001[music] >> Good evening. I call the April 23rd, meeting from the Park Hill Board of Education to order. Mrs. Bolin is attending via conference call this evening. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. And thank you for silencing your phones. I pledge >> allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. And to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. And again, thank you for silencing your phones. I'd like to remind the board of our norms, stay in the role of a board member, be respectful, be inclusive, be prepared, and be mission-driven. I'd like to add on with student voice and focus, supporting all staff and intentional community engagement, we are all building successful futures each student and every day. Board members, any
002announcements this evening? Mrs. Munoz, [clears throat] Munoz, sorry, Munoz. Yeah, that's okay. I just want to give It's her mic Yeah, microphone Sorry. My first meeting. >> [laughter] >> Thank you. I just want to give a huge congratulations to the students who participated in the art fair this weekend. Um, especially our AP students who did an amazing job. So, just a huge congratulations to all of them. Thank you. Mr. Terwiliger. Uh, yeah, I just wanted to welcome Ms. Munoz to your first board meeting. I hope that the wedding in California was a great success and welcome to the board room. Thank you. >> Thank you. All right. Mrs. North. None tonight, thank you. Ms. Barnes. Um, just want to um, acknowledge that this week the state passed the income tax. So, just do some research
003on that since that will be on the ballot and how it would affect you individually as a family, but also how it will affect our school district as well. Thank you, Mr. Todd. Um, yeah, so I hope everybody had a wonderful Earth Day yesterday. And for those of you who are out and about this weekend, there is something something that you can sign up for and take part in called the the City Nature Challenge um, through citynaturechallenge.org. The greater Kansas City area is taking part in it where as you're going around the city, if you see wild animals, wild plants, you can take a picture of it and engage with people around the world to to learn about what kind of wild flora and fauna are in our our neck of the woods. Okay, thank
004you. Thank you. Mrs. Bolin. Here. Thank you. And just quickly, I just wanted to highlight our staff well-being team and the program that grateful that we have various benefits and opportunities for our staff, that there was a mobile mammography um, option for for staff. And as well as just to kind of highlight that there is a newsletter out for April, just everybody to pay attention to that to kind of So, there's some tips to get us through the end of the school year, so please just take a look at that. Uh, Dr. Kimberling, any announcements? Uh, yes, I'd like to echo Ms. Munoz's uh, mention of the art fair both as a superintendent that gets to go around and uh, give out those awards. I wish I had more of those that I could give
005out because of all the talented artists that we have. It is one of the true treasures Park Hill that tradition to to be able to do that. And I'm going to use executive privilege here to say that I had a daughter that was one of those AP art students. And so, Grace, congratulations. I'm so proud of you. We also have Legacy Night next week. That's Friday, May 1st. Legacy Night is to uh, commemorate and celebrate our Park Hill baseball program and the and the baseball field that is over here at Park Hill High School. Uh, part of our Park Hill Phase 1 replacement is going to be building a new wing on that site where the baseball field currently is. So, we are going to be retiring that field, moving it down south of the
006football field, and we'd love to have anybody that would like to come out to celebrate next Friday night. We'll have a community opportunity there. So, thank you. Thank you. I'll entertain a motion and a second to adopt the April 23rd, 2026 agenda as presented. So moved. Second. I have a motion by Mr. Todd and a second by Ms. Barnes to adopt the agenda as presented. Dr. Kimberling, are there any modifications? None tonight, thank you. Board, any modifications tonight? Okay. All those in favor, say I. I. I. Any opposed, say nay. And any abstaining. Motion carries 7-0. Now we'll move on to recognitions and awards. Tonight, Mrs. Rachel. All right, good evening. It would help if I had the certificates, Dr. Diegel. Let's stop this. Come on, wrestlers. You guys are right on time. All right,
007our first Come on, gentlemen and ladies. You're going to come and stand right here next to me so that the live stream can see you. Hey, Riley. All right, so our first recognition tonight is Park Hill High School wrestlers. And these are wrestlers who made it to the state competition. And so I'm going to have you have them tell you a little bit about what place they got, why they're here, um what they enjoy about wrestling, why they participate, and maybe what their plans are if they're seniors next year. Lewis is in our magazine, so he's a pro at this. Riley, you're going to go first. What place did you get? Um anything about wrestling you want to share? Um hi. Uh hi, my name is Riley. Um I got third at state this year.
008Um wrestling, I started it my freshman year and it's really taught me a lot about being able to overcome hard things and that no like if I work hard enough at something that I can have any outcome. Hi. My name is Lew Oh, sorry. My name is Lewis. I started wrestling when I was little. Um I didn't really like it at at first, but when I started wrestling at Park Hill, I liked all my teammates. I like my coaches. I didn't place at state this year, but I still have one more year for my senior year. My goal is to place or be a state champion. Hi guys, my name is Mason. Um I got second place this year at 120 lb. Um I plan to go to KU next year for petroleum engineering. And
009uh I I started wrestling when I was five with my little brother. He's supposed to be here tonight, but Yeah, he's practicing. Um uh wrestling just taught me like over I'll be able to like knowing I can overcome anything. Just keep at it. So. Um I'm Noah. I'm a senior. I went two and two at state in lost in the bubble rounds. And what I like about wrestling is my teammates and yeah. Uh next year I'm going to go to college and study electrical engineering. No, I don't know. All right, the board's going to shake your hand. Congratulations [applause and cheering] on your wrestling accomplishments. Thanks for being here, you guys. And then Riley, Tracy's going to take your picture out in the hallway, okay? We'll run out there and she'll get you taken care
010of. >> [snorts] >> Congratulations, guys. All right, national merits are next. Come on in, guys. We got a lot tonight, so we have them holding in the hallway. Here they come. Hi, Kai. Hi, Angela. Hi, August. Come on, you guys know the drill at this point. All right, right here. So, these uh fine students are our now national merit finalist. You might have seen them when they were national merit semifinalist um in this competition throughout the United States, but they have now been awarded finalist status. This is a really big deal cuz they get lots of scholarships, probably full rides to college, um as well they represent less than 1% of our high school senior population across the country. >> [snorts] >> So, these fine students are going to tell you about what they're going
011to do next year, and I'm excited for you to hear it. August. Hi, I'm August Sturm. Um I plan to go to Mizzou for college and study middle school education. I'm not sure which subject yet. Uh and maybe I'll return to Park Hill for that. >> [applause] >> My name is Angela Villamejor, and this fall I will be attending Kansas State University to major in architecture. >> [applause] >> Uh my name is Kai Su, and this fall I'll be attending the University of Oklahoma for combined undergrad and med school program. So. >> [applause] >> Yeah, Park Hill High School. Also Park Hill High School? I go to Lee's Summit High School. Park Hill South. Congratulations, guys. You may now shake THE BOARD'S HANDS. >> [applause] >> IF YOU'RE A WRESTLING PARENT, HELLO. Wave at us.
