Park Hill School District Board Meeting 09/11/2025

001[Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Good evening. I call the September 11th, 2025 meeting of the Park Hill Board of Education to order. Uh, Mr. Monsesses is absent tonight. Uh, 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. Right. Thank you for uh silence silencing your phones tonight. Um I'd like to remind the board of our norms. Um stay in the role of a board member. Be respectful, be inclusive, be prepared, and be missiondriven. And 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

002each student for success in life. Board members, any announcements this evening? Uh, Miss Barge? >> Um, yes. First off, um, uh, it was exciting to see all the all the people out there at Park Hill South's homecoming parade um, on Saturday and go Missou. Sorry, Dr. >> Kim. >> Um, al also, uh, this week we've, um, had several act activities where we've gotten to interact with, um, several members of the community. Shout out to our Park Hill partners that we met and then our DIB district council on Tuesday. And then this evening before this meeting, we got to meet some of the support staff. So, thank you for um all that you do to make the district the best. And also another shout out, happy birthday to my number one supporter and fan. My mom's

003birthday is today. And then the reason why I do this job, my daughter, her birthday is tomorrow, so I just have to do those little plugs. Thank you. >> All right. Happy birthday is all around there. >> Yeah, mine's a Sunday. >> There you go. I'm wait I'm waiting for a Missou gift from >> Did anyone ever get their own birthday party growing up? >> Dr. Kimber's going to give have a big mazoo tire for me. >> Brutal tonight. >> All right. Mrs. Woodley, do you have any? >> Uh yes, the parade was wonderful at Park Hill South. Um just seeing the community out and the weather was good, so it was great. Also that morning I attended the U Park Hill Cappy's uh 4th annual grow gathering program for our middle school girls and

004it was just so great seeing those faces come through that they just didn't know what they were coming into but they were very interactive with the activities and smiling and we actually this year first time had a parent session. So there were several parents that came and maybe about like um there's like 20 parents that showed up and so they had their own separate session to talk about substance abuse, helping their child talking through things and there was actually in plain sight room. So there was um officer from Plaque County, Officer Alstro, who set up a room with actual bed. It looked kind of like a teenage room, but he talked about and showed parents what to look for, things to identify, things that kids buy. And so it was very informative for parents. So

005I just if you have a middle school student um daughter or um a middle schooler female and um next year you're interested I would highly recommend going and Park Hill Cappy. They're online and they have great information throughout the year. I just wanted to share that. >> Great. Thank you for that announcement. Um Mr. Don, >> yes. I'd just like to echo the the sentiments of my fellow board members here in in thanking the community for coming out uh to all these these events that we've had over the last week from the parade to Park Hill partners to uh the DEIB uh coalition of councils. I just want to thank everybody who's taken taken part in these events in in their work and spending their time and deepening the the ties of community we have

006here. It's so important and I can't say how much I appreciate it. >> Thank you, Mr. T. Mrs. Not tonight. Thank you. >> All right, Dr. Kimberell, are any additional announcements? I can't do any better than than your >> I'll add just one thing that uh it was it was a week ago now. We had our ribbon cutting at Park Hill South, which was an exciting evening to open the uh gym and new weight room and fine arts spaces and allow the community to see that. We also will be having an openhouse ribbon cutting at Park Hill High School for their facility on October 9th. That'll be uh your Well, two board meetings but uh earlier in the evening. So community invited for that. That's all I have. >> Great. Then we'll move on to

007item two, adoption of the agenda. Um I'll need a motion and a second to adopt the September 11th, 2025 agenda as presented. >> So moved. >> Second. >> All right. I have a motion from Mr. Todd and a second by Miss Barnes to adopt the agenda as presented. Dr. Kimbell, are there any modifications? >> None tonight. Thank you. >> Uh board, do you have any modifications? >> All right, seeing none, all those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed say nay. >> Any abstained. All right. Motion carries. 5-0. All right. Item three tonight is our recognitions and awards, and we we have one of those tonight. So, Miss W, I'll turn it over to you. Good evening, Amy Dylan. Come on up here. You're so far away. Hi. This is so great. Usually

008they're in the audience and and tonight we get to honor Dr. Amy Dylan. Uh Dr. Dylan is our human resources assistant superintendent and she has a huge honor that just got bestowed upon her at her conference last month. Amy is this year's 2025 HR personnel of the year. Let me see. I'm going read it from here. HR administrator of the year. That's the official um at the MOASPA conference in August. So, this is a big deal. Amy's like the number one person in HR across the state of Missouri as recognized by her colleagues across the state. Amy, would you please say a few words about that? We're excited for you and we're so proud of you. I told Kelly, please don't make me talk. Um so, yeah, I'm honored and humbled to have won this

009award. Um, shout out to my team, Sasha, Josh, who um, work alongside me every day doing this work because I can't do it by myself. And, um, just a shout out to the board and to Dr. Kimell, um, you know, they took a chance and and always providing me the support and the encouragement to be innovative and think outside the box no matter how crazy my ideas are. and I just really appreciate having the opportunity to continue to, you know, really strive to meet our strategic goals in ways that maybe school HR departments don't usually get to do. So, thank you. >> Congratulations, Amy. You may now shake the board's hand. And here's your certificate. Congratulations. [Music] Congratulations. >> Proud of you. Right. [Applause] Item four is our public comment section. Um during this part

010of our agenda, we will receive public comments from patrons who pre-registered by the noon deadline today. And we had uh zero patrons uh pre-register. All right, we'll now move on to our consent agenda. Item 5.1, approval of the uh consent agenda. Before I call for a motion and second to approve the consent agenda, are there any items that need highlighted? Dr. Campbell. >> Yeah, I have a couple that I'd like to mention. So, if I could draw your attention to item 5.12, this is our recommendation of construction management firm for the 2025 bond projects. Uh a reminder that last week we presented our recommendation of the uh group Newkerk Novak Construction Partners. I know that they are in the audience tonight. And uh this action tonight is for you as a board to authorize the

011superintendent to enter into contract negotiations with New Kirk Novak. The team selected New Kirk Novak for the entirety of all of our bond projects and all three bundles for the 2025 uh bond program. I also would like to point out the next item which is 5.13 uh outfront media. These are partners with us that we started in the fall of 2024. If you remember we had the you belong here campaign in which we use digital media and uh billboards. We had 5.8 million impressions from both static and mobile campaign. We had 79% increase in traffic to our work in Park Hill website and we had almost 50% increase in applications. uh at that time frame from the prior year. And so we are continuing that strategy which goes under the systems part of our CESIP.

