001All right, it is 6:30. We are calling open session to order for the pledge of allegiance. Today we have Elena Rudy who from Wab Bash Elementary who will be doing the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you, Elena. All right, we need approval of the open session agenda. We need a motion to approve the May 15, 2025 open session agenda as presented. Motion second. Okay. All in favor? I opposed. All right. Motion carries. All right. Next is recognitions. Okay. Tonight we are recognizing Jack Rudy, a quick-thinking sixth grader at North Point Middle School. Jack noticed a classmate choking at lunch and he immediately jumped into action to clear
002the blockage. We are incredibly fortunate to have such responsive and responsible students in our district. Thank you. All right, great job. Thank you. Next is 8.1 public comment. First up to speak this evening is Katie Hubard. I'm working over my phone today. My printer was broken. Okay. So, congratulations to the newly elected and reelected board of directors, Dr. Julie Scott and Dr. Jeremy Wei. The voters turned out and it was a sweep across our district across our neighboring districts. First, I want to raise awareness that May is neuro fibrotosis awareness month and May 17th is world awareness sorry May 17th is World Awareness Day for NF1. NF1 is a specifically is specifically a rare disease that occurs in one in 3,000 births and about 120,000 children in in the USA have this disease including my
003youngest son, myself, and other members of my family. done. Thank you. Okay, the next speaker is Don Starbeck. Okay, the next speaker will be Amy Benninghoffen. Good evening. Um, the resolution that the board is going to vote on tonight is about political matters beyond this board's scope and calling for a vote on it seems like a posturing move and is completely inongruent with people's complaints that school boards aren't supposed to be political. Excuse me. The public should know that the pack that wrote this resolution gave money to Julie, Brad, David B, and Jeremy. The first line is whereas public schools are the cornerstone of a democratic society. Well, this country wasn't founded on a democratic society. It's a constitutional republic. And I sure hope that this school district is teaching our children that this country
004is a constitutional republic and not a democracy. So that's number one. I don't have time to pick apart everything in this resolution that I disagree with. I will say this district needs to be focusing on achieving academic excellence. Transportation that can get our children to and from school on time and safely. Mandating reporting. I don't know if this district knows what those words mean. I was once a mandator. So I do. And I don't think that we're mandating reporting the way we should be. So I would like the district to focus on that. fixing our deteriorating buildings. Maybe if the board spends its energy and time on big issues, people wouldn't be fighting for vouchers and school choice. But instead, this board is focused on this issue that they have zero control over. I have
005always been a supporter of public schools until recently after the school year that I've had this year advocating hours upon hours for my youngest child who has an IEP. I am extremely discouraged and frustrated. Maybe this is the competition that public schools need to make them better. One more thing I would like to say. I hope that the new science curriculum for ninth grade has the appropriate level of math in it since they threw out the ninth grade science curriculum from last year because the students didn't have the math to support it. So those students who failed that class last year get to take science their senior year. Are you getting my point? So maybe if the district and public schools were not failing children, maybe if they were proficient, parents wouldn't be looking for
006other options. Thank you. Okay, next is district comments. Oh yeah. Sorry about that. We're having some technical issues here. Last night we had our awards banquet for our employees where we had the opportunity to recognize and honor our 68 retirees from all various categories of employment. Um the smiles on their faces were amazing to see as they get to start the next chapter of their lives. It was interesting to hear what their plans were. Um from going to Dubai to Lake Charles, Louisiana to babysitting grandkids to going to see grandkids. So it was a lot of fun for that. We recognized 67 employees who have been with the school district for 20 plus years. We recognize two who have just done a tremendous job and have been at the Wville school district for 30 years.
