Park Hill School District Board Meeting 12/11/2025

001Good evening. I call the December 11th, 2025 meeting of the Park Hill Board of Education to order. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. 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 thank you for sil silencing your phones tonight. Um, I would like to remind the board of our norms. Um, stay in the role of a board member. Uh, be respectful. Uh, be inclusive. uh be prepared and be missiondriven. And a reminder that our district mission statement is through the expertise of an engaged staff, the Park Hill School District provides a relevant education in a safe, caring environment to prepare each student for success in life. Um board members,

002any announcements this evening? Uh Miss Barnes, we'll start with you. >> Good evening. I just want to um wish everyone a wonderful holiday season. you you're almost there. You're close. Um and then also just a few things. Um while you are on um your holiday uh days off, there will be a Quanza um kickoff on 18th and Vine um December the 26th and there will be different events every night at the gym theater. So if you and your family want to just experience some other holiday um activities there, you could look on the website and look up those different things. >> Thank you, Miss Barnes. Uh Mrs. they >> just echo um wishing everybody a great winter break and um hope you're able to relax and relax and um also just want to shine some

003light on all of our staff especially our social workers, nurses and Dr. Singleary for all their work they do to take care of our staff with the staff of well-being uh program student well-being programs that are so amazing and all the safety um measures that we have in place and Dr. single cherry's work with um working through all those processes. >> Thank you, Miss Wily. Uh Miss Norris, >> um also just want to say what a great semester for all the students, teachers, and staff and happy and safe holidays. It's nice to see so many people here tonight. I know for the recommend recognitions and um yeah, just congrats to everybody in advance. Thanks for being here. >> Mr. Todd, >> I have none tonight. Thank you. >> Okay. Uh Miss Baldwin, >> none tonight.

004Thank you. >> Uh Mr. Mess. >> No, >> thank you. >> Okay. Uh, Dr. Campbell, do you have any additional announcements? >> No, tonight. >> Thank you. >> Okay. All right. Well, then we'll now move on to the adoption of the agenda. Um, I'll need a motion and a second to adopt the December 11th, 2025 agenda as presented. >> So, moved. >> Second. >> All right. I have a motion from Mr. Todd and a second by Mrs. Woodley to adopt the agenda as presented. Uh, Dr. Kimble, are there any modifications? >> Not only. Thank you. Right. >> Uh board, do you have any modifications? All right. Seeing none, um all those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any oppose say nay. >> Any abstained. All right. Motion carries. Uh 70. All right. We'll now

005move on to our recognitions and awards. We have a lot of those tonight, so this is exciting. And I'll turn it over to Mrs. Witchel. We do have a large crowd tonight. So, good evening everyone. Let me get you your certificates, Dr. Dial. There are certificates that you get to hand up. Thank you. All right. We're going to start with recognitions for our student side. And if you're a student of the week, come on up. So, that's Quinn, Sam, Malia, and Rayanne. Come on up, guys. All right. Good job. You're going to stand right here next to me. They got pre-instructions and they're already doing wonderful. Okay, so every month, every week, we have students of the week. And these students are recognized by a staff member, a teacher, a principal. Hey guys, come over

006here a second. Your parents are going to get pictures. Come sit right here. Kind of fan out so they can get some pictures. Come here, Ryan. There you go. Perfect. Okay. Every Monday on our social media, we post our student of the week. They organize at the board meetings. They get lots of love on social media and their schools also organize them for being students of the week. I'm going to read a bit about why each of these students are students of the week. And then I'm going to have them tell you a little bit little bit about themselves as well. And we're going to start with Quinn. Quinn, raise your hand. Quinn's first. She has a sibling who's in an orchestra concert. So, they have to head off pretty quickly. This is Quinn Palmer

007and Quinn's a Graden. This is why she was recognized by her teacher, Megan Williams. Megan writes, "No matter what academic challenges arise for Quinn, she tries her very best to succeed. She perseveres through every challenge with a positive attitude and an enthusiasm for learning. She participates in class, advocates for herself and others, and is kind to others. She brings joy to our classroom every day." Quinn Palmer, round of applause. Okay, Sam, raise your hand. This is Sam. Sam's at Hawthorne and this is uh Sam's recognition. He was recognized by teacher Ashley Hunter. Miss Hunter writes, "Sam is kind and inclusive, always making sure everyone at Hawthorne feels welcome and valued. He works hard and is always willing to take on challenges with determination. His positive attitude and good sense of humor make our classroom environment

008feel warm and inviting. He sets a great example for all our Huskys. Sam Kutman. Okay, Malia. Malia is a student at Lion Creek Elementary and she was recognized by assistant principal Mallerie Tyler. This is what Miss Tyler says about Malia. Malia always goes out of her way to help our staff and other students whenever she sees a need. She is a role model around Lion Creek and even helps younger students learn the Lion Way. In addition to being a helper, she always has a great attitude and is kind to others. Malia Amore. And this is Rayanne. Rayanne's at Union Chapel and she was recognized by her teacher, Ricky Kent. This is what Miss Kent writes. Ryan is a hardworking and focused student who always gives her best effort in every subject. She isn't afraid to

009ask for help when she needs it, and she sets a wonderful example for her classmates. Her positive attitude, perseverance, and kindness make her a true role model and a great friend to others. Rayanne Elmore. Okay, if you're a parent or a teacher or a principal here to support one of these students, please wave to us. Hi, parents and staff. Excellent. Congratulations to you all as well, families. Okay, Sam, you're going to go first. The prompt is, what do you love about school or what does it mean to be student of the week? I like school because of my teacher and she makes learning fun and my classmates and mathematics and other activities. >> What did you have tonight that you just come in from? >> U mathics. I got first place. >> Um my name

010is Glenn Palmer and I like school because I love writing and I love my teacher. Um, my name is Malia and what I love about school is my teacher and my friends. >> My name is Ryan and what I love about school is writing and my friends. >> Okay, you guys are going to go R. You're going to This is Dr. Dial. You're going to go and shake everyone's hand and then Miss Tracy's gonna take your picture out in the hall. Okay. Congratulations again, you guys. Thank you families for being here. >> Good job. >> Congratulations. Okay, Miss Tracy, can you wave at them then? She's waiting. Go take a picture for Miss Tracy. Okay. All right. Congratulations, guys. Good job. All right. Next, Ruby Bell, come on up here. Ruby Bell. Okay. Right here.

011Miss Bell. This is Ruby Bell, everybody. Let the parents clear out a little bit. Ruby's here tonight because she is an all stater. This is what that means. Ruby Bell earned all state honors at the Misha Girls Class 4 Golf Championship. This means she is an excellent golfer. After 36 holes over two days, she placed 10th out of 92 state qualifiers, securing the first all-state medal of her career. Ruby's a Park Hill High School student senior. Congratulations. Round of applause for Miss Ruby Bell. parents and sister in the front row, second row. Older sister's also a golfer. Is that correct? Okay. Tell them about what you're doing next year and what it means to be an LCA golfer. >> I am going to Southern Arkansas University to play golf. And I don't know, commitment, I

012guess, is the biggest thing. Dedication to your sport and just working hard to succeed. >> Congratulations. Yeah, congratulations, Ruby. Shake your hand and take a photo. Congratulations, Bell family. >> Congratulations. >> She says her short game is her best part of her golf game. Chipping and putting >> chipping mainly. Congratulations, Ruby. Miss Todd Murphy will take your photo out in the back. >> Thank you, guys. All right. Uh Josh Wilson uh could not be here tonight, but I want to read a little bit about Josh. Josh is a senior at Park Hill South and his honor tonight was about the National Honor Art Honor Society Student Council Ambassador Membership. This is a national award that Josh got recognized for for his excellence in art education. Congratulations to Josh who couldn't be here because he's double

013booked tonight. So congratulations to Josh. Thank you. That is very nice. All right. Next, Melissa Talatovic, come on up. This is Melissa. You stay right here, Melissa. And she is prepared for this. This is what she does. She's a broadcast student. She's ready for this. So, this is Park Hill South broadcast student, uh, Melissa Taltoic, and she's part of the student television network for state uh, winner held recently at Missouri State University. She earned first place in solo anchor. So, she is used to anchoring. This is excellent. She also placed in five of 11 varsity broadcast events and the entire broadcast and film staff met deadlines in all 18 events entered. Melissa, congratulations. tell us a little bit about this. >> Um, so Forest State was last month in Springfield. It's where our broadcasting team,

