001call this uh regular meeting of the board of education to order. Let the record show all board members are present except for Mr. Ritter. Um please rise and let's say pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge algiance 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. board, do you have an agenda before you? Can I get a motion to approve? >> So moved. >> Second. >> M square. Mr. Welker. Thank you guys very much. U all those in favor. >> I agenda is approved. Uh information, proposals, or comments from the audience. Mr. Payne, do we have anything? >> No requests this month, sir. >> Okay. >> Just kind of move on from that then. got him worked
002out. He was ready. >> Yeah, we'll just we'll just move right on. So, information reports, board president's report. Um, the booster golf tournament was a couple weeks ago, July 12th. It went really great. Appreciate everybody participated. Dr. Bingan received the most holes played award. It didn't get him anything, but way to go. Thank you. >> Yeah, not a problem. We were glad you made it through the day, but it went great. And then the foundations mix and mingle afterwards. It was wonderfully well attended and there's a lot of people there and uh looked like it went it was a great great outing. So looking forward to getting to use the proceeds for this year and uh August 12th back to school. So uh we'll be there for that. I heard there's going to be barbecue
003and fun kickoff about ready for this back. >> Yeah, we're about tired of this summer and ready to get back to it. >> That's all I've got. So hand it over to you, Dr. V. >> Thank you. Um we've had uh some really uh students highlighted this s this summer actually at the end of the school year um that we just want to mention. First off, thanks to JC uh from the Southeast Missouri for the great story on Delina Diaz. You did awesome. That was fantastic. Um she Delina is our outstanding young people in class of 2025 who was earned over $35,000 in scholarships and will be attending biomedical engineering at Missou. Delina is an exceptional student but also was an incredible student leader during u his time at Cape Central and I encourage you
004to read the article. It's it's a great feature. Um, also history was made for Skills USA Nationals event in Atlanta. Uh, the Cape Career Tech Center does awesome always at the uh, event, but took home two gold medals, first place national first place medals and CNC five axis milling programmer and emergency med medical uh, technicians, EMTs. Also, Mr. Cook who's behind the camera right now, is with us behind the camera. And he had two students take home the bronze in video production. Very impressive. And these are national winners. >> So, we're we're really proud of all the things that you do at the CTC. And Mr. Cook, we're proud of you as well. >> You've done an awesome job taking over for Randy. So, thank you. That's all I have. >> Fantastic. Well, thank thank
005you. >> Okay, moving on. Cesip program evaluations elevate one culture climate retention of staff. >> Thank you. I will jump right into this. It's a longer rather or longer uh report u than some of our others we cover. So I don't want to go through this just reading item by item. I'm just going to kind of summarize and then answer any questions you might have at the end. Obviously elevate one create and sustain a positive culture practice to recruit, retain and reward highly qualified personnel. So, this encompasses all of our certified and all of our classified staff across the district. As you can see on the first page, we spend nearly $46 million annually right now on those personnel expenses. We talk about this a lot, but people are our biggest expense, right? Personnel and
006benefits. That makes up about 70% of our budget annually. Um, the action steps, like I said, I'm not going to read through these. These action steps were developed the year we wrote the CIP. The only thing we've done is add to this list. Uh one significant thing to mentioned on the very first one it says use multiple funding sources to provide teacher retention support across the district. Desi actually eliminated the teacher retention grant funds. So moving forward all of these um allocations were 100% district funded to have these items. Um, bullet point three on that same list, partnerships with local universities. Uh, we've received great feedback about our regional educator advantage partnership we have with SIMO for tuition discounts both online and for pathways for Paris. Uh, we just had a roundt discussion with all
007the regional superintendents a couple weeks ago and we actually have about 20 plus school districts across our region participating in that now. So that's helping educators all across southeast Missouri. Uh bullet point seven, we remained in place as having one of five top highest starting teacher salaries in all of the southeast region. We were currently locked in our spot for four again this year. And then we continued to have our perfect attendance drawings for staff where we did a collaboration with the foundation. So, we're actually providing random drawings every six weeks for our classified and certified staff and then they have an opportunity to win grand prizes at the end as well, such as like hotel stays, uh, destination type things. And then I believe it's the fourth page kind of showing you the breakdown
008since the inception of our continuous school improvement plan. Um, big thing was increasing our certified teacher retention rate. Our baseline data was 80.5% the year we developed the plan. 2324 that increased to 82.7 and then currently uh we are at 86.2. So we had a 3.5% increase in teacher retention which exceeded our goal for this school year. And our three-year rolling average that we talked about we would start tracking is actually just over 83% which um from all of the reports and research I could find we're exceeding the state average in Missouri right now. U it does come up a lot about where does that data come from and what sources are used. We do not factor in staff retirement andor use of staff under critical shortage or a war waiver from year to year
009because those are things you can't control whether they have to exit the job. Um overall for the rating we uh gave an average or report of above average due to the increased retention rate alone as we move into our three-year rolling average. But the last couple pages I wanted to hit on. We talked a lot last year about engaging in staff rounding sessions. Um, so this is a strategic intentional method for getting feedback from employees at all levels. This started with just using more of a casual Google form type thing to type responses in. We've actually formalized that or Mr. Russell has to a program called Jot Forms. Now, uh, this year we collected over 225 responses from staff across the district and we only got to run that program for one semester. >> So,
010then we used artificial intelligence to take all the findings to do a thematic analysis of the feedback provided from our employees and that's what you're going to see on that last page. So, what the district is doing well based on those responses. We excel in support of staff and leadership relationships across the district. uh positive student staff relationships and a focus on academic and social growth for our students. Areas we need to improve in are facility and instructional spaces or spaces. Uh we know that's being addressed through our 10-year facilities plan we just adopted across the district. Um staffing and compensation and being more competitive in that area across the board is something we're always focused on. And then communication and decision making from the district level all the way down to the building level.