007Uh we recognize our teacher of the year, support staff employees of the year, substitute of the year, volunteer of the year, administrator of the year, and community partner of the year. It was a great night for everybody. Project Adam, congratulations to all of our nurses and thank you very very much for the Project Adam uh designation to Boone Trail. That's a lot of work, hard work, and effort that goes into that. It's a terrific program and Boon Trails accomplished it. So, congratulations to both Boon Trail and the nurses for making that happen. Our Ratchet Rockers competed in the World Championships. They were they were in what was called the Curry Division. They were finalists in the division. Uh did a tremendous job. I think they finished right around 30th in the entire country. Uh which
008is outstanding. I had a chance to watch multiple events live stream which was really fun to watch. Uh learned how they actually scored. If you've never seen it, it's it's terrific. It's amazing. Uh, and then you really need to ask him how exactly does it score when you're talking about algae and all these different things that actually are just u styrofoam and they hang them up and they use these robots. It it's it's terrific that the talent these kids have is just unbelievable in what they can do and the sponsors and the the business community they have as well as Hester Maner who oversees the entire thing. Just congratulations again to all of them for a terrific job. And then our last days of school, and I say last days of school because each one's
009a little bit different. The official last day for the school district K11 students is May 23rd, so next Friday. Our last day for full You got some kids back there. Our last day for full day preschool students is May 22nd. Our last day for half day preschool is May 21st. Do I have any seniors in the audience? No seniors. Their last day is May 20th. So, congratulations to them and we're wrapping up a successful school year. All right, moving on to number 10. We need a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. Motion Second. Can I pull that? Uh, yes. Is it okay? Is there friendly to allow Jeremy? I just need to pull the personnel. Okay. So, you need to pull number I think it's 10.79. [Music] So, you need to pull 10.79
010personnel recommendations for a separate vote. Yes. Okay. So, are you you guys approved the Okay. So we have a friendly to approve 10.79 for a second vote and new business back. Okay. All right. So we are we have a motion in a second to approve full consent agenda with the exception of 10.79. Uh all in favor I I I. Any opposed? Eyes have it. Motion carries. All right. Moving down to new business 11.1. We need a motion to certify the official results of the school board of directors election of April 8th, 2020. It should be 2025 as presented a parliamentary inquiry. Yes. Okay. Didn't we already do this back in March or April before we swore everybody in was the unofficial? So we do it twice every year. I think it had to do with
011the date of our meeting versus the election. It hadn't been certified by that time. And so we had in order to conduct business I believe we had to approve the unofficial results. We corrected that for if you look at next year's when we go to board meetings we push the board meeting back a week so the certified results would be in ahead of time. I thought they don't get certified until like months or a month after. No, they they can get them as soon as he told us if we push back a week they would have them. Kurt Bar didn't Oh, I was thinking Secretary of State. Yeah. No, this was the Kurt Bar. Am I correct in saying it? Yeah. Kurt Bar, the election authority is who certifies for us. Okay. Is there a
012motion to approve? Motion. Second. All in favor? I I I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Next order of new business 11.2 Prop L. discussion. Josh, you want to come up? And Dr. Eer, uh, my computer did a forced restart, so I don't have my notes in front of me, so I'm going to need a little bit of help here as as it reloads. Um, ultimately what we did is we've met since the last board meeting probably approximately five to six times. Uh, Josh here has gone and met with many stakeholders from building administrators, uh, and he'll kind of talk through everything that he talked with. And what we ultimately did was identify the priorities that we need to do that we can afford to do that need to be done immediately. So these are urgent like
013this year they're not going to make it needs that Josh went and met with them and and discussed. So he's going to go through that list and then Tim's going to talk with you about funding options on how we can accomplish that. So I'll turn it over to Josh at this point. Thank you Brian. Members of the board uh as excuse me as Mr. Bishop mentioned uh under his guidance sort of told me to go out and and sharpen our pencil and sort of look at some of the things that our legacy buildings need uh after Prop L. Some of the things that uh we identified in Heritage Wville Middle and Holt uh were some plumbing needs, mechanical needs in terms of HVAC, roofing uh I'm sorry, HVAC uh rooftop units and some roofing and
014tuck pointing and things like that. Um, I am happy to answer any questions you you have for me, but uh um just sort of the things that we were talking about with my director Angela this summer was having uh sort of what we call a blitz team to sort of deal with this what I'm calling a hot list of things that have we identified. It's a hard focus in those areas and those buildings and we can address uh the the right now needs that need to be uh taken care of. Um, I don't have a lot more other than that for you, but uh, want me to turn it over to Dr. Reer to tell you about the finances? Yeah, I'm going to jump in real quick. So, I asked Josh to kind of be
015brief, but at the same time, some of the things we talked about at the last board meeting, the tuck pointing where we're dealing with leaking that's coming through, uh, bricks and things like that. Those are immediate needs so we can prevent leaks from stop from occurring right now. Those are not those are long-term fixes, but you won't tuck point the entire building cuz that's super expensive. So, you're going to you're going to tuck point what you can here with the funding. The plumbing we're talking about specifically hold high. Uh we're going to focus on the locker room area because it's not going to make it another year. We will highly likely have to close a school at some point if it backs up again like that and that it's not acceptable. So, we'll talk through
