001session of the board of education meeting for August. And give me a second here. Dr. Bian unplugged my computer as a joke. Slowed it down. >> We've heard better jokes, but that's okay. All right. Uh, if you all would join, we're going to pledge 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. >> All right, board. We have an agenda before us. Get a motion to approve. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Everybody approved. There was a bunch of them. Good luck. Second. All those in favor? >> I >> Okay, starting off with recognition. >> I am very excited to say we have another award winner, but it's the same person from
002last year. Um, if you all know Nicole Burley, she's got she's won another award and we're really excited about it. Um, she is our JAG teacher. last year uh you know that she was the teacher of the year uh for Southeast Missouri, but she has won another another award uh knowing all these incredible updates. She uh she has won the newcomer the JAG newcomer of the year award for Southeast Missouri. So, we're really proud of all the work that you're doing there. One of the cool things that I got to see uh the first day of school was is that her room is probably one of the most welcoming rooms I've ever been in. And it's because of you. >> It really is truly because of you. Even though there was nice furniture and couches
003and chairs and they're just kind of hanging out and having conversations, good conversations, uh it's because of you. So, we really we truly believe in what you're doing and you know that we're going to continue to support you 100%. Can you come up here and we want to take a picture with you if you don't mind? >> We're super proud of everything that you're doing. We're going to go right here. >> Oh, excellent. [Music] >> Oh, I know. I figured you were coming. >> Sounds great. Oh, wait, wait. One more picture. One more picture. >> Oh, yeah. Like four inches away. >> I think the paper got hot. >> There he is. >> You want to talk about someone that wins awards right here? >> We want to hear your stats. >> That just tells
004you how hard she works every day. >> Um, well, I one of the things I told Dr. when he came by. As I said, it really isn't me, it's the kids. And that's truly who makes my job what it is and makes me successful. Um, but there are some performance goals that they want us to do for JAG for alternative programs and we kind of move them out of the water last year, which was awesome. >> Um, graduation rate for us was 100%. >> Yes, awesome. >> It's pretty good. um part-time or full-time employment. We had 85% of our kids who graduated were employed. We had over 85% of our kids who were either um enrolled in some kind of a school or also employed. Uh we also had 57% of our kids were doing
005some kind of a post-secary credential of some sort as well. Uh we also had 100% connectivity rate because one of the things we do in JAG is we meet with our kids for 12 months after the programs ended. So, they laugh at me because I tell them, I said, "You signed this paper at the beginning of JAG and I'm gonna hunt you down for the next 12 months after you graduate." But they love it and they answer me and we get to know what they're doing for the next year, >> which is absolutely amazing. And they're excited because we have so many new things coming this year. >> Um, we're working with the Boy Scouts to do the Explorers program, >> which is going to be phenomenal. We have some great things coming up. One
006of them in September, we're going to go downtown and do like a downtown Blitz and you Mr. Jared Ritter is going to host us for a little bit and we're going to be down and visiting with Doc Kane and a couple other groups and having lunch and then we're going to work with Epic again. We do the Epic Lens. They're going to do also Epic Pals which is going to be fun because the kids want to work with the animals as well. So just lots of good things and the kids are super excited. So >> awesome. [Applause] >> Thank you. Congratulations. We have next information proposals and comments from the audience. Mr. Payne, do we have any time? >> No request for this. >> All right. And just as a reminder, um request to get
007on the agenda or speak to the board or govern through policies BDDH and KC uh 5 days prior to the meeting to Mr. Payne here at the central office. So, we will move on from there to our tax rate hearing. Is that correct? >> Yep. Tax rate hearing is getting which one here. So, I guess we'll hand it to Miss Dudet. >> Oh. You don't have it memorized. >> Our computer went dead. >> Blow it up here. >> He wants a microphone. >> Yeah. No, just get close to one. >> This one. >> Is this one? Yeah, that's do >> this one's >> I'll pop. >> Okay, pull the batteries out of the car. >> Assessed valuation. Okay. Um this is our prior year. We're in tax year 25. So you have prior year 24
008was 815 million. This is our current um assessed valuation for 2025 is 864 million. It's almost a 6% increase. Our assessed valuation went up. This was reassessment year for us. On non-reassessment years, they just roll the tax books forward. Um, and you only get new construction. In the reassessment year, you get both new reassessments and new construction. We have a little bit over 10 million in new construction this year. Um, we also have the district also as part of the TIF. So, we take that off. The money goes back to the districts for the projects to be reinvested back in those projects. So we our tax basis is the 864. >> Okay. So our levy that we are going to be setting tonight for the operating levy will be 3.4920 4920 6647 for debt service
009um ending in 4.1567. So the 6647 for debt service is what's recommended to us by our underwriters. We had talked a little bit earlier when we were setting the budget about changing that number. I talked to Lorenzo. Um, and longterm for the district, since we've been doing no tax increase bond issues, we need to leave it the same. So, we're not going to be rolling back on the debt service. So, the levy that we are asking for you to approve is this. It will generate 35.9 million of tax revenue. So, total new revenue is a million and that's for our incidental um fund only. That's our operating flex. >> Does anybody have any questions? Not ma'am. >> How long have we held the 4.1567? >> It has 20 years. >> 20 plus years. Long time.