011Making sure you have consistent methods of communications layered. Um action steps moving forward. We're we're going to increase the volume of rounding sessions and face-to-face opportunities with staff. Continue to prioritize mentoring and leadership development through increased programming for additional staff uh compensation. We talked a little bit about this before. This is the first year we will offer career ladder for teacher mentoring across the district. So that gives you the opportunity to earn either 1,500 3,000 or an additional $5,000 um which is a pretty good stipen. And then the last thing just providing timely updates on facility improvements as we continue to progress through that plan that was just passed with IDS. I know it's a big report. It's a lot of information. I'd be happy to answer any questions about um our action steps, the
012teacher retention data or the rounding session summary. >> What was the percentage the response rate on that survey that you did >> for rounding? >> No, the you said you had 200 and something people >> on the job form. >> That was Yeah, that's the rounding. >> Yeah. So on rounding Yeah. It's not actually optional response. It's intentional. It's the supervisor going to the employee. >> Okay. and just having that conversation. And then we've just developed a form where you can track the feedback quickly. >> Okay? >> It usually takes about 3 to 5 minutes to have a conversation like that. >> Next year, another layer we're going to add on. One of the questions is who helps you um who supports you in doing your job better across the district. What we couldn't do
013this year was just launching that. But we want to automate a process to send out thank you letters >> to staff across the district >> where it shows they've been recognized by another staff member in a rounding session. >> Yeah. >> So it's got a little a little bit more of a personal touch. >> So >> are there some that did not participate? >> Yeah. So we're roughly let's call it 220 225 responses. We've got about 710 benefit eligible employees across the district. So we're just barely >> okay >> getting into those first couple phases. >> It's just a semester too of the data. It's just one semester. >> Yeah. So we went from this year it was basically January through about May 15th. >> Okay. >> That's the only period we capture. >> But
014congrats on improving retention rate. >> That's really great. >> Valuable asset is the folks that work here. Mhm. >> And that's really I mean if you want to sing praise that's our building leaders that are >> causing that. I mean it's those relationships with their teachers being supportive. >> We had tons and tons of new teachers over the last two to three years as you guys know and >> the the feedback shows the make or break to whether those people stay in your organization is if they feel like they're supported or not. >> So >> that just speaks testaments to >> the work they're doing at the building level. I'm sorry, I only asked that question because I like some of the questions. >> Yeah. >> And I would want to know how many, you
015know, engaged in that. >> And we have to get better as a cabinet at getting out engaging in more rounding sessions. That's one of our goals for next year. >> Well, I love the idea of recognizing people because again, like the trusted adult, I feel like >> that's an example of something where you're telling somebody you're making an impact, so keep doing it. And I just think that's a an awesome thing that people appreciate. You know, it's >> that recognition doesn't cost us anything to give, but it's very valuable to the person who gets it. >> Mhm. >> Yeah. True. >> Sometimes that can be a huge difference on a bad day, right? >> Turn your day around. >> It encourages people to do more of the stuff you want them to do, right? >>
016So, yeah. >> Well done. >> Any other questions? >> No, sir. >> Yeah. Thank you. Love the metric. That's awesome. Okay. Uh next up, academic services report, testing scheduled assessment program. >> Yes. So in your consent agenda items later, uh you'll have uh both of these items. And so just wanted to give you guys a heads up about what they were ahead of time. This is something that every year we have to bring to you all. And so uh our district testing uh I call it the assessment plan. Um policy calls it the district testing plan. So um it is what it is. Um, so what really what it is is a list of all of the assessments that we give our students whether it's in the SPEN department or in reg or ELLL. um
017all of the assessments that uh we can give um when we give it uh to general ed um to all students for example uh the windows for Galileo testing when we do um state testing uh all of that information is in there but also all of the um the tests that the um psych examiners give as well and there's a lot of them so it just depends on what's needed. Um the only big change uh this year uh and really it's a last year was a transition year from from the Kogat to uh the Nagali uh for uh all of the different um IQ testing. Uh and I think there's is there some other things on there as well, Mandy? >> Uh mainly for the group IQ for uh second grade and then for any
018new students to the district. >> Yep. So that's the biggest change and then uh the people in different positions at the very end on the committee and that's that's really it. We haven't changed a whole lot um for that um and then you know for we're still sticking with with Dibbles for this year. We've got a um another exemption year for from the state for reading assessment um because we're challenging some things and they're actually listening to us and we're having conversations about some things and so hopefully they'll either continue that or um maybe make some some changes at the state level. So we'll we'll knock on some wood here and hope that happens. Um and so that's the assessment plan. Um lots of lots of updating on that one from year to year. just
019to make sure that it's right. >> Just a quick side question. >> Yeah, go ahead. >> On age and grade, some of them are like 21 col 11 and 79. What does that mean? Is that an age or >> So it >> it can be ages. Some of those are months. >> Some of age. >> Yeah. Some of them are grade levels and some of them are age levels. It just depends on how the test reports. >> Okay. >> What they >> All right. Like there's one is birth to 90. >> Yeah, it's literally birth to say. Yeah, that's exactly what it is. >> Just kidding. I was just question a lot of them. >> It does look random. >> That's good marketing. You can apply that forever. >> That's right. >> But you hit
