we we see a lot
031of parent involvement and we're going to build on that in a few weeks. We have bingo for books. So, we'll be doing that. And we just kicked off next week when we head back um our family book. It's our family school book called Mouse uh and the Motorcycle. And so we'll be doing that at homes. Every student got a copy of that book, whether it's in Spanish or in English. Um and we'll be doing comprehension questions throughout the week and celebrating that. So, we have a lot going on at Cambridge. The focus now is on the future, really drilling down to what K skills kids are missing and how do we attack them and and fill those learning gaps. What questions do you have tonight? I kind of just have the same question that Karen
032had um for steam. Do we happen are we able to identify at this point where the decreases are coming from? And and I second what you opened with stating that this is not a full accurate representation of our students, but I'm just curious to see how we're identifying where the gaps are and then strategizing how you're going to approach those. Yeah, I appreciate that question, Teresa. I think number one, we know um the MAT test capture third and fourth grade achievement, but we know foundationally when kids have gaps in K1 and two, those those compound in the older grades and those gaps get larger. And so just personally speaking, my belief is we have to catch those kids early in kindergarten, first and second grade with those foundational skills. and UFI the science of reading
033and letters training will help catch some of those kids. Um and then strategically intervening with we at Cambridge we're only using youth life for also our interventions with our older students. So we're using one program to really use it with fidelity because we know it works um to keep kids moving forward. It's it's about that diagnostic piece. It's like when we go to the doctor and they say you have high blood pressure, we have to diagnose that first and then we put in interventions and uh through NWA um that helps provide those interventions. We know where kids are struggling and then building the resources and the intervention plans from there can help target those goals and those those missing skills. Okay. Any other questions? All righty. Thank you. Thank you guys. Have a great night.
034Okay. Next up, we have Miss Snyder. Karen, are you with us? I'm here. Can everybody hear me? Okay. Okay. Yes. Yes. Okay, I'll go ahead and get started. Um, hi Karen Snyder. I'm the new principal at Gladen. Um, and I'm excited to share our data with you because there are so many good things going on um, at Gladen. So, I'm going to also start like everybody else did with the annual performance rate or APR. Um, as you can see, um, in 2122, Gladen got 59.2% of those points. They had a little bit of a dip in 22 23 and then you can see in 232 24 we had a huge jump in our APR points about a 40% increase which is quite phenomenal. Um I kind of want to explain where that jump came from.
035Um so I'm going to break break it down just a little bit. So APR is comprised of a performance category which looks at acade academic achievement and growth. Um, and Gladen got most of our points in this category from growth. Growth looks at your student achievement in ELA and math and then also in ELA and math with your student groups like your free and reduced lunch and your um multil- language learner population and some other groups. And we actually earned 100% of points in all four of our group categories, which is is phenomenal. Um, the the previous year they had only earned about 20% of points in each of those categories. So that huge jump helped us um with our APR points. And then also in achievement, we got the same amount or more points
036than we had. Um and I'll lead into I'll talk about that more when we look at the um MAP scores from third and fourth grade. Um and that growth also looked at those cohorts of students moving from third to fourth grade and how they did. So that's where most of our points came from. And then the other part of APR, about 30% of it looks at um continuous improvement. So that's like our attendance, culture and climate survey, and then the kindergarten readiness. And we earned some more points in attendance that we had in the past. So that's why um that had such a nice jump there. So this slide is showing as the other principal shared our um percent of students scoring proficient advanced in ELA and math. Um I'm going to start with third
037grade. So you can see third grade in 2122 about 32% proficient advanced a little they had a little jump um a pretty good jump actually 10% from 20 to 22 23 and then a little decline from 23 to 24 um if you look at third grade math which is that second chart um about 24% 24.6% 6% of students proficient advanced and then 22 23 we had a little bit of a bump and then they did have a little bit of a decline in 23 24 with 22.8% of students proficient and advanced. Um looking at our fourth graders you can see they in English language arts had an uphill trend there from 25% to 28% to a huge jump um in 23 24. A good a good 20% jump in the amount of students scoring proficient
038advanced. Um and then in fourth grade um 27 in math 27.9% proficient advanced we dropped a little bit to 25% and then um a really good jump there from 22 23 to 23 24 with 47.6% 47.6% of students proficient and advanced. Um before I go to the next slide I do want to point out that cohort data because that is where those growth points came from. So if you look at third grade language arts in 22 23 about 44.7% of students as third graders were proficient advanced. Those same students as fourth graders was 48.4%. So we had almost a 5% increase. Um and it's even more in math. If you look at the third grade cohort in 22 23.9% of students were proficient advanced and then they had a huge jump to 47.6% um that
