001Welcome everybody. Good evening. Is there a motion for the agenda? President 1425 agend seconded. Next we'll have a report of the board members. Afternoon. Good evening everybody. I have been out for a while due to personal personal things that I experienced and I thank everyone for the prayers and and I'm actually able to stand up to go to the Fargo conference uh this weekend it was wonderful it was wonderful for all of the young people that were there I'm totally proud of you to proud of superintendent and all the staff that were there in squad I didn't get the insurance, you know, good evening everyone. I just want to say I also joined in and had a phenomenal time with our amazing superintendent and so many of our staff and other members of the board
002at Sparkle. So I want to say thank you guys whoever did attend joining us at Sparkle. Thank you so much. I'm going to uh get a little ahead of myself. We have two board members who are uh going to be their last meeting to today. And uh I wrote an I wrote my report and I wanted to uh share this with you guys and Miss Bobby. Um, tonight we take time not only as colleagues but as a community to honor and celebrate Miss Bobby Salsbury who has left a lasting imprint on the Raytown School Board. As Miss Bobby steps away from this chapter of service, it is only fitting that we take a moment to express our deepest gratitude and energy and for the for her time and energy and the heart she poured into
003our schools and our students. Miss Bobby has been more than just a board member. Through her faith and consecration to God, she has been true advocate for equity, a voice of reason, a champion of every child in our district. Her dedication to quality education and commitment to transparency and accountability has helped shape important decisions that will benefit our our students for years to come. I can remember when I first got on the board, one, it was just a shock to me. She was one of the people that encouraged me to actually be on the board. Uh Jerome Barnes initially, but when I got on the board, I I would say she uh took me under her wing. When you first get on the board, you have a lot of you have a lot of ideas
004and things. And the first thing you got to learn is that you got to work with six other people. And uh Miss Bobby has certainly taught me that. uh she doesn't go to sleep at night and it's kind of funny. It's the it's the only woman that my wife will let me talk to at midnight. And so uh but we we talk, we listen, we pray. Uh, so whether it's the late nights reviewing policy, long meetings navigating through tough choices, or quiet moments spent praying for and listening to community concerns, Miss Bobby has shown up. She led with integrity and has never lost sight of why we are here, the students. On behalf of myself, the entire board, and the Raytown community, thank you for your service. Thanks. Your legacy will continue in every student
005who walks across the graduation stage, every teacher who feels supported, every family who knows their voice matters. While we're sad to see you go, we hope you carry with you pride of knowing that you've made a difference. Thank you, Miss Bobby. You always have a place in Raytown. Amen. Thank you. Now, can I say something? Yes, ma'am. Well, I've been here for 18 years, and I guess it was time for me to make a change. At least that's what they tell me anyway. So, I'm making a change. I'm grateful to the Lord for giving me this ex this ex opportunity. I'm very grateful to God for experiencing him in another dimension. And I want to tell you guys that I love you each individually and collectively. There's nothing that you could say to me to
006disappoint me. nothing that you could do to me to disappoint me because I'm made just that way. That's the way I'm made. So, I want to just leave this with you. Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, I commit the Raytown School District to you and I ask you to bless it. Bless it ups and its downs. Bless them in the name of Jesus Christ. I declare and decree a blessing upon this district that you will prosper and not go under that your that your APR will come up in the name of Jesus Christ. I just declare the name of Jesus Christ over this district and I look for this to blossom forth and to be all that it can be. And I thank you guys for allowing me to say those words. Amen. All
007right, that concludes the report of the board members. Next, we have a report of the superintendent. So, I'm unsure how to follow that, but thank you, Chairman Burton, Vice Chairman Newton, and members of the Raytown Quality School District Board, and to the members of the amazing Raytown Quality School District's community. Uh, there are several items under the superintendent's report, but I'd like to preface with saying thank you, Miss Bobby, uh, for your support and thank you for giving the young lady from the East Coast an opportunity to come into your amazing community. Thank you for all that you've done. And I will just say publicly, you have never wavered when I've brought forward ideas and concepts that's going to benefit children. My eyes are sweating. I'm sorry. You have never wavered. You've asked questions. You've
008challenged us all. And so I thank you for who you are and what you stand for and what you represent. So thank you for giving me the opportunity to be a part of this team, to be a part of this community. and you will always have a place here in Raytown as far as I'm concerned. Uh so having you as a board member has been an honor and a blessing. And so as we move forward with the blessings, uh many of you have already talked about the sparkle. I just want to take a moment to thank our staff, uh to thank our students, to thank our community, to thank our business partners and our presenters. Last week we had our third annual Sparkle Conference. And for those of you who are unaware of what Sparkle
009stands for, it's an empowerment conference that we've begun three years ago uh upon a need that we've recognized that our young ladies need outside of what is delivered in the capacity of instruction in a classroom. It was based on need. It was initially designed by children with staff, but it was just a sparkle in my eye when I came to the staff and said, "We need to sparkle." and they looked at me like today. Yes, today in a few weeks we need to sparkle. So we did our They're whispering and talking about me. Um so I hear you because I will acknowledge that you all conformed at the very beginning knowing it's what's best for kids. And so this past week we had our sparkle conference and when you hear the feedback from our young
010ladies where we had sessions that were focused on financial literacy uh areas focused on social emotional awareness uh looking at resume building interview skills all those traits dressing for success that will help our children coupled with the academic success they'll receive to move forward to be positive and productive in our society. So, I just want to publicly thank our staff uh for putting this together. I want to thank our presenters for giving of your time. I want to thank our business partners for their donations and commitment. But moreover, I want to thank our young ladies for seizing the moment and making sure that it was one that was memorable. If you look at us and follow us on social media, those pictures have been posted. So, please take a moment to review them. It does
011not speak to what transpired, but you'll have a general idea of the impact that it has on our young ladies. And so, some of the feedback we received from them is we spoiled them. They said it was exciting because they had no school. Um, it was exciting because there were no boys. Um, and I think the best comment that I received was that they were able to do a Tik Tok with their superintendent. So, their words, not mine. And so I just want to publicly thank everyone for allowing that opportunity for our young ladies to move forward. And for those of you who may say, "What about the young men?" They already had their empowerment conference a couple of weeks prior to um so we're just celebrating the options that we give our young ladies
012and our young men uh above and beyond the classroom. Moving forward, uh we're going to now have information presented to us by Dr. Chris Grryer on item 8.5, the Career Academy update. uh focused on our freshman academy. Dr. Grryer. Good evening. Dr. Martin Knox board. Good evening. Tonight, it is my pleasure to provide to the board an update on some exciting work that we are engaged in to improve uh outcomes for our students. Specifically at the high school, you might remember back last summer, we provided an update to the board regarding our partnership with Ford Next Generation Learning and some of the phases of work that we would be engaging in this year as we looked ahead to potentially launching a career academy transformation in Raytown. Uh so tonight we are excited to share with
