Board of Education 8.26.25

001chair just share. They don't even make sure that But I'm sure So >> no, you I like to watch. Dustin Kirkman. Dustin Kirkman, please come to the front. I thought I said >> also That's All right, we're going to call order. We'll start with the pledge of allegiance >> to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> All right. The first item of business tonight is our tax rate hearing. Why is roll call here? It says roll call. >> Oh, we already did that. Okay. So, we have to um approve the agenda. >> I'll make a motion to approve the tax rate hearing agenda. >> Okay. I have a motion from James. Do I have a

002second? >> I second. >> Okay. Second from Ryan. All in favor? And that approves. All right. I'm turning the floor over to you. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Ryan. if you could if we could click on the link for the Ozark tax rate history. So, just want to thank everybody uh for being here tonight and just start off with tax rate hearing. Basically, what we do this every year for is to set our tax rate for operating debt service levies. So, I wanted to provide the board this graphic that we've provided in past years before me. And as you can see, since 2003 2004, Ozark Schools has had a total levy operating and debt service of $414 per $100 of assessed valuation. So, if we go all the way to the bottom, of course,

003it's still proposed because it hasn't been set officially yet. Um, we would still be after this evening at $4.14. And you can see that our AV has had a nice little jump, 11.32% at 776 plus million dollars. One thing I want to let the board know about that is as of August 1st, we get a June 30th, we actually get a May, a June 30th, and August 1st and an October 1st amount. And typically in Christian County, that amount has increased a little bit, ever so slightly. So as of October 1, we might see a little more than 776, 320, 530. So just want to give that to you for a little historical reference. And now if you don't care to open up the link for the tax rate information memo. So really just want

004to kind of draw your attention to in the middle there that normal operating levy and debt service levy. So as we know August 5th that was a good Tuesday for Ozark schools. Um our voters approved a 20 cent debt service levy to transfer 20 cents of that levy to our operating. Why did we do that? because we want to remain competitive with our competitors, nearby school districts, because we all know that teachers and other staff members here at school are what drive our instruction, drive our students to be successful. So, we want to continue to be on the forefront and make sure that we are the best school that our kids can have. So the best part about a debt service levy transfer is last year's the preceding year's tax rate for operating and debt

005service is kind of what starts your baseline. We take that 20 cents. Last year we were at 31857. So we take that 20 cents for operating we'll be at 33857 this coming school year. Then we'll make a 20 cent reduction in our debt service levy as as the uh vote on the ballot uh the I guess it'd be the verbiage on the ballot stated and basically we'll be at cents per $100 of assessed valuation. So the good thing about that is that is where our baseline will start next year if our if we notice a big AV jump again next year. It's not a reassessment year because that's every two years. But if we do get an AV jump, naturally a lot of times that operating levy is going to fall a little bit and

006your debt service levy can rise. And that's just from the state auditor's offic's proforma calculation. So also want to bring to your attention at the bottom you can kind of see that comparison of last year's total AV and this year's total AV. So we're at about a $79 million increase. That's that's a nice little jump. So very very blessed to be in a progressive community where we're seeing a lot of growth. A lot of our growth was residential and commercial. And then this year with the levy transfer, it's not as big of a importance, but it's still still a big importance in future years. On the bottom there, you see the AV from new construction and improvements. That almost 31 million, that is money that we do not get. The Hancock amendment does not impact

007typically in a in in a tax rate hit year. So had we not had a levy transfer that $31 million would have been a big a big driver of our revenue for this school year. So want to just wanted to hit on that and then also I wanted to let everyone know that the levy transfer is going to help us remain competitive. kind of reiterate that it's a great time for us to have that baseline because in future years instead of being if we wouldn't have had the levy transfer we would have been approximately about 309 in operating. So that's that's going to generate a lot more revenue for Ozark schools and it's a it's a good place to be. So with that I wanted to know if there's any questions from the board that

008I can help answer this time. >> Of course I have a question. What percent increase was that from last year to this year >> in the assessed valuation? >> In the assessed value, it's >> about 11.3 11.34 I think is what it was. >> Okay. >> So that was my question. Would the Hancock amendment have kicked in if >> Oh yeah. So the there's three kind of prerexs that kind of determine that. It's whichever the lowest of those three are. It's your actual growth percentage which 11 would not have been the lowest. >> 5% or CPI which CPI this year was 2.9%. So that would have been the determining factor with the Hancock amendment this year. >> Okay. Thank you. That's what I wondered is if it would have kicked because I know it doesn't

009kick in every year. >> Yeah. >> But it seems like it has a lot lately. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Thanks. >> Yeah. Two things. So you kind of talked talked it already, but for the tax levy that was voted on, can you just kind of verify this was what we're voting on tonight was pretty much exactly what the voters approved. So the verbiage in the ballot language explicitly stated operating a levy of for $100 of assessed valuation and then making a corresponding reduction in our debt service levy of that same amount of increase which was 20 cents. >> So the so the voters voted this and we're saying yes we agree. Is that >> absolutely >> okay? And then the next piece would be >> can't do anything different from what the voters approved. one

010year we accidentally had a typo and that was big deal. And the next piece would be this the 4.14 the whole percentage. What does that mean for the average voter or the average taxpayer you know compared to last year? Is that >> so you're saying what does what's the difference between last year what I'm paying on taxes and this year? >> I mean as far as percent goes really we moved over one thing >> you're going to be paying you're still paying $4.14 per every $100 of assessed valuation on either your residential commercial agricultural property. But where it does make a difference is our assessor, um, Danny Gray, who's getting ready to hand over the reigns pretty soon. But he's done a great job and I want to kind of brag, take this opportunity to

011brag on him. Uh, there's a lot of assessors across other counties in the state that have not kept up with inflation and their counties and their their taxing districts have kind of suffered as a result. But we're pretty blessed to have have people like him in our county. Um, but basically the only amount of money you're going to pay more on that is whatever your assessment was raised in your residential property as a homeowner. >> And the school district's not in charge of the assessment. And I want to echo what you said about this. Our assessor in Christian County doing a great job. I'm involved in a lot of different political groups and there's a lot of complaints about all the different counties and I'm like, if your assessor had been doing his job as

012required by statute, you wouldn't have to deal with those things. like we have been very fortunate that ours our assessments are not having to jump 30% to get caught up to where it's supposed to be. >> Right. Any other questions from the board? >> Thank you. >> Next part of this tax portion is public. I don't have any signed up. So the next portion I'll entertain a motion to set the tax rate. >> I'll make a motion to set the tax rate levy as approve as uh presented. >> Have a motion. Is there a second? Right. That was James first and Dustin second. And all in favor passes unanimously. All right. Next on the agenda is request for com public comment which I do not have anyone signed up for that. Um we will move

013on to report >> tax. >> Yes. >> How about that motion? >> Okay. All in favor? All right. Now we're out with text rate levy hearing. All right. Moving on. We will now move to um superintendent update and district reports. Do you have We have quite the night tonight, so I'll be very very brief. Um probably first of all, we've had a great start to the year. Great start to the year. heard great things throughout the district and um probably one of the one of the reasons that we've had such a great start is that we are following the law with uh not allowing cell phones >> in the high school and it has just been I I think a great thing. Um, I know that sometimes, you know, the honeymoon wears off uh of

014something new and then you're having to figure it out, figure out the procedures and the discipline, but I think that the teachers are doing a great job and and honestly the students are too. And so that is that's really good. Um, we have had a lot in Senate Bill 68 that was passed at the end of June. It put numerous mandates on the district uh either to begin things such as a as a cell phone bill begin immediately or it gives you one or two years. We are working through that. There was there's quite a bit and we've had numerous meetings on that. But I just want to let you know that I'm very blessed that I can go to my cabinet and as we're meeting and we're going, okay, who's taking care of the

015cardiac uh portion of it? Who is taking care of safety? It's Senate Bill 68. How they have sort of dubbed it is that this was the bill that was supposed to help with safety and security for all parties. You know, who is stop who is who is working on stop the bleed. There's so many things that we have to do. And I know that the group that I have, they're taking care of every bit of it. And I can, you know, in my mind I think, oh my gosh, did we handle this? Then we go back and we talk about it. No, I know that they're they've got the committee going. They have the plan to go. So I think there was about 33 35 items in this bill that we have to be aware

016of over the next year to two years which is really a large amount of things that we have to do but my group is doing the executive leadership is doing a great job on that. Um, I will also say very quickly as it gets closer, we really need to uh keep our ear to the ground on Senate Bill 3 and where we are going on property taxes in this county for the future. So, um, I could go on and on about that, but I just want to there will be more information that comes about that in the next couple of months, but you know, anything that you hear on Senate Bill 3, I would just read up on it. Okay. Uh, next we'll look at future dates. There is a list in there for you

017guys. There is a fall regional meeting um on the 4th, which is next Thursday, which is at Nixon. And then our September board meeting is the 23rd, which is also the same night of a home softball game. So, um, you're going to get it. Um, and then our MSBA annual conference. So, if you guys are wanting to go to that, make sure that you are responding to Barbara on that. >> And may I add something really quick? I will, uh, in the next few days, uh, begin to work on our walkthroughs through the buildings and get send those dates also >> and some dates for our work study >> and the work study. Yes. >> Yeah. And note that we have moved the meetings to Tuesday. So that will be a different thing this year.

