001Hello everybody. Happy Monday night. I want to welcome everybody to our regular March board session, school board's meeting. Uh we'll call the meeting to order. Let's start off with the pledge of >> allegiance. I aliance 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. >> Okay, board, you have an agenda before you. Can we get a motion to approve? >> So move. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I The agenda carries. So up first, we have all these fine people here. Do we have some recognitions tonight? >> We do. >> Awesome. >> So we have we have quite a few recognitions. The first recognition is March is designated as board member recognition month and
002we had a a great uh dinner upstairs. A time to honor the dedicated individuals who volunteer countless hours to support our school district. Members of the Cape Gerard Public School Board of Education provides invaluable leadership and vision working to ensure our schools are stronger for ent the entire community. Their service to this vital elected office is essential to our mission and we extend our deepest gratitudes for their commitment and leadership. Just thank you all for your willingness to serve on our board. We appreciate you. >> Um I'm excited for us to recognize a group of Tigers tonight who have established themselves as some of the top athletes in our state. And I'm going to have uh I'd like to invite uh Coach Moyers up here and he's going to invite the coaches and talk about
003the athletes. I don't think so. I think did you turn it on? >> Talking about he does sports >> question. Start with CHS swim. I'm going to be brief and say coach P's coming because I know she's going to have fun. >> Oh no. I don't believe that paper now. Well, it is hard not to talk about this group. So, uh, for a long time. Is this working? >> And Kristen, did you get the videos? >> We tried to send videos >> today or >> Okay. Um, well, first of all, I just want to um thank the board for the opportunity to work with our great athletes. It's really an honor uh that you know it's easy to take for granted sometimes when I've done it for a couple years now, but it is always
004a pleasure and honor to get to work with some athletes that we get to spend three and a half months with. And I'd also like to I know he doesn't want me to, but thank Coach Seman in the back. Coach Seerman is vital to the program and Coach Lou aka Mary Lrand has been very helpful. So, it's a dream team having uh the three of us together. So, if you all would help me thank Coach St. uh I want to give a quick rundown of the entire state meet. Uh we got a relay qualified with Sydney Langston and Evelyn Drock along with uh Carson and Kennedy. So, that was exciting for us and we actually moved up in the rankings at the meet. Uh and then Khloe Sherin uh made made it through district diving
005and got to dive at state. So, we're fortunate none of our athletes are graduating and we hope to even have a little bit more impact next year. So, at this time, if I could get Kennedy and Carson to come on up, please. >> This is Kennedy's three third out of three years that she has been uh in influential at the state level. So this year she's won the 2003 and the 1003. In the 2003 she um ended up winning the consolation heat and finishing ninth with the best time. That's huge points for us. And then 2003 she finished seventh with the best time also. So we were really happy with Kennedy's performance. And then Carson uh swam the 50 free and had a very uh exciting race with a girl from Kansas City and touched
006the wall first to be our twotime 50 freestyle state champion as a sophomore. >> Okay. >> Wow. YEAH. >> And then last year she swam the 100 backstroke in addition to the 50 and I think finished fourth. And then this year she told me, "Coach, I've been swimming the backstroke. I've done a lot faster." Well, she won the backstroke, set a new school record, and also had a time that's an all-American consideration time. So, we turn her time in, and then this summer, we'll find out if she's won the top 100 times in the nation, she'll be a high school all-American in 100. YEAH. >> SO, if that wasn't enough, um >> Carson also was awarded uh this plaque and she was the swimmer of the year for class one and that's doesn't happen too
007often. So, very proud of Carson and Kennedy and our whole team u with their performance at state. They've really represented you and our community well. So, thank you for the opport. Can we get a picture with you all? >> Yes. >> And did you tell them where we're going to go have lunch? >> I can't believe you didn't bring up your arm behind your back. >> Okay. I already knew Come on. So, >> thank you, Coach Pal. >> Can we go to Terrific Tigers and come back to wrestling? Coach is walking in the door right now. You guys want to go ahead and start? >> Sure. >> Yep. So, we'll do terrific tigers next. And when we call over your students name and come up, you guys get pictures. >> Okay. Our first one is
008from the Early Childhood Center. This is Kamaria Merkeler, the granddaughter of Clarice Shannon. Kamaria is a wonderful tiny tiger. She loves learning and playing, is very helpful, and is a great friend to her classmates. Kamaria brings joy every day to her teachers and friends. Next from Alma Shrider, we have Emily Brockmeer, fourth grade, daughter of Jessica and Chris Brockmeer. Emily is a great example of a true terrific tiger. She is always ready to participate and lend a helping hand. She shows kindness, responsibility, and respect in all settings. Emily's actions set a great example for others to follow. Way to go, EMILY. From Blanchard Elementary, Adeline Sharp, third grade, daughter of Catherine AND JAMES SHARP. ADELINE APPROACHES EACH day with determination, curiosity, and a strong commitment to doing her very best. She is consistently going above