016what that's going to look like and how that's going to be. Some of the other things at halt would include um plumbing. Where is it at there? Plumbing and then roofing as well. Some roofing issues to prevent some of the leaking and then some additional flat work and things like that. Uh Windsville Middle, same thing. We're looking at roofing tuck pointing. Uh mechanical. We've got some Addison units that need to be replaced that again can't wait. Um and then we're going to look really hard again at at Heritage. They've got some plumbing specifically like grease traps that back up on us and Josh can fill you in more on that. Um sink traps, urinal traps, sanitary lines, kitchens, bathrooms out to the Bloomhoff, all of that has to be replaced. Uh we're a little bit
017right now behind the eightball because it pushed everything back about a month by doing this. So when if if Prop L would have passed, what would have happened is we would have submitted a proposal. It would have already been to bid and we'd be accepting the bid at this point. So because it didn't pass, we're about a month behind that right now. So some of what Dr. Rer is going to talk about is some of these we're going to have to do like an emergency and do it now where we would not go through the bid process. We'll use the vendor that's already been working with us. The rest of it would all be bid out. Uh there's only one project that we're talking about with that and I'll kind of turn it over to
018Tim now. It's important to remember also that any work that we do that we have identified here that we get accomplished will be highlighted and saved so to speak if any future capital or prop work gets done in the future. This won't get torn out. We're not going to spend this kind of money right now just to tear it out in a year from now. We're we're going to be very mindful of that. So, I do have a question if I may. So, could you go over just some of the items that are going to occur that we do have in budget um excluding the stuff that we had planned for the prop, but there are there, if I am correct, there are still items being done to all of our buildings, the upgrades, the
019um proper uh maintenance, these sort of things. Could you go over that maybe a little bit? I can speak to that a little bit and we have uh some of that includ included here. But uh so every summer we do our mulch right in our in our playgrounds. We do asphalt work. We do concrete work. We do uh we set up put out bids for district-wide flooring replacements. And that isn't wholesale flooring. That's repairs, large repairs throughout the district. We take care of those things, too. Um already completed our chillers, our spring startups for chillers, air conditioners, and rooftop units, that kind of stuff. Um, and then our internally our staff is up on our rooftops trying to keep everything sealed up and dry so that our kids stay dry. Um summer work uh from
020the capital budget includes Boone Trail phase two as you're probably aware and then Timberland is getting a large chunk of change put into that building because the HVAC equipment in that building is 20 years old and it's well past over 20 years old and well past its useful service life. So we're we're addressing that starting this summer and that will be phase one of probably three summers worth of work in that building. So hopefully that answers your question. Yes, that did. And I know that that was a concern for many of our staff that there were things that were in the pipeline to say and those things will still be carried out and now we're just going to have to think creatively. I have one question briefly. Um just based on the things like kind
021of these emergency or these um you know more urgent things that you see needed especially regarding plumbing. Are those things that could be handled this summer when the building's empty or are these things that are going to have to extend into the school year for next year? Well, by addressing them right now, Mr. Bishop brought this up and it's a very good point. Uh, by addressing it now as an emergency and treating it as an emergency under policy, I think it's 3180. addressing that right now and saving all that time. I mean, when days really really matter, when we're trying to open up our buildings, uh it would be be nice to address those things right now and have be ready for the start of the 26 25 26 school year. The answer to halt
022is no. It cannot be done when students are in session. You would have to tear up large portions of the floor. You'd have to shut down the bathroom units for at least two to three weeks while it's being done. So, you you would literally have to close the school in order to do that. So, that's why we're talking that as an emergency. It it again that's why it has to be done this summer no matter what. If it's not done this summer I mean there's a high likelihood we will have bigger issues than we had last year with some of the backup. Um we've had what he was it plumbing. Hegamman Plumbing has been out there. They've run cameras through lines. The the pipes are completely deteriorated. Uh we're past the point where you can
023put a liner in there and take care of it. So the band-aid part can't work. So this would be done. It would still it would it will be a project that then would be removed theoretically from the prop because it's already done. Um but this where we're talking about it tees right in and Josh can kind of get into that. It's a main artery line so it's going to tee in and that's why you can't do it in chunks. Okay. Um, from the financial aspect of this, uh, right now our projections have the the entire project to be somewhere in the 3 to 4 million for all of those pieces at all the buildings. Um, so, you know, we didn't have that particularly budgeted, but um, with our budget this year being favorable, uh, we
024would be able to make a transfer from from operating this year to our capital projects to cover that cost. uh when we look at you know that compared to our fund balance percentage um it's a percentage of our total expenses. So we're projecting total expenses to be somewhere in the name neighborhood of $260 million. So uh you know that gives you perspective for for each $2.6 million that's 1%. So when we look at it as a a portion of our fund balance percentage we're looking at 1 to 2% um somewhere in that neighborhood to do these types of projects. um be happy to answer any questions. So, this is above and beyond exactly what you were talking about, Director Hanky, which is we have a capital budget that's already been set aside to do these
025summer projects. This was not part of that because of what we we were hoping to go the other direction. So, what Tim is talking about is here's how we're going to acquire the money to do that. It'll be almost like dipping into your savings account is what it ultimately amounts to. So then we are going to be able to do everything we need as far as plumbing, which it sounds like that's like the worst that's going on right now. So we will have we will be able to do all those things. Yeah, we we would have we've allocated enough money that we could do that um from our operating budget this year. Uh we just have to transfer it into capital because it is a capital project, but we have the ability to do that.
