001on one of these computers. It's six o'clock. Um we're going to get the meeting started. Couple disclaimers. Meeting is being recorded and there is a signup sheet over on this little table for citizen participation as well as an attendance sign in for anybody that is attending our meeting tonight. All right, let's call our meeting to order. >> Roll call. Chris Bell. >> Yes. >> Roger Bridgemond. >> Yes. >> Adam Carell. >> Kathy Mace. >> Yes. >> Tammy Palmer. Yes. >> Cherry Shudy. >> Yes. >> Jennifer Morland. >> Yes. >> Six present, one absent. >> Next up, we need an approval and adoption of the agenda. is spelled to approve and adopt the agenda as presented. All those in favor? >> Yes. >> Six yes, one absent. Don't say that. Okay. Good. >> All right. [clears
002throat] Let's move into board norms. For the month of December, we're going to review board norms one and two. We will expect board members to make a commitment. And number two, we will work together as a board that values consensus rather than majority vote. If you all stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [clears throat] >> Next up, we do not have recognition for the month of December. >> [clears throat] >> We'll move into citizen participation. This meeting is a business meeting of the board of education held in public. 30 minutes will be allotted to residents of the school district and staff to give the
003board the opportunity to listen to citizens. Remarks will be limited to three minutes and to one appearance, thus allowing for maximum number of participants in the allotted time in which citizens are to speak to issues. The board will not respond to comments at this time, but you will receive a response to any questions from the district superintendent and or a member of the board of education within a reasonable amount of time after this meeting. Additionally, members of our community may contact individual board members to engage in dialogue about school matters. During this public comment period, we ask that speakers refraining from using profanity and speakers who violate this rule may be asked to leave. We do have one signed up for citizen participation. Um, Amber Hollinssworth. Did I say it right? Okay. Sorry. You can
004stand in between the two chairs. You can come up to the table. Wherever you want to come, wherever you're comfortable with. Your time starts. Yeah. Awesome. Well, good evening board members. I'm Amber Holland, a parent of the students enrolled at Cuba Middle School. I'm here today to discuss the school's policy regarding the removal of students from school premises without parental notification. Specifically, I'm concerned about two incidents involving my child. On June 7, 2004, my child was removed from school premises and transported to my residence to receive prescribed medication without my prior knowledge or consent. A similar incident occurred on October 23rd, 2025, where my child was removed from school premises and taken to my residence to receive school library books. Again, without my prior knowledge or consent. Both incidents, I was not notified before or
005after. I have since contacted the relevant school offices officials to discuss the school policy and obtain specific dates and times of the incidences. Although I received an email response from Davidson, I did not it did not address my questions. I was informed that the school's actions were courtesy and would not occur again. I see it as a potential violation of school policy in Missouri law which may result in liability from the school and violations of my parental rights and my child's rights. Since I did not get the answers to my questions, I will ask you the school board. Could you please provide me with a school policy on non-emergency removals or confirm in writing that no such policy exists? I request a detailed record of all instances where my child was removed from the school
006premises without my knowledge or consent, including dates and times. Thank you for your time. >> Thank you. Thank you. Okay, let's move into consent agenda. Um there's a list of items that listed under consent agenda. If anyone has a question, we can pull a report or an item. [clears throat] If not, we need a motion. >> Second consent agenda. Motion made by Caitlyn May, seconded by Tammy Palmer, that the consent agenda items be approved as presented. All those in favor? >> Yes. >> Six. Yes. [snorts] >> One absent. Thank you. That's true. [snorts] We're going to move into the uh financial statement for the December bills. Again, there's um I believe four different check runs and some other financial documents. If you have a question, now's the time. Otherwise, we need a motion. Make a
007motion. Second >> financial statement and actions on the December bills. Motion made by Chris Bell, seconded by Roger Bridgemond to approve the financial statement and action on the December bills as presented. All those in favor? >> Yes. >> Sain [laughter] like five yes, one abstain, one absent. >> Okay. administrative reports. Let's start with board and committee reports. [clears throat] Uh there has been a calendar committee meeting. Um I can report on that. It was productive. Um our calendar doesn't really have a lot of wiggle room in it because of um the way that Labor Day falls and the state statutes with, you know, the timing that we can't start school, you know, x amount of days before Labor Day. Um there's a draft that is out >> um kind of making final tweaks. I believe
008it should come to the board in January for approval. Um really the the committee just was kind of looking at because it's like I said there's not a lot lot of wiggle room with a 4-day calendar. Um really the main points were like PD days and you know wanting to move those around to maybe the first or second w Monday of the month versus later in the month. Um, pretty accurate, Marie. >> Okay. >> So, yeah, look for that to come, I would say, in January. >> Correct. >> To be approved. >> Anyone else have any board and committee? >> Perfect. Let's move into elementary. Tess, you've got a great report. Always with pictures. >> With pictures. >> Do you have anything to add that happened in December? >> I do have a couple things.