012Hello, wrestling parents. National merit finalist parents in the crowd, wave at us. In the back, hello everybody in the back. Um August, Tracy's going to take your picture, okay? Uh Kai, you can stay up here and you'll do a picture in a moment. How about that? All right, Tracy, ready for students of the week? If you guys are students of the week, come on up. There's Evelyn and there's Ian in the hallway. Come on in, Ian. I'm going to have you sit right here, okay? Ian, I'm right here, buddy. Can you come up here with me? Hi. You ready? Come on, we're going to go right here. Okay, you're going to come stand right by me, remember? Right here. Ready? Okay. So, these are our March students of the week. We recognize a student every
013week from a variety of our schools, either teachers or principals, support staff, are saying why these kids are amazing in our schools. And it's a variety of reasons for which they get recognized. So, I'm going to read about these three fine students and why they're students of the week, and then they're going to tell you a little bit about themselves. So, first we have Ian. Let me find your paragraph, Ian. We're all mixed up here. Cuz you're first. >> [snorts] >> Hang on. There you go. You're first place. You ready? This is Ian, our student of the week from Hopewell Elementary, Ian Stanton. He was recognized by one of his teachers, Dawn Jean Carter, who was one of our excellence in education winners this past week. Ms. Jean [snorts] Carter writes, "Ian is so social
014and greets people using their full name. He's extremely kind and recently participated in the Hopewell Spelling Bee finals. He loves to be an active member of his class." Ian, congratulations on being a student of the week. Clap, clap, clap. >> [applause] >> If you're Ian's family, can you wave to us? Dr. Hensley back there, recording you now, Ian, too. Okay, Ian, you get to share. What do you love about Hopewell? My name is Ian S. So, I am appreciative of my speech on this B. And I really know about Dr. Hensley that is the best. And I was recognized from Ms. Jean Carter. So, thank you. Congratulations, Ian. >> [applause] >> All right, Ian, you wait right here. We're going to go on to the next one. Hey, that was amazing. Thank you for sharing
015all that. Good job. Okay, this is Evelyn. Hi, Evelyn. All right, Evelyn, let me find you cuz again we're all mixed up. Our student of the week from Southeast Elementary is Evelyn Black. She was recognized by her PE teacher, Coach Colletti. Did I pronounce your last name right? I did. Okay, good. Black. Yes, got it. Okay, this is what Coach Colletti said about Evelyn. Coach Colletti writes, "Evelyn is an amazing role model and leader at Southeast. When help is needed, she jumps in even before she's asked. Her smile is contagious and she has the kindest heart. Evelyn puts the star in superstar." Say it's true. It's true. Okay. Um Evelyn's parents are here. Evelyn's grandparents are here, Jim and Debbie Rich. Hello, retirees. Um Evelyn, what do you love about school? Hi, my name is
016Evelyn. I go to Southeast Elementary, and what I love about Southeast Elementary, I have this club called leadership, and I love it because >> [snorts] >> um all my friends are in it, and I have the best teacher in it from um my PE teacher, Coach Colletti. [clears throat] And I also love Southeast because my teacher's really kind, and she has a kind heart, and she always helps me when I need it. Great answer. Thank you for sharing all that. >> [applause] >> Good job, family. All right, Kai, come here. You know what the deal is here. This is Kai Su. Kai's a double winner tonight. Um and Kai's our student of the week from Park Hill High School, and he is recognized by our orchestra teacher, Susanna Smith. This is what Ms. Smith writes
017about Kai. "Kai Su is an exceptional leader within our school community. He leads with genuine kindness and compassion, consistently supporting and encouraging his peers, while setting a high standard for academic excellence. Kai balances an impressive range of commitments, including orchestra, tennis, HOSA, the district's DEIB Council, ISA, NHS, and DECA, all while managing an outstanding 4.35 GPA. Kai plans to pursue a career in the medical field after college. Say it's true. It's true. What do you want to say, Kai? Honestly, I'm just so glad I get to be a part of this district. I mean, being at Park Hill, the environment, the flexibility to pursue all my interests, whether in the sciences, music, otherwise, it's just been great. Okay. Yeah. Um Kai's family's here. Wave at us, Kai's [applause] family, in the back. Where'd they go?
018Oh, they're right there. Okay. You may now check the board's hand, guys. Congratulations. Kai, you're going to lead so Ian and Evelyn can follow you. Congratulations, guys. Thank you. Yes. Hi, Ms. Freeman. Congratulations. >> [laughter] >> All right, Kai, Tracy's going to take your photo. Evelyn, Tracy's going to take your photo. Congratulations. [laughter] We'll take a picture, okay, Ian? Ready? Let's go. Okay. Just hold on. >> [laughter] >> All right, congratulations to everyone. Before I call for a motion and a second to approve the consent agenda, are there any items that need to be highlighted, Dr. Kimble? Yes, I wanted to I wanted to highlight just one item that we have on here. You will be receiving This is item 8.3, the 2026 summer school teaching contracts. There is multiple times that we come to
019you with these contracts. This is one of the larger dumps of these on there. You have a large file there. And so, we are asking to have that approved so we can start hiring our summer school staff. You will see some more of those in uh May. Other than that, everything else has been in front of you, and I would be happy to answer any questions. Board, any questions? Can I go back and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead for it? >> [laughter] >> I will need a motion and a second to approve the consent agenda items 8.2 through 8.29 as submitted. So moved. Seconded. I have a motion by Mr. Towillager and a second by Mr. Todd to approve the consent agenda as submitted. Any further discussion? All those in favor say
020I. I. I. I. Any opposed say nay. Any abstain. Motion carries 7-0. And my bad, we'll go back to 7.0 for public comment. During this part of the agenda, we received public comments from patrons who pre-registered by the noon deadline today, and we had zero register. And the consent agenda is approved. Next item 10.1, continuing retention incentive bonuses for the 2026-2027 for nutrition services, Adventure Club, preschool, and teaching assistant employees. Dr. Kimble, Dr. Dylan. Yeah, a reminder that this is an annual ask that we have brought before the board now since COVID. This was a COVID retention strategy and some of our work around trying to fill difficult position difficult to fill positions. We've identified nutrition services, Adventure Club, preschool, and teaching assistant employee groups as those that we would like to continue offering the
021incentive bonus. A reminder that that means that an employee would have to stay to the end of each semester to receive that, and what we've seen in the data would suggest that we have a better chance of keeping employees through those terms, and it helps for our continuity with working with students and other staff. I'd be happy to answer any questions on this, but it is something that we have done over the past couple of years. This is for next school year. The incentive bonus for this semester will be paid out after the May 22nd date because that was approved last year. I just wanted to say I appreciate the board agenda notes giving the the detailed timeline of this, and just that this is a very successful program that I'm It's it's a very
022does a great job of what it's intended to do, so. Highlight [clears throat] that. Thank you. All right, if there's no further discussion, I will need a motion to second motion and a second to approve continuing retention incentive bonuses for 2026-2027 for nutrition services, Adventure Club, preschool, and teaching assistant employees as presented. So moved. Second. I have a motion by Ms. Norris and a second by Mr. Towillager to approve continuing retention incentive bonuses for 2026-2027 for nutrition services, Adventure Club, preschool, and teaching assistant employees as presented. All those in favor say I. I. >> I. I. Any opposed say nay. Any abstain. I abstain. Motion carries 6-0. Now, we'll move on to item 10.2, teachers negotiated agreement for July 1st, 2026 through June 30th, 2028. Dr. Kimble, Dr. Dylan, and Ms. Freyer. And as Dr.
