001[Music] Good evening. I call the July 24th, 2025 meeting of the Park Hill Board of Education to order. Uh, please join me in the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge algiance 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. Uh thank you for silencing your phones during uh tonight's meeting. 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, be prepared and be missiondriven. And a reminder of our school district mission statement is uh through the expertise of an engaged staff, the Park Hill School District provides a relevant and a relevant education in a safe, caring environment to prepare each
002student for success in life. Um board members, any announcements this evening? Uh Miss Barnes? >> Um good evening. Um, I just want to say, um, as everyone's enjoying their summer vacation, um, just thank you to all the staff and workers who are getting our buildings together and prepared and and with new and exciting things for our students and staff to experience on the first day of school. So, um, thank you for all your hard work. >> Thank you, Miss Barnes. Uh, Mrs. Woodley, >> I would just echo what Miss Barnes said. Just thank you to all of our staff. Yeah, tonight we got to tour some of the new facilities, at least at the high school level, and it's really coming together and uh it's going to be exciting times when they students get to
003use those going back into the new school year. Uh Mr. Todd, >> none tonight. Thank you, >> Miss Bolan. >> None tonight. Thank you, >> Mr. Mon. >> No, thank you. Okay. Uh Dr. Kimell, are there any additional announcements? >> Uh yes, I I do have these. Since we are here at the end of July and summer is going quickly, we have some upcoming uh dates that are right around the corner. So, our new teachers come back uh or come to Park Hill uh starting on August 4th and then uh shortly thereafter we start our freshman and sixth grade orientation. So, those are on the 7th of a August. Middle school open house on the 13th of August and elementary school back to back to school night is uh the 14th. So, those are within
004the next couple weeks and we look forward to welcoming everybody back uh for the 2526 school year. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you, Dr. Cameron. All right. We'll move on to uh item two for tonight, which is the adoption of the agenda. I'll need a motion and a second to adopt the July 24th, 2025 agenda as presented. >> So moved. >> Second. >> All right. I have a motion from Mr. Todd. There's a second by Miss Barnes to adopt the agenda as presented. Dr. Kimmel, are there any modifications? >> None tonight. >> Board, do you have any modifications? >> Seeing none, all those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed say nay. >> Any abstained. All right. Motion carries 6. All right. Um item three tonight is a notice of a board
005member resignation. Um on July 21st, 2025, Mrs. Barber provided a notice to the board um that she wed to resign uh from the Park Hill Board of Education. Uh Mrs. Barber's term uh was scheduled to expire in April of 2026. Uh this announcement to the board officially opens a vacancy and allows for the board to begin filling that vacancy. Um the board would like to take this time to to thank Miss Barber for her service uh to um the community uh our school district and and public education. Um, we would like to encourage anyone interested in serving on the board to apply. Um, applications will be available to pick up at district office, on the district website, or by emailing the board secretary at board secretary, all one word, um, at parkill.k12.mmo. us. [Applause] Right.
006Item four, uh, tonight is public comments. Um, during this part of our agenda, we will receive public comments from patrons who pre-register by the noon deadline today. Uh, we had zero patrons pre-register. All right. Um, next up is the consent agenda item 5.1. Um, before I call for a motion and a second to approve the consent agenda, are there any items that need highlighted? Uh, Dr. Gable. >> Uh, yes. I'd like to highlight one item that we are asking to wave a first read. This would be the first time that it is in front of the board. It's uh item 5.22 which is the approval for the alternative methods of instruction AMI application. We learned uh that DESI has changed their form this year. And so when we were going through that process this summer,
007which is an annual process to apply to make sure that we get our uh appropriate AMI days when we have inclement weather or other needs during the school year, uh that now on that form is a requirement for board approval. Uh the date that we have to have that uh submitted by is July 31st. And so we're bringing it to you tonight in consent asking for your uh approval there. Another reminder on AMI that's a little bit different than last year is that we have added an additional uh day that's available to us. So this year we would have six available uh if needed for inclement weather and other needs. Um that change happened uh a couple months ago with the calendar as well that was brought to you. So other than that I have
