001um like I said a couple months ago we are moving the recognition Tigers to the end of the meeting so I'm so glad there's so many of you here a joke more people left in January but appreciate you guys being here but I would like to go and call to order this regular monthly meeting of the K Board of Education it is Monday February 24th and the time is 606 let the record show that all board members are present outside of Miss lson and Mr cook and please rise as to theice all right board before us we have an agenda can I get a motion to approve the agenda Mr Welker M all those in favor please indicate by saying I those motion carry thank you well up first we do have our recognitions and
002we aren't saving it till the end this is my favorite part when we get right to it we have our terrific Tigers this is uh students that are selected from each building uh based on service to others leadership and scholarship so when you hear your name you go and join us up here for your your medal and your certificate then we'll ask you to hang out up front for a group picture at the end uh parents feel free to come on up uh take your own picture and we want to know that want you to know that you're just as much appreciated throughout this process as well first up from Alder we have Lil Taylor third grader daughter of Cina Li [Applause] is of exceptional she excels in the CL works hard in the learning
003CER Li has also been to all students and help anyone Li will do great things she continues to grow congratulations [Applause] lilyan Elementary Elise Hogan fourth grader daughter of and Hogan [Applause] her she's and a in the is loyal always supporting and encouraging those around her her enthusiasm for learning dedication to Excellence and genuine kindness make her truly deserving of this award congratulations El we have t Ren fourth grader son of delce and Demetrius Ren from Franklin we have allance sble fourth grader son of Nadia and Amanda am consistently demonstrates kindness to peers and teachers creating a positive and welcoming environment in the classroom he's always on task showing exceptional focus and dedication to his work to help others and his enthusiastic attitude Mak a joy to Heaven class Al truly embodies the qualities of
004a terrific tiger Elementary Heath ha prek son of Stephanie and Jonathan [Applause] haes keth ha is an amazing student he comes with a smile on his face to learn hard [Applause] always Middle School we have cage tager fifth grade son of Lisa and Robert [Applause] tager Junior High Mariah price grade of from the high school we have tan Jennings 12th grade daughter of Tabitha Austin [Applause] student that has always had high expectations for and always expected the same from her peers her intensity has made her rise to the occasion helping to make CHS a high achieving environment congratulations Central Academy we have Raheem Madison 10th grade son [Applause] Dent student he consistently works hard asks questions and focuses on his success Raheem will be successful in anything he pursues After High School keep up the
005great [Applause] work and then from January from the junior high we have Mariah handy seventh daughter of Ashley and Donald handy High School Han Ahad 12th grade son of Mariah and Amad [Applause] she president he has pushed the organization to participate event because he sees the advantage of helping others he works with a gentle but confident spirit that makes him a great student leader at [Applause] CHS and last from Central Academy Timothy 11 empathe studentu about the people he encounters whether they are strangers or not he's a dedicated member of J Works diligently to attend all of the [Applause] functions great job okay big smiles this way everybody [Applause] [Music] um that wraps up our recognition we like to go ahead [Music] and inquest to the at Central Administration office cons request address the board
006are alloted 3 minutes to speak for more information regarding public participation board meetings please see board policies on the district website um up next we have the informational report and first is the board president's report um I don't have too much to go over with you this evening however uh I did enjoy my time at the P party just like every single year it's a great event uh to raise money for this District always a good time to get dressed up and go have some fun uh secondly we started um working on our 10e facility plan there's been a lot of hard work going on in the background uh thanking Mr Crow for for all the extra work that he has done with this um there's meetings with uh internal people of the district um
007staff all the different people involved and also externally there's been meetings going on that I've also had the opportunity to be a part of and U the district is analyzing every single thing you can think of regarding facilities every single one of our buildings um the needs go on through buildings there's a lot of interviews that are going on whether that be with with staff or parents um Etc so I know even the board's about to have something to fill out as well so there's a whole lot of work that goes into this 10year facility plan uh that eventually you all will see um what kind of rose to the top that the district would like to eventually get taken care of whether that be uh through a bond uh or just um other terms
