001One more second. I'll give you a thumbs up. Exactly. Also, we were trying to see if Matt could join us virtually, but okay. No, he's not on yet. All right, we will start with the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States and to the republic for it stands nation indivisibley and justice for all. everybody. >> Saw that when I walked in. >> Okay. Right. Oh, we do. Okay. All right. We need to discuss the appointment of the 2025 2026 board treasurer. >> Uns would like to recommend that Landon Gray, who will be the new CFO next year, be the board treasurer. Um, this is something that we have always done in practice as far as having the CFO be the board treasurer. That makes sense to continue it. I'd entertain a motion
002for that. >> I'll make a motion. >> Right. We have a motion and a second. All in favor? Passes unanimously. >> Is Matt here? >> No, they're trying to connect with him. I guess >> we're just going to keep on going on. If he can join, that would be great. >> Yeah. >> All right. The next item on our list is request for public comment. And we do have one. It is Mike Bloom. I just want to say a quick thank you for you guys attention sports programs and emphasizing allowing both empas. My kids are soccer tennis also friends that are cheerleading. I just want to say thank you for support. >> Thanks. Thank you. Well, we appreciate that. >> Okay. Next, we haveformational items. We're going to get a graduation update um from Dr.
003Whit. >> Congratulations. coming. Just a quick update for you guys recognizing that I'm the newest member of the graduation stage party out there. You guys have had more opportunities to do this than I have, but uh I have gone online and watched all the YouTube videos and I feel very prepared. So, just start us off with a few updates uh for you all so you guys are aware. Uh I didn't put it on this slideshow, but we have our academic awards for underassing tomorrow morning. for senior week and graduation uh cap and gown pickup. So step one of the graduation process will happen Tuesday right after the school for senior state finals Monday and Tuesday and then finish the day with cap and gown pickup at the mezan main gym. Then uh they'll be doing
004their events on Wednesday and Thursday, but we have backward 7 o'clock Wednesday night in the auditorium and then senior awards in the main gym at 6:30 on Thursday. And then that leaves the the big final event uh for the 16th at 7 p.m. So real quickly, I was just going to go through a few of the details just to remind everybody about what to expect. The biggest thing we uh get asked about is click click the next slide is parking. Uh so I want to make sure uh we're going to be there at Great Southern Bank Arena and you guys can park anywhere. Those yellow parking lots all those are available there early enough that GSD is ideal in terms of where to go and what to do. You guys Uh when you show up,
005we'll get you in the right spot. You come in any of those entrances. The next slide Dan has got some new signage they have out as well. So that's an image of what the new signs look like for anyone that's visiting. Doors open for both uh the student center for our students and GSB for friends and family. 6 o' those doors will be open. Uh everybody come in and get set. The ceremony begins at 7 p.m. We've got that live stream set up. You just seen the link. Some people already reserved their spot on the live stream. So that will be going as well. Uh in terms of where we are going to ask you guys at least between 6:30 and 6:45 to show up and meet us on the floor of GSD there at
006the front stage area. We'll kind of get familiar with the space and walk through the we'll be handing out colors and interacting kids during that event. Next slide. I was able to grab a couple images just to kind of remind you guys what the event looks like. This was a a YouTube video from a father I think that had posted the graduation but gave a great video on our image of the stage set up with the two tables up front our readers in the corners and the direction our students proceed in as they did their names. So once this the stage party comes down below we'll position ourselves behind ask each of you guys to help hand out covers and rotate through those kits. I know in the past sometimes there's been a special grad
007you guys want to hand the diploma out too and so definitely want to accomodate that the uh pull another image there is we are going to try to improve our live stream a little bit that was one of the comments from last year the live streams kind of looking at the readers and corners so we got a great video of the security guard there so our goal is to get the live stream pointed more at the table there at the front to get those capture those handshakes in those moments. So this is what we hope for capture with our live stream. Then our readers in the corner kind of hanging out feeling awkward as they wait for the turn. So that'll be a quick reminder. So the the times remember 6:30 to 6:45 that window
008GS my understand is that you guys will be at formal attire as the board and then the the school person that will be in there. So, any questions for me about the grad? >> Awesome. We look forward to seeing you all there. >> Thank you very much. Thank you. >> Next on our list uh is reports. We have the superintendent update. >> I just wanted to give a quick update. Um today was the last day for uh conversations and negotiations on the budget, the state budget between the House and the Senate. Um it will be presented tomorrow, I'm pretty sure, to the governor. So tomorrow will be the last day and then next week is the last week for them to discuss the bills that um that they are working on. So we will should