008no other information. I'd be happy to answer any questions. >> Okay board any questions? >> Okay. Um, then I'll need a motion and a second to approve the consent agenda items 5.2 through 5.22 as submitted. >> So moved. >> Second. >> All right. I have a motion from Miss Bolan and a second by Mrs. Woodley to approve the consent agenda as submitted. Uh, any further discussion, board? Okay. All those in favor say I. >> I. I. >> Any opposed say nay. >> Any abstain? Okay, motion carries 6. All right, we'll now move on to our action items for this evening. Uh 7.1 is the architecture services for the 2025 bond work and I'll turn it over to Dr. Kimbell and Dr. Fry. >> Yeah, we have no additional uh information at this time. Just a
009reminder that on the uh 26th of June and at that board meeting, you had a information item presented to you that was recommending Hollison Miller for our upcoming uh bond work and uh those design projects that are going to begin right away. And so we are bringing that back to you tonight for approval. Uh myself or Dr. Fry who led that process would be happy to answer any questions. All right. Well, seeing no questions, um I'll need a motion and a second to approve the architecture services for the 2025 bond work as submitted. >> So moved. >> Seconded. I have a motion from Miss Bolan and a second by Mr. Todd to approve the architecture services for 2025 bond work as submitted. Um all those in favor say I. >> I. I. Any oppose say
010nay. Any abstained? All right. Motion carries 6. All right. Our next item is 7.2 approval of extra duty pay riders. Um Dr. again we have no additional information on this one. This is an annual uh process. This is probably the longest list that we have in front of you for the year. these come back to you u on a regular basis as we need to add those. But I'd be happy to answer any questions um with this particular item. >> All right, seeing none, I will need a motion and a second to approve the extra duty pay riders as submitted. >> So moved. >> Second. >> I have a motion from Miss Bolan and a second by Miss Barnes to approve the extra duty pay riders as submitted. Uh, all those in favor say I.
011>> I. >> Any opposed say nay. Any abstain. >> I abstain. >> Thank you, Mr. T. All right. Motion carries six or 5-0, excuse me. >> All right. We have uh one information presentation tonight. It's item 8.1 and it's around the two 2025 tax rate. Dr. Camel. Dr. K. >> Thank you. Uh before I turn this over to Dr. Kelly to provide our uh update, remember last month the board of education uh approved our 2526 budget for the upcoming school year. Uh we used a conservative 3% growth based on uh the assessed valuation estimates that we had at that time and we talked through some of that. We will continue to explain some of that tonight and where we are. We've received additional information from the county and Dr. Kelly is going to provide that
012information on what we know now, the next steps that we uh will need to do and uh all of this is working toward the statutory requirement that you have as a board to set a tax rate by September 1. And so with that, I'll turn it over to Dr. Kelly for our information presentation tonight. >> Thank you. Um as Dr. Kimberell mentioned you approved the the budget uh at our last meeting in June and so that went into effect in July. Uh and so really the last formal action that you take that addresses that budget is this which is the approval of the tax rate which we'll bring to you a recommendation at our August meeting. And so this uh information presentation tonight is just to give you some background on what we'll be working
013on over the next month to to bring a recommendation to you for that tax rate and what it's based on. Um as you know the the formation of the budget addresses our systems goal primarily around maximizing financial resources. Um and so the uh setting of the tax rate uh is a key item perhaps the most important items simply because in Park Hill so much of our revenue is dependent on uh property tax and so it is the single largest driver um of the budget is the tax rate and so this flowchart um which you've seen before in the different uh budget presentations were right here in August after you set that um or we're in July, but um in August when you do set that tax rate um we will um then kind of shift
014gears into preparing for next year's budget uh based upon the information we have. Um and so again that that setting of the tax rate is basically the last item uh for fiscal year 26 and then we'll shift gears in September. So, this uh slide does not uh yet present what we're going to bring to you next month, but this is more of a history, a 10-year history of where we've been in our tax rate. And so, that is the sum of two pieces, two different tax rates for two different purposes. The orange bar on this graph represents the operating levy and then the turquoise blue uh represents the debt service levy. And so, uh, the board has, um, committed to the taxpayer in these years, uh, to to maintain that 53955, which has allowed us
015to kind of move that bar around a little bit, but just, uh, stay at 53955. Um, what was um what the voters did last April was something that has not happened since 2002, uh, which was pass an operating levy increase. And so I'm you well remember the operating uh levy increase. Uh it was very explicit within the ballot language that um what was being asked for in that operating levy uh to fund competitive salaries for uh all staff uh that it would result in a 10 cent um increase in the operating levy. So that orange bar the voters have approved for that ceiling to increase by 10 cents. And uh the estimate at that point was to move from 483 to 493. And so that will actually be our recommendation um based upon the voters's