012And we are asking the board to uh approve this tonight. We're asking for a wave of the first read so we can get going on this and have the campaign start on October 6th and run that campaign through October and November to help us with our recruit and retain strategy. That's all I have to point out. So I'd be happy to answer any questions on any other items. board. Any questions? >> I don't have a question, but just for 5.12 um with the recommendation with New Kirk Novak, I just wanted reading through their their um proposal was very detailed and I appreciate that and uh support Park Hill's um recommendation and just knowing that from the Angeline Washington project and I specifically say um Mr. um Everett Dexter was very um warm at how he

013he walked us through things. He answered questions and he was there for the opening and everything else and just shows that that's part of who they are and I just wanted to they had trust and relationship a lot through their proposal and I that just comes through. So just wanted to make that note. So >> thank you. >> All right. Seeing no other questions, I'll need a motion and a second to approve the consent agenda items 5.12 through 5.15 as submitted. So moved. >> Second. >> I have a motion from Miss Barnes and a second by Miss Bolan to approve the consent agenda as presented or as submitted. Um any further discussion? Okay. >> All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed say nay. Any abstained. All right. Motion carries. 5-0. [Applause]

014All right, we'll now move on to our action items. Um 7.1 is approval of the 2025 2026 calendar and policy committee members. Um Dr. Carol, do you have anything you want to say on that or is this >> uh just a reminder to the board, this is an annual process you do about this time each year and these are uh recommended to us through your uh PHNA represented and uh you see the different uh members of the committee and their terms for the calendar and policy committee. Uh I h be happy to answer any questions but this is a routine annual process for you. All right, seeing no questions, I'll need a motion and second to approve the 2025 to 2026 calendar and policy committee members as submitted. >> So moved. Second. >> I have

015a motion for Mrs. Woodley and a second by Miss Bolan to approve the 2025 to 2026 calendar and policy committee members as submitted. Any further discussion? Okay. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any oppose say nay. Any abstain? >> I abstain. >> Okay. All right. Motion carries 4. All right. Item 7.2 two tonight is um adoption of resolution authorizing 128 million principal amount of general obligation bonds Missouri direct deposit program series 2025 of the Park Hill School District of Plat County, Missouri and authorizing certain other documents and actions via the district. Dr. Kelly and Dr. or Dr. Yeah, Dr. Kelly and Dr. >> Thank you. Um, we have with us again tonight uh Todd Goffy from Piper Sandler who is here to answer any questions that you might have. As a reminder

016to the board, last meeting we did our go to market resolution and this was for the $128 million uh of the series 2025 bonds. Uh this was from Proposition O and G that passed uh this or excuse me, Proposition O that passed this last April. And tonight we're asking for you to take action and adopt a resolution. Uh uh Dr. Kelly and uh Mr. Goffy will explain anything more and answer any questions you might have. >> I would just add that um the go to market resolution set into motion. Um couple weeks of work that have been led by Todd Goofy and representatives from Job Bell one was um Dr. Kimber and I participated in a ratings call. The documents also that were prepared are in the board agenda items. So those were then set

017and then established to um notify any potential um biders on the competitive sale. competitive sale will be on September 23rd, >> Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. Uh, and that will be when um we'll go through a series of competitive bid by which we can see the different offers and then ultimately run those through a series of models and have a final recommendation on who will have earned purchased to purchase those mods. I think that's all I have unless you have any questions or Todd. >> That was very complete. I think the the only other item I would mention is closing which would be the day that the bond proceeds would be wired to the district uh is tenably set for October 7th. And this is for the market conditions or that we're going to do the

018full 128 million in one sale. >> Yeah, I think the assess valuation and getting that sorted out, setting the tax rate and then just advice um from hypert of solidifying them that we're comfortable moving forward the full 128 in one sale. Okay. >> All right. Any other questions board? Okay. Well, thank you. Um, then I'll need a motion and a second to adopt resolution authorizing 128 million principal amount of general obligation bonds in the Missouri direct deposit program series 2025 of the Park Hill School District of Plat County, Missouri and authorizing certain other documents and actions by the district as submitted. >> So moved. >> Second. Right. I have a motion uh for Miss Bolan and a second by Mrs. Woodley to adopt resolution authorizing 128 million principal amount of general obligation bonds Missouri direct

019deposit program series 2025 of the Park Hill School District of Flat County, Missouri and authorizing certain other documents and actions by the district as submitted. >> Okay. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed say nay. Any abstain? Okay. Motion carries 5. Thank you board. All right. Thank you, Dr. Kelly and Mr. Gothy. All right. We'll now move on to our information uh presentations for this evening. Uh 8.1 is an update on Senate Bill 68 uh implementation. Uh Dr. Camel and Dr. D. I'll turn it over to you. >> Yeah. And you'll notice that we have uh a couple gentlemen approaching the presenter station. U give you a little background and a high level overview of this. In the last leg legislative session, there was a bill that started as about a

020two to threepage bill for safety that had two provisions and it started moving through the legisl legislature and by the end of the session it was approved as Senate Bill 68. It was closer to 100 pages and had 34 provisions. Uh we wanted to give you uh as a board and the public uh an overview of this bill to communicate uh its volume and what we are doing in Park Hill to be compliant uh with the law. So there's a lot to this and we wanted to make sure that you had an opportunity to see uh all of our different uh in individuals on our team that are doing different things to make sure that we are in line with Senate Bill 68. you've heard a lot about it through your professional organizations and um

021after the legislative session. So, I'll turn it over to Dr. Dio and she'll take it from here. >> Good evening. Um it is as Dr. Kimberell said, it um this is a a busy bill and uh as one that our team in Park Hill has been tracking all the way through uh as it was working through the legislature last spring. Um and as it grew, we knew we had to pay even closer attention um so that we could make sure that we were on top of all things. So um tonight you're going to hear from several different folks. We organized it according to basically impact on different departments um as it as we work through the evening. And so what I'm going to do is um I'm going to drive from my laptop. Uh so

022I will be a slide advancer. Um, we have two at a time that will come up here except we have one group of three. Um, before they go, I'll kind of pause and let you ask them questions if you have any about their two topics that they share before they go. That way, we don't have to worry about the shuffle um coming back and forth if that's okay with you guys. So, I'll give you time to to ask those as as we go. Um, much of what we're going to talk about rest within uh and impacts our culture and our sense of belonging. Um, the bill, as Dr. Dr. Kimell said has been touted as one of the largest safety bills that has gone through the legislature. But I'll tell you this is much more

023than a safety bill. Um and you're going to see that tonight um as we go through it. And so uh to start us out, uh Dr. Brutin and Dr. Singleary will share about the impact uh both within student services and within campus safety and activities. And uh first up is Dr. Brutin. >> Good evening members of the board. Um [Applause] Got it. Just keep going. >> Um I'm going to be talking to you about impacts to the student services department, which are several Thank you. which there are several. The first is that um in Senate Bill 68, there is a provision that requires a change in how we calculate attendance. uh students uh the requirement now is that students who are suspended or expelled from a school district are required to be counted as present

024in the school district for your state attendance calculation. Um the action that we have taken as a district is um effective August 25th which was the date that this provision took effect. Um our coding um in infinite campus for attendance was switched over to ensure that we were in full compliance and any student who receives an out of school suspension or expulsion would be counted present. um in our district in accordance with the statute. The second provision of this bill requires uh or gives the option for school boards to pass a policy or adopt a policy that allows children of contractors uh non-teer uh the children of of staff members who are non-teers or contractors to the district to attend school as a non-resident student. Um the action that we took is prior to the

025passage of this bill um we had you as a board had already passed a policy revision to policy JCA eligibility to enroll and created a procedure JCA-P1 last uh June July which permits this type of enrollment under certain circumstances. Um in addition, a third component of the uh Senate Bill 68 um requires that any school boards that have student discipline policies that are zero tolerance um that those policies be removed and it it prohibits the adoption of any further zero tolerance um disciplinary policies. Um prior to the adoption of this provision in Senate Bill 68, the Park Hill School District did not have any disciplinary policies that were zero tolerance. All of our student disciplinary policies consist of a range of disciplinary options and also allow for administrators to exercise discretion in making determinations related

