001good evening i call the october 28th meeting of the park hill board of education to order thank you for silencing your phones and please join me for the pledge of allegiance of america and to the republic for which it stands god indivisible with liberty and justice for all before i call for announcements i would like to remind the board of our norms be prepared display integrity remain mission driven and goal focused stay in the role of a board member no grandstanding and speak and listen respectfully we'll go to announcements this evening mr fame none thank you mr monsis miss reed ben thank you mr klein none thank you mrs woodley none thank you dr cowan i do have one that i'd like to make and it's about a vaccination clinic as you know um we
002are waiting for official approval but uh for our five to 11 year olds that what could happen for us is an opportunity for us to serve our community we put a survey out last week and we've had a number of our families almost a thousand sign up to have their children receive their vaccine and we are also going to partner with saint therese the some of their students too and so the date for that uh so we if when it went and if it's approved uh we would be doing for a five to eleven year old so partner with the platte county health department for that clinic the dates would be uh saturday november the 20th at congress middle school from nine to three and the second dose would be from nine to three on
003saturday december the 11th and they would be fully vaccinated on december the 25th would be the deal eligibility there must be a child in the parkville school district or the sanctuary school and they must be between 5 and 11 years old the health department will not have any extra doses for children older or adults at this clinic the the platte county health department is going to create an online signup form which will be sent out and the federal officials approve the vaccine and families that want to participate will be asked to sign their children up ahead of time and during the final hour of the clinic if there are any doses left they'll be able to handle walk-ins on that on a first come first first-come first-served basis if you need help filling out any
004of those forms we have a person for you to contact and we're going to put all this information out to everyone we do have also some of our local pediatricians that are going to have volunteered to attend those clinics for us and serve that with us and then also some of our high school students whether they're in our a plus program or some of our students in our medical professionals program it's an opportunity to introduce internships but we also understand that these are 5 to 11 year olds so it's a little different and so they'll be there to read to the students and those type of things as they're waiting so we look forward to getting any information as soon as we get the okay and the go-ahead then uh nicole kirby and her team
005will be communicating this out to our families so again that first date would be november the 20th 9-3 at congress middle school once approval is given thank you so much um i'll also make a couple of announcements we are pleased to announce that we have been able to save our taxpayers a present value of 4.3 million dollars over the next 15 years through a competitive sale of general obligation refunding bonds on monday october 18th at 10 a.m to refund a portion of our 2017 bonds we'd like to thank our representatives from piper sandler and from gilmore and bell for their work on the sale and the savings to our taxpayers and since we last met there's been an announcement that um dr coward is uh stepping down at some point in our near future and
006so um we just wanted to publicly thank her for her work and well while we can't replace you we have to find a replacement so you'll be hearing more from the board in the coming weeks we'll most likely use a search firm to do a nationwide search and so there'll be more details coming from the board in the next few weeks about that process so you can look forward to that and now i'll need a motion and second to adopt the october 28th agenda as presented second we have a mission from ms reed in the second by mr feign to adopt the agenda as presented with any modifications no ma'am not this evening thank you ordered any modifications seeing none all those in favor say aye aye any opposed say nay motion carry 7-0 we'll
007move to recognition and awards and i'll turn it over to miss kirby thank you so much we have a couple great recognitions this evening our first one is of a group of or a couple park hill school district students who earn places among the kansas city stars scholar athletes for their academic athletic and community achievements the they honored park hill high schools kristin birmingham who was a recent graduate for earning a 4.01 gpa on a 4.0 scale she received four varsity letters in volleyball uh three in track and field and she received an honorable mention with the prestigious evelyn gates award she won a state track and field relay and she was active in the national honor society and she volunteered at an assisted living facility the star also honored recent graduate park from park
008hill south high school arleigh anderson who received a 4.14 on a 4.0 scale she received four varsity letters in in volleyball two in soccer she achieved allstate and all region volleyball in 2020 second team all district soccer in 2019 she also received an honorable mention for the evelyn gates award she's active was active in the national honor society and she volunteered with harvesters and the special olympics so we're very proud of both of them for that achievement and for all that they did as students here so congratulations to them and then next i wanted to recognize a staff member who received the prestigious wida fellow award wida is an international organization that supports multilingual learners and we work with them on our eld assessments and measures in proficiency renner elementary's english language development teacher marcy