016approval. Uh the debt service levy was also a little different. We've uh we have gone to the voters uh multiple times since 2002 uh to for debt service and the sale of bonds. Uh those were all for no tax increase. So, this was actually also uh something that has not taken place in in many many many years, which would be a tax increase that would fund additional debt. And so, this is to fund the Park Hill 2034 plan. And that was um expressed to the voters that that would uh estimated increase the debt service levy from 56 cents to 86 cents. And so using those new values, this is what that graph would look like in terms of the history. The 10 cents in Proposition G, the 30 cents in Proposition O is a 40
017cent uh tax increase. And so what we will bring you in August uh will will be five the 57955 will be the total of those two. And we'll be working on kind of what what the numbers will be between the two. Um but it will be no higher than 57955. So, um, how the tax levy generates revenue basically is by taking that tax rate times the assessed valuation um, in Plaque County, but more specifically in the Park Hill School District portion of Plaque County. Um, we are 100% implant county. So, we're not dealing with multiple counties and county assessors, but the assessor actually does the work of providing our uh assessed valuation, the total assessed valuation for Park Hill. And, uh, this graph um has two bars similar to our tax rate, but not to
018be confused, you multiply our tax rate times this u assessed valuation. uh you do a little bit of math and divide it by 100 and you would come up with our revenue. And so this component, this assessed valuation is a major component in which drives revenue and property tax. Um this is a 10-year history and uh you know these these bars obviously have increased over the years. What you really can't see is that in these uh years that start with an odd number, these are much larger jumps from the prior year. Uh and that's due to reassessment. And so I've got a slide coming up here that'll kind of just extract the reassessment years and kind of show this in a better way. But um what is what was um sent to us uh about
0193 weeks ago was an estimate of what the assess valuations um are. And so um this is before the board of equalization has had an opportunity to review the appeals uh for individuals um tax bills. But at that point before the board of equalization um our assessed valuation total would go up from to 2.47. The blue and the red bar represent the blue is real estate um property and the red is personal property. And so reassessment really only applies to the blue bar. Um and so the red bar is independent. There is no reassessment on personal property. And so the graphs that I have in moving forward to show the impact of reassessment this year and how it's different from prior reassessments is really only going to focus on the blue bar. So uh overall
020um if you were to extract out the last uh five uh reassessment years so this basically takes us even number years out um we are standing at a 3.4% 4% increase before the board of equalization has done their work in pri the four prior reassessment years that you can see the values in terms of what those increases were. So this is significantly less than um the last series of reassessments. Dr. Kimell mentioned that you know we went through in the budgeting process all the way from January um putting into a number that started really at 5%. And if you were to take the the average of these, it's 7.4% in terms of what reassessment typically generates in terms of new assessed valuation. And so conservatively for prep preparation of this year's budget, we were plugging
021in a conservative five. We got information from the assessor, as you know, last month that they were going to do things a little differently. And so then we, um, we narrowed that down to 3% as Dr. Kimberell mentioned. And so that 3% is um this is the number that it ultimately ended up before the board of equalization. So we u ultimately the numbers in the budget that you approve were based upon a 3% growth and this actually results at currently at 3.4 and that's before the board of equalization. So these are not certified numbers but they're they are the numbers that we have for right now and we'll get the certified numbers here in about two or three weeks. >> Dr. Kelly. Yeah. Um so that 3.4 for so it can only go down from
022here, right? because of equalization is they're hearing like u what's the word they're protests of the so it can only go down from here right >> that is generally true I think uh assessments though are pretty dynamic and so you could actually get other property added between so it there are some things that could be driving it upward as well but but nobody's protesting to get their taxes higher and so it can only basically go down So, and then you mentioned um the assessor didn't notify us. We kind of found out behind the scenes and they there still has been no official statement from the we had a we found out we forced we asked to have a meeting with the assessor but there still has been no public announcement of why this is happening.