018All right. Next, I have I'll entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda. Well, I have a question before we do that. Sorry, I should have worked at it today. Uh, are those two still on there? >> I did not pull it. >> You didn't p are set. >> Yeah. >> So before we before we approve it, can I just let there be a little explanation? >> I'll need a motion to approve and then we can have discussion if you'd like. >> Well, I'm asking a point of order of how to do consent agend >> what are they? Um it was the letters are different now. The meeting success plan I thought deserve it deserve just a little brief for what it was and about the buses also. >> I think it was Q and

019R. No, it's R and >> the one on the success. >> I'm not moving that we pull it off. I'm >> cute. I just wanted there to be a little bit of a >> I still think >> Yeah. So, I I'll go ahead and make a motion to approve the consent agenda and then can discuss. Yeah. >> Okay. >> I didn't know we would get discuss. >> That's fine. We have a motion to approve the consent agenda, but we're going to discuss it real quick. >> We got a second. >> Yeah. Have a second. >> Second. >> So, uh motion by James, seconded by Dustin, but we're going to discuss before we move on. So, what what questions do you have? >> Lori and I just talked about I I think a couple of these

020plans are great and they need a little bit they deserve a little bit of talking about them like the reading success plan. And Lori, I don't know if you wanted to talk about that one, but reading success plan. It was cute. Or if you wanted to ask >> this is not new though, right? These are >> these are items that are in consent that I think she just wants to talk about and learn a little bit more about. >> I don't have anything to say about them. I just like want to point out there's good stuff. >> Was it Q? >> Which one is that? >> I think it's reading success plan on here was Q and then uh the surplus of the buses is R. >> Yeah. >> So um when you were talking

021about uh do you want to talk about reading success plan? Although in regard to reading success plan uh which is item Q, you are asked to approve a uh data sharing uh document. And so it just gives NWA who is who uh we use to uh see if kids are uh successful at reading or not. um it will give that data directly to the department of ed and that's by law uh transfer because in 681 a few years ago the legislators said you had to have a list of who can read and who cannot read and if uh if they have certain flags that potentially uh shows that they're behind grade level then uh those students uh get a reading success land. And uh so to check our work and to make sure that uh

022every school district is transparent with the uh department uh you have to approve that the data goes from the vendor to the department and excludes the school where the school is not uh messing with the data in any way. Um and so um this is our agreement to share that data and thankfully um our reading success plan data looks phenomenal uh this past year. Uh throughout the year it went down so more students found success as the year went on and uh I expect it'll be the same this year. Uh we've got incredible teachers doing incredible work. >> Good. Good. And it's not that we don't get to see that data either. We see it. We get the data. Absolutely. We see it. >> It's not like we don't see it. >> It's just it

023is shared with Desi, >> right? >> So, we Yeah. >> And they can verify that we're doing a great job. >> Correct. >> All the buses, >> Richie. >> There might not even be an answer to this question, but I love it that we're taking we're being good stewards of our resources and the ones that we don't need have a use for anymore, we are selling to somebody else who does. So, and this and I'm not trying to trap you or anything by what you say, but I'm just asking, do you have a general idea ballpark of how much revenue that might bring back in by being able to surplus those for parts or whatever? >> You know, we put seven on there. Four of them that did not run. So, if they're not running,

024I would assume we're going to have to salvage them, >> right? >> For cost, I'm thinking $500 a bus. >> Oh, okay. So the ones that are running a thousand to 2,000, the problem is we've got to start getting rid of buses quicker if we want to rec recruit money. So the goal would be to trade in buses as we buy new buses to reduce the cost. So we just got to get on that 10-year plan to get that done. And you'll see that 10-year plan in the next couple months. >> Yeah, I was going to say that. I love that that you guys are doing because buses have been a need in this district for a while. So good. Good. aging and it's time to >> That's right. >> regroup and get more buses

025for our kids. >> Good. Thank you. >> That was all I just wanted to ask about those two. There might be something else. >> Moving on. Next item is under new business. First approval 25. >> You have to you have to look at this ugly face again. I'm sorry. So, uh just want to talk a little bit to the board tonight about the annual secretary of the board report for fiscal year 25 or last fiscal year. Um, you'll hear it called the ASBR a lot more than the annual secretary of board report. We love our acronyms and education. And basically, it's a required report for Missouri public and charter schools that kind of details our year-end financials and basically has five key aspects. comprehensive financial data, so including expenditures, revenue, and debt obligations, your fund

026balances, transparency and accountability, state aid formula information, and then special reports such as transportation costs like we were just discussing. So, just wanted to hit on a few highlights for the board tonight. Uh, we finished the year at 26% operating reserve. So, I know we always try to take our our auditors always try to tell us to land between 20 and 30% in that. And basically what that operating reserve balance means is you look at your ending balance in funds one and two that are used for operating uh expenditures for the next year. So that's your balance and you divide that number by your overall expenditures in funds one and two for that year. So basically what a 26% operating balance means. It's pretty close to 25% 1/4. We could make all of our payments

027on operating expenditures for about three months. without any incoming revenue for the school district. So that's always a good place to be. Also wanted to talk a little bit about a transfer um that we will be making from fund one to fund four. So there are various types of transfers that can be made and one of those is your 7% WADA and that would be what we're using this for and that came up to a 1.7160961,716,96 from fund one to fund four. That is not the full 7%. Um, we wanted to stay at that 26% reserve balance, but I do think it speaks highly of Dr. Hedgeorth and and Dr. Wilson and that we weren't we were planning possibly not to even be able to make this transfer. Um, but we came in a little

028ahead on some of the things you could see from the document on some of our revenues that was unexpected. So, that would allow that allowed us to move that 1.7 over to capital projects. So, if we have any unforeseen things that come up that are $5,000 in nature more for equipment, we've got that to fall back on. And then also with our after our bond proceeds are used up, that'll give us a nice little nest egg to continue to build up our capital projects fund. Uh then also just wanted to hit on a few things for revenue. So revenue, the biggest underbudgeted revenue last year was interest. And I think everybody in the state underbudgeted revenue. So I don't think Dr. Hedgecourt did anything wrong there. Um I think it was just we were told

029that we were going to see at least four drops in interest rates and that just didn't happen. And that was depending if you're buying or not. Uh it wound up being good for for Ozark schools and a lot of other districts because we had that money that we were getting to utilize in our in our balances and got to gain a little more interest than we thought. Um also for uh revenues basic formula state monies last year was the first year that they dropped that pre-introduced threshold from 30.95% to 16.73%. So that allowed us to estimate our attendance this past year and we got to count a lot more kids um that qualify for free introduce onto our state water which is kind of what we're paid off of for our basic formula. So that

030was a that was a big help. And then finally just wanted to talk about theqpk Missouri quality preschool grant. Um I believe our first year of getting that here at Ozark was this past year and we've got it this year as well. But that's a huge revenue builder because one, kids go tuition free if they're if they've turned four by I think it's either July 31st or August 1st if I'm if I'm not mistaken, uh, Dr. Savington. But also, uh, it's we don't have any local effort money taken out of that grant money that we get for those kids. So part of your formula payment, we have to depending on your local valuation, your local effort, that's taken out of your basic formula. But that grant money on those preschool kids that were getting to

031count, there is no local effort taken out of that. So that is a really big a really big good thing for Ozark schools and the other districts in the state able to capitalize that. Yes. >> Can you tell us a little bit about how a grant like that is obtained? >> So the thank goodness for this grant um there are some grants in this world that are extremely difficult to get. Um that one's not quite as difficult. Um it's done through Desi through their office of childhood and basically you know they they put out in their memos when the deadline is and they put out the application and I'm assuming I'm assuming Ken probably did it for us and I guess and give him some kudos but I'm assuming that you know once that deadline's

