001Well, good evening everyone. Uh if you will join us in the pledge of >> allegiance. We'll begin the >> meeting again. Welcome. It's great to see so many faces out there this evening. Uh tonight the board of education is recognizing an outstanding group of Parkway students and schools. We're honoring National Merit semi-finalist students, perfect ACT students, a student book donation, and staff with a superintendent character award. First, I would like to invite Dr. Kevin Beckner, assistant superintendent for teaching and learning to begin the recognition of our National Merit students. >> Well, good evening, President Tob, Vice President Hopper, Dr. Schneider, Mr. over members of the board. 43 Parkway students have been recognized by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, an independent notfor-profit organization that conducts competitions for recognition and college undergraduate scholarships through two different programs.
002The National Merit Scholarship Program and the National Achievement Scholarship Program. The National Merit Scholarship Program is an annual academic competition which identifies seniors who represent the top of their graduating class. commended students placed among the top 50,000 students who entered the competition by taking the preliminary SAT National Merit Scholarship qualifying test. More than 1.3 million juniors took this test and they represented over 21,000 high schools. Less than 1% of US high school seniors qualified as National Merit semi- finalists. Among that 1% are 19 Parkway students who earned the National Merit semi-finalist status and an additional 24 students who have been recognized as commended. National merit semi-finalists have the opportunity to qualify for for nearly 7,000 merit scholarships totaling almost $26 million that will be offered next spring. Some students were unable to join us this
003evening for this recognition, but we will still announce their names. First, please welcome Dr. Tim McCarthy, principal at Central High, who will recognize his students. And students, please come forward as your name is called. >> Thank you, Dr. Beckner. And on behalf of all of the principles, just want to extend a thank you to the board. We just really appreciate you taking the time to recognize our students. First up, Central High, our National Merit semi finalist, Benjamin Green, Serena Hang, Aiden Moon, Lawson Robinson, and Esther Wang. for our commended students. Shazwath Arnanker, Dion Bandari, Finn Borchett, Samuel Cooper, Aaliyah Ji, Sabine Munir, Shariah Sadule. And now it's my pleasure to welcome Mr. Dave Jones from North High. >> Thank you, Dr. McCarthy, President Todd, Nikki Stove, Dr. Snyder, and the board of education. Um, I
004just want to um first um send a warm thank you to the parents, I'm sorry, to the teachers out there who have guided these young people to where they are tonight. And whether it was a first grade reading class or AP physics class, all of those teachers have made a difference in your life to get you to this point tonight. So, thank you to our wonderful staff in Parkway for helping and guiding you guys along the way. So, I want to um now announce and recognize our North High commended students. We have two, Thomas Bloomfield and Charles Catalano. I semi- finalist Noah Hunterbrinker and Uoyo. Thank you. It is now my pleasure to to welcome Dr. Angie Papers Morco to the podium to recognize the South High students. >> Good evening. My colleagues and I
005are delighted to recognize the students tonight who have been named commended and national merit finalists. This prestigious distinction reflects exceptional academic achievement and rigorous commitment to scholarship. Each of you embodies what we want our Parkway learners to be. Critical thinkers, empowered learners, connected citizens, and resilient individuals. Congratulation. Congratulations on reaching this significant accomplishment and honor. And it's my pleasure as the principal of South High to recognize the South High commended students tonight. Samuel Aman, Nicholas Vermonic, Allison Horseman, Dennis Jakovich, Axita Santoskumar, and Donald Schistler. Our South High semi finalists are Julia MD, Jacob Hurst, Dean Cases, and Katherine Ozaki. Thank you all. And it's my pleasure to welcome my friend and colleague, John McCay, principal of West High, up here. So students, I think you can agree with me that we do not arrive at
006a place like this, being recognized by our distinguished board in front of all of our parents and loved ones without some help. And I have the distinct privilege of thanking and I hope you can join me in turning and finding your special people in the crowd and acknowledging them and thanking those parents and guardians that helped us get here to reach such an amazing accomplishment. And now I have the honor to recognize the commended West High students. Rajamora Bacina, Leora Hoy, Augustia Cucodala, Lily Overman, Sedarth Sisla, Ruth V Tatakamala, Ani Vanca, Camden and Wilfford and Yunzo. And our West High semi-finalists, Ryan Hamdi, Anish Jindel, Nicole Pocket, Joseph Pulker, Umar Rafi, Soham Ray, Tyler M. Smith and Dylan Ziggler. Again, congratulations to all our wonderful students and their parents and guardians for this tremendous accomplishment.
007And I'm going to welcome Dr. Kevin Beckner back to the stage. Well, we are now going to recognize some perfect ACT scores and you will hear some similar names, but you also hear some similar numbers, namely 1%. We heard with the previous award that's earned by fewer than 1% of high school students. And we'll hear in this that fewer than 1% of students who take the ACT earn that perfect score. The ACT is a curriculum based exam that consists of tests in English, math, reading, science, each scored on a scale of 1 to 36. a student's composite scores, the average of those four together. Students who earn a 36 have likely mastered everything they need to know to be successful in the first year college courses that they may take next year. ACT scores are
008accepted by all major four-year colleges and universities. And while that the number of students scoring a perfect score varies from year to year, it is that fewer than 1% number of students who actually achieve a 36. In last year's graduating class, only 3,000 students out of about 1.37 million who took the ACT earned that perfect score. And we are fortunate to have four of them recognized here in Parkway tonight. At this time, we'd like to recognize these four students for their perfect ACT scores. We have two from South High, and those are Samuel Ahmad and Katherine Noaki. And from West High, we have Certage Dylan and Loya Hoy. >> Congratulations to all of these impressive scholars. Next, please welcome Dr. Kevin Martin, principal at Northeast Middle, and Mrs. Katie Hicks, Northeast Middle teacher, to introduce
009our next recognition. Good evening, President Todd, Vice Hopper, Miss Stover, Dr. Snider, and board of education. We appreciate the opportunity to be here today. And at this time, we invite Drew, Snoopy, Mom to come on down uh to join us. Tonight we recognize Drew, a seventh grader at Parkway Northeast Middle School for his extraordinary achievement and incredible spirit. Drew wrote a powerful children's book titled Marshmallow Can Do Hard Things. This is a profound message born from a deeply personal experience. Drew's own journey fighting brain cancer. >> This book's vital lesson is one of resilience. Anyone can do hard things if they make a plan and practice. It's an inspiring message that comes from this young man who's demonstrated this principle firsthand. Drew is also demonstrating great generosity tonight by donating hard copy copies of his
010book to all Parkway Elementary libraries. His message of courage will not only be available to every elementary student in our district. Drew now would like to say a few words. >> Hi, my name is Drew and I'm in seven North Middle School. I also remember I knew a lot of hard things when I have new hard thing like I made a plan to make in little man recently I was given And now the mar and it helps new when things are hard in room I my money [clears throat] the money from my mother. knew how many you know I am with a hard mouth [clears throat] on my time my many H Drew, thank you for sharing your story, your strength, and your positive message with all of us. You're truly an inspiration. >> Please