013you some of the work that we've been planning towards and our intentions to launch freshman academy beginning in August of 25. So back to why are we interested in this idea of a career academy transformation and where does the freshman academy fit in? Our why really centers on the profile of a learner here in Raytown. Again, you might remember conversations we've had earlier this year around that profile. Those are skills that we have developed collaboratively with our staff, our students, our business community, our higher ed partners, our community leaders, and the work to intentionally ensure that every student is academically sound, is reflective, is able to relate, contributes to their community, has professional skills and real world experiences to succeed in a high demand, high wage career. That is our why. And so, as we
014think about Freshman Academy tonight, as I'm sharing some information with all of you, please feel free to ask us questions. Please feel free to jump in and engage in the conversations we have planned moving forward. But we are very excited about uh what we have planned for our freshmen and the class of 2029. So, as we begin to think about how we might develop a freshman academy to meet the needs of all students tonight, I wanted to share with all of you uh what are some of the essential goals of the freshman academy. Before I do that though, just want to remind the board about our roadmap with Ford Next Generation Learning, this partnership that we've been engaged in for about 18 months. Last year, we began in phase one, the explore phase. We came
015to the board last spring with data around an exploration that Ford NextGen had with us last school year. We felt like there was a partnership possibility there. We went to our staff and collectively we said this is something we want to pursue. So this school year we've engaged in phase two which is envision. So thinking about our preferred future. Where do we want to go with the academy model here in Raytown? how do we make it uniquely ours? Uh, and so we had those conversations during the fall and into the winter. And since, uh, February, we have started the phase three process, which is master planning. Part of that master plan is a multi-year roll out of the academy model, but we have to begin somewhere. And that beginning is with our current eighth graders,
016next year's freshmen, the class of 2029. And so we've begun to plan over the next what the next several years are going to look like as we roll out the academy model. But where we will begin is with that class of 2029 starting in the fall. And you'll notice where we're headed implementation uh assuming that we uh come back to the board later uh this year in the summertime. We'll have that completed master plan. Looking for the board to approve that. will also have the the blessing afford nextgen learning of our plan and collectively we will be begin the process of implementing. So more to come later this summer as we be would be plan to begin phase four and into phase five but just know that this process is over several years and this
017planning process phase three has we've been engaging lots of stakeholders inside and outside the district. So, for those of you in the audience that have been a part of those conversations, thank you. Um, if you're interested in being part of those conversations moving forward, please don't hesitate to reach out. We will find a place for you to engage. So, why a freshman academy? A couple reasons. Number one, we know how important that freshman year of high school is to really set the tone for a successful high school experience. We know that the transition from middle to high can be pretty daunting. Uh many of our freshmen uh sometimes lack the confidence or the skills to feel like they're ready. Sometimes our families may not quite yet know how to support their children as they're transitioning
018from middle to high. So we know that that transition is very important and we need to pay particular attention to how we are setting our students up for success at high school. I will tell you that as we've looked at the data here in Raytown, some of the concerning trends that we see happen in our freshman year when we look at attendance rates, when we look at behaviors, when we look at uh performance of our students, when we look at and talk to them about the way they feel like they belong here in Raytown, we find some of the lowest and, you know, most concerning data points at that freshman year. And now that's not unique to Raytown. Freshman year is tough on lots of kids all across the country, but we know we've got
019to do something different in order to change the trajectory of success for every freshman here in Raytown. So transition is important. We also want to focus on exploration. Yes, their success in high school is important, but we also need to set them up for success for what life is going to look like after high school. And so that process of exploration, what are they good at? What are they passionate about? And how does that line up with high demand, high wage careers here in Raytown and in the KC metro? We want our graduates leaving to go do great things not far from us. We want them leaving the stage in June of 2029 at Cable Dmer and we want them right back in Raytown meeting workforce uh development needs here in our community. So that
020exploration process is really important and it really kicks off uh during their freshman year. So transition and exploration are really some of the themes um that we'll be exploring during that freshman academy. So again, why a profession why a freshman academy? Uh it begins with a smaller personalized environment. We actually will be moving our freshmen into into teams much like for those of you that are familiar with the middle school model, teaming is not unique or new to education. Um, but we are bringing it to our freshman year. That's something new in Raytown. So, a smaller personalized environment where adults, a small group of adults really are paying attention to and are shephering that freshman class through their first year. We want to engage with local businesses so that our students can see themselves in
021careers in Raytown and around the Casey Metro. Uh we want to give them applied learning where learning is relevant and is exciting and they're solving real world problems. We know we need to do better there. We want their learning to be rigorous. As I mentioned earlier about our why, when we talk about being academically sound, rigorous learning means that every student can read on grade level, that every student can problem solve with numeracy skills on grade level. That is our goal. But this why doesn't just uh isn't just at answering a call to our freshmen. It's all of our learners pre-K through 12. So know that these skills we're not waiting around until they become freshman to focus on these. But when we talk about what does rigor mean for us in Raytown? Rigorous learning
022means ongrade level learning and beyond. We are challenging our kids to do ongrade level work and beyond. We want them exposed to college and careers. We want them on college campuses as freshmen. We want them interacting with industry professionals as freshmen so they can see themselves as being a success in those high wage, high demand careers that might mean uh furthering their education in college. Not every career, but some will require um that college education. And then 21st century skills, the last part there, just mentioning um those skills specifically about Raytown's profile of a learner. We know that we've got to do more to develop those skills intentionally in all of our students. And again, the freshman academy, we're going to be building experiences to do that. I've linked a video. We're not going to
023watch it tonight, but I welcome or would ask that you guys consider taking a look at uh another community very similar to Raytown, similar demographic, size, um a community that is also a part of the Ford NextG network. Uh, one of the benefits to our partnership with Ford NextGen is that we are collaborating with school districts and communities around the country that are facing similar challenges to us and are succeeding and are meeting the needs of their students. Um, and we want the same for our kids here in Raytown. So, if you have a chance to take a look at what's going on in Romeo, Michigan, I highly encourage it. those success stories are going to be the success stories that we're going to be able to to uh talk about and and brag on
024our students. So, what will next year look like for our freshmen and how is it different than maybe what high schools look like in the past? So, this gives you a just a glimpse of what those freshman academy teams are going to look like next year. Um, some roles are going to be shifting a bit. Um, our current high school principles will shift into an executive principal role. Uh, we have real world learning coordinators that are serving as academy coaches at each of our schools. Our assistant principles, one of our assistant principles at each of our high schools are going to be stepping into what's known as an academy principal role. We'll have a designated counselor for the freshman academy. And we'll have designated staff. Right now, we are in the process of recruiting and