023>> Yes. Okay. >> Correct. And this is even when Black County has been undervalued already, right? We're what was it? 81% of 100% of the total value of the the county >> with the r and that was based on 2023 >> um numbers and the range would be 90 to 110% typically across the state and we were at 81 which is what you just mentioned. So two years ago we were undervalued and so this I think your point being is that this isn't really contributing to that problem um at all. In fact we may be going backwards. >> Yeah. >> So um this next slide actually ex does the job of extracting the personal property. And so if you were to look at just the what reassessment in terms of the value that's added in
024these reassessment years, you can see that it's even a starker contrast here between what happened this year's reassessment versus the prior four years. Um and so generally speaking and during a reassessment year, just using history, um just reassessment alone would have generated 7.2% 2% increase in um in our assess our our total assessed valuation. That's just the reassessment of existing property. We've pulled out personal we've pulled out new construction countywide improvements. Those are all over here. This is just looking at existing property in in the increase year uh in these years um these reassessment years. And so you can see that something is quite a bit different this year uh than in the last four years. And so that 7.2% which is the average of these four um is being compared this year to 04.5%.
025Um so very very different. Um it added 9.5 million in assessed valuation you know and back in 2021 we had $182 million added. Again this is also in an environment by which we've learned that we're underassed. So again, only 9.5 million uh that's assessment. That's not revenue for us. That's the assessments um was added this year. So something clearly different uh went on uh in in the county uh in this reassessment year. So when you take the levy and you multiply it by those uh values uh that we have, this is where we stand with um projecting our revenue. the the blue bar um will go to support increases in staff salary. The budget that you approve, the operating budget, the red um bar there is what will go into debt. That is quite a
026bit bigger. That's the 30 cent uh the that's the result of those 30 cents, but we're just going to have more debt to pay when we sell the bonds, which will occur here in a couple months uh to support the Park Hill 2334 projects. And so this would be where we're looking right now. Um and again we had estimated 3% and this is reflecting right now 3.4%. So from a budget perspective we prepared well. Um we're still a far cry from perhap what it could have been or should have been uh based upon um our understanding of the the values of a property in Park Hill. So the next steps here would be uh we just wait and have the um board of equalization do their work. They turn that into the county clerk. The
027clerk then notifies us and then we'll have certified values. We then do the calculations about what what the tax rates will be, what the debt service portion will be, what the operating will be. We need to send a notice out before the board meets that there is a public hearing uh scheduled for August 21. So, that is a requirement that the um community is notified that there's a hearing that will take place on the 21st. We're scheduled today to have that hearing on the 21st and then we need to get the results of your vote uh to the county by August 30th so that we uh comply with that September 1st deadline. >> And Dr. Kelly, before you move on from that slide, this is uh all process that would be uh completely expected and
028what we would do in any given year is what you're seeing uh right there. Uh as we talked about uh the potential under uh assessment and some of the things that are going on relative to the uh questioning of those uh pieces. Uh we have uh as superintendents uh across this county uh talked and we are uh working on what and you know that we've sent a letter to the state tax commission last month. Uh what we've learned is that there uh has been differing assessment values between districts across the county of of uh Platt and and that's five different districts. We also learned that a couple of districts that are close to us are uh what Dr. Kelly mentioned we are all in Plaque County where we have some districts that are actually straddling
029county lines and learning that uh we have neighboring counties in Klay County that uh the average there in terms of assessment growth was around 11%. And the average uh in Buchanan County, which North Platt has some Buchanan County there, was in the double digits as well as uh increases in assessment. So, we're seeing some disparit pieces there. And so, we have some questions around that. The state tax commission has uh set a date as August 23rd as their time to uh act and uh they have the authority to be able to direct the county to make any sort of adjustments. We do not know where that is in the process right now. And if that uh impacts any of this timeline, we will certainly keep you updated relative to that so that we can meet
030our requirement to make sure that we set the tax rate by September 1st with all information uh possible. But I wanted to point that out relative to Dr. Kelly's uh presenting this as if this is exactly uh what happens and what we know at this time and the information we have. So that state that timeline wouldn't adjust with the state tax commission's >> the September 1st deadline. Not to my knowledge. They have they have uh signaled that they would want to try to do that work understanding that counties have to set the tax rate by September 1st is what we've been told. Uh so at this time I have uh no information that would suggest that that's been extended in any way. But that August 21st is just what the date that we have chosen.