011join us in celebrating Drew Patchins. Our final recognition this evening is staff receiving the Superintendent Character Award. Please welcome Dr. Melissa Schneider to introduce these remarkable Parkway staff. >> Good evening everybody and to the board. We are pleased tonight to recognize outstanding staff from two of our high schools. This group of staff is worthy of the Superintendent Character Award. From South High, we would like to recognize Adam Weiss and Josh Schneider. Unfortunately, neither could attend tonight's meeting. However, we would like to recognize them as recipients of the Superintendent's Character Award. When a student began choking in class, these two teachers acted swiftly and without hesitation. Josh Schneider, a special school district instructor, and Adam Weiss, a social studies and Patriot Global Academy, a teacher, quickly recognized the situation. They pressed the classroom emergency button to
012notify the nurse and administration and work together to perform the Heimlick maneuver, helping the student breathe again within seconds. Their calm and decisive teamwork turned a frightening moment into a safe outcome. Thank you to Josh and Adam for the care, compassion, and composure exhibited in this heroic response. So, give them a hand. They're not here tonight. And I would like to ask uh Jodie Chambers, Andrew Larose, Dana Lindamman, Virginia Lugi, and Jodie I'm sorry, Judy Shapiro to please come forward. Earlier this fall, these North High Vikings were involved in a life-saving incident during the school day saving a community member when Yes. Would Would you go ahead and stand so we know who we're talking about real quick? Thank you so much. When they learned that a community member had collapsed on the track, they
013quickly responded to help her. We are honored to have them in our Parkway North community. The video you are about to watch will give you a brief glimpse of their attributes. at 78 years old. And the next time you members of remember. several people would have been Doctor Call 911. What an amazing story. All of these staff members from both both North and South High have demonstrated extraordinary character, showing us that they would take a traumatic experience with resilience, compassion, and dedication. We are proud to present them with the Superintendent Character Award. We'll have to hang it up next year. Thank you again to our students, their families, and our staff for joining us for these special recognitions. At this time, we'll take a brief break and we'll resume the meeting shortly. All right, I
014think we are uh about ready to resume our meeting. Um we just have a couple of little uh items to go over. Um so next up on our agenda is 7.0 uh that's additions, corrections, and or modifications. Those include 7.01, addendum to agenda item 11.22, approval of person of purchase of residency online verification system. 7.02, addition of agenda item 11.26, Approval of policy BBBA, board member qualifications. 7.03, addendum to agenda item 11.04, approval of personnel items. 7.04, addition of agenda item 11.27, approval for facilities condition assessment services. And 7.05, addition of agenda item 11.28, approval for demog demographic study. Uh, next up is uh public comments. Uh it's during this time that we provide an opportunity for citizen comments in an effort to maintain an open respectful dialogue with our community. Public comment session is
015not the appropriate forum for addressing individually identifi identifiable student and or personnel matters. Therefore, due to privacy laws protecting students and employees. Comments about these matters should not include personally identifiable information about particular students or employees. Members of the public, staff, and students are encouraged to utilize established policies and procedures for offering suggestions or addressing concerns and complaints prior to bringing the issue before the board. Please be mindful that the meetings of the board, including your statements at the podium, are broadcast and that you are responsible for any comments that you make. Uh, in lie of public statement, you may choose to submit your comments to the board in writing. Also, due to time constraints and the need to complete the primary responsibilities of our meeting agenda, we cannot respond during the meeting. So you
016will receive a response from us in writing. We are always available to have an open dialogue outside of our meetings and can be reached by email or phone using the contact information on the park website. I will call let's see I think we only have one speaker. Um so I'll just call on our one speaker uh Drew Jennings. And u Drew, you'll have uh you'll have three minutes once you get to the podium if you could just uh reintroduce yourself to us and and let us know your affiliation with the district. >> My name is Drew Jennings and I'm a teacher at Parkway South High School. I'm also colleagues with Adam Weiss uh who got an award tonight. I feel like he learned that quick action from hanging out with me all the years. Uh,
017so I'm here I've got a few supporters here tonight, but I'm here just kind of speaking on behalf of um Parkway Teachers. And uh I'm going to hit you with my thesis. Then I'm going to give you some statistics, all right, some facts. Then I'll personalize it a little bit by telling you a little bit about myself, right? And then I'm going to give you a plea for your time and your help and your thoughts. Okay? So the reason we're here tonight is teacher salaries have just been gutted since co and there doesn't seem to be a lot of communication or awareness of this issue in the community or between uh the channels. And so I just want to go over a couple things to kind of illustrate this. Uh so I took a look
018at our precoid salaries and year one step one. So, brand new teacher in 2019 2020 made $43,000. That was a starting salary. If you adjust that for inflation using the labor of bureau and statistics website, um that would be over $54,000. $54,300 in today's money. Um as of this year, 2526, it's $48,000. So, that starting salary has lost over 20%. when adjusted for inflation. Uh at the top year 21 or above step five in 2019 2020 it was $98,000 and that would be adjusted for $123,752 and this year we made $106750. If you take somebody in the middle, I did year eight step three. It was $51,900 in 2019 2020. And that would be well over 65. $65,538 in today's money. And this is not just some sort of anomaly with 2019 2020. Uh my
019starting salary in the year 2000 was $29,000 and that would translate to $54,370 today. So this is a new problem. It's a new issue and I understand there's only so much money to go around. There's tax rates, there's all kinds of issues, there's building repairs, and absolutely uh no one goes into teaching to be rich, but it is it was it's a kick in the gut and it's it's hurting morale and it's been increasingly tough for teachers coming out of COVID to be hit by these uh these salary losses. And so, I guess time went faster than I thought. So, I won't tell you much about myself except I'm a parkway guy. I went to Parkway Claymont, Piermont, Parkway West, student taught at Parkway North, 26 years at Parkway South, love the district, thinks it's
020a great place. Uh, usually very competitive salaries. But right now, what we're asking for, and I'll wrap up real quick here, is just some communication that this is an issue that we're all aware of. And then perhaps there can be a plan to, you know, uh, help us get back on track kind of like we did after the financial crisis 2008, 2009 when they froze our salaries for a year or two and got right back on track. So anyway, thank you. >> Thank you very much. >> Uh, next on our agenda is the approval of tonight's agenda. May I have a motion and a second to approve the agenda for the regular meeting of the board of education as scheduled for November 12th, 2025. >> Second. All in favor? >> Any opposed? Motion carries 70.