010>> And that was part of kind of a promise to the community. >> When we went to the voters with the $40 million bond issue, we promised that we would not raise our tax levy. So, we're rolling it back. So the state when we submit our assess valuation they give us a maximum levy. So our levy could be higher but we roll it back to keep it at the 4.157. >> Anybody have any other questions or comments? >> I will I will just this is just kind of like a side note. So this valuation goes up 6% that does not mean that your revenue gets to go up 6%. That's not how it pays out. >> There's um something called the Hancock amendment that comes into play and that prevents us from getting the full
0116%. It has different limits levels of limits that you can that you're allowed to increase by. >> Thank you and thank you for the management. Let us keep that promise. So thank you. Exactly. Okay. Up next, board president's report. Um, just had a couple things. The back to school at the high school two weeks ago was a lot of fun. Thank you for letting us all come eat and have a good time. Uh, the jamboree went really well. It was tremendously well attended. It was surprising how well attended it was. It was exciting. Um, and the Fab 3 thing was that was a lot of fun. That was really cool. And the pictures of Dr. You've been in riding the powered tigers around Shroder was a lot of fun. We should bring those here sometime
012and let everybody get a ride on those things. So, >> and if you haven't seen it, get on it's on YouTube and I don't know where all it here in just a minute. >> Fantastic. Going to talk about it. >> Yeah. Okay. >> Hopefully, you've already seen it. >> Yeah, I I did. So, that's all I had. Thank you. And now, superintendent. >> Excellent. Uh well, just congratulations to all the students and staff and families just for a great first week of school. We had a we had so much fun going and visiting the buildings. Uh learned a lot about JAG and what was going on in JAG uh this year. So So congratulations to you uh Miss Burley as well. Um you can just see the energy in the buildings when you're going in
013there. I don't know if it's the parents dropping them off's energy or if it's just the kids ready to be back to school and play with their kids, but we we had a lot of fun. I got to ride the uh old Tiger, so that was that was that that's always fun to do. Um I know that Jefferson, I think, has one as well. So u it's a great incentive for those kids. Although uh Dr. Beck's son chased me, you know, wanted to ride the tiger, too. So he's in kindergarten this year. >> First grade this year. >> Yeah. Oh, first grade. That's right. Um, so I know uh you guys are familiar with what's going on with the CT uh Fab 3. I'm going to uh just kind of turn it over to Miss
014Talent. She's going to tell you the reasoning behind that and and some other cool things uh behind the scenes that are going on with that Fab 3. >> Yeah. And to clarify for people listening at home, those tigers aren't real tigers. They're stuffed tigers. >> Not yet. They're not real tigers. That is correct. We have >> just want to make sure we get that on the record for everyone. Yeah. >> Just wait till new business. >> Um so yes, our our CT Friday Fab 3 is something that's going to be coming to everyone every single week and it's just a way for us to celebrate some of the awesome things that are going on in our district. And we are really lucky again this year because we have another intern who is a Cape Central
015graduate um who also is sharing the expertise that they've learned thanks to our video production um department and uh program over at the CTC. So uh Jazz is actually a graduate of that program and um so for the second straight year we've been able to launch something new within the district. Last year our two interns helped us start our podcast. So this year, um, we have, um, our intern helping us with this, uh, weekly segment. I'm hoping that she'll maybe agree to stay on with us after this semester so we can continue those or we'll figure it out with another intern. Um, but we're going to be going to all of our schools. We're going to be incorporating not just our students and staff, but also our families, too. Um, so they could also present
016our Fab 3 one one Friday just to get some different faces out there. And we wanted to do it on Fridays because the idea is that as we all kind of go into our um various groups that we hang out with uh through the weekend that hopefully you see something and you that sparks conversation within the community within your social circles um and then we have the ripple effect where you know we just get all of these positive things out in the community about our amazing school. So if you guys have ideas um please send them. We want to highlight everything uh within our district. So, um, just opening that up to the community and we're just excited to see where it goes from here. We've already got this week's planned and we're going to
017start reporting tomorrow. And I must say Dr. Vignyan really set the bar very high because he really had a great strong camera presence this year. So, so thank you for that. >> Well, she's telling you it didn't take me 42 takes. >> I did not say that, >> but you did a great job at the first one. Jazz is a master at uh making it look good. That's for sure. >> She she did a really good job. She brought a lot of great ideas and we've challenged her to kind of own it and make it her own. Um so I'm excited to see kind of the way that you know she kind of puts her stamp on it as well. >> Thank you. Anything else? >> Thank you. Thank you, Miss D. >> Thank you.
018Okay, up next CIP program evaluations. uh portrait of a graduate learn one Dr. Beck. >> Yeah, thank you. Um so learn one portrait of a graduate is um part of our CIP. This is going on three years since adoption. It's been multi-year phase planning with portrait of a graduate. It consisted of building a committee of district leadership to even talk about what that would look like for our graduates because portrait of a graduate really is the umbrella that encompasses all students K12. It affects everybody from kindergarten to middle school, junior high, high school. Um, after several committee meetings, they focused on five essential skill competencies that relate to students. Communication, collaboration, critical thinking, adaptability, and being a responsible citizen. Beyond that, we actually came up with skill standard breakdowns for each grade level that relate
019to that skill component and what that should look like in the K6 setting or 712 setting. Some of these things are just links that are embedded in this because it's such a large working document. Um, so I'm not going to read through all of it. Like I said, it affects all students K12 academic services budget alone that encompasses portrait of a graduate's $1.4 $4 million for the previous year. Um, our target obviously is to offer various learning opportunities that promote each of those essential skill traits defined in the focus areas. And then key metrics long-term of this would be our state level academic performance on MAP and EOC, district benchmarks like Galileo across all grade levels, uh, behavioral and attendance data, state assessments, and then college career readiness report data. Um the the quick summary
020without getting too far into the weeds, the 2324 program, that's where the leadership team researched and engaged in the discussions that led to those five uh essential skill competencies and then the portion of a graduate skills breakdown. So it gives teachers a clear understanding of what it is we're looking to master as a standard. Uh moving into 2425, we actually provided K6 712 resource guides for each of our teachers. And then we started reporting through Infinite Campus. Uh total for for this year was we had 21,952 measures against those standards when you're looking at all students, all competencies. So that's either pre to post assessment or both. anytime they're touching one of those competency measures. Um the data indicated Central High and Central Academy exhibit notable strengths in communication. Um working in diverse environments, possessed
021strong critical thinking skills. Terry W. Kitchen demonstrated a high degree of character as it relates to citizenship. Um we were not able to track in this current year all of our elementary metrics. That's going to be the big focus moving into next year is it will truly encompass K12 and there will be consistent reporting across all of our grade cards that are coming out at every level. That looks different at elementary because there's lots of standardsbased grading at the secondary level, not so much. So, it's either reported as a standardsbased assessment grade or a comment at the secondary level. Um, overall, I've included our district APR summary from the previous year. We talk about that in another program report alone. So I'm not going to recap all that. But the district u APR shows that
022we have success ready students that are getting advanced credits. Our graduation grades are growing. Continuous improvement plans. Um we we've got a lot of strong areas. Um academic achievement for ELA and math and science for all the students groups falling between 25 and 50. So once again, the data highlights the importance of maintaining a focus on academic growth and achievement moving forward, which aligns with our goals for portrait of graduate and our CESIP as a whole. Um, I gave this a rating as average because there's always room to get better. And we are not truly assessing all those elementary students yet. So that will be our next big phase moving into the the rest of the current school year. Happy to answer any questions um or inquiries you may have about that. I know it's
023a lot of information. >> I have a question. Um, for that list of skills the portrait of a graduate has, are the the data that you're taking, is that meant for like the district perspective to know how your students are doing in track or is that meant and maybe it's both of these things for the parent perspective for them to be able to like read through and see how their student is doing? >> So, it's a little bit of both. Okay. So this is these are all the educational experts getting put into one room, right? So district leadership and saying K6 and 712 regardless of grade level, these are the skills you have to possess to become the graduate of the district. We want to see walking out of our doors, right? >> So that
024communication uh responsible citizenship, all those things, >> those were the five core competencies that everybody could agree on between every level. But then how you assess that looks different, right? Sure. At a second grade level versus a 10th grade level, >> right? >> So that was getting down >> detailed enough to have standards that were being assessed that align with the curriculum that's already in place as it relates to content. So like ELA for communication or you know vice versa depending on the course. >> And then what Tina and Nick Ko do is they provide rubrics to measure against that. >> Yeah. So, it's showing you is your student already meeting this expectation or have they demonstrated growth or is this an area working into the next grade that they should be looking for improvement?