026to discipline in all cases. The bill also requires um that juvenile courts provide notice to school districts within two days of charging a student with a a crime. And it requires them now to provide notice within 48 hours. excuse me, uh, yes, within 48 hours um of making a determination in relation to that matter. It also requires and gives schools the opportunity to to to seek an injunction to exclude a school now from from a student from school now um if we believe that they pose a risk to the students or or the general population of the of our of a school district. Um, and so there's no action on this item for us unless at some point at which we choose to seek action. Just for your information, prior to this, there were some

027provisions where they did have to provide notice. This simply tightened the amount of days um that they were to provide the notice in within. One of the major components that um got Senate Bill 68 really getting some traction last spring, as you may recall, is uh centered around personal electronic device use in schools. Um if you recall, I along with um a parent met with you last uh spring to talk to you about some of the work we did last year at our high schools to develop a task force and look at this very topic as well. Um this policy as written uh in Senate Bill 68 specifically prohibits the use of personal electronic devices during the entirety of the school day. Um it it asks and requires that we have defined disciplinary procedures for

028any violations of this policy. It does allow exceptions for IEPs, 504s or IHP um needs that a student might have. And it does permit use in in specific emergency situations or approved educational purposes. And it lastly requires that all of this information be published on our district website. We began the school year in compliance with this uh policy 2526 at all of our buildings. As you may recall, our middle schools and elementaryaries were already prior to last school year implementing um a very similar set of practices and our high schools came on board. were not required to implement day one um in accordance with Senate Senate Bill 68, but in conference with the building administrators or secondary or high schools, they they felt it would be best to just go ahead and start day one

029and so we did. Um and so we have implemented those practices and they have reported back that things seem to be going well. I mean, we know teenagers, they will be sneaky from time to time. Um but by and large, it has been a success and and and a positive in our school settings. We have provided updates to our parent student handbook over the summer um this last July and we've reinforced those expectations throughout the school and we provided communication that went out over the summer and as we geared back up to go to school to both parents and staff members. Um and then you can see there in the slide deck there's a poster campaign that uh Kelly Waitel and her team put together to be distributed throughout the schools as well. The last

030piece of this that we will need to work on is that it does require that you as a board adopt a policy specific to this. Um MSBA has drafted that uh draft policy for your review and that is being forwarded to the policy committee um which at some point this year will be I'm sure in front of you for a final review and approval um once it moves through the policy committee process as normal. But the good news is is that we're in full compliance with the policy or the state statute with our current procedures. Um, and so the policy is simply a formality to comply with. Senate Bill 68 also has language specifically related to behavioral threat assessments and safety plans. It specifically requires that when a student is enrolling in a school district,

031any previous school district that that student um had attended is required by law now to forward any threat assessments that they conducted or completed and any safety plans that they put into place um to the new school district so that that school district is aware of any issues that may have been investigated in that manner. It secondly requires um that schools must um um maintain those records um for their students um annually um and transfer them out um anytime that they are requested when a student leaves. So, it's a it's really a recordskeeping aspect to make sure we're properly transferring these records to and from school districts as students move between them. We are presently work work is underway to tighten up our our data tracking in relation to our threat assessment process to ensure

032that when such records requests are made we are in full compliance with this. Um a group of district staff are also simultaneously um and this work was in place before the passage of Senate Bill 68 being trained in what is called the comprehensive school threat assessment guidelines which is a a model to identify and conduct threat assessments in a in a um systematic manner um for students to ensure that we are um using a a consistent uh approach to how we would address these and it also gives us some structure and guidelines for how we might implement safety plans. So, we have a group of staff members across the district um at all at our buildings who are going through this training um here um this through October. Um and then we will begin developing

033and and making a more robust approach to how we will conduct our own threat assessments um which will then roll into how making it more um systematic in how we can report out to other school districts or receive information when students come to us. The next steps in that process um is that once the once we have completed and finalized our training obviously our our our process we'll be conducting training and guidance with our registars our administrators and other appropriate staff who work directly with threat assessment um and safety plan guidance. Senate Bill 68 also has provisions related to school safety incident reports. Um, it requires that each school district annually provide information to DESIE regarding credible threats made to schools. Um, and it specifically outlines a few provisions related to shootings or other incidents

034that may involve threats of firearms, explosive, knives, or other weapons. Um, right now we're in a bit of a holding pattern with this provision on Senate Bill 68 um because it does require that DESIE provide a specific guidance. We anticipate that DESIE will um be rolling that out as a part of the core data cycle information and will ask for us to submit that information as a part of the June core data um file upload which is where they gather large amounts of information from the school district. That June file upload also we're required to submit a lot of student discipline data. So we anticipate that is when they will request this data to be submitted. we kind of have an anticipation of what they're going to ask us to collect and how they would

035like us to to present or provide that to them. So, we're already in the process of developing um those systems in our infinite campus system and other systems that we would use like that. Um but we will hold off on finalizing that until we get the official word from DESIE on exactly what they want us to report to them um to ensure that we are reporting the accurate data in accordance with the state statute and DESIE regulations. All right. Um, all right. Well, good evening. Um, I'm going to be discussing talking about the impacts on campus uh safety and activities. So, the first thing that I'd like to uh bring to your attention is really this that idea talking about the comprehensive emergency response plans that we have in the Parkville School District. So, the

036requirement for um that is to uh for us to adopt uh comprehensive emergency operation plan and to also complete physical security site assessments annually. So um what we have done as far as the action here in Park Hill is that um good news we already have in a comprehensive EOP. Um so that that is in place and again we're working with a newly formed uh safety team that we're going to be doing and really we're going to be looking at reunification and looking at that um that plan that section to kind of um really just hone in and make some um slight changes to that. All right. Uh we also uh conduct quarterly site site assessments. So, while the new provisions talk about an annual one, we do those four times every single year. And

037we do that with all of our buildings and facilities here in the Park Hill School District. Um, we will also update these assessments to also match any additional requirements that are required by um, DESIE once they have established those requirements. The next is um, our school safety coordinator. So, the requirement for being a school safety coordinator is that school districts must um, designate a primary and as well as a secondary safety coordinator and they must be trained within one year of the appointment. So again, the action we've taken, I I myself have already been trained. I saw se several of you down um at the um in and in Branson for that and we've already I've already received that training. Um Dr. Brutin will be receiving um is going to be the second safety coordinator

038and he will be doing that uh that training in November. The next provision of Senate Bill 68 as it impacts on campus safety and activities would be the requirement of student active military members participating in sports. So the requirement is that any student who is an active duty member of the United States Armed Forces including National Guard and Reserve or active duty members uh they do not have to complete the minimum number of practices in order to play the sport. So as a reminder um some of the requirements for Misha that they have to have 14 um 14 practices and things like that. This provision requires that they do not have to meet that requirement. So the action is obviously when when we have a situation like that, we will follow this order um should

039we have a student that u meets those requirements in that scenario. We're going to be working closely with our athletic directors as well uh at the high school to ensure that um we are meeting that expectation. Next is the agreements with law enforcement. So the requirements for that piece is that school districts can enter into written agreements with law enforcement on reporting procedures for different instances of assault against a against a pupil or employee which can include authorizing and reporting offenses committed by students under the age of 11 um to the children's division rather than law enforcement. So what we have done as far as the action for this piece is that again we already have reporting procedures with the Plaque County Sheriff's Office and Riverside um police department. We revisit these provisions um with

040both entities each and every year as we enter into yearly agreements with um our MLUS and we will look at that for the 26th and 27 uh 26 27 uh school year. The next piece is the requirements as far as um on safety measures. So the next requirement is school districts are required to install anti-intruder locks on all existing uh interior doors and all interior doors installed after um August 28th of 2029. However, this is not a required provision unless a general assembly appropriates the funds for this. Um, again, going above and beyond and said some of the actions that we have done is that one of the components of Prop O include safety upgrades to our facilities and our buildings at um um here in the Parker School District. So, therefore, anti-intruder locks um