021>> The next regular board meeting uh will take place on Wednesday, December 10th, beginning at 7 p.m. here at the Parkway Welcome Center. Uh next up is board superintendent reports. You want to start us off? >> Yeah. Um past month been a little busy. Um actually had two subcommittee meetings. I'm going actually let my colleagues comment on those. But um we also went to the Missouri School Board Association conference and um kind of playing off the um um public comment too is the fact that I went to sessions about the state budget, state legislation and also some security um sessions too and just the fact that as we've already discussed here at the board level is healthcare costs are going up putting a strain on our budgets. Um on the operating side, there is challenges
022not just for Parkway but for districts across the region around um discussions about getting rid of the income tax and then also more discussions around property tax and just the fact that the budget was in bad shape already and there had discussions now about removing more revenue from the budget. It's going to get tighter at this point in time. things are still preliminary, but I think you're going to hear more and more going forward over the next few months about their budgets at the state level and revenue coming in and how they support schools going forward. So, just I encourage everybody to keep their eye on it and I'm sure we'll keep a breast of it too for all of you. As with Matt, I was at the Missouri school board conference as well. Uh,
023one of the topics that I went to was about AI usage for teachers. I found it very interesting on potential ways that our teachers could uh use AI to make their lives a little easier. uh and also to you know enhance teaching for their students. Uh as Matt mentioned uh we went to the operations board subcommittee meeting. Um there were a few topics that we talked about. Um one is an upcoming technology comprehensive program review where they are going to talk look at technical support and service quality uh student computing experience that means Chromebooks things like that uh infrastructure and then cyber security and data privacy. Uh we also looked at uh an upcoming transportation parent app where uh we're going to be piloting some schools to help figure out a better way to to
024track your kid. Um that's just kind of in the initial phase. Um we also uh had preliminary talks about the compensation study that uh I know was in our consent agenda. Um where we looked at operation staff and the salaries there and if we're competitive in the market. And then our favorite thing, um, it's a policy review that we're going to be doing, uh, as well. Um, also one of the things I went to was the Central High Day of Service. Uh, this is one of my favorite things that I do as a board member. Um, it's something I did as a student at Parkway Central. Uh, back then it was just Special Olympics, but now it's an entire school doing a day of service for different things outside of school. Uh, it truly was
025amazing. The weather wasn't the best, so we had to do with what we could and and do things in the gym rather than on the field, but it was still an amazing day. Um, I was able to spend some time at Spark, um, where I was able to talk with some students. I'm going to have follow-up conversations with some students who, uh, are interested in pursuing a legal career, and I I don't know how happy I am being an attorney if I want to keep that going, but uh, going to have great conversations there. And then a couple of days ago, we were all here for a board workshop um where we talked about a lot of different things. Uh and it's just, you know, it's that time of year where things are getting crammed
026in before the end of the year. So, it's a great time. >> Yeah. Just pick up on that, it's been uh busy kind of working backwards. So, uh I was at the uh for Veterans Day yesterday. I attended the uh Veterans Day uh presentation at Parkway Northeast along with Dr. Vgas Kevin and then headed over to uh McKelby. when able to see the parade over there and it's just great to see the students come out and community come out to support our veterans and um and just you know celebrate them. Um the work session earlier this week uh you know being my first first year on the board you know constantly learning so I really thought that was a great session. We went through a lot of topics um learning a lot there. Um the
027MSBA conference I thought was great opportunity to get to see other uh meet and you know mingle with other uh school boards across the state, school districts of various sizes to hear about the issues that they're facing uh how they uh address those. Um we uh we had a a teaching and learning committee meeting last week with Matt and uh Debbie as well and Dr. Beckner. Um and you know similarly we are with on that committee uh we are going to be focusing on doing a policy review which uh you know we're going to be looking at about 74 policies in total kind of going through those uh seeing what changes might need to be made you know bringing them in in line with uh you know current state law those kinds of things. Uh
028a little bit tedious but a necessary task that uh needs to be done. Um otherwise yeah just uh just staying busy. I I echo that uh since our last meeting uh it's been a busy month. Um starting back in October 21st um we had our first district wellness committee meeting um that's led by Eddie Madison. Um it's a new committee that's focused around wellness, specifically nutrition, physical activity, and staff wellness. Um during that meeting, we did have the opportunity to um preview some some data that was uh from our panorama um survey to our students in grades 3 through 12 and our teachers and it was around belonging. And then we also had the opportunity to break into um three groups um where we were working to dis uh determine strategies on how we can
029improve um u aspects of belonging which is one of our district goals um in those three areas. So uh that was a really good uh first meeting. Um our next one will be in January. Um, I also attended the um, MSBA conference uh, October 23rd through the 25th. I will say they had two really good um, general session speakers. Um, the first was a 15-year-old, his name was Orion Jean or John. Um, and he talked about his race to kindness. uh he to see a young man who um was was able to uh do such great things and and spread inspiration throughout the country. Um it was very inspiring. Um and then the second speaker was Dr. Temple Grandon. Um she's well known throughout the educa uh educator world. This was my first time know
030um hearing her and I have to She was amazing in um her talks about um different types of learners and and making sure that our education system um it does not just cater to the traditional academics um because we do have different learners and we want to make sure that we are um making sure that their their uh potential is reached as well. Um I also attended several sessions uh some of them just going to go uh through the titles of those uh we talked about Senate Bill 727, empowering communities with future ready schools, superintendent evaluations, the 2026 legislative updates, uh a DESIE update, and then effective advocacy for school districts. So, um overall it was a very um good conference. Um I I was learning a lot. I enjoy going to those um each
031each year. um just to meet new people, uh learn about what other districts are doing. So, and you know, maybe being able to bring some of those things back to our district. Um and then moving into November, we had a student services subcommittee meeting. I'm going to let uh Mr. Todd um provide a little bit more information on that. Um, and then I had an opportunity to uh uh have a school lunch with with uh Jason Brooks at Southwest Middle. Um, I know last year, I think it was last year or the year before, um, Mrs. Copper and I were were trying to make our rounds around the the district to try out the various lunches just to, you know, make sure that uh our kids are are uh happy with with what they're eating.