009know hopefully what the funding will look like within the next couple of days. Do you know how it turned out in the conference? >> I know I know the governor still has the opportunity to change it, but do you know how it turned out from the conference of the House and Senate? >> No. This morning, um, the Senate had added back the $300 million. Um, and I didn't hear that it was that the House said no. So, that's all I know right now just by looking. I I look I went online to look prior to our meeting and there was not an update. Yeah. >> So, I don't know how it came out. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Next is district reports. I'm sure we've all had a chance to look through these. Does anybody
010have any questions or comments or does anybody want to talk about that? I just I love those reports. Thank you guys for putting those together. And the learning division. That one's long. I appreciate that. Getting to hear all the details. links to the building principles too. Put that in. Okay. Next we have future dates. Um next thing for us big that we're going to get together is our work session next Wednesday. Then there's aloria after that we have a tiger paw walkthrough at 9:00 a.m. the next day on the 15th. Senior awards night is that night. And then of course we just were briefed on graduation. Um and then June 16th through the 18th is the MSBA summer summit. If you have not getting gotten back with Barbara on that, we need to so we
011can get you registered if you want to attend. >> Can I ask you two questions on that? Do you know much about the summer summit? Is it I think I asked Barbara already and she said it's one price for the whole thing. Like I probably could only attend a few small sessions and not all the things. Does anybody ever just go to a few of them? >> I'm just going to the president one. >> Oh, okay. >> So, do you have to pay the whole thing? >> What's that? >> Pretty normal to just go to some. >> You just pay for the attendance. >> My first year I went to all of it. All both days because I was off. So it is for the whole thing. So I >> That's actually pretty normal though.
012>> Yeah. Yeah. How things go. >> Okay. I just learned what you guys were doing. Is anybody else going? You're going. >> I'm going for some. You're >> I will go for that first day for the sessions. Are you going for the first day for the sessions? >> Well, the first day or the second day it's the new >> Matt. Go ahead. >> I'm doing that. The second day is the new board training. Is that that and Matt too? >> Okay. >> All right. >> I have a second question. How about the work session? In one one place I saw it said 8 and the other place it says 8:30. So I just wondered when does it start next week? You can come at 8 and we'll get started at 8:30. No, I don't. >>
013I I thought we were supposed to be here at 8, but >> is it 8? >> I put 8:30. We We can say 8:00. I just thought that it's easier because by the time you start if you say 8:00, we usually start about 8:15 or >> I thought I thought 8:30. >> Whatever works for you guys because you have things to do. >> Yeah, 8:30 would be great. >> Okay. >> Yeah. Well, they'll be able coffee for good. Um and then We have our board meeting in June and then we'll have to set the schedule for next year. But that gets us through the end of the fiscal year here. All right. Next on our list is to approve the consent agenda. Entertain a motion for that. >> Have a motion. Do we have a
014second? >> I'll second. >> Motion and a second. All in favor? Passes unanimously. Uh if Matt did, but he That's what I was wondering. That was >> okay. >> He could he can hear that. >> Right. I can hear and I think I could talk and if you have a vote you need me to be a part of, I can switch the video on and jump on now. I think I have the video. I did not have it earlier, but I think we just got it fixed. >> Okay. We We're good on this one, but we'll keep you posted. >> Okay. All right. We That was everyone. So, next on our list is new business. And the first thing are is the or are the NSBA policies. policable professional and our support staff. This is
015just brought back to you for a second read. I took after the first read those policy examples to MSBA, had them review to make sure that everything was in compliance. They said everything was great. Uh they even caught two places where I had missed uh changing it from u sick leave or leave to PTO. So they made those two changes. Other than that, that's back before you for second read and a final vote. If you guys would entertain a motion to vote, >> I would entertain motion. >> I move we approve the policies GC. I guess we should put just do one at a time. I one at a time. I move we approve policy GCBDA as presented. >> I'll second. >> I have a motion and a second. Uh any discussion? Are we ready
016to vote? All in favor? >> I. >> Passes unanimously. Okay. We still have the policy for support staff to approve. I'll entertain a motion. >> I move we approve policy GDBDA as presented. A second >> motion in a second. All in favor? I think this is a great change. >> Yeah. So, >> as long start July 1, >> yes, perfect. >> Thank you for going through and fixing all of those things. >> Oh, you're our next presenter as well. Update job descriptions. >> So, as a result of these, we have a couple job descriptions that we're we're looking of this. Those would be the custodian one, custodian two to reflect those changes that we made with the support staff. But along those lines, this is that time of the year where we're updating, getting ready
017for next year. Um, you know, going through these job descriptions, you'll see like one of them we found there's um just a typo with like our administrative assistant at the high school. Uh that job already I think works 220 days. It's in there's like 210 and 220 day employee since 2012. So it's just cleaning up job descriptions and that's all we have for you. Just just some updates. Is there any questions that you guys guys have in particular about? >> No, these are just clean up to reflect what's actually happening. Correct. >> Correct. Uh except I'm not in full transparency. We do have a couple that you see there that we've had godfather grandfathered on. The reason why we've done that is because we have those particular job descriptions like the school psychologist are temporarians.
