BOE Meeting: January 24, 2022

001community pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for participants one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice [Music] of the agenda i'll move that the board approved the january 24 2022 agenda second once you're married and seconded [Music] um [Music] all right now it asks for report of board members ready [Music] next we'll have uh reporter the superintendent thank you mr president let me uh give you a quick legislative update the governor gave his state of the state address last week and didn't say a whole lot about education and the fact that they want to raise minimum teacher salaries to 38 thousand dollars this school district already had our average teacher salary is over 39 approaching 40 but it was aimed at districts particularly rural districts

002that have been uh you know as far as their starting towers much lower than the rest of the state interestingly enough there's no new money there to fund that districts would require be required to take 30 of that on and 70 of that's coming from the foundation formula with really no increases to the foundation formula so that's really all that was said in the state of the state and we're sitting on a fat wallet at the state as far as stimulus dollars revenues they brought in well over 2 billion in excess in revenues and we were hoping to hear there would be an increase to transportation funding that's that's about you know funded at 15 cents on the dollar more money in the foundation formula all those things didn't occur so we'll have to work

003to try and get some of those monies or increases put into the budget uh with the budget shares of both the house and the senate career had money was guaranteed by guaranteed he put 20 million dollars uh from stimulus money increases and hernan would they're certainly not going to get 20 million dollars but they may also benefit from that uh some of the vehicles for different bills we've got house bill 1552 which is a charter funding bill and that's really kind of a fight between the charter schools in kansas city and charter schools in st louis but anytime there's more funding taken away from public education it could affect us as well um another bill senate bill 649 from bill eigel is elimination of personal property tax you're going to hear a little bit about

004bonds and things like that tonight but the elimination of personal property tax in the state of missouri would take about 900 million dollars out of school district funding across the state for us our personal property tax in any given years uh 10 million plus dollars a year that would be devastating if that were to happen uh and again the as in any year we always have a big omnibus bill in education where they are putting together many different things whether it be charter expansion whether it be voucher expansion whether it be virtual education expansion and that's senate bill 650 there's several different things in there it has not had a hearing yet but those are the things we need to watch for we'll keep you attuned to those and where they go um with that

005i'm going to move on to any questions on report of elementary principles or secondary principles any um 8.4 8.5 or 8.6 all that down is there for your review and answer any questions you might have uh i will speak a little bit about the monthly data review specifically attendance our attendance has been taking a beating obviously since the first of the year with the number of uh coveted cases that we have in the districts it's more than doubled we've been able to hold it together for staff even though we've had to cancel some classes we cancelled some bus routes and it'll be more class different classes cancelled tomorrow in the coming days until we get through this cycle of tropic increases that we have we're able to continue to have it even though it's every

006week we're this close to having to shut shut the school district down um other districts around us have had to do so we'll continue to monitor it and it gets to that point then we may have to shut down for a few days but we're holding on right now any questions on any of that marlene can answer a lot of those questions too because she's doing directly with the student afterwards student absence and teacher advances 8.7 dr shelton we'll talk about the on-site thing for you yes uh kevin if you would please open up 8.7 in the presentation and so that that's the wrong document all right thank you so much so one of the benefits of our district that continues to continue to be very popular with our with our staff is the on-site

007employee clinic each year we review this clinic and uh give you provide data i would please put this so the evolution of the district began in 2016 with uh um primary care uh and then along the way we've added a nurse practitioner and occupational health we then added physical therapy and then most recently we've added mental health a mental health component as well please scroll down the next slide the utilization metrics that you see you see that in the presentation overall participation overall utilization the addition of behavioral health health coaching and then physical therapy do can see the the numbers related to those please pull them and each year as you know we we gather comments from our uh from our faculty and our staff and you can see you know you know if you

008do that the the word cloud and the big words that come out obviously are all about dr hearn and the staff and how thankful uh our staff is for the presentation of the clinic you can see that the satisfaction uh 99.4 of all those who are who fill out the survey rated as good or excellent 100 percent uh of those you know uh were provided they got exceptional care there once again you can see that the the feedback for feedback from our from our faculty and our staff is very high next flight please and you see some of the comments and those available for you but you can tell from the comments all are very happy with the service they received at the clinic whether it's through dr hearn physical therapy the occupational health or

009mental health and lastly so not only do they provide quality care but there's also cost savings in our employees since the inception of the clinic have saved 651 thousand dollars and this is last year they saved just a little over a hundred thousand dollars about expenses was the district uh saved over time and you can see most recently this last year we saw a return on investment of 2.1 dollars for every dollar spent but overall we've saved just under 5 million of district funds and for a return on investment of 1.8 dollars per air for every as i said it's a wonderful benefit that our employees enjoy one of the things that each year that our employees say that they love and they want and we continue to get feedback from our staff and we

010continue to improve it along the way as i mentioned in the evolution here most recently we've added behavioral health and that's been very popular in these times of mental health and mental health services this has been an incredible benefit because we've added any questions or comments from a competitive standpoint like with other dishes it's not it's rare um there are a couple varied districts that have it but it's not it's not where and then if you tie it with the fact that we have it associated with our with the fitness center 45 000 square foot fitness center two pools that's inverted there's probably nobody in the country has that facility and that programming available to you um it says uh patients uh utilizing health coaching services is there any incentive for that uh no it's

011a it's an opportunity that everyone is afforded you know through each year our employees go through a health risk assessment you know out of that assessment dr hearn i'll say makes it available it might be a dietitian it may be maybe mental health it may be life coaching it could could be a variety of coaching services that are provided i just ask because i know uh employees so i've known about that incentivizer so they can bring down costs thanks thank you all right thank you not everyone on the board was here when we rocked the uh oymca uh over six years ago it's hard to believe it's been that long but we bought that building and renovated it for 4.9 million dollars and then they built it the first time it cost 6 million so

012it's been a great return it's almost paid for itself if you just use a return on investment at 4.3 you've almost paid for it there but when you're throwing the 9.6 million in cost avoidance you certainly covered the cost of it so it's been a great a great thing to have let me go jump back up on legislation i did forget one thing it's very important for this board in that omnibus bill you're going to see uh the opportunity for them to try and move board elections to november and expand board terms from three years to four years and making board elections partisan which is not the goal of school board elections or city elections it's that's something that you're certainly going to have to stand up and fight and they're also pushing criminal rights

013bills uh throughout the legislature but it's certainly going to be in this ominous bill but some of those things that you you've heard that we've been asked in the past as far as teaching critical race theory uh 1619 project and there's also some criminal rights bills out there saying that we do not teach about sexuality uh as far as transgender et cetera homosexuality in the classroom more even recognize those as things that are that could be occurring so it's going to be a mess for different reasons in the capital so we're just going to have to be aware so anyway i know we have a couple gentlemen here that might want to speak to the s p rating but you want to take the lead jones speaks to the s p reagan uh no other

014than that you once again received tremendous scores for your management so the job that the administration does uh carrying out your mission and the mission that you put forth with them you got the highest rating so the five stars out of five which is uh excuse me could you stand okay sorry all [Music] once again receive that double a minus rating which is a very good rating and the highest would be triple a which is like the state of missouri not even the federal government has that anymore uh double a plus double a and double a minus so you have the equivalent of like an 800 credit score or better which is tremendous when you go out and try to borrow debt and you once again got the highest of the high rating in terms