02091. >> They got no use. That's right. >> Got to take a different one. >> That's right. >> Uh curriculum updates. Uh we did all of uh foreign language. So all of our Spanish classes for for this coming school year are on there. And then last year we realized that um about halfway through this year that we did not get the soci uh sociology class uh approved officially last year. Um and I think we only had one section of it in the spring and that's when we caught it whenever it started. Um and so we put it on there as well uh kind of going backwards. Um they really haven't changed a ton through this year but um except for their assessments in the upcoming year and so we put it back on there for
021this year. If you guys have any questions about that curriculum, >> is French gone? >> French is gone. Okay. >> Um except through uh we've got some some plans for um those students to u continue to take through launch uh those courses. Um and high school's working on getting that scheduled right now uh and getting it set up. And so those students will continue to do French just until we you know don't have the them out. I think we're at 46 students that were in that right now. And then they can choose, you know, if they want to or not, if they want to switch to Spanish, because you pick Spanish one and French one, it it still takes for college. So, um let's see what what choices those students make whenever um they come
022back. Um, one thing that we are doing with curriculum, this is a part of uh, goes back to lead three is consistency across the curriculum. So, they went through the exact same process as ELA and uh, in math and social studies has so far. Uh, making sure that, you know, they got their pacing, that they've got their assessments, that all of it aligned um, and and ready to go uh, anytime anybody wants to look at it. And so, um, they've got, uh, we've also added, um, e and, um, some more sped services pieces that weren't in foreign language the last time that they did it. And so, they had a, um, good discussions around that when they were writing this. So, any questions? Thank you, sir. >> Uh, treasurer finance report. Let's do it. So,
023this is um I'm not going to call it the absolute final, but this is the fund balance report for 2425. Um what I brought you last month was projected. This is more final. We'll go through make sure that we have everything booked properly. Um but it shouldn't change that much. Um, ending fund balance is 35.66% right now. Um, we had projected a 34.97, so a little better than we thought, but we're also lowering the transfer to the capital projects fund. We approved for 1.9 million transfer for Bessie. Um, I have it in the system right now as a million and lowering the transfer to a million keeps the general fund more balanced. That leaves us with a higher ending fund balance this year to go into 2526. Does anybody have any questions about that? Lowering
024the transfer transfer still gives us a $4.6 million balance in capital projects fund which is a good fund balance to have. Um the million dollar covers um some projects that we thought we would specifically do and still gives us some excess balance in that account. Does anybody have any questions on that? Okay. Um, in February, we had approved for us to refinance some bonds. >> We were finally able to do that this month. So, on July 8th, um, we actually sold some bonds. We refinanced our 2016 some of our 2016 bonds. Um there was two uh payments that were pulled off. So we'll have a little bit of 2016 bonds remaining. Um about 2.5 million and they were pulled off because the interest rate on those payments was lower than what we were going to
025get. Now so the um ones that we refinanced had a 4% um interest rate and we were able to lower that to 3.3%. And that is giving us a savings of $37,400 for regard to those bonds. We got our preliminary assessed valuation numbers in. Um this is a reassessment year for us. I had budgeted 3% um for 256 and the preliminary numbers are coming in good. They're actually a little bit higher, but when it goes to the state calculation that we will not have access to the full road. I already know that. So, uh we'll have the board of equalization will meet next week and then they'll release the final numbers to us and in August we'll be approving our tax levy. And then we're also watching some of our revenues. Um there's been a
026lot going around about federal funds being held. um our 21st century grant funds which is our after school care program funds those were released so that was good um we are still watching title have some of our title funding that's being held and um AAL funds but we're trying to be proactive with it make adjustments and we should know more in September >> okay that's good thank you thank you thank And I guess just for the board's clarification just to make sure. So like we leverage Stiffl and others to help with the refinancing and >> Yeah. >> So Steifel is our underwriter for our bonds and then Gilmore and Bell is the attorneys. And so Stifl really takes the lead on that um and helps us with the refinancing. And um one thing I thought
027that was really cool is the lady who um sold our bonds, her family is local to this area. I'm not positive she's a Central graduate. >> Yeah, I think >> but I know that she is from Kate and >> say she is. >> Yeah. [Applause] >> Don't let facts get in the way of a good story. >> That's right. >> Cover your ears, Jason. >> This is the second time that she has sold our bonds. So, that's really cool that she was able to do that for us. >> She actually put off some things. She actually was taking a leave >> a leave of absence and she put it off so that she could do ours. >> Wow. >> Awesome. >> So that was really >> When you refinance bonds, do you pay like a
028closing cost? You do? >> Yes. Okay. >> So there's a closing cost that gets paid to Stiful to the attorneys. >> Um there's um some other like auditors and stuff that review standard and pores. You have to go through a ratings call. So there are closing costs. It was like $160,000. >> Yeah. >> Makes me feel better about my closing. >> Yeah. [Laughter] >> All right. Well, thank you very much. Uh support services report. Mr. Cra, >> thank you. So going back to the first uh topic that Lindsay spoke about the 1 million in the fund for so part of that uh plan and utilizing those funds for the betterment of our district and tying into our longrange facility plan very soon I'm going to be releasing an RFP to work with a energy efficiency