018Those positions are for any new hires. We're going to change those instead of being like 200 or 210 days going down to 200. Um the employees that we currently have hired will stay at their at their current term. They're not changing them unless they come to us and ask to change >> because it would be a change in money. >> That's correct. But other than that, those that's the only other changes we have. >> Right. That's what I was going to ask is if they had an option for that. Thanks for taking care of that. That's the right thing to do. >> All right. >> Make a motion to approve as presented. >> We have a motion. >> I'll second. >> Motion and a second. All in favor? Passes unanimously. Oh, and look, we even
019got Matt. Good job, >> Madame President. I had one more thing on the policies. Okay. >> Is it too late for that? Thanks. And so I'll pass this around everybody. >> Are you adding something brand new? >> No, it's a policy. >> Is it a policy that we've not seen? >> It's a policy that we have, just an addition to it. It's a It's a motion to add it to first read. So, if you could take one and pass it on to next month's agenda, to add this to next month's agenda. And I want to explain why at the beginning. Well, I just I don't like to add things to the agenda to discuss if it's not on our agenda because >> No, it's it has to do with MSBA policies and it's to add
020it to next month's agenda. >> But these policies were listed and this one isn't. >> It's not a policy here. It's just adding it to it's a motion to add to next month's agenda an item. >> So, the problem for me is that you didn't bring this up beforehand because we would have liked to have seen it beforehand. I'd like to share >> because if somebody would want to weigh in on this, it would have been nice if they could have come. So, like to post it on the agenda. >> So, so I don't want it to be on our agenda tonight. I wanted to add it to next month's agenda and then if somebody had something to share, they could come. >> But you're asking to speak about it tonight and it's not >>
021I'm just asking to add it to the agenda for next month. >> I'd like to tell why I think it's important to do it now. That has not been a concern before. I talked to you when you were vice president and >> can I tell you why I think it's important to talk about it now? >> Thanks. >> No, I'm telling you why I think it's important to add it to the agenda. why I'm bringing it up. Person can speak in favor of their motion to add something to the agenda. The federal department of education has increased efforts to ensure enforcements of its requirements and the requirements of the Office of Civil Rights, the OCR that we often hear about, which regulates Title 9. Recipients of federal funding are now feeling the pains of non-compliance.
022The standing order those two departments are required to enforce now include requirements that agencies promote the biological reality of only two sexes. The order says in order to protect women's dignity, safety, and well-being. The federal directive goes on to state further a definition which our state laws have also codified using original birth certificates. It says, quote, "Sex shall refer to an individual's immutable biological classification as either male or female. Sex is not a synonym for and does not include the concept of gender identity, gender identity." End quote. This definition from the federal government that they're enforcing more concisely states a position which has been brought before this board several different times in different ways. The needed distinction between an individual's physical biological sex and his or hers inner psychological gender. Families should guide those gender
023decisions. Schools, however, must distinguish using biological factors for the sake of, as the federal directive state, the students dignity or privacy, their safety, and well-being or fairness. These distinctions are necessary when separating males and females for bathrooms and changing facilities, for sports, for overnight lodging, during team trips or club trips, and perhaps other situations. And the government now expects those biological distinctions to be clearly promoted as the only basis for making those needed separations. Without a written statement in our policy defining Ozark's basis for separations, we risk violating not only the dignity, safety, and fairness which we must afford our students, but also we risk losing the federal funding, but our programs need many of our programs need to to thrive. Do I still have the floor? >> I'm getting ready to. I'm on the
024last paragraph. Therefore, I move we introduce for first read at the next regular monthly board meeting an amendment to policy ACA by including the following sentence just above the definition section. The terms gender and sex have been frequently used interchangeably in society. Therefore, the district clarifies that the intent of either of those words throughout the district's policies and other written documents should be understood to mean physical biological sex. And in every decision requiring a distinction between the two, the differentiation will be based on physical biological sex as reported on the student's original birth certificate. >> Okay, I have a motion. Is there a second? The problem here is that you you talk about these these rules here, but we here we don't make laws. We don't create laws. We don't adjust laws. We have to
025follow the laws. We swore an oath to follow laws of one is the constitution. The second is Missouri state laws. You know good and well that by doing this we violate the law. So you know this and by doing this >> which law is that? Huh? It's my turn to >> work. >> You know that by doing this, we will violate the laws that are currently on the case law. So, we could go through this discussion, but by doing this, you open up this this district for a major lawsuit that other districts are currently involved in. We're not going to be the guinea pigs in this state for this for this right here. Okay. >> Okay. So, there's a motion on the table. Is there a second? Seeing no second, we move on. All right.