026Yeah. I don't know if this is to to Brian or to to Tim, but where does that leave us then on a revised Prop L? Is is the district intention to go out? And if so, when are they talking about it? Point one. Point two is any of this work that we're doing now in the emergency clause um is is it going to result in having to to to do things differently in the future because we took some steps right now. Is there any wasted income? You know what I'm saying? No, that's what we're being very cautious about. So when we're talking about the what the work we're doing now, it goes right along with the work that needs to be done. So it it would replace that as far as a potential Prop L
027in April or next year or whatever. I've heard all the kind of different stories that they're coming out there. I think that's something the board and the and the administration need to sit down and discuss and and figure out what our next steps are. Um I'm going to say it again, the buildings, they're in bad shape. they and we talked about this last meeting and we kind of inherited that and a lot of work needs to be done to get them to where they need to go. Um, and we're still in a we're in this pattern like I talked about before where and and you can read it. There's an article in the Post Dispatch today talking about Lake St. Louis and everything else and how all these new developments are coming in and they're
028blowing up and houses and all this new property is coming and and these new rooftops are coming. We have a short lull a window that we can do some of this work. we have to and are going to have to unless we're going to talk about expanding buildings and doing all that and which I've already said I don't think is the right answer. I think the right answer is even though people don't like it, you've got to redistrict and you've got to make boundaries that geographic wise make sense that will improve a lot of efficiency from transportation and many other areas. So when you do that, you want to make sure that your buildings are all ready to go and and able to do that. One of the things we were able to do when
029we were talking about Holt specifically in Wville Middle and Heritage because of where the population was specific to Holt, we could move and navigate. We'd worked on a plan with the administration where if we shut down a wing, they had additional classrooms that they were going to use. Now, is that ideal? No. But it does prevent having to bring in mobile classrooms and things like that. But and it also allows us to function in specific areas to keep the distraction down as much as possible. The problem is now again we're about a year behind that timeline and so you know we could run into where we're figuring out how do we redistrict while still finishing the renovation stuff. So I guess the long answer to your question is yes we've got to figure out what
030the next step is. Um for us right now priority was figuring out how do we make sure these priority projects can get done now and then the next step is how do we identify and look at some certain things that we need to do again. And so that'll be where we're at. And what does the scope of that prop or what would the scope look like? I don't know yet. I think that's something our team would have to sit down and look through. Thank you. I I would add just, you know, from my perspective, I think this is a uh we're reacting to problems that we know right now. We are not proactively solving any additional problems. We're not being able to address electrical issues that we know we have in the building. um just
031the the ca capacity that we have in these buildings is is not where we need them to be, but we are addressing the safety and and uh concerns that we we know could happen and and things that we think that could potentially shut down the schools. So, um, that's not to say something won't crop up during the year, but these are things that we're aware of now, and that this is an opportunity to address those immediate needs, but not really the long-term needs, and it doesn't take away the need for something uh bigger at these schools. So, I have a comment, question, comment, suggestion maybe. Um, the reason we're in this position is because of a lack of TLC attention to the buildings on a regularly scheduled basis over a number of years. So to
032avoid that going forward, is there adjustments to like the the fund balance or something that we can do to put more money into a long-term cash flow where 20 years from whenever we replace our fields or is it 10 years? I don't know how long the turf lasts. that we have that money and we don't have to go out for a prop to get new turf on our fields or you know basic maintenance items that I don't know if it's piled up or we just didn't have the funding or we had to move priorities or whatever but just when Propel or if we decide to go with Propel L if it comes up again I really would like to see a long-term adjustment financially and prioritywise how we're addressing ing the needs of the school
033buildings and other facilities like the football fields and stuff and what's our plan for it? Like I think if we have like a a plan laid out so that we we know what we're doing 10 years from now. Yeah. May I? So, I think that there's a lot of good points in there and I think that sorry, we do have a long-term maintenance plan and the sustainability and replacement plan that Josh has created. Um, so I think that that will help us moving forward. He created that as soon as he came into the district. So, I think that is part one, but part two is also some of school finance and the way that school finance is set up and Tim can expound on it much deeper than I can. Um, but because it's a