015of the job that the board's doing with your finances and the job the administration is doing carrying out your finances so you got five stars out of five there which is about 25 or 30 percent of your rating is the is the day in day out operations of the district the other is the actual local wealth you have and when i say wealth i mean in terms of your tax base and the revenues you can generate here locally so you all would have a rating that is only bested by districts that would have you know double or triple your assessed value and high levies so in other words much much more local tax base and local tax revenue coming in but excellent rating and probably less than 20 districts in the state of missouri have

016a rating above you all and they would be names like clayton ledoux lee's summit these large large school districts so excellent rating overall and gonna be very helpful when we sell the bonds hopefully tomorrow morning that's what i was gonna have so tomorrow morning actually that would be the idea we wanted to make sure we got direction from you on on the uh direct deposit issue which we spoke at the finance committee meeting last month but yes we're ready to roll and we've been marketing those for about five days now so we're looking forward to getting them on and mr moore under under new business there's a bond resolution that we'll ask the board to approve and once approved then we'll be able to yeah i think what we're going to do is we're going

017to come back to the demographic study because we have a lot of young people sitting in the crowd tonight that um i want to make sure that they get noticed and their parents get noticed that are here not saying that the demographic study is going to take a long time but at the same time i know it would be good to get through that and we want to get out of to do so you want to go ahead and did you know oh hello good evening uh so on did you know we have i'm going to start with the rivalry varsity boys and girls basketball game that was rescheduled it's coming up on wednesday february 2nd the district in january started its year-round swim lesson program and that has been really well attended and successful

018usually after the first time we announced that there are spots open they're filled and ready to go so we're excited to be able to offer that service to our students in the district um also did you know we have a great expectations activity from little blue they work together to learn how to play bingo as one of their activities over at blue ridge elementary students and staff collected more than 300 non-perishable food items for the retail emergency assistance program and before they donated the boxes they had a little bit of fun they used them to kind of set up a domino effect and learn to have a little science lesson as well tonight with me i'll start with uh marybeth sprecker we have some uh just students showcasing their skills we have a slideshow and

019i'm gonna grab the clicker all right mary beth good evening um so you know northwood is a special education school serving students k through 12. and so we're just going to showcase some of our students and what they've been been working on the first slide here is anthony and he is practicing his fine motor skills this will help him with his communication our students a lot of our students are non-verbal students and so they use what we call aac which is a form of augmentative communication which is usually done on some type of tablet that has software on it to let them communicate so that helps him with his fine motor skills which he will need in order to access his device okay the next the next one this is ian again he is working

020on um sorting and you can see in this picture that his device his communication device is right beside him and that way he can learn to ask for more to ask for help and so he is sorting and learning workshop skills so a lot of our students sometimes will go to sheltered workshops after they graduate the next one is marcus again he's working on some some job skills but at the same time using his aac device here to communicate um we also have our life program which stands for learning um in future environments and this is an 18 to 21 year old program so our seniors who our students can go to school until they're 21 and so we are helping our students um learn community skills out in the community so they actually go

021out and practice in the community what they are learning in the classroom these students or practicing their math skills and accessing you know things that they love best uh this again this is um our life skills um program and um they go out in community and they are using their aac devices to order their food and um to talk about the money the money they get back and that that sort of thing as well this is christian and um we wrote a grant and we have our nwsa grounds crew and so what these students are doing is they are learning landscaping skills um and so there's another you know skill that they can take with them once they leave high school um again this is our nwsa and our students these are more students with

022some behaviors um but they completely planned a thanksgiving meal and down to um servings what needed to be bought that type of thing they made it and they served it and it was good um this is one of our kindergartners and she is working on her communication skills too you can see these three buttons right in front of her one of them has a picture of juice on it so she can press it for juice and that's what then she gets her juice so she knows that she is requesting her juice and again same thing she's practicing taking in taking out that help helps develop her motor skills as well you can't really see junior right here but um this is a lower level communication device and they he is communicating via pictures and last

023but not least we have miss lauren who is requesting her ever-loving bubbles and you can see her communication device there and she's requesting more it just gives you a little bit of a glance of northwood you have any questions okay thank you all right and then last on did you know uh january 9th 2022 was national uh school resource officer appreciation day so we have several of our school resource officers from around the district here today some of them have family members with them so we just want to invite them up to introduce themselves and share a little information and then recognize them for their dedication to our students and staff and community for all the great work that they do so i'll start off by passing it to sergeant deaver [Music] thank you all

024very much um this is my ninth year in the school district and i love this school district and i wouldn't care to be anywhere else robert woodcock was one of my first hires when i came after i made supervisor he's been with me for almost nine years uh brad monroe was my second hire he's been with me for over eight years as well chris gilbert rejoined us after having been with the school district as a raytown off-duty police officer previously and a substitute teacher within the district spencer rupp has been with me off and on for about six years he thought he saw greener pastures um and wanted to have three stripes like me but he found out it wasn't that much fun so he's back in schools where it's a much more rewarding um

025and then one of my newest officers although he's not new uh anthony wright comes to us having worked for several other school districts previous to this and he brings that amazing experience with him nine years ago there were five of us as of today i have a 16 officer staff it's a challenge but we face a challenge in keeping our students staff and patrons safe every day and these are some of the guys that have stepped up and i've got i've got girls female officers as well now um that have stepped up to take that cause and be that person and i can't be prouder of them thank you very much [Applause] [Music] you do not have to stay if you'd like to first of all i got to ask you are those yes god

026bless you but if you're welcome to stay if you want but i think janelle would like her you know janelle's there danielle i'm having the same problem daniel like to take your pictures outside i think so if you guys want to go and have your pictures taken thank you very much boys you were well behaved tonight i can tell you that i've got a couple of teenagers involved they can take you through the markets yeah that's right yeah i wish all right we're gonna let janelle [Music] um my comment is in regard to unfinished business um 12.5 where the board approved at the august 6th board meeting to approve up to 10 days of leave for any staff member who is quarantined due to cover 19 and has been fully vaccinated i feel like you

027are discriminating against unvaccinated employees when you give only 10 date when you only give 10 days leave to employees who are quarantined with covet if they've been vaccinated it's just not right if i were an employee of the district i'd probably be bringing a discrimination lawsuit against you i would advise you to rethink this and extend this provision to all employees since it's widely known that even vaccinated people can get and spread covet just as much or even more than unvaccinated people because vaccinated people often have more virus in their nasal passages than unvaccinated people so please do not discriminate against employees simply because they are exercising the right to bodily autonomy thank you very much um i proudly introduced uh preston the president's come up preston smith is a demographer who performed our demographic

028study uh the board commissioned this study i'm going to say in march of last year and since that time we've been he's been pulling data and he's not all prepared to provide that proportion all right great thanks very much we'll have we'll go fairly quickly we'll go ahead and start it's the bottom right there right there presentation okay good thank you all right guys good to come back here it's been about five years i think since i addressed you the next slide [Music] our credentials we've done about 200 studies around the country uh we have worked in 14 different states we have now projects now in alaska and west virginia even i have a graduate degree in public administration statistics and our enrollment team uh it's headed by a man and so he's credentialed out

029in oklahoma state university next a little bit how we we do our projections we gather 25 years of data includes housing permits births enrollment by great economic data housing data we pull as much as we can our goal is that we try to develop some models that mostly fit the pattern that looks like your enrollment's headed next we did do two previous studies one 2017 18 we had a large variance which is unusual for our our work typically our our variance is only like 0.3 percent per year for yours is about 10 times that because we had uh some issues going on there that we don't normally see in projects you know there are some issues with your data and i think there are also some things going on in your district that we don't