014the Southside Scoop, um, goes. We compete in a lot of different categories. I competed in solo anchor. Um, and I got first place. It was so much fun. It's always fun to do these competitions with my team. And then, of course, my teacher, Mr. Ford, who's an amazing mentor. I could not have done this without him. His mentorship and his guidance has gotten me this far. and my friends, my teammates. It's so fun to do this with them. They are also a large part of this. And then my love for broadcasting. I love to do it. Um, it's so fun. I love being in front of the camera and I'm It's an honor to be here tonight. So, thank you. >> What are you doing next year? Do you know yet? >> Not yet. >>

015Yes. Hopefully. Hopefully Missou for journalism. So, yes. >> Congratulations. >> Thank you. All right. You shake the hand and take a photo. Melissa's family's in the back. Wave to us, Melissa's family and sister back there. Congratulations. >> You are well prepared, Melissa, to go be an anchor and do journalism. Can't wait to see you on camera in the future. You're welcome. All right. Okay. Next, our business department. Come on up. We are have a full house, but business part come on up. Dr. Kelly, come over here, too, please. is we're going to have you tell a little bit about why business services is here tonight and what the meritorious budget award means. Dr. Kelly, it is yours. >> Can we borrow Joan? >> Yes. >> Okay, we need Joanne as well. So, so I told

016them that they didn't have to prepare a speech. So, I will introduce the business department team um in and we'll just start this direction. So, uh, Misty Dyus is in payroll. Jamie Bolick is actually been in both accounts payable and now in accounting. Haley Saunders in payroll. Melissa Martinez is in employee benefits. Uh, Cammy Pierce is the administrative assistant for business services. Julianne Eckerley in payroll. Debbie Morgan is in accounts payable. Susan Bartlett, who you've already met, is in accounting. Katie Sha's in purchasing and accounts payable and then Joanne Blakeley in employee benefits. So this is the team that um turns about 20 or so of your policies into processes. Um we have about 20 uh fiscal management policies. And so this is the group that turns them and leads the efforts of uh deploying

017those processes. And so it's those processes that are being evaluated by the meritorious budget award program. It's sponsored by the Association of School Business Officials. We've received it 19 years in a row. But it's a continuous improvement model where we submit an application, it's reviewed against a set of national standards, these processes, and then we receive a set of feedback. And it's never perfect. And so we then have to uh take the feedback and deploy that feedback into future budgets when we submit again. And so we've done that for 19 consecutive years and we're being recognized today for um the 19th that we did for fiscal year 20 uh 25 2026. So um that is the meritorious budget award program. this group. Um, also we on the board agenda tonight is uh instrumental in our

018audit. And so on the agenda later tonight, we actually have our auditor here and we'll present the results of all of these processes. Um, and also I didn't want to go without saying is that while this group leads all of those efforts, they also um work handinand with our administrators and our administrative assistants in our buildings and that entire group is actually the recipient of the meritorious budget award. So I want to recognize everybody. This is a district level recognition. So I want to thank you. last month. You also remember that we received a PECard uh reimbursement and so our accounts payable team, you can kind of wave, are directly responsible for that. Um and so they work every day to make sure that we're uh deploying uh sustainable and um practicing good stewardship of

019taxpayer dollars. So, thank you. >> Thank you, Dr. Kelly. Do you want to shake the board's hand? >> Okay. Um, you all do you want to shake the board's hand? Probably a quick shake and then we're going to go take a picture out in the hallway. Congratulations, business services. Thank you for all of your work. >> Congrats, guys. >> Thank you so much. >> Thanks for being here. >> Thank you. Oh, you're high five. >> Yeah. Thanks again team. So glad you guys were all able to be here tonight. Next, if you're a Park Hill partner for the fall semester, come on up and stand right here by me. You had a model of all the students and staff. So you guys come stand right here. And Dr. Kimber is going to come up and

020take care of this part. >> Thank you. We got a good crowd tonight. >> Fantastic. They got their name tags and everything. >> Go ahead and just keep lining up right down there. Awesome. So, uh this is uh most of uh our Park Hill partners group and we have a Park Hill partners program that each year we have building uh principles and administrators that recommend parents to uh learn more about our district. And so we take them through a four session program. They learn about everything from our academic services department to our finances to our strategic planning to our human resources. uh communications and even our board of education. And so they have an opportunity to learn more about what we do, get a little bit more approximate with our board and with uh my

021team. And so I'm going to have them just introduce themselves. If you could tell uh us who you are, what school you represented, and then anything that uh you might real shortly what you took out of the program, put you on the spot. >> My name is Katie Concincaid. I am from Union Chapel and through this program I learned so much. I've been in my oldest is 13 tomorrow so I've been with Park Hill for a really long time but this was just eye opening and it kind of made me love the district even more. >> Great. Thank you. >> My name is Na Manuso and I'm with Angeline Washington and what I appreciated is kind of a sneak peek into all the pieces that come together to make our district whole. Um, and just

022echoing with her that so much valuable information that I didn't know before. So, thank you. >> Hello, I'm Jill Nestled from LEAD. Um, I I've been to through quite a few programs with you guys, but I learned a lot more about the board and the workings behind the scenes. My name is Brandy Mains. I am from Chin Elementary, and I just appreciated just learning more about what goes into some of the decisions that are made here in the district. Hi there. I'm Rachel Whe. I have a daughter at Hopeel and at Park Hill. And um I think one thing that stuck with me was the curriculum presentation and how so many other districts um reference our curriculum that I thought that was pretty cool. And also it was just nice to get to meet all

023these other parents from other schools and like we shared a lot of ideas over dinner and I learned a lot of things and took ideas back to our PTA too. So that was also very helpful. >> Uh my name is Johnny Hawkins. I'm with Walden Middle School and I really appreciated not only learning about all behind the scenes of the district, but how everybody works together. It's not a bunch of individual pieces and parts. There's a lot of synergy, which is really great to see. Um Aaron Ladic, I was representing Park Hill South High School and um I was thinking about while Dr. Kelly was speaking during his presentation. He said that probably everyone thinks this part is really boring, but it was one of my favorite presentations. So, >> you got one, Dr. Kelly.

024>> Hi, uh, Lisa Walker from Lion Creek. Um, and one of the things that also stuck with me was how interconnected all of these departments are and we're really working together to accomplish our goals. So, >> hi, I'm Katie Groves representing English Landing and I really just enjoyed a behind the scenes sneak peek of all of the moving parts and how everybody works together. So, it was really um a pleasure to be a part of this. So, thank you very much. >> My name is Johnny Ripley. I am a parent from English Landing as well. Um, I enjoyed getting to know the people around me and finding out that the people on the board are real people. We sat with them. We ate with them. We talked with them. And the people that are making

025the decisions for us are like us. And so I appreciate the realness that you had and the love that you have for our kids. >> My name is Brandy Johnson. I was representing Hopewell Elementary School. I think the most enjoyable part obviously outside of the food was really getting to know the board, Dr. Kimrell, everyone else within the district and how we come together as parents and how we are wanting to support one another and our students, but really what our barriers were and why they're in place and if there's, you know, red tape. It was really nice for to see that all come together and all the questions answered. Thank you. Hi, I'm Noie Cox and I represented Plaza Middle School during Park Hill Partners time. And I think the most important thing that

026I learned, not cry, but just how much everybody in leadership in this district really cares about our kids in all aspects of education from safety to to the curriculum to I mean everything, even getting them all the way into where they want to go after they're done here. That was just so special. and it meant so much and I felt like it was definitely worth my time. >> Thank you all for not only those uh really kind comments, but also uh for your dedication, your time. You took time out of your schedules uh multiple nights through a busy semester when I know that you have kids running all over the place and and all these different activities that you're uh getting to. Uh but we sincerely appreciate your support, your interest, and your engagement with