025talking to our staff about who's interested in stepping into that freshman academy role. But you'll notice the five blue dots there. Those represent uh English, math, science, social studies, and our freshman seminar course. So, our freshman class of about 300 kids at each high school will be split into two teams. They will have dedicated teachers that they all share and will be supporting those students on each of those teams. Each of those teams will have their own unique identity. They'll build camaraderie. There'll be healthy competition between the teams. There'll be things going on in freshman academy throughout the year to create a greater sense of belonging for our freshmen. Um, so we're excited about what this model will look like because again, it will help our students be more successful as freshmen, but also will
026set them on a path for success throughout high school and beyond. So, I'm going to pause there. Those are all the slides I have for you tonight and I'd be happy to entertain any questions that the board might have. Mr. President, Dr. Grryer, this is incredible work. Um, very exciting. Um, so for maybe some of our parents out there as they begin to learn more about our academy for our freshmen and we talk about putting um our students to work in Raytown. What might be some of our strongest industries in Raytown that might be attractive? Like if parents are thinking about I want my kid to maintain, I want my student to maintain in Raytown. Yeah. So, one of the really interesting parts of this work is that we've been able to partner with local
027business. We've been able to look at workforce development projections, both current jobs as well as what jobs are emerging uh in the not too distant future. I would say a couple things have emerged for us that are new. Number one is health care. Lots of of opportunity in in health and human services. And so information that we bring to you here in a few months is going to talk about the actualmies that we'll launch uh in the in the 2627 school year. But health and human services are definitely an area where we're seeing job growth here locally as well as the Casey Metro. Uh another area that we're looking at is uh transportation and logistics. So, how we move goods and services both in and out of Raytown and the Casey Metro, um that is
028a a growing thriving job market. And so, how do we best prepare our students to pursue careers in um what we would call global design, transportation, and logistics? Those are some careers that are really taking off. Um those are a couple of areas that we've noticed here locally in Raytown as well as the Casey metro where there is a lot of job creation around and so we want to make sure that our students are aware of those opportunities and we can point them towards experiences in high school that get them ready for high wage high demand careers in those paths and others. So more to come on that in the next few months. Mr. President, uh first of all kudos to you and your team. I remember talking about this at the beginning mentioned 18
029months ago uh and just to see where this has come. I mean this is mind-blowing. U I did have a question concerning the teachers. Will they be dedicated to just their freshman center or they have other commitments as well? So our ideal scenario is that these 10 teachers are with their freshman teams all day. Okay. Now we know that I'll give you an example. So most of our freshmen will take algebra as their freshman math class, but we know we've got some of our students that are taking algebra as eighth graders. And so next year they're going to take geometry as a freshman. And so we may have we will have some teachers that might uh dip into the academy to teach a section of geometry or a section of enriched biology. Um, but for
030the most part, these teachers, they will be spending their day with freshmen and that's th that's all they'll be teaching. Uh, they'll have time during their day to meet as an academy team to provide interventions for and supports for these students, but they truly will be shephering this freshman class all day. And that is their work. We will have dedicated uh areas of the building where a freshman will spend most of their day. So they'll be in their traditional home high school. They'll have the opportunity to attend elective classes as their schedule allows. But for their core academics and for their freshman seminar course, so five hours of their day, they'll be with their same team and those teachers taking care of those students. Thank you for that. So it's sort of isolated in each
031high school that are they isolated from is there other um classes that are a part of maybe a part of their class? No. So yeah, they are dedicated to a unique part of the building and I was I will say one of the things that that's really got traction with our staff is understanding how we help our freshmen meet expectations. Some of the challenges we face with some students is just simply making sure that they're in the right place at the right time doing the right thing. And so part of this uh freshman academy will be to help them learn that but then also encourage them on how they can move around the building productively. But yes, they will be uh most of their day will be in a a certain part of the school
032in a certain hallway with those group with those teachers. Quick follow-up question, Mr. President. Um with the u addition of the the freshman academy, how will we introduce this to the incoming freshmen? I know we're kind of going to lay it out over the summer. Sure. Uh but how will we introduce that? one come the fall, but then the following year to the eighth graders at the end of the year. I know you already thought about this. That's why I'm asking you. Yeah. So, we've got some communication that's gonna get out to families and students really soon. Obviously, we wanted to bring this to the board first. Um, but we do have some communication. Uh, Mrs. Womble and her team are working collaboratively as part of a tactic team to really talk about how we
033communicate um the why of this change and how we're planning to support students and families. So, some communications coming soon. We certainly want to take uh an opportunity at some spring events at the middle school to to begin to share some of this information, but then also really I would say the big ramp up is towards our freshman transition day in August when our freshmen come to the high school campus and it's them by themselves. And that'll be an opportunity for us to really begin to roll out and explain to to parents and fam and students exactly what freshman academy is going to look like. Um it'll also give us a little bit more time to plan out all the details. We're still working on some of those. Um but certainly this spring and summer
034communication is on its way and then when we kick off freshman transition day in August, that'll be the big um the big launch. All right. Thank you, President Dr. I was I was kind of holding back not saying anything, but I did want to say something. I first of all I appreciate you for your tenacity and your go get it spirit. I uh wanted to just say that I am grateful to you for this collective uh grouping that you're doing. I think it's awesome that you are putting together our young people. the focus is is on our teenagers. And so I just want to commend you for bringing this to the district. And I know you had more hands in it, helping you bring it to the district, but I do want to commend you
035as the leader to take the the lead on this and to make sure it happens. And I'm very grateful to going out seeing this. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Salsbury. Well, it it always starts with leadership at the top. So, I want to thank Dr. Martin Knox for her visionary leadership and our team of staff that have been part of building this. It really has been a collaborative effort and uh so I appreciate being in front of you to be able to explain where we're headed, but rest assured this has been a a team effort with a lot of people, a lot of very dedicated educators, our teachers, our principles, our district leadership, um our families, our kids, our business partners, higher ed. Um the the the really inspiring part of this work is that
036this is a collective effort of our community. This is a community centered uh approach. And so while the district maybe has taken some initiative to start some conversations, our community, our business partners, um our higher ed partners have been fantastic to work with. So it really has been uh a collective effort. But thank you very much. I appreciate that. I wanted to say um I really appreciate you and the work that you and your team has done. I've seen it by being there every step watching you do it and being there with you on the side of why you do it. I wanted to also kind of um get get your overall perspective of how Hernand will be engaged in this when we get to that point for people who don't understand Hernand will be
037involved in this. Yeah. So we've been very fortunate Dr. Riker and her team have been at the table with us the whole way. We really see this as a complement to the great programs at H. Hearnden Career Center. Uh we know that the experiences that our students get at H. Hearnden are second to none. And so we are really inspired by the great programming at H. Hearnden and we want to make sure that we give all of our kids a H Hearnden like experience. Uh and so they've been Cheryl and her team have been fantastic uh thought partners and they are with us planning together so that the programming and the and the pathways we develop collaboratively complement the great things that are already happening in Hearnden. The second part of this uh the other