030normally see okay next in 2021 your enrollment was the lowest it'd been in 30 years so it's uh it was huge and all of our projections all of our demographic data everything points to nothing but the clients next 10 years next a number of childbearing women children under five years old they're both supposed to drop about over 500 persons in each of those categories is huge we've never seen that before uh school-aged children i think the drops used to be almost 400 in the next 10 years uh even the overall population is supposed to drop huge next if we look at the same trend of the next 10 if it happened from 20 in the same pattern from 2011 to 2021 you'd be under 6 000 student enrollment next our key findings again all projection

031models everything we see all the data points to nothing but declines next another thing that we've never seen in a school district that we've worked in is a such a huge change in diversity and in 30 years you've gone from 83 percent white to 23 percent and we've never seen that in any other school district we worked in next we did an extensive analysis of your capacity we used four different sets of calculations it was took almost a month to do that work as uh we looked at gross square footage classroom use the number of students per classroom the square footage per classroom we did those calculations checked it back and forth so it's quite extensive analysis of your capacity for all the buildings next what we show is that your excess capacity right now

032is 3 653 students district white which is is very big for a district your size next among the elementary schools we're showing you have an excess capacity of almost 2 000 students it's remarkable next middle school and excess capacity over a thousand students next and among the high school you even have excess capacity there almost 650 students next by 2026 you're going to have a capacity on the same trend line of almost even another 200 more students on top of that next and by 10 years you're looking at over 4 000 students of excess capacity which is just gigantic next among elementary schools is pushing almost 2 000 excess capacity next middle school almost 1200 and next high school almost a thousand okay next so here's our recommendations we recommend that you close five elementary

033school buildings by 2031. uh the average capacity 341 students and you put that into your capacity excess that you're going to have so it figures out to be five and a half schools that's how we calculate that next middle school close to middle schools here again this calculates out to be a little over two schools excess capacity that you're going to have next and for the high school close one of those okay next so our overall recommendation is to close eight schools five elementary two middle school and one high school and that's just based on the demographic trends and and what you've got in your capacity okay next and that's the end any questions from the ward i will say this preston um one they're probably in shock as anybody else would be of course

034they've seen this information prior to coming tonight um but as far as i will say trying to close schools one thing you know we should access capacity kids in an elementary school that's what we're assuming we're the number we're going to try to get at but or be at or even at 400 kids in elementary school all those things i would tell this board that you have to take those into consideration you want an elementary school with 500 kids in it and you're going for it you're gonna have to weigh every option and look and see what you have to do you're gonna have to look at the budget see what you can do um we're not coming to you tonight saying you're going to have to close 10 schools okay we're not doing that

035but what preston's telling us to be prepared so that could eventually could happen and we need to hear those things so if we take this information moving forward watching enrollment trends and and just preparing yourself as you're creating your strategic plan moving forward okay we wanted to see this and we're not certainly not closing schools or making a plan to close schools when you're still in a pandemic and we don't know where these kids are at where they've gone we things could change in two or three years but you still start to plan for it and start making plans but the plan is never set in stone okay because i can tell you if this was on i'm sure we've had a few calls from staff members saying which buildings are you going to close

036next year the answer to that is none zero i don't see anybody on this board saying we're going to close schools what we are saying is we're going to prepare for ourselves if we continue to see a decline in enrollment then we may have to make some tough decisions down the line but there will be no buildings closed next year there may not be any building closed the year after that but you have to start preparing if it does come to that so that's what we're saying okay that provides comfort but that's what it is the most because there's um mr smith or dr smith mr smith that's right um as mr smith said this is nothing out of the norm for what's going on in america some of the statistics what was alarming or

037the most alarming part of this presentation for me was that our district is 83 percent non-white and we have not adjusted staffing that looks more like the diversity that we have in the schools but that was it for me i have no other questions did you give any uh any uh thoughts or however it's processed i don't know how this data is processed but to the possibility of growth of what like glow wth growth no there's not a single factor that shows any indication of growth anytime soon not not a shred of evidence i mean we did see some in our first study in 2017 there was a possibility but in five years things have totally changed i mean we just take the private school enrollment in 2017 to what is today the private schools

038in this area have increased for almost a thousand students and that's almost exactly what you've lost it's not like they evaporated and left the area and moved i think most of them did go to private schools what's your explanation you think back around you know because you and i and others have been involved in the wars of jackson county we were obsessed values and things like that and we saw that we saw how in 2008 and really 2009 2010 how the executive's office just went through and did zones of foreclosure okay without really any means of or ways of doing it they just did it okay but when we saw that we started in 2010 this district started to grow we know we knew why it grew was because of the number of homeless kids

039that were out there and doubling up with families and we grew i can't remember the exact number five six seven hundred kids yeah yeah you had strong growth there for a while and and more so at our highest point and i could say you'd probably say 30 years at that time you'd never grow like that right um so i guess one thing i would plan in this ward's mind is that cliff's coming again it's coming okay will it be the same fall probably not off the cliff but the housing market is going to turn around and things are going to come due so that's some of the things i think that you need to take caution on before you just go and start okay this school this school this school because that's going to happen

040again i mean when we've always seen two other districts in the country in the last 17 years we've worked with it has these unusual patterns and when we see something like this that happens it's usually because it's not a demographic trend it's usually a policy usually by a county or state that affects what happens inside of school i mean we've had in 2019 the assessments get out of control here in jackson county we've had covet in 2020 so we've had a lot of weird things happen but your district has taken a hit harder than anybody else uh there's no doubt about that now as dr markley says there's a glimmer of hope that maybe some things will change in turn but for right now your your patterns is demographically uh they're they're down and uh

041it's it's uh there are a few other factors i think that work here that go beyond what just pure population patterns show and usually when that happens i mean we had like one of the fastest growing school districts in one state they had a superintendent that changed a policy about attendance in one particular school and uh overnight they had 300 families pull out and home school and go to private school and that was a policy change demographically they should continue to grow but when you see something like that in policy that affects and pulls you off a trend that's happening that's when that's something i can't predict when policies change i think uh yeah we have to make a plan but part of even asking for the study and some of the other studies we're

042doing is to actually uh i think this play would be like a plan d um there's some things we have to change and some hard looks we got to take out ourselves in order to turn this tie this these projections into another way um i think inside these numbers you know our district has changed in the last 30 years and uh in so many ways that we have to take uh like just one of the statements that miss peyton was was saying i think that's just one aspect of it is uh things we have to consider as far as uh the families that are here and the reasons why people are leaving and uh and also the perception i think uh the perception of us is is not as good as what it really is

043and uh i think there's some things we need to when we come up with our strategic plan i think there's some things we need to try to to change we need to make sure we're addressing this issue probably as our primary issue because that's what we're here for is to educate children and make everyone we got goals that we want people to feel welcome we want student achievement i mean it's all kind of things that i think we are we are we have to we're back seem to be against the wall right now and so and we have to act uh not just to plan for the worst but to als to come up with some alternatives of how we think we can really change this in our strategic plan i think this has to

044be a priority this has to be a topic of uh discussion uh in fact this is one of the main reasons i decided to be on the board is because of what i saw the decline and i know how good it is to to live here i know how good it is for our kids to be here and the opportunities that we provide that i would say are second to no other district and what we see other people that's successful that's doing we need to look into those things and we need to be innovative in our approach and and who we're trying to attract because we have to be honest with ourselves what would make someone want to come to our our district uh rather than another district or what would make someone uh want