027us to be able to learn more about the school district. We know that uh this is I think the uh eighth or ninth cohort uh I believe of our Park Hill partners program and so we do occasionally have reunions and we look forward to uh contacting you when we need engagement further with uh parents and other committees and all those type of things and you have been an awesome group to get to know. So thank you so much for your time and service and if you could we'd love to have you shake the board's hand. Thank you so much forine. >> Thank you so much. It's okay. Thank you. Thank you so much. All right, I think that is all the recognition, right? That was >> what a wonderful evening of recognition uh in in

028the district tonight. Um all right, so we'll move on to public comments. Um, during this part of our agenda, we will receive public comments from patrons who pre-registered uh by the noon deadline today. And uh we had zero uh patrons pre-register. >> Um so up next is our consent agenda. Uh before I call for a motion and a second to approve the consent agenda, are there any items that need highlighted, Dr. Kimble? >> There are a couple that I'd like to highlight for the board. Uh the first one is uh 8.11. This is a uh renewal of our EAP service uh employee assistance program. Uh this is the same company and service that we have been using. We received the uh renewal uh offer and paperwork after your last board meeting and we're trying to

029get that in place before January 1. So we are requesting uh to re wave the first read on this so that we can uh get that service contract continued on January 1st. Uh the other uh couple I have I have uh to point out is 8.17. This is about plan furniture purchase at Line Creek and Southeast Elementary. I'm also asking the board to wave first read. This is something that we've been uh working on after our renovations over the summer to get these uh pieces of furniture in place and uh the quicker we can get that uh order done uh the quicker we can get that um in and so uh the request tonight is to to weigh that so we don't have to wait till the end of January. Finally, I will point out

030that we have 8.24 24, which is the uh 2026 legislative positions for the cooperating school districts of greater Kansas City. Uh this was on your information items uh last time and now is being asked for you to approve in consent. Just to remind the board that this has uh legislative positions from our uh greater Kansas City group that uh some of the things that you will see in that involve uh support of local control or advocacy for local control. You will also see things uh around open enrollment and charter schools. We believe that those will be part of the upcoming legislative session in debates and uh potential uh proposed legislation. And then the other one that we think is going to probably uh be very prevalent in the upcoming session is about funding specifically the

031role of taxes. Uh everything from local to sales tax to state tax to income tax. Those are going to be things that are going to be coming uh when the uh session starts in January. Those are the ones I wanted to point out. I'd be happy to answer any other questions. Board, any questions? All right. Seeing none, I'll need a motion and a second to approve the consent agenda items 8.2 through 8.24 as submitted. >> So moved. >> Seconded. >> I have a motion from Miss Bolan and a second by Mr. Todd to approve the consent agenda as submitted. Any further discussion? >> Okay. Um, all those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed say nay. >> Any abstained? All right, motion carries 70. All right, we'll now move on to an action

032item for tonight and it's the 2024 2025 audit. Dr. Kim, Dr. Kelly. >> Yeah. So, I'll go ahead and invite our guest from uh KPM CPAs and adviserss to come on up to uh talk through a little bit of uh our audit. Dr. Kelly, I will give you the uh opportunity to introduce our guest and any other things about the audit you'd like to set the table with. >> Yeah. So, um we are required to perform an annual audit. You have a three-year contract with KPM. This is John Cummings from um KPM and he and a team of two three others um came on site uh to perform the audit uh in September. Um although the audit work had begun well before that in in terms of us providing all of the documentation that they

033requested and that they needed for as a part of their audit. Um from the district perspective it's Susan Bartlett that leads the efforts here but it really crosses into almost every department whether it be student transportation um attendance records title programs. Um the auditors are very active when they're here and we're providing all kinds of uh information for them. So um they go through that um they like I said are on site for uh 3 or 4 days and then they work to put together uh the final audit which is typically required to Desi and for the federal programs by the end of December. I'll let John kind of explain a little bit of a nuance that's occurring this year due to some federal shutdown uh issues. Um and so it'll be a little different

034this year, but uh this is a fairly standard procedure. You've had an opportunity to talk with John in close session. And so um he is able to uh present uh that information or any other information you would like to uh hear about this year's audit. >> Now to you. >> Okay. Well, thank you everyone for allowing me some time in your meeting tonight. I will keep the comments very brief as we have already met in close session and gone over all of this in more detail, but uh for those who may not be aware, this year the uh federal government was a little bit late in getting their OM compliance supplement out and that is what drives the audit procedures that are done for federal grants and what's known as the single audit. And because

035they were late and the shutdown made it later, um, basically Missouri Desi determined that that part of the audit process needed to be split off from the other two components, which are the financial audit and the state compliance examination uh, and basically issued the single audit portion as a standalone document at some point after the compliance supplement was issued. and they had hoped for uh it to be issued in time for the federal audits to be submitted by January 31st. So they've established January 31st as the new deadline for the federal audit submission component of this. Uh the financial statement and uh state compliance examination components are here tonight to be approved. And um so as I mentioned earlier uh the independent auditor report does say that you have received an unmodified or clean opinion

036on the financial statements as of June 30, 2025. That is the best possible result and so congratulations on that. Our audit was performed in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America and the standards applicable to financial audits contained in government auditing standards issued by the comproller general of the United States. So, uh, management is ultimately responsible for what's contained in the bound booklet and takes responsibility for the financial statements and we've issued our opinion on those as unmodified or clean opinions. So, that's going to check the box on that bit of compliance for both the district and for Missouri des. So, uh, do want to say I appreciate all of the efforts that went into the accounting throughout the year. Uh my timing tonight was impeccable because well quite frankly

037it all starts with the foundation that's laid by the budget and the effort that goes into the budget sets the district up for success as it moves through the year. The financial statements do indicate that the school is having good financial success and able to monitor its resources and manage uh as it needs to and so things are looking quite nice there. on uh page 11 of the bound booklet. Uh basically what you would see on that is the statement of receipts, dispersements, and changes in fund balance for the governmental funds and the general fund which uh is the primary operations fund to the district uh ended the year with an increase of $3,76,920 and an ending fund balance of $44,958,484. And the debt service uh fund of the district decreased for the year by

038$1,350,29 and ended with an ending fund balance of 12,719,872. While the capital projects fund increased by 2,540,795 and had an ending balance of $41,996,142. And so all total the district is up for the year by $4,267,56. And uh to all of the people involved in all of the management of capital projects around the district, my sympathies. It was like an enormous amount of work and a huge undertaking. And I commend all of you for taking all of that on uh to basically benefit the students of the district as you move forward through time. So, it's going to pay dividends for all of the uh students that are attending here in future years. I also on that note want to thank you for sending me one because one of my staff accountants who is awesome is

039from here and a graduate of Park Hills. So, uh my my appreciation to all of you. So, uh any questions on the audit? >> Any questions board? uh we had a thorough review in close session and this is an important piece of transparency uh to the to the public to see what uh that the uh the district's being good stewards of taxpayer dollars. So appreciate the the audit and I appreciate Dr. Kelly and your team for um making this a pretty seamless process for the uh for the auditors. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> There are no questions. Thank you all and have a very happy and safe holiday season. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you. >> We'll need to take action. >> Yeah. >> Okay. That's all. >> All right. Um then

040I'll need a a motion and a second to accept the uh the the audits um the 2024 to 2025 audit. So moved. >> Seconded. >> I have a motion uh for Miss Bolan and a second by Mr. Todd to uh >> um to accept and approve the uh 2024 to 2025 audit. All those in favor say I. >> I. I. >> Any oppos say nay. Any abstained? All right. Motion carries 70. Um, and then just a reminder to the public that audit will be posted on the uh district website for access and review at any point in time between when it's replaced with next year's audit. >> All right, we have a couple of information presentations tonight. Um 11.1 is community survey annual results for 2025. Turn it over to Dr. Kim and Mel. >>