008of getting done other methods get done so uh that's it for me this evening and up for up next we have the superintendent report Dr I'm really excited about our our report uh I wish Dr Beck was here because he's been really the charging of our student youth Council committee I missed the last one so I'm sorry for the ones that are here I missed the last council meeting I had some meetings that I had to be at so I'm really excited about that um to highlight the outstanding efforts of our students youth Council committee that was formed at the beginning of the school year many of you parents were here as well during that time and had uh lunch with us so we we enjoyed having you here and hopefully we'll be able to
009do that at the end of the year as well um uh so it's really across the entire District every student every building in every building every student uh was represented uh with this committee their commitment to amplifying student voices and fostering positive changes uh within our schools is truly commendable you guys have done a wonderful job coming up with some ideas I know that uh some of you wanted more homework I think actually someone did say that they would like to um at this time I'd like to invite our building administrators to come up if you don't mind and introduce uh their student from each building and then join us in the front of the room um several of our students will also be uh speaking to update you on some of the action items
010that came from our identify those turn it over to miss IM derer you're the first one up there I would like to have Sten Porter and Holly Harrison come up they St youth council members for cber elementary we have Janelle Hopkins and K Carver so he's not here at mder we have Miss H boy representing third grade and Mr Nathan young who is our fourth [Applause] grade at Franklin Elementary we have Miss Addie Hollands in fourth grade and Kinley bird in third [Applause] grade we have kayn sharp cupc [Applause] and Central Middle School we have fifth graders Mercy Cox and Levi [Applause] Gilman a little bit taller than them we have from the high School Delany D Cameron Watson Goliath Morris young famp rean bers Jayla Anderson and Corin [Applause] Madison from Central Academy we
011have D'Angelo Wiggins [Applause] and from Central Junior High School Alex Johnson is also representing CTC hey Jared work some magic with this picture sure your face C can you see everybody grab a CP to make get everybody thisle in just to make sure sometimes people can kind of get and I can't always see when I'm taking the picture because I feel like I've got a lot of pressure on [Applause] we're going to go ahead and have high school go first they're going to talk a little bit about what their findings are and then Central Academy program hello I'm and I am the I am joined by and and we are here to share our ideas for how we can better our school we have list of ways we can improve and have come up with
012two main ways we can Implement them when it came to Independent work time we felt that students feel more inclined to get their work done when they are being rewarded for their work so we decided to award system as to persuade students to use the time we give them in school to finish their work the way this will work will be that students who have all their work done will be rewarded with a roar week we're calling it which was inspired by the junior high Blitz day this week would be near the end of the year where each student class freshman sophomore junior senior would have most a day off to finish any prior assignments then during the last few hours of school students with all their work done and passing grade would get to
013go outside where there would be different activities clubs could use this day to fund raise by selling items or setting up activities for students another reward We Believe would boost academic success would be a senior field trip that would require a passing grade and finish assignments to go on we believe that these rewards would help encourage students to finish their work was the time they are given in school and the free time they have outside of school the next top priority we had was giving the student body of voice the way we will be doing this would be by making a suggestion box in which students can bring their own ideas or opinions on how we can improve the school we the student youth Council committee would meet up every couple of weeks to review
014the contents of the Box we will discuss what we can and can can do and will sort the acceptable ones into a non-mandatory Google form where the rest of the school could vote yes or no on the idea then when the votes are tallied we will discuss with the office about implementing them into next year's school year all in all we've come to a consecutive decision about these topics that we know would not only benefit our school but also the wellbeing of the students thank you for having us [Applause] good job thank [Applause] you student council to listen to their ideas and to work on that off [Applause] and talk we got students like me we got we got teachers that twice St on them I teachers caou meetings I like time time I like
015to have Shout Out Mr back then was Junior High helped a lot it helped me my Gres help me a lot of people and that's all [Applause] [Music] I I think the next portion is the elementary the elementary students so if all the elementary students that are here to speak come forward adjust her mic a little bit does this look in our elementary school we could have elies science [Applause] stud at CS feel are our Wii reasons why we need it it will save lots of time for students and lots of class time save time for it will help on canvas to load faster for students to do their which canvas use a lot on Chromebooks we spend a lot of time on our Chromebooks better and better Wii [Applause] ccle time time to understand