045to stay here rather than leave and so uh no there's so many aspects that we can look into for that so i would say i i appreciate the numbers because it paints it lets me know what's what's on the horizon if we don't make some changes well thank you very much thank you president just have another question before you come i really i don't have a real good grasp on how the data was accumulated and everything so i noticed that you have various areas of raytown it's when you looked at these various areas did you see like what was causing students enrollment to drop me in that particular area well there are a couple of firms that analyze our ranked school districts according to like safety or a good place for teachers to teach or

046or how it is academically and i think i include a couple of churches that you it's always insightful to see how those rank uh where you rank on those i can always like blue springs is always in the top 10 in the states uh and their enrollment's really stable it's got solid growth i've done studies for them for for 17 years uh districts that have greater instability they have maybe a little more variability in this perception as your presence says perception is reality and so you got on the internet maybe that raytown may rank low and safety for students and whether it's true or not the perception among the general public that fill out those forms online the perceptions that it's unsafe and the improvement feeds on itself and uh so when you have something

047like that happen uh the perception out there online is hard to fight sometimes so basically that's what i see in some school districts as you say perception is reality and it feeds on itself your report just basically gave us the data that says declining overall pretty much yes i mean there's but it didn't tell us anything like why well you look at the data in there looks at private school i think i have sentence in there so you got a thousand students that who essentially left your district that did go to private school enrollment that's one thing another chart in there talks about enroll employment i think last time i was here five years ago it was one a new student equaled 709 new jobs in the kansas city metro which in a healthy growing

048district it should be about 60 or 70. so at that time even five years ago you were 10 times worse in enrollment when it came to employment in the in in the area that's another factor and now that there's so far off the scale that there was not even a statistical relationship there's no relationship to housing growth uh put that in the report because you essentially have none i couldn't i couldn't track a house sales because uh they're they're really weak but notice you look at the pages there's many factors in there explain just overall weakness in the district and enrollment well you've got my email and my phone number in there you think any other questions i'll be glad to answer those but thank you for your time next we'll have more committee reports

049the finance committee i'm asking that the board approved the minute from october those have been reviewed by the plans committee and approved also just as a point of review our december meeting minutes are attached that's a couple highlights the audit the auditor attended our meeting in december presented the audit and tonight you'll be asked to approve the out of this board also in december we reminded the board reminding the finance committee that we would be submitting our document for the meritorious budget award um i've provided a copy of that to you um which is here and then on the inside cover you'll you'll see that it was submitted and that the district has received the meritorious budget and that's the document that he had and those are the major components of the assembly meeting mr

050president i knew except the award except the october 11 2021 finance committee minutes second wishes made in second it should have made that demographic i would just say congratulations dr sheldon to you and your staff on receiving the award for the process [Applause] uh joined up with daniel nixon jackie vernon matt belinda and josh luke all played major roles together thank you all right next uh school board elections mr president i move the board without policy bbb school board elections second mostly in the second nothing new just a state statute correction next we have student representation representative on the board to the board of education remember during the last meeting we talked about how could we you ask us to kind of investigate how can we get kids more involved particularly high school students and

051in the board of business as far as the way things work giving input being part of the process it was a great idea we're here to tell you we didn't find a whole lot of districts that do it but what we would recommend and we mentioned this before we think it's a good idea to get them the uh the student body president i should say the student the student council president of both high schools and invite them to come to meetings have a place for them to sit and participate and give us a report every month of what's going on in their buildings and some of the things and issues that they got for it and started out that way and if you want to expand it from there you could do so you know

052they don't have they're not privy to different you know obviously close items for the board to deal with uh but they they can't participate in these these other things and i can kind of help coach them through uh the meetings i have with them i have four meetings a year uh one's coming up i think uh pretty soon you have that if that date's coming up right rachel in the next month or so we could introduce this to them invite them come to the meeting uh sit in but i can coach them as far as this is what the board would like to see you do starting now bringing information kind of like what they do mean but that's where we're at with that there's really no other then you wouldn't have to change any

053policy to invite them to come and speak to be no different than the speaker at a board meeting would like to say i love love the idea and utilizing our um student body president's student government presidents which addresses the high school how do we get our middle school our fourth and fifth graders to feel like i'm not saying have them come and talk that's not what i'm saying but like making sure that the upperclassmen are reaching out to the leaders of the lower class too so that well here's what i would say i would put one toe in the water at a time and see see what you get and then just kind of go from there you know what you might ask them that question okay how would you do it and maybe they

054could tell us okay i think as far as the student body president student council president i think we might look at somewhat separate i don't know exactly what the duties are of a student council president or presently but uh that the position of how being a student representative that might be something that is just that job that that detail maybe someone that's on the student council that may even work with the student council president but uh just to have someone that's uh not necessarily that person to add a duty to that person but to also have a second person to do it well when i brought this up that was kind of my intention that at some point would be something that they would vote on or do something at their schools do to regulate

055the students more does to the city council yes but i'm okay starting with the way you're saying start let's just try it because we can start that quickly and we would get their input and maybe they can go back and create that and say let's do this where we elect a student representative to the board or they want to do something beyond that because that's that's what i was hoping to see us do but i'm okay starting with what's just inviting i mean we don't know i mean that person is already the president of the student council are you saying you don't want more responsibilities no i'm saying that we don't even know they already agreed to it and had a job so to say oh yeah now come to these meetings and report to

056us well i'm saying a person that's the representative would know what it is and and and try to attain that i agree well i think you can get there i think you can get there i think you're going to have to you know take this first step around margaret's going to try to get him here to the first meeting [Music] they may want to do it if they want to do it let them do it because they're at the end of their school year anyway and keep going yep bring us some ideas and maybe it's during the next school year they'll want to do something more yeah they may want to appoint the liaison to the board of education from someone in the student council you if you're in the student council you're in there

057because one you're you're somebody that's willing to take on more things to be a part of something maybe bigger than yourself uh and that's the kind of kid you know you'd like it you'd like to get that kid that just you know is walking the hallway but getting them in here it's like you know we can also so maybe that's we start this way and maybe we'll figure out a way to get that you know we can also offer to pay them the same amount that we get absolutely i say double it we will double we will double so are we planning on just having one student no i think we put both high schools because i'm gonna shoot for having them here in april okay all right next we have uh live streaming of

058our meetings we are recommending option one which is a complete overhaul of the equipment in this room and the addition of some additional streaming equipment it's estimated to be no more than seventy nine thousand five hundred ninety one dollars very likely to be less than that because as we get into some of the equipment and we see that it still has left in it uh we will hang on to it this will give us full live streaming functionality and we feel like this is our best option we're gonna do this let's put our best foot forward the first first day i'm against you well what if we sell this building well i don't i'm going to sell it we i mean we can't take the equipment with us yeah we can take it with us

059it would be something we may not be able to reuse it though you know i'm just saying why are we starting out at the highest why not start middle or the lowest because i think we're putting something out there to our our community uh to see it's so different than what we do for inside of our school buildings where we want them to look the best they possibly can yeah but and we pass bond issues to do that i think that you're going to get out there you want you don't want to have something that you're not sure that is going on would you put it on the list and if it's of no quality what's that why would it be put on the list well it's quality but it doesn't have the quality that

060the center does also ms salisbury it's delaying that cost because the the difference in the cost between option one and option two uh is a reduction of some of the equipment um eventually though that this equipment that we have here will come to the end of its life and we will be replacing it anyway so it it's deferring the cost uh by going with a different option eventually we will pay that that full price is melissa here uh she's she's had a pta function but she and i she and i met prior along with dr martin on this topic she recommends option one and her recommendation is optional i'm sure you can use the timeline for installation as soon as we can get all the product yeah not all of it's necessarily available at this