023Dylan and Ms. Freyer get settled there at the presenter station, this is uh an exciting time for us to bring forward the results of our negotiation time with the administration and PHNEA. And as you know, Mandy Freyer, she's the president of our PHNEA, and Dr. Dylan, our assistant superintendent for human resources, are going to go through the highlights of the um package that we would like for you to approve tonight, and we're putting in front of you. This will be for next school year. Dr. Dylan. Yeah, good evening. So, Mandy and I are here tonight to present to you a tentative negotiated agreement. Um the negotiating team, so PHNEA has a team, and district has a team. We've met four times beginning February 2nd through April 9th, and we're able to come to an agreement
024for a tentative negotiated agreement to present to you tonight for consideration. This What you're going to hear tonight has been ratified by the teachers, is that correct? >> Yep. >> [clears throat] >> Uh we sent it out and gave them a period of time to review a summary of the negotiations, and then um they voted, and of the people that voted, we had a 99% in favor vote to ratify. Oh, this is my team. So, this is the team that um I like to recognize them. They work on a volunteer basis, so they put in a lot of time and energy. We don't just meet these four times. We also meet outside of these times to collaborate as a team. Um Elizabeth Beck from English Landing Elementary, who's also the secretary of PHNEA. Laura Dearing,
025who is our building rep at Park Hill South High School. Mike Gorsky from Congress Middle School. Amanda Ervin Black from Park Hill High School, who is also um been serving as our high school rep. And Julie Mensendiek, who is at Lake View Middle School, also the PHNEA vice president. Um and Ryan Turner from Prairie Point Elementary, also a building rep. And you can see the district team on the right there. Thanks to them, too. I [laughter] make them come. Definitely. Okay, in terms of length of agreement. So, I think this can get a little [clears throat] confusing in that last year you approved a negotiated agreement. That was '25 through '28. It's a 3-year agreement. So, last year, what you approved was language changes and compensation. But in Park Hill, we do language every 3
026years, compensation every year. So, what we're asking you to approve tonight is a 1-year '26-'27 that becomes part of the '25 through '28 agreement. So, we do we talk about compensation every year, language every three. So, same agreement, it's just we're changing the we're asking to change some compensation items within the '25 to '28 for a 1-year agreement. So, the areas of negotiation this year, as I said, compensation. So, that includes anything that's going to involve pay. Supplementals, writers, extended days, clubs, the calendar in the sense of of contract days. So, that's what we That's where we started. We exchanged interests. And in terms of compensation, the first item, you probably remember this from when we did calendar. So, when you all approved the calendar, you approved that PD days and teacher work days would
027go from 6 and 1/2 each to seven. That didn't extend the teacher contract, it just the way the days were distributed was changed. So, you've already approved this as an amendment. PHNEA has approved this as an amendment. What the negotiated the negotiated agreement calls for us to make this part of the negotiated agreement and not sit as an amendment. So for salary and benefits, this is a huge piece of the compensation part of negotiations. We worked together to come up to an agreement of a minimum salary of $50,000. That's going to be really great in helping us recruit quality candidates and remain competitive with surrounding districts. Um And then an average salary increase across the board of 3.15% for all returning certificated teachers and staff. The salary schedule step and horizontal movement, if applicable, so
028they can move so people will be able to move down a step or over if they if it applies to them. 5% increase in contribution to employee benefits, which is part of the compensation package. All of that results in an average compensation increase of 3.4%. So then we talked about supplemental pay, writers, clubs. We have lots of other ways that teachers and staff members can earn additional compensation. It's okay. >> [laughter] >> Rider changes new riders that we've added include the seal of biliteracy biliteracy, excuse me, a new high school assistant scholar bowl position. We are looking at removing some riders that have expired or are no longer useful or applicable and that includes the project lead the way rider. That will sunset June 30th of 2027. So that rider will include will go for
029one more year and then will sunset. And then we added to staff who have an extended contract reading difficulty specialist for 5 days. Additionally, we're looking at We've had a lot of interest in Special Olympics and Unified Sports and to this is a really new program. We don't have a lot of context and what exactly this is going to entail. So we ended up with two additional club stipends. This is not going to take away from current clubs that are already existing and the number that we have negotiated in the agreement. So this will be in addition to a lot of schools use all of their clubs and so we didn't want to take away from that. We wanted to reserve two additional ones just for Special Olympics or Unified Sports. And that is the
030new or the proposed tentative agreement for you to consider and we're happy to answer any questions. I appreciate the Unified Champion School and the Special Olympics programs as riders will be will be amazing and I'm excited to see how how that goes next year. I agree. Also I wanted to add on with the calendar. I know that in some of our program evaluation plans there's been an ask for more professional development and us doing those steps to do that that's amazing. So thank you for your teams working with that, too. I have two questions. Are there ever a situation where a rider is needed partway through the year and we have to add it or is it just this one one opportunity? So if it's a new rider, like brand new, that is a negotiated
031item. So we would find So I'll give you an example, LEGOs. Mhm. It kind of came up middle of the year. We wanted to fund it. We wanted to to be able to do it, but it wasn't in the rider list and so we looked for alternate ways to fund that through the foundation, through grants, things like that. Girls flag football, another example, until we were able to negotiate again and get it added as a rider. Okay. So it's usually not a barrier if something comes >> It hasn't been so far, mostly because we've been able to be creative. They've been able to be creative about ways to fund it until we can enter negotiations and usually by then we also have a lot of information to support the addition and moving it into a
032permanent rider position. Yeah. And then I'm just excited to see the salary schedule and the increase while other schools are, you know, struggling with keeping staff. So I'm excited about it and to hear the teachers are in agreement as well. I I don't think our surrounding districts are happy with it, but we are certainly happy >> [laughter] >> happy with it. A lot of work has gone into it as well, so appreciate it. >> Absolutely and we we appreciate your support. We do. Thank you very much. >> All right. I will need a motion and a second to approve the teachers negotiated agreement for July 1st, 2026 through June 30, 2028 as presented. So moved. Seconded. I have a motion by Ms. Barnes and a second by Mr. Todd to approve the teachers negotiated agreement
033for July [clears throat] 1st, 2026 through June 30th, 2028 as presented. Any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed say nay. Any abstained? I abstain. Motion carries 6 1. Next one is item 10.4, Dr. Kimbrough and Dr. Dylan. Yes, I have no additional information to add to Okay. Seeing none, I will need a motion and a second to approve personnel as presented. So moved. Second. I have a motion by Mr. Towillager and a second by Mrs. Norris to approve personnel as presented. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed say nay. Any abstained? [clears throat] I abstain. Motion carries 6 1. Next one is item 10.4 nomination of board president Brandy Woodly to serve on the MSBA Board of Directors for Region 4. Dr. Kimbrough. Yes, we've added this to
034the agenda uh mainly because we need to get this submitted as quickly as possible. We have a deadline at the end of this month to be able to submit Mrs. Woodly's name as a person to be considered for the Board of Directors um MSBA. So that's part of your state organization and we'd be happy to answer any questions that you might have. Woodly. I would just say thank you Ms. Woodly for stepping up and putting your name in for this is this important organization and important role, so thank you. Thank you. Okay. I will need a motion and a second to approve the nomination of board president Brandy Woodly to serve on the MSBA Board of Directors for Region 4 as presented. So moved. Second. I have a motion by Mr. Todd and a second
035by Mrs. Barnes to approve the nomination of board president Brandy Woodly to serve on MSBA Board of Directors for Region 4 as presented. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed say nay. Any abstained? Motion carries 7 0. Thank you everyone. Next we'll move on to item 11.1, 2026-2027 budget update focus on revenue, Dr. Kimbrough and Dr. Kelly. Yes, thank you. Before I turn it over to Dr. Kelly to talk about this item, I do want to point out to the board a couple different things. One is is that reminder in January that we started the conversation with you around budget assumptions, which is the process in which we start uh forecasting some different things that we would anticipate needing consideration for both from the revenue side and the expenditure side as we build
036budgets. Over the last few months, Dr. Kelly has been meeting with every single department and building and and continually looking at each one of those individual budgets to start building for next year. And now we are in this position where we will be walking to the end of June to help get to a board approved budget. That's our goal is by the end of June by law for you to approve the fiscal year 27 budget. This is revenue. Next time we will be talking about expenditures. Then we will in June at the first meeting bring you a draft budget of basically what we're thinking for the entire thing. It's kind of a first read opportunity and then at the end of June that board meeting we would be asking for your approval of the budget.