032met you turn it in. We're really blessed right now. If you apply for that grant, there's a really good chance you're gonna get it. And so I just hope that the new governor continues to keep that focus on early childhood learning because that grant's really big for >> for our school district, >> for a lot of parents. That's right. A lot of families. >> Dr. Okay. >> Yes. >> It's easy. Good job. >> Then last thing kind of I'll talk about is on the expenditure side. Um, one thing that was uh a little unexpected but approved by the board. Um, I think at the beginning of the fiscal year, this wasn't a plan, but the need came and arose. And I think the board did a great job of approving this was approving paying health

033insurance benefits for part-time employees last year starting January 1st um for those who worked 25 hours or more a week on a part-time basis. So, with that, that is the ASVR and I just uh ask the board if they have any questions at this time. I will just, you know, point out that this the report really just speaks volumes to the I mean your your job and the whole administration everybody all the administrators across the schools because it you mean you look at the 30 some odd pages that's everybody's job everybody's inputs and everybody's financial management. So I mean great job to to all all of you. >> Well and I would say there's a there's a young lady that probably needs a lot of kudos and that would be Ashley Price. Ashley works very

034very hard um to to make sure those numbers are right and she she was the primary right-hand person that was working with the auditing team when they were here in July. >> Good job, Ashley. >> I'll make a motion to approve ASBR. >> We're seconded. >> All right, we have a motion to approve ASBR by Matt, seconded by Rivian. All in favor? Oh, passes unanimously. All right, the next item on our list, which I do want to get in the habit of making a motion first. So, the next item is the curriculum and assessment plan. Um, and I'll entertain a motion to approve that. >> I'll make a motion to approve >> to uh Yeah. Okay. I have a motion to approve 202526 district curriculum assessment. um that was made by Sarah, seconded by Dustin,

035and now we'll have presentation and discussion. >> Yeah. So, I did not create a formal presentation because the length of our meeting tonight, but you've had this actually for two months. And so, uh you originally saw it in June. Uh what you have in front of you is our large scale assessment calendar, which sets the assessments that we do throughout the year for all students. So we have plenty of individual assessments we do. We have plenty of formative assessments that teachers uh do but these are the ones that impact every child. And so uh for instance on page one it would say the kindergarten entry assessment gives a window of time and that's when we do it. And so all of those assessments both fit uh desi regulation and fit uh what uh what and

036how we teach. And then you also have the curriculum assessment plan and it's just simply the plan that's aligned to the last CIP. So it will be out of date maybe as of tonight. Uh but it does give us guidance on uh how we are going to operate in the CIA world and it uh shows how we're tracking uh our data. And you also have the Ozark literacy plan and that's a combination of uh Dr. Sappington's work with his team and then uh Mr. Chambers's work with secondary and the Ozark literacy plan just keeps us in compliance with uh all of the uh desi rules around dyslexia and around all of the literacy world. And then uh finally you will uh the the actual dcc agenda which is the district curriculum council. And so the

037district curriculum council uh I will ask if one of you want to uh you can tell me later if one of you want to participate. We've had board members on and off the years. Often Sarah participates when she can. Uh but the district curriculum council makes up of administrators and teachers from all over the uh school district. We meet multiple times a year and we discuss uh new classes that are proposed. We discuss uh new textbooks that are uh proposed. We talk through curriculum issues uh through the district curriculum council is where we have the foundation of our labs which are our I can't tell you what labs stands for. Maybe I have it written down here. Um but the labs are our librarians uh committees that they use. So, the way Ozark approves library

038textbooks is we order every textbook and we bring it into the lab and before it gets uh put onto a shelf, we have at least one reader for every textbook. After we read those books, then it goes to the lab and it's uh it is either shelved is the recommendation or the recommendation is for it to be on the mature list for that grade level or it's uh not to shelf. And so we have those three options. What you have in the link on this is all the text that we uh both approved through district curriculum council and all the text across the district we approved in every library. And uh we have about 70 I haven't looked at the list recent about 70 readers across the district. They we have some grandparents that uh

039participate reading. Uh it's made up of all all different uh uh teachers. It's not just English teachers. It would be classroom teachers. Uh I read multiple people read. Uh and so the good thing is what we don't have or we try our best to have. We have books that come into our libraries that reflect our uh community and uh if we think that there are texts that don't reflect our community standards, then we just wave them on. Uh we're not against those books. We just don't have them as a part of the school's public library. We don't have any say over the Christian County Public Library and they can have them all. Um and so it's a great system that we've had. If a parent or a teacher or a student sees a text they

040don't like, could be a textbook for a classroom or it could be a library book. Then there is a form online that they can fill out. It's accessible uh on our web page and a parent just for re fills out that form. It's called a reconsideration of text and it goes to the district curriculum council and we go through a complete review and then we either get rid of the text or we keep the text based on the review. It's a very uh formal process and we are grateful that uh through the years we have uh got rid of some text uh but uh it's it's really good. I'm sure there'll be a text that offends somebody along the way and so these are not meant to not offend anyone. They are meant to match

041our community standards. So I ask that you approve uh our CIA plan. >> Any questions? >> So just any other question? >> All right. I just want to say thank you. Thanks for putting all that together. Thanks for being careful. Thanks for all the work that's involved in all the different groups. I mean, I feel like we cram all these things into the August meeting and they don't get the time they deserve. So, >> well, I don't know how I can pass you this list. I don't know how many hours and hours and hours represents the reading on this list, but for each So, I just read one uh while we were on summer break for this year's list, and it I enjoyed it. It was enjoyable. It was summertime. That was nice. It took

042me maybe six or seven hours. Well, if a teacher did that, then we pay the teacher $20 for reading that seven hours. They could read a small text that takes them 30 minutes because it's a for an early elementary it's fast read. They still get uh $20. So, it's not a revenue maker for the people who read it, but it's full of a lot of love and dedication by a lot of employees that who love our school district and want to have what's good for our kids. I mean, even the literacy I definitely, but also the literacy plan and the and the assessment. I mean, I went to some of those committee meetings and I heard some of the instructional coaches talking about all their heart poured into helping the new teachers learn or or

043other teachers sharing each other skills. I mean, it's really impressive. >> Good. Thank you. >> We appreciate them. Okay. Any other questions? All right. All in favor? And it is approved. Moving on to the next. I'll entertain a motion to approve the 202526 professional learning plan. >> The professional learning plan. Uh you have >> we need a >> I jumped in. I'm ready. >> So moved. >> Have a motion. Do I have a second? Second. That was made by Dustin, seconded by Sarah. And now Dr. Carson, the floor. release the horses. Okay, so the professional learning plan is again you've had it for two months now and it uh has data trackers and we're looking to see specifically are the uh professional learning opportunities that we are giving uh teachers and staff uh non-certified and

044certified. Are they uh quality presentations? Are they meeting the needs of the teachers? are they uh focused on the priorities that the district has set. This is aligned to last year's CESIP plan. So uh we will and as you look at the CSIP the uh the plan tonight, you will notice that there is a whole section around professional learning. So we will uh realign this plan according to the new uh the new plan you adopt later this evening. Um, one of the things we resoundingly heard on the feedback from teachers with this uh this past year is they wanted to have our uh PLC day again. And so uh last week uh as the first year of teachers as the uh first week of teachers being here on Friday of that week we had uh

045over 75 uh presentations and we had 80 plus presenters and uh teachers had a chance to choose the professional learning they wanted. Uh we will do the same for um our classified staff on September the 26th or that Friday is. We will provide some opportunities for classified staff to also learn. Uh we couldn't provide that last week because they were busy taking care of maintenance issues and custodial issues and all the different issues that they were working on. So we will provide some of that uh this year some maybe on the 26th and then we'll also follow up. But uh we gave a survey at the end of last Friday and the numbers were uh uh very very positive and all of that's in the learning uh report that's in the included in the packet.

