001Well, good evening everyone. Welcome to the last board meeting of the Cape Gerardo Board of Public Education. It is May the 4th, the last one of this school year, not the last one in total. Uh, it is May the 4th. Let the record reflect that it is 6:02 p.m. We were on time and then we blew it. Uh, all board members are present except for Mr. Cook, Mr. Ritter, and Mr. Welker. Uh, please rise and join me in the pledge of allegiance. 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. >> Well, we will start off with a long list of recognitions. And with that, I will turn it over to you, Dr.
002Bingan. >> Very good. We're going to uh I think we have to do approval of the agenda. >> Oh, you're right. Excuse me. We will now approve the agenda. Can I get a motion to approve the agenda? >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> All right. Now, we will move into the long-awaited recognitions that started 10 seconds ago. And we're going to start with Terrific Tigers. >> Okay. First up from the Early Childhood Center, we have Ava Owens in preK, the daughter of Cameron Owens. Ava continues to shine at ECC, demonstrating determination as she overcomes challenges and works hard to reach her goals. Her impressive memory helps her build meaningful connections and she brings joy to those around her by singing every song with enthusiasm. We are proud to celebrate Ava as our
003tiny terrific tiger. YES. >> From Alma, we have Udavi Das, second grade, daughter of Prativa and Darshaka Das. Udavi is the perfect example of a terrific tiger. She works hard in everything she does and is a wonderful student. She is kind to her classmates and always shows respect to her teachers and the school staff. Udavi's kind heart and bright smile make everyone around her feel happy. She makes Amish a much better school just by being there everyday. from Blanchard Elementary. Marvin Nunley in second grade, son of Lator and Marvin Nunnley. >> Marvin is very deserving of the terrific Tiger Award as he consistently works hard to take and takes pride in all that he does. He welcomes feedback, asks thoughtful questions, and always follows directions while showing kindness, respect, and a great sense of humor
004with his peers. He's responsible, dependable, and a positive role model who continues who contributes greatly to our classroom community. From Clifford Elementary, Yadira Pacheo Monsia, fourth grade, daughter of Nolita Monsia Mendoza. Yadira is an extraordinary student who leads with the example of being respectful, responsible, and safe. She goes above and beyond to share her kindness with everyone. Yadira is an extremely hard worker and is always willing to help her classmates. Not only can you depend on her in the classroom, you can also depend on Yadira to make you laugh. Congratulations, YADIRA. from Franklin Elementary. Lilith McCall, second grade, daughter of Meline McCall. Lilith is an amazing student who consistently shows respect to her teachers and classmates. She comes to school ready to learn, always gives her best effort, and sets a positive example. Her kindness,
005responsibility, and strong work ethic make her a true role model. Lilith not only meets expectations, but often goes above and beyond, making her a perfect choice for terrific Tiger. Way to go, LILITH. From Jefferson Elementary, DeLeon Bell, third grade, son of Rashanda Smith. Deleon is always following directions. His teacher can count on him to be the best version of himself and set an example, an excellent example for his classmates. DeLeon is always trying his best to learn and he consistently keeps a positive attitude. He really shows what it means to be a terrific Tiger. Congratulations to Leon. We are so proud of him. From Central Middle School, Sophia Ritter, fifth grade, daughter of Charles Ritter. from Terry W. Kitchen Junior High. Virginia Rose Miller, seventh grade, daughter of Elizabeth and Frank Miller. Virginia Rose is
006a shining example of a terrific Tiger. She leads her classmates by example through her positive attitude and cheerful demeanor, helping to create a welcoming and supportive classroom environment. Virginia Rose is always willing to help others and offer encouragement when someone needs support. Her kindness, leadership, and dedication make her truly deserving of this recognition. From Central High School, Broomie Oo, 12th grade, daughter of Jennifer and Silas Oo. Broomie is one of CHS's most delightful servant leaders. Broomie's peers and teachers appreciate her kind, curious personality that welcomes new people and new topics. Broommy has an impeccable character that makes her a respected, trusted, and valued student at CHS. She truly is deserving of this important recognition. Keep being you, Burmy. from Central Academy, Jeremiah Ivory, 11th grade, son of Leticia James. And from March, from Central Academy,
007McKenzie Kinder, 8th grade, daughter of Melena Kinder. That's >> it. >> All right, group pick. We got some front row. Come with me. Front row. Front row, >> Junior Rose. >> Come on. Come on. Come around and give you >> the front row. Front row. We got some back row for me. >> Back row. >> Put it on her neck. >> I love this picture. >> Cheese. Perfect. She may win the award for smallest terrific tiger of all time. So fantastic. We're starting them young. >> Yes. >> Next we'll do some Skills USA. >> All right. We have I believe we have some people here from Skills USA. Uh Mr. >> Abernathy, are you here? >> Yes. >> Come on up here. Uh we're excited to celebrate some of our talented students from the Cape
008Career and Technology Center who rose to the top of the field as they competed at the Skills USA contest. I'd like to uh ask not Mr. Crowley but uh Mr. Abernathy to come up and Miss Lrand to share a little more about these students and their incredible accomplishments. >> Yeah, thank you guys. >> I need this on hear me. Mr. Abernathy, we'll come up and take a picture with them as well after when they after they've done come up. >> Yeah, just wanted to we were uh we took 67 students to the state skills USA competition. Uh we had 22 medals. We had gold medalists, nine silvers, five bronze. So we once again performed extremely well there. Extremely excited about what our kids did. Uh we had five gold medalists that are either current Cape
009High School students or were former Cape High School students. So we've got some of those here with us tonight. So I'd like to I'd like to bring those students up and and introduce them. So, um, in our digital media class, we had two gold winners and, uh, former Cape student, Colton Williams. >> Pretty awesome. Colton is going to be a back-to-back national competitor. He also won at state last year, so he's going to go to nationals two years, which is pretty awesome. ALSO digital media. Uh we had Angelo Booker and if I could have filmed Angelo's reaction to the P1 gold, it would have been it would have been on every social media account. It was absolutely phenomenal just to see the joy and the work and the effort that went into that. So, and
010we also have making sure I'm not missing one. Christian Bowlinger. He's here. He's with us. He's going to go to nationals again in computer programming. And I don't think they snuck in on me, but we have two other students who weren't able to be here tonight with us. Lillian Dor is a Cape High School student who's also going to go to Nationals and Pete in early childhood. And also we have Aaliyah Perez who's going to go to nationals Cape High School student. She's going to compete in web design and development. So we're just extremely excited and proud of our students and proud of our instructors for what they were able to do. So thank you guys. >> Mr. Abernathy, >> based on the numbers you said 33% of your students you took ended up meddling.
011>> Yeah. >> That's incredible. Congratulations. >> Our instructor did do a phenomenal job. We're just we're thankful for you guys as well. >> That's awesome. >> I was going to say y'all get in there like >> you know teenage boy. Okay, next is our Missouri Association of Student Council's Honor Council Awards. Um, if Miss Dubois and Miss Kchner could come up. Uh, the honor council committee of the Missouri Association of Student Councils has awarded the gold award to Cape Central High. To receive the gold award, a student council must promote school service, school spirit, community service, student and teacher recognition, and leadership training. We are just one of 80 I'm sorry, we are just one of 81 student councils in the state of Missouri to meet the criteria for the award this year. Miss Dwis
012and Miss Kchner, do you guys care to talk a little bit about that and congratulate the students that you have here too as well? >> Well, excuse me. None of our students, excuse me, our students could not be here. Uh, they are competing in athletics. Uh, two of them are advancing to the playoffs in tennis. Um, and, uh, they're AP testing or they're working. Uh but we've got some fine uh executive council members. Uh one is attending University of uh Virginia, one has been appointed to the Maple Academy. >> All right. >> Uh one is going to Columbia College and then one is an academic scholarship to Missouri Baptist. So these are all four male students that lead our council. And uh just the criteria that you explain pretty much is what we're all about.