037The other thing that I'd like to point out, this came after some conversation this week with board members. The there is a paper handout of the graph that is in the item. I think Dr. Kelly has that pulled up as something that he's going to look at. This has a little more detail on it, where it has the actual amounts down there at the bottom, so that data table was added and so this is for your reference throughout the presentation. Dr. Kelly. Thank you. So, as Dr. Kimble mentioned, tonight is about revenue and that'll be fairly brief presentation, that's my goal. I've come to realize over the years that people don't find revenue as exciting as I do and so I'll I'll try to save you from the detail, but if you do have questions,
038please stop me at any point. There's also it's sometimes hard not to be tempted to start asking about the expenditures because those are a little more exciting. There's a lot more going on on the expenditure side and so as Dr. Kimble also mentioned, we've saved actually two meetings now for that. One is will be at the May 1st retreat where we highlight the capital projects and so that's really actually the biggest chunk of the money that we'll spend next year. So, we'll do that separately and then at the May 14th meeting, I will complete the expenditure side of the budget. So, that's where we'll get into the nitty-gritty on expenditures. So, my presentation tonight is going to be I'm just going to stay on this graphic and and then this was on page two of
039the report that you have and and then we'll just talk about some of the reasons that you see the ups and downs over the years. The structure of this graph is very similar and for this information very similar to the treasurer's report and so you actually have a treasurer's report in this consent agenda tonight and you approved and so one of the ways and the way that it revenue is presented to you on the treasurer's report each month is by source. So, you can see that there are in the state of Missouri, Missouri public schools separate revenue into one of six sources and we'll talk about each one of these and what's going on with each one of them, which is then detailed in the rest of the report. So, this is structured again like
040the budget will be two in which will always give you three years of history, so you can see a baseline and be comparing things to and and see where we will have some new revenue or we may have a change in revenue. And so these values, these first three total bars, these are audited numbers. So, when the auditors come to you in the fall of each year, this is really what you're one of the things that you're approving in the audit. So, these numbers are not going to change. They really can't change because we've closed the book on those school years. This next bar is maybe the most challenging one to get because it's constantly moving. What we're trying to do here is show you where I believe we will end this year in revenue.
041We had actually budgeted in last year's budget $387 million and so as you can see here, I believe by the end of June, we will be right at $400 million and trip just trivia would tell you that's the highest we've ever had in a single year. And so that will move around, so you'll notice that when we present this again in June, that that may be a slightly different number. Also, what's might maybe comforting for you is that on the treasurer's report as of today, we have 370 and so we're almost already at the budget and we still have April, May and June to go. So, those are all good signs that where we'll end the year. So, then that takes us to the following year, which is the working budget and you can see
042a gigantic decrease and if all you ever saw was this graph, it might send you into a panic because you see that there's a significant drop in revenue planned for next year and the theme of tonight's presentation is that this is all known, was known, this was anticipated even as long as years ago, but certainly after the voters approved proposition G and O in April of 2025, this is exactly how we would have planned it or known that it was going to work. So, the difference is really that top purple bar and so I'm going to start with really the end here, which is what's called non-current revenue and if you if you want, you can almost always scratch that off and just put bond. And so that is purple on this graph or non-current
043revenue is bond money. And why they call it non-current is that you receive it in a different year that you spend it. So, there's not this correlation between money in money out or that it leapfrogs multiple years. The only other non-current revenue source that we have is when we sell items. If we sell property, we sell land, those are a little different in that we've made the expenditure 20 years ago or so and now we're required to make those things available to the public and so we'll sell them and so there's another example of when you don't your revenue and your expenditures coming at different times. So, this is bond revenue, the purple and so you might remember if if this bottom x x axis is a timeline, in April of 2022, we passed a
044$137 million dollar bond issue. It was proposition I and you'll see that immediately following that, we then saw a bump in the next school year in revenue and that was due to bond sales. What's a little different with this is that you see actually we had we sold it in two series or offerings and so the sum of these two purple bars is the 137 137 million. And so the thing that drove this year's revenue up so much was proposition O in which the voters approved 128 million and unlike we did in 2022, we actually sold all of those at the same time, which then takes our revenue very high. And now we'll spend down for the next three years and so we will almost certainly have deficit budgets coming up. We'll have a gigantic
045surplus here and so now we'll have to take about three years to spend those dollars. And so these are restricted dollars, the purple and so they have to go towards what we shared with the voters, what the board approved and what was on the ballot and so we those don't get rolled into operational funds like these other bars do. So, any questions on that on the non-current section? It's really the most important change to kind of notice here and if if somebody is concerned that that is the explanation of why we're we're anticipating next year being significantly lower than this year is that we just have no no more bonds left to sell and so we don't and we're not planning on passing any new during that the next school year. Working from then the
046ground up, I'll go from local sources, which is our most significant annual recurring operational dollars and so you'll want to keep your eye on that blue bar and it is increasing and that's really tied mostly to assessed value assessed valuation and the big jump that occurred between these two years was actually proposition G in which we also in tandem with a reassessment year, we also increased the tax rate for the first time in in 20 years. So, that actually was really the single reason why that blue bar jumped as high as it did this year. Proposition I was specifically for competitive salaries and you saw the what we can do when we have the resources to do that. Proposition I explains why we're able to give 3% salary increases while other districts are not. So,
047again, that's something that was planned and we've now executed and and we're seeing multiple years of benefit of it. So, local property tax is the is the main part of the blue bar. As you move up, sometimes the orange bar, which is county sources. There are some There's some property in um, Platte County that is assessed by the state. So, utilities and railroad are actually not um, assessed by the local Platte County assessor, but it's done at the state level and then those uh, taxes are distributed out on a uh, um, student basis uh, to the four school districts in Platte County. So, um, that bar is does change, but it's it's not as significant and so it doesn't really have a a big sway from year to year. It's also increasing um, a little
048bit. I'm showing a slight decrease uh, for next year, more just being conservative and and looking at trends over the years. Um, but that is uh, the orange bar, the county sources. Sometimes those get rolled into local and you'll see you're you're you will hear it as local county sources. The green is the state and it's perhaps the most the one on here that's the most misleading if all you did was look at the graph. Uh, actually our state revenue is increasing. One reason is that our transportation costs are increasing and so there is a uh, recruitment of those from the state and so while revenue is increasing, so are its expenditures. So, this is not a windfall uh, for us, but rather just paying for the actual expenditures that we've already made. The state