041are being installed in all classroom doors in the district even without um the appropriation of the general assembly. This work should be completed at the start of the 2627 school year well ahead of the Senate Bill 68 language of August 28th, 2029. Additionally, I'd like to note um that that all school um school playgrounds have been equipped with crash bar exit um doors for the ease of relocation should emergency arise and our fencing and all any fencing that was below 6 ft. We have addressed those. And so all all our fencing at our elementary schools have been increased to 6 ft um to fit the district standard. We've also upgraded campus surveillance cameras um in our buildings and all upgrades all upgrades to those cameras are being completed in conjunction with those those 2022 um

042bond projects. Last but not least, um I'm going to discuss about active shooter training. So the requirement on six Senate bill 68 would be beginning of the 2627 school year and handily thereafter school districts must train employees on responding to student reports of threats, handling intruder or active shooter situations, identifying safety hazards, and following emergency protocols. In addition, school districts shall hold age appropriate active shooter exercises which students, teachers, and other school employees practice the procedures for safety and protection. Lastly, each public school shall annually provide age appropriate information and training um on highway patrols pledge to report um reporting mechanism. So, what we have done in the Park Hill School District is that the district has is currently on a two-year rotation with Alice training um at each facility and that is facilitated by

043Plaque County Sheriff's Office and and because we're in a partnership with them as well. Park Hill School District uh employees also uh participate and are aware of the e emergency protocols and drills of with active shooter. All buildings promote and in information regarding courage to report as well as our anonymous um reporting mechanism of spurio. You might have heard that. and then within their spaces continuing that culture of reporting within the Park Hill School District. And lastly, all employee Parkill School District employees do receive yearly training via vector and a number of other topic on a number of topics that include but limited to um safety hazards, medical emergencies, mental health awareness and many other pieces as well. [Applause] >> Thank you guys. Questions for these two related to any of the provisions for student

044services or campus safety and activities? I have a question on um the safety upgrades that we're doing to classroom doors um from Prop O. If they appropriate funds later to do that, could we get reimbursed for any of that? Is it just too bad they're only appropriating funds for people that for districts that haven't done? >> It's a good question. I I can find out. Uh my guess is I guess that we are less than confident that they're going to um >> appropriate those those funds, but uh typically when something like that happens, we would be able to hopefully either enhance other safety measures that we have that would be uh potentially we've got aging uh doors that are on cycle or something like that. Uh but we would do everything that we could to

045ensure that the resources are getting used here. But it's the right thing to do to get moving on that. >> It is this is something that we've been >> Yeah. This is something that we've been um you know a couple different safety audits ago that that this was identified as something that we needed to be looking at. And um thankfully with the the recent couple of different passage of uh bond projects we have found that this is one of the most important things that we can do. Uh, you know, it it goes without saying that yesterday in Colorado, we have another uh terrible incident that happens at a at a school. Um, one thing that we have learned through studying these things, unfortunately, having to study these is that no student or staff member has

046ever been uh wounded behind a locked door. And so that's what's so important about these things is being able to uh get these uh door locks that are as quickly as possible able to secure our uh classrooms and and uh keep our students safe. back on the electronic devices. I was just wondering, will there be like a check-in with our admin administrators on how they're doing and dealing with those with those sneaky kids or whatever else is going on because um I've heard some good things, but I just want to make sure that we're checking in on our admin and the climate. >> Yes, I' I've been trying to check in with both the assistant principles who are often on the front lines of dealing with that and our building principles periodically these first few

047weeks just to see how it's going and we will continue that throughout this year. We're also going to circle back um to evaluate things at semester after we've gotten, you know, a full semester under our belt to see what we need to do, if anything, to tighten up, change, or improve our practice. And so, yes, >> I just like to be a breast if we could write a report or something to say, hey, this is going on. >> Absolutely. >> Good idea. >> Uh I have a question on the um student services, the juvenile court notifications. So where it says school districts may request an injection to exclude a student from educational services if the student student possesses a is that any risk like if if you guys do it like how does that work?

048Is that something that they have done and then we can exclude them or is it if we as a school district after you guys do an investigation or something and you're like hey this something needs to happen with this student. Exactly. How does that work? So with this provision, it's specific to what may have caused them to have the report that the courts generate. So we might receive one of those reports that notifies us of what occurred as to why the student um has been charged and then we could seek injunction to exclude them from school. But you already have policy that allows you under state statute 167.171 to uh for the superintendent or his or her designate to authorize the immediate um removal of a student um should we deem that they pose a

049threat to the students or the safety of the broader school campus um or themselves. And if we needed to enact that, we certainly would, even if we didn't have an immediate law unlawful offense that the student was being charged with. And then typically those would be followed up with obviously a subsequent investigation and either disciplinary measures or support plan um for that student or other students who may need it in that situation. >> Thank you. >> It seems to me that a lot of these things that have been passed in Senate Bill 68 are things that Park Hill has already had in action or has has started down the path towards. Would that be an accurate statement? I'm glad you brought that up because I was I wrote myself a note that said I forgot

050to say that um when I started and I I um I think it uh is worth noting that you're going to hear repeatedly as more of our colleagues come up and share that we are ahead of the game in many places. And I think that speaks to the quality of leadership that we have in these respective departments because in many cases um the directors and coordinators of these programs are coming in saying this is best practice. This is what we need to do and many things we already had the ball rolling on. Um and as we were reading Senate Bill 68 as it got bigger and bigger for us it didn't feel overwhelming because we were like oh we've got that going. Oh, I'm glad we got glad we got the electronic personal device committee

051meeting. I'm glad we've got you're going to hear um Tammy come up and talk about CPR and stop the bleed and those things were already in motion, too. So, um yes, there there are several places and I think that um it's kudos to the colleagues that um I have here uh and all around us that you're going to hear from tonight that they um have really um they're they're top-notch and they bring the right things forward for us. >> Thank you. >> Anything else for these two? Okay, we're going to change up. >> Thank you. Thank you so much. >> All right. So, we have Tammy Sailor uh and uh Dr. Marcus Fry here to share uh about health services and our operations. >> Okay. So, I'm going to start first with cardiac emergency response

052plans. And you guys probably remember from some celebrations from board meetings. We actually started this process in the 2324 school year with the hope that we would have all of our schools certified by May of 2025 and we had accomplished that until our new building came along. Um, but the good news is that with partnering with Children's Mercy, Angeline Washington is already scheduled for their certification on September 22nd. Um with this also um in the 23 24 school year we were able to with partnering with Children's Mercy, they were walking our buildings with us and letting us know where we needed additional AED coverage. And so through a um safety and security bill that we received in that year, we purchased 19 additional AEDs. Um and you'll hear some other things that we purchased through

053that grant in just a minute. But we also kept in mind our future buildings for Angeline Washington and also our new gyms and facilities um with Park Hill and Park Hill South. Um each school does practice one drill a semester. The requirement for the certification is one, we do two, we do one cardiac and then our second drill is always a different emergency for our teams to practice. Um all of our AEDs in our district are registered with the Missouri 911 um board and we'll add of course Angeline Washington and our new spaces when those are Angeline Washington is up but we're going to submit that all at once and all of our AEDs are clearly marked and accessible at all of our athletic events. Okay. Then stop the bleed act. That is something else