009and beyond in her learning. Adeline is also kind, inclusive, and always ready to lend a helping hand, making a meaningful impact on her peers. from Clifford Elementary. Nolan Snyder, fourth grade, son of Kelly and Dustin Snyder. Nolan comes to school with a smile, ready to learn. He always participates in class and tries his hardest on his work. Teachers can always depend on him to help others and to be an example for other students. He's a member of Clifford Corral and the safety patrol team. Nolan's sense of humor makes THE DAY BRIGHTER. FROM FRANKLIN ELEMENTARY, WE have Keith Dawson Jr., third grade, son of Morgan and Keith Dawson. Keith is a wonderful example to his peers by always working hard and coming to school ready to learn. He approaches each day with a bright smile and
010a kind, positive attitude. When others are struggling, Keith is always willing to lend a helping hand and offer encouragement. Keith is hard-working, respectful, caring, responsible, and a shining role model from Jefferson Elementary. Zeke Labriier, fourth grade, son of Megan Loier. Zeke consistently works hard and takes pride in doing his best. He approaches challenges with a positive attitude and is always willing to put in extra effort to improve. In addition to focusing on his own learning, Zeke generously helps classmates who may be struggling, showing kindness, patience, and leadership. Zeke's strong work ethic and caring nature make him a valued member of the classroom community. from Central Middle School. Christopher Wheatley, sixth grade, son of Hope Franklin and Marcus Wheatley. Christopher has a tremendous work ethic, which will undoubtedly result in much future success. Not only does
011Chris perform in the classroom, he also voluntarily helps our cafeteria staff clean up each day. He is a determined and driven young man who stands out among his peers at CMS. CONGRATULATIONS from Terry W. Kitchen Junior High. Constantine Rogers, seventh grade, son of Peggy Rogers and Carrington Rogers. Constantine regularly pushes the class's thinking during discussions and encourages those around him. He looks for opportunities to help even when it is not asked of him. We are so proud to have Constantine represent our building as this month's terrific TIGER from Central High School. Hayden Bowers, 12th grade, son of Ashley and Jason Bowers. Hayden is a driven, hard-working student leader at CHS. He sets goals and pushes himself to be a dedicated student athlete that has excelled in the classroom and on the field. Congratulations, HAYDEN. >>
012From Central Academy, Mackenzie Kinder, 8th grade, daughter of Melena Kinder. OKAY. AND then from February, we have from Central Middle School, Telen Ren, fifth grade, son of Deltrice and Andre Ren. And from Central Academy, Adaria Lexia Rosenthal, 10th grade, daughter of Mark Rosenthal. Congratulations, guys. Get a group picture. Yep. >> That must be a good smile. Okay, perfect. I'll get out of the way. Everybody get pictures. Congratulations. Okay, before everybody takes off, I do have Preston Hovac, our high school wrestling coach, come up here to talk about state qualifiers in the state tournament. >> So, we So, we had four total. We had one girl and uh three boys. Uh two uh girl she went to and out. She had a pretty tough bracket. Uh the boys we one of the heavyweights he was one
013match away from getting another getting a state medal but he fell short. But the uh other one he he had a tough bracket too. But then our other one he got third in state. He wrestled very well. And I believe looking at the history that's like the fifth person to get fifth in Cape and I think that's it's been 16 years since we got that high placement. >> That is awesome. >> And what was his name again? >> He was Connor. >> Don't throw me to the ground. Come up there. Take a picture with you. That's how they greet each other. >> I know. If I was a wrestler, I know I know what he's probably going to try to do to me. >> I just think of him as a kindergarten teacher. >> The
014two are not the same in my mind. Hey, just one quick thing. Every one of those kids are retriever Tigers. This makes me really happy. Every one of them is involved in our youth athletics. >> Awesome. >> And I just happen I see all the names and many of their parents are coaches for us. So I want to give them a round of applause. That was just the icing on the cake, Tyson. That's awesome. >> That is awesome. >> Well, thank you guys very much. >> Just a few more. >> Oh, you got a couple more. Sorry. >> Got a few more honors. >> Oh, awesome. >> But if you here, I'm going to say them real quick before you all leave. Um, so we have a state award winner uh for Southeast Missouri. Uh,
015Mr. Cra was awarded the assistant superintendent of the year. uh we got to celebrate that this last week uh for all of the states. So we're we're excited for him and and it's so welld deserved. So we appreciate it. >> No, I'm not taking a picture with you. >> As long as I'm in >> and then second, um I just wanted to remind everyone that April 7th is the voting date for Proposition Tigers. Uh we are thick into the presentation season right now. Uh bond issue presentations. This week alone, we have eight presentations, including one this Wednesday night at Cape Central Middle School starting at 5:30. So, we'd love for you to uh see what we're going to be doing with our bond dollars that we're asking for. That's it. >> Thank you guys. >>
016Thank you. You're welcome to stay. >> It's very exciting. >> I think they laughed at you. try every >> I don't know. Shannon's staying. She'll stay. >> Shannon has to speak. >> Move her to the front of the order. >> Move to the front. >> She's a trooper. We moved her to the front. >> So, you're welcome, >> Mr. Payne. Do we have any information, proposals or comments from the audience? >> No request response. >> Okay, just a reminder if anybody does have any, they can reach out the board office 5 days prior in writing and be more than happy to come speak to us. So, up next,formational reports, community teachers association first. >> If I heard correctly, the microphone is not working correctly. >> If you talk loud, it works. >> Oh, she's loud
017>> and fast. You talk fast to allow >> and I got glasses so I should be able to see a little bit better. I won't stutter as much. Okay. Thank you so much for the honor to once again share the staff shoutouts. Um and here we go. So from Alma Shroutder, everyone at Alma has been so welcoming to our new faculty and staff. Big shout out to the Alma family. A huge thank you to our staff, PTO, and parents for an incredible month. From the success of the CAT fundraiser to the overwhelming generosity shown to our neighbors after the recent houseire, this building continues to prove that we are stronger together. Thank you for always putting our students first and meeting them where they are. From Blantern, Miss Sherry is an amazing secretary who keeps