029company that will come in and help us strategically look at all the various different projects. Some of this is um outside of the scope of what our maintenance department can do with still doing their daily duties. So, we'll have some that are bit out. Uh you'll start kind of seeing that play out this school year. There will also be some other projects that you will see completed that aren't under the banner of energy efficiency savings, but it's still smaller projects that were targeted within the long range facility plan. and there's a a means to the madness or strategy in doing that. So, we're again utilizing our taxpayer dollars and being good stewards of resources to getting done what we can get done. That'll then parlay into potentially opening up bond issue in April. That'll be
030a no tax increase. Currently, right now, our maintenance department is finishing up a lot of their summer work. Uh if you recall over the last several years, there's been a backlog of some things that we could push off because we were doing redar, we had the welding lab, we had the indoor facility, various things like that. Um and our maintenance department was utilized in such a manner to allow us to decrease our spending on those projects because we can do some aspects of those projects in house. Uh so we're very fortunate. So they're getting a backlog of projects done. This week's going to be a little difficult on them with the weather. Um, but we're we're keeping an eye on that. Uh, we have set up our training dates for our bus monitors coming back
031and also we have dates set up for our regular bus drivers through Robinson for uh, sped training. I know Mandy is working on that this morning. And then we also have um some plans with our food service and the changes that we have there. Everything is lining up. Uh we've already got all of our menuing options set through the month of October, so we're not going to be skipping a beat. Now, there may be a crispo day to throw in there to surprise the kids every once in a while, but all in all, they'll be set. So, when it comes to support services, we're moving right along. Any questions? All we have answered. >> All right. Thank you very much, sir. >> Let me stop you. I will add July 30th. >> There will be
032increased law enforcement presence at a few of our buildings. Um so that's their training. It keeps us safe, keeps them safe. And uh so we're keeping a little bit of that close to our chest, but July 30th, it'll be an increased presence of law enforcement, particularly with Cape Darl County Sheriff's Office coming in and uh utilizing our buildings for training. So, we're we're glad to open up our doors for them and to do that. >> Fantastic. Thank you, sir. Um, districtwide athletics report. >> Good evening, sir. >> Um, just a few things. First, thanks. The booster club golf tournament was great success. Had a lot of really great compliments throughout the day about how well it really ran. It was hot, but we had it was still better than getting rained on. That was awesome.
033Uh I'm I'm here tonight mainly to talk about Senate Bill 63 that uh passed in the legis last legislative session. >> So far Lindsay has stolen a thing I was going to talk about and now you are stealing a thing I'm going to talk about. I will just leave. >> Well, we felt it was important because we're going to have to have some policy uh revisions that'll come to you in in August. So, we thought it was important to kind of give you a little bit of a a preview of that and kind just some language that you can hear from me and some of the things that are already out there and in case you do have some people ask you questions about it. So just some backstories, our current student participation, how student
034participation works for athletics and activities in in high school and junior high is that student participation was limited to full-time enrolled students up until a few years ago. And then over the last few years as a way the the association our state association mission tried to keep at bay some uh of those that don't go to our school build don't come to our school buildings attend our schools. We did uh they did propose and we voted into uh the the constit or bylaws non-traditional ways to be a student be involved in activities. Right? So again, the traditional is you come to school every day, right? And you come to class. Uh non-traditional one in our bylaws is virtual postsecary work study, but those are all high school transcripted credits. So, we actually use utilize some
035of that with our flex program and when our kids go to MAC or Simo or some of our our post-secary uh education, we do not as part of our board policy allow for virtual um activities, people to be able to use transcriptive credits from virtual classes to our uh to our be able to participate. Non-traditional STO two was added as well. And this we don't do this as a as a school district either. This is just an option for some. That one was seat time of at least two credit bearing classes and then all other credits have to have approval by the school uh with the procedure that they choose. Not very many students use nontraditional tuning across the state, but there are a few. Senate Bill 63 was signed into law by the governor
036um earlier this month and will go into effect on August 28th. the basics. School districts cannot prohibit students living in the district of attending a home school, a family pace paced education school, or a virtual school from participating in any event or activity offered by the district or the attendance area the student lives in. So homeschooled for those that's that's the traditional I'm homeschooled my you know parent at home using whatever means that they be necessary either off the internet or throughout I mean the old school was they get books sent to the school my I had cousins that were homeschooled so I know a little bit about those that traditional way of homeschooling there is no funding like they don't get state voucher money for that uh usually for religious reasons or or or
037their own personal reasons family education that is a little bit different. FPE schools are they do enroll students who receive state credit money, so vouchers uh from them, but they don't charge enrollment fees. So again, if they're a part of an FP, they can they can get voucher money uh through the state. A virtual school, even though the law doesn't define it, that's basically MOAB and any other privately contracted virtual school. Uh, school districts cannot Well, this is another key to this and and I had Brian add the email from Dr. Rutstead to to your uh uh information. School districts cannot belong to Misha if it's rules violate this. All right, that's part of the way the state legislature uses, hey, they write that into the bills that they want to make sure Misha follows.