046>> Okay. All in favor of approving and that passes unanimously. The next item will be the approval of the MSBA policies that we have already reviewed at a previous meeting. >> I'll make a motion to approve the previously read MSBA policies. >> I have a question. Do I have >> Can we not Can we approve them all together? Uh, all of the ones listed under D is what we're doing right now. So, we have a motion to approve the MSBA policies listed in new business D. Do I have a second? >> I second. >> Okay. Second by Ryan. Now, we can have some discussion. I object that we can vote on eight things, nine things all in one vote. There might be nine different issues. There might be nine different yeses or nos depending on

047which policy. >> Which one would you like to pull out? >> Is there one that you're not wanting to approve? >> Um, one I wanted to a couple of more I wanted to discuss as we talked about in June. >> Yes. >> Now is the time to discuss them. >> Oh, good. Okay. >> That's what That's why we're doing it >> individually. We can discuss them. Does anybody have anything that they >> Well, yes. And if you don't want to approve one, we can amend after we've had discussion. >> Right. Okay. Thank you. How about uh let me look on my main list to make sure I'm not skipping one. How about policy GBE? >> Which one? >> GB. G. >> That's the third one on the list. Yes. Staff health and safety. Yes. >>

048Um Lori asked a couple of questions of the MSBA people on that one, but I still think um we should include that last I think we should still include that last paragraph that we asked. Why did they delete that last one, individuals employed by the district? If we if we don't if we want to delete it, we could maybe at least put a link to it saying what the law is that that it requires. I know part of it is different. They don't have to pass the thing each year, but they could just say what they do have to do. I think that should be in there to be consistent of explaining explaining what the rules are. >> So, you want to add the link to the law. If we if we don't want to

049leave the paragraph in there, we don't have to leave the paragraph in there, but we ought to at least link it so they could look up what the law was because if you just say we're going to do this in accordance with law, well, good luck finding out what that is. We we could just say that not have any policy. We could just say we do everything according to law. >> Do you want me to and I don't have the policy? Is that the only thing that's that is xed off of that policy? >> That's on the bottom of it. >> Okay. All right. So, let's see. Okay. I just want to make sure everybody knew what you were talking about. So >> and then I if you want I do have the reasons that

050they said >> please chair >> if I recall correctly they said that that medical exam was no longer required. So >> right >> and she said and they oh I didn't mean to interrupt you. I'm sorry. Were you done? >> I said if I recall correctly I think they said that medical exam was no longer no longer required. So that statement is not valid. and they said if we decide not to remove that statement, they need to just update it to match the current law because it's only required every other year or something like that now. So, I would like to have us leave that in there and just have it be updated to what it should be. >> Matt, do you have something in your head that you're thinking? Well, I mean, aside from

051the fact I disagree with that, I think that the policy is fine written, but larger issue is we have eight policies here. We have 13 that are on the next agenda item. Fundamentally, I just don't believe that the normal business meeting is where the board should be going through and word smithing each of these policies. I think if we're going to go through all of these, it needs to be in a work session. I don't think it's good practice to try to write them on the fly. Um, there's been a lot of work put into these before they came to us and for us to sit here and try to debate them and be respectful to the time of the people and the staff that are here. Uh, I I just I just don't think

052it's right. I think that it leads to the potential for mistakes and bad policies and that we should do it in a work session where we can focus solely on the policies. >> That would be interesting. And you know, a couple I talked with Lori about this. A couple of districts around here have work sessions every month. They meet twice a month. Then their their board meeting goes more quickly because they've had time to discuss it. Now, we talked in June and I remember you said, Christina, we're going to discuss them. I remember we talked about that that they the one thing the board is supposed to set is the policy to guide the district with the policies. So we should look at them and examine them and we asked why was it changed Lori

053wrote into the MSBA and they answered they gave us the answer and they said in their answer if you decide not to remove the statement we'll just update it to match the current law. >> Right. And so you've had an opportunity to discuss it and I appreciate that. I disagree with your interpretation. I think the policy as written is fine, but the bigger issue is to really give that uh consideration because the board the policies of the board issues are important and the words matter. Uh and I think that to try to do it in a normal business meeting with a very large agenda to give the discussion that needs and to be respectful to the people in the room that are here attending the meeting. I don't think this is the right place to

054do it. >> So are you suggesting that we table approving these policies until the next work session? >> I'm not in favor of that. Yeah, what I'm I'm not going to suggest tableabling these because we've already first read them. We've already had an opportunity to get responses to the questions and they've already been put back. So, the eight that are up right now, we've read once, we've had a chance to discuss them, you're going to discuss them again. Um, I think we can pass those. The 13 that are coming up next, I would propose that we table those and send them to a work session. >> Like your idea. like your idea a lot, but we still have a motion on the table to approve these eight. So, are you >> There's nine. >> Okay.

055Nine. If I said eight, sorry, nine. >> Nine. Sorry, I was going back to recount. Um I also don't agree with the change on GBE. So, um could you want to keep going? I mean, you can end up amending it, but we have a motion right now. >> That motion to remove GBE from >> You would have to make it. You can make that motion to amend. Okay. And you'll have to have a second. >> And I'll just And I'll just name all the ones that I wanted to ask about. Is that what you're saying? So, I move that we amend the motion from approving all nine to approving seven of them with the the two exceptions would be GBE and BBB1. The last one, school board ballot issues. Those two to be removed from

056the nine. That's my amend my motion to amend. >> There is a motion to amend on the table. Um, is there a second? Okay, that motion has died. Um, back to the motion of approving all. If there is any other discussion, I'll move forward to a vote on that. Do you have any other discussion on that? >> You didn't like the the change on GE? >> I didn't like it. >> You said you didn't approve that change on GD. >> Well, it was deleted. I mean, the attorney told you it was related for a couple of reasons, and I agree with them. >> Oh, I thought you meant you didn't agree with it being changed. Oh, >> no. I don't want I'm not seconding your motion. >> Okay. >> I misunderstood what you said. >>

057So, you don't have a second to that? >> We're going back to the motion to approve. >> Is there's no other discussion >> to discuss BBB1? >> Okay. Okay. That was the another one that we ha had our superintendent write into the MSVA and asked why they made this recommending to change and they answered with a little bit of a misunderstanding about what the question was and did and I know that she wrote them again to ask did they >> they did >> send another answer and I felt like their answer gave their opinion on whether it should be changed or not but it didn't really It's BBB1, the four B's. BB BB1. It's the last uh paragraph on page two. Creating subdists. Every other section of that policy tells at least what's required in

058law. There have to be, look at the first one, certification of ballot language. there has to be submitted to the election authority for inclusion have to be by 5:00 pm on the 10th Tuesday that like they go through each thing look at bond issues if the board deems it necessary the board may vote to submit an issue all bonds have to be submitted after careful study then it has to have 47th vote at the general municipal auction and they name all the different requirements they do that on every section except for the last one on creating subdists and they could just put in there a general eneral little description just like they did on the others. There has to be a 4/10en or whatever the numbers are that the law says. I looked them up,

059but I didn't write them down on this paper. So, I'm not going to dig. >> They responded why they didn't. >> And they said, "We don't think it's a good idea." Well, I didn't ask if you thought it was a good idea. I just thought, "Let's put it in there like all those other things." They might not think those other things are a good idea either, but they at least put what the requirements were in there. >> They didn't just say that. They gave you a reason of why. They don't they don't just respond like that. No, they they didn't say that quote verbatim, but that was the interpretation that I got when I read it. >> And actually there you vote you made a motion to remove it and you did not get a

060second. >> You asked if there was any discussion and so I was just telling some discussion on that one. So >> I I went ahead and read the whole law myself earlier today and this basically makes it makes it simple to understand. >> I mean it's it's pretty lengthy. I mean you but I mean >> it's a long law but there's one section five short little other sections. >> This makes it easy for for the non- lawyers to understand it. >> That's it. I mean >> I don't to me I don't think we need to add the entire law in there. >> No, >> I wasn't suggesting that we should. >> Okay. >> What Dustin? >> It is in fairness and transparency. It is quite a law. Do you agree? The whole law is just

061like all the other laws are >> but the one little section given the small requirements is like two or three cent two >> that's what they did in every other one of them >> that's just want to discuss that's just >> okay I should have just listened to >> I think you would agree it's quite right >> all of them are and it's easy to just list the few requirements It needs this many voters and it needs this much approval. Majority vote, these many voters on the petition. It's I mean just the same requirements as the other ones have. That's my opinion. I understand. I understand you don't agree. I >> think we all here. >> That's fine. >> You guys for a second. Should we just >> No, we are. I wanted to make

062sure no one else had any comments. So to give everyone else an opportunity and seeing none, I'm going to call for a vote. We have motion on the tables to approve these. Um, all in favor? All opposed? Any abstension? No abstensions. Okay, moving on. The next are the MSBA policies. First read and I will entertain a motion to table that to a work study. that assuming nobody has any comments or wants to go through and if there's going to be discussion about these policies then I would propose that we table it. >> I too I actually have some thoughts on these. I do think it's important that we talk about them >> and I think maybe for the for everybody here that doesn't know these are policies that the Missouri School Board Association has drafted

063and sent to us with regard to the ones we just went over. Uh we reviewed them. we are able to ask schoolboard association questions about why they did certain things and they give us answers and we can revise those. Um that can be a process and and I again I just think that I let me just actually get straight to it. I move that we table the discussion of all of these policies that are on agenda item 16E to a work session for further discussion and revision. >> Second. >> Okay. I have a motion and a second. That was Matt and then Dustin seconded that. >> The only question I would have for, you know, for Lori would be how many how many of these are going to continue to accumulate because so many we