009schumacher you'll remember her a former park hell teacher of the year she earned this prestigious wida fellow award for the 2021-2022 school year and so this gives her an opportunity to go on to some national leadership with that organization so congratulations to her and to our two scholar athletes [Applause] we'll move to public comments during this part of our agenda we will receive public comments from patrons attending in person followed by comments received in writing by the noon deadline today which we did not have any today um we do have cards though from people that are here in person five cards when called upon by the board president patrons are to approach the presenter station speak into the microphone and state your name before making comments there will be a three-minute time limit for individual
010comments and a 15-minute total time limit for all comments combined the board secretary will monitor the time in the event the total time limit expires any remaining registration cards will be provided to all board members please direct your comments to the entire board if a response is appropriate i will respond or refer to another individual in an effort to respect privacy we ask that speakers refrain from discussing personal complaints involving individual staff members or students julie stutterheim hi my name is julie stutterheim last time i was here i spoke about the slavery petition and i heard what you heard students are frustrated they're wounded they have ideas about how to address racism in our schools and i would strongly urge you not to let their momentum and their passion be wasted to act and even
011implement some of their ideas to show that their voice matters to recap where we are our district was featured in nearly every major and local news outlet across the country because of the slavery petition and the systemic racism found in our schools today if you google park hill south google autofill slavery petition our parents and community were frustrated by the lack of transparency and the communication from our district but it could be worse a utah school district was recently subject to a federal civil rights investigation by the justice department black and asian american students at that school had been harassed for years and the administration and the school board deliberately ignored complaints from parents and students investigators found the black students were disciplined more harshly than white students for the same offenses and details of
012the settlement were released this week so we're not there but we're still not in a good place we still have work to do we still need to answer this important question how will we know what we are doing is working what will we track you can set this priority rather than focusing on random books in a library about crt or white fragility or whatever you can actually do something about the racism against our students of color and i get it the book is easier to solve do you know how many books are on the shelves of park hill school district school system in the library about 150 000 i'm actually a little bit more so maybe focusing on one or two books isn't the best use of your time maybe the next time you hold
013a three-hour special session it shouldn't be on masks perhaps it should be on the racism in our 30 seconds or the violence in our schools something that really matters to our students something that is actually traumatizing our students thank you very much crystal filler fuller you're declining tonight allison elliott thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight my name is allison elliott i'm a cafeteria manager at lakeview middle school i would like to comment on the proposal set forth to compensate nutrition services employees for working through the pandemic nutrition services employees have worked face to face with district students their families and children of all ages to provide meals every day since coveted shutdowns started even on the shutdown days when we were distributing produce boxes harvesters and etc no extra compensation was provided we
014received the same pay as employees at home we feel it is unfair to only compensate staff with a dollar extra for every hour worked this school year but not apply to the long term time employees for all the hours worked through the last 18 months new employees are already receiving extra benefits with the starting salary increase they receive yet no raises were given to retained employees that have been here for years the new starting wage is 14.50 for nutrition services staff yet myself i have three heads of departments in my kitchen with ranging years of work and their salaries haven't changed some are only a dollar forty five more than we are paying new employees retaining hard-working knowledgeable staff needs to be top priority because without them not one new employee would learn what is
015needed to provide the number of quality meals we serve throughout the schools every day i am beyond proud of my staff for coming to work every day through all of this through all of the policy and schedule changes through losing family and friends and all of the other hardships that kovit has brought in the last year and a half we all do so we all do this so that these children don't go hungry we are the only food security for some of these children and i speak all of us when i say it matters deeply to us we took the risk to our own family's health and well-being to ensure food for all in need i know i speak for the majority of nutrition services staff when i say we felt under appreciated for the
016sacrifices that we have made because we cared enough to work endlessly through this pandemic i under with the proposal bonus you're only rewarding employees now and new employees already already earning similar wages to staff that have been here for 5 10 20 years it's causing discourse we all feel and are undervalued i understand finding new employees is difficult but finding enough time to replace existing is going to cause more issues thank you [Applause] sharon ellis good evening my name is sharon ellis and i just come here and i sit in that's my job i looked at the minutes from the last meeting the board meeting and i noticed there was no reference to the missouri statute that was back in june about the masking and i'm not sure where it went or what qualifies to
017be on those minutes but i was looking for a follow-up so i looked at the agenda tonight and saw no follow-up either and i think the topic deserves some follow-up even though there might not be legal decisions made yet on it and it could be certainly in limbo somewhere um i wasn't going to mention but i think about the event that happened for the students of color and some petition that went around i kept thinking in the last board meeting we have a brave football coach and i kept thinking ask the coaches ask the coaches the coaches see no color the students see no color in every game they go to they just don't so i would recommend uh looking for a lot of focus soccer football really any sport that accepts all the team