038part is the community partners that we have. How important are they to this program? Critical. Yeah, critical. Uh we again we've been a through each of the phases we've been able to engage our community and our leaders. Um for example um as part of the tactic team that I'm leading around governance we've been fortunate enough to have uh the city of Rayton at the table the city administrator Damon Hodgeges for example at the table with us talking about what governance structures could look like. we've been able to bring in uh thought leaders from uh Metropolitan Community College, other civic organizations. So, we feel that that partnership has been very strong and intentional and we're grateful for that uh that collaboration and commitment that community leaders have for for students in Raytown. Mike, Mr. President, so
039Dr. Garner on phase four implement what does inspire, share and contribute to the Ford NGL network mean? So as an implementation district uh we uh begin to live the academy model and so part of this process is we actually work with other districts that are in similar phases as us. we kind of problem solve together. But also part of this is school districts and communities that are behi behind us in the process. They might come to our district and we might showcase some awesome programs that we have that we want to use to inspire uh other communities. So for example, we've taken inspiration locally from school districts like Belton and Independence who have an academy model in place. we've gone uh to Nashville, Tennessee to see those um careermies in action. So part of the
040uh sharing and contributing is actually beginning to host communities that are considering the career academy model and maybe a phase or two behind us so that we can talk about hey here's where we struggled here's how we solved that issue um and then we can also learn from them as well. Yep. Thank you. Thank you. And so before he So before he leaves, I just want to say thank you Dr. Grryer for leading this charge and taking us in a direction that's just change. Uh what we have recognized is that students drop out of school mentally in third grade. by the time they get to secondary, they begin to consider physically dropping out. This is an approach that will assist with that transition, but it's also giving students hope and opportunity. And if you all
041remember, our theme initially was providing students with hope and being that ray of hope, happiness, opportunity, a purpose in a pathway to excellence. This is just a stepping stone in that direction. Uh while sometimes making change doesn't always feel good, just understand that this is always all about children. And something that I say, a couple of things that I say. One thing is that we are only as strong as the community we serve. And so this is a community approach to making sure we are elevating our children in the pathway and the direction in which they need to go. And our children and our schools are only as strong as the community we serve. But I also say that we need to focus on our children and doing what's best for them. And sometimes as
042adults, we let our experiences get in the way of what we provide our children. and it looks completely different than what it was when we were in school. So, I see Dr. Riker in the back. Um, she's been a part of this process. Going back to one of the questions that was posed, it's not limiting our students with access and opportunity, but it's giving them additional opportunities to be successful. This is just another approach to say we believe in you. We're going to invest in you and we're going to always do what's best for you. So, thank you Dr. Griner and your team for your hard work and your efforts and to our community and our staff for engaging in this work. The next item is 8.6, which is our amazing student representatives. And I
043don't know who's up first. No, I don't see them. I thought they may have come in. So, Ray, hi. Thank you, Chase. All righty. Uh, good evening board, Vice President Newton, President Burton, and Dr. Martin Knox. My name is Chester Near and I'm the student council president at Raytown High and I'm Tamia Hall. Happy April guys. We have had a very busy month at the at the school year as a school year is wrapping up and are so excited to share with you. This past Saturday we hosted our prom at the John Knox Pavilion in Lee Summit. The theme was masquerade in Paris and we had an amazing turnout. We also hosted our by-early blood drive at the beginning of the month with a great turnout from students and staff. Our next one will be
044in the fall. We have a couple shoutouts for some of our student council members. Congratulations to Nicole Higs who received the Missouri Student Council Distinguished Leader Award. This is a very hard award to achieve. You have to attend Fulton multiple times, which is the summer camp for student council. You have to attend a winter energizer conference. You have to attend state conference multiple times. and you have to complete a whole list of tasks to get this award. So, this is a huge award for her and we are very proud of her. And then also another shout out to Aiden Barnett who received a scholarship for a uh full um full tuition paid to the student council summer camp and we are hoping to project him as our uh distinguished leader award for the class of
0452027. So, we're super excited for him. And we also had six members attend the state conference, which unfortunately did get um cut short to a tornado. And our leadership class wrote cards to all the IAS, PAR professionals, librarians, and assistant principles in our building for their national recognition days. Later this week, we will be handing out eggs with positive messages inside of them to all of the students that enter the building. And we call this eggtastic. This is just a way that really kind of uplifts our students and gets them in a positive mood for the day. Um, and then the last thing wanted to talk about is we have a couple shoutouts. So, our student council, we all kind of talk every month and we want to recognize some of you guys for things
046that we've noticed. So, first of all, Dr. Martin Knox, um, a lot of our students um, in our student council attended the sparkle conference and all they said was positivity about it. They had an amazing time and it made a great impact. So, we just wanted to convey our thanks and our recognition for all you did for that. It was an amazing amazing event and a lot of our members were impacted greatly. And then um Vice President Newton, a lot of our student council members have all had interactions with you. They've been very positive. Um a lot of them, everyone knew who you were. They were super like they had they had a lot of good things to say about you, especially all the students who come here every month. And that goes from the
047South High and Raytown High team. Uh you make you you greet all of us. You have great interactions with us. and you've also offered so much help and support for our student council this year. So, we're very grateful for that. And then, uh, Miss Natalie Johnson Berry, um, we also want to recognize how much you have been at our events and how you always are there, you're showing up, we see you at so many places. We're very grateful about the impact you've made and a lot of students have had amazing one-on-one interactions with you where you've only provided encouragement and positive words. So, we are very, very thankful for the impact you've had on our students, too. Thank you all for listening and also thank you for the support. See you next month. Do you
048guys have any questions or comments? Thank you. It's a great presentation. And as I bring the superintendence report to a close, I just wanted to go into a little more detail as well in terms of notes of gratitude. Uh earlier I expressed gratitude to Miss uh Salsbury, but Miss Johnsonberry, I realized that I probably wouldn't have another time at the mic. So, it's always great to have an educator, one who's focused on children, one who's creative and innovative to help guide conversations at times when they're most appropriate. So, I wish you well in your future endeavors. I thank you for the work that you've done for the community, for our children, and as a member of the board, and as a fellow administrator. So, thank you for all that you do and congratulations for your
049work. That concludes the superintendence report. Since she's not on the board anymore, we can hire her. get late. I remember uh when uh we first when uh I was seeking reelection and and the first time Natalie ran for office, we were out and I made the mistake of uh riding with her in the car. She's pretty good at She's pretty good at what she does. You guys know that. But uh when you see her on the road, just pull off to the side. back. I ran over something pulling in the park. They didn't see me. Next, we'll have good evening, President Burton, Vice President Newton, Dr. Mark Knox. I'm here for the ray of hope. Um, we are proud to recognize Landon Berrian, a student at Raytown Central Middle School, as our April ray of