018us organized. Second and third grade are planning a fun-filled Easter event for their students. Miss Bunch is always topnotch and gives 100% all the time. Mr. Mr. Lindberg, Miss Heiser, and Miss Bunch provide fun lunch dates for other kids. Miss Arens is a spark of fun within our halls. She's engaging fourth graders with a new book club that they are so excited about. Coach Smith is always making PE fun and providing a fun, safe, and calm learning environment. Miss Jones has created a fun space unit for her fun space in space students preparing them for math testing. Miss Hagerty is working tirelessly with a smile on her face each day to meet a lots of students needs within our building. Miss Meisner is such a joy to work with. She keeps us informed and communicates
019so kindly with parents and staff. Miss Rutherford is an asset to our building and our ELLL students. Miss Widens makes great community connections with Coach Palmer at Simo and supported their women's team. Her students celebrated their victories. Holly Hall is a great blessing to Blanchard. She handles so many sick children during outbreaks and she goes above and beyond in our building every day. Every classroom teacher that has an e student has worked so hard to ensure that the content was comprehensible. They have never complained and have always want to do what is best for their students. Our whole entire building chose to participate in a book study with Julian to learn how to improve how we teach our e students this year. Wow. Terra Bova and Sarah Bren Nusbomb do an outstanding job at the
020book fair twice a year. It is so much extra work, but they both handle in smiles on their faces. From Clifford, Miss Peters and Miss Peggy are super helpful and willing to lend a hand when needed. Our spend department who has been handling stuff like rock stars while being short staffed. From the CTC, Ron Kiplinger for helping the criminal justice class of stop the bleed certification. He was awesome. Thank you to Mr. Blise for always being willing to have his students work on our school and staff vehicles. This support is greatly appreciated and provides valuable hands-on learning opportunities for students while helping meet the needs of our staff. From the high school to Mrs. Krias and Miss Wmarmac for their work with Beta Club and their success at state and Branson. Beta Club students competed
021in 85 events and came back with 30 top five awards including three state champions. Miss Haidider was the other chapro living literature supervisor and cake decorating judge as well as a mini bus driver. Amazing. From Franklin, shout out to Miss Fedhoff, our library media specialist on a successful book fair at Franklin this year. Miss Federhoff from the high school CHS students participated in Kids Feed Kids. They made 276 servings of chicken fried rice and handed the meals out of the food pantry. Wow. Our CHS Beta Club has had another successful Missouri Senior Beta Convention. The club competed in 85 different comp competitions through virtual test, creative projects, and on-site competitions and left the convention with 30 national qualifiers. Shout out to the counselors for a successful week of ACT, preACT, and work keys testing. From
022Jefferson, our custodial maintenance crew works continually to keep our school beautiful. They consistently go above and beyond their required duties to help keep our building welcoming, clean, and running smooth. They always have a positive attitude and are willing to help with any request. The TAs for the elementary school and preschool are always willing to help work as a team and to help each other and fill in for each other as needed. From the junior high, Coach Ching has been a great addition to our faculty PD team. She is a professional, sorry, she is professional and positive, focused on progress. battles his many responsibilities alongside being head track coach this year. Michaela McNeel set up an awesome visit by the conservation office and agent talked about the 1800's fur trade and let the students handle several
023types of Missouri animals. Excellent experience for our eighth grade students. Miss Han does so many great things for our school library. She brought back the book fair to our school with a book fair this fall and again in this spring. She started a peer tutoring group that has benefited many of our students. She heads our Rising Tigers program that recognizes students that have made improvements. She makes our library a fun and inviting place. And from the middle school, Christy Rolls is such an vital part of the staff at CMS. She always steps in to help when needed and makes our students feel comfortable on the first day of school. The CMS math teachers put on a great math night for our families to enjoy. Our social committee for hosting a delicious lunch on St. Patrick's
024Day. Broo De Loach and Cali Centers did an amazing job planning our third quarter reward party for our students. So many smiles. And that's the staff member shout out for March. >> Thank you. Hey, thank you so much. >> All right, up next board president's report. Um I say again, election April 7th, go vote. And we'll leave it at that. We've obviously got the bond issue and school board and mayoral races, all sorts of stuff. So get out there and go. Um I was able to participate in the mock interviews out the CTC. Been doing that for many years and just you guys are sitting here. So it's awesome. That's just a fantastic I mean the kids seem to get more and more mature, more and more professional each and every year. Um everyone I