018members and really emphasize somehow that there's no color on the field or on the floor the basketball floor anyway i keep hoping for that but i'll have a chance to say it here tonight before my time runs out so thank you for all you're doing appreciate it and dr coward i'm going to miss you personally i just appreciate everything that you've done for years here thank you sharika bars good evening i'm here to follow up um not only on the diversity um the slavery position but actually like um where's the accountability where is it going what's happening um when we had our last sport meeting there were things that said that uh dr dion was here she said uh we we've met with these people these are all the people i've talked to i've listened
019to the kids um however you know we made a contra contract quote-unquote with the naacp however that contract was not made with the community of color that lives in park hill school district naacp is a wonderful organization however no one on this board or no one reached out to the black parents and asked what do we want how do we think we can solve this situation in the school district for our kids like i mentioned last time i i'm a graduate of park hill almost 30 years ago and it's the same things going on now that were going on then so that's pretty sad that that much change has not happened um i would look at um i know that some of the things on the board is uh you know talking about graduation requirements
020so you know let's do some graduation requirements let's make every student required to take a diversity class because it's obvious that a lot of kids don't get it or aren't getting it in their households so let's if the staff need to do it let's make the kids do it they're they're saying that they want to do it so let's do it um let's talk about the curriculum i had had two students that graduated from harquel and they both took dual classes and a plus classes and let's look at some of the education and curriculum like i looked at the english curriculum and not one book on the english curriculum for the ap class has a woman or a person of color for the for the required reading there has to there are some wonderful books
021out there written by wonderful people that that are on college levels because that's what it's supposed to be right that aren't even being introduced in the classrooms um let's talk about staff accountability um and the fact that um some of them don't want to do these or do the panel like this that's park hill south so if you don't want to do it then don't be there like why would i trust you with my child if you're not willing to look at yourself as a staff member and fix yourself um and also um let's talk about better ways of communication other than just the little ones that come out by curb dr kirby or or you know if whatever way let's have some honest discussions thank you i'm going to move to our consent agenda
022this evening's consent agenda includes items 5.1 through 5.11. uh dr coward are there things that need to be highlighted yes and i forgot to mention earlier we did do some work last time we had some problems with our microphone so i hope they're better tonight we worked on them all day so i think they're better i hope you can hear better tonight so we wanted to do that one i was going to highlight uh truly the support staff retention and senate proposal and i appreciate the comments that we heard tonight and we will also follow up on that with you and so we make sure we want to do that one we're going to do that we also have several retirees and there's more than i can announce tonight so we'll put those that in
023there for you too and then also um as you look at that you do have the treasures report and then our summer school evaluation plan process is in there too as a part of our program evaluation plan so i think you'll hear more about that uh as we move ahead dr caron i just have one one question um it's not really a question if if i think that it the bus route should be approved but since last year we really didn't have much of a chance to see if our three-tier program was working do we have fewer bus routes does the plan work i couldn't answer that for you right now because even now we still have more car riders as we do and with the requirement the federal requirement on buses and so a
024lot of parents have chosen i don't know how we can actually give you that so we are running our natural routes and we're doing that we are getting kids to school and so that's wonderful that's what we need to do and we're able to run it from that that i guess it would be which measure do you want to work is are they working and are routes working yes um and so it's it's paid benefits for us on that okay well we were we do we approve this twice a year now and then you'll do another one i think it's june i believe is correct so maybe next year we yep maybe at some point we can have a normal year you have a normal year we though so that we can see if if
025that decision to um build the bus barn our own bus barn and to go to a three-tier bus routes is is actually doing what we thought it would do we know it's saving us on the number of drivers because we don't have to have as many drivers so we already know that is happening for us and so that is a big thing and so um and that's a hard piece to get right now to run that so but we can look into some more information for that if you'd like this new member thank you dr karen yeah she brought up the bus um i was running with the the data that comes out that's on that spreadsheet that we received does that data feed into anything else that the district is looking at or doing
026um i guess this is my first time looking yeah i just didn't know we used it for anything else as far as like reporting and looking at any kind of things that go on with the district the student population the bigger district is no really this is my this is a reimbursement this is about reimbursement from the state that's it it doesn't do that so but do we look at that as data points yes and that would be what leonardo da vinci does for us as our liaison between us and first student that is her job is to identify efficiencies within that route and you may remember this year we also gave parents the opportunity if they were never going to use the buses they knew they would never use the bus and of course
