001[Music] [Applause] [Music] you I [Music] n [Music] w [Music] [Applause] [Music] a and [Music] the Ferguson Flores and School District located in Suburban St Louis serves more than 10,000 students from preschool through 12th grade with an excellent comprehensive educational program fully accredited by the state of Missouri the Ferguson Floris School District operates seven pre kindergarten through second grade schools six intermediate schools two sixth grade centers three middle schools including a Cutting Edge steam Middle School which was ranked the number two School in Missouri this year 2 A+ in NCA CA SI accredited high schools The Innovation High School a big picture learning school and the steam High School focused on preparing students in fields including science Technology and Engineering in August US News and World Report named steam Academy at McClure South Berkeley High School
002as one of the best high schools in America placing the school in the top 12% of high schools in Missouri and in the the top 35% of high schools in nationally as a district leading the charge in high school transformation there are a lot of Pathways to success all of our high schools are Project Lead the Way schools we offer many programs and opportunities such as dual enrollment dual credit International baloran Avid and Elevate St Louis our red tail Cadet program has also secured private Pilots licenses for students before they even graduate the number of ffsd students enrolled in advance placement courses has also dramatically increased the district has intentionally focused on College and Career Readiness and has increased the four-year graduation rate to 93% besides the secondary school coursework the district ensured opportunities for
003each population of students in an effort to support the goal of college readiness in addition the district includes a nationally recognized Early Education Program the award-winning Challenger Learning Center space education facility and the Little Creek Nature area 97 acre Nature Preserve that offers experiential learning opportunities for students in Science Biology ecology and related areas of study through our partnership with Varsity Tutors all students and teachers will have access to live tutors on demand the district has also transformed alternative education with the restoration and Wellness Center recognizing that well-being is vital for academic success the district prioritizes the health and social emotional well-being of its students and staff the district has a partnership with hazel Health that offers Comprehensive Health Care and teletherapy services ensuring that students have access to Medical Care and mental health support
004during the school day additionally Ferg Floor Care Health Clinic provides free health care services to District employees demonstrating the district's commitment to the well-being of its faculty and staff the board of education has made Equity a priority in the Ferguson Floris School District in 2018 the board adopted an equity resolution and between 2020 and 2022 the district examined inequities and racism in policies and practices culminating in the board's adoption of the Ferguson Flores School District's anti-racist standards for social justice in anti-racist schools from early childhood education to Advanced scientific exploration from personalized learning opportunities to Comprehensive Health Care Services the Ferguson Floris School District continues to lead the way in providing an exceptional educational experience that truly is providing equity and access for all [Music] [Applause] [Music] he [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] a [Music]
005the Ferguson floron School District located in Suburban St Louis serves more than 10,000 students from preschool through 12th grade with an excellent comprehensive educational program fully accredited by the state of Missouri the Ferguson floron School District operates seven pre kindergarten through second grade schools six intermediate schools two sixth grade centers three middle schools including a Cutting Edge steam Middle School which was ranked the number two School in Missouri this year two A+ in NCA CA SI accredited high schools The Innovation High School a big picture learning school and the steam High School focused on preparing students in fields including science Technology and Engineering in August US News and World Report named steam Academy at McClure South Berkeley High School as one of the best high schools in America placing the school in the top 12%
006of high school in Missouri and in the top 35% of high schools in nationally as a district leading the charge in high school transformation there are a lot of Pathways to success all of our high schools are Project Lead the Way schools we offer many programs and opportunities such as dual enrollment dual credit International Balor Avid and Elevate St Louis our red tail Cadet program has also secured private Pilots licenses for students before they even graduate the number of ffsd students enrolled in advanced placement courses has also dramatically increased the district has intentionally focused on College and Career Readiness and has increased the four-year graduation rate to 93% besides the secondary school coursework the district ensured opportunities for each population of students in an effort to support the goal of college readiness in addition the
007district includes a nationally recognized Early Education Program the award-winning Challenger Learning Center space education facility and the Creek Nature area a 97 acre Nature Preserve that offers experiential learning opportunities for students in Science Biology ecology and related areas of study through our partnership with Varsity Tutors all students and teachers will have access to live tutors on demand the district has also transformed alternative education with the restoration and Wellness Center recognizing that well-being is vital for academic success the district prioritizes the health and social emotional well being of his students and staff the district has a partnership with hazel Health that offers Comprehensive Health Care and teletherapy services ensuring that students have access to Medical Care and mental health support during the school day additionally Ferg Floor Care Health Clinic provides free health care services to
008District employees demonstrating the district's commitment to the well-being of its faculty and staff the board of education has made Equity a priority in the Ferguson Floris School District in 2018 the board adopted an equity resolution and between 2020 and 2022 the district examined inequities and racism in policies and practices culminating in the board's adoption of the Ferguson Flores and School District's anti-racist standards for social justice in anti-racist schools from early childhood education to Advanced scientific exploration from personalized learning opportunities to Comprehensive Health Care Services the Ferguson Flores and School District continues to lead the way in providing an exceptional educational experience that truly is providing equity and access for all [Music] [Applause] [Music] he ah [Music] [Applause] [Music] he I [Music] the Ferguson floron School District located in Suburban St Louis serves more than 10,000
009students from preschool through 12th grade with an excellent comprehensive educational program fully accredited by the state of Missouri the Ferguson floron School District operates seven pre kindergarten through second grade schools six intermediate schools two sixth grade centers three middle schools including a Cutting Edge steam Middle School which was ranked the number two School in Missouri this year 2 A+ in NCA CA SI accredited high schools The Innovation High School a big picture learning school and the steam High School focused on preparing students in fields including science Technology and Engineering in August US News and World Report named steam Academy at McLure South Berkeley High School as one of the best high schools in America placing the school in the top 12% of high schools in Missouri and in the top 35% of high schools in
010nationally as a district leading the charge and high school transformation there are a lot of Pathways to success all of our high schools are Project Lead the Way schools we offer many programs and opportunities such as dual enrollment dual credit International Borat Avid and Elevate St Louis our red tail Cadet program has also secured private Pilots licenses for students before they even graduate the the number of ffsd students enrolled in advanced placement courses has also dramatically increased the district has intentionally focused on College and Career Readiness and has increased the four-year graduation rate to 93% besides the secondary school coursework the district ensured opportunities for each population of students in an effort to support the goal of college readiness in addition the district includes a nationally recognized Early Education Program the award-winning Challenger Learning Center
011space education facility and the Little Creek Nature area a 97 acre Nature Preserve that offers experiential learning opportunities for students and Science Biology ecology and related areas of study through our partnership with Varsity Tutors all students and teachers will have access to live tutors on demand the district has also transformed alternative education with the restoration and Wellness Center recognizing that well-being is vital for academic success the district prioritizes the health and social emotional well-being of his students and staff the district has a partnership with hazel Health that offers comprehensive healthc care and tele theapy Services ensuring that students have access to Medical Care and mental health support during the school day additionally Ferg Floor Care Health Clinic provides free health care services to District employees demonstrating the district's commitment to the well-being of its faculty
012and staff the board of education has made Equity a priority in the Ferguson Floris School District in 20 8 the board adopted an equity resolution and between 2020 and 2022 the district examined inequities and racism and policies and practices culminating in the board's adoption of the Ferguson Flores and School District's anti-racist standards for social justice and anti-racist schools from early childhood education to Advanced scientific exploration from personalized learning opportunities to comprehensive healthc care services the Ferguson Flores and School District continues to lead the way in providing an exceptional educational experience that truly is providing equity and access for all [Music] [Applause] [Music] he [Music] a [Music] I [Music] June 26 2024 the time is now 6:10 p.m. on uh Ferguson floron School Board of Education I would like to remind the board members of the
013meeting norms and to call the meeting to order at this time please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance thank you so much and happy summer to everyone hopefully summer school and everyone's summer is going well so far at this time I would like uh under the provisions of the public meeting at law of the state of Missouri the board must adopt by roll call vote an agenda that includes time date place and time of agenda copy of the meeting and notice were placed on Tuesday June 25th at the administration center 8 855 dun Road Hazelwood Missouri at the same time copies of the notices and JS are sent to Major radio stations and television stations to three newspapers municipalities and schools in the district and post on the district website is there a motion to
014approve the agenda as presented so move been moved by Graves Dr Martin second by th yes go ahead ma'am I'm sorry I think this is the appropriate time I would like to um request that the both the uh floresent police department and the St Louis County Police Department Department SRO agreements be removed uh from consent so n and O will be moved to item number seven which is pulled from consent for discussion which is the SRO St Louis County and city of uh floron those are the two yes thank you yes y any other items pulled from consent at this time seeing none roll call vote please it well it says by roll call vote must approve the agenda of houses yep um uh it was moved by Thurman second by Graves or Graves and
015then Thurman sorry yes yes yes yes motion carries 6 Z at this time item number four msba update the portion of this meeting is allocated a short video from the Missouri School Board Association provide a report of current activities events that might be interest to the board and community welcome to the June edition of the Missouri school boards association's board report we begin with a look back at the legislative session that wrapped up last month education issues dominated headlines and talking points throughout this year's session mba's director of Outreach Caitlyn wayy says that this year's session was unusual from start to finish the the 2024 legislative session was a bit odd I think to kind of sum it up we started off with a lot of a lot of bills um a historic number of
016bills file thousands of bills and both in the education realm and just overall it became clear semi early on that the number of bills actually passed was going to be very few so specific to education you saw that narrow down to Senate Bill 727 extremely quickly and that became almost the entire focus of all the major education groups was what was and was not in 727 and um overall just very few bills passed I think including the budget it was like 49 bills which is exceptionally low when you're starting from 5,000 Caitlyn says that with the passage of Senate Bill 727 there are now more issues that school board members will need to be aware of going into the next budget year and legislative session and we will be continuing to put out both policy