025interviewed was just fantastic. Well put together like you know the hard stuff to teach the soft skills um were awesome and I'd interview any of his students. So no But it was it went really great. Like I said, I was super happy to participate in that. It was a lot of fun. So, um, just highly commend that. And, uh, did the mass casualty thing go well today? >> It did. >> Awesome. >> Really well. >> Really wanted to come out. >> It's a question you don't hear very. >> We had a wonderful mask today. >> I thought it was a drill. >> No, I think we should leave it at that. We'll just say how's the mask? That'll give you something to do tomorrow. Even on Facebook it was advertised and it said we are
026so excited mass casualty and I was like oh wow. >> So I give you something to do tomorrow. >> Thank you. >> No problem. >> Haven't done that one yet. >> Yeah. >> All right. But thank you. That's all I have, sir. I'll hand it off to you. >> Excellent. Very good. >> Follow that. >> It's hard too. Actually, I did mine. Uh, I was going to do the assistant superintendent of the year and uh, my superintendent report was I kind of read it already is that we are going to have our meeting on Wednesday night next or this Wednesday night at 5:30. We'd love for you to attend and we're going to talk about what we're going to be possibly doing in our bond issue. >> 5:30 at the middle school. >> Fantastic. >>
027In the cafeteria. >> That's it. >> Okay. Thank you very much. Up next, CEIP program evaluation. CTC program evaluation. >> Hello. >> So, yes, that went really well today. We had multiple representatives from our our local EMS groups and agencies coming and participating, law enforcement, EMS, uh, All of those were participating. Uh KBSI came and uh he's supposed to be on the news tonight. So >> no casualties. >> It was a training. Uh okay. So talk a little bit about our um program evaluation. And I'm going to so I'm going to kind of jump around a little bit, but you all have this information that we've shared in a few different forms. Um, but strengths of our our program and our programs and and things like that would be placement rate both secondary and adult.
028uh secondary is extremely well but that generally is based on retention which most years hovers at 95ish% on retention for secondary students. Postsecary varies but we're we're an accredited institution. Um we have to meet minimum standards of completion placement lure. We're always well above those uh standards on that as well. Um uh so graduation rates, those types of things kind of fall into that. Business, industry, community involvement. Um I I know it was mentioned earlier um Mr. Casey talked about the mock interview. So we've done over 500 again. >> Wow. So now that's students doing there may be some students who who interview with two different companies or so on so forth but we range from about 75 to just over a 100red employers we have the last few years and so it's really turned
029into an awesome event and what what it also does is it somewhat turns into a hiring event. So, at the end of the year when we do our photo ops with our students in business and industry, a lot of that comes from our mock interviews and the fact that we're putting those students in front of business and industry, but it it it's it gives them a really great opportunity to come in and see what we're doing and see what our students are are are capable of. And so, it it's it was a really really good event. So, uh that's a kind of a strength of the institution. a lot of people go are behind the scenes putting uh putting that together. So, um innovative program programming, registered youth apprenticeships, um they're continually growing. Uh we
030want to that's an area we focused on the last few years. We really want to continue to um we've got some things in place. I think we can go really big with that. Um a lot of business and industry. It's a big initiative at the state level with the last governor, this governor. So again, um you know, growing local workforce, that's what we're wanting. We want to keep our local talent local, but they have to. I've said that over and over, but we would like to keep them here. So, um so that's another one. Uh marketing, uh public image, you know, part of our um part of our school improvement plan. And generally we have to review the prior year because if everything's completed at that point whether it be but according to budget and
031program evaluation or school improvement plan and so one of the things was a continual improvement in our public image. It's amazing you still have people look say I didn't have any idea you done that. Matter of fact our reporter today they come and done the story I had no idea you done some of these things. And so, you know, it we do a lot, I think, within the district and our building and social media, but those continued efforts are something we we continually push because, you know, part of what the CTC's able to bring to the district, just like individual buildings, it's always beneficial to bring good public spotlight. And so, you know, we try to do that as best we can. We don't always succeed, but we try to. um articulated dual credit opportunities
032and partnerships. We continue striving with with uh in particular Simo and Mineral area u mostly with with either collaborative efforts or articulation where our students are gaining that articulated credit by by attending which means we've got to put a little time and effort into making sure our programs live up to standards at for the those post-secondary institutions. And I feel like that our folks do a really good job of making sure we do that. Um we're always striving and reaching out and having those conversations. So that's good. And then you know lastly on the strengths the facilities. Um why I that's a testament to the district and you guys continuing on what other boards and administration have done and and you guys have been really good at that. So, I commend you for that because
033I've been the recipient of that a little bit because, you know, I'm in the position I'm in. So, but I hear it constantly like there's no better person than KTCI in my opinion, in my humble opinion. Um, so now on to some concerns regarding the program. Everybody here's very aware of of the pinch that's probably coming and different things like that. So, you know, program funding cost to Cape Dart public schools is always, you know, a concern and something we look at. Um, you know, we kind we got the numbers on on the prior and and the the current as of 2425. Um, that's that was in that information as well. But, you know, some of the things as a reminder that we're doing um is, you know, we're we're closing the gap a little