027they needed to for emergency but we didn't schedule them in the past we'd scheduled every student and so we've made those efficiencies too okay thank you any other questions for dr coward seeing then i'll need a motion and second to approve consent agenda items 5.1 through 5.11 is presented the motion for mr klein in a second by ms reed to approve the consent agenda has presented any other discussion all those in favor say aye aye any opposed say nay motion carries 7-0 our next action item is to approve a board of education work session for tuesday november 9th 2021 at 5 30 pm um that will be to this we've got capital planning and then review so hopefully that's all on your calendars but i'll need a motion and second to approve a board work
028session for tuesday november 9th at 5 30. i'm a second i have a question from ms reed in a second by mrs woodley to approve the work session for november 9th 2021 is presented any further discussion all those in favor say aye aye motion carries seven our information presentation tonight is an enrollment update and we'll look to dr kelly see dr coward dr kelly oh okay i'm sorry nice driver all right i'd like to start by saying we this is not intended to replace our annual demographic report which is uh has historically been presented in march of each year this is just a little bit of a snapshot of what is contained in that of course in the demographic report itself we would include a lot more demographic information we'd also do have a lot
029more benchmarking against other school districts and information um much more information about our our student body and the demographics of that i'm also hoping that we'd be able to incorporate census data into the demographic profile from 20 to 2020 census which were obviously delayed quite a bit and so hopefully that will have more current information to provide you in march of next year so with that said this report is really organized around the concept that actually every school district in missouri is required to report an enrollment on the last wednesday of each school year and so that then establishes an enrollment count and in in reality our enrollment changes every day and so this is uh one day on a wednesday in september and it is the consistent metric that other school districts would use
030to report their enrollment for the year so it does not reflect this report does not change or reflect changes as they occur on a daily basis so one graphic that has been um utilized by the district for a number of years is this 25-year history of our enrollment this includes k-12 students only we do have enrollment numbers for preschool but they're not included in this because we're not reimbursed this is not a preschool is not a state metric that is utilized to for uh establishing reimbursement or i worked into the state foundation formula so this graphic just includes k-12 students and as you can see we had over the last 25 years and actually over the last 35 years we had had this consistent enrollment growth of about one and a half percent annually and
031that has come to a bit of a pause here in the last three years and really in the last two the graphic on the second page shows that the growth patterns a little better and and how this has looked over the last 25 years in terms of growth and so you can see that for the first time in 35 years we actually dropped in enrollment last year we all thought that had a lot to do with covid at the time and and choices that parents were making to keep kids home and so thought that there would be some recovery and had planned on the fact that we perhaps would recover this year as it turns out our official enrollment all it actually did this year was actually get us back to where we were two
032years ago so the 11 students that we lost last year we regained them and so we did in fact grow but only back up to a point of our levels in 2019-2020 and so two very uh low years um one that was actually a bit of a decline and then of course uh this year a bit of an incline the um the next two graphs there's kind of a key word here that that would be displayed that on these graphs this is our what's called a resident enrollment and so when the school board establishes residency bound residence boundaries this would be an account of the students where they live in the schools that they would be assigned to if all students attended the school in which they live and of course we have two schools
033russell jones as well as lead innovation studio in which the entire district has the opportunity or um the enrollment is actually from the entire school district and so on this particular report those two schools are not listed these are this is more an accounting of of where the students live based upon their their home in the residence area boundary the next graphic probably would be a little more informative in which it does then establish russell jones and lead innovation studio as schools and so you can see the distribution of students across all of our school buildings we'll kind of zoom in for example this particular report will show you just some of the random randomness that occurs from year to year um obviously grade levels and schools are just inconsistent and even as hard as
034we try to balance our enrollments some of much of the the enrollments are outside of our control in which we will get in some cases wildly different enrollments from different um attendance areas in in specific years and so um this very first column would be our kindergarten enrollment for this year and then followed by the rest of the elementary school enrollments middle schools up here and then the high school enrollments were above the next graphic then will show you changes at each school and so if you were to take a snapshot of the enrollments last year on their official count day in the last school year and then compare it to this year this is how things have changed in the schools and you'll see that leading the growth is hopewell elementary and renter elementary