009>> Um, so kindergarten did there. uh gingerbread houses today. I was able to pop into all of their rooms and uh those are always really fun. Lots of sticky, slimy, slobbery hands. But um we had a great turnout with a lot of parents. Um I was super pleased. That was my big takeaway just from my standpoint with it. The kids no doubt were having the time of their lives. The teachers were up moving around, giving directions. Kids were following directions. Very entertaining. Um, but we had a lot of parents from the community come in this morning and that was really cool. Um, the other thing I wanted to touch on that was today was our third and fourth graders. I don't remember them doing this last year, so to my knowledge it was new. They
010partnered up and they didn't give me like a great amazing name for it, but they did like what I would call a friendship trail mix and families sent in different stuff [clears throat] and every third and fourth grade student got like this gallon ziplockc bag today and I didn't I saw I have pictures so I'll add those on my next report. But Mrs. Brown tackled that while I was tackling kindergarten today and so I didn't get to see it in person, but it was almost like they were trick-or-treating and they went to every classroom and they filled their bag with a scoop of something from that. Say Miss Kelling, third grade teacher, she did dried fruit and say, "Mrs. Sparks did M&M's." And so then all of these kids walked away with this trail mix
011and it was noisy. It was very loud and obnoxious, but the kids were no doubt having a good time. Um, and so we are making the most of the time we have. If you walk through our halls, there's a lot of Christmas stuff going on. Lots of lights, lots of projects, lots of decorations. Um, and I know Dr. Davids and I have had conversations. A lot of our kiddos, we know that this is the most excitement that they're going to get as far as the holidays go. Um, some of them are less fortunate. So, I'm just super proud of our teachers for hanging in there because I know we're all tired. We're all a little overwhelmed with the chaos, but they're making the most of it. And the kids are without [clears throat] a doubt
012having fun. >> Awesome. >> So, >> Christmas parties tomorrow. >> Yeah. [laughter] Bring it on. >> Santa had fun. >> Santa was amazing as always. He never lets us down. >> Had a good time. >> Okay. Middle school. >> Yeah. We've been pretty busy as well. Um we took some time uh during um [clears throat] family time to have a Christmas escape room activity and our middle schoolers loved it. um they were excited because they got to run in the hallways and not get in trouble. [laughter] So they [clears throat] were back and forth answering questions and and so forth and um had a lot of fun with that. We did an underground spirit day for the 67th day of the school year which was supposed to be on Tuesday but we had to move
013it to Wednesday because of our snow day. Um and so they were excited because they got to say that without us yelling at them and um telling them to stop. And we have decorated our building quite a bit too. Unfortunately, the construction doesn't go very well longterm because everything falls off the walls because it's so cold and what have you. So, it looks really, really cute, but we have different themes. Gingerbread houses and uh candy cane lane and the winter wonderland. And so, I think it really just helps build the Christmas spirit. And um kids really enjoy all the lights hanging [clears throat] and everything. It just brings a little bit of festivities to the building. And then we had our annual staff uh basketball versus our eighth grade students. I told Dr. Davidson, I
014didn't play. I can't get back and forth down the court fast enough. So, um I said we're either going to have to find some recruit some younger players or our kids we're we're not going to be able to play anymore because we can't keep up with them. [laughter] >> If I recall, I think we're fine stopping at two quarters. Yeah. One more. [laughter] No, you can do it. >> I was getting some pictures and videos and there was >> I'm like, why are you running in the halls? Why is he like >> Yeah. Appreciate our staff that that participate in that cuz the kids really really look forward to that every fall and spring when we do basketball and then volleyball. So, I can still do the volleyball, but the basketball, no, I don't have
015that much oxygen left in me. [clears throat] Yeah. So, just in the end, just getting ready for for break. So, [clears throat] I think everybody's everybody's ready. So, >> let me know. I got some magical tape that you can work on walls and it doesn't pull [clears throat] paint. >> Too excited that you can get from Amazon. >> Okay, we'll give it a whirl. >> It's taking all these years 24 to finance it. I found it. >> Good. Get rid of it next year. [laughter] >> Probably. >> There's a middle schooler in my house that thought 67th day of school was the coolest thing that you guys could have ever done. So, thank you so much for that. I really appreciate it. >> And I had a shirt that said, "All I want for Christmas