034bit here as we go. And I think we're, you know, we're trying to do so even more. So we last year, if you remember, we put in a um a progression of tu tuition increase for the secondary, which we haven't done in several years. this year, this school fiscal year was the first year that the first phase was implemented. And that's a a three-year incremental u phase in process, which was good for our sending schools um because it it gives them planning time and I think it helps them and and which we want to try to do as well, but we also want to make sure that we we get as much as we possibly can to to make sure we can sustain the things. So, this year was the first year of a $50
035increment per student. Next year, it will go to an additional 100 and then the following year to be 150. Our goal is 3,000 for our secondary program and that's tuition per student. Um as and so as as well as that this year we're also proposing for post-secary programming for um tuition increase predominantly for 9mon technical and practical nursing um as well as paramedics. So all nine months technical practice went nursing and paramedic. I did um want to talk a little bit about that too. Um before we go further as far as new tuition increases. So just so you know how we factor in what we do for postsecary. So number one state technical colleges what like A+ things like that are are set up. So when we factor in our our our we try to
036kind of follow where they're at, but we also try to stay under where they're at. We've always done that. So that's kind of the first basis for where we're at with tuition in particular, like with with practical nursing, like we kind of use that as our benchmark. So when you look at the breakdown of the new tuition and the tu the tuition increase it it may look a little wonky because one of them 9 month technical 1.72% and paramedics 2.70% so on so forth. Part of the reason we do that is because because we're an accredited institution and we have to do all the reporting that every postsecary institution does and it's a lot. um we can only go up to a certain percent of a tuition increase per year, otherwise it's flagged and then
037it's a whole bunch more documentation and paperwork that's completely unnecessary. And so we do try to stay under that. And then so we look at that and say, "Okay, if I can get a 2.7, that will kind of round out a number to a good number instead of being 20, you know, $4,623.93." So we try to stay out of that too. So that's kind of where we come up with those numbers and it's because of that percentage base of increase. Now that's post secondary. We also look at on the postsecary 9-month technical we want to finish the year. So we'll bring this back next year. We as a Mr. Adan we bring this back next year for another request just so you know. That way we can keep our secondary and postsecary 9mon technical at
038the same. So in in two years we'll be at the same and then we'll be at the max amount that that we're set for this go around and hopefully so we're trying to do some things like that to kind of close that gap of the cost to the district and I and I know it's it's significant. Um but man it's it's an awesome thing you guys are support. So um so we're very proud of that. Um, you know, program goals, student staff retention, promote school culture, industry recognized credentiing, which changes constantly. Um, career education certificate. We're jumping into that realm a little bit uh the last couple years. You know, grab it. He's taking the the lead on that. And, uh, we started last year with some. We feel like this year we're going to
039have several. It's kind of like um some of the other initiatives that there's there's criteria that's got to be met and attendance being a little bit of a difficult one because it starts a freshman year. We get most of our students as a junior and senior. So the career certificate sometimes can be a challenge to get because Central Jackson all of them have to help us and then track attendance as well. But then there's community service hours or uh uh tutoring hours that that students have to get which is somewhat challenging as well. So it's very similar to A+ that students are getting in high schools. Um but we're working toward that. Mr. Ay says that he thinks we're going to get several this year which is a certificate that that helps the students help
040the sending schools helps APR that type of thing. So it's we're we're glad to get that. um comments about uh performance level. So, one of the things I want everyone to be aware of is that the CTC 5-year strategic plan very very similar but in a different way specific to our building like you're doing the you know work through all the trouble for the 10-year facility plan. So, our strategic plan is kind of like that on a smaller scale, but we're looking to to set that fiveyear strategic plan. 22 was the last year that it was evaluated. This is the year that it's being re-evaluated and will be implemented in 2627. So for the start of the next school year, we've already started having our group sessions, surveys, things like that. We're involving community members,
041involving students, parents, staff members, all of that. We're collecting that data. We have two outside personnel that's running that um for us and kind of setting that up. Um I think their next meetings are with both chambers of Cape Gardo and Jackson. get some input there as well. Um, and then we will be working through that the rest of the spring, finalizing it this summer and having it set uh for the start of 2627 school year. Okay, questions. >> So 1180 just some basic statistics. Is that high school or is that total or >> so um are you talking about >> I was just on the evaluation at the top it said the 1180 >> number of students impacted 118 well so so I got you um this year's um added as well but yes