064have one, two, three, we got what nine here now. Is it going to be nine next month? And >> there will be >> well and that's a that's so >> my intent is to handle as many of these as possible as they're ready to be handled. And so if that means at the work session whenever we get that scheduled in the next several weeks if there's more than these that's fine. I would I would rather hammer out as many we can because my understanding is that we are playing some catchup and next meeting we might have 10 more and the meeting after that we have 10 more. Uh so let's batch them and handle them as we can but I just don't think this is the right context for handling them. >> I agree. I

065also like policies so I don't I think it's better than we when we do them all. I mean, Lori, how is this this impact the the flow, I guess, in the >> I would ask that there would be a couple of these that we would meet quickly on, especially since one of them is about cell phones and it was by law that we have something in place before August 28th or something like that. Now, >> I don't think that it's a deal breaker that we talk about it in September and we bring it back. >> Do what? >> I thought we approved one >> um That was in the handbook. >> No, it was >> that was the handbook. This was now now we're required by law to do the policy. >> Okay. >> U

066so all I ask is that if for this if we do this quicker ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra ra rather than later so that we can get the schedule going and I know exactly when we're approving and where they fall, it can be done. Not a problem. I also ask that if you have read these and you have specific questions, please send me an email so that I can get answers for you when you come to that work session because if we don't, then it will just continue to snowball. >> So, is this the JFCD student use personal communication? >> Uh JFCD, I believe that's it. >> This wasn't going to be this was

067first read anyway and it wouldn't have been approved in SE till September. I just asked that it doesn't go past that. >> So, can we can we make it so that it's not that we have only one work session per quarter? I mean, per semester. Can we make it so that we meet another evening each month and we have little work sessions the way many districts do, many other districts do? >> I'd say we discuss at the work session. >> Yeah. I think that I think that depends on what's going on and what needs to get done. And my vision, my what I envision is simply a work session to just go over these policies. Now, if there are other issues or other things that we need different work sessions for, we can talk about

068that. If there are certain times of the year where there's more of a businessheavy agenda, maybe it does make sense to break some of those out into a lunch session uh somewhere in the month instead of trying to hammer it out here. But I think that I think we can just see how the workflow dictates that. Let's try to do a work study for these in the next couple of weeks. Um, could you send out so we could approve them at September? But the next time that Sorry, the next time we do it, try to bunch more together. So, >> I sure will. I would love to do that. Will there be an evening instead of a day time? >> Um, work session >> is going to come down to what works for everybody. She'll

069have to throw out some time. So, usually when we try to do something like this, I will send out that doodle with the various times and we'll see which one sticks. >> Yeah. I mean, because we all have a lot of different things going on. Yes. >> Days and nights. So, we're just going to have to go based on that. >> I'm good. Okay. Okay. Good. >> I like it. Let's keep moving. >> Do we need to vote on that motion to table? >> Oh, we didn't have votes at tablet. >> Yeah, we have motion to add a second. All in favor? >> Okay, that passes unanimously. All right, next item. Um, I'll entertain a motion to approve the registered youth apprentichip athletics communication intern job description. Um, before we discuss, I'll entertain a motion.

070I'll make a motion to approve the registered youth apprenticeship job description. >> I have a motion. Is there a second? >> Second. Okay, that was a motion by James, seconded by Sarah. Um, and it says on here that it's Dr. Carson and Dr. Link. >> I'll speak and he'll answer more questions if you have further questions. >> Okay. Uh so we are asking you to approve the uh retro youth apprentice athletics communication apprentice job description. And so just to refresh you on what the RYA is what I'm going to call it. A registered youth apprentice is and I'll read you the definition. It's a structured program that provides high school students with a career focused pathway by combining academic instruction with paid on the job training in high demand industries. So it is an actual

071contract that we sign with the department of labor for our registered youth apprentices. We have currently a registered youth apprentice program in our teaching pathways and we have a registered youth apprentice in uh uh with the mill bass pro shops uh the restaurant and so we already have those uh and so we took the same type of job description and uh kudos to Jordan Troyer and uh Lee Jennings and Matt Bernatti and Dr. link and they work together to uh craft this particular job duties. And so what we are mainly trying to do when you write a job description is you have to combine the class with the job. So we want students to learn on the job. For instance, in culinary they uh have uh our culinary teacher and then they work over at

072the mill. For teaching pathways, we have our teaching pathways uh class and then they work inside our classrooms. And so for this particular job, it is combined with uh media production which is uh Mr. Vanatti is teaching that this year. And so uh you can see so they he uh he or she when we uh each year as we do this apprentice they will mark off certain competencies that they've mastered in the classroom. They'll mark off competencies that they've accomplished on the job and so then together they build a skill set to prepare for the pathway. So you can see the qualifications it reports all of these uh report directly to Mrs. Jennings our directorsmies and then uh she works with the teacher and the employer to make sure that the students learning those uh

073things that they're uh expected to learn. >> But we're the employer. >> We are the employer for both teaching pathways and for u this particular one. >> So how many hours is it? I mean is there a set amount of hours? >> There are and that's about a block a day if this one's set up like the others. I don't know the exact hours for this one, but it's during the school day hours. So, for teaching pathways, they teach uh they teach roughly five hours a week. Uh it's it depends on uh Friday is going to be shorter now than it was because we now have early outs. So, they get those it's it's one block scheduled. >> So, it'd be five hours, >> right? So a 100 minutes on a Tuesday, Thursday, and then

074every other Friday you'll have some time. >> Where did those funds come from? >> Just our budget. We've budgeted for those. >> So this is not Sorry. >> My So this is not outside of class. We're just paying him for class. No, he goes to class or she, whoever the apprentice are, uh, they would go to class and then they will also work an extra block. So, it's both the com they're only, they're not paid for the >> Okay, I was confused. Yes. So, they have the class and then they are paid for the separate time. >> Correct. >> And do they get credit for both? Sorry. >> Do they get credit for both? So, they get like half a credit for the class. They do get credit for work. Uh, yes. Let me ask

075Mr. Chambers just to make sure. Do we we get credit for both? Correct. Yes. >> Yeah. I just want to make sure I'm not confusing anything. >> So, there's one block where they get credit and they're paid. >> Correct. And we do that with other work programs as well, >> right? I just >> Yeah. Yeah. No, thank you. >> And I think they get paid a lot of other things that matter more than money. work experience and all that. >> Yeah, this is a fantastic program. Uh it is we will also get a uh MSIP point uh for our Missouri school improvement plan on the APR because we're expanding our uh CTE programs. Each new registered youth apprentice you bring in uh expands your CT offerings, which actually gives you an extra CTE point on

076your uh APR. So that's nice that way too. >> If you get a chance to talk to Mr. Bernatti, uh I was fortunate enough to just kind passing and I will tell you he's got pretty good vision of where he sees this thing going and kind of the excitement around and hearing him. Um, kudos to kind of taking this part and really developing it and and I think it's a pretty big breath of fresh air. He's kind of got this. It's it's pretty exciting. >> I completely agree and I I love how our communications uh department has uh are working with that. Uh so he uh uh we do have a student who uh we have student picked out right now for this uh register for the classes but uh that student now and in

077years forward will work directly with our communications department to uh to shepherd projects that they need to work on uh and with Mr. Bernatti. So there'll be a triangulation there. So the projects will change >> right mainly this year I think it's around a lot of social media work and so some of that will be video work others will be writing scripts there'll be there'll be work around that social media aspect of uh our communications department I'm sorry >> yeah well is there any other questions okay all in favor any oppose or it passes unanimously Yeah, super. That's a win-win. Thank you. >> Thank you. I'm excited about it. >> All right. Next item on the agenda, I'll entertain a motion to approve um A1 electric service to run the fiber to the huddle cameras

078to the baseball, softball, and junior high football fields. >> Okay, that was a motion by Matt, seconded by Dustin. And presenting is Dr. Pretty uh We have five RFPs operation team that's written and we are seeking your approval tonight. The first one is for be run to the softball field, baseball field and junior high football field. Uh that helps us with our title cameras which we just purchased through athletics be able to live stream our events. We will also have them at gyms in the auditorium. So we will be able to get our kids live stream so more patrons can see that. Uh we received three bids. One bid I did not think was qualified after calling them. They were the low bid, but I'm concerned with some of the things they missed in RFP

079that we would be paying more money on the backside. I request we approve A1 electric to run the fiber for $116,50. >> Does anybody have any questions for him? Okay, seeing none, I'll call a vote. All in favor? Passes unanimously. Thank you. >> Five buses passenger bus. >> I'm going to have you hold up just one minute. All right. Okay. I'll entertain a motion to um approve the purchase of four 71 passenger buses and 136 passenger buses. >> Second. >> Okay. That was made by Christina, seconded by Dustin. >> Is that everything you need? >> We have an aging fleet and I thought it was time to jump out early and buy some used buses to the driver with high mileage. So, uh you look at $500,000 but all of them seem to have mileage.

