001Good evening everyone. >> Is there a motion? >> President motion made and seconded. think I didn't know that. Motion passes. Next, we have a report of board members. >> Yes, ma'am. work with my district continued on recognizing the challenges and and celebrating the successes that have fuel the momentum forward. On July 26, I met with the executive leadership team as they shared information with the board members in the faculty area giving details of plans, successes, and challenges. On July 30th, I participated in the Raytown Summit graduation ceremony. When we celebrate the accomplishments of those students who persevered to obtain their high school diplomas, I was truly touched by one student in particular who walked across the stage with her baby in her arm. >> That said to me that she had to have a team
002of teachers, family, and people to really propel her to actually make it across the finish line. And that speaks volumes to our our teaching staff. Oh, my mic. I'm sorry. >> That speaks volumes to our teaching staff and to all those who supported that young woman as she persevered to get her high school diploma after all of her classmates had actually gotten theirs in the spring. So, that was very heart touching for me. >> And that's it. >> Uh Mr. President uh to all that are here today. Uh I participated in Raytown's 75th birthday celebration that went on and had had about three occasions to join in the celebration, but I joined in the one at Raytown High School where we had our district leaders and our city leaders kind of give us the forecast
003for Raytown's future moving ahead and a lot of good food. Lot of good foods. uh also I I joined the board uh with the lead executive leadership team and what's different about or or a little bit different about this is we met with the individual leaders who uh talked with us and shared their progress their challenges and their plans for the future growth and development of the Raytown school district. I participated in this month's Raytown striving hub uh where not only some of the members of the district but the city leaders and different businesses come together to um collaborate efforts helping those that are in our community move forward. And lastly, I participated too in the Raytown um school board of directors retreat where we brainstormed ideas for team collaboration and ways to help our
004superintendent and executive leadership team uh get behind them to help them make sure that Raytown is one of the greatest school districts in the state of Missouri. >> Uh Mr. President, I also participated in the um board retreat leadership team. I would just like to, you know, commend you guys for all the work and effort that you guys have definitely put in. Um, it's getting me very excited for this upcoming school year and just see to see exactly where, you know, themies are really going to um um land for for high schools. Um, and so I'm very excited for this upcoming school year. Also been to a a chamber lunchon. Um, really we talked about a lot of security. Um, and also, you know, to, you know, Josh, um, and you, Carl, thank you guys
005so much for, you know, just making sure that we have structures in place for safety in our, in our schools, um, and also in our community. Um, but also just talk to a lot of different businesses in Raytown. Um, how they also want to get involved with kids. I know that um one member of the chamber that I talked to um they do hair and they really wanted to um you know who do I talk to to to um give out free haircuts you know for the upcoming school year. And so just having those kind of conversations with those um different people in this in community has been very eye opening and great. >> I would like to elaborate on participate. I also went to the graduation that we had so much. I went to
006the graduation that we participated in. It was like a beautiful thing. I had a young man that I've been mentoring that came through the court um that came through the family court that also came to Raytown that walked the stage. It was like a beautiful, beautiful expression. I would like to thank Dr. Mort for bringing that to fruition and um walking that path with us. Um it was a great great great thing that Raytown needed to make this possible. So I wanted to thank Dr. Martin Knox and the whole team for making that a huge huge huge success for this young man and his family. It had been a really really big ride for him. He's also um coming out and he's going to college. So um that's even a bigger success that um and
007um I I contribute that to Raytown and some of the the successes that we are making uh possible for these young people. of the other things. We got Michael Dean in here and Michael Dean has done like a really really big thing with Michael Watson, Jean Willis and the GDHA with Terresa Garza. I want to piggy back off something that Mike had said last month. It was a u a big deal that we have done. I know they put tremendous work in. So, I wanted to make sure that I that I said I really appreciate everything that you guys have done that really the community hasn't really u seen, but I wanted to make sure while you were here that I did say I really appreciate all the work that you guys have done with
008GEA uh Dr. Morton Knox and Raytown School District. The other thing is we did go through a um a thing with the chamber have put on with uh security and u along with the things that Josh doing with with security that we are doing as a district. And I want you guys to know that I'm really really proud to be a part of the Raytown School District. Thank you very much. >> All right. Also, I just want to add a little bit to the uh board retreat. Uh the word that has come up uh with everyone that mentioned the retreat is the word collaboration. And one of the things that uh we wanted to stress as a board that we need to collaborate amongst ourselves and uh as elected leaders uh and representatives of of
009our community of our school district uh we want to make sure that we model uh what we're talking about. And so um the thing that the board desires to get across is not only are we to collaborate but you know sometimes we we divide up and we become uh executive team board members staff teachers certified classified uh students parents but we're all on the same team. We're all in this together and we all we need a way to express ourselves and share ideas and with the ultimate goal of student achievement with making sure that uh each one of our students each one of our our children reach their full potential and that you know this community is is one that's that's one that's a family one mind and in one direction with one goal and
010the only way to do that is to be able to collaborate. So, one of the things that we as a board uh we decided that you know what, we can uh we don't have to agree all the time, but we can work together. We we got to agree that we all want the same thing. And so, uh and that's what we also want our community to be mindful of as we try to represent you better. And so I was really uh excited about everything uh everything I heard at the retreat, the good news, the bad news, all that. It was it was it was it was a wonderful thing. I'm looking forward to the year working with you guys and uh because I think uh the board has a lot to offer. Very active board.