038So, expanded student participation, what it looks like. So full-time homeschool family education students and virtual students will have access to missia activics athletics our sport teams activities like band junior choir uh as well as co-curricular activities like DECA yearbook at the school district in which they reside. They must require a proof of residency, uh, a physical to participate in sports, follow the same behavior, responsibility, performance, code conduct standards that we have in place, uh, and the same financial statements as long as financial requirements as long as they're the same across the board. Uh, we can require the schools are required can require attendance of rehearsals, practice sessions, or training sessions that are directly related to and required for trying out for the sport or uh, activity. uh completion of required coursework. For example, fine arts
039and we have bander today. They can be required to attend school for uh for fine arts uh career technical education, compliance with disciplinary policy, attendance policy, uh and compliance with academic requirements. Now, you know, for you to be a an athlete or in a in a sport or activity at the high school, junior high level, there there's a pretty long list of things that have to happen. Now here, for the most part, those things are already happening, right? We just have to make sure that they're being covered and the kids know that they can't do X, Y, and Z or um the the biggest one is our academic requirements. You have to have three units of credit. You have to be enrolled in at least three units of credit and you have to which is
040six six out of your seven classes and and pass those and then that rolls forward your enrollment or your uh your eligibility each semester. So you pass three, you know, if you take seven classes, you flunk one, you're still eligible for the next for the next semester sports. This bill, parents are, this is the most laughable part of the bill to be honest. Parents are responsible for oversight of academic standards in homeschool FP schools. >> So that's the part that public schools, well all schools have a issue with is that we hold our students to a specific standard. They have to have this to be able to participate. All right? If they don't, they can't participate. In this case, we ask the parent, which again, the things that we're going to get from MSBA will
041give us some guidance on what forms to use, how what procedures, and all those things, but ultimately the parent says, "Yeah, my kid passed." >> Mhm. >> Now, virtual school's a little tougher because they have to actually submit what what's been done on the virtual school. some of this and it's still not fleshed out exactly how that's all going to happen. Um it does create a in my mind a separate set of standards for for these students in contrast to our own which doesn't you know set well with most people that are in public education or uh involved with athletics in any way. Um this does not cover procure or private schools. And what that means, they put that in the law for, you know, just because a student goes here and they may go
042to uh another school in our in our area that's if they live here, they can't participate for us. Uh for example, with the the academy in Lynwood, if they went if they had a high school student there, they couldn't come play for us because they're live in our district. So that that's part of the part of the law. MSBA has recently provided guidance to schools for revision of board policies in relation to this bill. Mr. Thank and I will be in committee that and presenting those policies to you revision at the August board meeting. In addition, school building administrators will be alerting tomorrow to scour their student handbooks for any procedures that might contradict this. The mission is preparing a special ballot for August for membership to vote on these changes. Our executive director has
043bluntly stated that we don't really have an option. We have to vote for it. Um otherwise the school that can't be there's a possibility that the the bill says basically you can't be a part of mission school district can't be part of mission if that happens. Uh we we've used every tool at our disposal uh to fight this particular bill. Dr. Beck wrote a letter to our legislators earlier this year. Myself and other local ads offered our support to the state association through Dr. Ruxstead for testimony state senator was contacted early in the process and he voted no on the bill and it final form he's one of only three senators that did vote that so we're happy with that um this I mean Michigan's been fighting this particular thing for as long as I've
044been in athletics in high school athletics and I I don't know that the association realized how strongly this bill was being pushed and it got overwhelmingly for across the state. So, it's it's disappointing that this is what we're dealing deal with. We're going to have to stay long. >> Can I ask a question? >> Yes, sir. >> And you could correct me if I'm wrong, but the classifications for what level our school participates >> is based on enrollment. >> Yes. >> So, if we are class five in a particular sport based on our current enrollment, how would they judge how enrollment would increase? Is it based on how many homeschooled kids are in living within your district or is it how many that would actually participate in the sports would it increase the enrollment? That's
045a great question and honestly that has not been of the stuff mission has sent us. That's one of the things they have noticed >> because also correct me if I'm wrong and within the last 3 years our enrollment has been within like three to five students which has put us in an upper class >> depending on the next class. >> Football was kind of in the middle of class 5. Baseball no track this year two students in class 5. they were we were the smallest classified school. So depending on the sport, yes, we are on the border in some sports. >> I feel like this would be a major leverage point to argue this point because I would want clarification on how that would affect our school district primarily and what class our kids have
046to participate or compete in based on enrollment. >> Yeah, I think one of the key things this when I talked to Dr. directed in was that March I think is when you wrote the letter when I talked to her. I called her in Dr. Beck's office and said, "Hey, look, I we can round up some guys. Come up the gals and hey, come up here and we'll do testimony in front of the whatever." And she said, "I don't think it's going to be necessary." >> The more it got it just kept me >> and it's interesting because the guy that put this together is the guy from Washington. >> There's homeschool associations across the state that didn't want anything to do with this. And I told we we don't want your school. We don't want
047to be there. We don't want your activities. And in his evident wisdom, he don't wind up there. So I I'll just uh and it end up getting passed out. To your question about classification. So we we turn in an enrollment number at the end of uh March every year. There's a window between April 1st and April 15th that we turn in what our uh our numbers are 9 through 11 this year. Right. on like a specific day or does it cover it's on a specific day? >> This year I think it was March 28th the date we had to pull our data from from from uh from >> Right. So we pull a specific that I mean they have a enrollment declaration uh >> Patrick always pulls it for us and we review it and
048make sure it's correct and then we we send it in. Has to be performance date. It's just 9 through 11, right? And this is a change that happened about five six years ago. It's to give you a more accurate representation of your kids that's going to be in the school next year. Used to they did twoyear classifications and then what would happen is >> just the numbers. It's really a more accurate. >> So what would happen is if we had a homeschool student now they are going to go on our master student list even though they're not our student. That is one thing that they've told us they will be there will be a traditional option three that's a non-traditional option three that's we'll be able to pick those kids in you know put our