039group is fourth graders. So that's where those growth points came in um in our APR. Um the next slide's looking at attendance and this is another area that we had growth in. So you can see that every year um attendance has steadily gone up for the proportional attendance and in 23 24 that was no exception and it gave us another um mip six points. So we got three out of four points. Um and like the other principles talked about we do a lot of things to focus on attendance. Um, we recognize perfect attendance classrooms and we hang banners on the doors. We say those um, classrooms over the intercom. We've done some competitions um, where we had a third grade class that won perfect attendance for a month and they did a chef experience. We
040just got done with doing any student who had over 90% in January got to have lunch um, and a treat with the principal and counselor. Um, I do feel at the elementary level attendance does lie in the hands of the parents. Um, so I think our best um, method of getting kids to school is when we see attendance starting to drop or notice some changes, um, it's that phone call from the teacher and then the the counselor and I also follow up with a phone call so we can catch any of those chronic students and even ones who are slipping so we can keep them in that 90% zone. Um, these are our three big school improvement goals um, which are very similar to what you've heard. So, it's increased reading scores, increases math scores,
041and create a positive and supportive culture and climate. Um, in the area of reading, um, as the other principal said, it's really focusing on that foundational literacy at K2, but then also pairing that with the staff professional development that they're doing in literacy. And I love that that's not just for K2. I love that we're doing K6 with that because it's so important at third and fourth grade when we have some students not reading on grade level um that our teachers have the knowledge and skills to help students and close those gaps. So, we put a lot of focus into that and the staff PD has been truly important in that piece. In math, we've really focused on um building wide a problem solving strategy that we can use that will help students as they
042get to third and fourth grade and then really increasing that math fact fluency um with students and using those programs that we have um to help with that. Um and I also think in both of these areas, the work that we're doing in our collaborative team meetings with our grade levels is instrumental. We really put a focus on looking at student work. um seeing which students have mastered um standards, which students have not, and then what can we do? Really discussing those instructional strategies um to make sure that we are putting the best we can in front of students to raise those scores. And then lastly, creating a positive and supportive culture and climate is our third goal. Um really, I put this in the hands of the teacher leaders. We developed three committees this
043year. One looks at our building wide discipline systems led by a teacher leader. The other one looks at like those character traits, how we can infuse epic and those pirate principles into our daily work at Gladen. And we also do pirate pals, which is where great little grade levels pair up and do activities together related to the epic principles. And then um also we have one climate that really focuses on the adult um culture climate because we know that's an important piece too in supporting kids. Um that's all I have, but I do want to give a little plug. So, you know, Belton is not my first district, and I just want to say um the data that you've seen today is a testament to how hard um the staff at Belton work. And I
044can just say that coming from other districts, I appreciate how just supportive everybody has been from the top down. And I just appreciate that you have good systems in place that that put kids first and really focus on what can we do to support kids um from every level um of the school district. So I do really appreciate that. Um does anybody have any questions? I would point out that her attendance, I should say Gladen's attendance up to this date is 94.1. So trending in a positive there as well, Miss Snder. Thank you very much. Thank you. Any questions? Just a comment. That was a great explanation of how all the data uh comes to be and reflected the way it is. So, thanks for explaining that so well. Thank you. And keep up the
045good work for your first year with us. Thank you. you. I appreciate it. Yes. Thank you. Okay. Next, Mr. Holtz, we're going to jump to you. Uh Dr. Winkman will be with us in March. So, last but not least, not last but not least, that's for sure. I do want to thank uh Henry that per his um bridge project. He was a great kid as he came through Mil Creek and like Teresa said earlier, she's known him for a long time, but that was a great presentation by Henry. And also Teresa, if Tim's driving, tell him to keep his eyes on the road during that whole process. Okay. This will be our last time I get a truck to the board. So, I just really wanted to start off by saying thank you uh for
046the last six years and the opportunity to serve uh the students and staff and work with you guys. So, I appreciate that. Shelley Tedman's joining us too uh tonight as she assistant principal and she'll be taking over. And so let's go to the first slide. Uh Billing APR again part of the challenge of going last is you've heard a lot of this and so uh if you look at our numbers it's on an upward trend. We're very excited about that. Um you know we took a little dip last year but uh uh APR is projecting the way it it's supposed to be going. Uh here's our achievement similar to what the other buildings have presented. Uh you can see the three years. Uh we scored uh we improved in four out of the five map
047tested areas. So that's a big kudos to our staff and students for the hard work they're putting in. Um the most significant gain if you look was between 22 and 23 in fifth grade math. Uh went up over seven points. So that's awesome. But again, uh the area that we didn't increase was in reading uh in fifth grade. Uh and um yeah, there's reasons for that. Uh you know, at fifth and sixth grade level, we're fighting uh the phones and the culture of not reading as much as they have in the past. And so that's something our building will continue to to work on and to to promote literacy and reading and make it important uh because we truly feel it is an important the most important skill you learn while you're in school along