013We do a lot of different things. I don't know. Do you want to comment more about specifically what we >> Sure, I can. Okay. Um, so just a couple of the activities. I think I was just looking at our application that we submitted. I think there were so there are five required activities that are being a member at the district level, the state level, um, attending various conferences, our district conference, day conference, and summer leadership conference that is a week long. And we often have at least one or two students that do attend. This year we do have three girls that'll be going and they'll be rising senior leaders this upcoming school year. Um but some other of the optional activities include appreciation weeks which this year alone uh we have done many more than
014what we have in the past. So that's just a um shining moment for all of our student leaders, not just our seniors this year because they've all really been involved but also um heavily involved in supporting Special Olympics. We participate in the Polar Plunge every single year, raising over $1,000 at a minimum. Um, and we're just rising in how many people join our team every single year. So that those donations are only going to increase. What else? We are a wonderful um she Yeah, she's here actually. >> Oh gosh, I I wish we would have had it written down everything that we do. We we do a lot and and we do also like a lot of our fundraising also comes from the concessions that we work for winter sports. So uh and and I
015think in some of the times I've looked at our account we've raised over 20 grand. All right. >> We're able to give back to our uh community and also award recognition of different scholarships >> uh to various student colleges. So thank you. Uh two of our uh kids are going to be recognized by the local uh Kate Optimus for the Steve Wright memorial scholarship which was in honor of our former uh chemistry teacher over 20 years ago Kathy Wright and actually her uh husband Don McCarthy who's a local businessman so two of our senate so uh kids are going to be honored at that uh this week so it's a lot lot of good things happening >> well thank you guys for all your hard We have to take a picture. >> We can if
016you want. >> Do you want to take a picture? >> Oh, yes. >> If there's no kids, we can build a human pyramid. Right. >> Actually, I was talking about when you go to the when they go to the event to the noon optimist, take pictures. Oh, I I was a top. >> Yes, >> most definitely. >> Awesome. Thank you guys. Very next is a big award because this is a state level award for our assistant principal of the year, >> Haley Russell. And if you could come up, Haley, if you don't mind, >> she's gotten to travel all over the country for being the assistant principal of the year for the state. Not just the local level, but for the state as well. Tonight, we have the honor of recognizing not just an incredible
017accomplishment, but the statewide impact of it. >> After being named the Missouri Assistant Principal of the Year, Haley Russell received official resolutions from both the Missouri House and the Senate, and we'd like to share those with you. These resolutions are formal recognitions entered into the permanent records of our state government. In other words, this isn't just a uh district celebrating uh Miss Russell, but the entire state of Missouri recognizing her for her leadership, dedication, and the example that she sets every day. Congratulations to you, and I hope that the resolution serves as a symbol of just how far uh your impact reaches. And I'm going to put them back in these boxes, but we're going to take some pictures with them as well >> for you. Jamie, she makes you look good. Jamie, SHE MAKES
018YOU LOOK. AND THIS IS ALSO MR. Russell's wife, too. >> I think she's good. >> That's her husband. >> Okay. >> Like a multi medalist. We should have put the little >> surprise. >> Well deserved. Somebody else my words are spelled right. >> I'm a little disappointed Dr. Beny didn't start this with a hear ye here cuz it was a proclamation, but I don't have a lot of proclamations happen in my life, so I'm not sure you're not supposed to go. Next, we also have we have a lot of awards that have uh happened over uh the spring. So, we're really excited about this one as well. The Missouri All State Choir. If I could have Mr. White come up. He's been just doing some awesome things at the high school. So, we're really excited
019about that. Cape Central vocal music program delivered outstanding performances at the safe solo and small ensemble contests earning a total of 17 medals across eight different events. And I'm going to turn it over to you. Ryan, if you'll invite them up here. Do you want the list? Because there's so many that >> I think I can remember. I saw >> I figured you did. I figured you would. So, I want to go ahead and bring up Well, why don't you all the folks that are here come up and then I'll give you medals one at a time just to say a real quick word. >> We want to take a picture. >> I think one of the big things that we look at is like the independence with music and with all things education. And
020a lot of these folks spent time before school and after school and on their own working on multiple songs typically in a foreign language and English. They had to have everything memorized. And this is just the crew. And this isn't everybody. Um, folks that made it to the state level, so they got the highest possible rating at districts and made it to state. And this year, every single student that we had earned either a silver or a gold rating at the state level. So, this is a pretty big. So, I'll just call you up. I'll give you a medal. If you want to go back to your spot, and then we'll take a real nice picture. Carson Johnson. Adrien Wilson, Brie Roth, Aaliyah Sabod, we have Aubrey Lead Better Alana Beerbomb, Maddie Lowry, Elelliana Hammond,
021and I had one person sneak in. So, your medals in the back, but this is Landon Lax. I got in the back. Let's try. >> This is such a good group, Mr. White. Normally, we try to make this like pitch perfect four and >> pretend like you like each other. Yeah, you need to get this back. >> I think we got everybody in it. And then I will look at the girls. >> Thank you, M. We appreciate it. >> Hey, great job. >> If I could say, I've been around here for many of years. I think this has been one of the best years for the medals and and everything. Hey, we're rocking it. >> Yes. And I think we have I think we have one more recognition that's not actually on our agenda up
022here. I'm going to ask the representatives from the Boy Scouts of America to come up if they would. >> And I think they may have a recognition for somebody who's sitting up here. >> We do. Thank you so much to the board, the community for allowing us this opportunity. We've been trying to do it since January. Uh my name is Jane Ziggler. I'm your local scouting representative on behalf of the various St. Louis area council and I appreciate the opportunity to come tonight to do this recognition with a few of my colleagues to add to our 16-year partnership history with the school district and the 60th year of this award that we've been able to give which is a peer nominated award. So the recipient has been elected by the peers of volunteers not selected
023by the council. I want to be sure that's very clear. It's a peer selected award. So as we move into that with me tonight I have Rhonda Wessle. is our program coordinator who works with the Cub Club every single day of the week in some capacity providing Cub Scouting activities to the 250 students that attend that partnership program with us and our district chair ameritus Dr. Neil Glass who's here to talk about the recipient and as I let Neil come to the podium to talk about the recipient I've also got some sheets I'll pass around to you and any audience that wish to see uh the last 60 years of recipients including the new honore Dr. >> Oh great >> Mr. pain. >> Sir, >> correct me if I'm wrong, but there is no time
024limit on recognition. >> Dr. Glass, Mandy has a lot of stuff to go through later tonight. >> She's doing, you know, with me. You know that she has a bunch of >> I was going to uh commend the uh the newly elected reelected board members on their reelection, but uh >> they're not here. >> Neither we are newly elected. recognize the honor for her new appointment. Congratulations on that. >> Um, >> very proud of the board. I'm proud of Dr. Bignyion and his leadership. Um, the bond issue that just got passed was passed by over 70%. That's a testament of leadership. >> Yes. >> Not only Dr. Bignyan's leadership, but the board's leadership, leadership of Mr. Kra, Miss Talent, who probably won't accept it, >> but she's around there somewhere. And uh and then of
025course the seasoned veteran, Miss Lindseay Dude Deck. >> Yes. >> Who has to take care of all the bookkeeping that goes along with that, which is a tremendous um task and workload. But I'm not here to talk about that. >> But I am here to talk about leadership. And that's what Dr. Vignyan has done for this district in the past three years since I've departed. He has taken the baton and he's ran with it. >> I had a good mentor. He has he thank he has uh he's embraced scouting um like I hoped he would and he uh assumed the the chair position and we we have built the scouting program and served many many students here in Cape not only Cape Rock public school but also in the area and that leadership one day
026will pay off big dividends because they'll be the ones who are sitting right here they'll be the ones in that chair or the supporting staff or running our our city and with that Dr. Bignyan, thank you very very much for supporting that and for taking that baton and running with it. Um, this award could be much much bigger because it it involves so much more, but you're very well deserved this award. Thank you very much for all all you put into public schools. I appreciate you. >> I don't get to see Dr. Glass very often. I was going to say picture >> supposed to be. >> Do you want to be in the picture? >> I was back here. This year I am going to win the Pinewood Derby. Tell you that right now I
027have the secret weapon. Don't tell anyone that I am going to be here this year. >> Good catch. >> Let me tell you I'll let you in. >> We've been teaching kids to fish this weekend. >> Oh, fun. I guarantee it. Rhonda, we appreciate you go headtohead on the Pinewood Derby track. >> It's awesome. I bet you >> Thank you all so much for the Thank you for everything. >> Thank you, Chance. >> Hey, I want to interrupt real quick. >> Yeah. >> One more recognition. We got >> We were hoping this was coming up. So, um, Special Olympics, I was going to talk about Special Olympics in our, uh, in earlier or later in my in my report, but we wanted to make sure and recognize our two Special Olympians here tonight. So, if
028you two will come up, please, and Jonathan, they got uh, they got first place in the modified N5 tournament. Uh and they were uh that they were at the state championships in uh in where did you guys go? >> Uh >> Jeff City, right? >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Jeff City. So they were able to participate in uh in the uh uh in the Special Olympics at Jefferson City. So we're real proud of uh of these two gentlemen. They were the modified. So that so hopefully what we've got planned in the future is we will have our own unified team here at Cape Central. That's what our what's in the works currently. So, we look forward to you guys being the first of many state champions. >> Yes. >> Congratulations. >> You guys Hey, M. Great
029job. Great job, Jonathan. Way to go, bud. >> Good job. Coach Ross had planned to be here for this, but he had he had some an emergency come up. That's >> right. >> Congratulations. >> Yes. >> Next up, we have information, proposals, or comments from the audience. Mr. Payne, did we have any requests this month? >> No this month. >> All right. Well, just a reminder, um, in accordance with board policy, if you have something you would like to share with the board, uh, we have a procedure to contact Mr. Payne at the board office and get you on the agenda. So,formational reports. I will get us started with a board president report. The very first thing I want to do is Dr. Glass did. I want to welcome Miss Honorall to the board, uh,
030longtime Cape Public Schools employee and leader in our district. um and congratulate both Casey Cook and Jared Ritter on their re-election. Um and the only thing I would say is super exciting to share. We had a great prom, lots of beautifully dressed up kids on Saturday night. Uh lots of pictures all around town and a beautiful evening for it. And then we've got graduation coming up at the Show Me Center on the 14th, so next Thursday, I think. Uh it's coming up before we know it. And a reminder, we've got Booster Club golf tournament on July the 10th at the Cape Gerardo Country Club. We can guarantee it's going to be super super hot and a lot of fun. And with that, I will turn it over to you for the superintendent's report. >> He
031is correct that it's going to be hot. >> It will be hard. We guarantee it. >> Um, but it's always a good time. So, um, on my superintendent report, we have and Dr. glass again. Spoiled it. But we passed our bond and we're actually here to recognize uh Mr. Spear and his team. Is any did anyone else come with you? Um his committee. >> It was all John. >> Hey, listen. He is he he got after it to pass this bond. Early this April, Proposition Tigers passed with an overwhelming support from our community. Like uh Dr. last said it was actually 73 almost 74% which is probably one of the highest percentages we've had >> uh in passing any bond. So we're really proud of that. Approving a $30 million bond issue that will have
032a lasting impact on our schools. Uh Mr. Spear, if you'll come up, we'd like to take a picture with you. Because of that support, we will be able to continue providing safe, modern, and innovative learning environments where our students can learn and grow. Tonight, we want to take a moment and recognize uh sincerely thank the individuals who helped make this possible. John Spear, Rich Lynn, and the entire Proposition Tigers committee, their leadership, persistence. I said persistence because I saw how persistent you were. And we appreciate that. We appreciate all that work. >> And believe in our districts never wavered. and their advocacy helped carry this initiative across the finish line. And thank you. We we truly appreciate it and it's going to make our district even better because of that. We appreciate all your leadership.