050hope for exemplifying care and commitment to his fellow students and the Raytown community. His willingness to step up and dedicate his time to applying for grant funding to improve sports equipment at his school is a true testament to how deeply he cares for others. Thank you for being a ray of hope in Raytown school's learning community. And he will be presented with the grant and the award with from caring for kids later this week. We do have a short video about Landon. Your [Music] dream kids say great. That means we're a dream. We're going to actually add 14 and your text from school through. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] So how I heard about the dream big contest was during I think our advisory we got a presentation about the dream big contest. He identified a
051need and something that was not only going to benefit him because he's only going to be at CMS one more year, but was going to benefit students at CMS going forward. It has to do with physical, mental, emotional health. It's not just, oh, I want to get this cuz it'd be cool. He's thinking about the future. He's thinking about his fellow students. He's thinking about students that will come up through the years. I was like happy that I got the award. It was just like I don't know if I want to be here right now in front of the entire school cuz I feel like the entire school was at the rally that day. But I really enjoyed it too. [Music] I think Landon has shown what it means to be a Rayo help in
052the community. For me, how I feel to be recognized as that. I feel very happy for this because I get to help out our school with the sports equipment for our school. So all of us can be able to do more activities, maybe have more activities in gym instead of the same kind of games every time and more sports teams for like soccer, baseball, maybe more volleyballs for volleyball. He is just the kindest person and he is just a team player. Loves everybody. has a great sense of humor. He's just a good person. I just had a feeling inside of me just was just like I felt like I needed to do this cuz I really wanted to help our community out. He thinks outside himself. He cares about his friends, his peers, his school,
053his teachers, his parents, his family, his community. Congratulations, Landon. Would you please come forward? [Laughter] I can help you from Alabama. I'm sorry. And because he's not usually here, I do want to recognize Mr. Cloney who puts together these wonderful videos that we watch every week. He was the professional taking the photo this week instead of me this month. Right. And we also want to recognize this evening board secretary Rachel Johnston. Mrs. Mrs. Johnston recently completed the Missouri School Board Association's Advanced Level Board Secretary Academy. She plays a very important role to the board, to the district, and to me personally. We are grateful for all that you do. Congratulations. [Music] Whatever happened, but my right hand, my left hand, I know. I'm surprised I got this on beautiful. for public comment. However, policy provides
054the district residents and employees must sign up on matters placed on the agenda for consideration. Many district president or employees must speak on a matter that does not has not been placed on the agenda and they must request that the matter be added to the board's agenda at least 5 days in advance of the meeting. In order to maintain implementation of our policy, we will not hear public comment this evening on matters that have not been placed on agend But we encourage you to follow proceed to set forth by policy in order to properly raise your comments. Next, we'll have four committee reports. Mr. President, I'll just give a brief uh report on finance committee meeting we met tonight. Uh so minutes will come up later and then the and the attachments are all in
055in electronic school board. But we just went over a couple things. Uh some remaining bond funds that that still need to be expended. Some items will be coming to us soon and spending the rest of those bond funds. uh talked about our current balances and talked about uh uh bidding out of a services which will be before us in a few minutes and then also just going through the rate team recommendation and how that relates to current finances. So, we're in good shape for it and reviewed upcoming policies that will be uh put on the agenda for June, May, May, I believe. Anyway, it's next month. So those policies will be for your approval. Thank you. That seems to be it for our committee reports. Next we have resolution. Mr. Mr. President, I'm at the
056board of education approved the resolution presented opposed legislation regarding open enrollment. Second motion pass. At this time, at this time, we'll have a brief recess about five minutes. All right. Time to reconvene. Next, we'll have uh the oath of office for Miss Edna and Mr. Jordan. Prophecy. Yes. here. [Music] Amen. Adela. All right. Okay. That's fine. Hey Rick, can you tell or somebody tell Miss Bobby they're 15 minutes away? I'm ready. If you would vote, uh, you have a piece of paper in front of you to cheat on, but if you raise your right hand and repeat after me. I do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States. I do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Missouri
057and that I will faithfully and impartially and the Constitution of the State of Missouri and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of school director in and for the Raytown P2 School District. discharge the duties of school director in and for the Raytown C2 School District. County of Jackson, State of Missouri, to the best of my ability, according to County of Jackson, State of Missouri, to the best of my ability, according to law. So at this time we will have the election of the 2025 2026 school board president. Is there a motion for the 2025 2026 board president motion? I second. Can I second? I second. You're official now. Yes, you're official now. Appreciate that. Are there any other nominations? question. So just so just lesson learned when children speak I listen y'all
058heard what he said right? Upon no further submission, is there a motion to cease the nominations? Motion. Second. You're official. No. All those in favor say a. All opposed. Congratulations, Mr. Alonzo Burton for being elected as the board president. Is there a motion for the 2526 board vice president? A motion that not Newton be elected vice president. Second. Motion made and seconded. Are there any other [Music] nominations upon? No further submissions. Is there a motion to cease nominations? I'll make a motion to cease nominations. A second. Motion made and seconded. All those in favor say I. I. I. And all all oppose. Congratulations, Mr. All right. Now we'll have appointment of delegate dele delegate delegate and alternate to to attend the Missouri school boards association 2520 2025 summer summit. So, the summer summit for the
059Missouri Board Association, where is it going to be? It's going to be same same place. Branson on June 16th through the 17th. I'm playing to a team. You playing to a team? I do. Mr. N, you playing to a team? All right. I'm with you. All right. Well, I will appoint Mr. Newton and Dr. Doug. Which one of you is the delegate? And who's the ultimate? Rock, paper, scissors. All right. So, uh, Dr. Douglas will be the delegate. Mr. New will be the alternate. All right. 2020 2526 insurance renewal. Is there a motion? All right. Ready for you. Good evening, uh, Mr. President, vice president, um, members of the board. Welcome our newest members of the board and their, um, their charity squad. We look forward to having all of you at all of our
060board meetings. This is very exciting. So, uh, welcome and congratulations. Uh, one of the most important things we we do to maintain our competitiveness, um, in the area, uh, with with our staff, um, is bring forward, um, salary and benefits packages, um, that that help keep our staff healthy. Um, we've been able to have a few years of no cost uh, and those premiums, and that's been huge, as you all are familiar with, the rising cost of everything, including health insurance. Um, last year, for the first time in the 18 years that I've been in the district, we were able to advance packages that had drops in premiums to our staff. Um, and that is that is very important. I think one of the best things that we can do for our staff um that
061we do better than most districts um is care for our staffs and the care we're able to to provide to them uh with our care clinic and our wellness center um is one of the things that sets us apart. Um we are able to do a lot of that work because of our partners with our our business partner Stevens. Um and Dave Johnson is here tonight to talk to us about uh in five minutes or less to give us a brief overview of our insurance renewal. So the rain maker himself, Mr. Dave Johnson. Thank you, Sheriff. I certainly hope this is a good presentation for your first. I will make it brief, I promise. Uh again, Dave Johnson with C Viz. We've been working with the district for many years now as your benefits consultant.