048with getting along with people. So, yep. Everything's trending right there. That was a good year for us in map testing. Uh Shel's gonna take over on attendance. Hi. Uh yeah, we've seen an uptick in attendance. Just like uh what Karen talked about um and Mike talked about, we're really working towards our attendance and seeing a positive trend. we're making those phone calls home and teachers are trying to make all of the connections they can with kids and their parents because I'm I'm with um what Karen said, it's the parents that is really trying to build that connection um with them and finding what's the reason for lack of attendance or issues that we're seeing as they come up. So, we have uh calendar charts that we'll start with kids for behavior tracking um and for
049attendance. So, those are things that we look for to help us. We have the 95% club in our building, too. Um, and then we've done attendance competitions in the fall. I'm sure we'll do a couple more this spring. For school improvement, we have three goals. We're working on our professional development with our NWA results and reports. Those are things that um I kind of lead within our building as I'm coming out of the classroom and I'm pretty familiar with NWA. in the last district that I worked in. So, those are things that I'm continuing to show teachers how we're using that, what we can find, connecting that with our LL skill plans, um, and making sure that we're making intentional moves with our NWA results and those reports. The professional development, we have a little
050bit more freedom since our teachers aren't doing, um, the literacy training that the elementarymentaries are. So, we've been trying our best to make sure that we're using our collaborative team time and that collaborative time to make sure that our teachers are on the same page. They're using the same information. They're looking at trends like if they're seeing an increase in one room and not in another, what's happening? How can we improve? And those CT meetings that we have every Wednesdays have been super helpful and beneficial to the teachers. We're continuing to look at those student focuses and all of our growth plans as the students are making movements through the school year. Uh we've also implemented Project Lead the Way within our science in fifth grade. So those teachers are working through um a different
051resource and trying to work through different ways to help kids learn and grow through that um exploratory way of learning. We also are a BIS school and that's behavioral interventional support team. Uh a couple weeks ago I took three of our teacher leaders to a training uh in Kansas City and we visited a school and keep looking at ways that we can continue to build our teachers and grow them. And in those we are doing schoolwide expectations which is a part of that part. Um, we're looking for consistency within our building on how we communicate with kids. Um, how we have expectations of what they're supposed to do in every space. Um, and then it provides us strategies for intervening and responding to inappropriate behaviors um that we see occasionally. What questions do you have
052for us, guys? Anyone? I don't have a question specifically, but I know that all of you collaborate together and you come up with good ideas and I just at looking at every single building how your attendance has improved and hearing comments that even this year it's even improving more. Um, I just think it's great work that you guys are all working together and coming up with great ideas to get the students in the seats and uh, kudos. Thank you. Yes, great job. Yeah, I was going to say all of you make our lives easier and make our jobs easier. So, uh, we appreciate that. Uh, we see a solid trend in my opinion of of of good numbers. So, I think we're okay. Uh, Dr. Underwood, you have anything else to say? You say KT
053will be next month. Yes, KT will be next month. I I do want to thank everyone here. You know, obviously the work's not done. Uh I would even point out that Mil Creek is at 92.86 uh to date on their attendance. So obviously, uh trending up as well. Uh and you know, attendance isn't everything, but it as mentioned earlier, they have to be here to learn. Uh we have to refine and hone our skills. Um obviously looking at not only the professional development piece uh the pedigogy that goes along with letters uh training was discussed trying to find that commonality of ways to um in essence help our students to achieve academically. And the more and more science and research that we learn and understand uh to help each and every student uh more of
054a personalized instructional event for our kids can help them because uh what works for one does not work for all. And so trying to personalize that, I credit our leaders uh in helping our staff to do so uh to help each and every one of our kids to reach their best because we want every child. It's just like, you know, our children at home, every one of these kids are ours. And we always want our kids to be better than what we are or what we were. And I do truly believe our staff does that. And I just want to say thanks to our principles and our staff. Yeah. And I want to second that as well. Um, and I also think something worth noting is, you know, combing through this data with all of
055the buildings and recognizing the influence of those, uh, early years of, you know, kindergarten, first, second grade, uh, and how COVID really did influence where some of these gaps are and how it's affected education. And I think we're just now starting to finally really hone in on where the problematic areas are and address, you know, where where did our students suffer the most during those years of, you know, not being in the classroom, not having the one-on-one instruction and things of that nature. So, I just applaud all of you for your efforts. This is not an easy job to do and to problem solve. All righty. Thank you once again. All right, moving on. Title one program evaluation. Yes, I am happy tonight to present to you the Title One um program evaluation for the