049kids in those student master master students then they'll go on our enrollment declaration in March March 28th all right and reason they use that is because all spring sports have already started so we know all the kids that are going to be on those eligibility rosters for But we can only do it with kids who are active. We can't do it for kids who are homeschooled because now there's no declaration of homeschool to the school district anymore. >> Yeah. >> At this is within the same bill. >> So it would be homeschooled kids who are currently playing for us. Then they >> can't count. Yeah. >> Then they go on the for the next year. So, I'm assuming that the web developers at this year are when they when if we have any non-traditional free
050students on our master student list that are on eligibility rosters for sports, they will be added to our enrollment declaration that we put up put up um on uh this year on that in in early March or early April. What one key to that one thing they haven't really addressed yet which is going to be interesting is transfers. So, in the bill, it is written the language and they they worked with the guy to make sure this was in there that if if a if a student said, you know, gets halfway through his fall semester and realized he's not going to I'm not going to pass and he drops out and he enrolls as a homeschool student either somewhere else or here, the transfer rules are supposed to still apply. right now. I I've been
051to enough transfer meetings and appeals meetings >> and dealt with enough of these to know that there's always a way, right? >> And uh so it's going to be interesting to see how they deal with those. They say it's going to be the same transfer rules. Those students are still have to abide by the transfer rules. So, do they have obviously there's a lot of potential pitfalls that we don't totally know until things play out, but like does has anybody had some sort of sense of like how many additional students >> I'm wondering that too like have you gotten much contact from parents asking who are homeschooled parents or >> I've had previous conversations with students asking to be a part of our programs as homeschool either they were told something they didn't have all
052the information. So I have been in my six years here I've been contacted by homeschool parents like hey you and I've you know been custom >> from the Christian home school parents there is >> but it's it's uh as far as the number I know Jamie you'd said a number one time you know how many students home >> you know of that have declared >> I checked with Tina today she said on a normal year we'll have around about numbers somewhere close to 50 per year districtwide. >> Yeah. So that's from you know K12. >> We don't know the total impact but we also don't know what our what parents will once they know this is this is an option. >> Sure. And Crystal, to answer your question, we've had one very specific parent call
053the district registar office and ask, >> "If my student goes into high school and participates in mocap, can they play athletics at the high school?" >> So, we've only have one. >> Okay. >> So far. >> Yeah. >> I have another clarifying question. So there are of the three different groups homeschool and then >> F and MOAP kids >> FP and mo cap get a voucher right >> or do they get a referral >> I don't know they'll be attending another school district on MO cap but they can they can attend our extracurricular >> the question I'm asking is more about like the tax money that they are >> the FP applies ies to voucher programming and credit based like you know resources >> for mocap what they're doing is they're stealing our >> dollars
054on the kids and that's going to the vendor >> but we still have to provide >> but that's that's the question that I'm asking so we would >> we still have to provide it >> provide uniforms and all of that unless it's like >> they get the ADA >> swim team or something where they buy >> unless our school gets ADA >> unless we set a fee that penalizes is our own inerson kids, >> then we couldn't charge them. >> And that's a good point you bring up because Tyson wasn't going to talk about this, but I'm sorry. >> You were talking about homeschool people being against this. >> What's not talked about is probably the mocap vendors that were for it. >> Of course, >> because that is a huge revenue generator >> for
055them, >> benefit for them >> because the whole back to students being virtual for was you couldn't participate in athletics. you couldn't do all these things. Well, now they've opened the doors for that. >> I mean, there's no approval. >> So, there's just no, >> you know, we don't know the impact for what's going to happen at the high school next year, junior high, for for that matter, but it's the philosophical part. We have no >> we have no uh way to hold accountable. >> There's a second set of standards. Yeah, >> exactly. Which I mean, it's just not fair. The transfer thing you brought up is going to be the biggest issue they're going to face is when somebody who's very athletically gifted in some district doesn't pass classes and somebody says they'll give
056them a spot. >> You need to homeschool. >> Yeah. >> Which I'm interested to see. Obviously, like I said, mission I feel like kind of got caught a little flatfoot on this, but when they I'm on the trans transfer and residency requirements committee that they're trying to revise the transfer regress. So I'm interested to see what happens in that meeting in September that I'm how this affects those discussions 2020 finance committee which was always so we'll just have to see what actions comes out of that. But you're exactly right. Somebody's going to challenge it. >> When you said you're voting like what the vote that you said you're having is a vote among athletic directors. >> The only people who can vote is superintendents. So, >> so superintendent votes as to whether or not they
057think this is a good idea or whether or not we're choosing to participate in it. >> No, the I they haven't sent out the the ballot yet, so I don't know what the language is going to read, but what I'm assuming is going to happen is they're going to say this is non-traditional three uh to to comply with Senate Bill 63, which is now of course going to be a state law. They've already granted relief of the bylaw for these kids participates because a lot of them are effective August 28th. Well, we've already started practicing, right? >> So, they've already granted a B relief for those students participate going forward. But >> once the law goes into effect, >> u basically she just said this isn't there's no qu you have to vote yes for
058this. Now, it's going to pass for because the majority of people are going to say, well, we got to apply state law and move on. Even if you vote no, it's not like they're going to kick you out initiative. That's fun. >> Any other questions? >> Anybody else? >> All right. Thank you, sir. >> Yep. >> Okay. Board reports. MSBA delegate. Dr. Faggley. >> I don't have anything. >> Fantastic. >> I think we'll go on report. >> That was so much more thorough than anything I was going to say. So that was fantastic. Lindsay too, thank you. You talked much more >> thoroughly than I would have on on the topic of federal funds being held. You definitely know more than me since your hands are all in the financial side. So the only thing
059I have to say is Missouri budget is officially signed by Governor Kho. Um so the foundation formula for 2627 school year is 7,145 per student. Um, the governor does have a the ability to veto line items and he did for several educational things. However, I actually emailed Miss Dudek asking her if any of that affected us and I don't believe at the Missouri level that it is. So, luckily we're okay on that. Um, and that's all I got. >> Thank you for giving other people your work. >> Yes. Delegating. Yes. >> Any foundation updates? Um, you kind of stole some of my fun. Sorry about that. >> We're all sharing. This is teamwork. >> I know. It is teamwork, isn't it? Collaboration. Um, the alumni and supporter mix and mingle was a huge success. Tons