031Correct. So we can pick a date between the 21st. >> That was our reg that's our regularly scheduled board meeting that we had uh approved back in April well before any of this discussion has started taking place. We're keeping that particular regular board meeting on the calendar. And if we needed to for any reason uh have that tax hearing, we would post that in the appropriate time. make sure that we would get that uh done if we were expecting to see uh some change from the process in which we're at right now. >> Does the tax hearing have to be in person? >> Yes. >> Mr. Wes, >> the tax rate is separate from the assessment because the tax rate is just what we've been saying we're going to do. We're going to set the
032same rate no matter what. It's what happens with the assessment. We can't affect what >> it's not necessarily true. >> Well, how is it? I don't see how it is. >> Because if they had if they had assessed it with a 15% increase, we could have dropped our rate and only decided to charge our taxpayers the total that we need. >> Yeah. So, the the typical process, and this would be no different, is that you do have to plug those numbers in. So we have to wait to get the assess the final assessments before we can even recommend a rate. And in typical years what would happen would be if the assessments had gone up like in these years um where it did go up um by that well we did not receive 12.1% increase
033in revenue because in that case the Hancock amendment applied and so we had to do the calculations uh and we wouldn't know how far to move it down until we get the assessments. So we need the assessments first to set the tax rate and what as Bolan said to is true as well. So um we can voluntarily roll back based upon a year that's perhaps larger than we anticipated. So >> and we've done that >> generally we yeah we have >> particularly in debt service we've done that >> um >> probably almost every year. Um >> we don't have any flexibility to do that this year. So we're with what they've given us, we're kind of backed into a corner. I would agree. But >> Dr. Kelly, um, so Proposition G, go kind of go
034over the quick numbers on what Proposition G raised, but now how much of that's basically getting taken away by I guess going from 5% to 3.4. Yeah, I don't I mean I think um each percentage um might be about $2 million. >> Okay. >> So that's rough, but so you could say going from five to three would be four $4 million perhaps in operating expenses. >> So that would be the impact from five to three. But in a scenario by which it was seven like or 12, you know, that's a significant and that may have been something where the board would would consider rolling it back and voluntarily doing that because that it it is unique this year for us because we did pass an increase that Hancock does not apply. So this uh state
035auditor would not have required us to roll it back um because that was our first year of that tax rate. Um, so if it had been 12%, well then that is the potential for quite a bit more revenue than we anticipated and may have been something where you would have perhaps shifted more of that into debt service um and to to to maybe try to address um kind of getting our debt paid sooner so that we can perhaps pass phase two of Park Hill 2034 sooner or maybe do it for no no tax increase. So yes, >> I think this slide to me is why this scenario is particularly frustrating because it wasn't like our um taxpayers or our community was asking for less tax to pay. They approved this overwhelmingly and I feel like
036um the actions by the assessor are overturning the will of the voters. >> We're not doing >> very frustrating. Yes. >> Yeah, I agree. >> I know it was intimated that the that the assessor's office would go for a 0% assessment this year. >> Um the the 48% do we have any indication of what was reassessed or what the criteria was for the reassessment to trigger? >> Yeah. All of what you said is questions that we have which is we were led to believe that um for various reasons some of which didn't make maybe complete sense um that it was going to be zero and so it does kind of beg the question of like well who or which properties were reassessed in Park Hill and then as Dr. Kimberl asked why is it different
037in West Platt or Pla County R3? It's it's the same county and so why is you know the comparable number in Plaque County I think was three or 4% or >> yeah around yeah I think it was pushing 4% >> you know 10 times you know our number and how can that be you know in terms of the property values being so much different so there's a lot of questions but uh we were led to believe that that would be next to zero this does not reflect new construction or anything this is just the reassessment of Um, we were led to believe it was >> right because our our 3% conservative estimate that was presented to you was accounting for new construction and personal property essentially is what we were it was like an even
038year type situation is what we were looking at. as the as this this progresses, as we learn more from the from the state and get some more information about what's going on here, um is there a way for us to find out what criteria were used to to trigger this 48% increase? >> Yeah, I mean, I think we could sunshine make a sunshine request on that to see what the properties were reassessed and what not. I mean, I I've not been through that process to do that specifically, but I think that's all public information. You know, you um all this information is available on the Black County GIS website anyway. So, um asking for it um should be common >> because we sunshined that report, but that was from 23, right? I'm thinking thinking of