035is the school that actually dropped the most in enrollment as a persona percentage basis the there's two data recording issues about that that are driving some of this particularly on hopewell what we've elected to do on students who have elected to be online this year we have actually for the purposes of putting them in infinite campus and so that teachers can obviously have access to the student data in infinite campus which is our student information system what we've elected to do is place the students in the school in which of their online where their online teacher is housed and so hopewell elementary actually has the third fourth and fifth grade online teachers and so students who have elected not to attend in person in their school of residency but to go online are actually placed
036on those numbers so that growth largely is attributed to movement out of some of the other schools from an online program that's actually more of a district-wide program so hope well while those students are coded that is accurate they're coded there because that's where their teachers are but actually if you were to physically walk into hopewell their their enrollment is about the same as it was last year in terms of just a head count of students in the building at one time that is also true to a degree at hawthorne and tiffany ridge they're housing the k-1 and two programs and so and that again that's where the teacher is located and so students that have signed up for those at grade levels online are being coded in those schools where their teachers are physically
037located so dr kelly just to restate that maybe differently if i'm looking at the top line hope well 454 and the difference is 5 30 so there's roughly 76 students and what you're saying is those students largely represent third fourth and fifth grade uh that are being taught online that's exactly right yeah the 76 hopewell's actual um if it was based on residency of the students their their increase would probably be about you know from 15 to 20 students so there's about 60 of those kids that are actually had been moved from their school of residence into hopewell that are actually not physically attending so okay exactly what you said um and so this this is how that the enrollment has changed in those schools and you can see that and for the most part
038these that are in the shades of yellow are you know very minor changes um in which the schools just physically in terms of headcount are very similar i did mention and point out both renter and chen elementary and it looks like their enrollments dropped and that is actually true in which the head counts are significantly different this year but that is actually attributed to the choice we made to move our specials our special programming that used to be district-wide housed in chin and now at renter and we've distributed them back out to the schools and so students that had been at chin or renter in a special program is are now back in their school of residence and so that then dropped did physically drop the number of students in those buildings and so that
039is that's that's accurate um in terms of that you would you would have there would be a significant difference in just the number of students at renter this year than there was last about how many students is that total dino yeah probably about 60 at renner and um yeah probably about 40 40 at 10. looking at that chart i the one thing that struck me maybe because i still have the scars from redistricting is that um it looks like for this year we did accomplish what we had hoped to but uh with the the population disparity between the two high schools and they are much more in alignment than they were several years ago i'd say middle school is too if you go back to those earlier charts they're pretty even they're not we did
040pretty well on that elementary's always are a wild card yeah the program you know the program enrollment sheet will is is difficult to to get that because we have a different number of students from parkland high school leading going to lead so that first chart would show that better by which if it was just based upon residency of 1800 students you know were you know about 40 students difference between the two schools but that's still significantly different okay so that is the change in uh by school and then it gets even more granular as we go through and see the changes in um i'm sorry i think that's good so this is the change in um in the schools um year over year and now uh any of these tables that include the word cohort
041were actually this is a little different way to look at enrollment growth and this is actually answering the question about tracking and following groups of kids and how when they moved from one grade level to the next did was there a net gain in enrollment and so did the mobility of students in and out was there a net gain or a net loss and so perhaps the the way to read this would be our current ninth grade class currently is a class of 988 we've we have actually been looking at that class as the potential of one that would perhaps be the first to exceed a thousand as a grade level and last year that was a group of eighth graders so these are basically the same groups of kids but when they were in
0428th grade class a year ago they were a group of 920. so that graduating class that is currently 9th graders actually grew the net mobility or cohort growth actually was 68 students or 7.4 percent that is typical for 9th grade so that is not unusual at all and in fact you could look down this list and see some fairly good consistencies about how cohorts tend to age from kindergarten to first and first to second over the years and these are pretty standard the one that stands out as odd is sixth grade so sixth grade is typically a um a fairly sizable increase for us generally as a student a student group a student cohort would become from fifth grade to sixth grade we usually gain students in that transition and for whatever reason this year
043we did not so we're actually that stands out as maybe the one anomaly in this set of data but these negative values at the high school level are typical in amounts in this case and this year about 20 students less our juniors this year than than we had sophomores the prior year and same thing about 10th 10th grade the next uh chart then takes that information and um and and plots it out not by just grade level but then puts the the students in schools and so this one probably is one that most best represents the the challenges that our principals and our human resources department have um you know from one year to the next in terms of trying to predict a growth of um of students and so this would show you the