033We'd like to take a picture. Thank you. >> John had a birthday going through all of that, too. >> Does he? >> I've never seen someone so persistent. >> Yes. >> I love that one. It was on his vocab of the day. >> Vocab word of the day. >> There was an over under. You can use it six times in an actual sentence during this meeting. >> Persistent. >> Thank you, John. >> So, next on the agenda is the community teachers association report. >> There she is. There she is. >> Get ready. All right. Now, >> take a breath. >> Always. Right. I'm Shannon Burgoff, by the way. I'm president of our current uh community teacher association. So, I get to share good news as well. I love all the celebrations. Tonight, I'll be reading
034out our staff members shout out. This is where members of each building write nice things that are going on, which is really great in their building. So, here we go. From Amish, sped TAs are always working hard, flexible, and love all the kids. We appreciate everything they do. From Blantern, Miss Jones for preparing the third graders for Mac testing with so many fun and engaging learning activities, including a cakewalk and Jeopardy. Miss Cal for going above and beyond in every area. From repainting all the farm animals for summer school to helping new teachers prepare for math to creating all the honoral certificates and everything in between. We are so lucky to have her on our team. Miss Patentill prepares such fun learning experiences. Students have explored numerous topics including making donuts, digging for dinosaurs, the
035legacy of Jackie Robinson, and so much more. She always goes above and beyond to make learning fun and engaging. Blanchard is lucky to have her. From Central Academy to Justin McMullen as we celebrate our vice principles. He is calm, patient, and a great role model for our students. Also to Bria Tilman, our admin assistant, as we celebrate them this month. She is the best and we get to celebrate her again as she won the best of the best at the Oscars. From Clifford to our third and fourth grade teachers as they have all done a great job preparing our students for the math test. Students and staff are rock stars. You might hear math tests several times as you go through. We're all celebrating that we work so hard for it. Mr. Sheridan has worked
036so hard with our EL students, especially in kinder. Shout out to our first grade team for being willing to try ability grouping for reading to better serve the needs of our students, including the on and above level level kids. They did an amazing job and the data shows it. From the CTC, huge shout out to Mrs. Lraine, Miss Brian, Miss Roth, Chef Yung, Mr. Cook, Mr. Blise, Mr. Car Cariss, and Mr. Bro for their incredible support during State Skills USA. their willingness to give their time and energy to take 67 students to the state state competition. Whether supervising students, supporting them, serving as judges, running competitions for their programs, or stepping in wherever needed was nothing short of phenomenal. The success of our students and the overall impact of this experience would not have been
037possible without their dedication and commitment. Thank you for going above and beyond for our students. Thank you, Mr. Freeman, for taking the students to the Capitol building for firefighter day. This was a phenomenal experience and a valuable opportunity for our students to engage in real world learning and represent KCTC at the state level. From the early childhood center, Lisa Pro is retiring. Shout out to her for all her years of service to the early childhood center. She will be missed. Grayson Jones and Taylor Munich were pl for planning a fantastic playday for our tiny tigers. Brook Humphrey for keeping our front and back entrances decorated. from Franklin. Katie Dagger has hit the ground running as a sped teacher, advocating for students, writing IEPs, and being a positive role model. Miss Rebecca Peters, our new counselor,
038was honored at Friday evening's Oscar event. And we have to say, the award is very welld deserved. Miss Peters never stops. From one-on-one meetings with students to working with community agencies and now organizing her very first season of Mac testing for the entire school, she is a rock star from the high school. Shout out to the sped department for putting on a fabulous special prom for the students in Cape Jackson and Pville. Shout out to Miss Wambble and Miss Olrich for all their hard work preparing for prom. From Jefferson, Miss Sisle or Cyil, Miss Ole, Miss Larry, Miss Cy, these ladies work diligently to provide services for our students with intensive support needs. They are caring, patient, and absolutely amazing. Thank you for being the best. From the junior high, shout out to Mr. you're
039doing for building connections with students that he doesn't even have in class. The kids appreciate you. Keep being a good role model. Coach Neils allows his students to work hard, play hard, and learn a lot. He engages in some awesome activities in health and athletic fitness that the kids will remember for years to come. Miss Han puts together so many amazing activities for the students. All of our students love her and she's done such an amazing job of including every student. Someone wrote second this. Shout out to our guidance office for all the math prep. Told you that was going to be our magical word today. From the middle school, the fifth grade teachers planned a fun activity, the amazing race for students to practice math and ELA skills. Outstanding activity, fun and motivational, and
040still focused on standards. I'm super grateful for Mr. Maize and Miss Tyer. They are rocking their first year out at CMS. Mr. Brown is such a great teacher. His students are great role models of how to act in the hallway. After school programming is growing like crazy. With the addition of disc golf, over 51% of our students are participating in some type of programming. This does not even include sports teams except for disc golf. Miss Corman, Miss Hartman, and Miss Concaid are always willing to step in and cover where needed. Miss Ashley have been killing it in social studies this year. She puts a lot of hard work into her slides and projects. Miss Wilson is an amazing asset to our school. She works tirelessly to help things run smoothly and creates great reading opportunities
041for our students. She's always willing to help out any teacher find resources as well. Shout out to Miss McDaniel. Starting a new subject this year has been challenging, but she was a saving grace. Thank you for everything you have printed, shared, and helped with. Shout out to Mr. Maze. He always brings in treats or plans surprises that helps keep our staff positive. Is truly appreciated as we finish out the year. Miss Centric is one of the kindest and most patient humans I've ever encountered. She uses her incredible skills to meet the needs of the students and staff alike. Miss Deloji Miss Centress did a phenomenal job planning and organizing our math testing this year. Shout out to all the teachers who stayed late to decorate our building for math testing. The kids loved it. And
042those are the shout outs from April and this week. >> I have a good question. Sorry. Do the teachers get to see those? Yes, we share them out to the whole building. I try to point them out and I tell our building reps to make sure they see them as well. >> Awesome. >> At the middle school, they include it in the newsletter, too, which is pretty cool. >> Oh, awesome. It's a great way to build them around, keep everybody focused on the great things we're doing. >> For sure. >> They do miss your voice inflection, though, if they don't hear it live. >> Really, you need to video record it. Maybe >> it might help. >> Well, thank you. Next, we will move into CIP program evaluations for special services, early childhood programs, parents,
043teachers, homeless students, programs for mig migrant students, and the career ladder program evaluation, Miss Keys. >> All right, are you ready for this? We are going to go super fast, fastest I've ever been tonight. All right, we're going to start with special education programming. We currently serve as of last year uh 663 students in our special education program that encompasses preK through 12th grade. The total budget for this program is $7.9 million. You can see on the next slide that that is um dollar split between local, state, and federal funding. So we do get some reimbursement from federal. Our special education program aligns with our CSIP goal learn three by establishing plans to develop key student outcomes focusing on continuous improvement on state and local metrics and we're working on implementing responsive programs to meet
044the needs of all of our students. We have many specialized therapies um available in our district. speech services, occupational therapy, physical therapy, hearing impairment, vision impairment, board certified behavior analysts, we have registered behavior therapists, we have behavior interventionist, we have transition programming, and that's just to name some of them. I'm not saying them all. So, we're very blessed to have um the services that we have available for our students. Our MAP scores for students with special needs show do show scores below the state average. However, data indicates our scores are steadily increasing, specifically in grades three through five for both ELA and math. And we're um going to continue focusing on closing the gap in the upper grades as well. Additionally, the state looks at um our least restrictive environment setting. And basically what that
045means is how much of a student's day is spent in the general ed classroom accessing um their peers and the general education curriculum. This year, the top three most inclusive categories for our district were very close to the state average and showed much improvement from years before. So, we're moving in the right direction there. Our goal is always to be as close to the state uh average as possible, but more importantly, through individualized instruction and the individualized education plans um that we do for each of our students who have an IEP, they're able to access more general ed um instruction and develop more social skills. Moving on to graduation rates. The 2025 graduation rate for students with IEPs in Cape Gerardo outperforms the state. We're at 82. We're the state is at 82% and we're
046at 83.3%. We were also above the state average last year for our students with IEPs. Strength of this program. Um we just had a desk review that is very intensive. Last year it takes up a lot of time. Um but we were 100% compliant in completing our paperwork within timelines. Um in addition to that, our teachers collect data on all um IEP goals and objectives for our students at least once a week. And that ensures that we have accurate assessment of performance so that we're writing new goals for that student. We know very specifically what each student needs to work on. Each student having their own unique needs. Um we also have parents continuously calling and reporting that um they're moving to our district specifically for the quality of our special education programs. I've met
047with uh met or spoken to two families from PNG within the past two weeks um who have students with special needs moving to the area and have have chosen to come in and have a sit down or a phone call conversation um because they've heard of our programming which is exciting. Areas of growth continue to be increased access to the general ed setting. We want our kids to be in their least restrictive environment. We know that that increases MAP performance. Um we also want to focus on our identification rates for African-American students. Um under the intellectual disability category um we want to look for patterns in that and focus our final goal is to focus on bridging the gap to reach the state averages and testing. So our overall um performance for that I would