041Yeah. So, I will uh invite uh Kelly Witchel and Chris Tennel from Discovery Works, which was formerly known as Creative Entourage, that you may be familiar with that name of uh company. Uh same group and uh same uh survey that we've done in the past. So, uh we are going to uh provide you an updated uh look at the results of this year's annual survey. There are several documents in your board packet. There are multiple uh different documents including an executive summary uh phone and online uh survey results. We're specifically talking about the phone uh survey results tonight as that is the one that is the most randomized sample for our um registered voters throughout our school district. Mr. tennel and we'll talk about how that all uh takes place and that is the best

042comparison data that we have relative to historical data. The final thing that I'll mention is that it was a little shorter this year on our survey. Last year we did um more questions around what ultimately became propositions G and O. And so without those in there, these are more historical uh annual questions that we are checking to see the community's perception. So with that, I'll turn it over to our two presenters. >> Thank you, Dr. Kimble. Thank you for having me back tonight to present these results. I was thinking as I was heading over, it's the third December in a row I've been here. So, it's almost almost a bit of a holiday tradition um for us to to be here. Do I Does it? >> Yeah, go for it. >> Okay, so it's on

043there. >> Um yeah, I think in the back they'll get us switched. >> Okay, great. Um talk a little bit about this. I think you guys have have heard me say this before. Uh but just I think it's important to remind you the difference between the phone surveys and and the online surveys um that we conducted. Um so we did a random sample of 402 um residents in the Park Hill survey on the phone, you know, via the phone. Um so that is that is conducted by um our our phoning bank and and that is the survey that when you think about seeing the numbers and you see the plus and minus afterwards, right? So that is the statistically accurate survey. It's going to have a margin of error of 5%. So, I'll I'll remind

044you again later on, but all the surveys that we're going to look at tonight, it's going to have that same margin of error. So, not only is it it is it statistically accurate um within itself, but then it's statistically accurate and you want to look back and compare it to previous phone surveys um that we've worked through. Um we also did an online survey. Uh we had 722 completed responses for that. That's important because we we have about 300 more total responses. We only look at three at the at the completed ones. So, we typically have anywhere from a 75 to an 80% response rate on an online survey. You guys are very typical as far as that, but we only look at the the we only look at the individual complete surveys that were

045where somebody made it through um the entire survey. Um when you look at the online survey results, which is Dr. Kimell said, we're not really going through tonight. um that ended up being a very parentheavy survey. So, it's about 85% or so um parents or people who had children in children under the age of 18 in their household. Um of those people, 96% of them reported that their children attended Park Hill schools. So when you look at that online survey results, I really encourage you to think about it as as a parent feedback survey, you know, as a really good instrument to get some insight um from that the the group um that the the parent group that those 720 responses represent. When I was talking a little bit with with Kelly and Dr. Kimbell,

046I thought, man, this is this is the third year in a row that I'm just going to come sit here and and present survey results. So I said, "How can we make this a little more interesting?" And what I suggested doing was really looking at the last four years of data um that we have from this phone survey and trying to see what what story does that tell? What do we know about perception of the work that we're doing here in in Park Hill School District based on what the results that we've had in the last four years? So what pops out to me and our team that reviewed this when you look at that data over time, you really see four things that come out. Um you see, you know, themes of support. Uh

047of the schools, you see themes of of confidence. Um you see that this community continues to trust not only the work that this board does, but the work that the administration does. Um, and you see value and and you really see value in in two ways. You see the the the value that respondents feel that they get from a Park Hill education, but then you also see the the inherent value that they know they have in terms of being a property owner in this district and what the quality of public schools uh can do and how that incre increases the value of their investment here in the district. So, let me just kind of get all of this on there. Um, so we looked at 2022 through 2025. Um, I have done the last three.

048I was not part of the I was not working with Discovery Works at the time. In 2022, I was still at the school district of Clayton. Um, all these surveys, as I said before, have an a margin of error of of 5%. So when we look for things that stand out either positively or negatively, we want something to be more than 5% out of the range that we're seeing across those four years. Um so when it when it when it pops when it's, you know, when you have results that are, you know, 60, 58, 61, um 65, right? a lot of numbers jumping around, but but from a from a survey from a data evaluation standpoint, we call that flat, right? Everything is kind of bumping around within that plus or minus 5%. So, we

049call it flat, we call it consistent, stable. I mean, there's a number of different words that you can use um to talk about that. Um Dr. Kimell mentioned this, but as as we kind of go through this presentation, you'll see some black squares, and they're all going to be in 2024, right? So, in 2024, um that was largely a pre-referendum survey. So we had to make room for all the questions that we needed to ask about the the possibility of props go. So we had to had to drop some of those surveys. Kelly hated to see some of them go. We had lots of long conversations about what was going to go. Um but that that's why some of those that some of that longitudinal data is is missing in in 2024. Um there's a

050couple things I think too and Kelly and I have talked about this. Um and if you want I'm sure if you have thoughts as well you can you can jump in but um we see different we see some different results and some results outside that margin of error in both 2023 and 2024 um how how I think about what impacted those results. So in 2023 um and you'll see some some questions towards the end of of the the results that we'll go through um talking about communicating with the community, soliciting input, responding to input. So that 2023 survey was in the field in November of of 2023, which was what, four or five months into >> Park Hill 2034. >> Park Park Hill 2034, right? So very fresh in people's minds that um the district

051was out engaging and listening and and responding. So when we saw the corresponding results go back up 2024, those result that work was in the field the end of September. Um so in early September 2024 um there was a pretty significant news cycle um related to a story that the district had to deal with. Um we also had the ramp up to the 2024 election. So there was just there was a lot of a lot of conversation and a lot of things that were just kind of affecting the mood of um the electorate and people that would take surveys. So that's that's what we think kind of accounts for some of those results. But but the the great thing about looking at this data is you see it stabilize o over the course of of

052all four years. So I'm not going to go through every one of these. Um I think I'm just going to kind of point out the the spots where we see a little differentiation. You can see how um you know the work that the district does or the things going on in the community actually influence the public opinion of of the Park Hill School District. This one's a little off. So these are the these are the four um first questions that we ask and again these are all the all the longitudinal questions. Um but as as you can see so let's just take an example of um that second line there 91 88 85 89. So we would still consider that um pretty consistent or or pretty stable. Um great takeaway from this first slide is

053you know what grade would you assign to to Park Hill School District? you know, and we're going to see in a lot of these a lot of these responses a consistent dip in in 2024. But when you look at, you know, that when you look at all these all four of these years, you see how it stabilizes. So, um, really good to look at the fact that the the respondents giving Park Hill schools an A is up from 39% to 46%. Um, over the last four survey cycles. So, I think that that that really reinforces the good work um that we're doing that we're doing in in Park Hill. Um you can't kind of see at the at the bottom of that because it's it's cut off on here for some reason. Um but that

054that is one of the two trust questions that we ask on a regular basis. You can see that when we when we were here last year, we did talk about how there was a dip um in that number. Um but in 2025, we're back up to kind of a very consistent trust number um for that. And then you're going to see the same uh you're going to see the same kind of pattern in the trust question that we ask on this slide which is which is second on that list um related to the board of education. Um people continue to feel like they get excellent value for the taxes they pay. They continue to want to recommend the Park Hill School District. Um and they they don't believe well the same number of them believe

055that Park Hill schools aren't as good as they were uh 5 years ago. So that's that's kind of a negative question that you look at at the at the bottom the way it the way it's phrased. So we like to see a low number uh in terms of the the response on that. Um we ask questions about district performance and again very consistent on maintaining high quality teaching staff, providing students with technology um academic standards and school buildings that are up to date and and in good repair. So, we saw that drop down in 2024, which actually I think when I was here last year and I talked about that, I said looking into getting ready to go into a bond issue, it's actually a good number to have in terms of of people having

056an understanding that your school buildings um aren't up to date and in good repair. And you can actually tie that also back to the work that you did the previous year with Park Hill 2034 and helping, you know, everybody to understand that that there was still work to be done uh in our schools. And again, um these four show just that u consistent uh you know consistent response across um all the different four years. Again, safe and secure learning environment. Saw a little bit of a drop there in 2024. Um but that number is back up to to where we were in in 2022 and and 2023. Again, more numbers that just show consistent um you know, consistent patterns across um the four years. Again, you know, several of them showing a dip in in