032And um and there there were some some things that I think we can improve on, but overall I thought the lunch was pretty good. So um good for our our uh lunch workers. I appreciate all of their help. They were great. Um, and then Monday we did have our board workshop uh as as uh Mr. Kilper uh talked about. And then >> what's today? >> Okay. Yesterday. [laughter] >> Yesterday um I did have the opportunity to attend West Middle's uh Veterans Day assembly and that was led by our National Junior Honor Society students. So it was great to have uh them see them. um be up there and and recognize the veterans of their community. >> Well, that was really impressive by all of you. Um I think Parkway is lucky to have four members
033that are so well spoken and so uh able to share these wonderful experiences, whereas my only contribution is to be able to tell Tiffany what day it is. Uh kidding aside, it's hard to go fit. I'm sure everyone would love the third person to tell them about the operations subcommittee meeting or the fifth person to tell them about the schoolboard conference, but I went to that stuff too, but I think they said enough about it uh for tonight. Uh this is our third it's the third day this week we I've been involved with Parkway stuff and you know we're not really we don't really address the citizen statements here but I als but that segus into a lot of the stuff we've been talking about the last couple of days and it's not lost on
034us as a board. you know, we're not in the trenches dayto-day, uh, like our finance people are dealing with the numbers and looking at budgets and thinking about salaries, but you can't help but look around and see that a lot of people, teachers, community, people are suffering. Things are really, really expensive and they're, you know, and just getting more and more expensive and there's some really, really hard decisions that have to be made. I'm proud to be part of an organization that I think puts a lot of thought into this. you know, there's no good way to spend less money, but I do think that, you know, we're exploring every option and I have faith that this district and the people tasked with those decisions are empathetic and care and, you know, have everyone's best
035interest in mind and, you know, I hope, you know, I'm proud of the way that we're tackling the reality of the current economic climate. Um, but there was a really fun bright part of the week, which was the Veterans Day assemblies. Now I mentioned, you know, we all kind of divide it up and go to different schools and the schools have different programs. And I mentioned uh to somebody that I was at one of these programs. It was, you know, another generation. Oh, I don't remember that happening when uh you know, when I was in school and you know, and the reality is it didn't. I think when I was growing [clears throat] up, you just got Veterans Day off and we went home and watched Prices, Right. And now I think someone at some
036point made the decision of rather than give the kids an extra day on their uh cell phones, let's really teach them what America means, what a veteran means. And I love that we do that. Those ceremonies are always great, especially, you know, at the grade school, seeing the kids excited about, you know, their grandpa being there. And it's really nice to be a part of that. So that's all for me. >> Well, I agree. I'll segue into that is I' I'd attended a couple of Veterans Day events yesterday. Um myself, I went to Shannondoa Valley where the Central High band was actually there and they did a little parade um outside with all the veterans and the students and we went into an assembly at the gymnasium and then there was a reception afterward. And
037then at Barretts Elementary, um we did very similar things as well. And the kids, both of the schools had their choir, um singing music and and doing presentations. And I, you know, and the boy, the Cub Scouts and the Brownies were also involved. And I just have to say, you know, there were a few times that um it was very moving and you can't help but be emotionally affected by um you know, seeing our veterans. We had 70 veterans um come in person to Barretts. Uh we didn't have quite that many at Chenandoa Valley, but um nevertheless, [clears throat] representation was very good. And I'm just I too am very proud of our district that uh we we continue to have and hold these events to show what it's important. Um, and I did, you
038know, get to hear some stories from an 82nd Airborne veteran about some of their antics that they they did uh when they were finally done with their active duty stuff. >> You want to share this? >> No. [laughter] But then I am proud to know that there was another another vet at Parrots who shared that you know being recognized this way is a welcome from how the um military people were recognized when they returned from war especially during the Vietnam War which was not with much respect. And so to have these opportunities is is um a very welcome um thing that that I'm very proud that our school district engages in. Um I also want to uh remind our community of our food pantry. Um we're in very difficult times right now. Some people are
039still pulling out from a tornado back in May. um other storms that even I mean I hear stories about some of the the work was being done on some of the homes that were uh destroyed or or you know had had issues in in May and they were right in the middle of fixing their problems and then another storm came and just demolished those those progress that was being made. But any staff and family members here in Parkway are open to applying to our food pantry for help. And meals will be guaranteed and you will get food every week at um the pickup points are at Northeast Middle School. Those times are on our website and you can go to the website to apply and start your access to those food pantries. Um so I'm
040very proud that our school district has that. I know our board's going to be volunteering at those food pantry at the food pantry next month and we have other groups that are doing that for Thanksgiving preparations as well. Um I unfortunately was not able to attend the MSBA conference this year but I held the fork down here while everybody else was gone. Um, and one of the things that I I I had the the privilege of doing was uh providing opening remarks at the all district choir concert on October the 23rd. We had over 700, let me repeat, 700 students participate at Family Arena. And I couldn't have been more proud to stand up there and what and see all of these kids from grades 5 through 12. Every single school, elementary, middle school, and
041high school here in Parkway participated in a choir concert. So, um, hats off to Jeff Lackey, all of our teachers and staff, and the guest conductors that were there. It is a phenomenal event, and we do do um all district events with our orchestra as well. and it is just they are just wonderful events and great experiences for our students to be able to engage in that. So I am so proud that we are so supportive of the arts here. Um the board workshop we went through just to thank administration. Um those are heavy topics that we we delve into and not easy, but it's an opportunity that we can all come together to um to talk and dive deeper into some of the issues taking place um here in Parkway and to pro and
042get the information from administration. Um so thank you very much for the time involved in that. It's a 4-hour event, us just sitting there, you know, engaged in conversation, but I know it's probably a lot more time for our administrators to put all that information together. So, thank you for doing that. Um, I'm also involved in our St. Louis County PLC planning meetings. We have an event coming up on December 6th, um, where we will be the topic of conversation that day is going to be on superintendent and board relations. So, we're hopeful that that will come off and um looking forward to a stellar panel that will be uh talking about those particular topics. So, we'll have breakout sessions too on superintendent evaluations and board um self- evaluations as well. And then finally, we've
043just been um seeing a lot of our sports team, our athletics and activities going off to state championships. And we just want to say congratulations to those that are uh in the midst of going through all those competitions. I think we've got every single school in Parkway doing something with those state competitions and um you know just best of luck and I believe probably in the spring of next year we recognize our state champion. So we'll be seeing who who uh rises to the top there. So, uh, but it's a great experience for all of our athletes and activities um students that they're involved in in these for team um team experiences and there's nothing like it. I couldn't be more proud to see our kids involved in those. So, thank you all and good