017and general guidance on what 727 means in practice and practicality a lot of what is in 727 is budget related and so that is going to be a fight for next year is to fight that you need to fund all of these additional mandates that we've put on school districts the um the teacher salary increases and you can't fund them at the expense of things like the foundation formula and transportation we have to have that overall net increase in funding to keep it from being a huge local tax increase on our school districts and although the session is over Caitlyn says it's still important for board members and administrators to stay in touch with legislators and also noted the outstanding Outreach efforts of school board members this past session I'm I'm new to msba but
018I was absolutely floored by the outpouring of support and um enthusiasm for advocating on these issues we had so many board members and districts step up and um voice their opinions and concerns do you know do that Outreach that we were asking of them because I know brand will say it and I will say it and Mike will say it legislators want to hear from people in their districts and it's much more meaningful from them to have a conversation with somebody that lives in their area and rep represents their local school districts than it is for you know the msba advocacy team in Jefferson City so your work was absolutely noticed we got feedback from the governor's office that they were very impressed by the amount of Outreach they received and so every time we
019conduct that Outreach we're laying groundwork that um school board members are a trusted voice and a trusted advocate in public education and we can continue to build that up as a resource going forward mba's positions on state and federal education issues are determined by the delegate assembly that will be meeting this coming October if your school board has a position statement on an issue you would like to submit to the advocacy committee for consideration you can do so this summer the advocacy committee reviews those proposals and makes recommendations to the delegate assembly that determines mba's positions on these issues make your plans now to attend the 2024 msba annual conference in cooperation with the Missouri Association of school administrators and the Missouri Association of school business officials the event will once again feature some outstanding
020General Session speakers along with a wide variety of concurrent sessions many presented by school leaders from districts throughout the State registration information for the conference will be posted on the msba website soon and past and present members of local school boards can be nominated for the 2024 Paul Morris Community Service award the award is for those who have shown an outstanding commitment to local community service nominations will be accepted through June 28th and the award will be presented at the msba annual conference that's it for this month thanks for allowing us to have some time at your board meeting and we'll see you in July for the next msba board report thank you so much next up is public comments the board allocates this portion of the meeting to allow stakeholders the opportunity to comment
021on both agenda items and non-agenda items at the start of each board meeting the board president will read out any comments that have been pre previously submitted while all the comments will be included in the board materials this evening may be found under public comments the board May limit the number of comments read based on the length and repetition prior to public comment period in person participants are asked to follow a comment card with their name date name address phone number email and topic to be addressed and we followed up with uh will be allowed up to 3 minutes to speak members of the audience who wish to speak to the board are requested to speak from the podium identify themselves and keeping the district policies 4054 4059 and Personnel law should refrain from making
022negative comments that are personally identifiable while the board will not directly respond to the speakers during the public comment period the board president may make clarifying remarks at the end of comment sessions to correct any misstatements of facts response to the public comments will be found in the meeting and agenda section of the district website with 14 days of the meeting we have one in person the rest are read Lisa I'm going to read one but you're going to be up first Lisa Baker after I read this first one if you want to head up to the podium first one up is Erica venman uh Ela Wedgewood uh I would like to take the opportunity to emphasize the significance of yand bags in our schools if some schools are not finding them beneficial maybe it's
023due to inconsistencies and forcing their use at Wedgewood we've been observe a substantial reduction in fights and inappropriate behaviors in the hallways as well as a notable increase in student attention and participation in class the ability for students to carry their phones in their y bags has helps mitigate the psychological effects of being separated from their devices as Educators the prospect of reverting to constantly asking kids to put their phone away is unimaginable if we generally prioritize the best interest of our students we must continue to use the honor bags thank you for your time and work for the district Lisa Baker she's here to talk about Equity teacher appreciation and much more hi hope you guys are having a great summer um I see I'm the only one that showed up today and of
024course in summer school today I said I'm going and they're like again many many teachers would love to be here and this is what I hear all the time and I and I don't mean it personally Mr Davis I don't mean it personally to the board but their comments and it'd be different if I'm at home all summer but I'm not I'm there with the teachers that are there with the students during the summer that did not make the grade did not make the benchmarks and they're there we're putting in our time and all I hear is nothing against you Mr Davis he doesn't care about the teachers nothing against your board because my comment is Davis is just Davis the board is what makes the decisions in the end the board doesn't care about
025the teachers I look at it over and over I have sat there and I've looked at your budget from last year it's the first time I opened a document and I've talked to teachers that are sitting in that school that make more than me and I tell you all the time I'm at the high scale I've been here for 30 years you know I I I live comfortably but I still have the same expenses and I feel feel I could deserve what I need to get but I also look at the other teachers that aren't living comfortably I look at the fact that we are top heavy I look at the fact I found that our enrollment per ckms it went down from 2021 from 723 to 629 in 2024 yet my class sizes are
026larger I get it we're 15 to one they count the custodians they count everybody but my class sizes are larger I'd like to think of myself as an excellent teacher but I struggled last year I struggled I spent a lot of time trying to really redirect and get those students motivated to learn and I feel I do a great job but it's stressful and not every teacher has that energy to make it through the day here's another proven fact we have six teams and when I did the math that's 24 teachers plus 12 electives that's 36 teachers we did not fill five positions last year out of those five one was a long-term sub that was an old retired not old sorry but a retired teacher the other ones were all Flex out of our
02731 teachers 10 did not return we are 16 again we may have hired I'm not worried about what we have hired what we have not but we are down 10 some of them being in our district for 20 years moving to students that are just like ours written or review all of that why the pay is higher and the comments are and again I love my students I love them all but the comments are if I'm going to teach the same type of students and get paid for what I'm worth they're going to move and that's what they're going to do because in the end you have to reach a goal I look at me my retirement's changed it's gone down we were not given what we were supposed to be given I'm begging you
028to find the money I look at that you allocated for I think it was so many teachers last year you ended up having less spent on teachers but yet you went from 82 for a budget for admin to 90 so you spent more on admin so again I'm just begging that you find something in the next month to retain the teachers that you have because you really do care about our kids I know you do and having the teachers that have been here in our district stay I love new teachers don't get me wrong but your best teachers are the ones you keep training and making them better and better every year thank you so much Dr Heyward be following up and uh Mr Mitch will be following up with uh Erica next up uh
029is Katie uh she is a parent I am a parent who last summer spoke out against uniforms after the board's neck breaking change of opinion on the topic I've yet to hear or see a data on how the district's elementary schools test scores Behavior or climate have drastically improved due to student uniforms I've received numerous text messages and emails from my child's school about uniforms and a make sure their students are complying it seems like comments from parents and teachers at board meetings still discuss problematic behaviors bullying problems and attendance problems shocker school uniforms didn't fix those problems I can imagine that implementing uniforms in Middle School and High School this year will be smooth sailing I think that focusing on uniforms will be there when there are much bigger issues facing the school district
030seems counterproductive as a side note I'd like to compliment your Chief Financial Officer name who Escapes Me and Dr Davis for Patiently answering your questions during the budget in a perfect world we would all give teachers more money but then explain to you board members over and over how they ride at the percentage of teacher increase and seemed like some board members are choosing not to hear them that is Katie and who'll be following up with uh about uniforms topic Mr Mitch will follow up thank you next up is Nicole uh she's a parent as well uh she's and not only am I a teacher I'm also a parent my comment is a compliment question and concern all rolled into one first I'd like to give a huge shout out to Early Childhood teachers especially
031the ones at Lee Hamilton where my daughter goes to school thanks to them my daughter's not thought of is different due to her developmental deay delays they willingly work with her speech therapist and help us navigate the toddler years every day my daughter runs into the building excitedly to begin her Buffalo to see all of her teachers who hug her and give her morning cuddles as I go to work I do not have to worry about her and her growth and I'm constantly up to updated and communicated with and for there are not enough thank yous or gratitude I can give them at Lee Hamilton uh I am however curious about the Early Childhood plan uh Under One Roof as discussed earlier sorry I think we read this one before by the way but I'm
032going to keep it's from May 9th you want me to keep reading it or I think we read this one are we okay thank you if we didn't read get in touch back with you let us know but I was like I think uh this one's from May 15th let me just okay this is from I believe a p doesn't say I'm a student I'm asking if you would reconsider the rule out wearing black pants just specifically no leggings after leggings come in all colors so if you can't wear black pants only because of leggings that's unfair and they make navy blue leggings as well as khaki and all other colors black is very common and easy to match and also teachers are not teaching us and they're giving us work to do so kids
033are depending on Google sometimes to help and math is not the same when our pants were in school ours I swear it said pants though uh I lost my and also teachers are not teaching us as they're giving us work to do so kids are depending on Google sometimes to help them math is not the same when our pants were in parents must it must be sa not parents when our parents were in school and they can't really help us with our work and we will ask for help and still don't understand the math and security are putting their hands on kids and kids are not being watched by teachers and kids are playing with fire and More in class and us girls need purses so we can put our personal stuff in and not
034have time to go to the bathroom we are we thinking about the school lunch as well if we could have different food because we have the same food every day when we change it up a little bit sometimes teachers and staff and other people are not hearing us and understanding and teachers cursing kids and kids cursing teachers out the stress and overwhelmingness that kids and teachers are having it doesn't say what great or what school so I'm not sure sure who you want to have follow up with that M Mr muray will follow up thank you uh next I believe as a teacher uh Baker Ingram uh I teach Algebra I strongly oppose piloting spring math in algebra the research presented stated the best results occur when used five consecutive days we operate on block