0562024 2025 school year. Can everyone hear me? Okay. Yes. Yes. Yes, we can see and hear you clearly. Okay, great. Um, I'm going to share with you some information that we gathered from our survey that was presented um this month in January as well as some um work that Dr. Cidleman, Dr. Mock and myself um put together to present to you as our findings. Um so the program goal for title one is to ensure that all children have a fair and equal and significant opportunity to attain a high quality education and you know just like we were talking about tonight reach proficiency on challenging state academic achievement standards and those academic assessments that we um administer the description of title one um it is part of the elementary and secondary education act um or ESA
057as you may have heard it called and it provides financial assistance to local education agencies and schools with high numbers or percentages of children from low-income families. And so this helps ensure that all children have an equal opportunity to meet those challenging state academic standards. And in the Belton School District, we utilize Title One funds for Title One preschool at Grace for our instructional coaches and learning mentors for our K4 classrooms. This year, the program staff, I want to recognize them. Our instructional coaches, Angela Seismore, Kristen Shackleford, Amy Wright, Laura Gibson, and then our title staff at Grace, Jackie Hardy, Casey Westermy, Sarah Finel, Lorie Steel, and Tammy Harrington. And the students served by our program title one here in Belton are all K4 kids including those at Hillrest Steam and then our Grace Early
058Childhood Title One preschool. So our survey results, we had 44 certified staff who responded and that was given um to those that serve in our title one schools, our K4 buildings as well as Grace. um approximately 4% of the staff responded. Then we had 49 parents that responded. So that is a very small percentage of parents, but nevertheless, we were able to look at those survey results and really get some good information from those surveys. I'm going to review with you some of the strengths that we found first. Um the instructional coaches do provide guidance to teachers to improve the practices in the classroom which benefit all students and more than 80% of the staff believed that title one was important and beneficial to the mission of educating our students here in Belton. Another strength
059was the specific goals and objectives um were tied to the district missions, beliefs, and parameters. And staff and parents alike believed that um students are benefiting from the title one program and both had over 62% agreement that it was beneficial to our students. Also, students benefit from small groupoup interventions provided to the elementary students through the learning mentors. Some opportunities for growth for our title one programming would be suggestions have been made to improve our communication with parents regarding the use of our learning mentors. Just clarifying their purpose, giving more frequent updates on the students progress. And um it's also important to note that funding for additional staff to provide academic interventions and support for students is limited. Um that's something that it's not just an open pot of money. there is a cap on
060the amount of money that were given from the federal government. Survey responses from staff indicate a preference for utilizing um reading teachers in elementary classrooms for interventions rather than having instructional coaches or the learning mentors. So after we looked at um our survey results and our data that was that we've been collecting regarding instructional coaches and learning mentors and um the effectiveness, we when when I say we that's Dr. Seidleman, Dr. Mock and I um have decided that there needs to be some restructuring of the role of our instructional coaches as to their current utilization. and looking at all of our data and the results of this survey as well, we may not be pro providing optimal support for both students and teachers um in how we're using our instructional coaches currently. We're also going
061to continue, as you've heard the principal say, that focus on literacy and math for preK4. And um we want to make sure we're utilizing instructional coaches at those levels for those key subjects. Um, and also make sure that we're auditing the time of our instructional coaches and focusing very um, intently on what they are doing dayto-day and who they're working with to make the most gains for our students. We want to also ensure continued commitment to ensure um, all K4 classrooms, our special ed, our speech and language, our ESL teachers that they are all participating in what you've heard talked about tonight, the letters program for educators. We're going to keep providing that professional development for them and focusing on that and that is going to help us address that strong foundational literacy skills for
062our students especially at that primary level. I do have PDF versions of the report and um the survey results available in the board report for you to look at. Do you have any questions regarding the title one program evaluation? I got a couple of questions for you. Uh so you had mentioned restructuring how you're going to be using your um instructional coaches. Uh I would like a little bit more elaboration on what that would look like. And then also up here where it said on the survey responses that they would prefer to utilize a reading teacher in lie of an instructional coach or learning mentor. Is that something that we're going to be able to facilitate? Because as you mentioned like we have limited funds. um how can we take that feedback into consideration seeing
063as they're like thanks but can we get something a little bit more hyperfocused with just the reading portion of it. Do we have a solution to that or if we um proposed a solution for that? That's something that we have been mulling over given the results of this survey and the data that we've been gathering this year and looking at previous year's data as well as our scores that were turning out as well. and um thinking about how we're utilizing those instructional coaches. If um we've had many discussions about um having them working with primary grade levels, maybe pushing into classrooms some as well to um provide that support to students um as time goes on, but that would be identifying those kids and um putting a plan together as to who's going to participate