057those 2024 numbers, but then back up to where they are uh where they have been with this year's results. Here's where we see some of those jumps in 2023. This is kind of our communication series um that we talked about and we see you know communicating with the community up uh making important decisions in a transparent manner and and responding to to community input all pop up back there all pop up there in 2023 in the in the earlier parts of of Park Hill 2024 and then just kind of drop down to what we would call that kind of consistent level or stable level um throughout this time series. We wanted to ask a couple questions about the the election that we just had and just try to get some information uh to see if

058how how any anybody if they remembered the messaging, if they if they kind of what their thoughts were about about why people voted and participated the way that they did. Um this is always a very interesting question to me because we asked on the phone survey, did you vote in April of 2025? And and 53% of the people that took the survey indicated that they voted. Um we know that's probably not the case. uh turnout was right around 16%. But we pretty consistently see people answering yes to that question because no one wants to admit they didn't do their civic duty and and didn't vote or or forgot to vote. It's just that's that's we know that's an over reported number. So we plan for that when when we do this this type of survey

059work. We also asked two open ends. We asked people um why they thought folks opposed Props GNO and why they thought people supported Props GNO. So these are kind of the top six reasons that we saw why people opposed Props GNO. Um and you know probably consistent with what you as a board heard when you were out listening to to folks who maybe didn't think that uh Props GO were were such a good idea. But um you know we saw that we had financial concerns u distrust in spending um you know just a lack of information and just there was there was some polit political or ideological opposition um that came up in in a fair number of of those responses as well. We also asked them why they thought people supported props GNO. And

060these responses were pretty interesting to me because and this is um the when we did the survey in 2024, we wrote a theme and message for that that was used in that campaign to kind of use the same three main points to organize all of the information that was sent out, kind of organized those elevator speeches that people were using um when they went out to to talk about props GNO. So, when you look at kind of the five main themes that bubble up here um from that open-end response and then you think about the the three main points of the theme and message that that we use based on that data which was maintaining our quality, protecting our investment and continuing Park Hill Pride, you can see a lot of these and and if

061if you really go deep into the sub points, how they connect to that theme and message which just underscores the effectiveness of the campaign um that that you guys ran to be successful with both those propositions. >> And that is the conclusion of that. I'm happy to answer any questions that you might have. >> I did have a question about the um those last two slides that you showed us about the the GNO support and oppose. Just to clarify that those those are perceptions of why people would support or oppose the the the propositions, not why people support. >> Correct. And that's and the way we have to ask that question to make sure that that we get a response is we ask people we ask why do you think people opposed props go? Why

062do you think people you know supported props go? So yeah we we methodologically we don't want to put somebody in a position to talk about how they how they voted but you can you know they're more than happy to talk about how their friends voted and and why. >> Absolutely. Thank you. >> Sure. I really appreciate the comparison of the slides because that really helps me understand. In the past, it's just been like a lot of information given to us, but seeing it laid out help was helpful. And just one thing I think I've asked in the past as well is like the demographics of the people who actually answered. Um, do you ever have a comparison of from year to year like did any of the demographics change? >> Um, we did not look

063at the demographics from from year to year. um we can certainly we can certainly dig into that. I mean for the online survey specifically um it's modeled. So in other words um we go in and and this is this is very typical but we go in let's say we're I'm sorry the online survey the phone survey um we go and let's say when we get done with our 400 responses we have um for some reason we have 60% responses from females and 40% responses from males. Right? So, our data team will model that to make it 50/50 because that is actually the representation of, you know, of of the population. Same with parents. And I'll tell you why we do that here in a minute. We want we we typically want um our survey results

064to be uh have about 60% of them from households without children under the age of 18 and and about 40% with households because one that that represents kind of the demographic profile of the community. And and we model on parent status and gender simply because we know from doing this as long as we have that parents tend to be more positive. um and typically to take these surveys more often, to be more receptive to take them. Um we also know that that females tend to be more positive and tend to take these surveys um more often than men. So so in in modeling that we try to make the results, you know, more reflective of what we feel the the community, you know, what we feel the community looks like. And that's I mean that

065is a typical that that is very standard statistical application for a random sample survey like that. in random. It's just you guys get a list of numbers and things are >> we we give a list of every phone number we have for the Park Hill School District landlines and cell phones to our phone bank and they randomly pick those numbers out of I mean it's it's about 40,000 total phone numbers. So they go through randomly and they they typically have to make about a thousand calls to complete one survey. So, >> I was curious. I got my first phone call after my girls graduated. So, I just didn't know like did I jump to another list because my girls, you know, graduated. >> I mean, this is and this is >> kind of got excited.

066Oh, finally I get a call. >> You know, and it it it gets it's it does it gets more and more challenging because I mean, did you get your call on a landline or cell phone? >> I only have cell phone. >> Yeah, you only have a cell phone. Exactly. So, I mean, there's a lot of people cell phones tend people tend to put their cell numbers on do not call lists more often. Um, you know, people don't necessarily I mean, we're pulling all of our information from voter data. Um, so sometimes people don't always have their cells listed with their voter records. They have their landlines. So, I mean, it's it's a little bit of a a tap dance to get enough numbers that are correct um for us to complete the data. Fortunately,

067you guys have a big enough, you know, base of numbers here in Park Hill that we don't have that trouble. But smaller districts, it's becoming more and more challenging. One thing for context, um Chris, you do these surveys across numerous districts. Contextually, can you share with the board how Park Hill maybe compares with other districts that you work with um in the data that you're seeing from our community? >> Yeah, absolutely. Um so just looking at a probably a few of the more important ones in terms of the grades you'd assign to Park Hill School District. I mean, you have 77 78% A or B. that's higher. That's that's high for Missouri um in terms of of of what we see. So, you should feel very good about that. Um trust numbers, I know when

068you look at the trust numbers and they're um you know, you look at it and you say, "Oh, it's only 70%." You know, you're like, "Why why isn't that 100%." 70% is a phenomenal number u for those trust numbers for both the board and for the administration. Average we see is, you know, low to mid50s. um you know we we don't worry until it gets below that and you know we work with districts that that have it below that and we do some different kind of work with them but um that that's an outstanding number um for that I mean the the people who feel like Park Hill schools are not as good as they were 5 years ago a third I mean that that's a pretty typical number um for what we see I

069mean some of these longitudinal questions that we use with you are the same questions that we use with um with other districts um I mean you have almost nine out of 10 people taking this survey saying they'd recommend Park Hill School District to someone else. I mean, that's that's that's really awesome um to to do that is to have 90% of folks you say, "Hey, you know what? Yeah, you should move here and let me tell you why." Um so, that says a lot about the work you're doing. It says a lot about your brand, too. And you know, I mean, your your brand is what people what people say you are, you know, and if it's that consistent um on a on a survey for for four years in a row, that that's something

070to hang your head on. Is there anything else you want me to touch on? That's okay. >> I just have one more question. So, um on the one district performance, I think it's page 11 in your in your slides. just trying to just saying like asking for community input on important decisions or responding to community input on important decisions. It seems like it's like staying in that same range like it doesn't fluctu like it's staying in the low I mean that's where we seem to be like overall looking at everything that's where we're the lowest scores. >> Am I understanding that correctly? Just is that just >> Yeah. I mean I wouldn't I wouldn't call it low. I call it consistent or I'd call it stable, but I would also say that it um you

071know there there's a little bump. So you're talking specifically about asking for community input or just that whole series on there. Um, I mean just I guess those last two questions seem to be staying like either like in 22 they were 58 and then this year >> they're still at that 58 like >> I I mean I think you know so the the the tough part about those last two on that is that we didn't ask him last year, right? We had to those were two of the ones that we had to to move out to make room for for some of those referendum related questions. Um, I'm I'm surprised that we didn't see as a a bigger bump in 2023 on asking for community input because that would be consistent with with the increases

072we saw for making decisions in a transparent manner and responding. Um, which I think are directly connected to the engagement work uh that that you're doing. So, I think that uh you know those numbers for me reinforce the power of of doing that community engagement and the power of doing something like Park Hill 2034 and and staying engaged with with your parents. You have that what was our don't know on that this year, were they? >> This year. >> Yeah. So, they weren't I mean they were Yeah, they weren't they weren't terribly high. Um I mean that that could just be your number. Um, I think it's important to think about, you know, when I just talked about parents versus non-parents, right? You have 60ish% of this community that don't have a regular daily connection