034public entity, like a government entity, it's not set up for schools to be able to make huge large purchases like that, it's it's intended for the public for the school to have to ask the public for permission for a large purchase such as that. And that's type of the oversight that they want the public to have in those large expenditures. So, it's six of one, half doz of another. So, yes, there are some things that we can put on a rotation such as maintenance, but when you have those very large multi-million dollar expenses that come in, such as uh overhauls, huge renovations, type things like that, the way school finance is structured is intended for the school to ask the P public because they want them to have that buy in and say so on
035how they spend that large amount of money. So I guess my followup to that would be if not having large amounts of money that we have to go out for. So I know saying this is clearly after we do some sort of a proper whatever we're going to do to fix all the buildings after that if we're maintaining it annually quarterly what however long it won't be 160 million. It could be, you know, whatever it costs to replace a roof um per building on a on a staggered replacement schedule. Yeah, I I would u say that we are planning that. Um you know, we've we've Josh's team has identified another uh $10 million of deferred maintenance around $10 million of deferred maintenance for the summer of 2026 that um we think needs to happen. Uh
036so when we do the budget we'll talk about what options for that and what we're looking at there uh next month. Um so yes we are planning that. Um the other thing that that we are discussing is bringing an RFP to do an outside evaluation of all our facilities, having another set of eyes on them to identify um needs across the district, what those needs are in the next 5 years, 10 years, thinking long term for for HVAC projects. um trying to get that planned out and so then we can determine what can be what can be u completed through deferred maintenance budget and what items need to be a prop a future prop you know that are larger that um could be on that side of it and so that's that's something that we
037are working on and and trying to um you know really think long term where are uh where are HVAC units in all the buildings how old are they what what's the replacement cycle look like for that uh and then scheduling that out as we go forward so that we can we can have that planned out. And I asked Josh to come back up and talk a little bit more about what those plans would look like. Um I think unfortunately kind of that the the hard part of school finance that Jerry was trying to talk about the bigger purchases. They they still happen $20 million for an HVAC unit. you you typically would and Tim jump in, but your your capital budget's usually 8 to 12 million for maintenance and repairs like that. That's what we're
038gonna say Josh is working on. And so when you're talking about more of the big ticket items, again, the idea is that you need to go back to the community and say this is what we need to do with this and get approval from it. um that I think where you're talking about what does improved maintenance do, what does consistent maintenance do, it maybe reduces the amount of that bond that you're trying to look at as opposed to just eliminating it, but instead of saying we've got to completely renovate a building that hadn't been upkept or got past its prime example, heritage with screw in fuse boxes still um that you you can't add anything to it because that's how old the fuses are. They're from the 1940s50s I think it's the last. Yeah. So
039you you see some of those that is a massive project um that over time you wouldn't have enough to replace the entire fuse and the rewired entire building. So some of that's just antiquated technology and things you have to come back and do. But I think what you're asking is can we do a better job of laying out a plan? I would 100% say yes as a district that's something that needs to be a better better more better done. That's not a good way to say it but it's the only way it came to brain right now. So anyway, Josh, as I I'm gonna let you talk about it. Uh, help me clarify what what exactly is the question. She kind of wanted to know how you go about if Well, go ahead. Your long-term
040facilities plan. Yeah, I think I may have glanced at it once or twice. Big binder. Okay. Yeah. Um, I can come look at it sometime and see if it answers my questions because it's like a, you know, open-ended question really. I just want to look at it. Yeah, it's a Yeah, big tall facilities bible as we call it. Okay, sounds good. Just a couple and I think this might be more for Tim. Um just and maybe just to reiterate what you said, Josh, just with the the items you're looking at doing this summer, those won't have to be touched again. Correct. So like those are done at least until their lifespan would run out. Um looking at making that transfer out of the fund balance, like how does that put us if something would come
041up next year? Again, I know you can't plan for what if, but are we still comfortable with the fund level that will be there for if something would happen? Uh, yes, we are still comfortable. Um, we budget contingencies in our budget and and keep some money in case something happens and and then we also have the fund balance if you know if something drastic happens, we do have that available. So, that's the purpose of it and uh provides protection for us. So, yes, we are uh extremely comfortable with where we would be at. um fund balance wise. A question for you. Is there anything you need from us tonight in terms of kind of moving forward with this process or is this happening and this is just I guess what what do you need from