064in that. So, I think we're at the foundation of our restructuring effort, but we still have some more work to do on that, which we will definitely keep you briefed of as we go along. But just after seeing this and analyzing, like I said, a lot of our data and having some discussion, we do see a need for that restructure to start. So, Kelly, would that mean that our instructional coaches would be looked at as more primary uh coaches rather than going across all grade levels going forward? Yes. Okay. Any other questions? Do you need to action on this because it's a thing? All right. Well, let's wait and see if uh what happens on the federal level to see with this anyways. That's very true. Yeah. I mean, this all might be a moot
065point. So, go ahead, Dr. Underwood. No, I was just anticipating item C on the agenda. So, okay. I was moving my microphone. Okay. All righty. Thank you. Please keep us informed. I will do. Item C, the 2425 calendar amendment. So, we are not going to amend our calendar at this point. I just want to update the board. And Miss Creremley, if I say anything incorrect in regards to our calendar and the rules and regulations, I will step in. Yes, you will. Thank you. So, as of right now, obviously, we have canceled school for tomorrow. Uh that would put us uh through, I believe, the Friday after Memorial Day. Uh at this point, uh that is not changing. We've had discussions internally about the possibility of using the Monday after Easter. Uh that's still on the
066calendar as a vacation day as of right now. Um could we have other snow events? Yes, we could. I've seen some pretty significant uh white precipitation in March in the past uh as we know and so uh we do not want to amend at this point but we could possibly uh at the in the month of March uh look at that where we are u we're hopeful and optimistic we can have school on Friday uh looking at the temperatures obviously we'll check roads there's a lot to take into consideration we have students that walk we have students that stand at bus stops we have 16-year-old drivers We have staff that travel uh from several miles. And so there's so many things that we we look at and taking that in consideration. Uh do did we
067want our grounds crews outside uh Wednesday morning when it was blowing? No. Uh with the temperatures and obviously they're supposed to be very low. We do have a not policy but as a procedure that if we hit minus16 windchill according to the weather service a student could receive frostbite standing outside exposed for 30 minutes and so uh Dr. Hall put that together many years ago and so we have lived by that as our number obviously it does not look good for in the morning hence why we're not having school uh in that regard but back to the calendar uh we'll look and see where Friday brings us we have a little bit of flexibility there uh we're trying to uh protect I know a lot of people make plans for spring break but then also
068people with with summer uh we do have the requirement for 169 days this year and so I know some People believe that is for next year, but the funding is tied for next year. The requirement to attend is this year. So, I just wanted to make sure and say that. And they can look that up uh in statute that was approved on Senate Bill 727 uh last year during our legislative session. And we are kind of tied on that. All righty. Any questions on the 2425 calendar amendment? All righty. 2526 school calendar. All right, that is me again and I'm happy to talk to you about the 2526 school calendar that we're proposing tonight. And I want to first thank our calendar committee that helped work on this calendar this year. And um my secretary,
069Anita Major, for putting together the calendar document that you see on the agenda. um she and um Rebecca worked to come up with a different format. So you may not recognize this format, but um we've come up with some different symbols and some different colors, which you can definitely see down in our keys. Um and I will go over some of the high points that we have to have. Just like Dr. Underwood said, we have to first make sure that the calendar has 169 days. Um and our first day is also kind of decided for us as to when we can start and that first day that we could start would be August 18th. So we are starting on proposing to start on Monday, August 18th. And you will see two calendars on here. First
070is student calendar and then the second calendar um is our staff calendar. Um, we also have to really make sure that we're looking at keeping our semesters close to an equal number as we can get. I know that's very important for the secondary um, levels due to grades and semester ending. And um, so we do have 81 days for our first semester and 88 days for our second. And um, the group really worked hard to make sure that the quarters balanced out as well. And you can see a breakdown of the quarters in the bottom right hand corner of the calendar document too if you're interested in that. Um it was important for our staff. One of the requests um our calendar committee did a very nice job of going back to their schools and
071asking for input. Um many of the schools came back with that two week break for winter break around Christmas time. And then um we were also in able to incorporate a spring break in with Easter this year um which would be that first week in April. Um the last day would be 521 would be our proposal for that. We still would include six PD and collab days. the staff. Um the feedback for that is very positive that they had that half a day PD half a day collaboration with that last PD and collaboration day in May being our staff recognition service. Do you have any questions for me about the proposed 2526 student or staff calendars? Looks good to me. it uh it it is a different look and I I kind of like it.