016what everyone in our class are also helps us get to know about all our students in our class I think that we should move it up to two times a week instead it'll us more time to see what other people are going through [Applause] and that we need more staff at the front lawn because biggest recess area and usually stand saer and [Music] [Applause] yeah I am so glad we ended on that it has actually been a joy working with your kids thank you for letting them be part of this I can't wait to to see some of these things implemented especially the safety C at the middle school right Miss R wherever you're at she's not listening I'll make sure I follow up with Miss Ryan thank you for sharing that um but thank
017you parents and I hope to see you probably a little later on in the year when we have our ending uh lunch in to so thank you guys for being here and if you want to stay you can stay for the rest of the meeting it's up to you you but I think we're going Tove on with thank you all [Music] [Applause] for e yeah yeah I love it good luck thank apprciate see you in the morning said that up next we have our acad got no thank you right moving right along Community Teachers Association I don't I don't think it's turned on over here no deal going to be a shout lit so good evening for February starting at Elma rder some shout outs go to first to Miss Ashley the incredible Administrative Assistant
018she's one that goes above and beyond every single day continuously improving office systems to keep everything running smoothly she's phenomenal with parents and deeply valued by staff and students alike we appreciate all that she does another shout out is thank you to the teachers for the amazing job they did during Ami days last week our parents had wonderful things to to say about the clear communication and the variety of assignments provided way to goer thank you for being Simply the Best at Clipper thanks to Emilia Collier who has worked diligently to make sure our attendance is posted by 9:00 she calls parents to check on the kids and students and make sure to give daily updates we have been staying strong during the sickness so far um at CTC shout out to the following students
019and staff for participating in a panel discussion at the February Friday no I knew I would say this it's tongue twister February 1 Friday coffee they had they were amazing and represented the CTC extremely well so that way Mr Brandon Bradshaw he's the welding instructor and the registered youth apprenticeship Mr Michael BL the auto technology instructor Miss Kristen d uh the adult nursing instructor and the adult nursing program director I think it's not Christ Kirsten sorry Mr Noah bra he's the adult student at computer network security Mr Conor Barry secondary student electrical traits at the Early Childhood Center shout out to Connie Bradshaw she plans some indoor recess activities for the littles Lorie Scott for being willing to help out at the junior high Cassie La for her incredible patience in difficult situations and shout
020out to Megan flowers for always sharing her technology skills at Franklin Shout out to the incredible staff we are always able to find someone to step in and cover a Duty or class when we are shorthanded not only do they do it but they expect nothing in return because that's just how a family does things at the high school congratulations to miss sheller for her well-deserved retirement and congratulations to Mr church for being named a new principal at CHS uh also a thank you to miss wble who spends a lot of time organizing teacher appreciation for the basketball players and cheerleaders at the junior high shout out to miss BN who has been a welcome addition to the library as a long-term sub she jumped in with both feet and has made major changes to
021help our students uh also shout out to miss rice I believe or Miss Reese Miss Keys would know that one the special education department is it rice or Reese okay well the way was anyway shout out to miss Reese who is always on board for trying new things with our special education department and she's a welcome Edition at the middle school shout out to miss C for always volunteering to step up and fill areas of need Mr winell for being flexible and inclusive in his classroom Miss McDonald for or McDaniel for taking on each challenge she faces with grace and patience Miss bedin for coaching our teachers through IEPs testing and all other special education questions she's a valuable asset to our school Miss heck for jumping back into school with her wisdom insight and
022expertise Miss Piner for expertly getting so many wi tests done well with our students Miss Cory for her positive attitude with all the students and the sah for always being a calm kind space for each of our students Miss Brandy for her grace and patience adapting to her students needs and Miss beer and Miss kler for being an amazing team and always loving our students through their struggles so that is all I have I will tell you all next well two weeks uh some members of the district are going to the capital to visit with our left legislators so I hope to have a good report we have meeting scheduled and so we hope to have some good feedback so if you have anything we need to majorly disc we'll meet with the superintendent this