016is my students to stop saying six." [laughter] Yeah. So when I walk into the cafeteria, every fifth grader is like 67. [laughter] So And they're like, "You're not going to get that for Christmas." Okay. >> High school report. >> Uh things have been uh going well. It's finals week, so it's been kind of up and down with the tenseness of some of our students, but uh the holiday spirit is full-fledged. Kids are having fun. They're uh a lot of the choir have been doing Christmas grams last week selling them. And I didn't know what they were selling for, but uh they went around singing to kids, some of the choir members, and it's fun to watch the kids kind of get red and to them. And then Allison, uh she coerced me into joining their
017group. So we went around classrooms singing six, seven, you a merry Christmas. [laughter] So it's been good. It's been fun. Um we also one thing I'm proud of that it's going really well. Uh we started a student advisory um this month. Um so the purpose of that for me was I want to hear from the students and get their voice of what's going on in our school, what we offer, different things like that. And so we [clears throat] have 11 students and uh they're off and running. They're they've already planned for the first week of January to do some uh events when we come back in advisory because they recognize some issues that we have as a student body and in our culture and climate of the school. And so I'm just proud that they're
018really taking it and running with it. And I don't lead direct them, you know, I just tell them what do you guys want to talk about and then we go around. We have parameters of what we talk about. But they took it and ran with it. So >> cool. >> It's exciting. >> Good stuff. >> Mhm. Good luck. >> Love it. >> That was kind of fun with you, Mr. J. Cathy. She's [laughter] >> like, "What am I going to say?" >> I like that the theme from all three buildings was fun. >> So, I mean, yeah, obviously we're here to educate kids, but um if you can't have fun doing it, then >> we probably all need to go home. >> Okay. Special education report. That's why I said I got to follow him
019[laughter] and mine is not that exciting. >> But it is all everyone's hired and everybody's placed where they need to be placed. So that's exciting. >> So that's exciting. Great news. >> You're having fun, right? >> Yeah, [laughter] Definitely fun. >> Perfect. >> Okay. Assistant soup report. >> Yeah. I just wanted to highlight um in my report um Miss Weber and the work that um she has done with the holiday assistance program. Um and Rachel here in central office has been helping her with that as well. Um I think we're up to 80 families now because [clears throat] we did add a few. Um, and you know, that's that's 80 families who are are getting additional um meals and presents and and it's just a really awesome thing um that that she organizes for our
020community. So, I sincerely appreciate that. Um and then Dr. Davidson and I have had the pleasure the last couple of days um we have been handing out hams and turkeys to the staff for um their Christmas gifts. Um and that's been that's been a lot of fun. They're heavy, but [laughter] it has been a lot of fun and um everyone has has been extremely appreciative. So, thank you. >> Awesome. Awesome. >> And I'd reiterate that with the hams and turkeys, it's been enjoyable. Just did a traditional Christmas gift to the staff and they they've been very appreciative of it and shared some of the recipe and what they're going to do with it. It's been fun there. And then just kind of referring back to the basketball game. It's going to sound really confident of
021me, but I know I was the most cheered for [laughter] player because there was at least three times the [clears throat] whole gym was chanting air ball. [laughter] So sometimes glory days to stay in the past, [laughter] but uh but it was good just being out with the kids and uh they were having fun. Middle school's having fun with it, but it was good just watching high school and elementary uh having a great time as well. So, we have one more day. If you'd like to come and visit, I'll be glad to walk you through and see all the festivities. >> Um, Myra, do you know how long um the holiday assistance program has been going on? >> I don't. I know that since Melanie has been here, she's been doing it and this is