080We have maint >> I have a question. Will you tell us a little bit about the difference between the mileage on a bus and the hours that a bus is used? Because sometimes it can have low mileage but still the hours wear things out. And all these are diesel engines. So that does help diesel. They keep running long hours. So I'm not concerned with as many hours. I was concerned with miles because we racked up a lot of miles on our local routes and some of the trip routes. We have some buses with some miles. I'd like to get off the road. So when we wrote RFP, we had for 30,000 or less miles on each bus. Now, I know there was a bid that was 76,000 miles, but that concerns me. We're going to

081make 7576,000. I just don't see her getting the bang for the buck there. So, I would rather pay a little bit more and get less money. >> That's good. >> Yes. Thank you. >> Two things on on the master's bid. They said they mentioned that they got it to 929, but then that it listed as 925. I'm sure that's just a discrepancy in there. And then can you speak to the difference in the cost and the benefit as far as like the depreciation on bus number four >> on the one that's higher? >> Yeah, it's a little bit higher, but >> it is higher. I think what you're seeing there is you're getting the 2024 bus instead of 2022. So I think paying for more a few more bells and whistles, newer product. I think

082it fits the mileage that we were looking for. So that's probably why we jumped on it. You look at Midwest the comparison you saw nothing in mile was that low. >> So what you're running into people aren't trading. These were probably lease buses. So they traded them in when the lease ran out. So trying to get lower miles so we can drive. So >> use diesels they say they can run 300,000. 150 would be what we like the top. When you start looking at desting and depreciation, they will allow you to appreciate a bus for 12 years. So they will pay you for 12 years for driving the bus a certain amount. So after 12 years, we need to roll them off because we're no longer receiving any depreciation cost. So that's what we really

083need. And when we present the long range plan, I'll show you more on depreciation. So you can see well some things we can do better at >> 12 in particular what eight years 10 years we won't get 12 years right we'll look at 150,000 miles would start being a threshold the question is with 60 buses and if you buy five a year at 12 years it's going to so at one point we really need to look hard at the 10ear plan and maybe jump out and either look at lease purchase some uh propane grants. There are electric grants out there, but electric bus right now is $300,000. If you have to build a mid infrastructure for an electric bus, I don't see that you're going to get the volume of up there at all. And

084I'm concerned about that too. So, uh you can also look at unled buses. All ours are diesel, but we look at different fuel sources. Get all this sorted there. And what's our usage per year? About 10 12,000 >> 12 to 15 depending on if they're a wrap bus only or if they drive bus food. Some of the route buses do not drive as much like less than 10. >> Uh it would be one that's very close to parent. >> Any other questions? Right. All in favor? passes unanimously. Oh, okay. Um, I will entertain a motion to approve Carneahan White to supply and build the outfield fence at the Ozark baseball field. >> So moved. >> Dustin and then Matt. And you're up again. >> Uh, we would like our man to build a 12oot outfield

085wall. It would be similar to the one at Brewery. We had budgeted over $100,000 for that. So when this bid came in, I was excited to see that it came in at $73,000. Uh Bernand has built many fences for many schools around here. They're a very good building company. So I would request that you approve their >> So quick question. I'm not a baseball guy, but >> So is that replacing all the Is that the wooden fence out there now? I think. And then there's it's going to be a metal fence. >> Wood fence will be gone. A metal fence will go into the concrete curb that hooks the turf to the field. >> Okay. >> And the fence post will go straight into there. >> Gota. >> All in favor? Passes unanimously. I'll entertain

086Oh, I will entertain a motion to approve Carneahan White to supply and build the baseball field back stop. >> Second >> motion by Dustin. >> Second by James. >> Right now we have an 18 back stop. It is about 20 ft high. We will build a 30 foot high back stop which will help with walls of netting and it'll be about 170 ft around from dugout to dugout. Uh we will look at putting brick on it that will be at another time but right now I'm requesting point to supply and build the baseball field back stop for $4,60. The one question I'd have was and I it sounds like it's a good price but um I'm just wondering why there there's just one bidder you know was that is that typically just these are the

087guys who do it or >> wife has built garage that built Drury we went around with the committee we looked at it they're good when we first started this pro project we did we looked at the one that was 40 ft It was $120,000. I didn't think 10 ft was worth $80,000. The one at Logan R will be very similar to the one they were built for us. So that's why I liked it. I thought, >> but essentially we just didn't get people to bid. is that >> you know that uh normally Mid America would have bid on it and theirs would have been Sports Specialty at $120,000 and they decided not to bid on this one. So, you know, you run into fence companies, the two that you'll run into or maybe three that

088you run into around here would be Robinson, Carneg these ads ran in the for two weeks solid and it was open for three weeks. It was on our website. So we reached out to Robinson and those people and they decided not for >> Okay. Right. All in favor passes unanimously. Right. I will entertain a motion to approve Luke Shelton Construction LLC to pour new sidewalks at the OIC. So moved. >> Second. >> Motion by Christina, seconded by Ran. >> I hope you got the opportunity to see the map where we were trying to connect sidewalks that went nowhere. This is just for the safety of the kids. Uh it keeps them off the streets and more on the sidewalks, two doors. I just thought this was a good safe opportunity for kids. I recommend we

089use for $53,480. >> Can I just reiter Oh, go ahead. >> No, I was saying the map is up here to show you where we would have entrances. We had Dr. Wit, we had Mr. Chambers, we had a group of people go out, look at this, and try to draw it up to best fit the needs of our students. So, Can I just ask or reiterate where these funds are coming from? They were voter, Am I correct in thinking they were voterapproved bond money that's already been set aside to be spent on capital improvement projects. >> Yes. Yes. >> Bus transportation. Buses were out of fund, >> right? >> Okay. Because you can't you can't spend bond money on buses. >> What fence and back stop were through the bond money and this is through

090our fun the cycle. >> Okay. >> So three of them were through the bond, two of them were through one course, one transportation, one operations. >> Okay. One one question and this is actually pertaining to the baseball thing and we've already approved it but I wrote down the in the warranty it said y I maybe they just did okay >> and Dean Dean Powers his son played baseball here for the last four years he will be in charge of projects so he understands baseball and he wants to do what's best for those schools >> that's right >> and the district schools will be able to come play ball here at this school again. >> Well, it'll be amazing how many rain outs we save and how many time people want to come here and play.

091That's what we saw when I know the last. >> Hey, that's exciting. All in favor because we're on sidewalks. >> That's right. So, >> okay. Next item. I will entertain a motion to approve the strategic plan as presented. >> Second. >> Oh, you'd be a first. >> I'd be first. >> I'll second. >> Okay. That was a motion by Sarah, seconded by James. And Dr. Wilson, you have the floor. >> Okay. I am so excited to get up here and speak to you about our strategic plan. It has been quite a few year quite a few months in the making with many many teachers and community members working on this. So I have a a little bit of items to read. So the planning process began back in January and February and it lasted through

092July of uh 2025. It was facilitated by the quality coach. We had broad stakeholder stakeholder engagement with students, parents, staff, community, and business leaders. We had various teams. Is that my That's I'm done. I've got >> um we had numerous teams put together to work on this. We had um 60 members that were of teachers, community members that were on the strategic planning team. We had steering team that was comprised of all of our administrative leaders. We actually had the board team and then we had numerous teachers and administrative leaders around the district that participated in the goal setting and the action plan creation. It was four phases. The first was the discovery phase. Basically, we went through with with many of these teams on what's our current reality. Uh what is our background? We

093set norms and we established processes. We also had visioning sessions. We also from discovery we had surveys and listening and observation sessions. We then went to visioning visioning sessions conducted with multiple strategic planning teams. And I don't know if you remember where we said, what do we want for our students? what do we want their education to look like? And that's where we built this. Um, we also during the visioning did our we worked on the SWAT analysis, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. This led to us creating and revising and reaffirming our core beliefs, our mission, our vision, and our key pillars and themes. Our priority goals were then established from our key pillars and themes. The third phase we went through was implementation. And during this time frame we had uh our implementation teams

094or our sorry our strategic action planning teams. They worked to build goals, performance measures and then steps to achieve success. The implementation teams then shared at during a night in June they then did excuse me they then shared their plans and their goals and their performance measures with the strategic planning team for feedback and revision. And then finally, we get to approval. And this is where we're at tonight. We want I'm asking that the board approve the strategic plan. We will then begin and we we have in there now, but we will also begin to refi refine our monitoring of it and bring it to you. Um we are required to give you some type of report, whether it be through a board report, whether it be through an official presentation, uh through MSE, we're