060of people showed up. It was hot. They stayed inside a lot. Um, also we're currently currently receiving financial donations as well as school supplies from several business partners, churches, and individuals. >> And I think I saw something today that if you need >> on you need help with um school supplies to fill out that form. So >> just putting it out there in case anybody is watching. >> That's all I have for that. >> Awesome. Thank you. All right. Next up, approval of consent agenda items. You guys hopefully had a chance to look through all these uh read through them and then we'll make some motions. So, minutes from June 23, 2025 regular and special meetings, payment of bills, curriculum adoptions for 202526, testing and assessment schedule for 2526. Jamie Russell is coordinator of the
061assessment testing program. Brian Payne is title 9 coordinator. Mandy Keys is section 504 and ADA coordinator. Mandy Keys is leazison for homeless children and youth. Mandy Keys is the aison for migrant elelll immigrant and refugee children and youth. Mandy Keys is educational leazison for children in foster care. Chris Jock is district's AHR designated person and board policy BBFA board member conflict of interest. We got a motion to approve the consent agenda items. >> So moved. >> Second Dr. All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? >> Okay. The consent agenda items are carried. Next up, we will move into our business. And give me a second to get my computer working here. And there it goes. It's trying to work. Okay. First up, approval of contractual agreement with Kenny Rogers Centers. The recommendation is
062to authorize the superintendent to enter into an agreement on behalf of the board with the Kenny Rogers Children's Center for Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy Services for the 2526 school year. Can we get a motion? >> Do we have a motion where we have a second? >> Second. >> Welcome. Okay. Discussion. >> They've done a great job for us. They've been with us for years. They It's a $2 increase. It's not a big increase. So, um, they work amazing with our staff and students. So, we'd like to keep working with them. >> Any questions? Discussion. Okay. All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? >> Okay. The recommendation to approve the contract agreement with Kenny Rogers carries. Next up is approval of the contractual agreement with a new outlook for visually impaired orientation and
063mobility services. So the recommendation is to authorize the superintendent to enter into an agreement on behalf of the board with a new outlook LLC for orientation and mobility and vision services for the 2526 school year. Do we have a motion? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Okay. Discussion on this one. >> She had a $6 increase. It's very difficult to find a teacher with a visually impaired and certified O andM person. I was that person for our district um prior to coming into this role, but she's the only other one literally in our area. So, um her price did go up $6, but I think that's pretty fair. We'd like to keep using her. >> Does this service go to like any of the schools where this service is needed? >> Yes, she it's just
064one person. We actually went to school with her. Um Aaron Vogle was made. >> Okay. Okay. Any questions? Discussion. >> Okay. All those in favor? >> Any opposed? Okay. So, the approval contraction agreement with a new outlook for visually impaired and orientation mobility services approved. Next up, approval of contractual agreement with Crystal Weber to provide hearing impaired services. Recommendation is to authorize the superintendent enter to an agreement on behalf of the board with Christ M. Weber for services to students who are deaf or heart of hearing for the 2526 school year. Do we have a motion? >> So moved. >> Second. Dr. Any discussion on this one? >> She is actually going to be doing consultative work only with us this year. Um she did see students in person, but those have those students have
065worked down to only needing consult. So she's agreed to stay on and consult with our teachers and if something were to come up, then we would go from there with her. She's done a great job. No increase on hers. So, >> like that. >> Okay. Any questions, discussions on that one? >> Okay. All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? >> Okay. The approval of contractual agreement with Christ Weber to provide hearing impaired service carries. Next up, make sure I didn't skip one. I didn't. Okay. Approval of contractual agreement with Craig Homeare, a PHS company, to authorize superintendent enter into an agreement on behalf of the board with Craig Homeare, a PHS company, CHC, for the 2526 school year. Do we have a motion? >> So moved. >> A second. >> Second. >> Okay.
066Discussion. >> So you'll see another nursing company on there as well. We have some students who need individual nurses for medical needs. And so um we typic t typically try to work with the nursing company that they have already been working with out of their home just for consistency for the student prior to them coming to us. Um so that's we worked with Craig home care last year. They were called Allen uh home care at one point then it went to Craig homeare and I think it's actually Craig resources a ph company something like that now. Um, so we have a couple students served by that particular nursing agency and then there will be one more Phoenix home care which is for a third student that receives individual nursing. >> And so this is support
067nursing for those students. They come on site and >> correct. They're with that student the entire time that they're present. Um, that's also reimbursed through Medicaid. So the cost that we pay to them is reimbursed. >> Any other discussion, questions? Okay. All those in favor? I >> any opposed? >> Okay. The motion to approve the contractual agreement with Craig Homeare carries. Next up, as we were forewarned, is the approval of contractual agreement with Phoenix Homeare and Hospice. Recommendation is to authorize superintendent to enter an agreement on behalf of the board with Phoenix Homeare and Hospice for the 2526 school year. Can we get a motion? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Okay. Any discussion on that one? >> So, this is the newer one. We have a a little one uh that is coming into
068kindergarten actually that has a nurse. It's the organization they work with. You'll see that the price on this one is a little bit lesser lower than the other, but that's because they only provide LPNs, not RNs. So, other than that, we worked with them midyear last year as well. So, we're just continuing that agreement. >> Do you guys like work with the parents on that and like they >> Yeah, some districts don't. they um choose to use their own hire their own nurses. But I have found that we have much better consistency >> um in student care and much better parent satisfaction as well >> um if we try to keep it consistent. >> Other discussions, questions. >> Okay. All those in favor? I >> any opposed? Okay. The approval of contraction agreement with Phoenix
069Homeare carries. Next up is approval of 2526 extra duty pay schedule. The recommendation is to adopt the extra duty salary schedule as presented for the 2526 school year. Is there a motion? >> So move second. >> Second, >> Dr. Fley. Okay. Any discussion on this one? >> Um so this schedule which um I apologize it's not you're not able to view it. If you log in, you can um view the pay schedule, but it's uh for extra duty, specifically for homebound instruction, tutoring, um event supervision for SRO's, those will be paid at $35 an hour. Those are hourly rates. And then um any staff who does professional development um that's less than a full day would be $30. Any questions or discussions on that? >> Okay. All those in favor? >> Any opposed? >> Okay.