044luck. Congratulations. >> Thank you. >> Um, I will I will reiterate uh the uh wonderful experiences um for me at Park at Puremont Elementary. uh the Veterans Day celebration yesterday. Um I try and try and attend at least one different one and different school every year and it's it's always interesting to see how different schools um celebrate veterans, but at the end of it, it's it's really amazing to see the the efforts that our teachers and students go to uh to recognize our nation's heroes. So I I always appreciate being uh at those events. Um, as was mentioned, the board workshop uh took place earlier this week. Um, Tiffany mentioned the student services uh subcommittee that we attended last week. One of the items uh was the panorama. So, you got a you got a
045double dose this month. Um, so we talked about that. We talked about some discipline policies that we were able to review and uh talk through uh that with some of our student services staff and make sure those policies were were meeting um our expectations. We talked about the 504 processes uh that are ongoing for a number of our students and um the impact that those those u those things in place uh for students can help them achieve success and uh the challenges that we sometimes face with with meeting those uh needs of our students and how we can uh potentially improve that. So um that was a great uh meeting. We'll have another one in the spring. Um Debbie, I can't remember if you were there or if it was I think it was more
046than just me. Um but I can't remember exactly, but we had a Patentville um >> SSD and Parkway joint government relations meeting a couple of weeks ago um with I think five or six of our local legislators uh both uh representatives and I think there was a maybe a senator was represented there. But uh we we've done these before where we're all just in a a great big room like this and there's a table that runs the perimeter of the room because there's so many people there. This time um we we had our I think it was our communications department that that made the suggestion and we we broke out into groups and u it was really a more organic uh discussion and I think it I got the impression that it really drove home
047the fact um uh the facts better to our legislators about public education and the need for continuing to support um where there's areas that are lacking in in the u the things that you know we we need to maintain um and improve on um with the state's help. So um so I think that was a great uh event as well and um I think everybody else covered a lot of other things so I'm not going to belabor those. So Dr. Well, uh very very very similar. I went to many of the things uh that were mentioned. I will highlight uh Veterans Day that is I just want to look back at my team as well superintendent's cabinet uh between all of us. We did kind of divide and conquer and went out and saw many
048of the Veterans Day activities and they were amazing. I was at Ross Elementary and I absolutely love listening to the kids sing all the patriotic songs and the different branches of the military and having people stand up and they're so proud when that person stands up when their song is being sung. It's just so it's so cute, but like de uh Debbie said, it's it's so emotional, too. >> And it it was just wonderful. They had breakfast. Um, they also had I had never seen this before, but they had a prisoner prisoner of war missing an action table set um with meaningful things. It's a place setting with a chair and a tablecloth and a a flower vase and some other things on the table that stand for things and they they really taught the
049audience what all those things mean and um really gave tribute to um PMIA. Um, I had an absolutely exhilarating time going down to our state cross country meet which was last Friday in Colombia where all of our high schools were represented. We had teams and individual athletes running in the cross country meet and I I couldn't believe that I had the privilege of standing on the sidelines while very first place girl uh Gabby Moresy from Central High School, junior at Central won the entire um girls class 4 race and that was just an amazingly proud moment. She came from behind uh probably the last quarter of a mile. There were uh four or five girls ahead of her and to watch her pass every single one of them and finish so strong I had tears
050in my eyes at that one too. So another emotional event that I went to. Um I visited uh Claymont Culture Night and on the same night it was the South Area Strings Festival uh for grades five, seven, and nine. It was amazing to see families come out to uh Claymont, celebrate their cultural heritage with music, food, dancing. It was it was just such a neat time. And then the strings festival, you had grades five, seven, and nine. You had the fifth graders being helped by ninth graders and seventh graders who were able to envision themselves maybe one day they would all play together in the high school orchestra. And they were playing in the high school rooms that they might play in in several years. So, uh that was a neat thing to see. And
051I thank the teachers who spent their evenings uh getting that one together. They pulled off an absolutely wonderful evening for the kids. Also was at Central High School Day of Service and the Special Olympics opening ceremony which is also super special and North High North High Choir as well as uh Spark the Spark program. I want to speak a little bit to this too. This was also an emotional thing to walk into a room full of teachers, people who wanted to be teachers um in the Spark program. That has never happened to me before where I was able to walk into a room of 20 kids who before they're even leaving high school are saying that they want to be teachers. And to to actually feel their energy and to talk with them for an
052entire hour uh brought just complete joy to my heart and I cannot wait to go and see the signing day which I'm told is a really special thing. Uh they are dead set on on teaching. I I do hope that many of them come back and teach for Parkway. It was a a really really special day. So, um lots going on this path past month as many of you said. It's been a good but busy month. >> And I omitted uh one thing I wanted to mention and that is I wanted to recognize uh two well more than two. Uh Dr. Kevin Beckner and members of his team presented in Kansas City at the MSBA conference and our own board secretary Nikki Stove drove across the state for less than 24 hours to present to
053uh a a room full of people in her same role uh from across the state. So uh thank you for representing >> uh you and your your fellow uh worker co-workers uh representing Parkway so well. So thank you. >> Uh next up uh 10.03 03 board of education candidate filing announcement. It's this time again. Uh three director positions are open in the Parkway Board of Education each for a three-year term in the April 7th, 2026 election. The terms of Debbie Hopper, Tiffany Matt Franklin, and Jeff Todd expire in April 2026. So, since I just rattled off those names, uh Tiffany, are you planning to continue your service on the board? >> I do plan to. >> Okay. Deb, you're >> Yes, I am planning to run again. >> Okay. And I will share that I
054am as well. So, uh for uh the three of us, uh some good information. And for anybody else interested in filing, uh that begins uh on Tuesday, December 9th, 2025 at 8 a.m. and will continue through Tuesday, December 30th, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. Candidates must file in person at the St. Louis County Board of Elections, 725 Northwest Plaza Drive, St. Kan, Missouri 63074. No filing will take place at the district office. Candidates may file between 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Filing ends at 5:00 pm on the last day of candidate filing only. The board of election office will be closed on December 25th and may also close due to inclement weather. For the la I'm sorry, for the first day of filing, a random lottery drawing will be conducted to determine ballot
055placement. Candidates who file after the first day will be listed in order of filing. If anyone has any questions regarding candidate filing, please contact Nikki Stove at 314-41580002 or n stove at parkwayschools.net or at the St. Louis County Board of Elections at 314-6151851. Next up is our consent agenda. Uh we've had an opportunity to review this. Um, so may I have a motion to approve the consent agendas that presented in the November 12th, 2025 board meeting materials? >> So move. Second. >> Is there anything to be pulled to action closed? And I will raise my hand and say that I would like to pull uh let's see 11.06 approval of 2025 2026 fall budget adjustments to action. So, uh, for all of the, uh, consent agenda items, which don't include the one pulled to action,