042us? This was the update. It is happening. This is the update of where we're at based off of April's discussion. Um, this is where we were moving forward. This is what we poured into to get ready. We will have another one of these coming probably August, uh, September, right in that area where we start talking about, okay, here's the next phase of what we need to do. And we'll be looking for feedback on that, too. So, thank you. I I would add that some of this work may stretch into the actual school year, exterior work, that type of thing. So, um don't be surprised about that. Yeah, priorities are the internal the plumbing and things like that that would prevent us from having school. We can tuck point. We've talked to and Josh has worked
043with some companies. You can tuck point while school's going on. uh and things going any of the heavy work the the the bio cleaning the brick work the tucking the ceiling all the heavy scaffolding and that would be done during the school year I'm sorry during the summer any finish work punch list items things we need to polish up that would all be completed you know if we have to it would be completed uh bleed into the school year just a little bit but we we have a good relationship with our contractors and our vendors and be a very clear understanding uh how they're going to conduct themselves on our our campuses Josh, real quick, you you spoke about emergency and using existing vendors. How do you how do you validate that the existing vendors
044are not price gouging given that they're the only ones bidding on it? Well, that's a good question. I can speak to that just a little bit. Um Brian and Dr. Weller, I shared a uh a sheet uh earlier to I'm sorry, earlier in the week. And on that sheet, um, I I have my, uh, St. Charles County price, uh, wage, uh, prevailing wage list on there. And so on that, I just closed the darn thing out, so I apologize, but on the prevailing wage sheet, it shows all the different crafts and vendors. And so if mill work and uh, if well, if you're a sprinkler, a pipe fitter, a sprinkler fitter, those guys are calling for about 80 $82 an hour right now on the job site. So we we uh we sort of we
045take those numbers and we take a deep dive into those numbers and sort of reverse engineer based on what we think material costs are, how much labor it's going to cost to do all that. And you know uh we we sort of know where the where the needle should be. So with prevailing wage that is an assumption that by by city, by county, by whatever these are equivalent for Davis Bacon. Yes. Okay. So history historically we've not always went with union labor. We've went with and without and I'm for either and both uh whatever is the best price and the best quality. But are you just using the Davis Bacon Act the prevailing wages to measure against or is that what you're going to pay? We use it just as a it's just a litmus.
046It's just a measuring tool to keep sort of just so we can track where we are with in in terms of what the industry is calling for. Um yeah. Um the wage orders they they come from the governor and they're set per county. Yeah. No problem. Any other questions? Thank you. All right. 11.3 the 2025 federal programs evaluation. All right. Good evening. We are going to there it is go through um the federal programs evaluation. Um we're excited to share with you some of the amazing ways our district has come together to execute federal programs this year. Um this is truly a reflection of um our uh title plans that we write at the beginning of the year um that we are starting already for next year. So um I want to thank Lauren Dickens
047who um began with us last year. So, she is ending her second year. Um, she has worked tire t tire t tire t tire t tire t tire t tire t tire t tire t tire t tire tously to support schools um and help our administrators do great things for kids this year um and make the most of our federal programming funds. So, with that, there we go. Okay. Title 1A funds are used to improve academic achievement of disadvantaged students. Um we work through title funding to ensure that students have the opportunity for a fair and equitable education. The district identifies buildings with most financial need to support with federal programs funds. So, we look at um our free and reduced lunch populations to determine what buildings those are. Uh we've worked this year to
048transition funds to reach more students by focusing on tier 2 and three intervention services um by tier 2 and tier three materials and programming, enhancing learning opportunities for our staff, and expanding early childhood education across the district. An additional layer of title one funding is servicing displaced students or homeless students. Um the student service department works really closely alongside um our families who do not have permanent housing and a portion of our title 1A funding may be used to transport these students. Um and we've really worked alongside them to help support in any way we can with federal programs money. Some of our title one programming highlights include um we maintain three additional reading specialists. So kind of above and beyond what the district sets as a standard. Um we employ t part-time tutors throughout
049the day to implement interventions. We've added title preschool classrooms to service an additional 50 students throughout the district. Title two is this is the next part of our federal programs presentation. Um, title 2's goal is to increase student achievement by providing greater greater access to effective educators. So, in our title 2 funding, we've really focused on professionally developing our teachers, our principles, our school leaders to ensure that all students have a significant opportunity for a fair and equitable education. We've supported district assessment initiatives. We've supported quality coaching with title 2 funding. Um we've also worked alongside our non-public schools that reside in our district um to develop a plan and to manage their fund use. So that is another part of title 2 and title 4 and we'll talk about that is non-public schools within