025>> Yep. My thought just as from the parent perspective is these have started showing up. I guess it was last year, maybe correct me if I'm wrong, for my junior high student in particular. Um, since it's parentf facing, I think it would be nice to have some communication of like th this is what this is. I was somewhat familiar just because I'm on the board and so we talk about this portrait of a grad graduate a lot, but I don't know otherwise I would have understood this like two sentence blip that says met or whatever where it was coming from. You know what I mean? And so I think it would be nice to see like more of a bird's eye view. this is our overall goal and so these are the metrics we're trying
026to make your make sure your student is meeting. This is where this is geared to. Now, I think it's a great idea just frontloading the information. Yeah. To parents so they have a better understanding >> and it looks different like if you have a student at the elementary and secondary level, >> right? Of course, >> when you get the report card, they look completely different. >> Yes. It's much more simplified, at least what I've seen so far at the elementary level >> than it is this longer version that I'm seeing for my junior high students. So, yeah. And to add add to this with with curriculum as we're as we're going through and and we just finished um what was it? Social studies this last year foreign language um this this exactly last year and
027then science moving forward we're also aligning assignments and and lessons and and units along with this. So like what what portrait of a graduate skills are we talking about? Are we building toward in this? And so that's a starting last year and then the last couple cycles and then moving forward. >> So >> any other questions? >> Don't believe so. >> Hey, I'm sorry. Just before we move on, we actually had a quick piece to talk about. >> I was going to ask that real quick. See what that was. It's like you got a pretty graphic chart there. to look at. >> That's a good chart to see the success. >> You guys know how much I like making charts. >> We weren't going to skip it. I was >> skip hard on this one.
028>> And really what what I really love about this chart, it's a celebration of what the high school's been working hard at. Um and that is to focus on our freshmen. Uh focusing on um surrounding them and and giving them all the resources that they need to be able to to be successful. And so this is a year-over-year report. We we gave this report first last year and so this is just an update on where we're at from that data. Uh that just shows that over the last three years we've cut in half our freshman retention. So that means freshman >> can you explain what the >> Yeah. Yeah. So >> to me retention should be going up not down. So I was confused when I >> So retention is they're staying they're being retained
029>> retained. That's a good thing. >> They want to get their credit. >> Okay. I thought retention meant they were staying within our district. >> Oh, there's there's that retained joke. I'm confused. >> No, we we want them to metriculate onto the next grade and this is these are the kids who aren't, but >> that is grow that is less than half and so >> great. >> Um, you know, kudos to the high school and and their teams that are just surrounding kids and making sure that, you know, they're getting those supports. Um, >> and coach, coach, I love to put people on the spot, so I'll just ask you because you're sitting out there. >> The big question we get, and we're not the ones in the school, obviously. So, has eliminating cell phones
030had any part in this? >> I think it's been great. >> So, you think yonder's probably played a big role in that? >> There's a direct correlation to that and a lot of other positive things, too. >> Awesome. >> I have a I have another question. Um, this is not a question that I have personally. It's just when this topic comes up, something I hear people say is, "Well, yeah, they're passing kids on because they're lowering the standards essentially. They're just making it easier and that's why this number looks so good." So, what do you have to say to that? >> Yeah, I mean, you can ask our math teachers if they feel like that we're >> decreasing the expectations and they can tell you that that's probably not the case. So, um, >> definitely
031not. Um yeah, just ask the math teachers. They'll they'll tell you the opposite. So, >> and so the criteria >> uh always there. >> Yeah. >> For us. >> So, the criteria for being retained like and staying in one class, it's because you didn't achieve enough >> total credit hours to move forward. So, you guys you failed X number of classes total >> out of seven or eight. >> So, you have to be hitting six or more rolling year to year. 6, 12, 18, 24 for graduation to stay on track with your cohort. When you pull in less credits than that, you're automatically reclassified as same grade level retained, >> which would be two or more classes failing, generally speaking. >> Yeah. So, they have an opportunity to get seven, seven per year at the
032high school, >> and they only have to hit six. So, then if you fall below six, >> you would be looking at being retained. Thank you. >> Was an important graph. I'm glad we >> spent a long time talking about it, >> especially now that we retention is >> now that we know what retention is. >> Thank you guys very much. Um, youth sports elevate five. >> Good evening. Do you want to sit here because there's not >> there's no microphone. There's no microphone. Come on. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Actually, just stand. >> Or you could do like Lindsay and say you're going to talk really loud but not talk loud enough for the mic to pick you up and the AV guy is going to get on your case. Just the contrast. >> Well,
033good evening. Uh Ryan pushed this to the the board agenda today. So, um I I won't read directly off of it, but LM85 that's my the what Mandy calls I'm the champion of Elevate 5. Um so, Mr. Support youth athletics programs through this that's a N6 EA4. Um the super design will continue to increase participation in the new youth athletic program. That's me. Uh and then you have the action steps there. uh that how we are going about doing that when we wrote this uh uh step or these steps how we're how we're going about doing that and the strength of the program data there uh numbers wise um again I pulled this from our final for our previous platform uh final forms are numbers at each school as you can see those have gone