048say is above average. Do you have any questions about that one? All right. The next one is early childhood education. So our early childhood program encompasses both our early childhood special education program and our general education program. We operate on a 50-50 integrated model. So that means half of the students in the class have IEPs and half of the students do not. Um this is because we want our our peers to be able to model appropriate social skills and communication um which fosters in social development and academic growth for every student that's in that classroom. We do run half-day programs currently in both the early childhood center and the prek center. We have looked at increasing those to full days, but that would mean less access for students because we don't have space. Um, so
049just things that we're continuing to work on through our bond. During the 2425 school year, you're going to see the number 74 students with special needs. It actually in the at the end of the year, it ends up being over a 100, but these are based on the September benchmarks, and I always use the same benchmark so that you can see the data trend. Um we are working harder to make sure that um we're giving students early access through parents as teachers um which we're going to talk about in a little bit to make sure that um we're meeting students needs earlier than when they come into early childhood even. Uh parent and stakehold Oh, I forgot CIP. The the very No, I'm going way back. Sorry. The total budget for this program is $2.1
050million split between local, state, and federal. Most of our early childhood specialed funding is strictly federal. Um so we do get quite a few dollars from that program. Early childhood also does align with our CESIP um goal learn three. It establishes plans to develop student readiness and competencies. It helps us target future improvement for state and local assessments. Early education is directly tied to increase performance on math scores in third grade. Um parent and stakeholder engagement is also um part of our CEP in Elevate and we are big promoters of parent involvement in our early childhood center as well as this year we have increased our external partnerships um within the community and we meet regularly to discuss how we can um better share what the great things that our early childhood center is doing.
051Um strengths of our program include effective peer modeling for social behavioral and academic skills. We have high success rates in students transitioning from first steps which is 0 to three um into our early childhood program to ensure that there are no gaps for um learning for our students and intervention. Our student our student growth rate shows 93.8 of our students with IEPs substantially increase their rate of growth upon program exit to kindergarten. There are two higher ones that talk about becoming closer to or at the level of their peers. If our students were hitting at the level of their peers, they would no longer have an IEP. So, I feel like the fact that we are substantially increasing their rate of growth is where we should be. This last year, we transitioned to a new
052DESI approved curriculum. We're using Every Child Ready. Um, we selected this curriculum because it better aligns with our students developmental levels. It's thematic and it supports growth in learning across all of the domains. Future areas for growth include attempts to expand capacity. Um there is some grant funding available, but with things being up in the air with um finances with the state right now, we don't want to lean into that yet until we know for sure that that money is going to be there long term. Um we're also really focusing on increased independence to an age appropriate level to decrease the need for support staff because we want our students engaging with their peers. We don't want peers walking up and talking to the support staff that's with the kid. That's not inclusive. So, we're
053really working to increase independence. We did meet our previous goals. We were um our goal was to improve outcome measurement processes and increase attendance at our family events, both of which we've met. If you come to any ch early childhood family event, it is so much fun. Everybody is happy. There's lots of games going on. Um and it's just been a great great event. We just recently had one that um was also with parents' teachers with music and the kids had a blast. So overall, I rate our early childhood program is above average. Do you have any questions about that? All right, moving on. Parents, teachers, we're getting younger and younger. We started K12, we went preschool, now we're going down to our prenatal through age five, which is very important to hit. Um, so
054this starts with our itty bitties. Um, even prenatally in 2526 school year, our parent educators have conducted um visits for 95 children. That says 95 visits. That's not correct. Um, and actually as of today, Stephanie um gave me the updated number and it's 105 as of today children that have received visits. Um, we also have screenings that take place. Uh, currently we are at 425 screenings for this year, but we are in the process this week of screening our early childhood students and our pre-K students. So, those numbers are getting ready to go up as well. Our budget for this school year is $99,365. We receive reimbursement for 20,850 for all of the screenings that we perform and we're expecting that number to go up. Our targeted state reimbursement number that we're working working toward
055is 55,000 and we think we're going to hit pretty close to that. Parents, teachers now also offers home versus office visit flexibility. Some of our families want to have the surface, but they don't necessarily want you coming into their home. So, we've created a classroom over at the early childhood center where parents can come in. Sometimes they'll come in my office in the evening which I absolutely love because we get to get on the floor and crawl around with the kids. Um, but that has been huge for increasing our numbers as well. Um, this directly aligns with our CPU learn 3 because we're developing and implementing responsive inclusive practices even at the age of prenatal to age five. Strengths of our program include collaborative meetings with ECC and prek to make sure that we're aligning
056our services like I said from birth all the way up to age five. creation and utilization of our advisory board of experts to position parents as teachers as a primary resource for our local families. Um we have Dr. Kristenberry is sitting on that committee and she's from St. Francis and she has had many great ideas. Um I'm getting ready to meet with her again in June because she just wants to learn more and more about our programming um so that she can share that out with families um that she sees. In addition, parents as teachers screens children four months to 5 years old and we're now seeing students in the summer as well. um so that we can maintain those high um participation rates, we don't lose our families over the summer. And then we
057also have online registration now. Um our parents as teacher educators are attending parent teacher conferences at the start of the school year, back to school nights to get the again to get the word out. Um currently we have two parent educators. Stephanie Ellinger is our lead parent educator and Cassie Cox is the other one. Both of them receive over they're required to have 20 hours of professional development annually. they always um have more than that. And Stephanie, our lead parent educator, was recently appointed as a Missouri parent educator program support consultant for DESIE. So, she is actually consulting with other districts to make sure that um their programming is rising to the same level. So, that's been um incredible to watch her take on that role. Our road map for next year, we want to
058increase our visits to achieve 700 visits. We want to make sure that we're screening at least 90% fully screening at least 90% of our students. We want to continue outreach in the community and we want to continue to partner with community leaders for participation incentives. One of our things that we don't have as many families attend unless it's in tandem with ECC or PreK are the family nights that just parents as teachers that do. And we feel like if we could incentivize that in some way, we might have more people show up. So, we're working on some partnerships in the community, too. Um, our current uh, enrollment trajectory shows that we have a consistent increase in program enrollment and overall um, we're retaining our families. So, I would say that our evaluation is excellent. >>
059And the next one is, can I ask a question really quick? Sorry, you touched on it a little bit, but can you talk more specifically about what do you do for parents to find out that this is even a thing that they can do? Sure. you know, >> so we we do have um brochures and things in the community about parents as teachers. Is that what you're referring to specifically? >> Exactly. How are community members finding out that they can access parents as teachers? >> Perfect. So, we do have that um accessible in doctor's offices. Um our advisory committee has been helping us try to get the word out about that, too. U Miss Talent makes sure that she's putting things out on social media regarding any parents as teachers events. If a if a
060student comes into our school district, they're hearing it somewhere along the line because we are having it um be a part of things that our elementary schools send out. Uh if you come in for an IEP meeting, we have the resources out there. If you come in for a parent teacher conference, we have a table that will happen. >> And the idea then would be like if they've got a younger sibling at home, right? Okay. >> Yes. Um and actually when our students enroll now for the early childhood program, we have them automatically fill out information for parents as teachers. That doesn't mean they have to accept it, but it creates a phone call that then they can engage to see if they want to do it or if they have children younger at home
061um that they're interested in doing as well. >> Thank you. Good question. Okay, moving on to our homeless program. This doesn't sound as exciting, but it we do have some good information coming your way and there is some excitement to it. Um, our homeless program directly aligns with our CEP learn 3 goal because we're developing and implementing responsive and inclusive programs again to meet the needs of all of our students. Last year we had 265 students noted to be homeless at some point during the school year. Now, that looks like a big jump, right? Which doesn't seem like a good thing. I feel like that's because our families are becoming better educated and they're not afraid to admit that they're struggling to gain um home security and so they're admitting that they're asking for help
062and we're offering them services. Um we've done a lot of education to make sure that our families understand that it's not we're not going to try to take your kids from you because you're homeless. We're going to try to provide you support to get where you need to be for a safe environment for your kids. So um we are better identifying. Currently, we budget $400 from title funding, which doesn't seem like a lot, but most of our um support comes through care to learn. That's our supplemental support. So, it matches health, hunger, hygiene. We're able to do that. Also, our local churches. Um I'm jumping ahead. Sorry, Jamie. I'm all over the place. 400. I talked about the $400 moving forward. Okay, there you go. We do have strong inter agency support. Um we work
063with family services, children's division, DFS, foster care agencies. We partner with CPMO, East Missouri action agencies. Local churches are huge supporters of us. Um, hotels have provided deals for us when we've had families in crisis. Community counseling center in Great Oak are doing wraparound services for mental health, not just for our students, but also for families when they're in their time of need. And then, of course, as a district, we provide the wraparound services for food support. We provide transportation to any activity that the student would need transportation to through the homeless program. We provide hygiene products and health. We kind of talked about that through care to learn. One area that continues to be a community issue is affordable housing. Um that that's an issue for our families both in short-term and long-term housing.