023week anyway but wish us luck and we'll hopefully represent you well absolutely thank you all right up next we have our Treasurer Finance report miss dday this report is for January um we started with the general fund a beginning fund balance of 22.6 million we received 7.4 million of revenues um we're still getting in tax money so our revenues are going to be higher this month and then we should have um received some more tax money next month as well expenses were 1.8 million and we transferred 1.9 million to our special Revenue fund which covers um salary expenses for our certified staff leaving us with an ending fund balance of 26.3 million uh the cash and investment detail is listed with the district having a total cash balance of 37.4 million any questions thank you
024up next we have our board reports for the evening and the first one is the msba delegate report Dr fley did I skip one I did that last [Laughter] time three times uh good evening Bo so Mr River appreciate them bringing up our long range facility plan U Bo this week you're going to be getting a survey link from me that we're going to ask you to take about 20 to 30 minutes to go through and fill out on your viewpoints uh from the district perspective on what you would like to see the survey link is going to take you to um projects that have already been identified by our internal committee and we would like you to prioritize those and then even add to them for things that possibly aren't captured in there that
025you have heard or you have seen yourself that would need to be addressed starting in late March April uh we're going to be setting dates for the Greater Community to have input access and uh touch points per se with the work that has been going on we will announce the times and location of those meetings once we formalize them with IDs which is uh group that we're working with to uh take us through this process uh other updates with uh facilities are red star we've we've done a little bit more work out there we've had some roof replacement on the old Sanctuary part the steeple has now been taken down uh we have also completed the uh land transaction last week Mr P and I did uh where we've completed the purchase of the Lots
026three LS to the north of redstar that will be there for parking and get the majority of everybody off the street and not cluster up that neighborhood which we want to be good neighbors and good stewards in in that area with the neighborhood Food Service I would ask uh or I would tell families and students to be expecting a lot of produce this week on their menu with the shutdown of school last week uh so lots of strawberries and grapes and blueberries and salads and car and all the vegetables and fruits U they could ever want will be available to them this week before it would have a have an end date to it other than that uh bus counts last two weeks ago went very well for our district as a reminder we do
027bus counts twice a year so two weeks out of the school year once in the fall once in the spring and that helps us capture and also ensure that our bus routes are designed the way they would also help capture uh for State funding all of those students that do ride our buses within our boundaries other than that I have nothing else to update unless you have questions concerns or comments thank you Mr CR up next now we have our board reports and first up is the msba delegate report um the only thing that I would say is just familiarize yourselves with the um position statements the msba position statements because that will with our next report uh probably not much going on but we'll go ahead with our legislative report I have a lot
028I have notes and so I apologize I have so much to share that I'm just going to need to read off of my notes because I couldn't memorize all of this so three main things I'm going to touch on one is budget second is open enrollment and third is a lawsuit against Section 504 um first on budget Governor kho has outlined his budget proposal which are his recommendations now the house gets the opportunity to make changes um the budget for state law has to be passed by May 7th his recommendation has the budget with a shortfall of 300 million for public schools it adds an additional 50 million to vouchers for private schools um just for context Missouri currently ranks 49th in the amount of school funding that is provided by the state budget is
029currently in committee and our rep John boss sits on the house of um Representatives budget committee so this is a great time and he's a great person to reach out to and talk to about wanting our schools well funded um 86% of kids in Missouri attend public school and I know I'm preaching to the choire but strong Public School System benefits our entire Community I think we all want a well-funded school so it really is a great time to reach out to Mr Voss and just relay how important we think funding is for our schools um next is open enrollment open enrollment recently cleared committees in both houses so Senate and House of Representatives in the Senate it is sp25 just for some clarity because I actually needed this Clarity myself you hear a lot
030about Open Enrollment and about school choice while they're the same idea they're actually two different things open enrollment specifically refers to the ability to choose a public school outside of your District where school choice encompasses private schools like velers for a private school so this in particular that I'm talking about is open enrollment allowing students to choose outside of their Public School District um there are multiple reasons that open enrollment is dis advantageous for a community it diverts resources out of the community it can shrink the number of extracurricular programs the district is able to provide because the district would be responsible for transportation in many cases it creates budget burdens um it has an inordinately negative effect on sped students because it actually allows districts to deny based on sped status and it just