073to your schools. Um, they might be former parents, uh, but that's that's the vast majority of of residents in in the Park Hill School District. So there's, you know, there's there's certainly probably if we if we dug into the cross tabs, a much higher number from your parent community in terms of asking for and responding input because they're in the trenches um every day. But it takes something like Park Hill 2034 or something like the work that you did with um you know with with the bond issue last year to really get out kind of beyond those usual suspects. Thank you. >> Sure. >> I just wanted to comment um um looking at last year's and then the what ended up being the results in April, those were super accurate and close. Good job. >>

074Thank you. >> All right. Anything else, board? >> I was just going to add just a just a comment actually kind of goes what you you were saying, you know, with about 60% of the people taking this are non-parents, but yet still feel so strongly about the school district. Feel very strongly about, you know, paying property taxes and supporting the school district. So, I just think that's important to keep in mind, especially as, you know, decisions are being made, you know, in Jeff City for them to keep that in mind how how strongly people feel about our school district here. >> Absolutely. >> All right. Well, thank you so much for your uh for your presentation. Really enjoy this every year. >> Thank you. Right. Our second information presentation is the 2026 2027 academic calendar.

075Dr. Kimble and Dr. Dylan. >> Thank you. Uh as we have yeah Dr. Dylan is moving over to the presenter table and we also have Mandy Fra here tonight. Uh Mandy is our PHNA president. Uh this uh presentation is an annual presentation this time of year as well. We have a draft calendar that we would like to present to the board as information tonight and look forward to asking for your approval in the January uh board meeting. The committee has finished its work to get to this draft uh point and that took uh a few different meetings this uh fall. Remember this is a committee that is a boardappointed committee and one that you approved the committee members earlier uh this semester. Um, with that I'll turn it over to Dr. Dylan and allow uh

076you to learn a little bit about the calendar. >> Yeah, good evening. So, myself Mandy Fyer, president of PH and I want to call out Sarah Becker back there. She was the chair of this calendar committee which is a big job. Um, we're all here tonight to present to you a recommended 2627 academic calendar um for your consideration. >> Oh, we're still on the other presentation. You might have to exit, >> do you? >> Oh, no. I don't. >> Thank you, Dr. Dial. All right. So, this is the list of our committee members. And just so that you know, it's a it's a large committee. You did approve these uh members earlier in the year. Um it's made up of certified staff, support staff, administrators, and parents. Um and um they u we would like

077to thank them. I think um Mandy would like to say a few words about the committee. >> Yeah, I I am always super appreciative of the work of committees. It's completely um unpaid work that's done outside of contract time. Um and it requires a lot of healthy debate um and sometimes accepting things that aren't going to go your way. Um we highlighted um specific members in orange committees are three-year commitments >> and so the members in orange are rolling off the committee this year. So we just want to thank them for their commitment and work um for the past three years. So before we actually present the calendar to you, uh we want to talk a little bit about the parameters and guidelines with which the in which the committee has to work. Um it

078would be nice if we could just have all the time in the world to plan, you know, to to be able to schedule our days, but that that's not the way it works. There's several laws in place that the committee must work um within as they're creating a calendar. And so um in 20 the first one um in 2019 the Missouri legislature passed a law that controls when districts can start and it is um the first day of school shall um be no earlier than 14 calendar days from the first Monday in September which means for the 2026 27 school year we cannot start before August 24th which is at least a week a good week you know um later than what we started this year. So, I think that was important for our calendar

079for you all to keep in mind as well as our committee because um as we know um they past um calendar committees have wanted to end the school year before Memorial Day. So, if we can't start until the 24th and end before Memorial Day, that really compressed the amount of days that we could um be creative. Senate Bill 64 um allows for the AMI days. It allows for 36 hours of alternative methods of instruction. And so the committee is again recommending the 6 days of AMI time for the 2627 calendar should we need those. Uh Senate Bill 743. So, this is the one that um it used to be before 2019 2020 that we had to be in school for 174 days. In during that school year, it changed to 144 hours. That is still

080in place. It's not talked about much. We still have to be in school, 144 hours. Senate Bill 727 um is the bill last year. If you'll remember, we talked about that we have to be in school. We have to have a calendar for at least 169 days in order to receive the incentive of 1% of the previous year's um state aid. And so to qualify in fiscal year 2027, um you would have to have at least 169 days for the 2627 calendar. Senate Bill 364 then was next. it continues um that provides protective language that says that as long as we schedule at least 169 days, if weather or emergencies cause us to dip below the 169 days, we are still eligible for that incentive. So those were all of the um the laws that

081we went over with the committee prior to the the start of their work. And then we went through with our stakeholders through input from the committee about what are your considerations? What do you what's your wish list? What do you hope is included in the calendar? And you can see the the those uh here. Spread days off throughout the year. Spread professional development days throughout the year. Uh more professional development in the spring before spring break. Um our PD days and virtual days tend to be full days. And so the committee wanted to explore doing split days. So we'd have professional development in the morning and work days in the afternoon. So to explore that. Um look for long weekends when possible. Uh end before Memorial Day, have a long winter break. Um move an

082August PD day to mid to late September. Maintain student contact days as much as we can. Continue virtual work days and have a full week of spring break. Um very um thorough and complete wish list. As you're going to see, that's very difficult especially with the start date that we're that our committee was working with. But they did I mean they were very thoughtful and very diligent in trying to meet as many items on the wish list as they possibly could. Then they asked us to do a survey of both our parents um and our staff. So we asked our community one question. We had 1,700 responses. So a really good response rate. Um, and you can see it uh here. The question was, due to state statute, the earliest uh day school can start

083is August 24th, a full week later than the current school year. With that in mind, for the 2026 27 school year, which of the following is most important to you? 54% said ending school by Memorial Day was more important and 45% said a full 2 week winter break. So, a pretty even split. Um, not a lot of difference there between the two. um with 1,700 responses. So that was the the the word from the from the parent group. Then we asked our staff that same question and it flipped. It's still pretty even, but it just flipped um on which uh which choice. So uh for staff, we had 945 responses. 52% said a full twoe winter break and 47% said ending before Memorial Day. The second question that we asked our staff was um about

084the PD. You know, we when I mentioned earlier about exploring the half days of PD workday. So, we asked our staff what what do you prefer? Do you prefer full days or do you prefer prefer half days? And so, 51.5% said the full day option and 48.5 said split day. So again, pretty much split up the middle um between the two, but it was really um I think beneficial for the committee to hear those results um from both our parents and our staff. >> I think it also helps the committee feel like they really do have a a a voice in the process. So they're not ignoring input, but they really can be the ones that make the decision um when it comes down to it. >> Okay. So with that, we'll explain the calendar.

085Yeah, I'm going to go over highlights. Go ahead. >> Y >> So, you can't start 14 days before September 1st. >> Before the first Monday in September. >> Oh, the first Monday. >> Correct. >> Which is Labor Day. >> Yeah. >> Monday. This year was September 1st. >> This upcoming year. It's like September 6th. >> Yeah. >> We almost have to do a full week before we get a Monday. Like a full week of September before Monday. This is the latest the calendar uh could actually have Labor Day in it. So, this is worst case scenario this coming year. >> I see. That's very oddly worded, but Okay. Check in. >> Yeah. >> Um I'm going to go over highlights. So, a few things that we want. I mean, the calendar is small, so we

086want to make sure that you know about a few things. Um we have the first day back for new teachers. um they come earlier than returning teachers will be August 10th. August 14th will be the first day for returning teachers and then August 24th will be the first day of school for students. Um high school conferences will be um September 23rd through 24th. The 25th will be a no school day for students and high school teachers and a PD day for elementary and middle school teachers. Then we'll have an October virtual workday and um elementary and middle school conferences in October uh on the 28th and 29th and then on the 30th no school for students um in elementary and middle and a PD day for high school teachers. November 2nd, we'll have a full

087professional development day. Um, Thanksgiving break, the 25th through the 27th of November. And the end of semester, a full day for students and teachers will be December 22nd and the 23rd will be a teacher work day similar to how we have our calendar structured this year. >> It'll be a virtual work day. >> A virtual work day. >> 23rd. >> Yeah. Um the the conference days I might want to I might point out that those are a little bit different with the way PD is scheduled for the following day um and having all students out of school. And um it'll be interesting to see um how that how that works this year, but we thought um we heard from both parents and staff that that was a great option um and um actually more convenient

088for families because they had all of their students off at the same time. So I mean >> can I >> in terms of the day? Yes. >> So that's one of the questions I have is that the 28th through the 2nd um especially um well the 29th or the 2nd that's like a long time for those kids who like depend on food in our districts you know like meals twice a day. Like I hope that when you guys do this like the social workers and people are looking at like how much food needs to go home cuz that's 5 days that these kids are not going to be in school to get meals that they depend on for free and reduced lunch if I mean I know doing the calendar is hard. I've been there.