064Eviction records cause difficulty in securing um a new home. But also there is a scarcity of options. So, what we're trying to do now is we're trying to better educate our families on, hey, if you're getting close to an eviction before you get there, come to us to ask for help and we can make connections for you in the community. Um, so that they do have more options moving forward. Um, but but that is a difficult situation to be in for our families. So, it's not something that they we always know about until after it's a little too late um to provide some of the supports that we know our community has. Um, I do feel like we've met our prior goal prior goal of breaking the stigma related to homelessness and that's why I
065feel like we do have an increase in self-reporting because they they want help and and we're able to provide some of that. Our parents and students now know where and how to ask for help and that's documented through our connectedness survey. Our continued goal for the homeless program is to connect families to the 32nd circuit prevention specialist prior to um hitting those eviction rates because then they have um services available. And we're also working to create a communitydriven brochure and website with comprehensive resources that does exist at the state level and we can send our parents there and you can click on Cape Gardo County and it will tell you every resource available. We also have a printed copy of that, but we're always working to improve that. And that is a cross agency um
066created brochure. So, I think that our homeless programming is above average. I do wish that um we had more options for our families that are affordable in this city, but that's kind of outside of our control. My last one you will not see up here because it's about migrant students. We do have migrant policy and we would serve migrant students if we had them, but we have zero currently. they they are not reported. So, um I did leave the program evaluation in there just to tell you that we do have policy for that and how we would serve the students if we have them. We do not currently have any dollars attributed to that because we don't have any students. >> Did anybody time what looks like a timer right in front of you? >>
067I know somebody should have started it. >> Very good. Very good. >> Any questions for me? That was a lot, but I didn't want to uh talk for too long. It was a lot. >> That was really good. >> Thanks, man. >> Outstanding. >> Yes. >> And Stephanie Ellinger from Parents and Teachers may or may not be Cape Central class of 1992. Shout out to her. >> And she was here tonight. >> I did see her. I did see her. >> Ava was hers before she came and that's why she kept Ava was calling for Miss Stephanie because that was her reward when she got done. >> Ah, very nice. Uh, next on the agenda under this category is career ladder program evaluation. All right. >> Dr. Beck isn't here uh today. He is actually
068>> out of town. So, I'm going to go ahead and uh kind of go over it briefly as you can open up uh the career ladder program evaluation. The total number of teachers participating uh over two-year comparisons. You can see stage one in 2024 25 was 7, 256 was 17. So, we had a a good increase uh for stage one. And then they get paid $1,500 for stage one. You can kind of see, I don't know if he has that in here or not. And then um stage uh stage two, sorry, as it went up one uh from 8 to 9. And then stage three went up considerably as well. A lot of these uh a lot of these participants actually work with Mr. lawyer back there on uh our athletic programs, but then we
069also have other programs that we're doing as well with uh career ladder. Uh the total uh state contribution, you know, it's a 60/40 split and so uh the state will pay 60 and we pay 40% for uh stipens for that. So, the state contributed in 97,500 and then uh the district contributed 65,000. One of the things in state legislation you may have seen is that they cut the budget out of that. I think we're still going to be good to continue to move forward uh like we did last year, they cut uh 20% out of it, I believe, or something like 20% 20 million. They took 20 million out of uh the budget for that. But uh they feel that they can still continue to provide career ladder for uh not only our district but
070districts across the state. We just have to watch it very closely so that we still stay in a balance for that. Um uh serving coaches for approved extracurricular activities, there was 1,634 hours. uh providing additional learning activities such as fine arts, multimedia, service learning. Uh there was 1,0 hours and then serving as mentors. We had several serving as mentors this year. Uh which was approved by the deputy superintendent assistant superintendent Mandy Miss Keys. Uh 1,09 hours. This is a new category for us. Uh we feel that it's important for um our staff to be able to mentor and get paid for mentoring. a lot of time added all those together >> and it pays off tenfold for for our uh new teachers for sure. >> Uh overall annual retention rate of participation 98% 98% retention
071of 25 26 participating teachers for the 26 27 school year. So that's pretty good 98% retention. And again uh our goal is pillar uh is elevate pillar two elevate. And the only blip that kept you from a 100, Dr. Benyan, was somebody had the audacity to retire. >> Yeah. What's wrong with that? They ran for the hills instead of coming back. >> That's right. >> Overall, we feel we feel like that the program is is working very well. One of my biggest concerns is is that after next year they're going to have to continue to cut dollars and have to cut it somewhere and and they may continue to cut that as well, which is a >> a great disservice to our district because we utilize it uh in a way that really helps not
072only our students but our teachers as well. So, I'm concerned about that for next year >> with budget cuts. >> Y >> Well, next on the agenda is the academic services report. And with that, I will turn it over to award recipient, proclamation recipient, Miss Haley Russell's husband, Jamie. >> I love that >> as it should. >> Proclamation of the proclamation. >> You didn't hear that. >> So, as you guys have heard already this week, uh we've been doing map testing and we started uh around about the 20th of April was our earliest map test. And so, uh kudos to all of our teachers who and and students for working hard in preparation for that. and really want to give a big shout out to our counselors. They do 98% of the, you know, organization
073of that. I just give them permissions and, you know, be the troubleshooter, but they do all the work and uh them and the principles and making sure that our students have the scheduled um time to be able to do that and that all the students get to the right place and uh that everybody's doing what they're supposed to. Um, and so so far my I get to go and do quality assurance where I get to sit and type notes about the whole thing and send it into the state. Our our people have been doing a great job. I got another one tomorrow. Um, we'll be testing through uh Thursday of this week. Uh, this year the the test is cut off on the 15th. We don't get to do it after that whatsoever. And so
074um so we'll be done for sure by the end of next week. And so u any other questions about MAP testing? Okay. And then um wanted to talk a little bit about the literacy plan. I gave you guys a link to to the draft of this. And it is uh next week is our kind of our final meeting to try to polish up uh some of the any of the language or the timelines, things like that that we have left. But um so this is this is what it looks like currently. I even got the watermark on there for today because I keep forgetting to put that on there because it's easier to edit without it. Um, so really what our what our literacy plan does and this is uh for the community as well
075is is that uh one of the requirements under um SB 681 was that we have some sort of plan in place. Well, the state took three years to give us all of the guidance on how to do that. And so um this year we we've got that guidance and uh have worked really hard since really since uh November December had a team of 14 teachers and administrators in and out and then another we split into three and we had some even more teachers come in and help um to be able to to come up with you know identify some of the needs that we have. And primarily the two needs that we see are uh you know how do we take uh new expectations uh from the state when it comes to the science of
076reading and to and intermingle it with what our current curriculum is and so um making sure that we shore those up and make it clear to our teachers what what the expectation is u and to better support our students that way. The other part of that is okay so for students who how do we support our students who aren't successful in in some of the p pieces of science of reading uh across the board and so reading sometimes is just an ELA course problem but really reading is everything um across everywhere in education we can't learn if we can't read and so um making sure that we have practices inside of all of our classes that um that support learning um and and we do that through through reading. And so those are the two
077kind of overall pieces in there. There's a lot of things about like how do we do that? How do we support it? How do we sustain it? Um are a lot of the goals within there. And so um we tried to kill the education ease out of that as much as possible. There's still a lot in there, but um hopefully anybody who wants to to take a look at it, uh feel free to send us some more suggestions. Um and this is just a kind of like the academic services plan. This is the first iteration of it. um we can always come back and change things as needed. So um we will bring this back to you guys next month to uh vote on it because it is something that has to be board approved.