034up >> uh for each of those and you know I'm always pushing to that thousand number we got it this year again this is individual kids in that school at least one sport, right? So, a lot of those kids are could be could be participating in in multiple sports. Uh but this is the those are the numbers that they're from from those grades one through uh six. Now, I will say we're fully implemented which helps uh the numbers, right? So, I'm not going to sit here and give you a number and tell you well it's because we we did all these things. It's because last year was the first year we were fully implement imp implemented one through six on all of the sports that we currently are a part of. Right? So then if
035you go to the back page or well it's my back page it shows the breakdown of sports by school. Okay. Uh or sports across those schools and where they're going where they've gone. Again flag football, cross country and volleyball. I'm not trying to pull a wool over your eyes. We added first and second grade there. Right? So that's why the increase of numbers for those. All right. And then uh boys basketball, those increases that have come. We did go down in in soccer and track and field. Uh but we're still above year one numbers in in those, right? Uh so that's shown the increase. And then the total increase from 1165 to 1273. So almost a 10% increase of participation. We're going to level off, right? I mean, it's great to show progress. Mhm. But
036we're we're getting close to a peak. Uh and I we're still going to see some of these waves. I'm sure depending on classes. I know our sixth grade class right now, for example, a lot of those especially girls um are participate in our programs, a ton of them. So when they go into seventh grade, we won't see those kids anymore, right? So you will see some of those as we go along, but I do think it will start to level off. The next things there, our coaching staff numbers were enhanced. Again, career ladders helped helped retain good coaches because we have the opportunity to pay those pay those people for volunteering their time. Uh that's helped us out with coaches. Grade levels again were expanded this past year to include first and second grade for
037volleyball, football, and our flag football and cross country. Our district coaching staffs, this is probably the thing I'm the proudest stuff of our coaches, our high school coaches, is that we have increased the number of camps and youth activities exponentially. It's our I keep a a spreadsheet that I share with the the administrators and all of us at admin. They'll see it at every one of our admin council. This is upcoming events. The number of events we have this year compared to the year p years years past the year it is just grown a lot over the course and and we're still adding right. We had our first this summer we had our first junior high uh they're calling them kickarounds where they do they bring the junior high kids out to play soccer since
038we don't have a a a dedicated junior high soccer program on Wednesday nights both coaches the whole coaching staff brought them out did those we had our first youth soccer camp at the end of the summer softball camps um our football camp we have in May so they continue coach Frasier will do his boys basketball camp that that'll span six Tuesdays in in the fall uh So adding those camps has been an important part of uh increasing the opportunities for our youth. Uh we have addressed some talent disparity in our leagues with Kate Parks and Rack. We had some areas especially when we first started these kids hadn't had any access. So we were behind uh over the course of those last few years K parks and rack has worked with us in each depending
039on the on the sport where we could have our own division essentially. So we're not and we still work on those season by season if we have enough teams. >> So just for example, if we have nine teams, it's easy for K parks and w to say, hey, everybody's going to play each other once we play eight games, right? >> If we have five teams and they've got five teams, okay, we can play each other twice, they can play each other twice. And but there still that way we still control who we're playing. If depending on the number of teams in those divisions, we can have some crossover. So, it just and they're great about working with us on on doing those things to try to keep that disparity at at bay. We added Special
040Olympics track and field teams grades three through six this year. We had nine kids that participated in the Special Olympics. I talked about that back in April and May. U we're looking to expand those programs as well. Our our concerns obviously finding qualified coaches is and always will be the challenge. I'm currently still finding uh much better. Last year at this time, we had three coaches that had uh volunteered to coach flag football for 18 flag football teams. I currently only need three coaches uh for 16 football team. So, as we continue to grow those, more people get involved and they stay involved. I've got one lady that's coaching four volleyball teams this fall. So, uh that's great people that are are stepping up and doing those things, maintaining momentum and positive outcomes, eliminating barriers
041to participation, you know, those things, those other barriers. equipment, things like that. We do a great job as a district making sure we take care of those of of those people and convincing nonparticipating families. Some some in some respects, guys, some people just aren't going to do it. Either they're either they're not going to get involved or they don't see the value of it and they're doing other things that they want to do with their family. Hey, have at it. These are for those that can't uh or or want to be a part of our program. Uh the other the last one is the absence of program design for students with disabilities. We're trying to address that. Uh, and we have a plan for that and it's linked. You got to go to your thing.