050the school district. Um we help manage their funding that we get from from the government as well. some highlights of um title 2 programming. Um we fund our curriculum assessment coach which which has been very instrumental in the implementation of RSPs within our buildings. Um we focused on high quality professional learning opportunities, instructional improvement for student centered coaching. Um we worked to fund class size reduction teachers in first grade and second grade with title 2 money. Um we have provided leadership stipens for teachers and training for administrators. Title 3 funding is provided to improve the education of English language learners by helping them learn English and meet challenging state academic content and student academic achievement standards. Some of our program highlight highlights here are um after school tutoring for our high school level students. We
051we're also moving this into summer months for those kiddos as well. Um we've worked closely to purchase resources material and do training with our EL teachers. Our EL students proficiency percentages are outperforming the state in all subjects. Um, our percentage of students attaining English proficiency increased over nine grade levels based on our WE to access Access data. This is based on our last year scores. May 22nd, I believe, is when we get this year's scores. So, we're excited to see the progress they've made. Um, we've also purchased translation devices for students and teachers to use. Um, and we added um some additional staffing in our ELLL department for with instructional assistance. Title four is our last fund that we're going to talk about. Um it is used to support well-rounded education, a safe and healthy
052school environment, and it also is um geared towards effective use of technology. Some of the highlights from our title 4 programming um we fund a lot of work with our counselors through there. So we work on um funding some of their professional learning uh conferences. Um we worked with our ESC's and provided some deescalation training. This year we did some suicide prevention training also with our ESC's. This year we um funded um a pharmacy tech program for 12 students in the Wsville school district this year that um through SEC. So they went and um are able to work as a pharmacy tech come this summer. So it's very exciting. Um, we also pro uh provided professional learning opportunities for strengthening instructional instruction and social studies content with our title 4 funding. In conclusion, um we
053continue to look for ways to best meet the needs of the school district students through our federal programs money through our planning. Um next next year we look forward to exploring options as we have the opportunity to rewrite and revamp our plan. Um we've made a lot of changes in the last year and so it's been exciting to see um some of those things come to fruition. Um we write we look forward to working with buildings to write meas measurable goals, action steps um within their plans to best meet their needs um and continue to reflect on how we can best spend this money to help benefit our kiddos. That's all I have. Is there any question? I have a question. Could you tell me how many schools we have that fall under title one,
054title two, title three, and title four? So, we only identify schools under title one and we have two elementary schools that fall under um that qualify for title one funding. Okay. So, then the others um it's just kind of districtwide then. Correct. Correct. Yes. And then when you talk about the goals, how are the goals determined? Like what's the baseline? Um actually I'd like to see it as the forward but um just kind of explain um the goals and how they're set and how they're achieved and how what is the um achievable. So we take all of our goals based off our comprehensive school improvement plan. Um, so when our buildings write their comprehensive and school improvement plans for uh based on our district plan, they then write action steps then that are integrated and
055funded through title money. And then so are you seeing those goals being achieved? Yes, we are currently in the process of evaluating those. So when we do our um CIP update this summer, you will see all of those great things. Awesome. Thank you. Dr. K, can you talk about the slide that is the immigrant slide? Is it ELLL or ELA? Title three. ELLL. Title three. Yeah. Yeah. Can can you talk about the number of students that we have in that? Isn't this with the slide where we had it's like the whole explanation about how they're determined, but in the end we don't have any of those students. So that refers to so in the board memo in our report um that refers to migrant students. Um this title three refers to ELLL students. So these
056are English language students. We have a a little over 500 currently in our school district right now which is up about 200 in the last two years. Okay. And another question in that area, uh how do we track illegal immigrants and how is that handled with the requirements that we have from the government today? Yeah, so we do we we don't have a part in that. Um when kids come to enroll, we follow our um reg registration requirements um and we ensure that they're residents within the school district. So there's no check of of uh tour certificates like there used to be or anything else? Huh? No, we are not able to do that. Are is that a decision we made or is that a mandate sent down to us? It's law. It's law. Okay.