078So any questions on the literacy plan, >> how long did you say it took you guys to put it together? >> We started our first meeting was in December. Um and and this is supported through our PDC uh regional professional development center at SIMO through Desi. Uh and we've had five meetings with them and we've met probably six to eight times depending on what what group um have been meeting since then. Uh and it's it's teachers given time after school, giving up their classroom time, which is precious to come in and go to these meetings. Um and it's made up of teachers and administrators and reading specialists. uh department chairs, like whoever we can get. Um and then we we brought in non-ELLA specific people, you know, to be a part of those other small
079teams to to try to get as much as we could of everybody. Um and then um you know, seek feedback. We've we've sent it back to RPDC. We've sent it to other school districts to get their feedback as well. Uh because we want it, we want it we want it to work and we want it Yeah. to be uh successful for students. So >> awesome. >> Well, thank you, sir. >> Next up, we have treasure finance report, Miss Judac. >> Okay, this report is for lunch. Uh, the game fund balance 33.2 million. We received revenues of a little over 3 million, expenses of 2.7, transfers of 1.1, just dropping our balance slightly to 32.4 million. Um, I have listed the banks where our funds are held. Does anyone have any questions on that? Also wanted
080to give just an update on the bond issue that we passed. Um um so now that the bond issue has passed, uh the next step is that we sell the bonds. Y >> and so we have a team that we're working with on that. Um Lorenzo Voy from Steeple, um heads up as our underwriter and then Sean Flynn is our bond council. He's with a bill. Um Lorenzo will be at our board meeting in a couple weeks um where you guys will be passing a parameters resolution. there's certain parameters that we have to meet before we can sell the bonds and um we we'll ask you to approve that and our goal is to price the bonds and sell them in June. That is what we'd like to do. So tenatively we will price the
081bonds on June 4th and actually close on June 18th which is when the district will receive them. So I'll keep you updated. >> Okay. Okay. Exciting. Yeah. Thank you very much. Moving right along. Support services report. Mr. Cra, CHS92. >> All right. >> So, Lindsay's getting the money. I'm spending the money. >> Thank you. Good team. >> It's good to go in that order, too. Good to go in that order. >> Uh, just to give you I want to give you an update on what's been going on since the bond passed. We're currently working as a district on, not saying this negatively, but kind of lowhanging fruit with the bonds and projects that we could roll out really quick. Uh they may not actually be uh constructed or implemented right away. Uh but they're they'll
082be implemented uh very quick. So in the next two board meetings, expect a lot of motions to come to you for approval in this. Those such projects are uh new bleachers at the junior high. Uh however, they would not be installed until January of 2027 because of uh various sporting events, boys and girls basketball taking place. We don't want to uh cancel those seasons. Plus, it's such a large install project that they have to be manufactured and it takes time to get them in the pipeline. Uh new seating at the junior high auditorium. Uh next fall, as soon as junior high girls softball is done, we're looking at the turf project at the middle school. So the baseball and the softball field over there uh would be taken out and new turf uh being put
083in before winter. Uh tennis courts, uh the two new ones constructed, the rest of them resurfaced potentially as soon as uh end of July, early August to be ready for the fall uh girls tennis season. Uh currently right now we are meeting with playground companies on uh porn and place uh surfacing that would be uh what we told the community kind of like Melena's Magical Playground or uh Levvis's Trail. Uh so it would be solid surface in the uh elementary playgrounds. I met with uh another company today and I have two more uh interviews to do. Uh the tracks at the junior high and the high school being resurfaced. We're working on phase two of our energy savings work with Navatus with LED lights, weatherization of the buildings, and then the emergency generators, battery backups
084for our servers, our servers in our buildings to ensure that we have uh a large amount of time to deal with uh being able to operate our phones and so on so forth. And then uh one of the other ones uh one of the big ones uh not to uh kind of hash over it, but it's really important for our community is a new drop off lane at the middle school. And so the uh specs and design are actually uh taking place right now. I will say that our middle school staff has been very well trained on strangers on campus because they went to a soft lockdown today when the engineers showed up to survey in the property even though that they had four warnings. >> Uh but they had safety mask on. They had
085a tripod. They had >> they looked a little creepy. Let's be honest. >> They had radios. They had stop slow signs. You know, all of that. only happened briefly, but uh we got back on track and that's right through that bid and go from there. So, quite a few things are in the pipeline. Expect a lot of things to happen at the May the next May board meeting as well as the June board meeting so we can get everything locked in and uh implemented when it comes to the refurbishment and construction projects. just to give you an idea of what that will look like. So, if you're asked in the community or people reach out to you, we will start interviewing our staff uh here probably in the next couple of weeks and then pick
086up those interviews after summertime in the fall. So, when we did our long range facility plan, we got a very highlevel view of what we're needing to do in these buildings. Now, we're getting down to the specifics of what all needs to be done, what the design and scope of those will be. So, several projects um will more than likely not start until next summer due to the nature of the construction that needs to take place. If we look at all of the plumbing issues that Clifford Elementary has, we can't do all that during the school year because the kids and the staff are still there. We need to have working facilities for those students. So, >> a lot of these projects may be waiting until next summer. So that gives us time to do
087the interviews, push out the scopes and specs, and then um get it out to bed. >> So you're starting a huge project, and then you're running away and letting Dr. Crowley take over everything. >> So one of one of the other things that we're going to be working on that's going out for uh an RFQ, so a request for qualifications, is a construction manager at risk company. And we've been very successful at those partnerships in the past. So, we are uh in a new bond. So, we will be going out for a new RFQ to partner with the construction company that will work with us. The reason we want to do that, and this will all be told to you again at the June board meeting when we bring a a a firm to you,
088is that in doing it this way, we get a contractor involved on the front end instead of the back end. And so as we're engineering the the actual uh projects, we're engineering all the different scopes and things like that, >> the contractors can come and say, well, that is one way of doing it, but we also have this method of doing it and they can actually save us dollars uh in the long run. We've been very very successful as a district utilizing that system. So that will be coming to you in June as well. So a lot of moving parts. >> It's exciting. >> Thank you, Mr. Crow. Next on the agenda, I welcome districtwide athletics director, Mr. Tyson Moyers. And I will tell you, Tyson, I didn't think I had the authority to do
089this, but I almost moved you right after Shannon Burgoff when she gave the CTA report to like really move you up the chain and I didn't do it cuz it's only my first meeting doing this. I didn't want to make too many waves. But I'd like to advocate for you in future meetings that you follow CTA. >> I want to see. >> Oh, there you go. Well, >> there you go. That's good support. >> And by the way, very good. >> He won't look as good if he goes out. >> Thank you very much. >> That is pandering at us. >> Learned as well. So I uh welcome or thank you for having me. High school springs are wrapping up as we get uh uh into postseason play. Uh Bruce and uh Will Miller head
090are headed to the state uh individual state and individual tennis uh next week. Uh we're going to we'll recognize them again. One of them is going to be here for Missouri top 100 too as well. So uh team tennis just won today. Uh so they're advancing on to the the district semi-finals tomorrow at Notre Dame uh at 4:00. Golf districts are Monday in Farmington. Uh today we had our conference golf match at uh the country club dream cape and uh one of our golfers Seth Ferguson got four uh in in conference today. So we look forward to Monday's match in Bington Girl Soccer District starts next Saturday at Windsor. We don't have that full schedule yet, but that's when districts can open up. Track districts are also next Saturday at Hillsboro. We also just had
091a great showing at the conference meet this past Friday. Um one no hugely notable uh event was Kent Sheridan uh set a school record, stadium record, and event record uh with a jump of 4.9 meters. That's for for the rest of us at 16 1 and 3/4 in. We jumped over a bar at 16 ft, which is crazy. >> That currently ranks as the best jump in state in all classes. We we measured down from class 5 to class four this year. >> His um freshman year he was class five. He got third place, tied for third. his sophomore year or no yeah sophomore year he got third place in class five and second place in class five last year so he's only got one other place to get to could nail that this year
092stay here again in May so uh junior high sport seasons spring seasons have wrapped up the year as well after our last track meet and baseball game this past week also our junior tiger soccer club that we've uh initiated with this this spring uh just finished up their season as well. Uh successful season tournament this year in the area. Uh youth sports, our regular season soccer has concluded, but we do have three all-star teams that are competing in local tournaments uh throughout the month of May. Track and field is wrapped up this season. We started this season with 92% participants, grades 1 through six. Baseball and softball practices are underway. We have 12 softball teams and nine baseball teams spread over grades 1 through six. Baseball has approximately 110 participants while softball sites approximately 140.