072As usual, Rebecca is uh changing things. So, yes, I I liked it, too. I thought I liked the formatting and um it looks nice when you print it off as well. Oh, is it Anita and not Rebecca? Either way, they're both did very good. Both of them working together on that. Okay. Alrighty. So I guess I would ask accept a motion. Motion to approve the 2526 school calendar as presented. Second. We have a motion and a second to approve the 2526 calendar as presented. Miss Crumbley, I'm sorry I interrupted you. Were you going to say something other than that? I was going to say that line that you just said. Thank you. Any other discussion? Seeing none, all in favor say I. I. All opposed passes. Polar plunge update. Maybe. I'm working on it. Sorry
073about that. So, um, we had a lot to celebrate this year. This was, um, our 10 years of having two super plungers, um, Paula Glazer and Nikki McKay. And if you look at what they've done over the last 10 years, to be a super plunger, you have to have $2,500 um raised. And so at minimum, they the two of them have earned over $50,000 for Special Olympics over 10 years, which is is huge. This year we had 11 polar plungers um besides our our two super plungers and they um let's see they came up with $8700. Um Carter McKay was our top earner for the fourth year in a row. We did not win the total amount. Lee Summit kind of blew everybody away with um over $17,000 raised. But the size of their school
074district, it makes that a lot easier to do. But we have a lot to be be proud of with our um polar plungers that represent Belton every year. You know the question, did we beat our neighbors? I believe we beat Ray Peek, but didn't come close to Lee Summit. Well, that's all that matters. I'm glad I can help. All right. Thank you. Thank you for all everybody doing that. That's a great number. Absolutely. And I will be seeing some of our neighbors next week and I will gladly uh brag at him or poke at him. Yes, that is always good. Karen. Oh no, Karen's not working tomorrow. So, all righty. Lovey transfer, sir. Not working. Friday. Oh, you are? Tomorrow's only Thursday. Oh, good lord. I'm not used to that yet. student. She's not a
075student anymore. Not a student anymore. Time will fly. You're having fun. Of course. Yes. I just want to bring back up uh the levy transfer. Uh we've uh started to share out with staff to help provide them information in regards to our no tax increase levy transfer, transferring 30 cents from our debt service levy to our operating fund. Uh, sounds very simplistic, but the Missouri statutes and law require school districts ask for voter approval 50 plus one, so 50% plus one uh and which will allow us uh to move those funds. Miss Haynes is uh looking at communicating out with our community. Um we have a plan from about 6 weeks in uh six weeks will start actually next week. So, April 8th will be here before we know it. Uh, it's going to uh
076rapidly approach. So, uh we do have that plan in place. Uh we are also having a group that will um have a vote yes campaign as well. Uh I know we're trying to gather some information on that. I don't have tonight or do not, excuse me. Uh but we will have that uh piece as well. But expect at least a flyer to go out in uh people's mailboxes sharing information. As I've shared with staff so far that I've been able to meet with, um I'm not telling people to vote yes or vote no, but we want people to be informed voters so they know and understand when they see the ballot language. It is rather lengthy in language. If you just read the first half of it, you might think, "Oh my goodness, it's a
07730 cent uh tax increase, but if you make sure and read the entire uh language to the end, you will see that for where we move the 30 cents, we will take away 30 cents. So the overall levy will remain the same." And so obviously uh next month's meeting we'll talk about that. Hopefully have some more. We do have a one sheet flyer that we've been sharing with staff uh because I know that whether they're seeing parents at ball games, whether they're seeing a drop off or pickup, we want to make sure that our staff are are well informed of this as well. We've got a few buildings left to do and then we'll also share out. Thanks to all the board that was a part of the chamber first Friday coffee we were able
078to obviously be a part of and and share the word with a lot of people. I think we had uh 47 48 people in attendance uh here in this room. And so uh we'll continue to work to do that. Not all of our staff live in the district, but they know the parents that do live in the district and or people that that vote, they can do that. And or worst case scenario, um I think Miss Hubard said that $25 buys four signs that say vote yes, we can help get those out and encourage people uh in regards to um supporting this campaign. And I would if there's any questions or anything else you guys like me to to add uh or Dr. Poise could point out with uh what kind of funds that we
079will um in essence raise into our operating budget questions folks. All righty Dr. Posel while we're here why don't can you give us those numbers what you think it would be? a very rough estimate and absolutely. Yeah, we're looking at about 1.6 million generated by that, I believe. Okay, that would go greatly towards uh salaries and stuff. So, that would be great. All righty. Thank you. Any other questions for levy transfer? Legislative update? Dr. Andit, I'll let you uh handle this one. Yes. Uh obviously a lot occurring in in Jess City. I would point out as we just talked about calendar, I'll just beat a dead horse. And so the 169 requirement, there was no uh in essence forgiveness or any type of formula in regards to snow days and or inclement weather. Typically, we've