042The plan that Mandy and I have developed to to do this just like we've done our youth sports programs is a part of that. Uh, identify ways to expand a program include sports swim diet, tennis, golf, and wrestling. That's still we're in constant connection with the city about how how we do those. They're just not as easy, right? uh to do some of those those sports the way they the way they currently do them with our students. So, we're still trying to figure that out. Expand programming through Special Olympics to increase participation for students with disabilities. We in our plan, we're we're planning on adding basketball, but of course, you got to have the numbers to play basketball, right? And then adding grade levels, seventh and eighth to uh to our track and field numbers
043for this year. Uh target accessible coaches early provided with adequate training training through our CGPS staff. One of the things this Thursday, Coach Purdue is when we meet with our volleyball coaches that are coaching, she's actually going to run a short coaches clinic with those coaches. Coach Purdue is also doing that for girls basketball. Coach Fraser is going to do that for boys basketball. So, teaching that those people, hey, this is what you can do. These coaches can can learn from them and do it with our high school kids being involved. I say overall we're above average, but as as always, there's room for improvement and we're trying to continue to do that. Uh, move in a positive direction. Uh we got a willing committed partner in Kate Parks and Recre. Um and a couple
044of things that's not in this particular thing. Our PE teachers at the elementary level and middle school level are doing a fantastic job of the basic skills and uh intramural part uh that we don't normally talk about in this report, but they're awesome. I mean, we meet I meet with them at the beginning of the year. They they we make tweaks. We change things. Hey, we need to we need to run this at this time. Hey, can you help us out with some equipment? So forth and so on. It's it's uh it's been they've been they've been really good. So I kudos to them. Any questions for me? >> So I'll just give a quick shout one quick shout out. So I want to say thank you to the coaches who do this especially uh
045on a volunteer basis and then our our coaches from the high school and the junior high and places that are helping kind of help people understand how to coach better. But the one sentence in here that I want to always bring us back to is the one in your goal that says research shows that participation education education based athletics improves academic performance, promotes good citizenship skills, elevates attendance, and reduces negative behaviors because like >> we're probably not building the next generation of NBA superstars, but hopefully we're building good people who turn into good adults and kind of are leaders in our community. And so amen to all the stuff you guys and your team are doing. >> You bring it up every year. I'm so glad you do. You know, that's just part of what
046I I I think it's one of those things that I I I maybe don't think about as much because that's what we all I do in day we do day in and day out as athletes and coaches and >> it's like that's what our goal is. We tal I've talked to several coaches, you know, our high school coaches about, hey, we're here to about make better people. We're not, you know, so >> that's the goal and I appreciate you bringing that up. >> And I love sports as much as the next guy, but we're making great people, which is even better. >> Yes. >> I don't love sports and I love that we do this. So I'm I'm dead serious. >> It is so important and I love that we have this program. >> I
047the hardest thing to do I think from what that is extrapolating data that's on behavior attendance. But I'm telling you >> the co the principles that call me and say hey I I had XYZ in the in the hall today and they I said are you playing sports? Yep. Do you want to continue to play sports? And that kid acts better because of that just for that one interaction. >> Yeah. >> And again, that's where our PE teachers come in too. They do a really good job of of using those, >> you know, that carrot instead of having to always use the stick. >> Yeah. >> Right. >> So, like way back, but we say way back three, four years ago when we kind of started down this journey based upon that goal statement. Um,
048one of the metrics that you'd had was at the high school level or it might have been district I forgot what it was but it was the overall participation and it was I don't remember 20 59 I don't know it was >> participation rate at the start around 27%. >> So like longitudinally I mean it's going to take time to get it bought in but as we see that as they get towards the end as we track that too to see and whatever it is I mean there's gobs of clubs. looked at the high school data for final forms and we're at about 830 that are involved in something. Now that includes bands, everything that we do through MESHA which is about 300 over what we were when we started this. Now I I won't
049say that that's all that of course it is part of we are as Lindsay can tell you start one of our one of our issues now is we we've built this hey look we're going to participate let's go let's go let's go and then we get the junior high we go okay we're going to we're going to we got a pipe right it's it so we're looking at ways to expand u our team sizes at the at the junior high level and her and I worked on that to make sure that then coach Connor has done a great job of trying to find opportunities for those people that that way we're not cutting as many kids here. We are we want to want you to participate and then we say well but but the team
050can only have 10 seventh graders and 10 eighth graders, right? >> So that's that's you know a little bit more negative. >> We we got to we got to continue that participation because we don't know when that seventh grade kid that hasn't grown yet >> will still be able to participate in high school. >> And sometimes it can just be for fun. Honestly, this is one of the things I don't like about sports is I'm not into the competition but like I really >> a trophy. I just like that you are you're creating a program where kids can just come and have fun. Like it can just be because you like hanging out with your friends and it it gets you engaged in the whole district. And I I think there's so many other important
051pieces to it like it's okay to have kids who just want to do it because they're just enjoying the process, not because they're getting a scholarship or whatever. >> We try to push that as hard as we can to our youth. I mean, you I mean, these are these are these aren't professional coaches, but they when they come in, it's like, "Hey, remember there's they're here to have a good time. This is about winning a trophy at the end of >> Crystal." I think what Tyson was getting at was Michael Jordan got cut as a freshman in high school, >> and we don't want to have that happen to us. >> One more year, we had you're missing the entire point. >> Sorry. >> Yeah. Thank you very much. Yeah. Hey Tyson, talking about good
052back to school days. Can you share since we've got a champion in the room what you uh >> ended our back to school admin meeting with >> with the real 2009 class one uh 4x 4 by 200. He gave me the video. >> That's awesome. >> Talked about teamwork. Sorry you guys had to watch that. >> We enjoyed it. We watched it multiple times. >> You watched the first three legs. We didn't watch. >> Well, we were ahead by then. That guy ran the the third leg on that championship squad. Ran the leg of his life. We'll take that. But it was fantastic right now. >> I might make it 50. >> Oh man. >> Well, thank you very much. >> Oh yeah. Academic services report. Hopefully this is just as exciting. >> Very short.