062We appreciate the opportunity to work with you and your staff. Um I'm going to just kind of focus on a few different pages here. Please, if you have questions, let me know. But in the interest of time, I want to focus on a few things. The first is to to again briefly discuss last year's renewal. As Dr. KCera said, last year we were able to renew the plans in place at no increase to the district nor to employees. We were also able to offer a couple of plans that were lower in price than the traditional plans. And we were able to do that by using essentially different networks of providers, a little more narrow networks. Those plans were priced lower than the traditional plans. So, we're able to secure pretty good renewals. We actually got
063very close to 30% of your population to enroll in those plans. And that's a significant change. That's a good change offering those people lower plans both for themselves as well as for their dependent. Page eight here gives you an example of or not an example, this is actually your renewal history since 2017. And you can see there's a lot of zeros on there. Uh for the last several years it's been zero. That average increase since 2017 is 2.1%. Given that medical inflation right now is running at about 9% annually, prescription drug increases are running at about 12% annually. That's a really good rate of increase or lack of increase. So, we're very proud of that. The plans have remained basically the same in all of that time. So, we switch to page 10 here. This
064gives you an idea of where everyone is enrolled. There is one plan that is closed. That plan's been in place for many years. It's closed to any new enrollment. And you can see the last two plans at the bottom of the page here are the two new plans that were put in place. The QHDHP is a qualified highdeductible health care plan and that's a larger deductible. And also an employee can maintain a health savings account next to that plan. And then there's a traditional PO plan for those that are not interested in the high deductible plan or maybe can't contribute money to an HSA. It's important to note that for everyone enrolled in the HSA plan, the district contributes $750 at least toward that employees high deductible healthare plan. So that's money the district puts
065into their account that they can spend on healthcare expenses that rolls over from year to year. They can also contribute themselves to that. If employees enrolled in the Blue Select Plus network plan, that B Blue Select Plus network listed there, they actually received an additional $800 to a total of $1,550 into that HSA. It just a tremendous benefit. That's a lot larger than a lot of our other districts that we work with. So, that's something really to be proud of. So again, there's lots of information in the package. Be happy to go through that if you want, but I wanted to focus here on page 13, which gives you a summary of what's going to take place this year at renewal. One thing that does happen, and this happens every year with qualified high deductible
066healthcare plans, statutoily, those deductibles have to increase every year. This year on those qualified high deductible plans, there's two of them. Those deductibles are going from $3,200 individually to $3,300. And again, that's statutory increase mandated by the government for the plan to maintain an embedded deductible. And just very briefly, that just means if you have more than one person on the plan with you, every individual has that $3,200 deductible at the most. If the deductible was any lower than that or 3,300 starting on July 1st, they would have to meet the full family deductible. So, we believe it's important to maintain that deductible at that level. The most important thing here is after some negotiations and some hard talk with your vendor, Blue Cross, we were able to secure another 0% increase for this year.
067So, very happy with that. Again, all the plan designs will rem remain the same, assuming it's approved by you tonight. There will still be the $750 contribution to the HSA for the preferred care blue plan and $1,550 to the Blue Select Plus plan. And just on page 14 here, these are all the different rates for the plans. You can see the contribution for a couple of those plans is zero for the individual employee. So they can be insured by the plan at no cost to them in terms of premium. Also very very very important and we don't emphasize this enough and that is your on-site health clinic. It is a beautiful benefit. I wish all my clients could offer one. And as a reminder for anyone that seeks services at the on-site clinic, if they're
068covered by a traditional PO program, those services are at no cost to them. They are free. If you are covered by a qualified highdeductible health care plan based on again statutoily, you have to charge fair market value for services or any sick services as we call them for any preventive services. Those are all free as well. Any preventive services are free anywhere you get those. But at the clinic, if it's a sick visit, if you will, if you're ill and you go visit, the cost for that visit, fair market value is $30. For those of you that have been to a traditional physician, you know that actually the value of those visits are closer to $80 or $100 just for bare minimum. And then if they happen to get a prescription uh at the clinic,
069that prescription is for eight bucks uh for that script. So again, can't emphasize enough um the clinic is a wonderful benefit to employees. It's benefited your plan because again, those services are services that the district pays for as part of the cost of the clinic, not charged to the health plan. Did I miss anything for you? Uh, no. Um, there was a note to self, but like we could talk more about those things, but I appreciate all the work you do to make sure that you keep our folks happy and healthy and um in good working order, and we appreciate work. Thank you. Thank you for the opportunity. Be happy to answer any questions or move right on out of your way so you can get on to more important things. Thanks for questioning. Thank
070you. Thank you very much. All right, ready for vote. Motion passes. Mr. President move the board accept proposal from KPMCPA and advisers chosen to perform the audit for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025 at a cost not to exceed $38,315. Second motion made and seconded. So we actually went out to bid for auto services and uh this is the only bidder but we're happy with their services and there's just a slight increase. So we finance committee recommends passing. Thank you. Thank you. Wait for both. Transportation dispatch radio equipment replacement. Second. Motion made and seconded. motion pass. Next to new business, we have a bus purchase. Mr. President, I move that board of education approve the bid for purchasing five vehicles through Midwest Transit. The total cost of4,53. Motion made and seconded. Oh, that's your