042that is correct so that that's a total number so that and that fluctuates depending on the year in large part like this like 20 FY26 is 1133 degree. Okay. So, we're roughly 50 students less, but primarily where that fluctuate is our enrichment class. Our our secondary continue to rise. Our postsecar has been very stable, but we've actually added some because we've added some programming. Um, so that's kind of your total number of impacted students. Um, but we're at uh 482 on secondary enrollment. Um, we're at 299 for adults enrollment, 352 for community education or or enrichment enrollment. And, uh, so numbers are are are pretty good in my opinion. Um, you know, we we also added, as you all know, another sending school. So, we're at 11 districts now. Um, 14 sending schools. So, um,
043that's not a big number that's addition, but it but it is another school that we've added. So people want to come come here. So but yes that that will be pretty close depending on give or take. >> How does that rank us against like other CTC type institutions like this this scope like 11 districts and is that average big small? >> It's on the larger side especially in Southeast. Um every career center is different. And so one of the things that that I want you to understand is we're very unique in what we offer at this point in time. Now maybe not always but but at this point in time a lot of career centers have given up adult education all together. Um, in part why that's happened is because like Papa Bluff is very
044similar to us structurally, but they're really not even close to us and how we operate and how many students we impact and and how big we are and how what kind of reach we have. Um, they serve roughly 10 districts as well. um and and they've got the they're just not um and and they don't serve near as many students and they've given a lot of their postsecary, but they've also had Three Rivers right next door for a really long time. And I'll be honest, the postsecary side and the accreditation is a pain. Offering uh federal student aid is a pain, but it's good for students. And so, you know, our goal is continue to provide the best opportunity for students in our area to help the workforce and and everything else. So, um, you
045know, we rate very well as far as of opinion first of all. And again, that's nothing I've done. It's a collaborative effort. We've been going on for a long long time here. So, um, but we offer postsecary and secondary. A lot of your schools, some of your bigger ones like Columbia, they they're only they're secondary only as well. Now, they have similar numbers like a lot of students, a lot of Sunday schools, but they're secondary only. Um, so we differ in that category. Um, there's a few that's kind of similar to us, but we're we're a little bit unique really um for for offering the amount of programs we offer and offering both secondary and postsecary. And then the community ed piece is really cool that nobody does uh too much anymore. So just community
046involvement um lets those folks come in and take some fun classes and and see what we do during the day. So tell the grandkids or the kids or whatever. So yeah. >> And if you guys haven't been out there the what do you call it? The wall of fame. I'm not for sure it's whatever the signing day is. >> Signing day photos. >> If you guys haven't been out there to see it that's awesome. That's really cool. So that's was kind of again a little bit of the advertisement fees but showcase our students and I got something else I want to bring up too. So um that we take a picture of every student who signs and we invite the employer. So just like an athletic sign you got to do all that and then
047we post them we put them on poster and put them in frames and line them up on our wall. Uh we'll replace them next year at the start of the year when and after we've taken all this year's pictures uh here in the next few weeks. Um, we've also put up our um, national champion banners. If you haven't been over there, um, our maintenance department graciously, we we had some, uh, banners made for all of our gold, silver, bronze winners, and we put them up in our big multi-purpose room, and they look awesome. So, I'm trying to showcase some of that off, too. and and you know they have the students named our programs like right now Jonathan Dawkins was our national champion adult winner and in precision um CNC 5 axis and so he's
048got big up in the multi-purpose room so it's really cool anyway any other questions >> keep it up thank you >> okay so I guess one question for you want me to talk more about the proposal. Is that at a later time for the tuition increase? >> That is during business, I think. Do we put that in business? I think >> No, it's not. >> We don't have to do it technically. They want to hear. >> Yeah, it's up to you, Walton, if you want to. >> I want to hear you're here. You're here. So, and you look prepared. So, yes, please. >> Sure. go just a little bit further, I guess, as as far as the the tuition increase for the postsecary program, specifically 9 month technical >> last year, >> which will be
049a $50 uh per term. So, it's broken down into year one is term one, year two is term two for 9 month technical. So, the tuition increase will be a total of $100 per student for that for that one. Paramedic is another one as well. The tuition increase is 125. Generally the the tuition is set and and the books fees that type of thing can fluctuate obviously but the tuition is set by you all and then we request for an increase in that um practical nursing. So as an example that was uh prior was $8,400 on tuition. It'll be go to $8,600. So, it's a total of $200 tuition per student. Uh, uh, 106. We're still below state tech as far as their LPN program. Um, practicing postsecary, which also falls into that. That's where
050a student comes in as a senior for and gets 350 hours of transitions into or transfers into the adult program. usually just come for one year as an adult, but it saves them money because the city school pays that first year of 350 hours, but our nursing program is a 1350 hour program. So, it allows them to transfer in 350 hours of the 1350. So, then they just complete the,000 at a little less cost. Um, so that was previously 6,100, it'll jump to 6250, a 2.5% increase, and then the total cost for that program is $8,100. uh respatory therapy we we did not that's generally set because it's collaborative effort it's a SEMO program now they process for that and so we don't set that program and then we don't we also set a collaborative