031overall lowers community support and involvement um bottom line keeping schools Community Based is what serves Community best that truly is not just my opinion there is a ton of data out there that supports that statement so again another opportunity to contact your Missouri Senator and let him know that you do not support this bill I actually had Mr Pay attach something but normally Jamie is here to put it up on and you can't see it right now but if you need to know who any of the people are to contact you ask me you can also Google but in this case our Senator is Jamie Berger um the last thing I wanted to talk about is Section 504 a lawsuit against Section 504 17 States including the state of Missouri um are currently suing the
032federal government with the goal of declaring Section 504 unconstitutional Section 504 is a disability law in schools in kther 12 schools specifically it means that you have to include students with disabilities and help them learn and it deals with obstacles to integrating students into the general learning setting so for example that could mean a DEA student has a sign language interpreter or if you have somebody that is dealing with a chronic illness that there's homebound opportunities or flexible um attendance for them even like you have a student that breaks their leg it would a 504 would give them the opportunity to use the elevator like at the high school so um that's what 504 deals with the lawsuit came to be in May 2024 uh because gender dysphoria the term gender dysphoria was added to
033the definition of disability under Section 504 the 17 states that are suing don't agree with that um but this lawsuit is not just asking for gender dysphoria to be removed from the definition it is actually and I have verbatim plaintiff's request that the court declare Section 504 constitutional and issue permanent relief from enforcing Section 504 which would mean that if the lawsuit is successful anyone with a 504 would be in danger of losing their legal protection to accommodations um this if you follow at all uh the the education world this has caused quite a bit of a stir uh because there's been so much push back many people have reached out to their State's Attorney General as a result um several plaintiffs did file a joint status report stating that they didn't know that the
034suit declared Section 504 unconstitutional and that that wasn't their goal even though they're saying that the suit still stands and so ideally it would be withdrawn so if again if that is something that is important to you retaining a Section 504 for our schools then I would encourage you to reach out to our attorney general which is Andrew Bailey and that's all I have great very insightful thank you spend time on that too um up next we have our Kate Public School Foundation we had a great py it was a lot of fun uh I broke my shoes actually I so much so um just a couple of reminders of things events that are coming up the foundations mixing mingle is April 3rd at Roost from 4:30 to 6:30 um we love it when alumni
035come out and just hang out and meet up and um it's just a good opportunity um Community Building catching up with old friends kind of thing and then May 12th we have our foundation golf tournament and I think there are some people in the audience that we might want to be sure show up at our gure I'm there every year so that's all I have awesome thank you thank you very much all right up next we have uh the approval of our consent agenda sent out previously for your review we only have two um on here this month and that is the minutes from the January 27th board meeting and uh payment of bills any discussion questions can I get a motion to approve the consent agenda items so uh Mr Welker and M flingy
036all those in favor please indicate by saying I I those oppose consent agenda is approved thank you up next we have the business portion of our meeting tonight um up first we have the adoption of board policies JCB and JG can I get a motion so second Mr Welker and miss flingy so the recommendation here is to adopt board policies um as Pres Ed I think there were some uh language that needed some editing if you want to explain it all so when uh we adopted it last uh board meeting they actually msba actually put in the original document in there and we had made significant changes within the policy so we just need to put it back to what those changes were in option it even addresses Section 504 in this how it's address
037a lot all right all those in favor please indicate by saying I I those oppos is approved thank you up next we have the approval of the career and Technology Center enhancement Grant proposal so uh can I get a motion some second Mr Walker M flingy discussion so the recommendation here is to approve the Vocational Technical education enhancement Grant proposals 25 26 school year turn over to Dr B Dr Crowley do you want to come up and talk about what your plans are with the enhancement Grant and the match so the enhancement Grant we use to update equipment for the most part for all of our programs which as you know we have a lot of programs we're close to 30 whether they be shortterm or long long term program and this is pretty well