044individual grade levels so for example hopewell elementary's third grade current grade third grade class was the you know grew by 30. now anytime you see hopewell on this list it's a bit of a misnomer so let's kind of bounce down to english landing so english landings kindergarten class last year grew by 20 kids basically overnight that group of kids when they became first graders we increased by 20 students and so you can you can see which grade levels then become kind of challenges for us as we begin to staff and try to anticipate as staffing it's not typical that a single grade level in an elementary school would grow by 20 kids that's an entire classroom and teacher dr kelly hadn't you kind of predicted that because of that because of covid um because we
045had an abnormally small kindergarten class last year and you had expressed to us that you thought based on the concerns of the parents that and since kindergarten is not required in the state of missouri that probably more than normal number of parents with elder students from kindergarten yeah and so i actually show how well we did at predicting on these next charts so this is the actual cohort growth from great grade level in school and then the next series of charts then plot out what's called performance to budget so basically last spring we took our enrollment projections and part of the information that you mentioned and we project out what we believe trends have been in the past including this this coveted information about whether or not we would recover and in fact for example
046on this chart we had budgeted like you mentioned 871 students but in reality only 842 first graders came in and so that was amongst our worst projection and so that so that thinking which drove our budgeting and and dr redinger's staffing actually didn't come out we were actually 29 students off at the first grade level so that didn't actually that was not probably didn't play out like we had planned um and then kindergarten is always a a great unknown for you yeah and and the enrollment count of 824 is better than it was last year but actually we had projected that we would get 894. so the the data from our birth data from platte county and information from prior years had indicated that we would recover a bit and so i had projected 894
047dr redinger had staff for 894 kindergartners but on count day we actually only had 824 so all of these big changes double digit changes whether it's a plus or a minus require some agility with regards to staffing to make sure that we're maintaining our class sizes and so it may require something like transferring a teacher on the first day of school from one school to another for example you know a fifth grade teacher might need to become a fourth grade teacher in another building because we just simply don't have the students in one building but two in another and so overall we we over budgeted by 145 students and so we just simply didn't recover or see that recovery that we had anticipated but you know it i mean just one standout was that we
048did project exactly the right number of fifth graders so i think we have that going for us and you know and we were three short in um ninth grade um but you know that's that's a difficult one also to project out but um and so really the kindergarten stands out um as the one that's probably the largest those 29 first graders were probably spread across you know 11 elementary schools and so it's it would be difficult to say which school actually was impacted the most although we do have that information described down here by school but um and so this this next shows at the high school level we were off by nine students uh when we budgeted 19 students at middle school and and the biggest part of our error in budgeting and planning
049was at the elementary school in in the lion's share of that was in kindergarten and then finally this then takes that same data and and see which which schools did we miss uh on and so hope well again a bit of a misnomer just simply because those students are online so that one probably wasn't much uh as a big of an issue congress and in parkville high school are larger buildings so they have been asked to absorb 44 kids at parkland high school and 40 with in and dr renninger could speak to the staffing impact of that but you can see though then where you know perhaps student we had to move some teacher perhaps like out of prairie point or out of chin um simply to address that we would be overstaffed in some
050buildings and potentially understaffed and others the other piece of information and why we went through this depth too was just to look at um our particular elementary enrollment um in terms of uh kind of informing us as we go through this process of capital planning and are we on track with our elementary enrollment and how would that perhaps inform us in terms of when we need a new elementary school so dr kell how many of our our schools have portable classrooms right now four so union chapel is probably the one that's feeling it you know um conditions at tiffany ridge five years ago have just maybe moved to union chapel and so they actually have six classrooms three mobile units currently with with children so the lack of demand in kindergarten do is there any
051way of knowing if that is a continued deferral that parents have elected to make just given the uncertainties do we have any data points to triangulate that or you made some comments earlier about some census data that might be helpful yeah figuring that out yeah it doesn't it would be um you know the county data that we get over the years about you know how many um how many zero to five year olds are in there in the census data can help us and so that this is off so there's something uh different happening in the data so the census data will be far better um when it gets uh reset from the 2020 census but that and the county data would indicate that we should have more kindergarteners than we do and so um