035schedule at the high school that means it takes 2 weeks to complete 5 days of intervention the curriculum cannot be modified this intervention focuses on skills rather than EOC standards Algebra 1 teachers already struggle with covering all the standards for elbra 1 this program could potentially have teachers preparing multiple lessons of intervention to be delivered simultaneously in 15 minutes the program does not want a student to skip a problem during their three minutes this means if a student is stuck they sit there ideally the partner would coach them on how to solve the problem by giving them hints and that's based on students having the prerequisite skill to coach rather than give an answer there are so many reasons why I believe that this wouldn't help our students this could potentially be useful in math
036lab classes Mr Murray Mr Murray will follow up with you as well thank you so much Anya nothing good just want to remind uh we do have an email out to the Nea about the resolution we passed about getting committee members as well we've not heard back yet so as we T dive in about money and all that uh just I know to kind of address Miss Baker uh your comment as well about money and thinking about that we have had a email out there as a board from our resolution so just wanted to put that fact out there as well so okay we're on to consent just a reminder board that we have pulled items n and O off of consent for discussion is there any other items wish to be pulled off from
037consent seeing none is there a motion to approve consent and secretary can you please read the dispersion ments we read the dispersements then the motion if you can just read those two amounts Mr Tyson please oh that's me yes it is can you turn your microphone onwi I zoom they can't hear you cinen a recommendation to approve cinen presented dispersement the May 2024 dispersement are as follows payroll teacher non- teer 14, 47,800 operational dispersements ap4 m1105 3478 with the grand total of 18,1 58,300 10 thank you so much is a motion to approve consent so move it's been moved by Thurman second second by Bailey all those in favor I I opposed abens one exstension specifically P Walker for exemption just so we have that noted for the record please thank you item number seven
038we have n and O Dr Paul Walker thank you uh Dr Martin I was reviewing the um I guess it's Theus or the agreements that we have with St Louis County Police Department and with floresent PD and I noticed that there wasn't any language in Theus that had anything to do with um uh the school resource officers participating in training around restorative practices or um you know our SEC any I know we can't get super specific but at one time the the board requested that there be some specific language in those M us around the training so basically making sure that school resource officers understand how we expect them to engage with our students so that they are in alignment with what we're trying to do I do trust um veran how that she's doing
039everything probably to make sure those things are happening but my request would be that we maybe look at a prior mou and see if we can get some of that language whatever I'm not saying what it should be but whatever language you guys think is most appropriate to just put it back in there to kind of keep it before them that that's what the agreement is just for uh Clarity on my end would you like at some point regardless if we approve it tonight or not get an an amendment if possible at some point throughout this contract year that would just specifically talk about the training is that what I'm hearing for me personally I I don't want I will not vote Yes on it until I see the language in there got so understand
040any other questions Dr Davis is that are you I'm I'm just wondering um and maybe s you can help me with this foran's not here tonight but and I know that some of that has been addressed Dr power walker I can't speak to the specifics because she would know more than I would um when it comes to the next fiscal year itself because I know we have this in the budget however the agreement itself can come back to the board once we can bring that language I would assume on in July on July 10th if we could bring it back by then um at any rate I I don't think it would even take effect until August the next school year anyway because that's like do we have any SRO that are employed the summer
041I don't I'm not sure about that question that's why I'm asking out loud I don't think so I think it ends at the end of the fiscal year or the school year um so so I'm thinking it's probably safe if we would just table this and try to get some new language if that's the board's pleasure and then we can bring that back it's still in the budget and you know the board you know if you act on the budget and approve that that'll be done but in the agreement itself we can bring that back when we have that language if that's what you so choose I'm curious to know like I I assume this is just an assumption I do agree with Dr Paul Walker I just assume they had training before they came
042into schools already is that still a fact yeah and and and I I would tell you that and I know ran she were here she Echo it uh we do a lot of training in the summer I actually require everybody to go through anybody who gets a paycheck to get the four East training um but I know that her and jar do a lot of training and I don't want to misspeak um so I would feel confident when she's here to be able to speak to that more but I'm sure isro's are always Lock Stock and Barrel with us when it comes to training and supporting them um but I would feel better if we could you know be able to have that language yeah and I would just ask for clarity I yeah that
043makes sense and Mr Mr Bailey too if you don't mind me speaking Dr Martin um this goes back a few years um so we're probably in a better place now than we were but back when the SEC was being redone and we were really trying to shift to uh being more restorative um in the work we do with students and that there was a lot of things in the news about the mishandling of children by police officers and the school setting so I think we were interested in making sure that the school resource officers were clear that when you come to work in our schools you're not dealing with a criminal in the streets this is a child and you will handle them in the way that we handle our kids not the way that
044you would a criminal in the streets so that's kind of why there was the push to have some specific language put in there and I think to add to that I agree with that whole of them sorry I think also to add to that when we had that conversation I think four years ago almost I know it was probably before that too but I think part of it was making sure that they don't do anything unless directed by Administration to do just because you see something does not mean you get to jump in and then handcuff and all those other things you wait to be directed by an administrator or someone else so are you looking just so we're all on the same page some type of language around that we can um District can
045direct training provided from the district type of thing yeah I believe if you talk with rashan she'll probably be able to tell you the trainings that were added and I feel like at that point too uh CU I think NCI was one of them didn't they say I think Terry you were involved with kind of making sure some of that training was in place too so there were some just some specific things around like us not just assuming that they understand how to work with kids and that if there were trainings that our staff were participating in that oh we think this would be relevant for school resource officers let's invite them to be a part of the training because if I remember Terry you had a whole list of things that you had them
046to do and I think rashan did as well yeah there was a list of things that the police already do and their own police training as SRO they have to go through they're required by the state um and so they already have a training in that area but yeah anything we did we always invite them to I don't think we're allowed to actually require them but we do invite them and generally the the people we work with are always willing to go along and and participate yeah and I think for me to just not to not to well I'm not going to even say that but I was just going to say that for me I think it's important I know we're Limited in what we can require but for me it would be helpful
047if there were language in there that sort of States what our position is around how we support children having some Behavioral or disciplinary concerns in the school setting something that just makes it clear to them that it's not just cart blanch you're not just going to come in and do whatever you want to do we are fer floor this is how we take care of our kids you're here to support what we do not what you want to do and and I think and I don't want to speak for you but I'm as I'm thinking out loud even if they won't let us have specific language out that I think another way to go about it potentially is to ensure it's in their evaluation of each officer that we have some type of line that
048talks about how you interact with our students and and people where you could then give feedback so at least if someone's not owns more of their we expect you to act a certain way with our kids and if you're not acting that you won't it'll be in your evaluation you won't be here I think that could be another way if they don't want to say oh we can require trainings but maybe be part of the evaluation and that I'm just thinking out lot it with that no I I think that's reasonable and I don't want to try to like direct this whole thing I just think that if we are saying we are being restorative with our kids we just have to make sure that whoever we're bringing in also gets that this is who
049we are you know does that give you some uh Direction Dr Davis then for okay anyone and if you don't have it by the July 10th meaning we can always do it at the next consent one and later in July if that works thinking out loud not to put more work but that kind of leads to another point it should really be a mandate that anybody comes even Partners or whoever comes should be mandated to have some sort of training on how to deal with our our youth inside the schools and I do want to speak to that real quick I I don't remember if you were on the board when we changed that or not we used to ex have an external company do our subs and now it's now all in-house because now
050Dr Haywood has more control over what training versus Outsourcing that I think that's a good point too it should be everyone we have yep anything else on this or we all feel good about is anyone opposed to tbling it or just not taking a motion on it today and just waiting till later on okay we'll move on to item number eight Administration recommends the board approved the revisions of the 2425 ffsd organizational chart is there a motion on the floor to approve been move by Thurman second second by Bailey any discussion just want to say I appreciate uh Dr Davis you and your team's effort of really looking at uh the budget and or chart to see where you have opportunities to save and particularly um cut administrative positions to figure out ways to put
051money back in there and I know if you don't have a dollar amount today but certainly as we just made some changes earlier but if you have a dollar amount at another meeting I think it'd be important for everyone to know how much we cut in administrative positions and how much uh that salary amount is I don't want to steal your thunder I know you have a rough estimate of a minimum amount but I don't know if you want to share that today or if you would rather just wait till you have the final number yeah what I'd like to do with conversations that we've had I do have some good estimates but I prefer not to put anything out there yet until you not sort of share it with the board yeah okay and
052I think the whole board appreciates those efforts as well so anything else any other questions about the or chart seeing none all those in favor extensions Nays eyes have it item number nine is the ELA adoption uh Mr Murray I don't remember if there's a presentation or just a if there's questions there's a short presentation I see it should be the 10 slide uh PDF and we can go ahead and and just te it up so um as you see here on the agenda we're bringing back um basically the conclusion of the superintendent's pilot and the proposal for the long-term adoption for our 2 K5 Ela resources uly and wit and wisdom and so we have a short presentation tonight just to refresh the board's memory about um what these resources do what some of
053our results have been this year and then we look forward to taking any questions the board might have it's the um PowerPoint it's a different different attachment yeah we can talk there while they're getting it up all right good evening ffsd board cabinet uh staff and community at large um on June 23rd 2023 the administration recommended and the board approved a super Nance pilot for ELA resources K5 as per policy 2020.1 for one year utilizing youth fly foundations for decoding and Whitten wisdom for language comprehension all 13 schools seven primary six intermediate have access to both print and digital resources inut from staff and students is included in a timeline you might see it in a second um but teachers and leaders and students were surveyed for feedback on on the implementation CSC was informed