049foundation formula is also in the green bar and the classroom trust fund, if you've heard those uh, terms and they have also increased for us because the state um, a year ago uh, changed the thresholds for ELL uh, count and for IEP counts and those are weighted, so students that are weighted in those categories drive up higher state revenue uh, than um, a student that's not in that population. And so they they uh, state changed those thresholds that actually benefited the district um, because we had actually, as you know, we have a high uh, concentration of ELL students and we also have a good proportion of IEP uh, students with IEPs. Um, what happened was that in what I'm projecting this growth in in 2025, 2026 was actually the state delayed a payment that was
050actually supposed to be in this 2024 year and so we actually got more revenue that actually should have been from the prior year, but it is recorded in this year. So, we're required we're a cash basis um, which you've heard our auditor talk about and so we have to record revenue when it's received. So, um, we can't backdate, we can't move it forward, it's recorded on the day it's received. And so um, in this case we did not receive that $2 million until after then to um, move it into this year, but it really actually belonged in the prior year. Otherwise, you would see actually a fairly consistent um, state aid, not really a much of a increase and because of a big part of that is our enrollment and our with our enrollment flattening
051that would kind of explain most of the the rationale around um, around the uh, the the state aid being fairly flat. Uh, finally then is federal sources, which is the the light blue uh, sliver there and um, when you see it this way, I think it's a little surprising that it's such a federal federal revenue is such a small part of our uh, overall budget. It's important. The it supports programs that are very important. Uh, half of the blue of the light blue bar there is in school lunch and breakfast um, from the national school lunch uh, program and the other is programs that support like IDEA, title and the title programs, title one, title two and so forth. Those are not projected to really change much either. Uh, there's actually a sliver that you
052don't see on top of the purple bar. Uh, it's um, amounts received from other LEAs. LEA stands for a local education agency and or school district and so these are revenues that uh, we receive from other school districts for things like uh, transportation for our students that qualify for McKinney-Vento uh, program. Uh, this is also one in which we have an expenditure side that uh, actually is higher than that and so this is not uh, really a windfall uh, or a sort of a general amount of cash um, for us in that it would go to support the fact that we are paying other districts as well and with this these same dollars. That is about all I have uh, for tonight. Um, I think I mean, the overall would be that we are remaining
053fairly stable in our recurring sources uh, fairly flat. The local tax rate and we published this all the way back in the budget assumptions, but you know, we're not anticipating a change in the in the tax rate um, and we are anticipating about a 3% increase in assessed valuations, which is been the uh, fairly consistent for us over the last decade in non-reassessment years. So, feel like this is a fairly conservative um, uh, but sustainable uh, way to budget for our revenue for next year. I did want to ask quickly. I I I know that you had referenced proposition I earlier. >> Mhm. Was that that was it the 2022 bond Yeah. project. Okay. Um, was Okay, yep. Um, >> There was two on that that ballot. One was proposition I, the was uh, the
054other one was in Mhm. in had to do with moving um, some of the tax rate between debt service and the operating. Okay. Yeah. And so that one was uh, for bonds. The um, I know I'm going to jump ahead a little bit here to the expenditures because I know how exciting this >> [laughter] >> Um, but these the the these sources of revenue, many of them are earmarked, correct? For for specific funds. So, when we're taking a look at the bond dollars, those those are for the capital. They are restricted. Right. Um, and then the some of those state funds also, like like you had mentioned, are specifically for um, some of these students who need some additional supports, right? So, they're Yeah, um, actually that's more applicable to the federal sources where those
055I would say almost that entire light blue bar is restricted only for those programs and and has to be spent and we have to show the federal government that we did spend those dollars and have to spend them before they will give us the money to reimburse. Your green, which is the state, the orange and the blue is where you see most of your general revenue uh, and where you have some discretion, obviously. Um, and that's is where we pay teachers, we pay our staff uh, we pay for benefits and transportation and so forth. Thank you. Mhm. Do you with the homestead um, tax freeze passing for Platte County, do you have any thoughts yet on No. >> or will we not know until the fall? Uh, yeah, I think we'll need to wait on
056it and see how it affects the um, assessed valuation total. Um, And with this being an off year, would it maybe have less impact anyway? If you think 3% is Um, it probably would have an equal impact, but you know, we're probably it would probably drop either year that it was applied >> Mhm. by a similar amount. Um, I guess the um, question will be just how how many take advantage of that. So, so. Does the homestead it only applies in the assessment odd years? Or >> No, no, I'm sorry. I was actually referencing like Senate Bill 190. >> Yep. So, the homestead um, is I you know, for us, it would apply um, in the same year like a reassessment year where um, what already applies is the Hancock Amendment. Right. And so it
057it would be a rare situation in which um, the Hancock Amendment was What? it's which is typically sets the threshold for revenue at the uh, CPI um, level and we just you know, during COVID it was out of whack, but uh, we've never seen really consistently a 5% CPI, so. It's almost like you could ask why put the homestead act on the ballot and why did it Yeah, so. >> need it? Anyway. Yeah. Um, my question um, yeah, I know you probably haven't had time yet, Dr. Kelly, but I guess when you get ready to present us more things now that the state has sent the the income tax, just I'm just curious like if you'll be able to bring those numbers of how Mhm. >> much revenue we would lose as a district with
058that process. Yeah, actually DESE does a nice job for school districts at this time of year of modeling and doing their best. So, certainly we'll have that information and not only uh it'll if we have it as soon as we have then that could impact the budget that you approve in June. So, you'll you would see them naturally in the first board meeting in June uh if we know or if we have reasonably and then when you pass the budget they'll be included in that as well. I think the other thing there, Ms. Barnstead, to watch from the legislative standpoint is going to be uh how the legislature decides about funding the the funding formula. Yeah, and so so the the income tax piece and so on. The question that they are having to wrestle
059with is if there is some sort of decrease in revenue that's uh obtained right now from income tax. If that was totally eliminated, I understand that to be 8 to 9 billion dollars that we would not have in revenue. The question is where does that come from? And the legislature next month has to submit a budget to the governor who approves that in June and in that there is the uh appropriations for school funding and what at what percentage uh or at what level do they do the funding formula? Um so, those are the questions that are also things that I will be watching uh over the next month to to two months because uh those would be maybe more impactful on the the income tax legislation from what I understand is is kind of
060future out and that'll be some projections that we'll have to look at in potential changes in revenue. Right now the conversation is around fully funding the formula which uh we're hoping would be the case by by our legislators. Thank you. I know I'm making to you. This is going to be a year of us keeping a close eye on everything um at all levels. Um so, I'm Dr. Kelly, if you could you know, when I was new on the board, you drew me those wonderful buckets and everything else. Maybe you broke it down for me really good. I mean, I think that would be helpful as we get more information. If you could do some of that simplistic things for like as you see Ms. You know what's going on and then um Alexia, I
061don't or Ms. Norris, if you under- follow all that being a lawyer, but um that would be helpful so that we are able to constantly be able to be informed in case we get questions or false things said that we can you know, dispel some of that as well and keep us all on track. Yeah, I I was trying to keep it simple tonight and I don't know that I mentioned buckets, but I was they're they're actually the little colors are buckets. I I associate you with the buckets [laughter] and that it helped me a lot. Thank you. And that's just going forward, we could just talk about that. Yeah, there is a lot to keep track of. >> Yes. All right. Any other discussions and questions? All right. Thank you so much, Dr. Kelly.