022her fifth year. Okay. >> Um, going on before that was I remember doing it or not doing it, but remember taking forms or whatever. So, I know it's been quite some time. I was just wondering what the history was if she has records to see. It's pretty neat that we do that. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Superintendent report. >> We gave it >> as your works for me. >> Let's move into [cough and clears throat] business and get a 2526 budget update. >> Yeah. So, we're uh sitting good year to date. Our expenses are at 70% and then our revenues are at 29%. Uh so we're in a good place there. Uh but again just kind of watching the federal and state and what uh Desessie is doing. We got legislative stuff coming up. Uh there's
023the uh task force that's modernizing the foundation formula. So I reached out to some organizations this week, educational organizations, and I think uh through some conversations, they're going to work on getting a more collective picture uh this coming semester to come around and give us some info. We have about two years before some of that kicks in, but we also have some other legislation dictating um staff salaries or or teacher salaries and different things. So, we'll have to kind of keep an eye on that. Um but uh in a good place right now financially, but just want to keep us there. >> I do not need a um vote on that. So, we move into a policy and regulation updates. Last month, you received um a list of all of those policy and regulation updates.
024I am assured that you all had time to read through every single line of them. And we need to approve those unless you have a particular [clears throat] one that you'd like to pull out. >> Make that motion. >> I'll second. Motion by Chris Bell, seconded by Caitlyn Mace to approve and adopt the following policies and regulations. [clears throat] P 4150 444124506 5205 5215 5218 5240 and R5240 as presented. All those in favor? >> Yes. opposed, >> six yes, one absent. >> We can move into um approving the high school vestigial rendering. So there is a visual in your packet um uh of what the new high school entrance would look like and this would just go out and not into our bond >> our bond work. So, bond architects uh just want your approval
025to finalize it, but what we what we can do is have some big poster boards of it to set out during games activities just so the public can see uh what is specifically they would be voting for. So, there's some nice nice renderings there. Kind of gives a color scheme to you. >> And really what that would do is just going to modernize that entrance to be similar to our middle school, our elementary. Um you know, right now if you Once you're bust in, you can still you don't have to be forced into um the office. So anyway, >> we do need a motion to approve that. >> I will make that motion. >> Thank you. >> Second. >> Motion by Roger Bridgemond, seconded by Chris Bell to approve the high school vestibule renderings as
026presented. All those in favor? >> Opposed? >> Six yes, one absent. Okay, moving into new business. [clears throat] Again, there's another list of policies and regulations. I believe this is our last batch of them. >> Four now. >> There's one more even after this. >> Well, they they send them they send them throughout the year, >> but I mean of the big batches. >> No, so the the last uh policies and regulations you just approved were the ones they sent a large group of policies. So with that being approved, we'll um upload that into our MCE portal and they'll put it onto our web page this next group of policies as another round. So this essentially would be year four of policies in one year. So >> great. So again, read through all of these
027um over the next month and we will come back in January to approve them. Uh and same disclaimer as last month and the month before. If you have questions, reach out. and we will get those answered before time. We can move into our property and casualty insurance renewal. Um, you do have a document that list or that shows uh the the increase. It's a 7.7% increase of that equals about $20,000. Do you have anything to add to that? Um just uh we we get insurance through Missouri United School Insurance Council, which is a not for-profit organization that specifically works with public ed. Um so we've got the lowest deductibles for any occurrence we have. Um some of the things that we ensure people don't realize we have the facilities, buses, but we also ensure our
028payroll and benefits. And so sometimes people don't think about that, but we're actually getting quite a quite a bit of insured pieces for our school district with that invoice there. >> Questions [snorts] about insurance renewal? >> It's probably um a miracle it didn't go up more than 7. >> I'm just cur I'm just out of curiosity, is this like the main provider of school insurance or like is it only So, so roughly 95% of public schools in Missouri utilize them. So, the difference is they have a $1,000 deductible for if it was >> [clears throat] >> $10,000 or a million dollar where if you go to more traditional like insurance we get it's rated the deductible rated on the [clears throat] size of the claim. So, um so far it's pretty good and they they