056uh, all in favor? >> Any opposed? Any abstensions? Motion carries 70. Uh, next up, uh, could I request the presence of Ms. Carrie Nun to, uh, join us at the podium? Uh, and as as she's making her way up here, um, as I [clears throat] mentioned, like like always, we have an opportunity to review the consent agenda um before uh tonight. We we get it we got it last week and we've been reading through it and asking questions and and talking about things. Um, and in 11.06 06 uh stood out to me um because I know you make your budget adjustments in the fall based on you know things that have happened since the budget was originally presented to us. Um and so I just wanted to see if you know I noticed numbers were
057a little different um and so I wanted to wanted to give you an opportunity if you could share with us uh some of those highlights. >> I absolutely can. Are you interested more um on the adjustments for the revenue side or the expense side? Which one would you like me to dive into? >> Um I think the revenue side was since we were a little bit lopsided. I Yes. I think the revenue side probably is the where we should focus. >> Absolutely. So the the majority of our adjustment for on the revenue side is related to our property tax. So, under a property tax, um, under the items that you'll see, um, the things that were making that up was a mixture of a couple of things. One of them was the senior tax freeze
058impact. So, that was announced earlier than what we actually had expected, which is great. Um, that report actually was released last week um, and made public. So, Parkway was impacted. Um there was a little over 13,300 parcels that um applied for the credit and received it. Um that in that loss for us or the credit that they received um and loss for revenue for Parkway was rounded to a whole number of $2.8 million. So that impacts our uh our operation budget as well as our debt service budget. Um and so we had originally anticipated only a million dollar loss, just over a million dollar loss. So having the 2.8 um at that whole number means that we had a a difference of 1.8 that we needed to reduce our revenue by. So that was um
059the one of the impacts that you're seeing in the revenue um calculation. Um we also had a decrease in revenue related to delinquent uh property taxes. So that made up another large chunk of the the reduction in property taxes. Um we also were notified by the county that we had a property that was um assessed incorrectly. Um and so it was going to cause a reduction in our revenue of about a million dollars. Um and then we also had changes some slight changes uh just below half a million dollars. um with with you know when I set the original budget I have to use the rates that we have at that time and then once the rates are actually set in September that's just an adjustment based on the actual new tax rate that we
060actually were able to levy this year and so those were the components that were making up the bulk of the revenue adjustments that you see. Okay. >> All right. Thank you. Any other questions about the budget adjustments? I guess I'll just say this and correct me if I'm wrong just to kind of share more information about the senior tax freeze. It's the fact that it's a total of around $30 million total for St. Louis County that includes school districts, libraries, EMS, and fire departments as all part of that. Correct. >> Correct. So, the report is about six pages long. Um, it does impact every taxing municipality in St. Louis County. Um, the report is about $30 million of impact. um with 19 million of that making up school districts. So, of all the school districts,
061we do not have the the largest revenue loss. Um but we are one of the one of the top ones that have the heaviest uh heaviest hit to the revenue. >> Yes. >> And if you at any time want to see that full report, I'm more than happy to share that link with you to the full report um that is public. Okay. Thank you so much. >> Okay. So for um item 11.06, may I have a motion and a second that the board of education approves the budget adjustment for the 25.6 school year. As a result of the changes, the general fund will have total expenditures of 110,48,946 and total revenues of $13,464,460. The special fund will have total expenditures of 171,1694,621 and total revenues of 174,197,372. The debt service fund will have total expenditures
062of 21,914,584 and total revenues of $34,586,5. The capital projects fund will have total expenditures of 90,49,61 and total revenues of 1116,420,229. In total, all funds will have expenditures of 39427,751 and revenues of $428,6868,067. >> So moved. Second. All in favor? >> I opposed. Motion carries 70. Uh, tonight we have no policy review or reports. However, we do have a work session. Uh, sorry, Carrie, you're gonna have to walk all the way back up. We got there a little quicker. Um, so Carrie, uh, Carrie Nun, our CFO, and she will introduce, uh, I I will let her introduce our additional our guests. All right, thank you so much. And we do have um some partners here with us tonight that will be helping me, but I'm going to start us off. We do have um our
063CM, our construction manager at risk, uh Puter here with us, and we also have Jason Rrooks, who's going to fill in um for Matt Snake. I'm going the wrong direction. Okay, so this is an update of our Prop S funds. Um, and I'm going to start us off with our overall cash. So on the left-hand side is the overall cash for um potential cash for Prop S. Um the full Prop S funds were 265 million. That is what our voters approved. Um and since then, we have sold um our bonds at some premiums. And so we've gained an $18 million increase there. And then we also from those funds as we spend them they sit in an investment account and earn interest. So we've gained 9.3 almost 9.4 in interest for a total of 292
064almost $293 million in Prop S funds. We also have to pay fees for selling bonds to our financial advisors, our bond financial adviserss and our bond council. So those and to the title companies. So, those fees have been um just under just over a billion dollars. We also have spent to date $81 million. Um and then we also have to pay um positive arbitrage. And if you'll remember, I think I mentioned this the last time we had a prop s update. Positive arbitrage is what you pay back because you cannot earn too much money on your funds. So, if you This is not money that we pay back to the investor. This is actually money that we will give to the IRS um because they these are no tax. They're tax exempt bonds and so
065you can only make so much. You can't make more than the yield. Um and so that totals for expenses is 84 almost 85 million. Um which means that the remaining bond funds is $28 million. But on the far right hand side is our current bond cash. So, this represents the cash actually on hand. So, as you'll remember earlier this year, um you actually approved a bond sale. So, that was our second issuance of Prop S funds. So, we actually have only sold two issuances which total $190 million. So, we still have $75 million to issue with a bond sale with Prop S funds. So, if you'll see that, the actual cash on hand goes with the bond sales that we did, the 90 million and the 100 million. We did have that premium on the
066sale. Um, and then also the interest earned. We still have the same fees that we paid for the actual sale that happened for both of those bonds. And then our total history cost that we have paid for. Um, and then the positive arbitrage. So, the actual cash, physical cash on hand in our bank account is $133 million. Um, and I'd like to point out with Prop S funds is these are what you would call restricted funds. So, they are set aside. They can only be used for PropS projects. So, these were things that we wrote in the bond language that we promised our community, we will only spend these funds on this. So they're not to be confused with our operating funds that pay for our reoccurring expenses s such as salaries and benefits and
067supplies and services that you would see in our school building or in our departments. So this is set aside and can only be used for props capital improvements. So to so that was the number side but I'm sure you're interested in actually how all of the projects have been going. So with the props s funds, we have two methods of the projects. We have one branch of our projects that is manager that is managed by our construction managers at risk. Um and they're going to go first and they're going to show you all the projects that they're working on. Um and the financial and the financials associated with those projects. Then we have another branch of our Prop S projects that are actually managed internally. Um they're smaller projects and they're managed internally by our