054throughout the process per policy 2020 teachers leaders and isls were given the opportunity to vote in May and additionally a group of principles and isls collaborated with Administration on the instructional schedule as an added layer of support towards future implementation the adoption is aligned to the ffsd Strategic plan priority goal one which falls under academics all ffsd students will meet or exceed the state standard or demonstrate significant measurable Improvement and Achieve onrack performance on multiple measures of success by meeting or exceeding the state standard and or demonstrating measurable growth the smart goal students will demonstrate progress towards grade level standards as well as a minimum of 3% % growth annually on the grade level assessment A diversity equity and inclusion analysis was conducted during the vetting and pilot process last year and the link to
055those results are provided as a reminder and then so just to kind of tie home why we have the two different resources and how um both you fly and wh wisdom work together to really support grade level reading in Ferguson floresent so at the top of this uh very colorful rope is basically word recognition this in layman's terms can kids read the words comprised of decoding which is reading phological awareness site recognition getting kids to read the words automatically and so that's everything that youly really covers there at the top half of the rope and then on the bottom the language comprehension piece is where wit and wisdom comes in so our kids are being exposed to really rich content to build background knowledge they're building vocabulary language structures and verbal reasoning and the idea
056is that students who have a strong vocabulary and strong background knowledge coupled with strong word reading skills will become skilled readers and so um I won't read the slide for btim but part of our focus is really on early literacy so um as these statistics will show you essentially if K we get kids on grade level early they'll stay on grade level um and they'll hit all of the benchmarks that we want them to but likewise when our students Miss early benchmarks it gets really difficult to catch them up and so that's part of why our Focus this year at the early grades has been so substantial with youly our teachers our principls um shmika and really everyone that touched our elementary schools has focused so hard on youly in the K to2 grades because
057we want our students reading on grade level early so that they can stay on grade level and so in terms of how to we measure for Success like shimika mentioned 3% growth annually on grade level assessments so that being maap and then additionally we're going to be looking at more timely indicators like some of our star CBM assessments to monitor progress throughout the school year prior to State assessments um so you fly is pretty cost neutral we will only have to replace manuals so there's no real reoccurring cost um the cost for Wht wisdom is lower um than what we purchased last year so essentially what we we would be paying this year would be on average what we will be paying year to year so the recommendation from the administration is that the board
058approved the adoptions of youly Foundations in wit and wisdom for $241,600 530 um and so for this year's cost it's going to be um the entire wit and wisdom cost will be out of um federal funds and then that will basically be the recurring amount in the future that will you'll come back and vote on annually that would come out of District funds and with that we look forward to questions from the board thank you Mr Murray uh just so the knows in our packet it says six years and the reason being is this is the reoccurring cost it's just so teachers don't have to every year we're not changing the program we kind of know this is the plan for six years instead of every year coming back and trying to change but every
059year we will have to approve the amount that we're going for it but there's we can get out the contract Mr Murray WR at any time if we needed yes thank you that should have said I guess it might be an old version of the presentation um but yes so it's basically saying that the plan is to use these resources for six years but year to year we won't be financially obligated to basically anything so there's no Financial commitment Beyond this year from the board and every year the board will have the opportunity to reapo it is there a motion to approve uh the adoption for six years of uly Foundations to coding and wit and wisdom language comprehension for $241,600 for this year funded by the district curriculum budget and sr3 as prayer policy
0602020 so moved been moved by Graves second by Tyson um the other thing I just wanted to point out just and only reason I from our agenda setting meeting just make sure we all know it they did have a slide in there this did go through CAC um again that is our board policy process does not mean CAC necessarily recommended this program but we did follow the process of it uh CAC requires that teachers have input and have a recommendation which ultimately goes to Dr Davis which then he ultimately gives a recommendation to us uh and Mr wasn't totally 100% against it correct against against right I mean there it wasn't overwhelming 100% for it as well so just so we're all clear it was not necessarily in favor 100% either direction uh there was
061mixed emotions is that a fair way of saying it very fair and I did have a chance to talk to Miss Dunn she said she has been at the meetings as well uh for CAC today she's our rep from the board and she did verify there's been conversations around it and mixed mixed feelings I think is a good way of putting about it uh again I think that's probably about most things you're never going to have 100% of people agree with any program but any other questions we'll start with Mr Bailey and then work our way down I I like the fact that it is six years so it gives people time to really get invested but again um know I'm not the one teaching it so I really value what our teachers say how
062they think how they feel because if they don't teach you the validity what what we doing in the work doesn't mean anything so that's just kind of my thoughts thank you Mr Tyson thank you Dr Thurman oh yes so it's 241,000 every year for six years cor it'll be roughly roughly that cost if we yeah it should be around there okay and I know it's a pretty new program but what you're saying is the data supports the fact that kids are making progress yeah so a new new program um to us but yes so we you know we saw some some good data movement this year so on our star early literacy assessment um in the fall this is most mostly our kindergarten to second grade students take this assessment and about 36% of them
063um we showing up um basically approaching on our approaching grade level and in the spring um it was about 49% so we saw about 14% improvement from from Fall to Spring um and as we talked about at the decodable books giveaway we saw some really bright signs at kindergarten so we saw around 23 kindergarteners basically approaching that grade level Mark and so you know that's the class that we'll really be looking at the most to to get those students on the right track that we hope you know all following classes will be at that level so we saw some exciting data movement this year but we know that you know change doesn't happen in one year either and you are sharing this how are you sharing this information with teachers and especially when we hear
064that a great percentage of them are are not um enamored with yeah in terms of sharing out our our Student Success and progress so for the most part i' I've definitely shared it with principles um getting them familiar with these data WIS because it's a great thing for them to turn around to their teachers and really celebrate some of the work that they've done so I know in certain spaces principles have really already had those conversations with teachers um but I think you know a lot of that testing just wrapped up but when teachers step back into the building um I'm sure that's something that we'll be doing at all buildings really talking about what strides we made um this past year as well I think it would be good good for us to continue
065to do that and let across the district all principles sharing that information in a timely manner and also sharing that with parents absolutely thank you thank you just one small question um what does monitoring look like and making sure that as we go through the years that um is done with Fidelity and maybe with some of those teachers who are not um as in favor um so a few of the concerns that the teacher teachers raised in their survey um a lot of it was around professional learning and so while that is sort of a sad moment like they didn't necessarily feel like they got the best professional learning it was a pilot year so we have the opportunity to resolve that with the type of professional learning that they receive and one of the
066shifts that we're going to make is that we're going to try to leverage uh the coaching Series where the professional job embedded professional learning will be um at the building level instead of the large scale where you got you have 50 or 60 teachers in the room and then also to um leveraging those learning walks with principles ISL myself um and Mr Murray um giving feedback around what that instruction looks like um we've also taken a really um strong look at the instructional schedule because that was another concern about um the density of the knowledge building care curriculum and also planning so we have some things in the work to try to lift um some of the Practical planning that the teachers have to do because it is a mind shift they have to plan
067practically practically and then the internalized planning that the teachers have to do because it is a knowledge building curriculum so we're going to try to lift some things for them on that practical side in terms of the resources that can be reproducible anchor charts things of that nature so I think that resolving some of their um concerns um are definitely some it's definitely something that we can do um we've already started those plans and I think it centers around PD and then making sure that we're in those buildings as a team as a leadership team um to provide the necessary feedback and make sure that the teachers feel supported and then how often would you check in after that or what are you guys looking like in regards to that check-in schedule well um in
068the past um we've tried to do like monthly weekly like I'm in buildings all the time Mr Murray but we'll have to as we start the school year kind of synchronize to make a plan of like across the school year and any buildings that we might consider to be a priority um we probably have a little bit more intensified um support um 35 probably landed in a different spot um in terms of using the language comprehension resource so K2 will definitely be one of the spaces will be the spaces that we will look at more CL clely and probably spend a lot more time with the language comprehension resource over um youly thank you add quickly that um you know principles are going to be really critical in this whole process to your point Dr
069G about monitoring I know that you all did some training to of at slooh you want to speak about that a little bit just sort of the um conversations that you have with principles in particular yes so when we gathered at Leadership Institute um we spent a lot of time with leaders basically talking about these short data cycles and how we're using data and progress monitor to really Drive student learning and um those really being in like you know every week or two like you're really honing in and you're giving students these small curriculum based measurements to see if they're reading in two weeks better than they were two weeks ago and so um we're going to be really focused on that data um and then like shm said you know we spend a ton
070of time in classrooms um not only making sure that it's happening but really there to support teachers to give feedback to give coaching an answer any concerns is that answer thank you Dr P Walker oh thank you um okay so I know that every year when you guys come back before the board to request funding again you'll bring some sort of a program evaluation so I wanted to ask um like what sort of data do you expect to bring you know what what what things would you be looking at next year that would help us as a board to know whether we're making progress with this or not so this the star data is going to be the the most useful data in terms of evaluating really both uly and wit and wisdom and um
071part of our ongoing conversations with the board around Competency Based learning and some of the shifts that we'll be making to get more timely data so that that star data will really be the best do we have any other measure I guess for me as one board member I'd like to see more than one thing yeah so there I mean we do So currently I mean students took Galileo and they took star but even in inside of star there's several different um assessments so there's star reading and early literacy which is more like a 15 to 30 minute comprehensive assessment but then there's also these cbm's curricular based measurements where students like if you were a student you may read a passage to me for just a minute and I'm counting up how many words