095required to give you some type of information quarterly. Okay? And so our plan does meet all of the requirements for MSEP 6. So through this process, we developed our key pillars and our priority areas. And you can see through this that we decided academic excellence ensure all students are success ready through rigorous, relevant, and personalized learning. connections. Connections through the community, connections with communication that strengthen relationships and communication across the schools, families, and the community. Operational efficiency, provide sustainable systems, facilities, and resources that support high quality education. And then leadership and governance, promote collaborative leadership, accountability, and continuous improvement. So, as we were developing this and when we had this document, we then or Dr. Vanlier met with students, she met with teachers and also had a survey that went to the parents as well

096as the staff. So the she presented this to each group and for example she met with students grades 5 through 12 uh and asked them what motivated them to come to school and they said engaging caring teachers who push students and make learning interesting interesting ranked high with all grade levels. Additionally, preparing for future careers, social interaction, and extracurricular activities were all motivators for schools. I mean, excuse me, for students. When asked about the importance of rel relevant learning options, students shared their desire to explore differentmies and classes to find out if they align with their own interest. Guest speakers, hands-on project-based learning, and assignments that are fun add to the learning experience. Students from all grade levels stress the importance of good relationships with teachers and with fellow students. Pride in their buildings, addressing

097bullying issues, overcrowding of hallways, and limited passing time were also deemed important topics. And I don't know that I've ever been to a school or ever talked to a student that passing time was not important because it's always too short for them. And then when she spoke with all staff members, we had a PLC day and we she met with secondary teachers and she met with elementary teachers. They had same opportunity to provide input with through these listening tours and a follow-up survey. These areas that were based on this were deemed important for the continued growth and progress of the Ozark school district. Many positive comments were shared rec regarding the high quality staff, including teachers, parents, support staff, bus drivers, and administrators. Other areas that received high praise included the curriculum, academic interventions, and

098the district's SRO's. Multiple comments were shared on the importance of attracting and retaining quality teachers and staff and ensuring that salaries and benefits keep pace with the area districts. and importance was placed on the culture of the district and the individual buildings along with the upkeep of maintenance and facility needs. Academic enrichment, behavioral interventions as well as addressing bullying issues in a quick and consistent manner manner was also shared. And then through the parent survey, many of the comments shared by the parents reflected a good experience and praise for the school district. And the comments indicated a strong support for real world learning. And you can see when this was presented or uh the information that was given, it ties right into number two on academic excellence. They also had a strong support for early

099childhood education and the opportunities for academic growth at all levels. Parents highlighted the commitment and dedication of educators across grade levels. Favorable comments regarding their appreciation and trust in the school staff and the visible presence of the SRO's. Parents emphasized the need for improved pay and benefits to retain highquality educators, pair professionals, and support staff. And concerns were cited with intercampus travel, addressing bullying instances quickly and consistently, and the need for standardized mean of communication between teachers and parents. So to recap, the strengths strong support for real world learning. The Ozark Innovation Center was a viewed as a point of pride. They place a high value on early education and dedicated caring educators and strong communication practices. The needs or the concerns attracting and retaining quality staff, consistent approaches to behavioral expectations and bullying, facility

100upkeep and logistical challenge such as intercampus travel and overcrowding, and the desire for academic interventions and student support. Students value engaging teachers and relevant coursework. Staff emphasize the importance of competitive salaries and benefits. And parents support real world learning and early education opportunities while calling for improved communication consistency. But I will tell you that through this entire plan, one of the items or the biggest item that stayed consistent was a portrait of a graduate. We really wanted to weave and our belief weave the portrait of the graduate and our belief in it throughout the throughout this process and this vision. So the nine just to remind you the nine identified traits critical thinker empathetic foundationally literate collaborative confident flexible and adaptable teachable personable personally responsible reliable and resilient. These are the core traits that are

101the dispositions and skills and knowledge our graduates need to be to be our next generation of community members. This is what we want an Ozark graduate to look like. And how do we accomplish that? We accomplish that through our CES. So when we were looking at our uh portrait of a grad, we revisited our core beliefs. So, our core beliefs, and I won't read every one of those, but I will just read the first part of it. In Ozark, we believe in people first. We believe a culture of excellence. We believe in innovative learning. We believe in strong foundations. We believe in fostering connections. We believe in a safe, supportive environment. We believe in community partnerships. We believe in success for all and we believe in involvement beyond the classroom. So those were revisited. Uh

102many of those stayed the same but it did shape and create the parameters for our uh next slide which is our motto. One of the or not one of but uh what rang true through numerous conversations is that everyone believes that Ozark is the best. We want to be the best. We know that what we have a product that will benefit our students and our community. So excellence drives us. But it also rang very cle rang very loud and clearly that we have to always honor our traditions and our values. And so when we were working on a motto, the motto which I would like to see and we will work on it from a communication standpoint that this goes on everything. Excellence drives us but tradition unites us. Because it was also very clear

103that the people that were on these teams truly want our community and our school to be as one. To be as one. And so excellence drives us and tradition unites us. Then we took and revamped our mission slightly. Ozark schools fosters connections, drives innovation, creates a supportive learning environment where each student can achieve success. And I think what is really important is that yes, the words are a little bit different than the prior mission, but the concept did not change. Okay. And if you go back to where creates a supportive learning environment where each student can achieve success, not every student but each student individually. And then next we went to our vision and this is a little bit longer. Our vision is to inspire innovation and excellence. And notice all the way through this

104we're talking about excellence and we're talking about some innovation in education. Empowering every student to reach their highest level of achievement with confidence. We foster meaningful connections and strong collaboration among students, educators, families, and our broader community to create a safe, supportive, and enriching learning environment. Through dedication and shared purpose, we equip students with the knowledge, skills, and character character needed for success in life. Right? There's your portrait of a graduate. Okay? So, we have it in our vision and we know where we're going with this. And so, in essence, the mission is our roadmap. It's what we're doing now. But the vision is our ultimate destination. So in closing, I want to remind you of this and give you just a little preview of what we have. I know that the document that is

105on your that is on board on board docs or assembly is 95 pages long. 92. Oh, sorry. 92. 92. Okay. So I really don't expect you to learn to read every little bit of it. But I do want to say that the the people that you see back here that work for us, our leaders, not only leaders in the buildings, but our uh our director of maintenance, our director of uh custodial services, food service, transportation, I'm leaving one out, technology. They helped write the action plans. They were the leaders as well as our principles and our executive director directors. They helped to create the goals under each one of these areas and then the action plans. I truly believe a I I like to call it a strategic plan versus a CEP but it is

106the roadmap for the future. I like to think aspirational. I think some of these do have some aspirational parts. Some of it also with our very first CEP is a little more procedural I think but we are we want to think aspirational and I think that our people for the first time our people our employees did an amazing job and I am so proud of the work they do and they did because um I think when I presented it this this the first time they're like oh my gosh we don't know what you're asking of us we we don't know they did amazing and they took ownership lots and lots of ownership I also know and and truly believe that we review this once a year. We will come back to you with information and

107then we will bring back where we are and hold ourselves accountable to that initial strategic planning team and we will present what did we accomplish? What did we not accomplish? And you know it's okay if something changes and we can't fulfill every one of these. That is quite you know things happen, life changes and there may be something that the the district has to go to a different direction and we say okay this is what we knew in the spring of 2025 but it doesn't hold true for the spring of 2028 but we will present that and have those discussions. This is not a document that will sit on a shelf. This is a document that we will refer to and we will live by. We will set all of our goals, our funding, our

108financing based on the CEP. So when if you would scroll down just once, you will see that for priority area one, which is academic excellence, the very first pillar, we have a goal and then we have action and strategies beneath each one of those. And that's where the 90 some odd pages because we have a lot of those that are giving us a guide to where we want to go for the next few years. I ask that you approve this. I do know that I have I have a couple of changes that I think would be beneficial to make and I can go over those minute changes in wording and I would be happy to address some of that. But um for the except for just a couple of those items, I think this is

109a great document and and our our employees have truly shown love in what they've done and ownership and I ask that you approve. >> Yeah, definitely say fantastic job to Dr. Wilson and really everyone in this room, not counting us. You guys did all the work and I think hundreds of other people. I was at some of the meetings and just tons of people out there doing all doing all the work. And um as you can see within 90 some pages. So fantastic job. 92 pages. Um and we I mean I I gave you some of the inputs on a few of those goldings. >> So >> and and the the couple of things that u James and I have been going back and forth on was just changing maybe from a word from regularly

110to monthly, being a little more specific in some of the performance measures. And then also I think the biggest one was uh underneath solar and it was yes we want to really look at solar but let's write it in a way that maybe it doesn't keep or really limited us to solar maybe there's something else out there that's even better >> right >> and so it would be rewarding that goal on on >> yeah so inside the solar it has it in the action plan to think identify the feasibility but on the top end it kind of assumes solar's answer >> it So I I would say add it to say something like um solar other other alternative energy systems and energy reduction capability. So or evaluate the technical and feasibility the financial viability of

111those things >> pages that James >> it's goal 3.3B. So >> 3.3B is that one. So if we evaluate then I mean if you know the baseline energy we could we could set an aspirational goal of 30% reduction or whatever. I mean I >> right >> we could I can't make up an arbitrary number here but you could probably do that >> and >> or or Richie can come up with something mark >> 30% reduction 50% reduction. >> Yeah. And that is we want to dream big. We want to dream big and if we do not hit the mark that's okay. >> Yeah. We will we will take a look at it and we'll revise and revamp. >> So, >> and and one point maximize maximize our current space at Tiger Ball. >> Yes. Yes.