062Thank you. Next, we'll move on to item 11.2, the 2026-2031 Continuous Improvement Plan CSIP update. You have Dr. Kimbrough and Dr. Dial. Thank you. But before I turn it over to Dr. Dial, this is an exciting update that we have uh a lot of work that has happened with our CSIP team at the uh leadership of Dr. Dial and then a lot of our executive team that has contributed to us continuing to revise and focus and really be a strategically oriented school district. And so, I'm proud of this presentation and what we're uh putting forward here and Dr. Dial's going to explain why it says 2026 to 2031 and what that update is about and uh I'll turn over to her at this time. Fantastic. Finance and strategy. I mean, we're having a ball tonight.
063>> [laughter] >> Uh well, thank you um for the opportunity to get to share this great work. Uh what I love about being a part of the strategic planning team is that you all are you are all part of it as well. Um and uh and so, I think that that's just a fantastic engagement opportunity um to have your voice at the table um but also to hear other voices at the table. So, um I'm going to share a little bit tonight about the update to our CSIP. Uh this is our planning team as Dr. Kimbrough mentioned, uh it is a a very large group of people, um a very diverse group of people with lots of different uh viewpoints and uh they are just fantastic. Um they give up their time um to be
064a part of this uh in the evenings and and I as you know, I move you fast and furious um through the time that we have together cuz we don't have a lot of time, but we get a lot accomplished. Um and so, I just am super appreciative of every single one of these folks uh that are on uh on our team. Uh going to give you a little bit of history uh behind um our work and I'll start with our mission, vision, and values have not changed. Um those uh these really are guiding lights uh for this district and um the vision statement in particular, uh as you know, is tied to our goal. And when we talk about strategy, alignment is super important because we need to be able to show from our
065vision all the way down into our classrooms that we truly are walking our talk. Um and so, [clears throat] uh we did not make any changes to uh any of these pieces. Um MSIP 6 is has has also not changed uh but they do have updated expectations for us. So, when we started this in 2022, um these are the guidelines. These guidelines haven't changed, but um they have uh pushed out to us um that in cycle two of our work with MSIP 6 that we have to show how we've made progress in continuous improvement. Uh so, it was great to uh learn that because we're already ahead of the game by doing our updates. DESE is pushing all districts to be doing that and I just sat there and went we are good because we
066did this work. Um and so, uh we're in great compliance with them. We will turn in all of our uh required documentation related to our CSIP and our our continuous improvement over the fall of next year. Um so, the timing couldn't be better for us to be able to to tell our story. Other influencers of the CSIP, uh these are all hopefully very familiar to you. Um uh our CSIP is tied to our learning model. That in fact is in one of the objectives. That is in our academic objective. Um our beha- in our instructional beliefs um our graduate [clears throat] profile really drives our goal. Uh our behavior philosophy statements um are part of our strategy and culture for uh restorative practices. Um and then our drivers and narratives permeate the entire CSIP uh
067and you've seen before I've shown that alignment between um pretty much every single strategy aligns to at least one driver uh of our drivers and narratives and I think that's something to be very proud of. So, our process did tweak. You might remember that in the past we've had five-year plans. So, we've had a 2018 to 2023. 2023 to 2028. One of the pieces of feedback that we receive when we do our continuous improvement work with Baldrige is that by waiting until the fifth year to update your plan the question is are you really being visionary? Are you really thinking out ahead if you're waiting until that fifth year to think what are we doing in the next five years? And that's given us cause for pause to go, you know, that that really is
068good feedback and it took a little bit for for us to kind of figure out how to get our footing in that. Um but in doing that, uh what what we're going to do now and as we move forward, you can see how it it progresses out throughout the years. Um we're going to work the plan for the first couple of years and then in our third year, we're going to look for the revision. So, we're in our third year of our our current CSIP. We spent the time to look at what's going on right now. Has anything changed? Do we need to make any adjustments? And really, what have we accomplished? And I would say that that is that there are a lot of action steps that we've accomplished um over these three years
069that that we are we should be very proud of. So, in doing that, I think it's important that we recognize by accomplishing that now, how do we think ahead for the next five years? And so, now we're going to always be thinking ahead um which is a great process improvement for us. And so, in the fall, we looked at um uh and I'll I'll talk about the process here in a second, but you can see fall of 2025 and spring of 2026, those are the two pieces that uh we work through and I'll show you here how that um went into play. I'm very sorry. Could I ask a quick question? >> it. Could you uh give us a reminder of what Baldrige is is? >> Yeah, of course. Um the Baldrige uh framework is
070our quality framework and there are um we Park Hill has been a part of um quality work for uh eight 18 2019 years. Almost 20 years. Um and uh the Baldrige Excellence Framework is a set of expectations or criteria by which uh good businesses follow. And uh we use it to help keep us in check. There's criteria out there for education entities. They also have it for non-profit education, health care is probably the most popular group that uses the framework. But essentially what we're able to do by using the the Baldrige criteria is to really it sets a standard for us of how do you and then how do you set strategy? How do you implement your strategic plan? How do you engage with your students and families? And ask lots of questions of us
071for us to then go back and go how do we do that? And how well do we do that? And then there are parts of the process where they can come and see who we are, how we operate and give us feedback on that. And so it is it is very well integrated with our our strategic planning work because strategy is one of the the pieces, one of the seven categories for Baldrige. Thanks for the reminder. Absolutely. So with our process, we actually started I started this back in the spring of 2025, so a year ago. We did an environmental scan and a SWOT analysis. And what I I you've heard me say this before, but I think it bears repeating. When we did this process in the fall of 2022 when we set the
0722023 to 2028 plan. There was no AI. Okay? So when we think about changes that happened to us, they're happening quickly. And and so by us having this process where we're now going back and looking at things every 3 years and really always kicking out ahead for five, we can look around and say how's that impacting us? Does that need to come in as part of a strategy or do we already have other systems that we can put that into in order to handle that? And so we did the environmental scan and SWOT analysis in the spring of 2025 and then this fall we looked at our data. We looked at our strategic advantages and challenges and identified those and we ended up updating and adding a new challenge. And then we also reviewed our
073strategies. How are they doing? Do we need to make any changes to wording? Do we need to stop doing them because they're now part of just our our own system? And is there anything that we're missing? And then in the spring in our meeting we just had a few months ago, we looked at our measures and I really put the squeeze on the team to really think about narrowing our focus on the measures. And then also updated graphics. I would be remiss if I didn't point out that staying committed to strategy is hard. There are lots of things that happen to us as a district and have happened to educational entities on a daily basis that can be very distracting. And if we're not careful, I can spend an entire day on something that has