071son. All right. See you later, man. You But you sit over there. You like you sit over there with your people. Next we have the uh new business. We have warehouse roof replacement. Is there a motion? Mr. President, I move the board of education roof Cornell roofing for replacement of the roof at warehouse in the amount of $433,650 with the four $43,365 contingency and total cost not to exceed $477,15. Second. We also discuss this in finance committee meeting and recommend approval. You got to get in there, bro. I can't hear you. Uh the contingency is 10%, right? Yes. Yeah. 43,650. I got an award [Laughter] today. All right. Motion passes. The numbers will be the same. It's just smooth as Yeah, you're right. Excuse me. Hey, that's why I said leave it like that. Um,
072see IS building abatement $4,960. Motion made and seconded. Motion pass. Rtown High cooling tower and console upgrade. Mr. President, I move the board to approve the Stagner Industries to upgrade the cooling tower and councils at Rayton High School with a base price of 1 million23,000 um contingency of $102,000300 for a total not to exceed of 1,125,300. Second. Motion made and second. Mr. President, I just I'll just point out and remind everybody this is a great way to to spend unexpended bond funds. So So we're doing some great projects. Thank Josh and all all their work for being able to do this needed work but with leftover bonf. So thank you Josh. You are right. Motion passes. Next we have uh proximity learning. What happened? Yeah. 2025 26. Did you skipped it? Okay. Oh. Next we
073have proximity learning. Okay. Next we have Robinson Elementary fire easement request. Mr. President, I move the board of education accept the offer for expired in the amount of $13,170 for temporary and permanent easement at Robinson Elementary School. Motion made and seconded, Mr. President. So, Josh, um I'm glad they're paying for this. Do they normally pay for this? And uh what are we why are they paying for this? Good evening. Um, so we from time to time get notified from utility companies that they need an easement to get from uh sometimes there's new subdivisions, sometimes it's running new uh gas lines, variety of different things. Uh they come to us and give us an offer um just to come in and basically uh you know there'll be some disruption to the land as far as tearing
074it up uh putting it back down. They make everything uh go back to where it's fine. We've done this in the past. Uh, but since there's a dollar amount associated to it, that's why it's coming before you. So, I guess they're coming right down the woods and right in the front yard. There's an attachment on there. I've looked, there's a couple other ones that are coming down the pipeline. I don't want to speak on that without having the attachment pulled up. Okay. Um, but yes, when I went through it and I walked it with Spire to make sure everything was fine and everything looked uh as it should. Just to add to that, they came down at my building at Reap. So, that it's a huge project that Spire is doing. that came right off
07575th Street and they had our street, you know, kind of dug up. They did pay us for the Eastman as well. So, something they try to do and they they do a good job as well as far putting everything back. So, thank you. [Music] right here. Yeah, that's beautiful, bro. All right. Motion passed. Okay. Proximity learning contract agreement. Is there a motion? Mr. President, I move that the board of education approve the proximity learning contract for the virtual teachers for summer school in the amount of $13,91.96. Second. Motion made and second it. motion passes. [Music] Next we have uh 202526 salary and benefit recommendations. Good evening again. Um, this is the time of year where staff really starts to pay attention. Hey, hold just a second. My bad. No. Yeah, let's uh we need a
076Yeah. Okay. Continue. This is the time of year where staff really starts to pay attention to what other neighboring districts are doing with regard to salary packages. Um, again, something I've we've been very proud of of what we've been able to do uh with both health um and staff salaries the last couple of years. Um, I do want to uh publicly acknowledge and thank uh Miss Jackie Vernon and her team uh for all their work around forecasting um and taking what feels like a a world of uncertainty, especially around school finance, whether it's at the uh county level, state level, or federal level. And we're asking um Jackie and her team to forecast all of these inputs with expenditures um and revenue. And that feels, I know, like a daunting task at times. We're able
077to bring a package recommendation forward in April uh because of the work that Jackie and her team have done. So, a big thank you to them. Um and with that, I'll turn this over to Miss Jackie um Miss Jackie Vernon. Good evening, board member, President Burton, Vice President. Sorry. I always say this, but my brothers would never believe I'm too quiet. They just never would. So, we're just going to review um a financial analysis that was done before closer to the beginning of the year before we looked at the salary negotiations. We're going to look at um where we are currently with salaries and benefits in uh compared to 2324. We're going to look at staff salary recommendations and then a leave buyback recommendations. When we started the year, we were looking at ending um
078next fiscal year at about 19.7%. That was with very little salary input in at that time because we always try to wait until it's a little bit closer. This is um a spreadsheet that I keep that shows just salaries and benefits and it's showing from FY22 through where we currently are in FY25. Right now, this is at the end of March, we were sitting at over just over 67 million in salaries and benefits. When I fill in those numbers with estimates of where I think we will be um at the end of this year, it looks like we're going to spend right around 98.5 million in salary and benefits by the end of the school year. Our salary recommendation is 2% to the base and one step. Um that's estimated to cost the district about
079$3.5 million. There's also a leave buyback recommendation. Um, this would be a pilot program that, um, staff would be able to be paid for up to four unused sick days per school year at the current sub daily rate of $140 for certified staff and $100 for classified staff. So, we would pilot that this next year. Um, and it it's estimated not to cost the district any additional funds because the savings should be seen in less subs in the district on those days. For those days, we're also looking at a longevity incentive recommendation for 2526. Uh, this would be an increase. Uh, and it would be payout for banked leave for staff retiring through peers or PSRS. The recommended levels um correspond with the employees years of service to Raytown and those numbers are shown below.