051effort for PTA because that's a mineral area um degree preferred program that we just take a portion for and now they're processing paid as well so they pay us for our portion okay >> okay nothing else I do want to just say thank you guys for allowing me to do what I've done for a while. It it's it's been a real privilege to be able to be at the CTC for the last eight years. So, I do appreciate I'm looking forward to the next step, but I do appreciate that and it's been awesome. >> Thank you guys. >> Okay. >> All right. Up next, academic services report. >> We don't have anything at this time. >> Good. Up next after that next is the treasurer finance report. for Miss Dudek is for February tax money
052in so our revenues are exceeding our expenses which is a good thing. Uh beginning fund balance was a little over 30 million revenues received were 7.3. Um, a way that you can tell that we are still receiving tax money is debt service revenues are going up as well because the levy is split between the two funds. Um, expenses of 2.5 million and a transfer of 1.5 special revenue fund leaving us with an ending fund balance of 33.2 million. >> Does anyone have a question? >> No. Ma'am, >> I have a question. Is there a reason like in our debt service fund is there a reason why we only make payments at certain periodic intervals like would we be allowed to like since we have a debt service fund right now at 10.8 million could we
053make a payment on our debt and decrease our total interest expense? So when we issue bonds, okay, we um have a schedule. The schedule is set >> and we've gained two times, >> okay, >> a year on that. And so um you can't prepay your bonds unless they're callable and that's what helps us with. So when we come and refund a bond, when we bring >> Yeah. Didn't we do that recently? >> It means it's callable and we can that's how you do. Otherwise, it's set for the time. >> Perfect answer. Thank you. >> Yep. Thank you very much, Mr. Day. Support services report. Mr. Cra, uh, today we had a meeting with our architects and uh, CM, Department of Construction on finalizing plans for the recovery high school. be expecting a motion to come
054to you in April for a contract of construction on that. So, it's it's getting closer and closer to fruition. Uh on buses and transportation, last Friday, uh the Missouri State High School or I'm sorry, the Missouri State Highway Patrol annually inspects our buses and unofficially right now we have a 98.6 approval rating of our buses, which we have never had that before. is that high. >> We're very excited about that. Officially, the notification will come when all inspections are done across the state, >> but that is our uh unofficial passage rate. >> Basically came down to a secondary bolt on a shock absorber that was loose >> out of all the buses. So, a bolt on a shock absorber was loose and it's a secondary bolt, not a primary bolt. So >> redundancy there. There's
055no harm or anything like that. So we're very excited about that. Other than that, I have no further updates. Let's see what questions. >> No, sir. >> All right. Thank you very much. That's it's impressive. So to say the least, those buses get written hard. So Okay. Up next, board reports. MSBA delegate report. Anybody have anything from Missy? From Dr. Faggley? >> I didn't have anything from her. Okay. >> She told me she had no report. >> Perfect. Well, I think it'll the probably the only report would segue into the Miss Crystal report for the legislative because those went together. >> Um, okay. So, the House passed its HJR173, which is a constitutional amendment that would gradually reduce and eventually eliminate the state's top individual income tax and would be replaced by higher sales income
056tax. Um, so that has passed the House and has now moved to the Senate. I have seen a lot about this in news and social media and different things. So, I'm not surprised if this has come across your screen at some point in the last several days. Um, I there are a variety of projections of how this could impact state revenue. And so, take my number with a grain of salt because again, I have seen a variety. I just tried to pick one that was somewhat in the middle. But eliminating the income tax could create a projected gap of 9.2 billion in state revenue. It is nearly 60% of the state's overall general revenue. So it is a significant amount of our revenue. Um right now it is looking like they would replace it with
057higher sales tax, but there isn't like a specific plan at this point of exactly how that would be covered. Um, I would be remiss if I did not say that there is language in this particular bill that says counties cannot make adjustments to cannot make adjustments that would result in a reduction of funding to public schools. That is in the bill. That said, that sounds great in theory, but one thing that I have repeatedly, I feel like, come here and said is how tight the state budget is this year, how many cuts we're seeing. And so I I think it is hard to fathom how a gap of 60% in the overall general revenue would not somehow trickle down to public education. Um even pretending that we see no cuts in what comes to us,
058the reality is cuts have to come from somewhere. And we are affected as a public school by cuts in other places. If SNAP is cut, that affects our students and our families. If if health services are cut, that affects our students and our families. And I think what we see is that we somehow become responsible for those things. When we have students showing up hungry, we feed them. When we have students showing up and they haven't been able to go to a doctor, our nurses see them. When we have students showing up with mental health problems or needs, not even a problem, just a need. We service them. And so we do end up taking on those responsibilities. So that is it's concerning to see such a gap in funding potentially coming down the pipeline.