057Thanks. Thank you. I think that's it. If I may, if I may, just to clarify, we do request birth certificates. It's not required. So many people do provide those, but it's not required to have it. So many people be like, "Oh, I give my birth certificate." And most do, but it we can't require it. Is that only for That's that's for everybody who enrolls. Mhm. Yes. Oh. Do they have to provide any form of identification, social security card, anything? I don't know. We also have guidance from DESIE about um registering students and and students documentation that we have to follow as we enroll our students as well. And so we seek guidance from DESIE on what it takes to require for enrollment and if they meet those qualifications or not. So we don't just create
058those at the local level. That's also guidance from Desi. I'm asking based on like not not even just uh migrant or or whatever it is like students are they who they are like you know some some people take children non-custodial parents will take a child or whatever like how do we know that's the kid's name and like what kind of identification is provided most t most typically we have robust identification like many people provide that birth certificate if there are for issues or concerns with that. Um then at that point the building would call central office for request or suggestions, recommendations. Um if they had significant issues about um some of the things that you mentioned as far as a student safety, they would work with the SRO as well if they felt like there
059was something fraudulent with the enrollment of that child. I have a completely unrelated question. Um, I was looking at the memo that came with the presentation and under displaced student transportation costs, it looks like we have a 500% increase from 2020 to current day uh from 117,000 to 618,000. I can uh I can speak to that as well. And that's for um foster homeless under the Mckin Vento Act as well. So I would say that um those rates of of students and families who are displaced has risen exponentially over the last five years. And then in addition to that rising, we're also paying um those increased rates for the transportation. So a cab transportation or uh parent reimbursement and those types of things and those um students have protections under the law in order to
060attend. But yeah, it it has risen exponentially. What is the time frame for displacement? Is there like 8 months, 12 months? Usually, um that concludes they're able to stay in that doicile residence through the end of the year and then once the new school year circles around, they need to um reprove residency. Reprove. Reprove as in like does they fall back into that same category? There's a lot of different like qualifying measures, but typically like you would retain that McKini Vento status or that foster homeless status for the remainder of that school year and then typically after that it would be where you're physically residing. Julie, Dr. Jay, we we talked this week a little bit about this and I want to go back to a point because it's it's not just this the students
061that are displaced, but it's if students move out of our district and move to another district that there's a clause there that who pays for that, whether they now report into the new district or they still have rights to come back to the old district. Can you talk to that a minute because I think that's quite telling on what where our costs are going. Can you talk some more? I'm not a 100% sure the specific on the question, but if students are moving as a family move, um that's different. That that student would be no longer a resident of our district and would enroll in that district. And so the student population that we're talking about are students who are foster students and are put in a foster placement. And so then we have a
062best interest determination meeting and determine whether that student should remain at the district where they came from originally in order to provide stability or to go to the district the new district of residence with that new foster family. Um similar things happen with um displaced students who have homeless status as well. Right. But full family moves or you know somebody's going to um live with a different relative that that is a residency concern and they would enroll in the district where they live. Yeah. I the point about family move is not where I was going, but it it it struck me as a challenge that if they're whatever their status is and the the bucket of those statuses that if they decide that they're in Wville and you know what they they have to go
063to to Oallon, they have to go to Fort Zumwalt, they can still we still have to pay for them to come back to Wville if they want to even though they're in valid another school district, correct? That we would provide that transportation and there are protections under um the Mckin Vento Act that would allow them to stay enrolled and be transported to our district for the remainder of that school year. And is is it limited to that school year? Because I thought there was a vote that took place. It's not limited to that school year. So, a m a homeless student is defined as anybody that's lacking a fixed regular adequate nighttime residence. So what happens is you can re you can continue to be qualified under Mckenny Vento. So to answer your question, um
064I I'll use an example I've been through. A family can be in an extended stay for up four years. The whole time they're in high school, they would still qualify because they don't have a fixed permanent nighttime residence. So let's say set extended set extended stay was in St. Peters and they reside or they're going to the Wentzville School District. It is it is incumbent upon us to transport them to the district. Yes, we incur that cost for the entire time. And that's cost that's not covered by anybody except for our taxpayers. Correct. Well, it's covered by school district funds. Yes. So, piggyback off that, I thought that there was a scenario where we have reciprocal costs with other districts like if they live in St. meters than Francis How or Ford Zumal would pay
065for the transportation. I mean, we're getting really deep in the weeds here. So, there's scenarios in all of these different things. There are some scenarios, yes, where you can request partial or full transportation reimbursement. It depends on each individual scenario. There's a lot here that gets into this. The basic version is the majority of the time it's the it's the home district that's paying the cost. And that kind of crosses boundary lines. So the same could be said if you're in a different school district. Their home district. Well, it's us because they currently live here and they were determined homeless foster and so they have the ability to remain in this district even if they live in St. Peters, St. Louis County and Fort Zumaler Francis wouldn't have to pay for transport. Not well not
066initially. No, there they will eventually there'll be a share and you get into a lot of different things that come into that. This, by the way, is something all school districts are dealing with. Like, this is