089I understand that. I'm just saying overall if you're looking at the 29th, the 30th, and the 2nd, that's three days plus including the weekend that those students are not getting the meals that they usually would have gotten. So, I just think like we need to make sure like if we have a big weekend like that or something, we're making sure that we're doing the right things for cuz for those students. >> Okay. Thank you. that matches this year's uh practice that we just did and we uh were aware of that and had social workers in place to be able to make sure that our students are uh taken care of. So um this piece there would be uh not the first time we've done it and we're aware of that. >> Yeah, that's a good

090point. Thank you. uh second semester highlights are we we'll you'll notice that we sprinkled in these half workday half PD days throughout second semester um January 4th and then again down in April um and also in February. So, I jumped around there, but um January 5th, students will return to school. And then February 10th through 11th, we'll have high school conferences with no school for high school students and teachers on the 12th. The 16th will be one of those half and half days for staff. And then March 12th, we'll have a half teacher work day. And the 29th through the 2nd, we'll have spring break. And we'll talk about spring break on the next slide. Um, but we have another half day on the 23rd of April, a half uh PD and half work day.

091And then the last day of school will be May 27th, which will be a half day for students and a full day for teachers. Um just to we also added a bullet to note that um this draft calendar would require anou a memorandum of understanding between PHNA and you all board um because we'll be reducing student contact days from 171 and a half to 170 and a half. So we'll be removing a full day and increasing teacher professional development and work days from 6 and 12 to 7. Okay. Uh the spring spring break is always a topic of conversation because we want to in years past we've noticed when we haven't aligned with neighboring school districts. So it's become a bit of a priority to align with neighboring school districts because when we don't it

092makes it harder for our students that participate in Northland CAPS and Northland Career Center. So with this calendar, we do have another alignment uh with neighboring school districts. >> Okay. So the processes we present to you tonight um and then your your 30-day public comment um period starts and then um we would ask um that you take action on January 22nd. So, and then you have a copy of the calendar so that you can uh in your um board documents and then we are happy to take any questions you might have. I just want to ask how the 169 days in the AMI works. So, how many days is this planning for total? >> So, we 170.5 student contact days. >> Okay. And then if we used all six AMI days and then if we

093had like one, two, three other weather days, we could decide whether to make them up or not. Is that >> So the board of education has that opportunity to decide if those are made up or not. >> Okay. Or we can then go under >> without penal being penalized the incentive. Correct. >> And is that in place this year as well? >> it was not in place. However, we did, if you remember last year, you as a board uh made up just enough to get to the 169. So, we modified that time that came back right after Memorial Day, and we got it to the 169. We actually did uh get notified that we did receive the 1% uh incentive pay uh this past for this past school year. Uh and then that bill was

094put in place that is now stating that if it's weather related uh or unexpected through that that you would have the option as a board we would bring that to you based on a recommendation of what we would want to do at the end of the school year after we've gotten through uh potential weather season. Yep. >> And then just one more question. The only half day is the last day of school. Is that right? >> I don't remember. I believe that's correct and I was going to make that point because you'll see a lot of those that are saying half workday, half PD day and so for clarity that does not uh that only rep uh really reflects the teachers uh students are out that entire day and so the students won't be attending

095for half days in those in those periods half teacher. >> Okay. >> Well, yeah, but it's a no school day for student, >> right? >> Yeah. Okay. >> All right. Thank you. How does the balance between first semester and second semester come up? >> Great question. We always have that discussion. >> It was rough this year because of the late start. >> Because of the late start. It was really hard. >> So I have this for you. Um so first semester they're not added up. First semester is what? 79 days. >> You can't ask me to do math. >> I know we have to. They're not >> person. So 79 days and second semester is 87 91.5. >> I think we had a math teacher on the committee that said it's like a full it's

096almost a full unit in math. >> Yes. 79 and then 91.5. >> Yeah. >> The good news, bad news is most AMI days or snow days tends to have they tend to happen second semester. So that may even things up a bit. Again, if we could choose our start date, could manipulate these a bit more, but >> we've had two AMI days already, right? >> One this one. >> That's right. We went to school the first time. >> Um, how do you support teachers for the curriculum based on that? I mean, like you said, that's a whole unit a lot of times. So offer curriculum adjustments based on that one semester versus the other. >> Great question. And um generally speaking um in the last uh few years the AMI or weather related days are

097generally second semester. So they end up being more even than the calendar appears to look at the beginning of the year. Um but we can make different adjustments with the curriculum. there. Um, if we are taking pre-ESTs and see that students understand a certain concept, we might accelerate um to help us do that first semester. >> This one's even more like AMI days don't cover it. Even if you have them all in second semester, you still have the full week. >> Um, do we advise kids that when they're filling out their schedule or when they're doing schedule to say, "This class is going to be particularly hard for me. Can I take it second semester?" or is that just kind of how that >> I think it's generally pretty common so it's not discussed when

098we're developing I caps um but that's something that we can look into especially like a AP class like that's a whole 10 days almost less of >> this is extreme >> yeah like it's like 10 days it's a few days >> yeah like for AP class that's a lot >> I think it was a couple of days difference from last year's calendar. >> I'm not saying change it because I I feel like the only way you change it is to >> not have the break at winter break, >> right? >> And that's a nightmare as well. So >> they considered that, but >> yeah, I mean >> was not a positive choice. Yeah. >> Right. >> But however we can do this for our students and staff. >> Counselors might need to tell kids like

099those classes are going to be pretty intense that semester because they're going to miss about 10 days of compared to their counterparts who take it second semester. And we've also been um speaking with our state reps and over the past numerous years in bringing up that school start time. I know nobody want loves to start earlier in August, but it really gives us more flexibility if we could have local control and we as a district and a board decide when we want to start school and not the no earlier than 14 days before the first Monday of September or whatever. And I will add to that because at our legislative breakfast um um state um minority leader Ashiani, she said she had tried to get something going last year and of course it didn't go

100anywhere. But um um I spoke with Representative Mike Jones since he had never knew that this existed and impacted us so much and so he was very curious to maybe work with Representative Anie to get something moving for us. So we'll see if they can kind of come together and do a bipartisan thing. >> Yeah. NEA committee for long. >> Exactly. >> We we have capital action days. Um Missouri NEA does. And so we we advocate for that as well on our end with our legislators. >> Appreciate >> because that would help a ton. >> It would help you a lot and in so many different ways. I mean, I would be really curious to at this point to see what kind of data they have um because I know it was a big push

101from like Worlds of Fun and the State Fair and you know, I don't see it making any difference. So, I'd be interested to hear back from those groups that advocated for it to say >> yes, we've had a big >> for like college students though and >> they need them to work. >> They don't want they don't want they want them to work. >> Scott, you don't have any influence in Sidelia. the lobbyists for the education run down the Republicans. It's hard to get someone being run down to get them to do something you want them to do. So maybe treat them a little nicer would be my suggestion. >> It's your lobbyist. >> Mine. >> It's our lobbyist. It's our district. >> MSBAs. All right. All right. >> Yeah. I really appreciate the the