072you got correctly or how many words you read correctly so even inside of that there's multiple measures that we can share with the board okay so I just would like to request if possible that we that we see more than one type measure next year okay thank you does that answer all your questions Mr Tyson yeah I did have a question after it passed me um but I think I heard you answer it but I just want to make sure it was answered because she spoke about Fidelity I'm con here on the board if five of us agree to something and two of us don't we all have to buy to the decision I heard you say that there's this lopsided well what's the process of getting those who don't agree should this pass to
073buy into the decision as or are we giv options out there because if this is something we're going to invest in I don't want to create an atmosphere where teachers out there choosing of what they want to do particularly if we're coming back wanting those monitoring points to see if our students are really benefiting from this but if our teachers aren't implementing it then how will we get true numbers from it um and I think I think that goes back to our plans to uh really look continue to look closely at the perceptions data that we have and identify what those concerns were and I think once we can truly address um their feelings around um not feeling um like they had the proper professional learning um on a consistent basis across the school year
074that's a big one I think um giving teachers and helping principles to understand that this is a marathon not a Sprint so there's a learning curve that's there and so our job is to make sure that they have the right resources they have the right professional learning and they have time um to really grapple with how they will deliver instruction so our professional learning plan will be essential and also too I believe that the time during the instructional block uh spending time talking about what those minutes look like and how everything can fit in will probably give most teach is a a sigh of relief um because it'll help it to feel more doable and realistic I I think having to heavy lifts probably felt unrealistic for people among other things um but I do
075believe that according to their the survey and what they've said I think we have a resolution and a solution for most of the things that they um had concerns about and you don't have to answer this but you do know there are people out there that just resist change so I hear that piece but you're going to have those that hey I've been doing it this way I want to continue to do it this way but I hope there's some type of strategy to also get them to buy into what we're doing as a district okay yeah cool thank you Mr Bailey and this is more so like a suggestion I know that a lot of times we leave the planning of activities around literacy because I'm a big component on involv in the community
076in our plans I would really like it from a district level and not just on a school by school level I really would like a community push on literacy from our district level that's a a statement that we need to make sure that the community knows that we value literacy and we want to make sure that we go on a bigger scale with our community engagement when it circles around literacy and that's just a suggestion thank you and I know this is obviously about K five and I know we just got new secondary curriculum and I know we're working with Dr D next week to really think about to Mr Bailey's point the K12 litery piece you know on slide eight which kind of started talking about what Dr pal Walker was talking about like
077how we're going to measure the growth one of the things say 3% growth annually on grade level assessments help me understand what do we do we mean 3% um proficient what what do we mean by 3% because obviously we're not giving kids don't get a 54% on the map so what do we mean by 3% growth so that's basically referring to the percentage of our students who are meeting or exceeding so if we're at 23 that we would get to 26 meting exceeding proficiency rate like yeah Prof we're talking about map I guess is that okay talking about map just because as of now that's how so you envision moving all the categories 3% do you envision meeting like getting kids out of below basic to basic like AIC plan most important would be getting
078kids from approaching to on and then getting kids um out of below basic so three three for both got it okay the other thing is several people just kind of sparked about like feedback and I think it's obviously we know I don't think any of us are going to vote thinking that 100% of our teachers support this program so I want to make sure from my perspective I think we're clear about that I think our when I'm hearing the board kind of say is like what are we doing to support teachers to help them get along and and and also figure out you know so I think some things that would be helpful for me and again we're just kind of giving and we we're working with Dr Davis next week as we kind of
079talk about bigger Ela plans and goals at that level is really like you have some baseline feedback from a year one uh to Dr Graves Point like how frequently are we giving feedback and then using that feedback from our teachers directly to kind of change course and the one that's most important to me personally is like do they feel supported not whether they like it or not because there's a lot of things I don't like that I still to do in in my everyday job but like do they feel supported that they're getting the professional development to implement that's the piece like that you have control over right like are you getting support so what is the data tell and yeah what is the data saying around that and then the other thing is you
080talked about learning walks think are great and I want to just make sure um instructional isls are going to be included I didn't hear that be mentioned so I assume they're part of the coaching and that piece and I think one of the things that I look forward to is just like to down here in other people's point is about Fidelity right learning walks tell us with Fidelity like our kids engage with the mat material because if we have teachers even just implementing it with Fidelity and no kids engag that's just as bad as implementing it not with Fidelity right because you want kids engaged with the material you don't want them just sitting there and like yeah we're doing it to check a box but really engaging with them so thinking as you talk
081about your learning walks really think about how you can measure like what are some data points to Dr pul Walker's Point besides just one data point like what are some data points from your learning walks that we could kind of see some progress on over the course of a year of like here are two or three things that like oh it's being done with Fidelity in these classrooms or it's you know kids seem really engaged something along those Lin I don't need answers I'm just kind of thinking out loud is we talk about other data points and feedback that's all I really have based on what I heard from the board anything else that anyone else has that they want to share before we take a vote Dr Davis are you kind of clear on
082kind of what the board desires Mr Murray you good with what the board kind of desires miss mcwell you good with the notes kind of what the board desires we're all on the same page then seeing none all those in favor I I I abstentions Nays eyes have it thank you so much next up is budget amendment uh the administration recommends that we adopt the budget amendment there's four categories the budget uh the administration's recommending and Cindy will be here for any questions I don't think you have a presentation right for this just if people have questions anyone have any questions about the budget amendments for the four categories which are general fund special Revenue capital projects and Debt Service is there a motion to approve these so move been moved by Paul Walker second
083by Martin any questions or discussion seeing none all those in favor I any opposed extensions eyes have it thank you so much next up is uh the most important thing of our meeting tonight I want to say is our budget approval uh for fiscal year 2025 and so uh Cindy the floor is yours good evening Board of Education Dr Davis members of cabinet and the community tonight we're presenting to the Board of Education the fiscal year budget um for board action tonight we want to present the Ferguson forc School District budget for approval we implemented a process where we focus our resources in the most efficient and effective manner to support the district's Mission the resources identified and allocated provide um the res resources identified and allocated support the mission of the for Ferguson floresent
084School District to provide high quality instruction to every student in every neighborhood while prioritizing equity and compassionate relationships the budget being presented tonight is a detailed analysis of both revenues and expenditures in order to best support our students achievement the picture on this slide are some of the pictures included on the budget cover of the document and thank you to Anya halman for that she does amazing job the district's annual budget for fiscal year 2024 2025 is aligned with all of the Strategic plan priorities not just one this budget helps support academics prek grade to grade 12 as well as postsecondary success the budget also supports both student and staff well-being the people and culture of the district which comprises 75 to 80% of the district's budgeted dollars it supports the financial and operational stewardship
085priority by showing our fiscal responsibility and stability and finally is supporting the community aspects of the district including parents as teachers the communications department and efforts to engage with our community the budget was designed to ensure Equity across the district as it allocates its resources to impact student achievement the government Finance Officers Association best practice framework called smarter School spending is recommended to help ensure that the district implements a sound process toward equity and budgeting Missouri State Statute requires an annual budget comprising of these five statutory Parts the budget message estimated revenues estimated expenditures debt schedules and the general budget summary these are the minimum requirements for Missouri school districts the districts focus on equity and access for all naturally aligns with the government Finance Officers Association best practice framework for smarter School spending this
086framework focuses on collaboration between academic and finance teams to align our very limited resources with desired student outcomes the smarter School spending best practice believes that the budget process should engage and communicate with stakeholders prioritize goals allocate resources and track the progress the budget most importantly is a plan as well as a tool for Trans transparency and accountability there was input input from employees and staff who are impacted by the budgeting process during the budget process meetings were held with every budget owner the overall purpose of these meetings was to engage each budget owner as to the budget process the understanding of their budget requests as well as the account codes that relate to their budgets during these meetings various data various district and school data was reviewed and analyz as part of the budget
087process just some of the district's budget initiatives that align with the district strategic plan include updating Career and Technical education curriculum platforms that support all of our students as well as mtss supports investing in dual credit dual enrollment advanced placement exams and international Balor certifications and curriculum materials for math literacy science and English language Learners the budget is a fluid document and is built on a variety of assumptions all of these assumptions can be challenged by differing factors including the economy State funding supply chain issues ETC but the ultimate goal of the district's budget is to celebrate our students as they are prepared to move to another grade level or to sit at graduation excited for their next opportunity the budget will be measured primarily by our monthly financial statements presented to the Board of
088Education along with monthly budget discussions as requested by the Board of Education ultimately the budget will be measured based on our students successes and the data reported from the annual performance report from the Missouri Department of Elementary secondary education as well as the district's fund balance percentage there are many components to the district's budget and is very important for each budget owner to to completely understand their budget and what is happening within their budget on a regular basis therefore it is important for each budget owner to be well informed and well trained on their budgets for their building or Department training will continue to take place for each budget owner as well as the office professionals who support them budgets need to be monitored and evaluated so that one knows what they have what they