038how we say relevant how we now this this grant historically has been a 7525 match I do have some updates on that to hear we take just a second so a couple of things that the state's done so there's only a certain amount of money and there's 57 Career Centers in the state of Missouri which then we start having to look at potential um supplementing if if the if items are red because there's more ass than there are dollars the state and the governor and and our Representatives have worked hard to um to help Rectify that a little bit um to to get it back and keep it at a true 7525 one thing that they've done this year had they made the threshold that moved that from a th000 to 5,000 which isn't necessarily
039ideal but what I think it will do is is help keep that match where it's where it should be and then next year legislatively they've made some moves to they're going to add 15 million to that pop so next school year to help schools get back to where they need to and then also to help keep that match where it's supposed to be and then after that after next school year they're going to in increase it by five so they're going to work on a couple years of trying to get a lot of the Career Centers back to where they need to be and then also to try to keep that match where it should be and where it benefits us most 2 because ultimately we're paying 25 cents on the dollar um so you
040can get a lot of equipment for 25% essentially any questions for me other than that thank you any other discussion all those in favor please indicate by saying I those oppos that's approved thank you and last week we were discussing the approval of resolution author authorizing issu and sale General obligation refunding bonds I know we have some guest with us this evening uh so looking for a motion regarding the recommendation to approve a resolution authorizing directed issuance sale and delivery of General obligation refunding bonds series 2025 of the Cape Dorado School District number 63 prescribing the form and details of set bonds providing for the Lev and collection of an annual tax for the purpose of paying the principal interest on set bonds as they become due and authorizing C other documents and actions in
041connection there with can I get a motion second Mr Welker M flingy discussion so um we talked about this a little bit I mentioned this the last this will be a refunding of our 2016 bonds um so I have Leno from SE they serve as our underwriter and Sean Flynn is in the audience also he's with and so is going to explain a little bit about what we're doing thank you la even everyone I was so excited when I pulled up saw all the cars andone this is the third board meeting I've been to in the past six weeks where that has happened I'm not happy about that um as linday was mentioning this resolution is to authorize people to sell the as you remember 2016 districts originally sold a little over 16 million of
042bonds um for VAR improvements that new money bonds this authorizes us to refinance those bonds for savings they have a call date of March 1st 20 uh 2025 almost 2035 2025 so this gives us authorization to sell those refinancing bonds as long as we hit certain parameters one of those parameters is the savings 1.5% which is the state guideline and also another parameter is we can't the orig on the 2016 bonds was 235 so we can't extend final maturity past that date we cannot exceed the original amount of the bonds being refunded there are about 12 million bonds that we're refunding so our new refunding bonds cannot exceed that amount as well so what we're doing is basically giving us authorization that when the market is favorable we'll go back into the market probably with
043within the next uh 30 days or so what we've seen the market has been very V I think when I was talking to Dr V and Lindsay about this probably four months ago initially the market was favorable we've since had the Market's been all over the place we've went from about 3% savings to all the way down to 0.2% savings now we're at about 1.62 as the savings St so we beat all the thresholds of 1.5% but the only thing that we need to do now is get a rating call so I know this is Lay's favorite part of the job so what we're going to do is plan on having a rating call in March probably the first March 17th we March 17th point we'll be ready to sell the bonds assuming that the
044market stays in our favor so we got about another month wait but we're hoping Market the right direction for us keeps going to do that thank you I appreciate you being here all right thank you guys thanks any other questions we'll find out there's a vote coming thank you thank you all those in favor please by saying I I those opposed think you did a great job it's approved thank you thank you guys for being here and lastly information and proposals from board members do we have anything tonight if you get an opportunity to come to our luncheon I I'll I'll to when we have the lunch come to the lunch and it's actually entertaining to hear some of the kids but the parents are there as well but they really good ideas and their
045focus was safety and Community wanting to build community with their peers and their and their teachers and yeah was really heartwarming I saw Mr Crow take some 10e facility notes over there during I did see anything else all right appreciate appreciate y's time this evening thank you everyone in the audience uh with that I'll take a motion to adjourn thank you it is a thank you uh in a second there we go Mr Dr fley all of those in favor please indicate by saying I post we areour thank you