011And so, uh, and they're very engaged and we have a great superintendent to, uh, to to, uh, take us and and and lead us in a way that, uh, we can achieve those goals that we have for for our for our community, for our for our district. So, that's the end. That's the end of the board members reports. Let's move to report of the superintendent. Thank you, Chairman Burton. Um, and good evening, uh, Chairman Burton, Vice Chairman Newton, members of the Raytown Quality School District Board, and to our amazing community. Uh, just in a few days, we will be welcoming our children back to school. Uh, it feels like just yesterday I said, "Have a great summer." And that has come to pass. And so I just want to say thank you to our leadership
012team um and our leaders in our school building for providing such wonderful professional learning opportunities for our new teachers. I want to welcome our new teachers once again. I've had the opportunity to spend time with them uh during professional learning opportunities that have been provided uh and getting to know them uh prior to the school year getting underway. Um, we've also had our administrative retreat with our principles, our assistant principles and district leadership, uh, because we all need to continue to learn. And so, the only way we're able to do that is when we do it as a collective body. Last Monday, we had a webinar to talk about enrollment planning where we met with uh, Matt Craropper from Craropper GIS. I would encourage you as a community to become involved in this process as
013we are looking at our enrollment planning. If you have not, I encourage you to go to a website is called raytownenrollmentplanning.com. All of the documents that we have distributed and that has been communicated with our community as well as the webinar and other upcoming events that will engage you in this process. The next meeting will be held on September the 18th and it is an in-person meeting. again September the 18th an in-person meeting where you'll have the opportunity again to ask additional questions. If you go to raytown enrollmentplanning.com there's also a survey um that would be distributed for you. Please provide your feedback. Please provide ideas um and make sure that you are a partner in this work. The next event after that will be September the 24th which will be a webinar um as
014we continue this work. Um, I would encourage our parents since we are preparing for the opening of school that if you have not done so, please make sure we enroll all of our children. We want them to be able to start on the first day with schedules and seats available for you. Our teachers and staff are eager to receive our students and we are eager to continue to move forward. This morning I had the opportunity to spend time with the mayor um as we received a congressional resolution um by Congressman Clever and I was a part of that process this morning and so I just want to say happy birthday Raytown number 75 and thank the mayor for the work that he does for our community. The items that are under the report for the
015superintendent 8.1 and 8.2 two are forformational purposes as well. But the biggest piece in there is just a reminder of the cell phone usage law. Let me remind our community that it is now law that students should not have present or visible cell phones in the classroom. Not only is it cell phones, but it's portable watches and devices as well. The only time a child should be using a device such as that is if it's directives from a teacher. Again, this is state law. So, when you look at items 8.1 and 8.2 in terms of the student code of conduct, please make sure you are aware of that change. Our principles are prepared to communicate that information to you and it will be enforced. So let's make sure that we are coming to school eager
016to learn, ready and prepared and focused. This concludes my part of the report from the superintendent chairman Burton. We have >> Good evening, President Burton, Board of Education, Dr. Martin Knox. This evening, we are recognizing the Wellness Center staff for their dedication to the health and well-being of students, staff, and the community of Raytown Schools. The wellness center is committed to being a friendly, helpful, and welcoming place for all. Additionally, staff is committed for going the extra mile by getting to know those who visit the wellness center and making sure that their needs are met. The community is a better place because of them. And we have a video with a little bit more about our wellness center. >> I used to come here when I was a kid when it was the old building.