061point we can get it ordered to get on the list exactly i think melissa do you talk to us about this well speaking of listening great times you heard money being spent in your name we said we want it up i wanted to hear your voice on the subject we wanted option two but you you are adamant we do optionally tell us your reason this system is aging and if we're going to invest money into upgrading and adding components i think that it's best to go on and replace as much as we can now or as much as that needs to and then we don't have to worry about parts failing in the next year or two you guys have probably noticed some concerns and something's not working right over the last couple years so

062there are parts some of this equipment was original when we moved into this building what was that 12 13 14 years i've been here a long time ago so um with option one my promise to you as always is not to just spend money to spend it so if we look and you know that's a new screen that screen doesn't need to be replaced we remove that out so i don't expect it to cost that entire amount i am asking for a contingency just because there's some wiring issues and with the speakers we probably want to replace those and as you get up in the ceiling you don't know what you get into so i would ask for a do not exceed amount i don't think it's going to cost that but i do think

063it's worth replacing everything that needs to be replaced and melissa if we move to a if we move to another building this equipment will transfer because that's a question not all of it but the rack equipment would be able to um you could probably salvage some of it the screens the monitors um i don't know about everything in the ceiling but a lot of it would move with us if we didn't move that differently what's the life expectancy i would love to say 10 years like it used to be with technology it's they're building an obsolescence i would say we'd be good you get about seven seven eight eighty nine years some of the equipment it depends on the individual pieces of equipment our speakers can each ten twelve years just like we are now

064well i know that you have invested your time and making sure that we get the best and also making sure it that uh we're not going to spend what we don't need to spend so i trust you and there's some refinement that needs to be done but that would have delayed this decision another month yeah if steve was trying to sell it to me i probably have some issues there obviously [Laughter] so when we get when we get it all installed the meetings will be live then how many people will it take to run danielle still just one person to run it or the beauty is we'll be able to go back to one technician and the that installation has three cameras and speakers or microphones placed throughout the room so the cameras will auto

065zoom to the area that the speaker is on so we won't have to have somebody getting in here very soon and you'll be able to use it for other meetings as well probably yeah you really want it don't you miss daniel's collecting because you're gonna have to stand that way mr we need somebody to do do the makeup yeah i'm on the board purchase option one 25 cents with a 10 contingency i second that motions made and seconded discussing um this melissa mentioned are not to exceed so that's not to exceed the 79 000 plus the 10 percent contingency absolutely my goal is to come in well under that budget okay thank you i just want a clarification of that since she mentioned that all right motion made in seconded does this number include a

066powder room for the make-up [Music] the cb construction contract for central middle school so this is third step in the process first step is when you approve bid documents second step is when you approve the contractor you've done that in both cases and now this is just a contract to solidify that agreement between us in the contract receiving construction this is the work that's being done in super middle school mr president yes i move the board further contract from cv construction [Music] second motion maintenance second any discussion freshman of mine what are we going to be doing at the center so general upgrades that we've done i was building with the major the major work that's being done is the expansion of the cafeteria now this this that will be a year-long process uh the

067rest of the work will be generally done this summer as with all grades so things like flooring and some other items there that we've done in other buildings but the major work is going to be the expansion of the cafeteria okay i'm so curious employee leave for quarantine um 12.5 there were some questions regarding the days that were given to employees back in august prior to the school year starting the district approved 10 additional days for students that received the vaccine or students staff received the vaccine and the question was um would it be a recommendation to give it to all other employees and we're not recommending that the district do that at this time any questions you might answer from anybody why why is it on here is emotional well it should be an

068info over action if you wanted to make that motion don't say that so it's just information right yeah it just says we approved the following on august night right any discussion of this all right compliance certification new business you see there we have something from the state treasurer asking us to sign an affidavit saying that we are going to be in compliance with the attorney general's i guess his letter opinion his opinion that we need to not mask in schools and if we do not sign that we not cannot compete in the mohifa program because we have potentially could be subjected to lawsuits and the board can at this point ask me to sign that which i would refuse to do so because i'm not going to be liable for any thing down the road

069where you have to make a declaration by the board to protect students or staff with a mask or something like that where that case may be and then i have my name on an affidavit that says that you would so i'm recommending we don't sign it unless i in motion to do so right now we can move on to the next any discussion all right 13.2 in the bonds proceeds resolution we have a couple gentlemen here tonight ben thompson and joe kinder and they can speak to what the state treasurer is costing school districts across the state by saying that we should do this thing or we should not which we're not too sure he has the authority to do so don't go ahead yeah that's that's correct i won't get into uh we'll get

070too far deep into this but the fact of the matter is on this certificate of compliance in order to participate in the program we work really hard a lot of the work that you don't see us do and i told dr shelton this is trying to make sure that once we've issued your bonds that the cost that we show you the total interest cost over the life of that debt and the cost of issuance actually what you pay to get the issue done are the only costs you'll have that no matter what whether it's the irs the state auditor your external forensic auditors anyone in your community can come look at that and say that's totally fine keep on going and the problem with this certificate of compliance is you know this is a 20

071year issuance for you all so this applies to as we understand it directives of the attorney general related to health mandates so we cannot quantify the risk of participating in the program right now you have to sign that certificate to be able to close your bonds and that could open you up to any and all kinds of liabilities so apart and separate from the health and safety of your staff and students if we take the that side of it out of it we we simply as add stifle and i don't know what mr thompson has said that we can't quantify what that may end up costing you and the fact of the matter is we talked about your rating a little bit which is very high and so the nice thing is you have the

072ability to access capital markets in a very efficient and effective manner still we also have put in a substitute credit enhancement for you all which is bond insurance which is cost you about thirty thousand dollars and you end up in about the same spot so essentially for you all luckily because you are so highly rated this costs you about thirty thousand dollars now there's some things that over the time that that you can do to offset that but let's just start right there uh you you know in terms of the interest cost over the life of the loan it will cost you about the same in terms of your interest cost but the cost up front to pay for the insurance because it is not free like the direct deposit program so the direct deposit

073program is a program that offers you a piggyback on the state's credit it doesn't actually give you their credit rating if you look at clark county r1 cahoka which is up on the mississippi river greg bricker who many of you know that's where he grew up they use they have used the direct deposit program in the past versus raytown issuing your debt with the direct deposit program you have a much lower interest rate than they do so it's still the the bonds are still the traders investors in your bonds are still interested in your credit mostly and so you'll have that ability but dr markle is correct you know the folks at this will really hurt are folks who don't have that high credit rating like you all and you've heard there's only maybe 15

074districts 20 districts in the state that have a higher rating than you all and as we go farther down that rating chain uh the more and more that's going to cost folks so we'll see you know what ultimately happens here but this potentially could cost taxpayers across not potentially if this stays in place this will cost taxpayers across the state of missouri millions of dollars over time so at this time the resolution that sits in front of you and i'll let mr thompson talk a little bit more about it is related to the issuance of the remaining 15.105 million dollars about the authorization you have from your 2019 issuance and that's to finish off your projects we're doing this a little bit differently it's called a parameters resolution that parameters resolution allows us to go