068construction department. So, and after Pugner goes through their projects, then we're going to go through the the park we manage projects. And at the at the end, we'll have time for any questions that you might have. All right. And just so you know, it's the bottom button, >> so you don't have one. And this is also Chris from. >> Thank you very much. Good evening. Um, also I have Ben Elcizer here with me, our senior pre-construction manager. got a lot of faces up on the screen. There's a lot of folks from Puter Construction that have a major impact. There's just not enough room on the screen. So, threw a couple up of our project managers and superintendents that maybe you've ran into over the past year. Um, I know that you guys have have seen
069these, uh, projects a little bit. So, I'm going to try and stick to my agenda and not deviate too much. So, uh, tonight I'm going to recap some of the construction work that has taken place across the district. Um, since our spring update, several projects were completed or had phases completed vastly over the summer break. Um, here at Riverbend, various renovations took place throughout the existing buildings. Uh, while the two new building additions were completed for the fine arts and kindergarten storm shelter wings along with an updated entry and new playgrounds. Uh, Craig Elementary dove into phase one work, completing the majority of the site work, including parking lots. and a third of the building was completely transformed with a full gut and remodel of the interior. Uh virtually the entire site at Northeast Middle
070School was touched for utility upgrades and site improvements. The choir room and two sets of restrooms were also given a muchneeded facelift. Uh Central High phase one gave the servy and teachers lounge an overhaul and much of the roofing has been repaired. The visitors bleachers and locker rooms joined the natiatorum for work completed at North High along with a revamped kitchen. District ops and trans transportation received upgrades to its parking lots, roofs, HVAC systems, windows, and doors. And then the lower and upper parking lots of McKelie are now restored as well. Uh I'll actually start at the bottom right on this one. location we're at tonight. South Middle School phase one was going when uh was ongoing when I started this presentation. So, um it really should be on the slide prior to at this
071point because uh phase one has been substantially completed with approximately half the the uh sprinklers in this building being completed over the summer and then we just finished the site utilities and parking lot pavers uh last week outside. So, that's going to be something that will take phase two home next summer. Otherwise, North High and Central High are the two major projects that we have work ongoing currently along with some sidewalks being installed at Oakbrook this month. Uh the photos here that you see are the north infill and addition and the cheer room at North High School as well as the locker rooms at Central High School. A little bit more in depth for North High School is projected to continue construction through the summer of 2027 until it looks more like the rendering that
072you see here on top. We are currently finishing up the underground rough in and preparing our pore uh preparing two pore slabs uh and get the north infill roof in the dry. And then the cheer room is being drywalled. The wrestling room has masonry walls ongoing. We also threw in some of the photos of the renovated natitorium and visitors bleachers above. And then I've got Central High School here projected to finish up in the summer of 2026. These are a few of the photos of the servery space as well as the teachers lounge that was discussed. Um along with the locker rooms that we are currently working on, the pool area is being renovated with plans to turn over at the end of this year. And then last but not least for me, uh I
073couldn't really help but not add this slide. I know that you guys were here. Uh just simply wanted to echo kind of what I heard from you guys previously. Uh we too really enjoyed the tour. Uh thought it was a success. I really just wish we had a little bit longer time to to be with you and show all of the progress that was made. Um I will say from our side, it has truly been a pleasure to work with everyone at Parkway both on the admin maintenance staff side. Uh but also I want to talk about the school staffs individually. Um your students are blessed to have you all. Uh the the principles that spoke here tonight, many of the folks um the teachers, it has been an absolute joy seeing them interact with
074their passion and just their joy uh for their students. Um so I know you already are and you have said it many times this night, but um it it comes off very clearly from from an outsers's perspective of how proud you should be of your staff. So um just wanted to to mention that and also h have to say thank you for the staff helping us along the way to be able to have a successful um 2025. Um that is we are not to the tip of the iceberg. Next summer is going to be fantastic. It is uh it is going to be the tip of the iceberg. Um but we we definitely had a busy summer. We're looking forward to 2026 as well. Uh with that, I'm going to bring up Ben to hand
075it off here. He's going to talk a little bit about what lies ahead for 2026 as well as give a little bit of a financial snapshot. Thank you everyone for having us. It's uh always good to see you guys once a year. Um, but the tour was also quite a lot of fun. Um, I will say that much like Carrie, I just get spreadsheets and and boring picture and boring slides. I don't have nearly as much excitement for you all. But, um, since last time we spoke last year, uh, we are officially over the halfway point. We have done we have uh, with tonight's action items, we are 19 GMPS into the program. 22 buildings have been under contract. We are in the process of two more GMPS for three additional buildings and that leaves
076um just 11 GMPS to go with 15 buildings. So um it's been a pleasure to work with you all um and we've been working diligently with the facility staff and Carrie and her team um as we're planning this out. We're getting ready in the spring to do um our favorite buzzword of a red zone meeting uh with the facilities team to finalize the allocations for both the design team and how we're going to final finalize all the projects for this program. Um it's exciting time. Um it's been a pleasure uh to echo Chris's point. Um, so I was looking at the numbers just because I was curious of uh the $17 million of bond money allocated to the 19 projects that are under contract. We were award we've awarded the contracts at 96 million which
077is about 21% what we would call or sorry 18% what we would call contingency. So um as the projects go along and unforeseen things come along obviously things adjust but um we've been tracking what the allocation was versus award and then part of this red zone meeting will be to reconcile where we are at on all these projects but it's a great uh I commend you guys on the planning to be at 18% contingency is a wonderful spot to be in. Um I you guys couldn't have done a better job planning it and we've had great bidder participation throughout the program. Chris and his team as well as my team, we've been working diligently to drum up interest and and bring people uh maybe that haven't worked in the public market as much um developing
078our relationships and trying to bring those people aboard. So coming up, uh, we have Fern Ridge High School and Grounds and Storage. That was awarded, um, in the spring. Um, and that will be take kicking off, as Chris mentioned, South Middle School phase two. Um, Oakbrook and McKelie phases two. Um, as Chris mentioned, we're starting on Oakbrook doing some preliminary work. Craig Elementary has two of three phases remaining. Um, the way we broke that building up was into three phases. And then Mason Ridge Elementary was one of our recent additions to the GMP that'll get started next summer. And then we also have to Chris's team's chagrin. Highra Ridge Elementary, Believe Elementary, Shannondoa Elementary, Green Trails Elementary, South High School, Claymont, and Piermont all kicking off next summer. So we got a we got a
079busy road ahead. It's going to be great. Um couple of the South High and Piermont are going to be multi-phase High Croft Ridge. Um through some excellent work with the bidder participation, working with the design teams, working with the facilities team, making a a plan, we were able to come up with a strategy to complete that in one summer instead of two, which was the original uh thought process behind just dealing with lead times of equipment and things. we were able to find shorter lead time equipment and we're going to be able to squeeze that into one summer. So that will be less detriment to the district overall. That did not translate well to that. This is kind of an overall snapshot. Um these are all the so GMPS one through six and nine have