074nothing to do with the strategic plan. Because I have to. Because it's also part of just the daily work that I do. And so staying committed to strategy is really difficult and a lot of districts will struggle with that. You're in a district that prioritizes sticking to the plan. And I think that's that's something to be proud of. I think that's also why we can navigate challenges quickly. We were able to navigate through for example when when everything shut down in the spring of 2020 and we had to open up in the in the fall in a hybrid schedule, we revised every piece of curriculum over the summer. We would have never been able to do that if we didn't have good systems in place. And and that we have this the strategy to really
075pay attention to that. So strategy is hard to do and this quote there will always be more good ideas than there is capacity to execute. I put that up in front of the team multiple times. You guys have seen that before. Coming up with ideas of things to do easy. We can all brainstorm and it's fun to brainstorm and it's fun to think of new things. But at the end of the day we have to have the capacity to do it. And we also have to for the sake of our staff and our own sakes, we also have to make sure that we're not overwhelming ourselves or causing um turbulence within the system because we're jumping around. There needs to be a flow and there needs to be alignment. And and systems never have a
076hard time generating new ideas, they have a hard time following them. And and so I'm really we're really committed to sticking to the plan and I'm proud of the work that the team did. I mentioned that we added a new challenge. This shouldn't be new to you. Because we've been talking about this you've you've seen the demographic profile. You've heard us bring different presentations about different programming needs that we have. And so one of the things that we felt like we need to identify is that one of our challenges is an increase in special programs enrollment. That's real for us. And when we talk about our strategic advantages and challenges the advantages are the things that we do really well. What are the things that we do well maybe better than most folks, right? And
077the idea behind it is that can you leverage those advantages to conquer your challenges? And the challenges the rest of the challenges haven't changed since we had before, but the one thing that the team brought up they were trying to mess with my system when we did this activity and they were trying to move stuff toward the diagram here and go it's a challenge but we're getting better. You know, so if you think about you've seen the student well-being and staff well-being plans. Those have come to the board. Those are action steps in our in our current C SIP. So we have plans now. But we're not there yet. We know that. And so we leave it as a challenge to conquer. Staff retention. You just saw presentation about the the strategy that we're using
078to keep our staff. I don't know how many districts are going to have a 3% raise. I think it's going to be we're going to be up there and we're going to be the envy of many places. That's straight that's strategy. We did that strategically. But we're still working. We still have areas that we need to work on. So so that's I think that's great that we've identified that and you'll see a little bit later where that comes about in one of our strategies because we broadened one of our strategy languages to make sure that we could address that particular challenge. So graphics. So one of the things that is important you can see up here on the wall. That's our current those are our current graphics for our C SIP. And if you look
079at this one I hear you're like woo they look pretty similar. They do but they are different. And what we need to do is signal the change but also signal that we're staying the course if that makes sense. So the graphic changes and that you know, the goal is now over on the left side and it's a star now not a circle. But we're still about the same three objectives. So the goal didn't change and the objectives didn't change. The other thing the other way that you might see this this is a graphic that you'll see in classrooms and in work spaces. When you see board presentations, you'll see this one. Side note, this is our ADA accessible version. So we worked to make sure that this one is is is written in a way
080and and constructed in a way that can be read by screen reader. As well as you'll notice like our on the yellow background, we made it darker font because that's best practice as well. So kudos to Dr. Bridewell team that worked with us to do training on ADA accessibility even though now we're way ahead of expectations, we're still walking the talk and and still making sure that we're contributing to making sure that we have an inclusive set of slides. So our goal stayed the same. Our objectives stayed the same. Academics, culture and systems, all the language stayed the same. If I dig into each of the objectives within academics, there are now three strategies and remember that MTSS, that's multi-tiered systems of supports. That is not a there's no change there that we are still
081working to expand and systematize our intervention processes for K-12 math and reading. The second one is having AVID school wide. That is going extremely well and we continue to work to institutionalize that program. The third strategy is one that was reworded to accomplish what we were after with the increase in special programs enrollment. And so in this one we're looking at implementing instructional practices to support students with barriers to learning and to promote belonging. So language shifted a little bit to hopefully encompass what we were addressing within that challenge but also the work that we continue to do particularly with our culturally responsive education practices in our classrooms. Within the culture objective we have five strategies. The biggest change on this one is in the first one which is still MTSS. So we're still with
082MTSS. This one used to just be for behavior but we've added attendance. As we look at our data and you guys have seen our data for our attendance, we have opportunities for improvement there. And so we felt like it needed to come to the surface and be at a strategy level so that we could put some action steps in place to help improve attendance across the board. We're still committed to implementing restorative practices. We're going to deploy our well-being plans for both students and staff. We continue to implement our charter of work for the drivers and narratives and our community engagement plan. Within systems, all three are pretty much the same with the exception of the second one. The second one used to say develop a long-range facilities plan. Now we're deploying the long-range facilities
083plan. And and we are still committed to recruit, retain, and supporting our staff and also having a fiscally intentional budget. For the measures, we were not short on measures on our current CSIP and I think you guys know from experience at our CSIP meetings that the number of measures that our strategic planning team looked at was quite enormous. It's all data that we have and it's all data that we use. One of the things that I wanted to be able to do for us as a as a team as we continue to meet and hold ourselves accountable to our work is to narrow our focus around what what is it that we're truly after to know did we hit this objective. And so I pushed on the team to identify what's most important and really
084only gave them three choices. You all remember and I have there lots of bargaining. There's lots of bargaining happening in that meeting, right? You'll see I caved. I caved a little bit on academics. Okay. So you'll see that within goal, the two measures that we're going to look at to measure our goal are attendance. So notice we put that in there and we really believe attendance is about a successful future and also our future-ready asset attainment. Under academics, one of the things that we wanted to make sure of is that our K8 and high schools had measures. So that's why you see NWEA is is K8. What we're what we wanted to measure both reading and or excuse me, both achievement and growth for both reading and math. Then for high school because NWEA doesn't
085go all the way through our high school programs, we'll switch to EOCs or end-of-course assessments. So we'll look at our end-of-course achievement and growth for both ELA and math there as well. You know that we bring the academic achievement report to you every year that has all of the measures in it. So you will still see all of this data, but as a strategic planning team, we're going to hone in and kind of look at those in particular to see how we're doing academically. Within the culture objective, hopefully if you remember the wording, we want all students, staff, and members of the Park Hill community to feel sense of belonging. So you go back to the measures. I thought the team did a great job of picking a student, a staff, and a community measure.