070The approval of the 2526 extra duty pay schedule carries. Next up is the second reading and adoption of board policies DFA, DFA 2, rescend, DJFA, EG, AAA, GBC, BBE, GB, IG, BB, IG, BCA, KB, and KK. Uh so the recommendation is to adopt the following board policies as recommended by MSBA and the policy review committee as previously stated. I'll read all the alphabet soup again. Uh can we get a motion for that? >> So moved. >> Okay. >> Second. >> Okay. Any discussions? Anybody want to repeat the bingo alphabet? >> All right. All those in favor. >> Any opposed? Okay. So those are adopted. Next up is adoption of board policy GBA. Recommendations to adopt the board policy GBA as recommended by administration. Uh so this was about acrewing comp time throughout the school year.
071Um can we do we have a motion? >> So move this >> second. Okay. Any discussion on this one? >> This is just a revision to the existing policy outlining the procedure for acrewing comp time. Um the the previous policy allowed any level of employee that is an hourly regardless of the amount of days they work throughout the year. People who are working less than 240 days per year have very specific workday calendars because of school needs. So we don't really need them acrewing comp. We need them just to be paid overtime for hours they work over. Our employees that are working year round. We still want them to be able to acrue comp and elect to use that if they want to and then be paid out at the end of the year. So
072that's what this revision actually reflects. >> So anybody less than 240, if they work over, they're paid overtime. If you're 240 or more, you get the choice to be either be paid overtime or a crew comp. >> It's pretty standard. >> Have any questions on that? >> Okay. All those in favor? >> Yes. >> Any opposed? Okay, so that one carries. Next up, approval of reimbursement rate for unused emergency leave days upon retirement. Recommendations to approve a sliding scale daily reimbursement rate for accumulated sick leave days remaining upon retirement based upon the amount of notice given. Do we have a motion for that one? >> So moved. >> Square effect. Thank you guys. Commentary on that one. >> Yeah, it's just our annual approval of the payout for retirement notification. Pretty recently, we implemented the
073sliding scale. Um, for teachers, that's kind of starting in November. For any hourly employee or support staff, that's called six-month notice. Um, so it it differs depending on what level of employee you are, but that payment can start as high as 50 per day and then work all the way back to 25. And that's really helped us out with early notification over the last two school years. >> That's good incentive. >> So, the rates would not change based on this recommendation. We would keep everything the same moving forward. >> Does certified staff do their paid absences, their sick days, whatever. Do they acrue endlessly? >> So they acrew up to 140 days. >> Okay. >> And then excess of that, that's what the next policy update is going to be for annual. Great. >> It's
074just that >> it's why I asked the question. >> That's a great That's a great lead. No. So that's excess of unused days during the working year. Okay. And then this is just where does the balance fall when I notify for retirement, right, >> for payout. >> Okay. >> U the unused sick days paid through the year. >> That's the rate we're recommending is to remain at $25 per day. >> That's your next. >> Any other questions? >> Okay. All those in favor? >> Any opposed? Okay. The approval of reimbursement rate for unused emergency leave days carries and not to jump to the next one. Approval of reimbursement rate for unused emergency leave in excess of maximum. So recommendation to approve the reimbursement rate for unused sick leave days in excess of the maximum accumulated
075at $25 per unused sick leave day per request from Miss Crystal over there. So can we get a motion for that? >> So move second. >> Second. Okay. Any conversation discussion on that one? >> That's the one we just referenced. >> Yeah. Kind of just >> How often does this happen? >> Um, I mean, Lindsay could probably speak to it more than me, but it's pretty common. >> Wow. >> Accumulating 140. >> Yeah. So, we have staff that um we make a payment every year to staff. Once you hit it, then you're pretty well consistently going to stay there. >> Yep. It's a annual pin but I mean it's >> yeah a lot of days. >> So when you're first year you're going to get about 13 awarded between sick personal everything. Uh then after
076that it's going to be that 10 mark seven and three split pretty much between sick and personal. Personal can roll over and convert to sick and then when you get to a certain level of getting vacation you can roll up to one week vacation time over too. Any other questions? >> All right. All those in favor? >> Any opposed? Okay. So, approval reimbursement break for unused emergency leave and excessive maximum carries. And perhaps our business information and proposals from board members not at all. So uh we are now at adjournment and can a motion to adjurnn the meeting. >> So moved. >> Second. >> All in favor? I. >> Okay. Thank you guys very much.