080all been closed and then GMPS seven through 19 essentially are the ones that are in progress or newly added to the agenda. And this is reflecting that 117 million of bond allocation money versus the 96 million that has been awarded under those contracts. Of the closed contracts, we are 3.4 million under the allocation. So we're continuing to trend in the right direction. Um, so again, that's a testament to your all's planning. Um, as well as Chris and and our team and the facilities team's efforts to draw up interest, drive market competition, and just have an overall healthy program. And I will answer any questions if anybody has any for me. Otherwise, I will kick it over to Jason Rhodess. >> Thank you. So, I'll add lib just a little bit. Um, in my world, usually
081the it's no news is good news, whether it's giving or receiving. Rarely do I have principles reaching out telling me what a great job we're doing. Um, but with Puter, that's been kind of an exception. Usually when I'm running into principles who've had construction, they talk about what a great partner Puter is in the building with their staff and with their students. So, I do want to give um the Pucker team some credit for just being a great partner with Parkway, not only at the facilities, the district level, but at the school level. And I I suspect we'll be losing a principal or two to when they retire to put curve to become uh to take to keep that moving forward. So, >> now we're going to look at the Parkway projects. Um, these are
082the Parkway Prop S projects, the ones we manage, uh, as part of our planning and construction team as well as our small projects team and our facilities department. These tend to not be as shiny or glamorous as the bigger projects that our CM and Pucker run, but uh, daytoday they they do benefit our students and staff in making our environments more comfortable, um, look fresher, look newer, and cleaner. So, I do want to thank Matt Fafaro, our director of facilities, who could not be here tonight. He really wanted to, but uh had a prior commitment and couldn't make it. And then John Blandon is here. He's our manager of planning and construction. Um and he really he's here for the question portion for all the things I can't answer. Um and so I'm sure he'll
083make a trip to the at least one trip to the podium. And I definitely want to thank our planning and construction team or John's team as well as our small projects team who are managing these projects every day as well as working with Pucker on making sure all of our projects are moving forward. So the list I'm going to share, it's not an exhaustive list. This is really just a sampling of some of our projects that have been completed or in progress to show a variety of the work and locations where where Prop S is having an impact. A full list would take significantly longer time. U but we're happy to provide that to the board after tonight if you're interested in seeing that. So to start off with at B at Barretts and at
084a lot of our schools we're doing ceiling and striping of parking lots and track areas. This really just gives it that fresh new asphalt or pavement look um and helps improve the out outer aesthetic view of the parking lots as well as making them easier to drive on. Um we are pro replacing a number of community ed uh commu community ed awnings. Um that also includes Barretts and Carmen. Um one of the more special projects I feel like we've done is what we affectionately refer to as our uh Bell Reeve pit project uh for a playground. So as you're entering into Belre in the coming weeks or months uh look down to your right and you'll see that new playground with the porttoplay surface. Uh Dr. Conir has been great with sharing the positive sentiments
085staff and students have shared with regards to this very little playground that probably goes unnoticed but has had a really big impact for that community. Um at Claymont and many other schools were applying the liquid the fluid applied roofing um which has done has gone a long way in helping us improve uh helping us fix or remediate persistent leaks for the roof. This is you've seen this in probably the some of the pictures that Pucker showed last time, but these are the very shiny white roofs that we've that we've been implementing. They do they basically like shrink wrap the roof of a building and keep the water from getting through. They're also providing some potential energy efficiencies with regard with uh with that white roofing reflecting uh the heat and keeping things cool. Um we
086have completed HVAC at HVAC automation at Henry. This is another project that will help us better control and monitor heating and cooling at the school and hopefully provide some energy benefits as a cost energy cost benefits. Vestibule improvements at Mason uh and McKelie Primary making the vestibule safer and easier for school secretaries to work. As I've toured schools around the district, I've realized even within buildings, the flooring ranges in age from anywhere from 30 years to 10 years. Um, you can usually tell this by the changes of color and the carpeting. Um, so every year and especially as part of bond projects, we try to replace a certain amount of flooring across the district. So we've got new flooring going in at Shannondoa, Northeast Middle, and ECC. John's team's also working on putting together a
0875 to 10year flooring replacement plan that our administrators will be able to monitor and keep track of. At Central High, we've completed nearly all the roof repairs related to last year's storm damage. If you guys remember, we had a very severe storm hit our central campus. Uh we put in temporary roofing to get us through the remainder of the school year and spent this summer working on the actual permanent repairs at Central High. And at South High, we're starting the replacement of the bridge awning, which has been in need of replacement for a long time. So, there's an exterior bridge at South High that a lot of our ADA students used to get from one building to another. that awning had gone into disrepair and we're getting that fixed so that now they don't have
088to endure rains or snow as they traverse from one building to the other. And in addition to that, uh more on the technology side, but I didn't want it to go unmentioned, is our camera project, which has been a needed project and upgrading our security cameras across the district, uh continues to move forward, and we're knocking out uh buildings every week um getting upgraded cameras in place, providing better security for our schools. I want to take a minute just to thank again all of our staff and principles that have collaborated with us on this work. And thanks again to our facilities, planning, and construction teams as well as our small project teams for all the work they're doing every day to make sure these projects continue to move forward. With that, I will open it
089up for questions for either myself or Pucker, and I will phone a friend if I need John Blandon. >> [laughter] >> Well, I I don't have any questions personally, but I I just will uh thank you again for for the tour this summer. I know it was only a snapshot and in seeing the list u of of projects at each school is is really, you know, really drives it home that that we're doing a lot. uh we have been doing a lot these past few years and uh that does not uh that that does not go unnoticed by us even though we're not in every single building every every time there's uh somebody with a hard hat doing something. So um whether whether we're walking through at at Veterans Day uh celebrations or uh you
090know touring buildings over the summer, we we do see u you know the the fruits of your labor. Uh just driving in tonight uh you know I was I was to see is fenced down. Are they going to be parking? >> So, they they were able we did allow them to park on the there election Tuesday. >> Um and then we had we allowed staff to park there and then we had to put the fences back up because I think we're still still buttoning up a few things that we just uh we just need to make sure is set before we we really unleash everybody on it. >> Well, great job and we really appreciate everything that uh you all have collaborated to do. So, >> all right. Thank you. Okay. Uh let's see. We
091have uh nothing else on our agenda. So, may I have a motion, a second to adjurnn the regular meeting? >> So, moved. Second. All in >> favor. 370. Thank you all for your attendance tonight.