093Uh Special Olympics um obviously I do want to mention um again the coach was coming today but he had an emergency that's why little so hurried and bus driver when we saw Jonath here we wanted to make sure to recognize them while they were here. We didn't have any of their information that we would normally recognize them with. So >> uh we were glad they were here. uh they are uh they are really a vision of what we want to see at the end of our Mandy and our plan to get a unified team. Misha currently has unified track and field that the next they say the next one that they want to go to is unified championship basketball. So hopefully by the point by that point they can we we can we can uh
094instill that as well. Um we had a great turnout of volunteers and athletes for special instruct meet at Notre Dame last week. That's just an understatement of our plan to provide uh for all of our students who wish to participate. As far as C, we have camps uh that have already begun. Coach Compass has run a softball camp the last three Thursdays uh that are basically taking all of our kids that are playing in the softball league and running a practice for them, their coaches. Then our football staffs will host their camp uh tomorrow, Wednesday, and Thursday in our indoor facility. That's all I have. Oh, we did I did lead the baseball. We got third got third in the conference tournament. Not without some controversy, but apparently it it was ruled a no hitter.
095So Captain Ogles threw a no hitter against >> as well. It should have been. >> Yeah. And yeah, I'm not a baseball official, so >> Me neither. >> So that was a pretty exciting day today, too. >> Awesome. >> Any questions for me? I think he might be statistically the number two pitcher in the state of Missouri right now. >> Wow. >> His RA I think is like three. >> Really? >> 0.3. So nine innings a game you give up a third of the run. >> Pretty impressive. >> Pretty good. >> Awesome. Thank you, Tyson. >> You're welcome. >> Next we have board reports. Uh I think Case Mr. Cook is our MSBA delegate, I believe, and his report has been cancelled because of lack of attendance. Uh, sorry, sorry for that for those of
096you waiting for that report. Uh, but Miss Flinchy is present, and she is the legislative representative. >> Okay, that was a lot. So, first of all, May 8th is the day that the budget must be passed uh for the state of Missouri. May 15th is the last day of session. So, we are kind of wrapping things up, but the last two weeks tends to be crazy because they're trying to get the budget passed. Um, current budget has $190 million shortfall for public education. This is mostly due to an overestimation in gaming and lottery revenues and also a shortfall in transportation funding. Um, one of the things that would be affected by that budget gap will be the funding formula. Um, it's supposed to be $7,145, but it would be around $6,900 if that shortfall ends
097up being approved. Um, also, I made a note to myself that I thought this was a good time to remind everyone that even though the funding formula is $7,145 per student, that is not what we receive per student. I have actually asked Miss Dudak about this before and this year we received $3,111.13 per student. So that $7,000 number is a bit misleading. That's just something to keep in mind when you hear that number. Um there is a current push to potentially fund that shortfall, that $190 million through some other methods, but um it does it's not real clear at this point if that will happen. committing today. >> They're in committee today is what we're hearing from Dr. Bingan. So, we shall see. Um, second thing is the income tax proposal that did pass the
098Senate and the House, so now goes to the governor's desk and will be voted on in the November election. I said this in the last meeting, but I just wanted to repeat it again. There is language in the bill that says public education funding cannot be reduced. That said, if the statistics are correct and it would have as much of an effect on state revenue as it looks like it would, it is hard to, while that sounds great in theory, it's hard to see how a shortfall that significant would not affect public education funding in some way or form. So, um, that is definitely something that we will be paying attention to and especially as November gets closer and that has to actually be voted on >> Possibly in August. I did see that that
099they are looking to push it maybe to August. So, we will continue paying attention to that. >> Um, one thing I wanted to talk briefly about is a literacy bill that is quickly moving through the Senate. Um, I it's come up in a several different conversations recently with me and so I just thought I would talk really quick about it. I don't know if any of you are up on education news, but um the Mississippi miracle, I don't know if any of you guys have been hearing this at all, but Mississippi was historically, first of all, they're historically the poorest state in the US, and they regularly rank at the bottom for education and liter literacy. So, back in 2013, they passed a bill basically trying to address all of the issues that they were
100having with literacy, with test skills, and they have seen massive gains in their testing as a result. Um, in 24, when adjusted for demographics, Mississippi ranked first for reading and math in all of the United States. Even when results were not adjusted for demographics, they ranked ninth with black students outperforming 47 of the other 49 states and Hispanic students ranking first. So because of this dramatic increase in testing that Mississippi has seen, there has been a a several other states have started to kind of follow suit and tried to put some legislation in place that mimics what they were doing in Mississippi. And so now we are starting to see that in Missouri. That is something that is now um in front of in front of legislation. The reason I bring it up is because
101what happened in Mississippi is truly incredible. But there are some pretty distinct differences in what has been brought forward in Missouri that I think are worth talking about. Um first of all, Missouri had specific funding attached to their legislation. So there were funds devoted to hiring reading coaches um to support the students. They had literacybased professional development for all of their teachers. They had funding in place. They required like if a student was failing, they would put them in these small like intensive classrooms and they had funding specifically for those intensive classrooms in Mississippi, right? You're saying >> this is in Mississippi. Did I say Missouri? Sorry, in Mississippi. Yes, >> that makes sense. >> So, the Missouri legislation that is in front of the Senate right now does not have any money attached to
102it. So basically it would require that we do all of those same things but with no funding behind it. Um the second thing is one of the things that Mississippi did was they retained third graders who were not where they needed to be on literacy. So when they were deciding to retain them, they would do multiple tests for these students throughout the year. And if a student would not pass a test, that's when they would go into these like intensive classes that I was talking about. Um, so big picture, the students were given multiple opportunities to pass. And if they weren't passing, they were given a lot of intensive help. For the Missouri legislation, it currently the way it looks is it would be a one-time thing. There's just one opportunity to take the test
103and essentially if you don't pass it, you're done kind of thing. So, I I'm just pointing out those differences because I think we're likely going to see legislation like this because of what was going on in Mississippi, I think it will become even more and more states are going to to take on some legislation like that. But there are some very specific reasons that it worked in Mississippi. And if we want to emulate that perfectly, I think we could see it could be a great thing for Missouri, but the current legislation is not exactly doing that. So, I think it's just something to kind of be aware of and wary of. It sounds fantastic, but the the actual ins and outs of it aren't really aligning with what would probably support students the best. So,
104last thing I want to talk about to end on a positive note. Governor Kho tooured the CTC uh last well, it would have been last week had our meeting been on the right day, but so two weeks ago, I guess. Um Dr. Crowley was able to show off several of our CTC programs. He had students and teachers available to chat with the governor. His wife was with him as well. Our CTC is so very impressive. Our programs are impressive and I the the facility itself is so impressive. But then when you hear the results from students talking that is also so impressive. So it was just such a great opportunity. Dr. or not, sorry. Um, Governor Kho is very interested in that kind of programming in schools and that secondary education vote centered type thing
105and we have a really incredible program to show off. So, it was great to get the opportunity for him to really see firsthand. I mean, we we receive dollars from the state for that and so it's great for him to see where we're putting it really to good use and we're good stewards of our money. So, um, yeah, it was a it was a great day. And that's all I've got. >> Another fantastic legislative report. And for those of you who can't see it, I I want you to note it should be brought to you by like the Missouri Optometrist Association because on her screen, imagine the smallest font you've ever seen and then make it three times smaller. I don't even know how she can read it. It's incredible. U Kublic Schools Foundation. Miss
106Wear. >> Yes. Yes. Yes. Miss McDonald could not be here tonight. However, she did share uh let's see here. Foundation golf tournament is Monday the 11th. It is an all day event. Uh next April the 30th. Wait a minute. This is old and reversed. So, April the 30th at the Evening of Excellence, we gave out $25,000 in scholarships, which is phenomenal. >> Wow. We have supported um CJH girls group for uh skate party. We have helped a football player with gas to get to and from practice. That might not seem like a big deal to some people. >> That's a big deal. >> That is a big deal because that one thing leads to another to another. You know, it's all connected. So, that right there it is is it is a big deal. Um,
107we bought J um $2,000 worth of reading books from a restricted um donation. And uh we continue to raise funds to support students, staff, and the district. And I want to add that we are always accepting um donations to help our students and and staff um at the foundation. and all you have to do is get a hold of Miss McDonald >> and uh that is her report. >> Well, thank you ma'am. >> Yes. Um, we have a new scholarship that has recently been started and in the name of Kim Chisum who was a teacher for many years in our district >> and uh that has overwhelmingly brought in a large amount of money and so that will her legacy will live on >> and um so that will be another scholarship next year that
108will be awarded at >> the evening of excellence. So >> fantastic. >> Yeah, >> thank you both. >> Uh, next on the agenda, we have non-action items. The first reading of board policy GDL, which is support staff development opportunities and administrative procedures GDLP2, support staff development opportunities for tuition reimbursement for classified staff. On the business category for this evening, we have approval of community eligibility program. The recommendation is to authorize the superintendent or his designate to renew into the community eligibility program with DESIE and the USDA for district-wide free breakfast and lunch to enrolled students of Cape Public Schools number 63 on behalf of the board. Do I have a motion? >> So moved. >> Second. Hi. >> So, with this uh program, we jumped into this about eight years ago, and at one point