053It was my other report. So, good to go. >> Okay, cool. Thank you. Thank you. Community Teachers Association report. We're excited. >> Oh, new blood. >> This is going to be good. Wherever you would like. >> Well, good evening. I'm Shannon Burgoff. I'm our CTA president this year and I have five pages of shoutouts from um two weeks of school with teachers, which is fantastic. I'm going to go fast, so if you need me to slow down, just like give me the motion. So, in Albasher, thank you to Miss Cook and Miss May for being part of the painting crew this summer and making several of our classrooms look fresh and bright. A big thank you as well to Miss Genie and Mr. Allen for all their hard work in getting Sweet Home Alma Shrider
054ready for the new school year. Finally, a huge shout out to our entire faculty and staff for what was probably the best and smoothest start to a school year. From Blanchard, wow, our paras are top-notch. I'm grateful for them. Our new staff members are rocking their new gig. They are organized, caring, eager to learn, and kind. Our staff handled losing power the first day of school like it was just a normal day. People pitched in to calm worries, bring lights, assist with dismissal, and all the little things in between. We are flexible, creative, and overcomers. Our math scores are a representation of the continued high expectations being set and goals being smashed. from CAO. A huge thank you to Jamie Russell for your incredible support for our esports vision. Your dedication to unifying our program
055from 7th through 12th grade is helping build something truly special, a connected, competitive, and inclusive experience for all our students, all our student gamers. Thank you to Tina Shusler for having Super Kids online ready before the first day of school. Rhonda's worked so hard helping ECC with the new cafeteria. Thank you for all of your help from Central Academy. This being the first week was challenging for all. So, a shout out to all staff at CA for being flexible, creative, patient, and welcoming to new and returning students. Clifford, a shout out for all staff. Everyone is doing a great job during the first week of school. The custodians are amazing because the building looks fabulous. Thank you for your hard work this summer. The office staff is handling everything that is thrown to them with
056a grace and ease that is amazing. From the CTC, Alex Kern has been amazing for helping us with all of our tech. He's always very helpful, informative, and timely. Shout out to our administrative assistants in the front desk for keeping us informed and on track. Our custodial team has done an amazing job of getting all four of the buildings on our campus cleaned, waxed, and painted over the summer, all while being short to custodians. Our admin team is on top of everything and helping new staff get acclimated, and ready to begin instruction. We couldn't ask for better leaders. A big thanks to Emily Elliot. She is always ready and willing to help staff and te students with their technology needs. We could not have started this year without her tireless efforts. She also teaches ELA
057for all the seniors at the CTC, that's hundreds of students, and organizes mock interviews where students are interviewed by real employers in their industry. And then there's just a finger pointing up to that one to be like, ditto. Early childhood center arrival and dismissal teams are working hard. They have the routines down in their new building, and the carline is moving faster than ever. Nurse Jenny has been our allergy hero with having several students who have food allergies. Nurse Jenny has been diligent about sharing this information with staff in the cafeteria. Megan Flowers have been very helpful in getting the new building set up. Sarah Watson has started collaborative teams to better implement the new curriculum. All staff has been energized about our new tiny tigers. We have new faces, a new building, and a
058new curriculum, and they all are smiling and positive. from Franklin. Shout out to all our teachers and staff at Franklin for being amazing additions and having a positive mindset for starting the year. Franklin's special education teachers and teacher assistant assistants have been rock stars this week. We are so grateful for their energy, flexibility, and the care they have for our students. Big big shout out to our kindergarten teachers who are always eager to welcome new Tigers with enthusiasm and love each year. They set our kids up for success from day one. From the high school administrators have been beyond helpful and visible since the first day of school. They are seeing they are seen tea talking to staff helping students and making sure everyone is starting the year off on the best foot. I am
059thankful to be at a school that really feels like family. A big shout out to Miss Staple who during PD had the most inspirational presentation to date. Her love for students, her belief in their potential even when their kid may not see it himself is infectious. As a teacher, I felt fired up to go change the world. Bravo from Jefferson. Miss Walker and Miss Graham have been so supportive and helpful, helping with duties, making sure students get where they need to be, listening to concerns, and leading us well. We are blessed. Miss Diamond for going above and beyond to help where she is needed. Thank you to our custodians for making sure our building is sparkling. Our prek team has been amazing, helping each other with anything that needs to be done. Miss Ran moved
060grade levels this year before school started for the second year in a row, helping her staff get acclimated and getting ready. Wait, no. She is a rock star. Sorry. From the junior high, a big thank you to our special education teachers and TAs for being so helpful, flexible, and student focused during the first week back. Piggybacking off that, Sydney Sydney Fleming has done phenomenal with our functional classroom to begin the year. Coach Campos is doing a fabulous job with adaptive PE. Shout out to Corey Chunning for doing a great job with PD schedules and agendas. Thank you from to Miss Natalie Rice for making sure that all of our TAs are prepared every day. And from the middle school, Miss Crowder has been a wonderful addition to the sixth grade team. She is great with
061her students and co-workers, and we are loving the vibe she brings. Miss Moore has done an amazing job practicing expectations with her students. They're displaying wonderful class and hallway behavior and setting a positive example for other classes at CMS. Hannah Min continues to be an asset to CMS. She takes every role and task seriously but kindly and can be counted on to be present and engaged. Tiffany me and Bertha King are rock stars in the cafeteria. Becky Wright and Travis Wilson are working hard to set expectations and keep it positive for all of our students, faculty, and staff. >> Thank you. >> We got to give you more assignments. You're like a female Ron Burgundy reporting live from Cape. >> Oh my gosh. >> Well, welcome. Welcome. Thank you. >> Good job. She did a
062great job. >> Okay. Well, thank you again. Um, treasurer finance report, >> Mr. Dud. >> This is different. If you notice, this is a little bit different than the one I normally because this is normally year to date. So since it's July, I can report on this one the only time throughout the year. >> That's fantastic. >> So um same report, we'll break it out by funds. Our be our ending fund balances from last year roll over to this year. So our general fund starting $22.2 million. Um we received 1.1 million in revenues and our expenses were actually a little bit less than our revenues. million. Um, in July, we the payroll only have payroll for our 11 to 12 month staff. So, it's less than normal, which is why our teachers fund has an