017It's been a part of the community cuz I've lived in Raytown and grew up in Raytown for 30 years. It's a big part of getting to help people feel healthier and feel better about their lives. And I really like getting to show people new things they didn't think they could do. One of my things I always lead is we're truly a not for-profit organization. So, we're not out to just get people's money and have them sign up for membership. In fact, I tell people we don't like to see people sign up for membership and not come see us. So, we have our regulars that come on a regular basis. We try to get to know names. We don't even use membership cards like most facilities do. >> I like to engage with the community when
018I'm here. This gives me an opportunity to kind of talk to people and interact with all different types of people. >> We like to engage and get to know our members, have them get to know us, too, just so they feel like this is kind of a home away from home for them to work on their health and wellbeing. >> It feels really mindboggling to realize how many different people show up and how many different kinds of people show up. I'll also get people who are here right when it opens at 5:00 a.m. who are waiting 20 minutes for me to open the door. And it's awesome to see so many people want to come and work out. >> Come here and check us out. We have some members that are in their 90s. So,
019I kind of have joked that if you want to live in your 90s, come to the Raytown Schools Wellness Center. >> It's nice to be recognized by the community and the school district. >> Sometimes they'll come in and be like, "Oh, hey Mike, we got you. Hey, Bob. Yeah, we got you today. You're all checked in." I mean, obviously they can choose to stop and talk to us or we'll check in with them like, "Hey, how's your family? How's this going?" They'll tell us they went on vacation. We've even had some members where we haven't seen them in a while and some of our staff will notice and they'll tell Mike or I and we'll give them a call and we'll just be like, "Hey, this is Jose from the wellness center just checking in,
020seeing how you're doing." It's not always just about fitness and making them come in to work out, but it's just getting them back in their routine of doing something that's good for their mind, body, and spirit. We just want people to come here, be able to forget about their problems, and get a nice workout in, maybe have a cup of coffee on the way out. >> It doesn't matter how long it's been. You can start your fitness journey again. Get back in here, and you'll find someone either to help motivate you. The staff will help motivate you. We try and check in on people when they're coming in, see how their days are doing, things like that. There's always something you can do here, even if you don't think you can yet. I told my
021staff what I really envision them doing is making the wellness center feel like cheers. Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name. It's a welcoming feeling to feel like someone knows you and cares and gives you a conversation every time you walk in. >> They absolutely welcome people and every time I go in for a meeting they say we haven't seen you here working out in a while. Um, so they do keep us on our toes. So I would like to welcome uh the wellness staff up My bad. >> No. Sorry. Mr. President, >> yeah, I'd like to say thank you to all the wellness center staff did great job. Uh, lots of people come there, but I think one example of probably how good it is is I saw the mayor of
022Independence there the other day. >> Yeah. Well, it's a good thing I'm I won't tell you exactly what I asked him, what's the mayor of Independence working out here in Raytown for? I won't tell you exactly what we talked about, but you know, he likes it there. He can work out in peace and quiet and we got a great pool and stuff. And I think Josh and your team done a great job on the updates to the wellness center, too. So, great new equipment, looks great. So, everything's one of the best things we've ever done in Raytown. So, >> um I like to say again, what you guys have done at the wellness center has been amazing. When I was a teacher, I used it all the time. I think that's one of the best
023benefits that we do give our teachers and, you know, staff the ability to use that wellness center. But more importantly, you convince my mom. My mom is one of the most difficult people. If you ever met her, I love her to death. Um, and working out and trying to be fit is one thing that she does not want to do. Um, but ever since she met you guys and you know, especially like Jose, she's been coming. I I call her every day, hey, did you go? She's like, yeah, of course I went. And so I just want to thank you for, you know, being the person who you are and who your staff is. >> Mr. President, may I say to to the wellness staff and when you said, you know, it feels like cheers
024where everybody knows your name. It's the truth because they call me by name every time I walk in there and I feel like you know me and I don't even come that often. But thank you for doing what you do. It's very much appreciated. And I'm gonna thank uh um is it Mike for making me park straight? >> Well, in the handicap zone, you two lane straight. I want to thank you for reminding me how >> Thank you all. Uh, next on the agenda is public comment, which no one signed up to make any. So, we'll go on to the next agenda item. We have a board committee report from finance committee. Yeah, we did meet today. Finance committee, myself, uh, Director Rick Moore, and Jordan Jameson joined us, uh, had a great meeting with