080So if you have worked for Raytown for 25 years or you die while you work for Raytown, you would be paid 75% of your daily rate of pay for your paid leave that has not been used. If you work for the district for 20 to 24 years, you would be paid 50%. Uh 15 to 19 years, 45%. 10 to 14 years at 40%, 5 to nine years at 30% and 1 to four years at 25%. This will vary yearbyear depending on the number of retirees. LA we did look at last year's just to see what the cost would have been under this program. It cost the actual cost last year was 145,000 and it's estimated the estimated cost if we had done this with these numbers above would have been almost 329,000. So it was
081a difference of about 184,000. I do want to say um rate team working on quality work life issues. One of the one of the issues that keeps coming up um is our fill rates for our substitutes. Uh there is a staffing shortage and that impacts our subs. Although we've worked really hard to raise our daily rate of pay, we've increased our sub pools, that fill rate is not where we need it to be. Um when you compound that uh with the difficulty um you know we see this time of year if you have taken a job in another school district um and you've got seven eight days uh that you haven't used. We start to see folks that are using those days um quickly because it doesn't incentivize them to not. Um we are hopeful
082and that's why it's a pilot that this uh part of this will incentivize folks um to maybe be more intentional with some of those days and reduce staff absences. That also helps us keep our highly qualified teachers um in our in our classroom and and that is the goal. The other end of this, we often we often hear uh what is the district doing to uh recognize longevity um and honor um service. Um and so the other end of this is years of service attached to leave buyback. Right now that is when you retire through peers or PSRS that's 25% of your daily rate of pay. Um when we looked at the LA like when we looked at last year's retirees that would have been additional expense of what $145,000 um $184,000. Um if this
083plan incentivizes two or three teachers a year to stay with us um that almost pays for itself when you consider the cost of going to a vendor for a teacher is somewhere between a hundred or 80 and $110,000. So, if we get a few folks that are at year 20 and say, gosh, five more years, um that is a that is a great return on investment for us. And so, uh we're hopeful that these um leave buyback options combined will do two things. Uh reduce staff absences and also keep some folks around with us in RQS for a little longer. So with the 2% to the base and one step in looking at where we are estimating to end next year in reserves, it would be approximately 16.4%. However, our district does plan to make
084some cuts to offset that. And so with the cuts that we intend to make, we are looking at ending 2526 fiscal year at 21.2% reserves. Our district um it's tries to stay at least at around 20%. That is considered a healthy by the state that is considered a healthy reserve. Do you have any question? Um do you have a those cuts the percentage of that what is what is the percentage based on what it was before um to so we can get to the 20 something you mean so we're looking at approximately I believe it's 4% 4% increase on that but what percentage of is it a cut of the administrative but oh where are we making those reductions if you will yeah um and so that work's already begun so for example um you
085we we have 200 plus fewer students in the school district than we did um the previous year. So, as we're looking at positions and repurposing um those um you know, we can collapse uh in some in some cases we used to need um two teachers. Um in this case, we now only need one. In some cases, it was support staff. So, um those, you know, cuts, I think, is a strong word. It's going to look more like collapsing and condensing and consolidating and repurposing uh because we need all the staff members we have. Do we need all the positions to continue to serve um all the areas we have? Not necessarily. Some of those will also come out of uh budget cuts to um departments as well. Again, as we um again move students out,
086um some of those costs we can look at and be more intentional and strategic about where we're spending those dollars. May I also add um am I permitted to speak? Did I jump in too soon? Say no, but I'll leave it to You could go ahead. I'll let him go. I'll deal with it later. No, I I can't. Go ahead. You can go ahead. No, I just wanted to reiterate what Dr. Kauara said. you know, we've worked diligently to ensure that whenever we make fiscal cuts, it's less impactful on or reductions, if you will. Um, it's repurposing positions, it's reassigning assignments so that the work can continue. Um, because we value everyone that we have, but as you all know, we invest in our people. And so, the last thing we want to do is
087eliminate people. So, what we're doing is repurposing, reassigning, and adjusting responsibilities to get to that place where we're able to support the 2% to the base and the step. And so, uh, I just want to make sure I put that out there because I don't want anybody to believe we're getting ready to make massive cuts at the school level. Whenever we're reducing and again I keep using that word cut because that's the language that will be used but when we're talking about reducing the reductions will begin initially with executive staff and uh RSA and administrative staff but also as I said initially when I arrived it's being responsible in terms of my spending as an adult because a lot of our work we have to be mindful of our spending. We are not in the
088same fiscal times as we've been. We've lost er funds. We've hired people with those ESER funds and now we have to submit actually support those positions because there is a need. So they've been absorbed in our budget. So there are a lot of things that have taken place financially. Not that anyone's done anything wrong. It's just a change in times and making sure we're mindful of our spending and the how we're spending. Um so that we can one show our staff we value them and support them in this work because our teachers take care of our kids, our support staff take care of our kids, and we need to take care of them. Uh, so this is really about people moving forward. So I just wanted to put that out there because when we talk
089about reductions, I want to make sure that we all know that it's not reductions at the school level, but we're looking at it from a leadership standpoint um to make sure that we can get to this place so that we're uh we're actually healthy and are operating in in fund balance. Mr. President, I just I just wanted to bring attention to it because that's something that has been occurring since uh Dr. Penelope showed up is that we are I feel like moving more efficiently especially at the leadership level because we have uh reduced uh our spending u in the administrative and and not affected the buildings and so uh that's greatly that's greatly appreciated which allows us to uh give the steps and and do the increases that we've done and so uh um that's
090much much appreciated Mr. President. So I also wanted to add how much more stress will like when we open this freshman center or do this thing with this freshman how much will that impact the stress upon the teachers with asking them to do more with this with these cuts that we're going to be making reduction reductions so we've been doing that work at the building level if you will because I know teachers behind me they're going to hate when I say this phrase but we schedule at Desi um Desi standards and Desi and they're probably like nodding like yeah we don't like to hear that. Um DESI standards has a desired standard and a desi standard and we're asking buildings to staff at the at the desi standards. Now we've been doing that for a
091few years. Um what that helps us do is keep a consistent um staffing numbers in in buildings. And so they've we've already been doing that work um for a few years to make sure that we are consistent with what our enrollment numbers look at. So when you ask that question um you know really we're taking student enrollment and matching them with with teachers and so even adding freshman centers really doesn't change that variable um that variable. Thank you. Mr. President, I move the board of education approve the 2526 salary benefit recommendations as presented by Ray team. Second. Motion made and second. Any other discussion? I would just make one or comment. I just continue to appreciate that we use uh collaboration for our collective bargaining process. So thank you Ray team members and everybody all
092staff who participated and good hard work again this year. Also appreciate this uh the process that uh we went through this year. Um it was um it was u informative from the start and uh and just uh the way it was presented it allowed us to be able to digest it in a timely fashion where we can make these decisions as well. I would like the section and say was much more palatable this year. Much more. I'd like to give Dr. Karee and Dr. Martin Knox and the staff a huge pat on the back how you guys presented this this year. Thank you so much. May I? And one other thing um just to your points, Mr. Moore, um we will always be inclusive with the processes as we're moving forward. We value the voice
093of our uh our educational leaders uh our support staff and so I appreciate being invited in with Ray team to have this conversation. Uh we have those tough conversations behind closed doors but all voices are heard and appreciated. And so I want to thank Dr. Kcawa uh for his leadership in this work. Miss Vernon for her leadership and Ray team for coming to the table and trusting me enough to have these conversations. So thank you all. Thank you all. This your mom and your dad. He's okay. Bye, Mom. Bye. Dad. That's awesome. Motion passes. Uh next we have the consent uh approval of consent agenda. President 145 that second motion made and seconded. I'll take a moment to read the donations. Uh donation of $1,000 to student lunch debt from seed of faith church to
094Southwood Elementary. Donation of candy, chips, stuffed animals, kites, and hula hoops worth $300 from Ivanho United Church of Christ to Robinson Elementary. Donation of Magua Helic gauges worth $1,200 from Travis Kefir to Hearnen Career Center. uh donation of tissues, dry erase markers, miscellaneous food supplies worth $275 from Hope Network to Robertson Elementary and a donation of $250 to the community fair to Raytown Middle School for the community fair to Raytown Middle School from the health center. We appreciate once again all the donation and all the support that we get from uh our churches and organizations in our community and uh I'm sure it go nicely with uh educating all of our children, all of our students. Thank you very much. Ready to vote. Motion passes. There a motion to adjourn education meeting at 8:31 p.m.
095Motion made and second it. [Music]