063actually has an ending fund balance this month of $782,000 um for August. That will go away and we'll start transferring monthly >> like we usually do. But um ending our general fund with a fund balance of $22.2 2 million. The other report gives the details of what makes up the expenses and revenues if you are interested in looking at that. Does anyone have any questions? >> Okay. >> All right. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. Okay. Up next, uh board I'm just kidding. Sports services report. >> We started the school year with prospos on our menu last Tuesday. Students were happy to get those. Uh you'll see uh the bus routes in front of you here a little bit later on and just speaking about that for a little bit since it's in the
064consent agenda. Those are adapt to change just a little bit every now and then. We're still tweaking those out. What really is hurting with us with those are water main brakes and road construction right now where some of those stops are constantly being uh changed throughout the day. So the stop may be in one place in the morning and then we try to do our best to communicate as we get that information from the city communicate that out. Social media rooms, all sorts of different platforms that we're utilizing. Uh as well going back to the shoutouts, uh our maintenance custodial staff did a tremendous amount of work over the summer. Uh we're currently uh in the mode of not having any new construction projects right now. So, uh, we're going back and catching a backlog
065of a lot of different, um, work orders that we have and getting caught up. We are also, uh, pretty much all districts are fully trained on our back to school, uh, processes. Schools will be going through a multitude of drills, uh, by the end of this week. They started last week and, uh, we'll finish up a lot of their drills next week and those will be ongoing throughout the school year. So, uh, other than that, everything is going great, unless you have questions, concerns, or comments. >> Okay. Thank you very much, sir. >> Okay. Up next, board reports. We'll start off with the MSBA delegate report. >> Um, the only thing I have is regional meetings are happening in September and I think ours is the 24th at Farmington. So, we'll probably if we haven't
066already gotten an email about that. >> We will be getting one soon asking who's >> going to think I came today. Maybe >> might have. Yeah. Watch your MSBA emails if you can make it. Great. Thank you very much. Legislative report. >> Um, uh, we mostly already talked about the big thing which is SB3. just I was going to add um just like kind of a zoomed out perspective is there is just a general push to move away from property taxes and move toward sales tax. The reason that's problematic for us specifically is because there is not a mechanism for school districts to implement a sales tax that we are not allowed to do that. So if you lose your property tax, which for us is fluctuates year-toear, but around 50% of our revenue, if
067you remove that revenue, we don't have a way to make that up in in another way. We we can't just start charging a sales tax and making up that that uh income that we're getting. So that's why these these moves these legislative moves are so concerning to us because it would have a huge impact that we can't fix essentially. Um, one thing that that is important to me kind of as the legislative representative is I've really been trying to connect with our legislative reps as much as I can, our um, our house representative and our senator. Just making sure he knows who we are, talking to them as much as I can about what our district is doing and why XYZ legislative move is important to us or that we're against it. I really try
068to maintain that line of communication just as often as I can. I have been nicely bugging them for the last six months to please come to our district and tour. I really really want them to see just get their own eyes on all the amazing things we do. There's always some new thing that you know recently it was the welding facility or like the new early education where this the early education students are now we invest so much into our students. It is so important to our community and I really want them to see that with their own eyes like when you're making these decisions when you're placing these votes like these are let me put the child in front of you that you are affecting kind of thing. Um, so I've, like I said,
069been kindly bugging them and Senator Burgerer is actually coming. He finally called me this morning and he's coming tomorrow to tour. So, Dr. Bignyan, I don't know if you're coming, Dr. Beck. I I'd said something to Dr. Bignyan. >> I may have, Mandy. >> Oh, okay. Great. Um, so he's going to come and tour the welding facility. And so, I'm really excited about that. Not that I think one tour is gonna forever change the way he votes or whatever, but just continuing to make those connections with him and talk to him and, you know, just get him engaged in our specific district. So, um, that's it. That's all I got. >> Thank you very much. >> I ran into uh Jamie today. He told me >> and he mentioned that you guys have been in
070constant communication. So, I was excited to hear that. And >> he was also excited to >> He mentioned that Crystal Bug passed away. He had nothing but positive things to say, so I thought it was great. >> Fantastic. Well, thank you very much. >> Yep. >> Okay. Cape Public School Foundation. >> I will do that one. Um, the foundation was able to help the district purchase school supplies for about 500 families. And then the only other thing is a reminder about the penguin party. It's our 20th celebration, February 14th, >> Valentine's Day night. >> The band is The Remedies out of Nashville. So, it's supposed to be a pretty good rocking time. Um, tickets, tables, and sponsorship will be on sale soon. >> I just really quick did the math. 500 families that we That's
071more than 10% of our student population. Like, that that is that's huge. That's awesome. >> Yeah. The foundation. >> Yeah. >> And that was due to community businesses, individuals that donated funds directly to the foundation and then the foundation covered any additional costs that were not raised um >> through businesses in the community as well. >> What a difference to how a student starts their year. >> Great. >> Thank you very much. Okay. Moving on. Approval of consent agenda items. So again, these were out there. We had minutes from July 21st, 2025 regular meeting of the board of education payment of bills, adult meal prices, bus routes for the 25 26 school year. Uh can we get a motion for those? >> So moved. >> Second. Okay. Um all those in favor? >> I >>
072Okay, those are carried. So let me get my mouse to work here. There we go. Okay. Up next is business. Uh so up first we've got a recommendation to approve the 2526 out of district tuition for elementary and secondary students at a rate of $11,500. We got a motion for that. >> So moved. >> Second. Okay. Any discussions on that one? >> I can just kind of elaborate on that. Um so every year we set the district tuition and um consistently we've been raising it $500 every year. So, this would apply to students who don't live in our district but attend. So, um if their parent owns a business and pays property taxes to the district, um they can they can choose to attend here and um be tuition paid and then also it is
073for students who attend the surrounding K8 districts and if they choose to go here for high school. So we actually go for school for the tuition. >> Anybody have any questions or comments on that? >> One clarification. Remind me is no. Is there another one? I live in Nove. >> Okay. >> Um >> we build that district. >> Yes. >> Oh, I didn't know how that worked. >> It's all about where you pay your taxes. >> Yeah. >> So the people who live in North, they're paying their taxes. School is getting tax money. So we are billing the school >> okay >> for the students they have that attend here. So last year we had 27 students attend and we do not have any parent students. >> Any other questions? >> Okay. All those in