089have when purchases or adjustments need to be made as a a district member of the association of school business officials the district's fiscal year 25 budget is based on the criteria of the meritorious budget award which it was awarded for the fiscal year 24 budget by presenting the budget with this criteria in mind it shows that we understand the importance of presenting a budget which can help build trust and clearly communicate our District's Financial priorities and initiatives with our stakeholders as I mentioned the Ferguson floresent School District budget was created on the Meritor budget award criteria this means that the budget document consists of four major sections the executive summary the organizational section the financial section and the informational section the executive summary must be a standalone component it includes information from the other sections
090to G to give a global perspective of the entire budget document so for those that don't want to read all of the budget document then you can get a good understanding of the district's budget from the executive summary and we all know that we are different kinds of Learners therefore the budget document presents a comprehensive Financial picture in a variety of forms there are words there are numbers there are charts of graphs Etc and where I can I have included pictures and information to help the reader relate to our district as well as celebrate the good things that we are doing the budget tells a story and we need to share that story with our stakeholders the organizational section includes information specific to our district including its history maps of where our schools are located
091a directory of our schools and their principles Personnel Resources as well as our structure relating to our governance and various policies this section also includes definition of funds classification of revenues and expenditures the operating and capital budget processes and the importance of internal controls the financial section will provide the financial analysis and summary information for revenues expenditures and fund balances as well as forecast for the for the funds the informational section includes additional information about the factors included in the district's budget including the following assess values of the taxable property within the district property tax rates and the effect on the average taxpayer enrollment information State formula factors and calculation performance measures surveys and a glossery and list of Acron acronyms because those of us in education we love our acronyms so now let's get
092into some details so Revenue highlights bless you property taxes are based on the projected tax rate calculation of a $4 6804 tax rate the actual tax rate will be calculated with assessed values after the Board of Equalization in August and will be certified by October 1st this tax rate is based on calendar year 2024 being a non reassessment year the district is not expecting to have any significant change in assessed values the current District assess value is projected at 1 b456 mil1 17,36 in previous years District's formula calculation was based on the pandemic provision however districts should anticipate a return to the regular payment methodology for the basic formula in FY 25 classroom trust fund which is the gaming money prop C which is sales tax and small school grants payments will rely on our
093fy4 average daily attendance or waited average daily attendance for payment purposes in fiscal year 25 prop C and sales taxes are based on prior year weighted average daily attendance at a per pupil rate of 1,513 classroom trust fund or The Gaming revenue is based on a projected $618 per prior year weighted average daily attendance you here we illustrate the assess valuation of total taxable property in the district both historically and with some estimated projections you can see the 2025 assess valuation growth estimate at0 87% with an estimated value assessed value after Board of Equalization of the $ 1.4 billion as indicated earlier this budget includes a projected tax rate of $4.6 eight4 and this slide shows you how that tax rate is proposed by fund the district tax rate has to be certified by the
094state auditor by October 1st the actual tax rate for FY 25 may be different than presented here as this is based on an assumption of little to no change in assess valuation the district will receive another assess valuation letter from the county in August after Board of Equalization occurs this will be the assessed value that the final tax rate will be calculated on as you can can see from this Slide the Ferguson flet School District tax rate is estimated to remain the same this table represents a property tax calculation for a homeowner it also shows what has happened over the past 10 years and the effect on the taxpayer for a property owner of a $120,000 home they are paying approximately $92 less today than they did 10 years ago based on the most recent
095desie school Finance memo this slide compares the current 2024 estimates for basic formula classroom trust fund or the gaming monies and propy or sales tax monies to the governor's recommendations for the same revenues in fy2 you can see that the basic formula is estimated to increase the state adequacy Target which means that this is the amount of money that the state feels would adequately fund a student's education to $670 per formula weighted average da the attendance the classroom trust fund or gaming amount is increasing from $472 to $618 and Proposition C or sales Tech Revenue are recommended at$ 15 $1,513 per weighted average daily attendance from 1,374 and FY 24 and the governor is again recommending that the they fund uh that they fully fund Transportation at 100% for fiscal year 25 this slide illustrates
096the weighted average daily attendance calculation estimate used in the fy2 budget a more detailed analysis and information is included in the budget document but I just want to point out a couple of highlights here average daily attendance or Ada is calculated based on the actual hours a student attends divided by the possible hours a student can attend then we add summer school average daily attendance and that gets us a total Ada which for fiscal year 25 is estimated at 7,510 5582 three categories of students have been identified as requiring additional Resources by the state these students are weighted meaning they may count as more than one student when the number of the students in a district from a particular category exceeds the threshold level as determined by the state the district receives additional funds for
097every student above that threshold the weighted average daily attendance is is a combination of ADA plus the weights from each of those categories of students identified as requiring additional funds for our school district we can receive additional weights for free or reduced price lunch students or students with limited English proficiency the what I want to draw your attention to on this slide is significant changes in the calculation is that summer school increased from the prior year and the threshold change in the free and reduced lunch waiting increased 267 in caused an increase of 267 and even with the slight decrease in the El The Limited English proficient waiting of almost 22 the district is looking to increase its overall weighted Ada by about 300 so moving from that we go to the basic formula calculation
098this slide illustrates the state formula calculation estimate which includes both basic formula and classroom trust fund or the gaming money used in the fiscal year 25 budget again again a more detailed analysis and information is included in the budget document but just wanted to show a couple highlights on this slide despite the factors used in the state formula calculation the Ferguson floron school district is considered hold harmless which means that as the calculation is done if the payment weighted average daily attendance calculated is less than what the districts received in 20056 per weighted average dat attendance amount then the district will be paid on the 20052 2006 amount so for FY 25 our fy06 modified weighted average daily tendance is $3,650 line 14 of the calculation and our calculated amount is$ 3,586 line 15 of
099the calculation so the district's formula payment is determined by multiplying the 9,572 by the 3,650 for a total amount of 34,9 48,4 if the district attendance increases then the district could possibly find itself on the formula not held harmless and would then receive the full $670 per weighted average daily attendance this slide shows just a small component of the transportation Aid calculation it's very cumbersome but based on prior year data and information the estimate for transportation Aid funded at 100% by the legis would be approximately 3 and a half million to the district this is a this is significant because the district spends a lot of money transforming students to and from school if you advocate for public education this is definitely a line that we want to keep in front of our legislators and
100we want to keep fully funding it as long as possible so getting into some of the revenues and stuff this slide shows all of the local revenues for all funds by des's object code to help the reader understand where our local revenues are coming from you can see where the 5.61% increase is coming from by each line item so that was one of the questions and that you guys Pro proposed and so this is on page I think it's 141 of the budget document but it's also in the presentation so you can you can pick out the line items of you know slight current taxes um sales tax for sure and then the earnings on Investments as you know or hopefully you know if you don't know um the FED has not reduced rates as
101quickly as they thought they would and so we're still around that 5% rate so um so hopefully we can continue to get um a good return on our investments in the fiscal year 25 year this slide shows all of the county revenues for all funds by the Desi object code and as you can see we don't receive a lot of money from the county sources it's pretty much our state assess Ro and utility taxes this slide shows all the state revenues for all funds by Desi object code to help the reader understand where our state revenues come from most of our state revenues come from the basic formula foundation and gaming funds with Transportation Aid and early childhood special education funds coming in next this slide shows all of the federal revenues for all funds
102by the Desi object code to help the reader understand where our federal revenues come from you can you can see that there is some money for sr3 but that is only to finish up some Capital HVAC projects that didn't get completed prior to June 30th the school lunch and breakfast program funds are significant as well as the district's title funding Title One funding and then finally this slide shows the other revenues for all funds by Desi which really only consist of revenues received from other education agencies for transporting students and hopefully we'll get that figured out on the fluctuation because it does fluctuate a lot so hopefully we'll get that ironed out over this next year and so this slide is the summary right so we put all the local County state federal sources together
103to show you what the total budget total revenue budget for fiscal year 25 of 158 m731 542 so a little a million dollars less than the prior year but almost almost insignificant change percentage now we present the salary and benefits as budgeted for FY 25 so hopefully the board can get a sense as to um all the different categories that are in the salary and benefit budget benefits are budgeted based on our best estimate at this time however the district will work to minimize any insurance cost for its employees the insurance recommendations will be presented at a later Board of Education meeting this slide is our staffing slide showing the numbers for FY 2425 as well as some history human resources and finance will continue to work together to ensure that Staffing and budgets are
104reviewed regularly to ensure qualified staff is working for our students while also being fiscally responsible so this slide shows the summary of all the expenditures by object with a total expenditure budget for fiscal year 25 of 156,50 647 the beginning fund balance for fi25 is based on the estimate or projection of how the district is hoping to end fiscal year 24 again you can see that most of the district's expenditures earn the categories of salaries and benefits the district will continue to re review expenditures throughout the year and compare outcomes through the program evaluations as you mentioned just a minute ago to ensure that we are using and paying for items that are making a difference in our students education as well as our staffing models this is revenues and expenditures for all funds together
105showing a potential surplus of 1.7 million again this is based on the assumptions that I've shared in the presentation so the general or the incidental special Revenue teachers f fund and capital projects funds are the primary funds from which all operating expenditures are made the district reports the general and special Revenue funds activities as operating funds this is where the majority of our expenditures come from the financial section starts off with the budgetary goals and the estimated budget surplus in the operating funds for fiscal year 25 of about 2 million the district continues to be conservative in its revenue and expenditure estimates however the post-pandemic dynamic relating to the Staffing shortage has caused a heightened awareness for the Ferguson floresent School District with RP sr3 funds ending in September of 2024 the district will need