080had that in the past. Uh I do know that they are working on um a couple of bills. I believe it's Senate Bill 607, House Bill 471 or 741. My mind slips me a little bit. Uh that could possibly allow for some forgiveness uh with the number of days. Obviously, we have our AMI days that are in place and we've utilized six of those. But then in addition, we haven't missed this many days of uh inerson instruction. I think we looked back to 2011. So, it's been a long time uh since we've missed this much. And so I guess it's once a decade or what do they call those? The hundred-year storms that happen every other year. Well, this one truly has not happened for more than 10 years. So there there's that piece. There's
081a lot obviously that um we're focusing upon. We have the cooperating schools that board members and uh the cooperating schools for greater Kansas City plan to be in attendance I believe on the 26th of February uh in Jeff City. So, if anyone wants to attend that, uh, watching ESA vouchers, uh, the concern there with, uh, putting more of our, uh, public funds into uh, privatization. So, there's some concern there. Uh, obviously, there's concern about open enrollment and, uh, how they're trying to set that up. Uh, I think there are ways that it could work, but then again, u, in essence, what they have in front of us right now or what they're proposing uh, personally is not a good plan. uh because students that um are not able to um be provided the opportunity in
082other school districts, it kind of creates the halves and have nots. And I think it should be a one of the things about public education. It is a level playing field for all. It does not matter how much your parents make and it should not matter what your zip code is. Everybody should be provided a top-notch education. And I think that they definitely create halves and have nots with their uh plan legislation that they have currently. Any questions? All righty. MSBA policy second reading. Chair will accept a motion. I make a motion that we accept the second reading of the policies presented. 2024 C. 20 24 C. We have a motion and a second to approve the second reading of the MSBA policies 24 C as presented. Any discussion? Seeing none, all in favor say
083I. I. I. All opposed? Passes. Horizontal advancement. Yes, just one horizontal advancement this evening. Um the administration asked the board to approve the horizontal advancement as presented. Motion to approve the horizontal advancement 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. Committee updates. Let's start with MSBA. Okay. Uh we have the lunch and learns um and the next one will be um March 7th and they mostly give you the legislative updates. Dr. Underwood kind of covered those. Um, advocacy day is um March 11th um at Jefferson City where we have the opportunity to meet as a group and then go and and meet with our legislators. um something new this year. They're gonna have
084AI literacy day on March 28th and uh it's a Zoom and it's at 4 PM and it's open for pretty much everybody, teachers, administrators, schoolboard members. And what it's going to be is it's going to be uh basically teachers, students presenting and showcasing AI projects. Oh, I'm sorry. I'll go back. Okay. It'll be students and teachers sharing and showcasing AI projects. Uh during that time at 4:00 on March 28th, um we have um some new rules for um our governance team award, but those will not go into effect until the following school year. So we will be using the same um uh form that we used this year or last year for this year's. And um I got some clarification on um our um leadership and advocacy part and um the fact that our district
085and I like to brag about this a little bit. We take time out and uh Mr. Miller is really good at doing this and getting our legislators into our buildings so they can see what we're doing as as a a school district. And I think we've enlightened some even though um they may not say it as exuberantly as we do. uh but those will count for us instead of going to advocacy day uh as a quorum. So that'll be good news for next year when we have those activities. So uh when I spoke with Katherine at MSBA today, she was very impressed at what we do as far as getting our legislators into our district and letting them know what we're going on. And I just wanted to brag about that for a minute. And
086I think that's it. Um, president's Zoom is next Wednesday, but that's on Jerry, so he knows that about that. So, I've been doing those. Um, those Zoom calls are uh interesting. Um, they've been a little too um coached for me and I have led that. I I like it when the presidents can have a little time to have a conversation. And what that is is for you folks is that the presidents of each different school boards around the state get on the Zoom call and we can have a conversation about something that may be going on at Porto Sage or Rayek and we can all talk about how we would approach it or if we are seeing something similar. So those are a pretty good call. Um they're a little long because of all the