102context that you you put at the beginning that really outlines the constraints that the that the calendar has and I think that it's you know it lines up nicely that uh we we just adopted the the proposal for legis the legislative uh policy positions earlier in the consent consent agenda that local control like you said Mr. to weller that that would be >> that would be great in situations like these. >> Yeah, I think we could say the same as far as like the flexibility that we've been able to have through u making some changes within our calendar. I I think just in the last few years um since we've been working together, we've made more changes to our calendar than I've seen in over in the entire time I've been here. So, you know,

103even just so many so many different positions here. I mean, it's >> how many bills affect our calendar here and now? I mean, it's it's like putting a hat on a hat on a hat. >> Nope. >> Yeah. And that's and that's why we have to we spend the first session with the calendar committee really helping them understand because most people have no idea the constraints that go into creating the calendar. >> Thank you. >> I really appreciate the work. >> We appreciate it. >> Thank you everyone. Thank you. >> Thank you, Sarah. Thank you. >> Thank you, Sarah. >> All right. All right. So, uh for information written tonight, we have items 12.1 through 12.8 are rel relative uh to biz contracts and agreements. Uh 12.9 is relative to curriculum. 12.10 is facility naming

104criteria uh for Park Hill South High School football field and Park Hill School District soccer field. Uh the board will be asked to take action on these items at the January 22nd uh 2026 regular board meeting. Uh Dr. Kim, are there any items that you highlight? >> The one that I'll highlight is uh the 12.10 that you mentioned about the facility naming criteria for uh the football field and and soccer field. What we're trying to do is as we are completing these projects and we are going through uh two campuses that are having work is to make sure that we have the uh similarity between the two. We have a district stadium here that is named uh or has a named field uh Preston Field which is named after a retired teacher and coach. Uh

105that is not a family that donated or was a sponsorship type situation. and it was named uh after one of our um employees and that happened I believe about 25 uh plus years ago and so what we want to do is start with when we finished that work to be able to have uh named fields uh the criteria was adopted from the way that we name schools and so we've just gone through a process uh just recently when we uh named Angeline Washington so when you see that document and the process that's laid out there it is uh almost identical to how we would go through the process of naming a new school. So, we'll keep you posted on that. This is information only not asking for your u approval until the January meeting. >>

106So, the Park Hill School District soccer field, is that at South? >> That is. Yes. >> Are you going to name the one here? Are we I >> So, right now, we don't have plans to because we play the we use that as a district varsity field at South. It' be similar to the way that we have it. It's the feedback we heard was that uh we probably should have done that one earlier is that we have I'm pointing this direction that uh toward the field like people know. Um so uh the fe the district stadium that we have here with Preston Field, we probably should have previously had district stadium district soccer stadium with the soccer field named previously. So we're trying to get that up to the feedback that we're hearing. I guess

107I always thought that when we decided to do a full um football field at South that we were also going to make improvements to the soccer field at for Park Hill. >> So, we've made improvements. Uh the decision by the design team when they were putting uh together the package from the last completed projects was to create enough uh space and improvements, but they still elected that they wanted to play their varsity games on the district field at at South. >> Okay. >> It's a nice view place to watch again. It is, but it's um >> No, it's Park Hill High School's design team. Correct. Okay, >> that's the only one I have to highlight. I'd be happy to answer any other questions. >> Uh seeing no other questions, we'll move on to policies, procedures,

108and forms. I think we have some uh some some to take action on that we reviewed last time and then um another batch for information only. Uh Mr. Fulg um let's start with the um ones we reviewed last time the action items and then we'll move on to >> Yeah. So, just a reminder, the big ticket items that are up for approval uh as a second read is the new cell phone policy based on Missouri statute and then the policy I gave a summary of last meeting allowing uh homeschool students and virtual students that reside in the district to participate in certain activities. So, uh, those are the primary ones there. And then in the new items, uh, which as you said are for information only and would come up for action in January. Probably

109the one I'd want to highlight there that we talked about with policy committee the most is updates to our copyright policy and procedures. Um, we needed to update those based on some changes in federal law. Uh, also just based on current practice. We talked about AMI days earlier. there's different copyright considerations we need to be mindful of when materials are used in a different way and when more uh items are digitized. So, um we've been working both on those policy updates and then working with academic services uh to make sure that's getting implemented and um new postings and new guidance to our teachers and things like that in connection with copyright obligations and especially on AMI days. So, wanted to highlight that change, but happy to answer uh any questions you have. There was um

110I'm trying to find it here now. For some reason I can't find the gift in I think it's in the information the gifted student one. I guess I was surprised the nonpublic school attendance is that pretty >> for some reason I can't find it now. Are you referring to the uh 13.1 >> maybe basically where um >> 148 >> 14.8 oh where it basically says I guess I didn't realize that non students could attend gifted programs in the public schools that were at is that like a private schools or >> they come do >> yeah I don't gifted program at Park Hill. Okay. >> Okay. just because I didn't know that I was interested in that. Okay, that was it. All right. Any other questions, board on action or information? Okay. Then I'll need a

111motion and a second to adopt new policies 13.1 and 13.2 and amend current policies 13.3 through 13.7 as presented. So moved. Second. >> All right. I have a motion from Mr. Todd and a second by Miss Woodley to adopt and amend the policies as presented. Uh, all those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any oppose say nay. >> All right. Motion carries. 70. Um, and the board will be asked to take action on policies 14.1 through 14.5 at the January 22nd meeting. Items 14.6 through 14.9 are for information only. Thank you, Mr. Ful. Um, all right, board members, do we have any reports or requests tonight? Mr. Montes, >> no, thank you. >> Mr. Bolan, >> none, thank you. >> Uh, Mr. Shod, >> none tonight. Thank you. >> Uh, Miss Norris, >> none,

112thank you. Uh, Miss Willie, >> just to real quick, um, we've had a couple of, I said, presentations about staff wellbeing, and I was wondering, I know that, um, Megan Brooks, our health enhancement coordinator, mentioned about the, um, workout facilities and everything for our staff. Are there um, after school and you know, school hours and weekend opportunities for our staff and classes as well? >> Okay. >> Yes, there are. And and we can provide that for you. So, you can get that. >> Okay. And on 8.23, 23 the um program evaluation plan and the report on the assessment piece there was a opportunity for improvement where there was a request for um a desire for more training opportunities to use NWA reports in classroom instruction >> so I know we've talked about that for years

113how that's helps each student so >> are we working on >> getting that better okay >> we are and I think that that's exactly the challenge you heard tonight around the calendar and uh the committee and that whole uh desire for more training and more uh professional development. We have more training and more professional development than we have time for. Uh so you're seeing it in some of these program evaluations where tools like NWEA would be uh great to have uh you know that type of uh training and we're having to figure out how to balance that with the days that we are providing in the calendar. And then the the tough part of that is pulling teachers out of the classroom to uh get training. And so Dr. Bridewell is always working with that

114balance and her team. Um but that is something that yeah, we are continually looking at these program evaluations to figure feel or figure out where we can get better at uh providing teachers training when they want it. >> Thank you. >> Um if I could piggy back off one of those. Um, I was going to ask about it later, but since you're asking about the um, uh, workout facility, um, can we also get information about usage? >> Sure. >> It takes up a lot of real estate here and, you know, I want to be able to balance and maybe find a partner if we need additional hours that we would be able that would offer or would make better use of our >> facilities. I'd just be curious to know what the usage is. >>

115Yeah, we can get that for you. >> And Miss Barnes? >> None. Thank you. >> Okay. Right. Um then I will need a motion and a second to adjourn to close session uh for the purpose of discussing matters relevant to legal, student, and personnel pursuant to RSMO 610.0213 and 136. So moved. >> Second. >> All right. I have a motion from Mr. Todd and a second by Miss Bowen to adjurnn to close session to uh discuss legal personnel and student matters. Uh Miss Blakeley, can you call the role? >> Barnes, >> yes. >> Woodley, >> yes. >> Boland, >> yes. >> Mons, >> yes. >> Norris, >> yes. >> Todd, >> yes. All right, board members, please turn off your mics and a reminder to remain seated until the live stream fades. Thank you. Uh

116let's return at uh 2015 or 8:15 8:15.