075ahead and enact a bond sale without you having to have a special meeting and the reason we do we're doing it this way is so that you have a chance to think and talk about this certificate of compliance we have actually had a conference call with your attorney with your school attorney so we've made them aware as well i know they're they're much more versed in this than we are but we wanted to have you give you the opportunity rather than bring you a sale without the direct deposit program on it in case you did not like that path but at any rate what we're looking to do is have bond insurance on there which is similar to any other type of insurance which an insurance company guarantees that the payments will be made if

076you don't make those payments yourself so it adds to your ability or it adds to our ability to go out and market those bonds and the parameters themselves puts us within a box that we have to stay within in order to enact the sale again we don't plan on any surprises we're planning to be in the market tomorrow morning and we plan for a good result um i'm happy to answer any questions you might have but i'll hand it over to mr thompson yeah thank you ben thompson with gilmore bell um district bond council so like joe said this is a parameters resolution typically when we've done bond issuances in the past and we've and we've come to the board we've done pricing our stifle has done pricing that morning you have numbers in front

077of you shane saying this is what your interest rates are this or you know this is what you did in the market today uh it's a little bit different on this one uh what the resolution does today is it's a parameters so the we're asking the board to approve a resolution that authorizes the issuance of the bonds uh assuming that the pricing comes in within the parameters that are set forth in the resolution um the parameters in the resolution are in section um and you know there's four main parameters the first one is that the true interest cost which is known as the tick um and that is a present value interest rate cost does not exceed four percent uh the weighted average maturity to bonds uh is at least 14 years and shall not

078exceed 19 years the underwriter's discount on the bonds is not is no greater than 4.50 per thousand dollars of bonds and then the final state of maturity the bonds is not later than march 1 20 42. uh so steeple's going to be in the market tomorrow assuming they hit all those parameters that which they will then the bonds will be uh essentially authorized and we'll get documents signed we'll get a transcript put together and sent to the state auditor for approval and registration of the state auditor and then we will close on this issue um i think it's in two weeks from tomorrow so happy to answer any questions um i've got a few questions sure so i'm saying in the updated thing you got the bond issue bond insurance issue in there but it's

079not actually the 30 000 is there there's a formula based on the on the 15 million that we're taking out that the final number will go in there at some point because yeah so the the reason why there's not a final cost in there is because insurance is based on the total debt service and it's a bid of the percentage of the total debt service so it's not just of the principal amount and it's not just it is the principal and interest together combined over the period of time which we won't have finalized until we make the sale but we have that rate at thirty thousand dollars thirty thousand seven hundred fifty dollars and thirty nine cents which we don't anticipate any of that changing tomorrow so we we're pretty confident that that's going to

080be the number but the number is calculated based off once the sale is complete and just to make everybody clear so this bond insurance is to put us in the same place as if we were doing the direct deposit program as far as safety yeah in terms of the interest rate that you're able to get that's it's like adding a boost to your credit score essentially and direct deposit does the same thing and in the past it from a rate perspective would get you really close to where you would have been but again that's a that's a very small benefit i think the lat but when we looked at it last month it was about 80 000 difference between using no other credit enhancement just your rating versus using the missouri direct deposit program so

081you know that's a little bit wider that's a little bit bigger now because credit spreads of widening some other things are happening in our market but the fact of the matter is is that when we get close to the same place we can't use direct deposit tomorrow because of the other issue going on yeah you're currently not compliant with you couldn't you could you you part of that certificate dr markley would already you know the penalty for signing that and not being compliant is perjury and he would already have perjured himself by signing it based on the current so the 30 000 spending the extra 30 000 is actually saving us how much money versus not using it yeah it's about a hundred thousand dollars like that so we're still seventy thousand ahead if we

082didn't well it's saving you it's a hundred thousand net of the fee so it's 130 000 of savings when we take the thirty thousand dollars out of there and and this insurance we buy tomorrow on the sale and it's that's it i mean if this whole issue the lawsuit goes away in something can we cancel that insurance i mean it's it's not in the scheme of 15 million dollars it's not that much money but still 30 thousand dollars are we out that once the sale is done tomorrow we're out that money for good yes that's correct well i will mention um there have been districts in the state that have signed the certification uh and utilized the missouri direct deposit program for their bonds um you know as as you may know that this the

083certification and this uh the ag's directive it just came down within the last month uh so it's it's brand new the thing that we don't know uh as bond council is if a school district signs the the certification to be in the direct deposit program and then a year later they say you know what we are going to you we are going to you know do have a mastermind date or a quarantine requirement because things have gotten worse or whatever there's a new board um and they go against what the what their certification is we don't know what the state treasurer's done we don't know whether they're going to stop uh sending money to the direct deposit trustee to intercept those funds um we don't know i mean this is this is you know new

084territory for all of us so that's why we're we're a little concerned if uh for school districts that do sign it um you know we're advising them hey we don't know what happens if you know you have a board that changes mind and has a masculinity what the state treasurer is going to do what the ag is going to do we don't know all right yeah so one more question are we going to do some refunding tomorrow too i thought we were going to do a little bit of refunding or we're putting that off right now the plan is that you would if you've got some cash available due to your growth and assessed value the plan is similar to what you did a couple years ago when you had the opportunity to do a

085refunding or draw down on your balance of some and pay that off is that when when you get your new assessed value estimates in february from the county assuming nothing has drastically changed you're likely going to put a good amount of cash towards saving interest costs but that will be likely closer to some time in the summer as you wrap up your fiscal year you'll start planning that into your budget for the next year based on what your assessed value is going to be but we estimate that to be between three and a half and six million dollars of prepayment to save interest costs and put you in a position to hopefully be able to do your next bond issue or your next series of bond issues should you as you need them to have

086them be done no tax increase all right thank you guys well thank you rick i appreciate that because it did help me understand a little bit but now i'm still a little confused so this is insurance to protect us from the uh lawsuit that's being prepared because of mass mandates and is that what this is now this is insurance that protects investors and so and what we do is we take your 15 million 105 000 and we've got plus institutional bond salesmen with over access to over 200 000 investor accounts from everyone like individuals like us all the way up to the vanguards and big administrators of 401ks and we want our job is to make sure that we find we literally auction your bonds off in 5 000 increments whoever's willing to pay the

087highest price which for you is the lowest yield one of the things that we can do to make you your bonds even more attractive above and beyond going out and getting that high credit rating you all have is to put insurance on it so that if you were ever able not able to make your payments the bond insurance company would come in and make those payments for you they promised that to the investors which allows you to borrow at lower costs which overall will benefit you by about a hundred thousand dollars over the life of the bonds okay what confused me i think was um he said something about him signing had he signed that compliance certification or something like that that he wouldn't have been able to do it this if he had signed

088that yeah so we're this is a different way than you've ever done it in the past and always in the past the direct deposit program the reason that this is all new is that it's a no it was a no-brainer it's free it's convenient it gives you a small benefit so because it's free and convenient and because there's a benefit to it we've just always used it it's been a no-brainer right it's a great program the state put in place here about 20 years ago a little more 23 years ago what the state treasurer has done is not codified within statute i mean this is totally out of the blue there was no rulemaking process we just found out we actually got an email forwarded from a school district on the east side of the

089state on a monday before we were supposed to do a bunch of deals so this is all uncharted territory so we have we're choosing or our recommendation is for you not to use that enhancement program to just move on without that benefit but in lieu of that we tried to find other ways that you all could find a benefit close to that and bond insurance is something that a long long time ago you don't need to hear this story used to go on every single bond deal and then during the great recession during the crash of all the other insurance companies these bond insurance companies essentially went bankrupt and lost their benefit and they're starting to build that reputation back up and they're getting closer and closer and it's certainly something that benefits you all