109it was required every three years for renewal to stay in it. Uh now, it's every four years. So, we're at that point, we need to renew it. Uh if we're still looking to stay in it. One of the things that I'd like to point out other than the obvious of every student is eating free breakfast and free lunch. >> Uh regardless, it takes away any type of stigma uh for those kids that maybe didn't have enough money in their lunch account or whatnot. One of the things about this though is that we can get out of it at any time. So there is no penalty if we get into the program. If for some reason you all as a board decided this wasn't good for the community, we could get out, go back to how
110it used to be, utilizing free and reduced lunch forms for those families uh who feel they would be eligible for that. Uh the cost to the district has actually gone down over the years when we first implemented this. Believe it was about $120,000 that we supported it. Um, now it's almost evened out where I think it's only going to be, I think roughly, looking at the math, uh, with you and Randy working through it, less than $10,000 in support from the district. So, money well spent. >> Wow. >> Um, by the district. Part of that is the reimburseable rates have gone up uh from the USDA >> as as well as from Jesse. So, you know, and a lot of this credit also needs to go to Dana Mclard, who's no longer with us, but
111the continuence of what Randa Selzer and Miranda Wemire have done. Uh they're going out hitting it out of the park with a lot of grants to help augment this. Uh we have a $50,000 grant that was accepted for local beef uh that's going to be going into our schools next year. Uh we've set that up with several local butchers uh in this area as well as the natural honey the program with Southside Farms. I mean so just I can't speak highly enough of our food service and our employees within that all the way from our prep cooks cafeteria managers Randa and Miranda and I believe it is beneficial for us again just kind of capstone program is maintain our C eligibility. Yes >> in that program. Yeah. Especially when you get those two in the
112room. >> Miranda, Miranda. >> Exactly. So, any questions? >> If there are no questions or further discussion, uh we'll vote vote to approve this. All in favor? I >> I. >> Any opposed? That is approved. Next on the business agenda is approval of audit services agreement. The recommendation is to authorize the superintendent to negotiate a contract with Stanley Durburgger Hopper and Associates LLC and to execute the contract on behalf of the board for audit services beginning July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2031. Do I have a motion? >> So moved. >> Second, >> Miss Dudek. So we issued our RFP for um annual audit services. uh Patrick Kitner who is has been our auditor um responded and he's done a great job for us. I like that he's mobile and he will stop by and
113help us anytime we need. Um and we'll recommend to move forward again. >> Any questions? If there are no questions, all in favor, please indicate by saying I >> I >> opposed. That carries as well. Uh, next on the agenda is approval of recovery high school name. The recommendation is for the board of education to formally approve and adopt Ascent High School as the official name for the district's new recovery high school effective immediately to be used for all branding, signage, and state registration purposes. Do I have a motion? >> Second. >> Okay. So um our mindset behind this, this was Nancy Sheller kind of took the head of this. Um we are looking at wanting to name a recovery based environment that we want to um show that we are requiring a delicate balance
114between academic rigor and the sensitive nature of a student's journey. And so we're looking at the pillars of symbolism of progress. It represents a continuous upward journey both academically and just in wellness and recovery in general. stigma reduction. So, we're not calling it a recovery or or alternative school. We kind of had some discussions about that before, like what's the best way to do that. Um, but we we eventually determined that we were going to need that out of it. Um, it offers a clean slate to students and it's a name they can be proud of to wear on their school merchandise. um and it aligns with our mission to provide a safe harbor for students where um they can rise above the challenges of their substance use um disorders and just mirror the trajectory
115that we want for them as a graduate. So upon approval, we would begin. We've kind of already come up with some ideas um for what our branding would look like using our tiger and a mountain and some different things. And so once we get approval, then Miss Talon will start working on getting that solidified so we can get our brochures out there and start getting some students hopefully. >> Thank you. Uh if there are no questions or further discussion, uh all those in favor of approval, indicate by saying I. >> I. Any opposed? That is approved. Uh the next item on the agenda is the approval of the recovery high school bid. The recommendation is to authorize the superintendent or his designate the authority to extend Seymar services for the construction of the new recovery
116high school not to exceed $1,340,900 from a previously executed contract noted as additional projects with Brock Miller Construction. Mr. Cra, >> thank you. So, uh, bids went out. uh we had to do some value engineering to get it back within uh range. These are the numbers that uh DESI has provided us through the grant that was awarded for us for construction. We're approximately going to have a 5600 uh square foot building, four classrooms, multiple conference rooms, commons area, uh secured uh entrance. It'll have a playground area in the back uh with garden u mo plenty of parking. It'll have storefrontage uh facing independence with also uh an exit of ingress or egress that'll be off Cordelia which is would be the side street. Um, you know, this is just that final step in getting the
117building constructed. For next fall, though, uh, this obviously will not be built over the summer. It'll start, but it will not be completed. Uh, we already have a facility that, uh, is going to be utilized for the start and then once this is finally constructed, students and staff would move move over to the new building to be ready. So that temporary facility is actually one of our buildings across from the junior high that was utilized for early childhood last year as well as currently utilized for care to learn. Uh there's multiple classrooms over there, some conference rooms, restrooms, all that type of stuff. So, um, that's where it's going to temporarily be. And, uh, once this is finally constructed, uh, we'll transition everybody over there. >> I have a question. >> Please >> explain to
118me uh, the playground area, please, cuz I know these are going to be high school students. >> Basketball basketball court. >> A basketball court. >> Okay. Okay. Cuz playground was like, okay. And when we very large teeter totter that's the worst area. >> Okay then find a different word use a playground if it's inside a fence area because that's how it's insured. >> Thank you. >> So but it is a basketball court in uh fenced in but within that fenced in area there's lab space for outdoor gardening. Okay. >> Greenhouse area as well too. >> So there's uh plenty of room back there. >> Thank you. I appreciate you. Are there other questions? If not, all in favor of approval of this >> one more second reading. Oh, >> we're voting on this. >> Oh,
119you're voting on this. >> Sorry. >> No, you're okay. Uh, all in favor of the approval recovery high school bid, please indicate by saying I. >> I. Uh, any opposed? >> That is approved. Uh, and last on the business are the second reading and adoption of board policies. I I A I I C I A and then rescending I I A-R1 and the recommendation is to authorize the superintendent or excuse me to adopt the following board policies as recommended by MSBA and the policy review committee I I rescending IC-R1. Do you have a motion? >> So moved. >> Second. Any discussion? >> Jamie, do you want to talk about I mean there's really it's just instructional material. >> Instructional materials, instructional media centers for school libraries. >> I did have a question actually because the
120one we're rescending it says that instead we're using it's to be updated to IAP1 which I looked for and didn't see. >> It's well for this one it's mostly definitions. Yeah. for what's being rescended. And so, okay, um, a lot of that stuff is is already in other places. And so, that's part of the reason as to why we're rescending it. It's just duplication of >> Got it. Okay. >> Just a clean up. >> Sure. Yeah. >> Um, and then there was a there was a little bit of of language change just to kind of >> just barely tweak it to where it fits updated law from last year. >> Got it. >> So, Crystal's the only one who could read that on the screen right now. >> That is true. Can you ask and
121see if you like to be? >> Yes, this is perfect timing. If you find yourself diving into board policies like Miss Flinchy and saying, "I noticed this or that." We're looking for one more person, I think, to be a reader. I think Mr. Cook is doing it, Miss Flinty are doing it. And kind of be a part of the policy review committee where you look at these policy recommendations from MSBA. I don't know if either Miss Cook >> or Julia would like to. >> Do you want to do it, Julia? >> I'd be glad to. >> It's going to be thrilling. I think you were on the committee before. That'd be good because you kind of know how they read anyway. So Julian, >> and I bet if Miss Wear is like dying to do
122it, I bet M. >> I don't want to speak on it. >> I'm going to pass on this one, but hate it. >> But I know Casey's done it before, so if you are interested, Lynn, I'm sure he'd probably be willing to >> I'll put your name down. >> No, I didn't. I didn't put you down. if you'd like to. >> All right. If there's no more questions on that one, uh, >> if you're in favor of that, please indicate by saying I >> I. Any opposed? >> Last item on here is information and proposals from board members. Do we have any? >> I do have something that I missed in my >> Now is the time. Please go. >> I thought you were going to say no. probably the most important thing that I
123missed in the superintendent report. This week is teacher appreciation week and I just want to say how hard our teachers work and just really uh am proud of the things that we're doing. You can see all the awards that we're winning. That's not just because of the kids, that's because of our kid, our staff as well and how much they've poured into them this year and every year. Uh so we're really excited about teacher appreciation week. We do have a gift for them. uh we'll be giving that to them on Friday. Uh it's a secret of what that is. So, we're really excited for this week. I know they have lots of different celebrations. So, if you see any teachers, thank them for all their service that they do in our district. >> Well, that's
124awesome. Well, I I'm excited again for graduation. We have an extraordinary class of kids this year. You know, you heard some of the names of some of the universities they're going to, and I won't name them all, but from Columbia University in New York City and Ivy League school to the Naval Academy to UVA to we've got somebody accepted to the six-year program for medicine at UK UK UMKC, which is super hard to get into. Uh, and so we look forward to celebrating our students and graduation on the 14th. And if there's no other things for us, I will move to adjourn or entertain a motion to adjurnn. >> Motion. >> Thank you. So moved. All right. >> Same thing. >> We are journ. Thank you everybody.