025Jackie, um, gave us an update on, um, upcoming budget, um, different items that, uh, contributed to, uh, what we have going on. And Josh as well, um, updated us on our our fund balance or our bonds from 2019. Uh so overall in really good shape. Um I think and and even Rick kind of commented um looking towards the future. U appreciate Jack um and her airing on the side of caution and creating those numbers for us. Uh but even in a cautionary um is still very optimistic. So >> finish Uh, community engagement. Another meeting. All right. motion. >> Mr. President, I move the board approve the July 14, 2025 policy review committee meeting minutes. >> Second. Second. button. Motion passes. um report for the Raytown Education Foundation. I do I have the August 11th, 2025
026Raytown Educational Foundation Board of Trustees meeting highlights uh for July 30th, 2025 end of the year report in supporting and enhancing our schools. The Rachel Educational Foundation is proud to have contributed a total of $163,255 in programs and special uh projects to the Raytown Quality School students sta students and staff during the year years of 2024 and 25. Uh the breakdown goes like this. For scholarships, uh Rev contributed $115,744 to the youth sports scholarship. They gave $1,770. Dual credit scholarships, $8,443. Class of 2025 senior and renewable scholarships for tuition year 2025 through 2026, $100,000 at $100,000.31. A professional development scholarship $5,500 for grants. Ref rev contributed $34,11. Uh teacher and learning grants got $26,151. Major savers building grant $5,363. Uh for the sender experience culinary arts uh institute grant was $2,497. Uh for student recognition,
027ref contri contributed $7,680. For special projects, ref contri contributed $5,820. Uh they were the men of excellence student leadership conference, which received $1,116. The sparkle empowerment student leadership conference received $1,44. Kaufman event united in song received $3,300. Raytown Community Pride scholarship escape essay quotes were submitted and REF is proud to announce that seven students received $1,000 each for scholarships that were awarded uh to graduating seniors from the class of 2025. The essay prompts were, "Why are you proud of your Raytown Quality School education? What will you remember about your academics, extracurricular activities, your adult and student friendships, and your ability to make and pursue goals? And lastly, they were asked, "How has your high school experience contributed to your development as a self-confident, goaloriented adult?" Uh that funding for Raytown Community Pride scholarships is a
028partnership between Raytown Educational Foundation and the retired uh school personnel organization. REF is now looking for a new executive director. The REF executive foundation board of dire uh trustees has already approved the executive director's job description and salary and the job has been posted in a variety of places. So, everybody's welcome to apply. >> All right. Lastly, you can register now for Ref Trivia Night of Fun on September 13, 2025. Gather a group of your smartest and most funloving friends and think of a clever team name for registering your group. Registration began August 7th and closes September 5th, 2025. Please arrive at 6:30 p.m. because the games start at 700 p.m. And that concludes my report. >> Thank you. Right. Unfinished business. We have uh policy adoption. Is there a motion? >> Uh Mr. President,
029I move that the board of education adopt policies GBE staff health and safety and KK visitors to district properties and events. >> Second. Motion made. Seconded. A motion for the new phone system. Mr. President, rule the verification chapter 5 voice and support pricing from Alleion for a total of 1,84,4.36. Second. Motion made and seconded. I got no question. Any question? All right. You trust Mattion. A >> million times a million times. All right. Next, we have uh universal seal screener and assessment. Mr. President, move the board of education approve the purchase of a universal social emotional screener and assessment. That's a Duvaro student strength assessment program for the price of $67,784 for use in grades K through 12 for the 2526 school year. Motion made it second. Any question, Dr. Douglas? I'm asking question for
030you >> just ain't got so long. >> Yeah, that's all. I want you to know. >> I appreciate that. >> Yeah. Motion passes. >> Purchase of custodial supplies. There motion. >> Mr. President, I move that the board of education approve for supply in the amount of $213,164.74 to yearly custodian. Okay. Motion made and second it motion passes. Um, copy paper purchase. Is there a motion? >> President paper. >> It's a lot of Where does paper come from? Lot of paper. It's a lot of paper. >> We really sucking the question up. Is somebody taking that? >> Take it. >> I got questions, Josh. >> No, we ain't got no questions. >> Is this color paper? What is this? What's the weight on? What's the weight? What kind of trees this paper cut from? Terrace. Terrifying.