090in this case to the tune of a hundred thousand dollars not as much you know again thirty thousand dollars less than the direct deposit program but better than without your your uh just your credit rating thank you and i'll just make one quick point on that uh so kind of to explain a little bit uh continued is that um the district has its rating s p rating of double minus right um the bond insurance will provide insurance for the district to make its bond payments these are general obligation bonds of the district the district has to levy taxes sufficient to pay these bonds so investors are not too worried about whether or not the bonds are going to get paid the other part of what insurance helps is that the insurance will help on your

091interest rate cost so an investor would see the insurance and say okay raytown has a double a minus this these funds are also insured that's going to give you a little bump and help your industry so that's what that's doing so the insurance yes it's it would pay if raytown had to default in his funds and didn't pay um they would step in and pay and pay for the district um but like i said these are general obligation bonds you're required under missouri constitution to levy tax sufficient to pay the bonds so that's not really what the insurance is helping in this case so thank you yeah are we looking at we anticipating good rates tomorrow yeah yes we're anticipating that uh we're going to use a similar structure to the last issuance we're going

092to generate some premium with these bonds but right now we're anticipating over 17 and a half million dollars of proceeds for construction projects we know you've got that that in terms of need and so that'll put you in a good position to be able to move forward again get these around the projects done and the biggest thing from a long-range plan is that you're in great shape in terms of doing your next round of improvements differently when you choose to do that and on a no tax increase basis so without having to increase your tax rate great thank you [Music] i'm going to approve the bond resolution as presented second once you made a second all right motion carries thanks we'll be in communication hopefully early afternoon tomorrow morning next in their business we have

093the financial audit as mentioned during the finance committee uh report this is coming to you for approval that's reviewed by the finance committee uh in a nutshell it's a clean audit uh bay state means that when we further financial data to you you can trust that it's accurate additionally the auditor commended the district on the actions we've taken to improve cyber security uh our policies and procedures the things that they had asked us to address mr president i moved to accept the audit of the basic financial statements year into june 30 2021 as presented second most remaining seconded all right most case next up is the award of bid for genotech security video makers mr president yup i moved the board to purchase a five-year genetech maintenance agreement from eti for one hundred twelve thousand

094two hundred twenty nine dollars second motion made and seconded discussion motion carries next we have the 2022 district computer rotation mr president i moved to the board aboard the 2022 computer rotation bid to cdwg and approved the purchase of equipment as presented for a total of one million seven hundred and sixteen thousand seven hundred and eighty one dollars second motion made and seconded let melissa kind of give a preview of what that's going to buy let's see go ahead okay so this one's a little bit more complicated than what i present to you in years past every year we go out to bed around this time of the year and our our bids are good until march of the following year so the bids that you guys approved last year around this time are actually

095carry us all the way through the end of march this allows me that i release two bids and then i can purchase off the best pricing off of the previous year or the current year does that make sense or the new bid in the old bid so this is the first year because of supply chain issues that the bids from last year are actually cheaper on some of the items than the new bids we got this year so you'll see it's a little bit broken out a little bit more complicated we are also have been awarded potential e-rate funding on some of those items um era it's the emergency connectivity funds they supply up to 400 per device per individual who has indicated that they do not have a device at home that they could

096otherwise use for either teaching or learning in the event that they are quarantined or at home so there's a lot of processes and foods that we have to jump through in order to receive that funding one all equipment has to be received by june 30th which we're not sure will happen in the event of or because of the supply chain concerns and for every device we hand out we have to get a signed authorization that they need that advice that device so i do have potential e-rate funding the likelihood is we won't receive all of that's available to us but we will go after as much as we can and it has to meet those two criteria with the bid in front of you we're replacing all of our teacher devices they are getting this

097nice little device that i actually have in front of me right here it is a convertible touchscreen computer and this allows them to teach from anywhere in the classroom we will be over the next few years moving to wireless production on all of the classrooms and allow them more flexibility uh the request was for them to be able to teach anywhere from in their classroom and this allows them to still interact with their content and not be tied to the front of the room so they're a little bit more expensive than what we've paid in the past usually about eight hundred dollars for future device for now spending a little under 1100 but so we're getting teacher devices this year which is why your bid is higher than our normal rotation than our typical student

098devices and some just ancillary devices are included as well so melissa will there be teacher training on the new devices absolutely um we don't know what it's going to look like yet because i have no idea where they're going to come in ideally they're going to come in and we can actually train teachers and move them to their device before they leave for the summer so then they have all summer to get used to it i just don't know yet until we place the order and then within a few weeks we'll have an epa and then we'll start to be able to plan but the supply chain has been really hard in the technology field so i i'd love to give better a better plan melissa and i asked this clearly for clarification because i

099just don't know we had a presentation from northwood today and those students have different types of devices um how often do we update their devices and we'll just be part of that update so our students at northwood they have different devices based on their iep if it's specified in them or they get the typical device for a student their age so if that depends on the team all of our student devices are on a four-year rotation so depending on when their device was purchased that's when they get their new device so this year we're not purchasing nearly as many student devices for elementary middle school that we normally would because we purchased so many last year in order to make sure that we are completely one to one we do have about 1100 and in

100the order um but those probably wouldn't be norwood student devices because we don't have that many touch screen devices included this year but yes they do get rid of that and they're on a routine rotation or as needed rotation you're on if it is a district provided laptop it is on a four-year rotation all of our student devices are so it's based off of when they were purchased but if it's part of their iep then it's purchased as needed okay thank you since we're kind of on the subject i just want to say um before your rotation and then allowing the seniors to take those laptops with them i just want to say like from our family's point of view so gideon is in his third year of college he is still using his laptop

101thanks to raf and you guys that he has and um we ended up long story with an extra laptop over christmas and i asked if he wanted it and he said why this one's fine and i know what i'm doing so um just thank you guys for that are you saying you want another one she'll get one this year i don't know this this sounds pretty extravagant for teachers i just wanted to see what they would you notice they were waiting on baited breath when she asked the question about it will there be training they were ready to write it down when it was going down here all right of course the next question can we quote you on that rick [Music] it's off camera that's right yeah let's take a look next we have

102uh additional security cameras for the playground and rs ecc mr president i moved that the board approved the purchase of 13 high-resolution video cameras from eti in the amount of 35 543 i have a question the cameras are going are the parking lots using led light lighting already i'm sorry i know that sounds like a strange question but these parking lots where uh or wherever these cameras are going playgrounds i'm sorry is are the playgrounds lighted with led lights mr who stayed financially that'd be nice for that uh it really depends on what building we're in the process of going through and changing them all out uh so i can't answer that with specifically as to what buildings we are but that is the every time we do we replace lights we are doing real

103intelligent lights yes and is there any difference in camera resolution so the playground cameras are intended primarily for day use um to monitor when when students are on the playground um so that is the biggest security concern on our playground but these are um very nice cameras and have the ability to go black and white and have pretty pretty significant coverage at night as well even in very low lighting so they will still function in that space obviously not as great as they would with full lighting but they are they are you know great cameras for a night as well and our playgrounds are open at night correct they close their desks we've had some issues in parking lots with catalog converters uh throughout the district that we're trying to get uh in particular one