106to strategize how initiatives in this fy2 budget will either be included or reduced in future budgets the beginning fund balance for FY 25 is still based on the estimate or projection of how the district is hoping to end the fiscal year currently there is no budgeted transfer from the general fund to the capital projects fund this forecast for the operating funds is based on the following Revenue assumptions include property taxes increasing 1% in non- reassessment years and 4% in reassessment years state aid remaining flat due to small enrollment and average daily attendance changes and federal funds remaining flat after all of the covid relief funds are gone expenditure assumptions include status quo Staffing with slight salary increases benefit increasing 2% year-over-year purchase Services remaining flat while supplies increase due to the cost of goods increasing
107and in addition there is a um planned transfer to the capital projects fund annually as there's not enough Revenue in the capital projects fund to cover all the Deferred maintenance needs of the district and that will come I'll talk about capital projects Fund in a minute but you can see once we get to Capital project fund how this ties together in the future years we'll need to transfer or at least there are some forecasted transfers to the capital projects fund the estimated fund balance for fiscal year 2025 at this time is 19.18% many factors can cause this to fluctuate including how the district ends fiscal year 2024 as well as how positions are filled for fiscal year 2025 this forecasting helps us to know as a district that we need to monitor our finances and
108ensure that we are being strategic with our expenditures to remain fiscally stable The Debt Service fund um the purpose of The Debt Service fund is to account for all transactions relating to the unpaid principle and interest of bond issues you can see that for fiscal year 25 we will pay $2.98 five million in principal and 1,168 380 in interest on all of our outstanding debt no additional Bond issues or refinancings have been considered at this time the purpose of the capital projects fund is to account for all facility acquisition construction and lease purchase principle and interest payments there is about $3 million placed into the capital projects fund by the allocation of the tax rate many projects that were considered were not included in this budget in order to reduce any potential transfer from the
109general fund for fiscal year 25 the sr3 funds are reflected in federal sources in order to complete the HVAC projects that were started in FY 24 the beginning fund balance again for fy2 is based on the estimate or project ction of how the district is hoping to end the fiscal year in that fund the restricted fund balance represents the proceeds from the sale of a airport Elementary and leave the fund with only about $527,000 in the fund balance ideally capital projects fund should have a significant fund balance for unexpected expenses that might occur with older buildings this is the detail of the budgeted $7.9 million in expenditures for the capital projects fund as you can see many projects and areas were reduced in order to stay within budget with no general fund transfer the HVAC
110projects will be funded with S3 funds various mechanical electrical and plumbing projects as well as roofing for Halls Ferry are included technology purchases include limited number of Chromebooks recurring software such as Moret Microsoft firewall maintenance server support securely filtering and classroom management Etc and emergency purchases relates to the fire code project that the district must comply with and then this is the forecast so the forecast for the cap projects Fund in order to have a minimum fund balance transfer from the general fund has a spending only about $3 million in the coming years on our buildings infrastructure Etc this is not sustainable for 23 schools and 27 locations and all the upkeep that is needed the district will need to evaluate how to maintain our buildings and technological infrastructure going forward and then this is
111the link to the digital budget book so um everything that's in the pdf version uh that's been attached to board dos is also on the web um there's a digital budget book and it has a little bit more financial information because they have they add more graphs and charts to the digital book um but everything else should be the same but there's a link to the digital budget book should you want to go look at it and then what questions do you have for me at the time that was a lot of information sorry yes thank you so much Cindy uh before we start with questions and comments uh is there a motion to approve the adopt the B District budget for fiscal year 24-25 as presented so moved been moved by graes second second
112by Thurman that's okay uh so just want to thank you all for all your work and your team's work certainly we've had a different budget process than other years and I know Dr Davis has shared with us he's dove into it more deeply than other years as well and so we appreciate everyone's flexibility and the budget owners as they dive in as we heard uh about cutting administrative team uh positions and really figuring out where we can save money and how to maneuver and I know it was more work and appreciate that of your team and years is you're also transitioning to new software in the district so there's a lot going on in your team so certain appreciate you taking the feedback in really figuring out and providing a a balanced budget and still
113feeding into reserves and still meeting the needs of the District so thank you so much for that we'll start with Dr Paul Walker and we'll go down this way uh if that works this time um Cindy thank you for your work on this um one question that I have is um on slide number 31 I think it's slide number 31 am I doing that right it's the one that says um funds 11 and 20 only at the top it's Financial section operating that's it this one okay yeah I just wanted for my understanding the uh one at the top where it says Revenue if we come down we have local County state and federal and if we come all the way over from federal when we get to preliminary change that column we're in the
114negative there and I didn't know if you could explain that yes so that preliminary change is comparing the 2324 budget to the 2425 budget so it's just taking that 27 milon 245 369 and subtracting the 14580 9:30 just saying that that's decreasing we're anticipating that we're gonna receive 122 million I mean well whatever this amount is less correct and that's primarily due to the eser3 funding okay all right I was just curious what that negative meant okay yeah absolutely okay okay thank you Dr P Walker Dr Graves Cindy I had the opportunity to look at the online format of it that's excellent um it was really easy um to read especially for the community um I don't have a question at this time um yeah but I just wanted to say it was really easier
115um and really in layman's terms to kind of understand the budget through that lens I appreciate that feedback because I was curious I didn't know how many would want the pdf version so I quickly created the pdf version rather than just leaving it as the digital version so that would be great feedback going forward is to do you just want the digital version or do you still want a PDF and a digital so I appreciate that thank you Dr grave Dr Paul Dr Thurman pet Thurman thank you for all the work that that that was a lot um and I'm also noticing too that our fund balance this year the 19.18 has increased from last year I'm hoping I mean if that's the projection these assumptions yes okay and I I'm I'm happy to see
116that and the direction we need to go yes ma'am yes it is thank you uh one thing for me and this is more of a m Miss mcwell Thing certainly as the board's gotten more in the budget we have our own budget and so I think it' be helpful if when you give the monthly report if Miss mcwell could just give us like how much we have left in each of our accounts so we can kind of be monitoring our own money I don't know if others feel the same way too but I feel like fre we've talked about our our own budget and then we never look at it so I think as we're budget monitoring there's a single page you made and I appreciate that just if Miss mcwell can let us know
117like how much we've spent because I assume she's the one putting the recks for our board just something along those I think it would be helpful for us to Monitor and be an example so we don't get the end of the year and we're like oh how much should we spend this year and we are clear with that I don't know if others agree with that but I think it's just helpful for us to see that piece of it so let me ask you this so that's included in the monthly financial statements would you like that separated out and not kind of buried in with all the rest of the monthly financial statements because it is in there every month for me yes if it's just like these eight or 10 categories that we have
118just so like if we have okay our school audit just so we know how much we have in that account left or legal bill because you know those types of things are we just have a new legal RFP so we don't is that the right amount we won't know necessarily until we go through probably a full year because it's a new amount so it's hard to guesstimate fully if that was the right amount or not the right you know so well I know you guys get so much information and have so much to review and so um if you know if you want that separated out we can we can do that if it's easy enough I don't want more work but certainly if it's easy enough um and I appreciate you working with Dr
119Haywood Dr Haywood we talked with her about just the I think it's I really appreciate the three simple categor C certificated administrators non-certificated not getting down to I know we've tried like many different documents over the time of like all the way down like building AIDS and different and at our level we don't really need that right I think this is a good setting point of knowing how many positions we have because honestly I thought it was interesting to see how many certificated employees we had in the past that haven't been filled and like where is that Trend been as the teacher shortage been as bad as in other years and we just never called attention to how bad the teacher shortage was in previous years and I think it's just a great document to
120be able to see so I appreciate that and then I had one other question I don't remember and I'm sure if I think of it I will come back but uh until then Mr Tyson I just want to Echo Courtney's uh comment because I felt the same way thank you so much for the presentation it was really easy to read and that I really appreciate that ba not to be label to point but it's the same thing I appreciate all the time and efforts and your talents that you put towards it I also appreciate you making the budget more friendlier to everyone to be able to study it comprehend it and be able to focus on it I appreciate you you're very welcome thank you Dr Paul Walker um yeah one more thing I want
121to ask and so I'm asking a weird thing that might not even be possible but you know that uh there's been a lot of just really transparent conversation around trying to figure out if we're in a position to do more for teachers right so because you are the person who handles Finance I'm asking you this question so you can tell me like no Dr palker that's not a thing you can't do that so in years past like when covid was happening and there was some interest in doing something in kind for teachers to just let them know that they were appreciated is there and you don't have to answer this now I'm just like planting the seed is there the opportunity to do anything for teachers this year so it might not be a salary
122increase but it might be a stien or something additional that they might receive like a bonus or something just just to um sort of acknowledge well whatever the language is right whatever the language is but um to just acknowledge for teachers that the board hears them the board sees them and maybe we are not in a position to do you know what people wish we could do now but like is there a way to do something for teachers I I would say I I think there's always an opportunity um the first metric I would use is how we're going to end this fiscal year right so what is June 30th going to look like what's our asbr going to going to look like at the end of this year so that to me is metric
123number one right where Did We End the year kind of going forward um the second would be um working with Jana Dr Haywood and and HR and figuring you know what are our options right um legalities um to the board's point a stien versus a bonus Etc kind of thing so working through those discussions and then um you know ultimately whatever can be decided or or reviewed or looked at can also be included as part of negotiations then right so if we're fiscally healthy end of the year better if our if as the as the months go on in the first half of the year if we're trending well with our finances there's always an opportunity to to look at how we can do something uh even during the negotiation process within the the salary