031All right, let's get serious. >> Uh, motion. Oh, no, wait. Got one more. But it passed, >> Canada. M >> and next in new business have this policies uh for information that are result of changing the law. This is the first read uh through the policy committee will keep us updated. Next is the approval of the consent agenda. a motive the board approve the August 11 agenda as consent. >> Motion made second. Before we vote, I do want to read the donations given uh in this past month. We have a donation of $500 from Missouri Suicide Prevention Network for Suicide Prevention Week to RQS Student and Family Programs Department. We also have a donation of e-cards totaling $1,79155 from Office Depot to Southwood Elementary. Once again, we greatly appreciate the support that we get from
032our community and the the organizations u Missouri Suicide Prevention Network and Office Depot. uh it I'm sure that these uh will come to great use and they help us to achieve the goal of u supporting our families and student in their achievement. Thank you so much. You want to move that from the >> Yeah. to the uh >> I guess uh if >> do you want to um do you even I guess it matters what we want to do. Is there something that you want to bring it to? >> Let's let's discuss. >> Okay, we're going in. All right. Well, okay. So, just want to have so for all sports um BSN is the only single sporting um uniform that did we have another vendor? Did we get multiple vendors? >> We did. We had
033we received two um vendors through the RFP and from those vendors we um had each of them come in and meet with all of the high school and middle school ads and myself to u provide a presentation as well as we we reviewed um their their bid together in advance and then we had really robust um conversation afterwards about um which one will be the best for us and we really tried to look at three things um the uh the co-op rebate and the way that they put things together. Um it it it was just in the best interest of our district to go this way. Um they even had a system set up where um as each uh school creates or each um team or uh activity establishes their page, how that money will
034go be sent back to um be divided and accordingly. And so it was just a a um much more streamlined process that BSN is has. And then finally um the vendor that um who'll be working in our area, it was very active. She was able to give us really in-depth information on how to make this work. Um she has a um she worked very well with with Yes. And so if you want any specific details about that experience, they are here to tell you. I will I do want to say this that I do appreciate the our high school ads. They have been wonderful in really um working through this and being uh just a really high level thought partners in this and and a lot of they laid a lot of the groundwork to
035get this done. So that's >> then my last question was rebate looks. Uh so my my only question is that with that rebate that let's say football team you know spends all that money that 75,000 plus 10% is that money going to go towards just the football team throughout the >> so and you all correct me if I'm wrong but I think each activity creates their own store and they can sell as much as they want within their within their own do we call it a store it's store team store And so you want us come on Roberts. >> So with any team store that if the football team did sell a lot of money, they would get their own individual money back. Um across the building as we buy uniforms and different apparel and
036equipment, the building would also get a 10% rebate. So football would get whatever they spend at their school store certainly back to their football team account. Um, but just as a collective as the building, we would certainly be getting a rebate that would be reallocated to all of our activities. >> So, every every sports team gets their own budget. Is that what you're saying? >> Through through this contract or >> Yes. Like you said, football, they spend this much, they get their own budget. >> If they create a team store to sell Raytown High School football gear, >> whatever proceeds that with the 10% that would go to our Raytown High School football account that we our school budget has, >> uniforms, >> no. >> Hey, so uh do we need to uh >> Yeah.
037make this on put the agenda for next meetings. >> I mean >> um >> the timing of uh for the for the approval >> for the >> it's the same method we currently operate under our teams have created team stores as fundraisers in the past. Um, right now we use various vendors just to kind of depending on which coach's preference uh after they go do their quotes and the money that rebates from that that team already gets to their school account. >> These are all the money that comes back from uniforms and equipment. Is >> there a motion to uh move this to new business? >> It needs to So, who's in favor of approving the consent agenda? I guess we could take a vote on that and then uh we can say if the
038consent agenda is not approved, then we can move. >> I got you. So, um, let's make we need a motion and a second to move this out of consent agenda or we can vote to approve the consent agenda. So, seeing no motion, let's vote on the consent agenda. president football team and basketball team and volleyball team >> Dr. That is >> Yeah. Well, yeah. Yeah. We all right. We can motion pass. >> Is there a motion? Mr. President, uh I move that the board approve of the >> at 79. >> Second. Second. Motion made and seconded. asking about then if they say Meeting adjourned.