104one but we're trying to get some better cameras where we can pick up license plates and things of that nature and anything else all right once you make a second let's go all right next we have grow your own and teach your attention grant dr bill discuss brief update so you have a attachment there where it talks about the grants and basically deci was given all states were given money from the federal government for the recovery from the pandemic and the way missouri opted to do that to alligate allocate helen kate gives me that money is to have districts apply for grants you were already going to get the money but they had to they wanted to know how you're going to use it so every district was given two thousand dollars for a growth

105row to either start or grow your own or to enhance the grow your own program we have we already have one so i submitted a application for the ten thousand dollars and basically if if you look at the handout that i get the proposal it was accepted by the way um we're going to hire a like an ambassador for the district and i'll work with that person to then hire investors at each building middle school and high schools to recruit kids to become teachers so what they'll do is have maybe two events per year where they bring the kids in have teachers talk to them about the great things about being a teacher maybe set up some build some visits to some universities i'm also going to ask them to put together a presentation to

106go around to like the advisory classes and talk to the kids about being a teacher and how great it is to maybe be a coach like you really like sports you know you could teach and become maybe a coach too so i'd really like to pull in our teachers of color our male teachers try to really inspire our kids to become teachers and then apply for our growing our own forgiveness so that's one of them the other one is a teacher retention grant and that has several different areas that we're going to spend money on the first and and that's allocated by they figured out like different demographic allocations and we ended up getting 315 so we're going to use that money we've already started using some of that money to we always need substitutes

107and so we're offering to pay for the 20-hour training that desi is offering to allow people to get sub-certified and we've already had about 75 of our ias and our before and after school care workers sign up for that and so they're all going to get certified as substitutes so like our before and after school care workers if they want to do some substituting during the day they can so that will help provide a better environment for our kids and for our teachers and hopefully teachers will be less stressed and that that's how that's translating into teacher retention other ways we're using that money is um we're using it to pay more for our summer professional development we're going to pay our mentors more we're going to offer scholarships for national teacher certification so there's

108just a lot of different ways that i went to an rpc meeting down at union station and they kind of talked about some of the ideas they wanted us to use that money for so i wrote the grant accordingly and that's we it was approved so we got all of that money for the next it's about next three years but we'll get that money that's great yeah thank you so much next we have the naming of the aquatic center thank you mr president on december the 8th i received a letter from ryan myers ward 3 alderman city of raytown um and i have it here in front of me i looked very well written i'm not saying i'm not going to read at all because that's right for the sake of everyone's time and i'd

109like to be home one more afternoon as long as it is but it doesn't take away from what he's saying here and what it means to the community what this person means the community is certainly as a teacher and a coach and me uh experiencing that personally as a father watching him in action with my own son but mr myers is recommending that our aquatic center at the raytown schools wellness center be named after uh coach jim azure this year the raytown high school boys swim team are in the title suburban white division conference champions for the fourth year in a row which marks coach asia's 13th undefeated season for the district additionally the 200 yard freestyle relay broke a new conference and school record twice originally set in 1999. further the team finished seventh

110overall in 2021 the church state high school athletic association's boys state swim meet having a remarkable 2021 season as well as continuous year-over-year strong performances can be attributed to quality coaching staff and jim major certainly that coach the boys since it's a team since its inception in 1974. and he's currently the st the coach has accumulated 559 wins uh over his nearly half century tenure as a swim coach in the raytown school district basically coach asia is only one of four raytown maritime south coaches ted chitwood mud lake trip and kelly donahoe who has been inducted into the missouri sports hall of fame i believe that a resume such as coach azures is defeating recognition similar to coach lathrop and coach chitwood reason why i'm writing you is to ask the board of education adopt

111a resolution to name the aquatic center of the raytown schools wellness center after coach jim asir we have been down this road before uh with a few things uh and not necessarily naming it i don't think we've done two facilities to two baseball fields that we named one clyde thompson at raytown high school in floyd reed at raytown south both baseball coaches in the district for years clyde has since passed uh floyd i still see floyd at the wellington about three or four days there all right i'm not there three or four days a week i see you whenever i'm going in okay i see them but we do have a procedure for this and it's found in policy ff and it allows the board of education to take these things into consideration and create

112the naming committee uh which we have and we met last january the 19th uh mr landers uh michael dean who's currently the director of the wellness center vicki turnbow who's director of the chamber president myself josh reichert chad brook and kevin overfelt all on that committee um and they actually in attendance was was mr landers mr dean mrs turnbull and myself uh but received word from josh reichert uh chad bruton and and kevin owensville supporting the decision to recommend to this board that we named the aquatic center the gym asian raytown schools aquatic center and that will be found you'd see that when you walk in there you'll see how we're going to put the name up on there there's some ideas to put it up above the scoreboard or things like that to where

113it can be identified it's not changing the name of the wellness center it's changing the the pool the pool is where that is his thing that's where he interestingly enough and mr myers may be a testament but there is uh folklore out there that he's been swim coach for 50 years but can actually swim himself which that's i don't know if that's folklore i believe it is the truth i keep asking some of the boys luke and then just to give them a little nudge and the shallow end to see if it's true but uh anyway that's uh neither here or there let's look at and i'll let mr landers speak to this but from the committee uh that is a recommendation yeah recommendations to push them in the pool no no that's something that's

114something we let it out of the tape i just wanted to be a surprise uh i was at the meeting and it was a unanimous decision to do this i moved the board officially named the aquatic center the jim azer aquatic center and wave section four and five board policy ff here here and before you vote on that and he's talking about weaving section if you look at ff and i really think the only thing we need to waive would be um number five number four says and selecting a name for school of facility preference will be given names of persons who are deceased we're not going to ask him to be deceased prior to that so consider an individual who has passed away i don't think we have to waive that since it doesn't

115have two lawyers sitting over there though uh or maybe we do i think i don't think it's a requirement it's just preferences preference now number five we would certainly waive that because it says facilities will not be named for persons who are currently employed by the districts or active in its operation or currently hold any public office so we need to wait five that does say that somebody's like the menu motion mr anderson said that he said i missed it i'm sorry i was talking i'm cautious i think he said wavering affordable yeah but he doesn't have to say forward he can amend it only wait i can miss the motion to drop section four but keep second five and then you decide there's a second second oh second i'll be saying i think he's

116i think it's deserving yeah he's devoted all those was someone from the policy committee on the committee as well the renaming committee just asking no thank you no it's just a committee it's not the policy committee no thanks for bringing this to us ryan thank you very much i'll inform him tomorrow okay okay and if some of you gonna call him tonight i'm not gonna appoint him tomorrow so i'll take care of say that you know what i oh ryan won't you tell him okay coming from you yes sir you're one of the swimmers okay um and then we can go from there i think i can do that thank you i think you should say you know hey by the way i know i made you for this and then it sounds like something

117you need to bring up in the tell him he's got to pay the signage fee yes don't tell him that we'll just send him the bill pass that along okay mr president yep i'm going to board approve the january 24 2022 percentage as presented second uh prior to donations yeah i got him right here would you like me to go there sam okay donations to the district one from synthetic technologies uh ron homer the president ceo 600. uh there were two trillion dollar gift cards to be used for christmas pride the family support service office to go towards families adopted for christmas so thank you to them [Music] donation to northwood uh see i'm reading this correct weighted blankets um that's a new thing oh yeah the weighted blankets no way to blankets but where

118did they pop this that's right that's right okay that's not what she calls it i call them a bubble thing and then another donation to the district from um dj's hangout mr frank sears uh twelve hundred dollars total of money and assorted clothing to the district for our students so those were motion carries last but not least mr president i move the board adjourn the regular board meeting at 8 26 seconds thank you everyone have a good evening