054that we are kind of ahead of the game at. We started this in the 23 24 school year as well. Through that grant, we were able to purchase a stop thebleleed trainer for our nurses and all of our nurses, I became an instructor, all of our nurses were certified during that year and we purchased stop thebleleed kits for all of our health rooms. Um, this requirement um actually tells us that we have to have stop the bleed stations outside of our gyms or auditoriums. So we have chosen by our largest gym we'll put the stop thebleleed stations been working with Marcus on that and we have already installed four and the rest will be done by October. Um stop thebleleed kits will still be in the health rooms and then for our second MERT drill

055this year all of our nurses are becoming stop thebleleed instructors. So, they will be training their uh medical emergency response teams as well as any other staff member in the building who would like to be trained because you have to be trained in order to use those those kits. Um, that's it on that one. Um, CPR training. So, this one is a little bit different. The requirement is that school districts are to pro provide cardopulmonary resuscitation training to all employees. And in Park Hill, we provide CPR, BLS, first aid, and AED training for all of certification for all of our employees for free of charge. This requires us to actually just train, not necessarily certify all employees. So, I've been working with um HR on this, mainly Dr. Culvin, and we are going to be

056rolling this out. will be doing just a basic CPR training through Vector and we're going to roll that out in January and then give staff until May. We figure that'll be a great time to use some AMI days um and just give them time to get that training done and then we'll repeat that annually starting in August of 2026. Um, we have currently 11 instruct. Actually, we have 12. We certified a new instructor this week. So, we have 12 in-house um instructors for anyone who wants to be actually certified. Um, this bill also um authorized C uh authorized school boards to make CPR training graduation no longer a graduation requirement. Currently, that what that has been a graduation requirement for our seniors. That is no longer the case as of August 28th. 2025. Um, however,

057in response, we're that policy IKF will be going to the policy committee to have that removed. So, you'll be seeing that in the upcoming months. But, as a district, we have decided in our health courses that we will continue teaching just highlevel training for CPR for our students because we feel it's important. Okay, we'll transition to the two that are having that direct impact on operations and the teams that I get to work with. The first being get the lead out of school drinking water act. Uh this is actually to kind of repeat what we've said. We've been ahead of the curve on this and in 2030 or 2023 2034 and or my goodness 2034. You know where my mind is right now. Um I apologize for that. But in 2023 2024 school year, >>

058in response to Senate Bill 681, we went through the process for get the lead out of school drinking water. And we tested throughout the school district in every single one of our buildings for those levels of lead in whether it be the drinking fountains or any area in which water will be used to clean. Um whether it be uh science products or within our kitchens. Um all of those were tested and we came back. You can see on this slide we have 2,450 areas in which we tested and it's actually more than that and we continue to test those as schools come online or we have new plumbing as we do restorations within our buildings. All of those still have to be tested. There's a cycle that after the first test, it's every 5 years

059in which these are to be tested. And we have those within our um preventive maintenance plans to continue those tests over time. And it is through that requirement in this update in Senate Bill 68. You can see there's a list of items within here that it did make changes to those testing requirements and or remediation requirements uh for each of these areas in our buildings. The first of which is that filters are allowed. So you can use a water filter. Uh it has to be a certain rating in which um is allowable for um kind of that remediation with the lead in the water. We don't have too many of those happening within the school district right now. That is not necessarily one that in which we are using. But then we have the filter

060install standards. They have to go through the department of natural resource guidelines. That's a huge piece of it. So if and where we are able to or should be using those, we have strict guidelines that we have to adhere to. And so we would do that and follow those guidances. Flushing is prohibited. So you can't just flush the pipes. Um not necessarily the toilet, but the drinking fountain, the sink. You can't just blow water through there to get the lead out of that water. It doesn't work anymore, and it never did. And so that is now part of that um Senate Bill 68 removal of the water station. You can remove the drinking fountain at this point. Previously, you weren't able to just remove a station. Now, you can. And that is something that as

061needed, we could do put in a new station if that's something that we needed to do. It gives us a little bit more freedom with how we can provide solutions for areas if and where we do have those concerns. I'll get to how we notified and how our we are continuing to notify if we see concerns here in a moment. We have that last piece in there, which the provisions that have been repealed. Any building that was built before 1996, you didn't have to necessarily test. It's no longer true. You test every building. And we did test every building before this was put into place as well. And we have that documentation. Last is it's exemption for school buildings constructed after January 4th, 2014. We tested every building and we're going to continue to test

062every building regardless of when they were built prior to the 1996 or after the 2014. We just finished with Angeline Washington's test as well. Any of these new uh areas like I said earlier where we added sinks or added any um potable water areas in the district for the bundle 2 of 2022 bond work. We are going through those same uh precautions and testing each one of those areas as well throughout the district. If you see, and actually there's a perfect example right on the other side of this wall is that anywhere in which water can be used for whether it be hose water or cuz we all drink hose water as a child. The hose water the spets if it tested in which it had higher lead levels than are allowed. There's a sticker

063or an icon on there that shows that it's not potable. We have that throughout the district. any sinks. Uh you see these pop up a lot in science labs or in different areas in which we're not supposed to be using those to consume that water or to clean items with that water and then consume out of those items. We have those indicated in every spot throughout the district. And so we are documenting that information as well. There's a link on this page to the Park Hill School District results. Those are the results from their most recent tests. That information is not just only posted on the website by building every single building in the district, not just the schools, but it was also at the time of those tests. The results were sent to families

064via email to notify of any areas in which there were levels that were above the allowed amount and then what our remediation was going to be. Furthermore, the results after we went through the remediation of those areas is now also posted on there for review as well. So, every building is on there. Keep moving here. Then the last one that we have is the school bus endorsements. This is a change an age change requirement. So previously age 70 there were certain stipulations that if you were going to drive a bus you had certain um criteria that you had to meet regarding their lensure and that age has actually been increased from age 70 to 75 and it has also changed the frequency in which these requirements are to be met. This includes the non-commercial driver's

065license. They have to now upgrade that or they have to update that every 2 years as opposed to annually. They also have to or they are waved the fee. They have to have the skills test for the bus driver by annually as opposed to annually. And then lastly, renewing that commercial driver's license by annually as opposed to annually. This is purely based upon retention of drivers and finding bus drivers where the majority of this is coming from. And so this is something that we are continuing to monitor. We outsource our busing to first student and so it's something that we can monitor and make sure that they are in compliance with but is the responsibility of first student to follow this as well. >> Any questions for Tammy or Marcus? >> I had a question

066um just now about the drinking water. So, um there's been some studies like for EPA, like for instance, they were building all that construction by Line Creek and so they said that a lot of th those environmental things would get into the soil and get into the water. I know that it shows like the last time we tested. have we tested since those situations have taken place cuz there's been a lot of studies and research just even in um Kansas City like with the different constructions like how the all that construction and all those dust and things that you pull up from pulling all those old 100-y old piping from under there can affect like the playgrounds and areas the water and sources and different things like that. >> Sure. I can't confirm whether it

067has happened just yet. We are still finishing out those projects. So any of those spots in which it is that potable water if it meets the requirement for a retest we are doing that and and or it's scheduled to be completed after completion of whatever that location is being worked on. Has that been done right at this moment? Again, I can't confirm it. We haven't finalized those products yet, but it's something that I can get you the information on. >> Appreciate it. Yeah, just cuz I know just like when they built that new roundabout and all that construction that they did over there by that >> area pulling up all that might want to test that. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions? >> Um Mailor, uh so the the stop the bleed