052that's that is still a concern about what happened has happened to our kindergartners and this is that exact headline is a a nationwide sort of question about where are the kindergartners because they are not and if you go to north kansas city liberty um very similar issues around kendrick and the kindergarten class well i also know dr coward we're having our work session on the ninth about long-range planning as we talked about long-range planning in the past we were looking at growth rates they've now stabilized but still we're uncertain you know this is kind of uncertain territory so your thoughts i know the 13 000 number had always been kind of the magic number because we talked about total enrollment i think these numbers are interesting because i i think we're still trying to untangle
053ourselves a little bit from the pandemic i'll be very frank with you on that as i talk to my colleagues everybody's seeing just flat and it's the weirdest thing and and it's it's everywhere that's what's strange about it and so i don't know what that driver is i don't think we know yet what that piece is i think what's unusual about parkville is we don't build buildings based on projections we build them on butts and seats let's just put it very bluntly and so we do actuals and so we knew that when we opened hopewell all we did was take the students that were in the mobile units basically at tiffany ridge and build that building let's be honest and so because of that we do have a need because of the student population that
054we currently have and then programming as you're looking at some of that programming you're looking at things like jones center and those type of things too you're seeing that growth but we're also seeing growth in those other programs that we have too so i think that's what's i think that's what's been very good about park hill is not asking for something that you don't need making sure that you need it before you ask and so i think there's a lot of that we can demonstrate but i think that's been a very conservative way to do it a lot of school districts prefer to do it by projection and we prefer to do it by actuals and so i think that makes a big difference on as we have this conversation but it'll be a point
055of the conversation because it needs to be what it may be is and the other challenge is going to be just how quick could you even build a building right now i i mean just getting materials is just a nightmare for anybody right if you're trying to do anything right now you just can't get stuff and so i think they're projecting out two and a half to three years just to build something it's just such a supply chain mess right now and um it's also just a work mess right now too and so i think all those things there's a lot of factors we're going to put into this to make those decisions mr monsis how many kids do we have in mobile units at the elementary level so i know that there's six classrooms
056that are at so it's all of fifth grade at union chapel is in global units and part of their fourth i believe i'll get those numbers for you and then hawthorne and we also have students at chen and we also have students at uh well we have park hill and so um well i was thinking elementary school because yeah in elementary elementary yeah some odd students right yeah i'd have to get the exact number for you but i'd be happy to get that for you teaching in a mobile unit or being in a mob unit is not the preferred method for us either but it is a it's a short-term uh option for us any other questions thank you dr kelly dr coward thank you we have several policies uh procedures and forums this evening's
057agenda items 9.1 through 9.5 8.1 8.2 and 8.3 our information items any questions for dr coward and we do have policies on the agenda as well items 9.1 through 9.5 the board will be asked to take action on these policies at the november 11th regular meeting uh there's also one new administration form agenda item 9.6 that has also been submitted but no board action will be required as it's a administrative form any questions for mr folger can we back up to 8.3 i am so sorry sure that's okay i i just have a question about um just process on on that um since the board has to approve the calendar we don't have to approve um then uh changes or amendments to we do that's why it's a first read oh that's the first three
058come back to november the 11th for your approval so we would not be approved until the 11th okay yes ma'am sorry i didn't you're okay that's the right right process did you want to go ahead and elaborate on that i'd be happy to well on that too and i appreciate the board's support on this as we looked at this as a leadership team we just know that family students our staff um they're stressed it's difficult and a lot of things have changed and so they're working really hard and so we're trying to make some um adjustments for that in recognition of that and so that is a early release day in december that instead of the two hours then we would just that would be a two-hour early release for everyone and then for those
059we'll work with dr kaiser and dr redinger will work for those who for example adventure club they would always be on so how would we compensate them to make up for that or example i would pick on nutrition services here earlier they would have already finished their day so we will come up with a way to compensate them for that also and so to make sure that that's fair and then also it would be putting back in president's day in february and so that i want to make sure we're giving our families enough time to understand that peace but also for our staff to have that that break february is always a challenging month in schools and to put that break in i think we'll be much appreciated by our staff so i just appreciate
060the board's support for us on that and look forward to that approval so we can make it official to our to our staff thank you any other questions on anything under eight or nine on the agenda a question on the new form who did they turn that into i didn't see any instructions or anything yeah i think it's the process it would go to the building principle there's a process there's a process in place for that could you just quickly run through those of where the impetus came from for those i know sometimes most of the time our policies are driven by new state statute this is a mix of new state statutes and even some federal requirements so for example use of tobacco products there's been some changes in even state regulation there with