074favor please indicate by saying I. >> Any Okay. So the motion to approve the 2526 out of district tuition at 115 carries. Up next, approval of the tax rate that we discussed a little earlier. So, the recommendation is to set the 25 property tax rate per $100 as follows. Incidental fund 3.492, teachers fund zero, debt service fund 0.6647, capital project fund zero for the total levy of 4.1567. So, no change. Um, can we get a motion? >> So, moved. >> Second. Okay. Discussion on this. Miss Dud kind of went through it earlier, but any other questions or comments? Um, you know, when we set the levy, we're always going to have because we have bonds, we are always going to have a debt service levy. Um, as soon as we issue bonds, we are saying
075that we are committed to paying those back so that we will always have that. Um, we do not have a capital projects fund levy this year. We moved that back to the incidental fund which will um cover our main operations and then teachers fund and capital projects fund. We utilize transfers to get funds there if we need them. So, this will generate um for our op operating revenue a little over a million dollars of an increase. >> One question, Lindsay, I was going to ask you earlier, but then I decided not to. The debt service fund obviously were saying like our folks from our bond issuing folks were saying they're recommending what that number be. >> Sure. >> Does it normally operate in a certain range like like high or low? like it's gone up
076a little bit now based on what it was previously, right? >> So 6647 has been their kind of set number for us. >> Um it's where they feel comfortable that we can continue to issue funds at a no tax increase. We have 100% fund balances in our debt service fund. We're allowed to have that. You're allowed to have up to 100%. So having the levy set here gives keeps us at 100% fund balances. >> So if something terrible happened, we would have enough money to pay >> then they could adjust it >> bond payments just take less out of the incidental >> or more. So incidentally inc they do fluctuate because you we roll our levy back every year but when you roll it back in an even number year you cannot recoup it the
077following year. So you can only do that in your odd number of years. So we we do change between the incidental and debt service depending on that because we don't want to We don't want to roll back the operating funds for two years. We don't want to be committed to that financially. It's hard on us and our debt service balances are good enough that we can because they're 100% we have enough money in there that we can um we can um >> change that levy a little bit. >> That's that's what explains like when it says 5848 and now 6647. Yes. >> Okay. That's what I was trying to ask. >> So last year I didn't want to commit to rolling the debt the operating levy back for two years. So I roll back the
078debt service >> because you debt service. It doesn't apply to debt service. >> Cool. Thank you for the clar. >> Y >> other questions, comments. >> Okay. Uh please, if you're in favor, indicate by saying I. >> I. >> Okay. Any opposed? Nope. Okay. The uh property tax rate for $100 2025 carries as displayed up there with all those numbers. So, okay. And next up, adoption of board policies. So, uh, some legislative changes. These are board policies that will reflect those changes and get us up to speed. Uh, so the recommendation is to adopt the following board policies as recommended by MSBA and the policy review committee. BBA1, board member qualifications. If you plan on running again, make sure you read that one. Um, policy IGBI, homeschooling and other um, educational opportunities, I believe. Policy
079IGCD, virtual courses. Policy IGCDA, full-time MOCAP virtual courses. Policy IGD, district sponsored extracurricular. Policy IGDAA, resident participant students. Policy JFCD, student use of personal communication devices. Regulation JGR2, student discipline. Uh so can we get a motion for those? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Okay. Any discussions or comments on those? I'll jump in. This this policy update, as you mentioned earlier, the primary purpose is just MSBA's recommending the immediate updates because the law goes into effect August 28th. So, this gets you in compliance as a school district with a lot of things passed in Senate Bill 63. Um, like a variety of legislative items coming. Uh, Mr. Moyer's is still here. He's gotten lots of guidance from Misha regarding non-traditional student participation and participation of homeschool FPE students. We talked a little bit about that
080at our last meeting. >> He's been getting a couple updates. Do you want to share those? >> Yeah. Uh well, actually right before this meeting, we got the the the ballot. We had a special ballot from Misha to accept the changes to the handbook handbook and board policies. Their board meeting was yesterday. they or no today there more means today they sent put policies in so all it was is for us to vote for it for us to stay in compliance with state law right similar to what we're doing here with these board policy updates so there that's been done that's been changed in the handbook um all those things now for us we still have like MSBA sent us some u basically like forms that well they are forms for those things that we
081need from the families uh basically verifying that they are enrolled in six credits and that they are passing those six credits. You know, either have or will depending on their where where we're at in the semester. We'll do that great just like we do great checks uh those students. So, uh no no more other updates than that. Uh you know, constant questions about I know some of the stuff that's with CTC, but also for us for specific clubs. For example, Haley Russell had sent me an email about Beta Club has national and state constitution bylaws that say you have to be XYZ, but you know, our state law says we have to allow those students in in for Bay Club. And the reason why it says in their bylaws that the principal decides so the
082principal is by state law has to allow those students to be in those clubs. So, it's different for every and we're going to navigate through each each one. >> As Tyson mentioned, that's a total different road. We're waiting to get guidance from legal counsel regarding career and technical center because we have sending schools, sending kids in that are paying tuition to be in those seats for those programs and are also involved in some of those co-curricular extracurricular activities. So, we've gotten zero guidance on that so far. So, >> don't look to me. >> We're we're patiently waiting for updates as is of now, but as soon as we get more information, we'll share it. >> And then a couple other policy updates in here. JG, JGR2, and then JFCD all are in regard to student
083cell phone usage, >> which we were already in compliance with technically, but we did have to revise our language to the exceptions portion specifically to make sure the language is correct with the new state law. Any other questions on those? All right. Um, all those in favor, please indicate by saying I. I. >> I. >> Okay. Those board policies are updated. And last up, information and proposals from board members. Do we have any? Okay. Can we get a motion then to adjurnn? >> I do have one question. Yes, sir. Former PE students. Obviously, I failed Crystal. I passed. >> I know sports. >> Jared, is there one sport, one game that you were exposed to that has been a lifelong factor >> to you and you've always been able to go back and like pull
084that out and and use it >> and even been given permission to >> given permission to rename it? >> Yes. >> Crow ball was used at the FCA camp. Uh, and I was given permission to call it Ritter Ball. And I did. I did. >> We need to make sure that makes it in the minutes. Those were those were >> I for an adult version of the parachute. >> Is that why you failed? >> Couldn't get under. Couldn't get under. >> No, she got stuck underneath. So, >> my porn was just too fast. >> Oh, cool. All right. Motion to adjurnn. >> So moved. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> I. >> All right. Thank you guys very much. Appreciate it.