068station that's part of Senate Bill 68 that they need to now be out like publicly accessible at Okay. >> Yep. >> Right. That was kind of a journey I've been on is wanting those, you know, in the in the health rooms, but I guess it's where we're at. They need to be >> Well, we still have them in our health room. So, we've had them in our health room since 2023. >> Um, so we we just now are adding them adding a second official station. But I I think I I didn't want them to have to be mounted on the wall where kids walk by them every day, but I feel like a lot has changed for me since then. So, it's kind of is what it is. It's the world we live in. So,

069yeah. >> Miss Sailor, I just have a question. Um since we are no longer um you know, for the graduation requirement for the CPR certification, what are we doing for students that want that? So we will still we still offer CPR training. We have 12 instructors on site and we will we're happy to offer those um trainings to our students as well. >> Okay. So well they their health teacher will just make them aware that that's that's an option. >> Yes. Because they they are just getting a very high level training in class. >> Okay. >> And that's for every student, right? The the curriculum will still have regardless of the policy >> Yes. change the curriculum will have a CPR general training for every single student. >> Dr. Pry, thank you for um expanding

070on why the school buses. When I first read that, I was like, why are we doing increasing the aging? But that makes sense. And I just I know we'll be on top of any incidents and reports that come through for those drivers. Student safety. Thank you. Okay, we're going to do another switch. >> Thank you. [Music] All right. So, we have our academic services friends here. Um, and they're going to share uh with you. I don't know which one of you is going first. So, Mary Beth. All right. Just give me a look when you're ready for me to advance slides. >> Okay. Um so, hello. And we are here to talk about um the impacts of Senate Bill um 68 on academic services. And I'm going to talk about the first two bullet points,

071the models of reading instruction and kindergarten eligibility for children with a developmental delay. That's a lot to say in in one one sentence there. Um Dr. Dial, will you advance two slides? Um and the reason for that is because I want to talk through reading and this slide applies to what what I'm going to talk about. So in Park Hill, we've been very intentional about strengthening our approach to reading instruction. Uh Senate Bill 68 requires schools to move away from the three queuing system and instead use phonics for decoding and encoding words. Our team has already removed three queuing from our curriculum and our resources and we're fully aligned to the science of reading. Um this means our instruction is built on the five pillars of reading and those are phonics, phmic awareness, vocabulary, fluency

072and comprehension. Um the timeline that you see here shows the steps that we have taken in Park Hill to make improvements and not only to align with Senate Bill 68 but also Senate Bill 681 and the science of reading. So I'm going to walk you through this timeline journey. Um we began our science of reading journey in 2017. In 2017, um we provided training and resources for phenemic awareness intervention and um during this year we implemented the K through third grade dyslexia screener. In 2019, our instructional coaches were trained in letters and I'm going to tell you a little bit about what letters is. Um letters training provides teachers with researchbacked knowledge of how people learn to read and write. It helps teachers learn the skills to effect effectively teach those foundational literacy skills that

073I mentioned a little bit ago. Uh phonics, phony awareness, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. In 2020, um every um K2 classroom implemented sound walls. Um sound walls help students understand the relationship between sounds and letters. We also provided hegrity training for our um teachers in grades K through two. and we provided letters training to all reading interventionists and the remaining um instructional coach team. In 2021, we added a new position um to our academic services team. It was a a halftime reading difficulty specialist. And uh during 2021, we also revised our ELA curriculum to um align with the science of reading. And this was the year that we put a plan um in place to make sure that all of our primary teachers were trained in letters. And um in 2021, we trained all of our

074first grade teachers. In 2022, we piloted benchmark phonics for grades K through two and we provided letters training for all of our kindergarten teachers. We also provided Orton Gillingham professional development for all of our reading interventionists. and Orton Gillingham. Um, it's a structured approach for teaching reading and writing. It's multi-ensory, it's explicit, and it's really effective for our students um, with dyslexia. We also piloted NWA fluency during that year. In 2023, we provided morphology training and resources for our reading interventionists, and that's kind of like the next step after Orton Gillingham for those particular um, teachers. and we trained all our second grade teachers in letters. Benchmark phonics was fully implemented in grades K through two in 2023. And um that year we now had one fulltime reading interventionist in every elementary building. And we

075added two reading interventionists to our middle schools. We added a reading interventionist to Plaza and to Congress in 2023. Um, NWA reading fluency was implemented districtwide during that year and we provided letters training for our EL teachers and our special education teachers. Last year, we revised the 9th and 10th grade ELA essentials curriculum to align with the science of reading and we explored ELA resources for grades K through 5. We developed and shared tier 2 intervention menus to encompass the five pillars of reading. And we trained all new to the district K through2 teachers in letters. And and we have that plan in place now. Any K through2 teacher new to the district gets trained in letters. The other exciting thing about 2024 is our one of our instructional coaches, Maya Eel, is now a

076letters trainer. And so it's pretty I don't know, I think it's pretty cool to have a in district letters trainer. It gives us greater flexibility. Um, and also it saves us a little bit of money as well. Um, we provided science and reading training for our early childhood staff last year and we implemented sound walls at Gerner. We also added two more full-time reading interventionists at our middle schools. So, as of last year, all of our middle schools had one have one full-time reading interventionist. And this year we are implementing the ELA essentials resource which assign aligns with the science of reading. We're currently piloting benchmark advance in grades K through five. Um we have a group of teachers from Gerner that are participating in letters for early childhood. That's really really exciting. Um and

077our middle school uh reading interventionists, some of our learning facilitators, um our reading teachers, um they're participating in Aspire training, which is kind of like letters for middle school teachers. We'll also start reviewing and revising our elementary ELA curriculum this year. So, that walks you through the timeline, but we're going to go back to um the first slide, and I'm going to talk just a little bit about that second bullet bullet point. Um Senate Bill 68 includes an important clarification about how long children can be served under the young child with a developmental delay, uh YCD eligibility category. Previously, YCD eligibility typically ended once a child entered kindergarten. And now under Senate Bill 68, if a child is identified with a developmental delay before kindergarten, they may continue receiving services under YCD through kindergarten and

078first grade. The eligibility lasts until the child turns seven before August 1st of that school year. And after age seven, if if services are still needed, the student must qualify under another disability category. Dr. Sticker All right. Um, I'm going to talk about adult high school. So, an adult high school is an institution that provides educational services to adults 21 and older. So, um, Senate Bill 68 lowers at age 18. But just so you know, an adult high school prepares learners for the Missouri high school equivalency equival equivalency test. Additionally, if a student leaves our high school, does not graduate our high school, but transfers to the adult high school, we can count that as a transfer, no longer has to be a dropout. The recovery high schools, a recovery high school is an institution

079that serves students diagnosed with substance use disorder or dependency. Formerly, when a school sends a student to a recovery high school, the sending school is responsible for all cost under Senate Bill 68, sending schools can now be reimbursed if Desi from DESIE if the cost exceeds the fees designated according to the law. So those are how that those two have changed. Okay. All right. So the STEM career awareness the act creates a STEM career awareness activity fund and essentially they are trying to establish a science technology engineering mathematics STEM um activity program for students in high school. Under the act, DESIE will select a provider that um delivers teacher-led programming involving facilitating high school students conducting STEM activities and competitions statewide, nationally, and internationally. Desi will begin soliciting applications for this in January of 2026,