112I think uh the the conversation was is that we wanted to grow, but what what are the numbers to that? Well, yes, we have more space that we could potentially have or more classrooms, but is it prek? Is it uh you know what at what level do we want those classrooms? So yes, it is to maximize and maximize funding because >> if you have a demographic >> a grant wizard back there and we can do anything next year. Oh Christina, what were you saying? >> Oh, which did you say? 3.1A >> 3.3B. >> No, the one with Tigerpaw. >> Oh, Tiger Paw is 1.3C. Oh, 1.3 and what were you changing that to say? >> Uh, so I think they have it's kind of a generic uh goal, but it's basically I mean I would

113say whatever the number is, but if you I think Dr. Wilson was suggesting maximize our current space, >> right? It gives us a little bit more flexibility on what type of classrooms we have in there. And then also um the questions on I think we have goals under 2.1A 2.1 B 2.1 C um and we to have a specific performance measures on those but with those goals specifically our surveys that will go out will be tied around the CESP and so we need to develop that baseline and then in May after we've developed a baseline we'll come back with okay next year we want to increase it by this percentage. or this is a portion that we want to work with. >> Dr. Wilson, did does this 92page document uh represent like a new uh

114vision and a new set of goals or is this memorializing what was already in place or what was already taking place in the district? >> I think um it is a little bit of both. It is very forward-looking, but it if you say excellent drives us and tradition unites us, it does go back to a little bit of tradition. Um, but I think what this does is that it gives us that roadmap. When I got here, every uh many people were like, what's our vision? Where are we going with themies? Where are we going with real world learning? And now we know. So, some of that 100% is this is the vision going forward and how do we make it happen? How do we make real world learning K12? We thought that real world learning

115was in the high school only, but it's not. So now we're going to develop the plan over the next five years so that it is integrated at every level and everybody understands. It's getting everybody on the same page is what it's doing. It's not giving us fractured that we're thinking here, we're thinking here. No, this is where we're going and how we're going to get there. I don't know if that answered your question. >> Yeah. Thanks. I mean, I just want to I I appreciate all the work that's in here and it's a it's a phenomenal um collection of work. What I don't want to do, and you referenced this, is I don't want to see this now sit on a shelf and not take any action. I mean, I I think we well, quite

116honestly, I think we do better as a district than we've done. I think that we uh need to pro find the resources to support this work and support our staff and our teachers and the facilities to take the next step that I think we can take. And so I'm hopeful that this is the plan that starts that in motion um and that we actually do follow this and use this and it'll be incumbent upon the board and others to actually find uh the resources that are needed to make this happen. I agree with you because especially if we're looking if we come to you um with something from the preschool let's say and this is don't take this back and repeat this at any point now let's say that we do want to grow it

117by 15 classes all right we have to put the resources in to do that but we need to have the plan and the model to be able to get that done so then we say it was in here are we really going to fund it now yes we are we got to find the resources resources because we're thinking aspirational and this is what we're going to do. So yes, it would be definitely what I would think is how do we fund the things that we want that's in here, >> right? There's some big words in here like excellence and innovation and things and and I think accountability and >> accountability. Yes. I think that our our staff has been waiting for this and asking for it and uh I think that the resources are there

118and we need to provide it to them so that we can really really take that next step and so >> and you know when you were saying uh or is it sort of things we're already doing and my mind went it's not that things that we're already doing 100% because but it things that we've done this summer or the PD academy or changing how we are looking at professional development. Uh we are having a a PD academy for the staff. We're not doing that. That came directly from here. There was some great ideas and we have to listen to what our people want and that is what this document has done. And so some of it we are we have already started fulfilling part of this CET and we just need to continue continue the

119work and to grow on it. Got a question here. It was there any mention in here about any um because I love this. This is actionable stuff, right? So the lead and lag measures that you and I talk about. I don't see anything in here about you know our activities. Um I noticed I made a note here. You mentioned you had an action plan from the custodian. Um but do we have anything any representation there from any of our activities? Some of them are doing well. Some of them really need a a pretty big booster shot. um and what those actionable items are, how we're going to measure them, how we're you know, we can't kick the can down the road. We I think we all expect um you know, I think there to your

120point there was a lot of strong words, excellence, right? Culture, things along that nature. And I I I scrolled the best I could, but I didn't see anything in there. There's not there's not something that when we did the SWAT analysis u when we did the various visioning that was like we have to put this in our activities and our athletics but what I think it is is that when you're talking about retaining and attracting uh teachers and we're talking about pay it goes in part of that goes there how do we keep the coaches how do we keep the the u activities that we have I think it also goes into not only the excellence the academic excellence because if We cannot we know that to keep a student engaged and to to motivate

121them they have to have great facilities >> and facilities is in here they have to have great facilities they have to have teams and activities and athletics that they are proud of >> and so I don't know that it's not like we have a specific strategy for that but I think it's weaved through everything and it's weaved through the culture because culture came out very big in here and I think that we are having a shift in culture that says we want to be the best and what are we going to do to get there? >> Yeah. Can we see some an analysis of some point of where we're at with some of these things? Some of the programs are doing really strong. What do they need to continue to perform at a high level?

122And then what are the ones that are struggling? Why are they struggling? And what do we got to do to get them back on track and give those opportunities for for those students? Sure. Is that something we can >> Absolutely. >> Next board meeting maybe. Uh >> how about work session? Perfect. >> Because I have your work session's going to be so long. >> Just get ready. We might need to have one every month. >> Is it something that we can add then to this because I think it correlates directly to um like so we approve this document today. Can we add to that at that point because it it from a culture standpoint would run >> as the board do whatever you >> Yeah. Somebody write that down. >> It's valid point. I mean

123it is it is it's it's something that we need to be addressing and and looking at because you mentioned it that it is what our students or what motivates our students and it what is what drives >> it's less about the activity itself and more about the culture of the school the student the staff and the town and I think that's the point I've probably failed to do is is it's a culture thing and it's it's not one or the other it's both and we got to realize that just by doing one is is not okay. We got to be strong at both and and I think that's everybody's expectation for >> anything but this. It's just >> I agree 100%. I love this. This is >> something else to add. >> It would just

124be an expansion. >> You just needed one more thing to do. So >> we just needed one more thing. Yes. I would say that I would not have the goal of we add it in October, but I would say that we would look at it and >> and and we would start we would add it and have those conversations so we're ready to go by spring by adding it because I think to >> there's a lot that's got to be done. >> But yes, >> we can have the discussion 100% with the plan. Yes. >> To start developing the plan, >> right? Yes, >> I agree. Right. Any other comments? All right. All in favor approving the strategic plan. >> Passes unanimously. >> Thank you. >> All right. Next on the is adjournment. >> Madame

125President, >> are you going to say are are we going to decide about how frequently we should have our work sessions, our study sessions? Can we talk about that while we're here before we adjourn? the theme that keeps coming up tonight. Oh, we'll talk about that at the work session. >> Um, I think what we should do is probably do the doodle at the and get a plan for the work study. >> Not I was not paying >> I asked how frequently if we could discuss how frequently we should have those work studies. I think that's >> I think that no I want to see how much we have to go over how much we can accomplish in that day and then we should have a discussion about how often we are going to need

126to meet to get the things done we want to do. >> Okay. I think that would help every month's meeting agenda if we spent two weeks ahead of time if we got together and talked about the things on there then the meeting would go a lot faster. Um, >> let's talk about it. All right, I'll accept >> a motion to adjurnn. >> Motion to adjurnn. >> All right, all in favor and we are adjourned.