039the one that was >> the state report. >> Yeah. So the that particular report was if I remember right if I'm getting the the one that you were talking about is from 23 in which it was indicating what were the actual increased values that were presented from plaque county to the state tax commission >> right like what I'd like to see what they submitted for 2025 and then like we need to do we need to sunshine emails and see if anyone's talking about this behind the scenes There's just this is just so bizarre that all of this kind of comes in at the last minute with no warning with no official update from the assessor. It's super bizarre. >> To Mr. Toss point, I would be curious to see if there are certain areas that
040were targeted or whatever as far as assessments and why if we could see that, but I don't know if that's if we would go that far to sunshine and see all those, put it on a map. Um I guess my question is um how does this affect us long term? Like you know I I think that we need to just be honest with ourselves and with the public like our assessor made this decision. This is like without us and knew that we passed this bond. So, how does this affect us long term coming from like our salaries going to be stagnant? I mean, I just think that we need to like have some open conversations about how this will affect like >> programming >> pro programming um construction. I just think that how do we
041have any idea of how those things may be affected going forward? You know the key things we did in preparation were make some decisions in which we are going to end this year if we stay on track. Uh we're going to end this year with quite a bit lower fund balances than uh we had originally thought and then that has all kinds of impact in terms of what you can and can't do in future years. Um if you know pick the number that you think um is being kind of cut from this whether it be 4 million or more you know that's a compounding um amount and so you can look at some of the projects that you saw as you walk through and and the impact of what $4 million can do in a
042building an elementary school and so forth. So, these are all decisions that as we prepare next year's budget and then look even beyond that. We're going to have to make some decisions. Um, but we won't know, you know, we'll need to let some time pass a little bit just to see how we're going to land, you know, this year. Um, and then, but of course, it's it's impossible to say it's not going to impact some of these decisions about what salaries can be, what capital projects we can do, um, those things. Thank you. >> I'd like to make a motion to set a calendar entry to have a hearing on Thursday, August 28th after we get the information of what the state is going to do. that they're going to make changes to the assessment
043so that we won't have to raise the rates on everyone in our county without knowing to Miss Bolan's point knowing that we didn't have to raise it 10 cents on our operating. We could have raised it less because that would be much better for everyone. The scenario being that if the the state tax commission comes in and says apply a 12% increase across the board that you would want the ability to voluntarily >> that was Miss Bolan's point. So I I agree we should not raise taxes on everyone >> and more than we need to >> but the state tax commission could come back before the 21st >> could. Yes. Uh we don't know the the timeline on that. We know that they have uh given the county the date of August 23rd was their
044uh date that they communicated to the county relative to this topic. >> But to get something on the board calendar, doesn't the board have to approve a meeting like that? You would we could do it on the 21st if we were uh not prepared to have that particular meeting at that time. If we didn't if we went to that point in time >> and we were >> okay >> you see what I'm saying? If you as a board, if you as a board at that time felt like you were not prepared >> because we didn't have any more additional information and you felt like at that time were waiting to see if the state tax commission were to do anything in the next week or whatever that time frame is when we post, then you
045would be able to uh add an additional meeting that would be simply for the tax rate hearing and we could do it that next week as close to the first as possible. How much time do we have to give? What's the notice for the tax rate hearing? >> 10 days. >> Oh, that's a good point. >> Yeah, I think um as I was thinking that very thing, I think we might want to pencil in an alternative date and not I don't know about a vote or whatever, but that we could put in a public notice so that we're basically keep the 21st, but then say something about an alternate date uh should information change or something and so that might be it may be wise to pick the 28th or >> vote on that on
046the 11th >> uh 21st >> is that our next one just >> that's that's the problem that we have that I I think you've stumbled across right there >> okay >> so by the 18th we would have to decide whether we have a meeting on the 28th >> I think you would do just one notice I mean this is such a strange situation but one notice and and be explicit in there that there may be two hearings or two hearing dates. Um, one scheduled for the 21st and if needed the 28th or whatever date you all pick. >> Okay. Do we need to vote on that or >> can we vote on that or just provide you direction that we just >> Yeah, it's a future agenda item. We can vote on that. >> I
047I believe that you could clay. Yes. Thank you. There we go. Thank you. The voice of reason. >> Oh, I was just refreshing myself on board policy. So, um, for a special meeting, our practice has been to set it with a vote, but the policy also allows for the president to call it, um, or for at least four members of the board to call it. though we don't necessarily we'd have to give notice under the sunshine law sufficiently um but that's a much less time period. So um if you deemed later you you'd have a little more flexibility on setting a special meeting if you wanted to um without taking a formal vote you just obviously are thinking about public notice too. So >> okay >> but we can vote on that tonight if we