080and they should be selecting a provider in March of 2026. So, that's something for us to keep an eye on for our students. teacher externships. There was actually a teacher externship uh program in place and this act repeals the expiration of what was already in place. So, um that's really the only difference in this bill, but I do feel like this is a great shameless plug for the teacher externships that we do in Park Hill. So, I'm going to take it. We use the Missouri Pathways for Teachers grants to fund paid externships for our secondary teachers throughout the summer. So this summer we had 16 career and technical education, PLTW, Project Lead the Way and secondary counselors attend our externship program. They did two general sessions at Jed Dunn and Hollison Miller. And then for

081the rest of the time they broke out and went to industries that directly relate to the courses that they teach. So for example, our PLTW engineering teachers visited Thornton Thomasi and our fashion design teachers visited fashion tech Kansas City. So we include the counselors as well to enhance their ability to speak to different careers when they're talking to students. So, we are really excited about our own teacher externship programs and we're excited that the programs through the state will continue virtual assessments. In the past, students who attend full-time virtual school still had to take state assessments with a human proctor in person. So if you think about students who live in our district who are attending launch virtual school through Springfield, they still had to take their state assessments with a in-person human proctor. So

082rather than having students drive from our district to Springfield to take their test, Launch was sending people to us. They were actually using our Zona Rosa space in collaboration with us and they were hosting state testing for students in Plaque County, North Kansas City, Park Hill, and Liberty. Now with Senate Bill 68, they can actually administer those assessments virtually and they can use the cameras on the computer to monitor the students. So this really doesn't change much for us other than we won't have to collaborate and provide space for them any longer. But it does make life a little bit easier for our students or for our students in our district area that do not attend Park Hill but attend those virtual schools. The grade level equivalence on MAP tests is the last one I

083have. So currently there are four performance levels for state assessments. You're all very well aware of below basic, basic, proficient, and advanced. It's been posited that there are students achieving the defined grade level standards who fall into the basic category. So for this reason, a fifth performance category was added and that's the ongrade level. The Desi graphic or table that's up here makes it look like basic is going to be split evenly between basic and on grade level. That is not necessarily the case. Desi is hiring a consulting firm to come in and look at all the proficiency cut scores. So it's possible that advanced and proficient will change as well. And that's just an example. But all of the cut scores for the levels will be looked at and will be edited. based on

084the addition of the fifth category. Desi shared in the most recent state board meeting that they plan to pilot the five performance levels in the spring, but we don't know what that means. We don't know if that means that we will get our scores based on the four and then a by the way, if we had used the five, this is what it would look like or if the pilot means that we'll just be scored on the five. So, we are going to wait and see how that um comes down the pike, but we know that that is coming and we are ready. >> Questions for academic services friends? >> I'm excited. Well, I don't know if excited is the right word, but for the ungrade level, I think that'll I don't know. I probably

085said it in here before, but it's like people kind of weaponize that advanced to proficient to say only 38% of your students are passing. They would equate that to like passing and everyone else is failing. Feel like the odd grade level will really help clear the picture on that. >> Anything else? The STEM career awareness is pretty cool. It's more likely. >> Yeah. >> I mean, I'm interested to see where they go. >> That was like, but >> we'll give that a shot. >> We will. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you, >> Dr. Dylan. And last but not least, take it away. HR. Uh, Senate Bill 68 did not spare um HR. it has an impact on us as well. Um first of all, state aid for schools based on our calendar. I

086have a whole slide devoted to this in just a minute, so stay tuned. Um the minimum teacher salary revision. Um this piece um sets current and future minimum salaries for teachers in uh Missouri and that is set at 40,000 for one. If you remember our bachelor's degree, step one, 40,000 there and then they set one for M's plus 10 years of experience and that they're setting at 46,000 in both categories, both steps. We are well above the minimum. So, this really doesn't affect us, but they did set a minimum teacher salary. Um, teacher certification, they added an organization called Teachers for Tomorrow. Um, teachers for tomorrow has been in um, lots of states across the country, but Dusty had not approved them as an alternative pathway for teacher lensure and they have approved them now

087coming to Missouri. Um, they're a very reputable company and um, we look forward to working with them as another pathway for um, people who are searching for like an alternative certification program um, to be licensed as a teacher. And then the substitute teaching and retirement that just extended the current waiver um allowing retired teachers to teach and still draw retirement and they extended that to June of 2030. So that's good news as well. So for um state aid for schools, so the wonderful calendar um that we get to talk a lot about um includes if a district includes 169 days, which right instructional days, which right now we have 171.5. If a district has 169 instructional days, um they will be incentivized with a 1% um state aid in fiscal years 2026 27. And then

088from fiscal year 2028 onward, that increases to um 2%. Just as a side note, um I know we're not talking about and we're talking about Senate uh Senate Bill 68, but there is Senate Bill 364 um that was also passed that says that if um that districts won't be penalized if we go below the 169 if it's due to weather. So, if we do everything we're supposed to do, use our AMI days, and we still dip below the 169, we would um not be um penalized in terms of this incentive. Questions for Dr. Dylan? Okay. And then, um not to be outdone, there are still six other provisions that don't impact us. um they actually impact either the state board of education or DESIE, but I didn't want to leave them out. Um I didn't

089want them to feel left out, but these are the six that um there's nothing that implicates or impacts us in Park Hill at this time, but I didn't want um to leave those uh out in case you hear about those in other cases, but at this time um there's no impact on us uh for these pieces. So with that, um that is Senate Bill 68. Um and uh I I said it earlier, but I can't say enough about the great work that um all of our colleagues have been doing uh even before the provisions went through, but uh but now um with many of them, the work that they've been doing um has been a great lift and uh and yet we still are doing it um with uh good processes and systems so that

090we can make sure that everything that we do is sustainable. So, um, we appreciate your time and all of your questions and for, um, taking all of this in. I know that was a lot. Dr. Kimberl, I don't know if there's anything else you want to add to close. That's all I have. >> Be happy to answer any other questions. >> Well, I just want to say thank you to everyone involved. I I feel like this is very, I don't know, kind of almost symbolic uh in in a couple different ways. Um this is what our second year of a massive omnibus bill. 727 was from the year before. Um you know you can you can literally see how much time and effort and money that this is you know administration time that this is

091going to take. And then at the same time we're talking about assessments and local funding and state funding and federal funding and all the things going on there. Um there's a big picture here that I just want everyone to we can't focus in on one little thing. This is all intertwined and you know it's Yeah. So it's Thank you for for all that. >> Yep. Um it's going to fall more on a board request, but um if possible, Dr. Brightwell, could you provide like >> the timeline that Dr. Muse gave? There was a lot of words and acronyms that these given. If you could just the different programs that and give a short definition and what grade it or level it affects like a lift of that. >> Yep. Thank you. >> Thank you guys.