087content, but they're they're uh pretty good ones. Um, as far as anything else for MSBA, uh, the Belchure stuff is out there for to to be graded. I started on those for us. Um, region four is not voting on region four. Region four, we're doing uh, region seven, which is the St. Louis area, and Belton is in the region four area. And they they've tried to swap that a couple of times, and it it seems to work pretty good. So, u, they're doing it that way. So that'll work for MSBA Bel and Cares. That's probably you as well. Or is it Teresa? I got you, Teresa. Okay. Um, trivia nights next Friday, the 28th. It's open to anybody who wants to put a team together. Um it's a great time and all the funds are
088used to provide a safe and um fun aftergrad party for our seniors and their guests at Highblue Wellness. Door prizes, games, photo booth. uh we roll it out for them to have fun. Let's see. We have a youth forum next Wednesday. Um uh from 3 to 6 and that's by invitation, but it's for our students. Uh we have a panel who's talked to our uh community members about concerns they have with things going on in their world at at school community with um anything from mental illness to drugs to whatever is their topic. uh they present it to the group and then we end up having dinner with those groups and the students go and sit sorry sit with those those uh community members and talk in detail about some of the things that they
089had talked about in the the forum part of the evening. Um we're looking way ahead now. We have the Troy Shaw Golf Tournament that's August 9th and that fundraises to help student scholarships and teacher scholarships. Um, we have billboards that go out on 49 and they change monthly, so you might want to check those out. Um, okay. To see um, what's going on there. Um, and that's it for Cares for right now. Sorry, I was talking a little bit. I wanted to I next Wednesday's kind of a full day. So I wanted to make sure that since I got the invitation that I can fit it into the schedule, juggle it into the schedule. 3 to 6 for the youth form or I think somewhere. Well, no, it's 4, but I'm sorry I have to
090be there at 3. I apologize. 4 to 6. 4 to 6, I'm sorry, is the actual event. So if we left Jeff City at 1, we'd be able to get back here. I I sometimes forget my obligation is a little longer than the the general Okay. All right, that works. All righty. Educational foundation, anything going on? Um, major saver cards are going on right now. Um, I don't have any with me because we met uh virtually for our meeting this week and so I haven't been able to pick major saver cards up, but students are selling them. And if you're interested, get with me and I will get those for you. That uh is going on through the 26th. Um there's a chili cookoff this weekend with a and uh the foundation has an entry.
091We're hoping Sonia's been trying some new recipes. We're hoping to come out of there as a winner this year. Um March 22nd is bingo night at Johnny's Tavern. Uh let's see. Pirate Dash is April 4th at Wallace Park. It's a glow run, so that'll be a fun evening if you uh would like to um get a team together or just go on your own. Uh the gayla this year is September 6th and we don't have a date yet, but we have a month and November will be the turkey bowl again. So those are the upcoming dates for um everything with the foundation. Are the major SA cards still $15? Yes. Okay. All righty. All right. Some miss Oh, wait. Committee updates. Anything for the city? Nope. All righty. We get a reduction in our water
092bill. Water bill's going down. $3.38. There you go. That's a That's a good thing. The voters will be happy about that. All right. some miscellaneous dates. February 20th is the Belton High School enroll evening enrollment 4 to 7:00 p.m. 27th is the Belton High School theater children's show performance at 6:30. The 25th is our uh C our uh cooperating school district of Greater Kansas City Zoom meeting. What time is that, Dr. Underwood? It is 6:30. 6:30. That should be with Steve Carroll. Okay. February 26th uh is the uh cooperating school district of Greater Kansas City Day at the Capitol. Uh February 28th, of course, is the Belton Cares trivia night, as we discussed earlier. Uh Mary, I have my team pretty well taken care of. I'll bring you some cash. March 6th is the Belton
093Middle School enrollment night, uh, 6:00 to 8:00 PM. March 11th is the Missouri School Boards Association Day at the Capitol. March 17th through the 21st is no school spring break. March 19th is the next Board of Education meeting at 700 p.m. March 20th through the 23rd is the COSPA conference in Atlanta, Georgia. And April 4th is the date change for the senior citizen springs lunchon at the fieldhouse. So that's at noon on April 4th. And uh folks, I will not be available. I will be zooming in more than likely on the next board meeting. So m Madame Vice President, you will you will have that one just to give you some some heads up. Anything else for the good of the cause? some uh doesn't affect the price of tea in China, but daylight savings
094time does occur on March 9th, so it will be here before we know it. Maybe here before warm weather. I don't know. Well, it's going to be in the 60s next week. We can only hope. We can only hope. All righty. The chair will accept a motion. Motion to adjourn. Second. We have a motion and a second to adjourn the meeting. Any discussion? Seeing none, Teresa? Yes. Norm, yes. Mary, yes. Dave, yes. Karen, yes. And Jim, yes. We are ajourned. Thanks, folks. Be safe.