086So for students, it was their student belonging. Then for staff, it's off of our staff survey. We ask a question about respecting and valuing their identities. And then within the community, there's a question that we ask them on on Panorama. We ask our parents about school fit, their child's fit at their school. So all three of those will use those to look at where are our different groups feeling related to belonging. In the systems objective, then we'll look at staff retention. What you'll see as a combined number on that even though Dr. Dial has still got her HR dashboard where she's going to have it separate and she can see it that way. We'll look at as a combined number. We also have a measure on providing equitable facilities and then your favorite and everyone's
087favorite to talk about, right? Unrestricted operating funds. We'll use that as our financial measure. So these will be the ones that we will look at as a strategic planning team. All the other measures that you saw are still part of programming. A lot of them are on program evaluations that you already see come through. You see them in the academic achievement report. You see them in the demographic profile. You'll see them in the budget. You see them in all other places and I think this will give us a great opportunity to really have good conversations in terms of accountability for the work that we're doing on the strategic plan as a whole. So I'll leave you with you know the the 2026 to 2031 CSIP. It says continuous improvement for a reason. Continuous improvement is
088a core value in this district for a reason and it's because we understand in Park Hill that we're not after perfection, that we're just about getting better. And also getting better by working together. And I what I am hopeful for and am really looking forward to is the continued integration among departments on the work that we're doing because as we become more and more integrated as a whole, that also means our staff sees how things work together. We don't overwhelm the system and we really do find success. That is all I have. So I would like to thank you for that presentation and for all of the changes and pushing us when we had that meeting because it was a lot of work, but it was great to collaborate with other people from different lanes
089in our community. So thank you. Yep. Yeah, and I really appreciate this kind of new three-year cycle, but it's a five-year cycle, like a rolling five-year cycle that's reviewed every three years. I think that's very innovative and just shows great agility to to change as cuz things change so quickly things as you mentioned with like AI. So I I think that's a really really cool concept in addition to the CSIP. So thank you. Thank you. I have a question. It might be more for Dr. Campbell. Is the is the grades A through F continuing to advance in the legislature? It is. There's two paths it's it's looking like it's headed. Uh There's an executive order that is from the governor that was placed about the accountability basically saying that every school and every district in
090the state would have a grade A through F and there's all this language that goes with that. The commissioner's challenge is is that she along with her team at DESE is required to have a plan in place by June 30th of this year and and so my understanding is is that they're working toward a some sort of plan to try to present to the governor. There are legislative bills that are there that also talk about this. I think the commissioner is hoping that the executive order is the way to go so we can include a more comprehensive measures and and so on of what goes into looking at evaluating a school district. I anticipate there'll be some form of a plan this summer that will be published that we will be investigating then how do
091we implement that, report that, and so on. It's got some overlap with some of the measures that we have. It'll have some overlap with APR. So the annual performance report uh you know, some of the measures that are in the annual performance report, the APR, you saw in Dr. Dial's presentation come. Dr. Bridewell's worked a lot with her team and principals around this idea about attendance. Attendance is a data point that we've seen that has continued to be one that has surfaced as a challenge. And so we're looking at the research. We're looking at the best practices to try to make sure that we are improving in that area. And so that's got a lot of overlap. That will be in APR. That's going to be now in our CSIP. And then I anticipate that
092would be in some form, you know, in this whole A through F reporting system. So that is in process. I'll keep you posted and as we know more, we'll present to the board about what that actually looks like so that if that goes into effect in this next school year, you would be equipped with understanding, you know, at least what goes into the measures on that. Yeah, I I mean I'm hoping we're already tracking and focusing on everything that will pop up in it in some way. All the measures that that most likely would be in there, we have. It's just how do they get put together for the desire of what the legislator legislature or or or governor is looking for in that language around an A B C D or F for buildings
093and districts. Mhm. Good question. We're watching that as well. Okay. All right. Thank you, Dr. Dial. Thank you. All right. Next we'll move on to written and information and written. We have information items tonight. Items 12.1 through 12.7 are relative to bids, contracts, and agreements. And item 12.8 is naming of the Park Hill South High School football field. The board will be asked to take action on these items at the May 14th, 2026 regular meeting. Dr. Campbell, is there anything that needs to be highlighted. The one that I'd like to highlight is 12.8 which is the Park Hill South High School football naming of the field. That process has been led by Dr. Fry and team that we have put together that solicited a lot of input to get up to almost 200 suggestions for
094different names. There was criteria around what those names were. What you see in the packet is a relatively informational packet but we basically mimic the process that we used for naming of school buildings. And so we've seen this before with our most recent naming with Angeline Washington or previously with Hopewell or Walden. And what's in front of you is the ultimate work of the committee which is that they have three names that they got to the top three and they're in order of the committee's proposed recommendations to the board. The board has the ability and ultimate authority to take action on this. We likely will move it to the next board meeting but what I want to do also is explain a little context on what that team was challenged to do. Our first uh
095challenge when we are putting this complex in place is we currently have Preston Field and and it is named and has been named that for quite some time. And while we are putting together, you know, other facilities in each high school, we want to have similar uh places that are identified as named. So we're looking to name the field. And so through that process right now, you see that Panther Field is the highest recommended one from the committee. And so that's the process that's there. I wanted to point that out and be happy to answer any questions on this one or any of the ones that are above that are first reads that we'll be bringing back to you in the May board meeting. Thank you, Dr. Carroll. We'll move on to 3.0 which is
096policies, procedures, and forms. We have four policies and two procedures that have been submitted as informational items tonight and Mr. Folden will provide an overview [clears throat] at this time. Thank you. Yes, so these are all just first read information items tonight. You can see them. There are two instructional policies that have to do with library media materials and instructional materials. Those also have corresponding procedures that go with them. Those are MSBA recommendations based on a couple things. MSIP 6 updates. You heard about MSIP 6 earlier tonight. And also just to keep up with best practices and also kind of the increase in use of electronic materials in classrooms and media centers. So no major substantive changes. I did want to highlight there were a couple spots working with Dr. Brywell, Dr. Van Hoor on
097these where we made slight tweaks to MSBA's recommended language. You can see that highlighted in yellow. An example would be in policy IIA. MSBA's draft had the term culturally responsive teaching. We thought it'd be better to kind of broaden that out a bit to just cultural responsiveness. So tweak that. So that's one example but happy to answer questions if you have any tonight on those or others. Board, any questions? Thank you, Mr. Folden. >> Thank you. Appreciate it. The board will be asked to take action on policies 13.1 through 13.4 at the May 14th, 2026 regular meeting. Items 13.5 and 13.6 are for information only. Finally, we'll move on to 14.0 which is board member reports and requests. Board members, any requests or reports tonight? Mr. Todd? None tonight. Thank you. Thank you. Ms. Barnes?
098None tonight. Thank you. Thank you. Ms. Norris? None. Thank you. Mr. Towelliger? Uh none. Thank you. Ms. Munos? Uh none. Thank you. Okay. Ms. Bolen? None. Thank you. Thank you. I do see Ms. Sims in the audience, Dr. the director of nutrition services and I just wanted to kind of highlight or give you kudos to the the throwback you did a few months back with the rectangle pizza. I think that got a lot of >> [laughter] >> I know my uncle has been on me like, you get on that board, you get that pizza back. And so I just thought that was so funny and I sent [laughter] it to him. So I appreciate your innovation with all the the nutrition services. So All right. I will need a motion and a second to adjourn
099to closed session pursuant to chapter 610, section 021 of the revised Missouri statutes for the purpose of discussing matters relevant to subsections 1, legal, 3 and 13, personnel, and 6, student. So moved. Second. I have a motion by Ms. Barnes and a second by Mr. Towelliger to adjourn to closed session to discuss legal, personnel, and student matters. Ms. Freeman? Barnes? Yes. Munos? Yes. Norris? Yes. Towelliger? Yes. Todd? Yes. Woodley? Yes. The April 23rd, 2026 meet >> [laughter] >> The board members, please turn off your mics and as a reminder, remain seated until the live stream fades.