124schedule okay thank you yeah she prompted another question I have is would you say another metric obviously as we passed the resolution and I'm sure that's kind of what led Dr Paul Walker's question as we talked about you know the board said we would look at other money as possible in all that waiting to see where the local tax dollars came I mean it's you have it I think 4.6% going I mean if it let's say it came back in January and we're like way off obviously that would be but if we're way over that could be another possibility of like okay maybe there is some money to look at us stip in or something later on and then also the interest I think was 1.7 million is that what you're project something 1.5 1.7
125something like that again things you never know what the federal government's going to do if we're way above that could be another opportunity potentially but if we're way below that would be another opportunity like we need to pause before we do anything are those kind of two key areas you would suggest looking at because those makes up a lot of our I mean when I'm looking at this makes a lot of our money that we want to make sure that I would absolutely agree with assess valuation so I you know our non- reassessment years are really kind of all over the place right so I took a very conservative approach with the 0 87 increase in our cess value um it could end up 4% or something I I really don't know what's going to
126happen with the cess value and so instead of a billion 456 we could have a billion five or something right and so that is part of that tax money coming in and everything so you're absolutely right there's there's opportunity that um taxes could come in better Etc um so I would look at that you know I'm always going to Advocate interest um it you can't guarantee it the FED will eventually start reducing rates um and it will start it won't be a million s you know going forward it may be 500 or whatever ever and so I I I caution us using that as the another metric let that again add to our fund balance right let's go from 19 to 20 or you know kind of keep working towards getting that increased fund balance
127so um but absolutely the the current taxes and everything and seeing how that assess value comes in in in August and after Board of Equalization will be the next thing that we can look at and possibly have more additional revenues to put towards things yes thank thank you for both that question that answer and it's more so of a comment I just want the community know that we value the community we value the teachers and we are trying to make efforts because we know what you guys are up against and we are giving thought but I just want you to know that we know that you guys are valued and we value you I know that sometimes it's hard to kind of realize when you're in the moment because it's been a lot of rumbling
128but we do value you and we want to make an effort to retain and keep I mean to retain and and Recruit new teachers and new staff not just teachers but the entire staff thank you Mr I I think you know as we heard some comments earlier I think it sometimes gets it's easy to place blame places right and certainly I think as a board none of us want to eliminate positions to increase class sizes because we do know that you know I think this is the first year we kind of dove into class sizes even really deeper at one of our workshops we know that's a way to eliminate teachers and to go other places if you we have class sizes that are way larger than neighboring districts that's another reason people want would
129want to leave to go to a neighboring district and so you know I think we have to find a careful balance of filling all of our teacher spots I don't think Dr Davis or anyone on his team eliminated any positions that uh we feel we need to keep class sizes low when you look at the averages we're we should be there looking at certified staff not custodians and all that obviously but like I think we all want to fill all of our positions and certainly find a healthy balance of what how many teachers we should have because you can't afford as we heard earlier to lose 10 15 teachers a year out of a small staff because to train and get them acclimated with the rules then your consistency goes out and then you talk
130about SEC work you talk about mtss you can't continually train all these teachers year after year we can't lose knowledge every year so I think you know we would love to be able to offer more money I think longterm we know I think as we continue to I'll say right size um and really figure out how many teachers we need it really allows Administration to figure out how much money they need in salaries as we know salaries make up majority of the budget to really see okay maybe we can eliminate 50 positions that we've never filled and never really used and we figure out ways to make it work so we have X number of dollars to add to teacher salaries in the future and other people when I say teachers I want to be
131cautious it's all employees of the district really is what I'm referencing because everyone you know inflation's real things cost a lot to survive nowadays and we want to make sure that we're competing and I think the boards recognize that we are not the highest paid District in the the area and um while Administration certainly made a big uh leap this year in terms you know at the bottom starting we went from 40,000 40,000 something to to 43 I mean of course I think all of us here including Dr Davis and his team would love to be able to say we're at the top of the North County area as we're competing against other teachers but we're just aren't financially there yet um some of our neighboring districts have also had a bond issue passed recently
132which as you talked about capital projects in the budget that's certainly a concern and I know people on this board have asked about the maintenance and we know there's not enough funds to keep up with all of our buildings and when you have Bond issues getting past in neighboring districts and other things you can afford to do other things that we just don't necessarily have the luxury yet but I think we're on the right track certainly to do that seems like Dr Paul Walker has something else just really quickly when you mentioned what you said a moment ago about positions it made me think about how there are some years that we've budgeted for positions that never get filled so I'm curious to know if that's a place to look when we start thinking about
133ways to um give teachers a stipend of of sort like at some point over the year you know wouldn't that also maybe be a safe place to look yes because so and and I I do want to I it's been a pleasure working with Dr Haywood and getting a better grasp on our positions and our funds right and so we're in a really solid place of how many positions and our budget and and everything all and so to that fact if if there are positions that go vacant for a while we can't fill them if there's an opportunity to keep our class sizes low and and to the the betterment of our staff right and it makes sense to absorb that vacancy right right and that money that then yeah it absolutely could be reallocated
134repurposed for another kind of payment or something so yeah thank you and one you know for me also one last thing and then I'll be done I promise is really it's really hard for us to predict enrollment we're a very transient district and so it's hard to sometimes you could have all the plans in the world of saying here's what class size are going to be and then all of a sudden this school ends up having I think we heard tonight one school went from this number to this this number of kids and it's hard to predict how many kids are going to show up on the first day and then you might think you have a plan in place and next thing you know you have 30 more kids showing up which makes a
135difference based on what grade level they're in uh lastly just want to conclude then just you know I really do appreciate you and Dr Davis and all the people who really dove into what I would say a more much more transparent sometimes ugly process throughout the budget process and certainly appreciate um um the dialogue and discourse we had and I think we've had way more meetings about the budget than ever before at a higher level in a public setting and certainly it doesn't always look like roses and certainly appreciate your effort to hear the feedback to push back to challenge our thoughts and for us to be able to challenge yours and your team thoughts and Dr Davis really taking the opportunity to dive in there and really see what what can we do to
136kind of raise our fund balance without hurting our core is what I would say right and and listening to feedback across the board of even you know we've heard administrators we have so many which I don't know if we do or don't I I think we're still under the Desi guidelines I would still say but um again appreciate that transparent process it's not always an easy process but certainly we appreciate you and your team's efforts and Dr Davis you and your team's efforts and this whole process because it was a much more transparent process that we've ever had that I can at least recall in at least four four years we've been on the board in way more dialoguing questions anything else yep Dr yeah really quickly um I just want to say thank you
137to Cindy and linia and Tony and all the folks in finance and how much work they've put into all this I call them all the time they come running boy and I appreciate you so I just want to say that publicly thank you um absolutely um I can also say that even I mean our cabinet we've been digging into the budget so deeply this time and we had our summer Institute at slew all the principles were there uh we did a whole day session specifically on uh our budgeting our staffing um so I just wanted to say that out loud because folks are really invested um you know it's always trying to take care of our people um you know I guess I get sad sometimes when people think you don't care because we care
138deeply about all of our our teachers our students our community so I just want to say that that I I I care deeply about about Ferguson Flores and um you know we we put together a long range plan um and you know my hope is to be able to have that some of that discussion with the board um on July 2nd just to see where we are and you all give me direction um you know I can say to Dr Martin's Point earlier that even with the budget this year we've gone through where there's been opportunities to reduce central office positions I want to say that publicly I'm GNA you know give the board this information first before I say it out loud because out of my respect for my board um but we've been
139intentional about the positions that we have can we you know reduce some of those and put more of those resources back in our schools so that's always important I want to remind the board that a couple of years ago uh before others did you all increase the minimum uh wage for our non-certified folks at $15 an hour that took a lot of money that just I mean that and that's a recurring cost um so so acknowledge that publicly that this board aead of other communities and Boards did that for all of our folks so we want to take care of our teachers and we want to take care of those folks who support teachers so I just want to say that out loud and then the last thing I'll say is that you know um
140send it on our April 24th session uh upstairs on third floor and we had a public budget work session um she laid out how the fund balance is calculated and I'mma tell you that that 24% stays in my mind which is $33 million based on our Revenue so we've got to be really clear about being fiscally solid and we want to always be solvent and it takes money to do that um and we're not there yet we're not there yet we're you know 19% is the Hope and then each year we can even go even even further um and we'll keep focusing on those places that we can there's no way you can get a budget to where it needs to be without looking at salaries and benefits because that's where most of your money
141goes so I just want to say thank you to the board for um I mean it's been tough It's been some really good tough conversations but you know SE don't come out of their shell until they go down in the dirt and they grow and they have to break out and so it it causes um you know sometimes contition causes growth so uh we embrace it but those are my thoughts Cindy I just want to take one more opportunity to thank you um to step into that role and do the work that you've done since you've been here thank you but where's the money do we have some money together teachers not just kiding let's get to the bottom line but no I love the uh point that you made Sheila because and to your
142point we we recognize that y'all we've done that as a board we did give the stien to we did increase the salaries to all non-certified staff and you know we do care so stop that narrative it's not true you see what I'm saying we do care and if you hear somebody say something different tell them to stop lying not this board this board does care so please correct the narrative and we've demonstrated that we care in our actions no it may may not be exactly what you want it to be because there's always data that you don't know as a community but we have to take all of that into consideration when we make our decisions okay so just help us out we do Care thank you again Cindy you're very welcome okay seeing none
143all those in favor oh no I'm just kid of approving the budget as presented for fiscal year 25 say I I opposed extensions eyes have it thank you so much uh at this time is there a motion to adjourn so move it's been moved by uh Thurman second by poell Walker any discussion seeing none all those in favor I extensions nay meaning adjourn