061vaping so accounting for that and then animals on district property that also there's been changes in missouri law with that relate to service animals but those track what was already in place for federal law but it just uses some different terminology so putting that in there and then on the programs for homeless students i believe those are state level deci changes with respect to unaccompanied use um and and the procedures uh in connection with that and then the i policies for these actually came up from our staff for some suggestions so um work with dr kimbrough and his staff some of those relate to english learners and special considerations for those students uh as well as clarifying some of our our language and the graduation requirements so i'm kind of a mixed bag there thank
062you that's exactly what i needed and they one of the changes i saw on the graduation requirements was that no credit will be offered for high school level classes taken before high school is that yeah that is a change from previous practice correct well it's actually consistent with the prior practices but the language wasn't clear so we wanted to make it clear okay it was confusing so it doesn't count towards the high school graduation okay thank you so is that a state statute um does it allow that or no i don't believe so the course that we offer the most there's algebra one and so that's about when part of that's when they take their eoc courses and when they take those exams and how that plays out and then which courses they take next
063it goes through so they take those advanced math process but we have never given high school credit for algebra one not in eighth grade and what was the reasoning for not giving high school credit i'd have to refer to dr campbell on that one you know historically with the algebra one and eighth grade that is simply their eighth grade math course that they take um it's it's been advanced in terms of students qualify for that but um by uh you know park hill practice what we've wanted to do is encourage students to continue to take math because you as a board have uh required algebra 2 as that graduation requirement which is a local standard not a state standard and that's just been the practice that we've had in place i'm just interested in finding
064ways that we can graduate our kids with more maybe like i don't know if it would even be possible to have this this is mr faint's idea so i don't want to blame him now that's what mister foundation is talking about we do have those we do have those options for students as far as micro credentialing or microsoft credentialing is something that i'm interested in so we do do that then in a limited basis right now so it is it is something that we are exploring but if your question uh mr monstas is about the algebra one being a high school credit if the the root of that question is to try to get students to be in positions so that they may be able to look at associate uh degrees and so on that's
065something with our dual credit that we're we're exploring so um it's it's very limited right now but uh those are places especially that um in our secondary environment that uh we're hearing you know potential interest there and so um that's currently under exploration yeah i'm absolutely encouraged that while kids are in high school especially kids they don't have as many resources as other families if they can hit the ground running when they graduate or maybe just add a couple more years and then hit the ground running it would help our labor shortage and it would help them in their in their careers they'd be two years ahead right so there's there's some of that uh that we are exploring there's other pieces that uh the department of higher ed is uh also potentially going to
066be in um with a plus it's its potential that they are going to be allowing funds to be used for dual credit for juniors and seniors in the future in the very near future which would help um some of our students potentially now we already we were doing that we already in many ways don't restrict any sort of uh feed barrier from a student qualifying or taking dual credit if they if they need those funds we will provide those funds but there is some movement in those areas that i think you're speaking about that um are i think signals to trying to get those type of uh credentials and so on to high school kids earlier yeah i think the state the the state senators that i've talked to state representative they're also interested in
067doing everything we can to get hurt this is coordination from the department of higher ed so that's that's part of the driver behind this too which also working with their community colleges so that's it's kind of getting everybody to play nice together would be the nice way to say that that was your comment this morning thank you welcome any other questions thank you move on to public comments if there's any patrons that wish to address the board regarding items from tonight's posted agenda you can approach the speaker's podium seeing none we will move on to board member reports and requests this is newberg um two things um i'd just like to thank the our uh particle education foundation um for the the program that that they put on miss the camaraderie and the getting to
068meet people from the community breakfast face-to-face community breakfast but susan and her team and i'm guessing she they get help from nicole and her team of of really making it a a well well-rounded presentation focusing on school programs but also the the value of the foundation and i i really enjoyed it so um hope to be back in person at some point um the other thing is i'm really looking forward to the msba conference next weekend i'm glad that we can be back in and back in in contact with each other and that once again that chance to meet board members from other schools is just so invaluable and to spend time together as a board so i'm looking forward to this is little thank you mr flynn none thank you mr payne uh none
069thank you mr monson no thank you none thank you i need a motion and second to adjourn to closed session pursuant to chapter 610 section 21 of the revised missouri statutes for the purpose of discussing matters relevant to subsections one legal three and 13 personnel and six students i have a motion for mr klein in a second by mrs woodley to adjourn to closed session to discuss legal personnel and student matters mrs hibbs would you please call the role woodley yes reed yes new burger yes bowling yes spain yes climb yes yes board members please remember to turn your mics off and a reminder to remain seated until the live stream fades we'll take a short break let's be back at 7 45. you