059Um you know one thing so like I said it has passed the house and will now go in front of the senate which as a reminder our senator is Jamie Burgerer. One thing that Mr. Ber has said repeatedly to me is how much he likes to hear from his constituents and how he wants to hear from a variety of people. Whether those are school board members or community members, um if you've got a kid in school or if you don't, just anybody, he wants to hear what their opinions are on legislation. And so this is a great opportunity. I think at this at this point, he seems to be supportive of this bill. So whether you agree or not, it's a great opportunity to reach out to him and talk to him about how um
060you potentially see those uh you know what could result from from a cut like that. So that was the main thing I wanted to talk about. Already it has been mentioned a few times we have a vote on April 7th. Um the big thing I wanted to say about that is you can vote early. April 7th just so happens to fall over spring break. it. So, if you were going to be out of town, early voting is very simple. You just go to the election office. There's one on Bloomfield Road, uh, near Bloomfield and Kings Highway. You just walk in, show them your ID, and you can vote right there, just as if it was election day. No additional information needed. Just show up, and they'll let you vote. So, if for some reason you're
061going to be gone April 7th, be sure to get by early. That's all I got. >> Awesome questions. I think she's the greatest legislative reporter in the history of public schools. >> I would agree. >> In my tenure on the board, >> well, thank you. I appreciate that. >> I was one, too. Way better. >> Okay. >> Crystal, you're much better. >> Way better. >> I was one, too. You were like way better than me. >> I couldn't even pronounce legislators. So, >> incredible. >> Does anybody have any public school foundation? >> I do. Miss McDonald did drop off a little something. she could not be here this evening. So, here's an update. We continue to work along our district to support both students and staff in meaningful ways. We are grateful to share that
062we recently received an anonymous donation to support the needs of our football students. In addition, a generous donation or donor has uh established the Roaring Tiger Football Scholarship, an annual 2000 award that will help a football student athlete uh further uh his goal or his education. The other thing um is a reminder of uh May the 11th which is the uh foundation golf tournament that will be at the country club. There is a little form that needs to be signed and filled out. Um also you can um notify uh Amy through [email protected] or call 5736510555. Can I just add one more thing? I just want to give a quick shout out to Miss McDonald because I am the treasurer on CMS's PTO and she works with several of the school PTOs to help them with
063fundraising. If you need um help running your treasury side, she will do that. She lets you put your uh your bank account under the foundation so that you can be nonprofit. She truly goes above and beyond. That is really not part of her what she has to do as the foundation director, but she does it just because she is truly invested. It's greatly appreciated. And so, I just wanted to publicly say how much I appreciate all of those things that she does behind the scenes that people do not even realize she's spending her time doing. So, >> she is awesome. >> Yes. >> You're here. >> That's all I have. >> Well, thank you very much. Okay, up next, non-action items. This is our first reading of board policies IIA, IIA, and IA-R1 resend. So
064again, we'll have a second reading and we'll vote on those. So please review those and uh make sure you're up to speed on those. If you have any questions, you can reach out. Uh next up, approval of consent agenda items. So these brought out there. Hope you guys had a chance to look at them. But we've got our minutes from February 2nd, 2026 and February 23rd, 2026 regular meetings of the board of education. Our payment of bills, >> our career and technology center tuition rates for 2627 in our 2728 academic calendar. And that one threw me for loop. I was like, it's already 27, but that's Yeah. So anyhow, >> all right. Can we get a motion for those? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Okay. Any questions or discussion? No, those are consent agenda.
065Sorry. All those in favor? I say I. Okay. All the consent image items carry. Uh we do not have any business on our agenda for this evening. So any information or proposals from board members. >> Okay. >> Well, Casey, it could be our last board meeting. So, >> yes, it very well could be. Yeah. So, it's been a pleasure. It's been a pleasure. Thank you for getting to work with everybody. So, it's been fun. >> Yeah. So, okay. Well, guys, well, thank you very much. We'll uh motion to adjurnn. Second. All those in favor. >> All right, guys.