029truly only raise rates when they have to. Yeah. last couple of years they've gone up a little bit more than seven% but we've had some pretty bad spring storms and yep h damage to AC units across the state and rooftops stuff like that so but we've also benefited from this policy too >> I'll make a motion to accept the renewal rates >> second >> motion by Roger Bridgemond seconded by Tammy Palmer to accept the renewal rates from music in the amount of $283,320 that will cover the period of January 1st, 2026 through December 31st, 2026. All those in favor? >> Yes. >> Opposed, six yes, one absent. >> Okay, we can move into removing policy 2865. Um, this policy is from 1998 and it's no longer supported by Missouri Consultants for Education Mayor. Um, our
030policy and regulation writing service. Uh, the policy is regarding headlights control. Um, and the recommendation is just to remove that policy from our list of policies and um that will allow our school district to address [clears throat and cough] a case-byase basis. Questions? So if we remove this policy that's stating that children with head lice can still come to school. Is that correct? >> So with that if if they would have active lice would not be but then it gives us discretion on if we can reach out to the parent and get permission to treat them at school or um kind of see or do they need to go home get treated. It gives us some leeway versus this policyy's old and outdated. The only concern I have is you don't know when the headlights
031are going to hatch. So at what time do we not get it to spread? >> Sure. So it we can get into the weeds of a lot of it, but it's really just again case by case. So our nurses go through and can look and treat and pull um almost at 100% of mids and satis. >> So will this will the um nurses be doing head checks still or is it >> so so that's kind of an old way of thinking. So you really just look at case by case number of students in class. So it's not where we go through and check every building and make a production out of it because try to protect privacy of students. It's not hard to know if two or three or four kids go out and have
032to stay out. Like it's kind of a kind of give in that way. So again, just MCE recommends just they don't even have it on their >> policy anymore. It's not supported. So it gives the school really the the leeway to make the best choice there with that. So >> are we not actively I'm sorry just clarifying. Are we not actively checking? So, so we grew up for everybody. >> Yeah. We would like Yeah. You would like you would stand outside the door and like you would >> use the same sticks and then check every correct. That practice is not >> that's not actually happening. >> Yeah. Where every everyone gets anymore. >> So, it's just changes in times you can actually see that. >> Did you say you can actually get in trouble for
033that? >> Yes. It's a violation right? Yep. >> Privacy. >> Protect the lights. >> Yeah. >> Protect the lights. >> So, recommendation is to remove. >> I'll make it. [laughter] >> Motion by Chris Bell, seconded by Roger Bridgemond to remove policy 2865 as presented. All those in favor? >> Yes. Yes. >> Opposed? >> Yes. I mean, no. I oppose it. >> Five yes, one no, and one absent. >> Um, item number 12, board of education proposed agenda items. There are none. Resident agenda items. There are none. Next item is to approve our next board meeting in January. [clears throat] an extra Thursday. >> Yeah, we have five. >> 22 for some snow. >> Wait a minute. [clears throat] >> Someone just say that. [laughter] >> I've already started basketball. [cough and clears throat] girls. >>
034I like girls. [clears throat] >> I'll make a motion. The 22nd at whatever time we do. >> Yep. 6 o'clock. That Yep. That's >> Did you say the 22? >> The motion is January 22nd. We do need a second. Please. >> Second. Motion by Caitlyn Mace, seconded by Tammy Palmer to schedule the regular January board meeting on Thursday, January 22nd, 2026 at 6 PM with co close session to follow. All those in favor? >> Opposed? Six yes, one absent. >> Next up, we do need a motion to go into close session, please. >> Second. Motion by Caitlyn Mace, seconded by Tammy Palmer to go into close session in accordance with the provisions of section 610.021 subsection 1 3 6 13 and 14 of the revised statues of Missouri in order to discuss personal after a
03510-minute recess. Roll call. Roger Bridgemond. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Adam Carnell, >> Caitlyn Mace, >> yes. >> Tammy Palmer, >> yes. Sherry Shudy, >> yes. >> Chris Bell, >> yes. >> Jennifer Morland, >> yes. >> Six, yes. One absent.