048wanted to add a meeting even though it's not on the agenda. >> Well the president himself could call a meeting we don't have to. So on the 18th the president he hasn't heard any information >> will >> to do that and then >> but then we'll already have 10 days before on the 11th we'll have to have something in the paper about the first hearing. So >> I think we leave it up to the president and the great staff figure out the communication mechanism. >> I understand that but I would rather us agree on a date tonight so we have a date >> that we're all available especially while there's just six of us. Clay, is it possible just to uh have consensus of the board of of an agreed upon date through discussion? >>
049Okay, that's great. >> Without a vote? >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Yeah, because the president can still call and do it all. >> I just picked the 28th because it was a Thursday. >> Yeah. Thursday, a week later. Yeah. And it's pretty close to the first. >> Yeah, that would be like a Monday. >> And uh does it have to be done? The first is actually >> Labor Day. Labor Day would have to be done then on the 29th. >> Yeah. I mean the county offices wouldn't be open on >> So it would have to be done on the Friday, >> but the board would have to meet in the morning on Friday basically that >> that's cutting it pretty close for >> you all as well. >> We take it up there the next
050day. >> Yeah. >> Well, if we had the meeting at 7 a.m. Friday, >> you could still do it. Yeah. >> So, what are we Is that the 28th? The 28th, >> I think. Yeah, the 28th in the evening might probably work the best. I know, Miss Barnes, you work. >> That's fine. It's good. >> You want Friday morning? >> It's good. I I'd take I'd rather have a Thursday evening. So, whatever board decides overall. >> So, I don't think we need to vote because you can just set a meeting. >> Yep. I'll take action depending on how things unfold >> over the next and we're >> have to figure out the communications >> pointing toward the holding 28. >> Yeah, the hold on calendar >> and I'm not sure I agree with that we
051could do one thing with alternates that that seems unfair to certain I I just have questions about that that I would want someone with a legal mind really look at >> you're saying from a notice perspective. >> Yeah. >> Okay. We can look at that. >> Oh, for the public. You mean >> Yes. It does not It would be very confusing and I did not see that being >> We need to be clear on that. >> Yeah. I see issues with >> Could we add that language in there like >> Yeah. two meetings? >> Yeah. We'll work with the president on what that would language would look like. we'll be as clear as uh as as we can and um we'll use council to make sure that we're doing that correctly. And I'm hearing that
052we would uh hold on your calendars uh the evening of August 28th >> right kind of works for me. Any other questions or >> Oh, there was an article I read and and the uh the special interim committee on property tax reform will hold four public hearings outside of Jeff City over the next six weeks each. They all start at 5:30 p.m. on August 13th in the boardroom at Union Station. Um there is a uh a public hearing in >> Kansas City Union Station. >> Yeah. at 5:30 p.m. Um the the article is pretty interesting. It talked about the state tax commission counties under assessing. So yeah, it's kind of the future of and it kind of ties into that um reworking the funding formula. But you know Missouri's by design is you fund your
053schools as much as possible from local funding. And then we know we're hearing about federal funding. So if we're getting, you know, f losing federal funding and then losing local funding and then Missouri is also cutting money from the budget. So well, in kind of piggybacking off of that, isn't it accurate that uh the decisions that the the county's made has also c cost the taxpayers funding from the state as well? >> That there's been some funds withheld from the state for the assessor's office. Oh, >> the 250. >> Um, yes. So, there uh was some withholding based on not signing anou which was uh indicated by the state tax commission of an intent or asking for theou for an intent to get the assessed valuations back into that 90 to 110% range. And the
054penalty, if you will, that the state tax commission had uh leveraged onto the uh county was to withhold certain um funds from from the assessor's office. >> Thank you. >> I don't know that I've watched MSBA recently. Have they g given any guidance based on that special interim committee on property tax? >> They have not. the the committee that Mr. Towiliger is referring to is also it it's similar obviously because it deals with property tax reform and and the special committee that's been appointed to do that. However, that meeting in Kansas City is I think um if I'm inferring correctly you letting the board know that that's happening. I know that there's some happening after September 1st as well. So this is not going to solve uh they're not going to create uh any direction
055or give any decision before September 1st that would help us in this direction. It's a >> No, no, I know. I just mean long term. >> How are we approaching this problem? Because I mean it's >> I don't know. >> I believe uh this is what uh legislature and the governor are doing in terms of going around the state to listen to communities relative to this topic. And um that's what those particular meetings are set up for. >> Okay. But I guess I would like MSBA to weigh in because I think most people that are going to show up on there at those meetings are going to say, "Sure, let's cut property tax. >> I don't like paying taxes." Maybe not realizing that >> that tax is what funds your local schools and >> communities.