092Appreciate it. >> Thank you. >> All right. We have our We'll now move on to our information written. Um we have items 9.1 and 9.2 are relative to bids, contracts, and agreements. Uh 9.3 is relative to curriculum. Um and then Dr. Kimbo, are there any items that need to be highlighted? >> I'll highlight a couple real quickly just on 9.1 the plan technology monitoring. This is for cyber security and um I will continue to provide the board more information about this. One of the things I want to point out is that it is about a 200 close to $50,000 uh purchase, but our technology team has uh secured almost 200,000 of that in an external grant award. So, that was really great that they were able to uh find that and help that with our

093cyber security to keep our students and our staff uh data and other uh things u technologically safe. Um and so whether it's ransomware attacks or uh privacy, all those type of things are what this is about. And um wanted to point that out. We also have item 9.4, which is uh we had enough of a Senate bill tonight. So this one is a written up uh update on Senate Bill 63. It's a much shorter bill, but just as a high level, this is about um how it relates to students uh that are in non-traditional educational settings and how they can participate in Misha activities such as homeschool students, full-time virtual students, and so on. So, if you have questions about those, we'd be happy to answer. We provided you a written executive summary in your

094packet. That's what I had as uh highlights. I'd be happy to answer any questions. Um, did we also need to highlight 9.5? >> Yes. >> Yep. So 9.5 or Okay, that's next. >> Can I ask a question real quick? >> Oh, yeah. 9.4. >> So, I read through this and I know we've been to a meeting about this. I guess my question is um how are we getting like the grades and all those standards that we that we have for our students? Um you know you have to have certain grades, you have to meet certain um eligibility requirements to participate in sports or in extracurricular activities. How are we verifying that that information with homeschool or non-traditional students so that they can participate in those in these activities? >> So you um in the packet

095um Dr. Singleary included appendix D which came to us as um um an administrative procedure form from MSBA where uh for a homeschool student the parent certifies their grades. So your mama just says yes, >> you are correct. >> Okay. I just want I mean I'm just asking the question. >> You are correct. Okay. Yes. Um that is how the provision of the law is set. The parent can set the grade. >> Okay. >> Yep. >> No, I'm just I'm just asking so that I completely understand question. >> No, I'm no not anything bad. I'm just asking the question. I think >> the honor system would be the best way to describe that. >> Yes, ma'am. >> All righty. Thank you. >> You're welcome. Okay. Uh, the board will be asked to take action on

096these items at the September 25th, 2025 regular meeting. Um, and now it's time for item 9.5, U, board vacancy candidates for discussion. >> Yeah. So, uh, sorry, I want to get this pulled up on my There we go. So, uh, a reminder that, uh, after, uh, your board meeting on August 24th or excuse me, August 21st, uh, we had, uh, two dozen candidates that, uh, applied for the board of education opening that we had. And we went through the screening process and process to, uh, get that to a more manageable finalist number. And through that process, we have listed those candidates uh that uh came to the top. Those in alphabetical order are Justin Barton, Danna Munoz, Alexia Norris, and Lana Thor. And so what we wanted to do tonight was not only make uh

097that public that we have gotten down to a finalist pool of four, but also that uh there are a couple next steps that we want to make sure that the board is aware of and make sure that if there's any discussion andor questions to give uh us direction or Mr. Turiliger direction so that we can be prepared for the interviews that happen on September uh 24th. the um interview questions, we will communicate with you via electronically to start vetting those questions on questions we've used in the past. So, you will receive those and the board will be selecting what those questions uh would be for uh the interview panel. Um I also recommend a similar process to the rank order voting that you did uh during the screening in which the board will uh interview

098finalist candidates uh at a panel um at one time and uh rank order 1 to four after discussion. Uh the data will be calculated by Dr. Kelly and uh given to the board secretary and board president and then you will determine uh who had received the uh highest score there. Um, we also will have a process to uh deal with any ties. So, if that would happen, we can uh address that at that time. Again, September 24th is an open session. Your policy requires that any of these uh interviews and discussions relative to a board vacancy take place in an open session. So, that's uh on the calendar now. and then I'd be happy to um answer any questions or allow discussion around things you need relative to the process or other support you need

099to be ready for the 24th. >> I think we discussed the format on that would be like a three minute open and like a one minute close. >> Yes. And we'll confirm all that uh with um the communication around vetting those questions. But in the past, one of the things that we did do and we would let the candidates know this so that they know at least the format uh prior to coming in is that we have had a timed opening statement opportunity for each candidate and we've also had a timed close state statement and the way we typically have done it in the past has been kind of a randomized uh order of how those are addressed to the uh candidates so that um there is uh not the same pattern and so on.

100>> Okay. So open open for discussion as board and then we'll communicate to the candidates before the 24th. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Will there be any time limits for the answers or they free to >> what would you like to have? >> No, I would recommend >> Yeah. I just don't want to be neither do they. >> What would you recommend as a appropriate time? >> I think in the past we've used three minutes. >> Three minutes >> for each question. for each person. >> Okay. >> That aligns with your public comment um process and the our regularly scheduled board meetings. So, three minutes. >> Okay. Support that. >> Anyone have any thought? I know we'll discuss this um digitally, but um how many questions or just kind of see what see what the

101questions are and kind of see what feels right. I like to hear the questions, but also we do make sure we limit so we're not there >> all night long. >> I would say probably no more than five >> plus the opening and the closing. >> Typically what we've uh done is it's been basically a question per board member. Um it's kind of the the general rule of thumb that we've used. But uh we will get that list of questions to you and uh also open that up for any other suggestions that you might have. and then I'll communicate with Mr. Turwilliger so that uh we can provide the feedback to him and he can communicate with you on uh what the interview script would look like. >> Sounds good. >> Yeah, I don't have

102any questions, but I would like to say thank you to everyone who's applied because that is a big step to say that they're willing to take part in this public process and thank you. >> Yeah, thank you for that. That's yeah, just I was blown away by the uh the number of people that were interested in this role and um thank you for that. Um >> there are um there's also plenty of other opportunities to uh engage in the district and we got your names now so Yep. Um but um yeah, but yeah, and seriously, thank you so much to the community for the outpouring of interest in this uh in in the role of of being on the board. It's an important role. It's a challenging role, but it's a very rewarding role. So,

103thank you for everyone that was interested. All right. Um, item 11 is board member reports and requests. Do we have any reports and requests tonight? Uh, Mrs. Bolton? >> None. Thank you, >> Mr. Todd. >> None. Thank you, >> Mrs. Woodley. Um on 4 on 5.14 the HR um program evaluation I was just wondering if I can get more information about under the opportunity for improvement there was um continued work regarding mitigating bias in human resources processes. I just wanted to know if that's technical or is that human side or the overall process. Just kind of interesting because I know we're working on retention and everything else. I'm just wondering what those are. What attributes are those? I won't prior report. >> Okay. Thank you. And one other thing was um I noticed in the

104communications um the creativity innovation of um the Taylor Swift post and I was just wondering could we and I've asked this before I know in the past of ways that we can lift up students outside of just academics and sports and other programs of you know behavior improvement attendance. um even incorporating our DIB drivers and narratives, which I know we do the DIB champion, but I mean that could probably be used as well in schools to increase that inclusiveness, uh welcoming spaces and different things if we're lifting that up for our students. >> It's a great idea. >> That is it. >> Okay, thank you, Miss Bars. >> Um yes, I just want to follow up um what I mentioned to um Dr. right? Just about the water and the EPA and just all those

105just seeing if he could look into that information cuz I'm sure we might find and not just Lion Creek. I know we got all that construction still going on by Russell Jones. I just think we need to make sure we're looking at all that to make sure it's not impacting our students and staff in any way. >> Okay. Thank you. >> All right. Um we'll now adjourn to close session. I'll need a motion and a second to adjourn to close session for the purpose of discussing matters relevant to legal and personnel pursuant to RSMO 610.02113 and 13. So moved. >> Second. >> All right. Have a motion from Mr. Todd and a second by Miss Bolan to adjurnn to close session to discuss legal and personnel matters. Uh Miss Freeman, can you call the role?

106>> Barnes, >> yes. >> Bowen, >> yes. >> Williger? >> Yes. Todd. >> Yes. All right, board members. There's