026The next item on the agenda is 2025 personnel budget. As we know, it's time to start working on the budget and to bring a budget to you in June. Um, I'm always a little leerary of bringing positions or changes in positions prior to knowing what the state is going to fund our formula at, but um, some of these I do consider as something that we need to go ahead and do. So, I will quickly go over these. Um, we will be moving part of the scope program from West to North Elementary and I believe also more than likely gaining some students. So they will need an additional parah uh no matter what the budget would be it's something that we have to have. Uh the next three are with athletics and activities. And I want
027to just quickly let you know that the process for any of this um is that there's conversations with the principles, there's conversations with Yansy, there's conversations with the coaches um on what is needed and we compile a list and we compile a list every year and we look at it and see what can or can we not do based on the need but also based on what funding will allow. Um, this year I I am I am a proponent of if you need a PE teacher and you keep putting that on your on your request because hopefully one of these days you're going to get it. You know, if you need it now, you're probably going to need it three years from now, too. And so I am a proponent that even if the superintendent
028says we're not going to have a lot this year, you still let us know what it is. So when when we did this process this year, we had well over $1.2 million in ask for new positions. Unfortunately, we cannot do all of that. I would love to, but we can't. So you have to make some choices. So when we're making some of these choices, we're also looking at, for example, at the athletics, this position has been on their ask for probably three or four years now. And when we're funding some of this, we also look to see, okay, is it is are there programs growing or is it a continual need or is it just a one-time that this a huge amount of kids and then it backs off, you know? So, there's a lot
029of things we look at. So, I can say that some of these have been on there for years and we're just now getting to the point where we feel we can fund some of them. So, um we are asking for a I'm a freshman team, freshman team coach for soccer. We are also asking for club stipens for Yepo. Um we're also asking for the sponsor of the star event for f it's not FCCLA FCCLA for um a a stipen there. We're also asking for a custodial um right now there is not an evening lead position in the elementary and secondary. So when there are uh when there are issues they call dentist spot. Okay. And so we want to create a uh where they have ownership of their everyone has ownership of their own positions
030and they can make decisions at the lowest level. So this helps allow that. When we're looking at transportation, quite a few of these are you see the number the dollar amounts, but you also see the hours and so quite a few we're already driving these hours or our bus drivers are. And so we're probably paying out of a different line such as overtime or or something like that. not overtime, but a different line. We we may have budgeted five hours, but they're actually driving seven hours. Okay? So, some of these are clean up and are already being paid. So, it's not a huge addition to the budget. And then in food service, um when Tiger Paul came online, we only had a halftime, what is that? Assistant kitchen manager. And we do need a full-time
031assistant kitchen manager. Um there is I don't know all the rules and and you could probably speak to it better than I could but they have to be safe serve safe serve certified. Is that right? >> Serve safe serve. Say that three times real fast. Um but that is a need also. So I am asking you to approve these uh personnel additions um tonight for next year. Just to be clear on the um the soccer coaches, it has um two coaches. >> So um that would Okay, I see. Is this one for the girls team? >> One for girls, one for boys. >> One for boys. Got it. >> That was my question as well. I see spring and fall just >> spring ball. >> It's one of each team. Okay. >> Yeah. >> Because
032I saw the dollar amount and it said per coach and I'm like, okay, so that's I'm understanding this better now. >> Correct. And that doesn't add up to 10. >> But is it? But it's close. >> It's close. >> It's an estimate. Yeah. Closer. >> And all of those are estimates. >> Yes. Good. Okay. >> I'll entertain a motion to approve this list. So moved. I have a motion. Do we have a second? >> I'll second. >> All right. All in favor? >> I. >> All right. That passes unanimously. And seeing no further business, we are adjourned before it's dark. Go out. >> Make a motion to adjurnn. >> Second. We could do