056>> Yes. So >> yeah, to this point, MSBA has not issued anything relative to that, but I can look into that. They would probably be more focused on like the funding formula committee or task force. >> Correct. >> Yeah. Talking points about how we or a talking campaign with legislators to say that all sounds great to let's cut everybody's tax, but how are you going to fund public education? You have backup plan to do that. >> Yeah. In that article, it talked there was was trying to do the thing where it shows all viewpoints. And one of the viewpoints was just have schools funded by like sales tax, which is what I think somebody's reply was in my in my county there's two, you know, two gas stations and a subway. How am I going
057to fund schools? >> I'm laughing, but it's not funny. >> Yeah, I know. No, it's Yes, I completely get it. It's, you know, >> certainly this is how we fund schools in Missouri. Okay, >> I'd be happy to get that information from or at least >> if there is any information or where MSBA is relative to >> um talking points or any other information that they would provide for Boris for direction. >> Thank you. >> And I'd be interested to get those dates put in maybe the Friday report so that we can just be aware >> the the local date or all of them >> the statewide ones. Yeah, it was >> got an article. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Okay. All right. Well, thank you, Dr. Kelly, as always. >> Thank you,
058Dr. Kelly. >> Thank you. >> Um All right. Information I or information written items tonight. Um we have 9.1 through 9.4 four are relative to bids, contracts, and agreements, and items 9.5 through 9.10 are relative to curriculum. Uh, Dr. Kimell, are there any items that need to be highlighted? >> Uh, I have no additional information from your packet, but I'd be happy to answer any questions. >> I just wanted to highlight the modern band curriculum. This is a new curriculum where you get to basically create a rock band um or any kind of band um and you get to work on sound engineering, creating logos, flyers, and merch. Um so I just want to commend our staff for helping create this class. That sounds really, really cool and I wish I could have taken when
059I was back in high school. So, and I'll be on the lookout for uh some of the performances they do. So, >> get my merch shirt. >> Yeah, exactly. That sounds really cool. So, okay. All right. Um the board will be asked to take action on these items August 21st or at the August 21st, 2025 regular meeting. Um next or fin uh lastly, uh board member requests and reports. Um, do we have any reports or requests tonight? Mr. Monsters? >> None. Thank you, >> Miss Bolan. >> None. Thank you. Okay, >> Mr. Todd. >> None. Thank you, >> Mrs. Woodley. >> I had a couple of questions or things that I wanted just to I'll pass it on to Dr. Kimber with the um program evaluation plans. And I noticed first of all kudos to
060u our nutrition services team and all they do with making sure we have enough people staffed uh being the variety of of meals offered to our kids so that more kids are eating fruits and vegetables. That was just great to read. Um I did see that the district staff said you know stop offering all the cart snacks. So I wanted to see what is the reason behind that is because of kids other kids not being able to afford or whatever. Just question about that. Okay. And um for the uh professional programs, I wanted to ask about the advisory committee like how are the people selected to be on that committee to give advice about what's been going on. >> Okay. >> And that is it. Thank you. >> Make sure I got that right. So
061that was professional studies on the advisory committee selection. >> Yes. >> Okay. Got it. >> Thank you, Mr. W. Miss Barnes. >> None. Thank you. >> Okay. All right. Then I'll need a motion and a second to adjourn to close session uh pursuant uh to chapter 610 section 021 of the revised Missouri statutes for the purpose of discussing matters relevant to subsections one legal and three and 13 personnel. >> So moved >> seconded. >> Um I have a motion from Mr. Todd and a second by Miss Bolan to adjourn to close session to discuss legal and personnel matters. Uh, Miss Freeman, can you call the role? >> Barnes, >> yes. >> Bolan, >> yes. >> Mons, >> yes. >> Mr. Williger, >> yes. >> Todd, >> yes. >> Woodley, >> yes.